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x Andre Agassi andre-agassi-scott-doctor.jpg Right-handed Two-handed backhand 1986
Andre Kirk Agassi (born April 29, 1970) is a former World No. 1 professional American tennis player who won eight Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in singles. He is generally considered by critics and fellow players to be...
x Billie Jean King Billie Jean King by David Shankbone Right-handed   1968
Billie Jean King (née Moffitt) (born November 22, 1943, in Long Beach, California) is a tennis player from the United States. She won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. King...
x Serena Williams Serena_Williams-1024-19.jpg Right-handed Two-handed backhand 1995
Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American professional tennis player and current World No. 2. She has been ranked World No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) on four separate occasions. She will regain the World Number...
x Venus Williams Venus at us open 2009-cropped     Oct 31, 1994
Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980) is an American professional tennis player. She has been ranked World No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) on three separate occasions; as of October 26, 2009, she is ranked World No. 7. She is...
x John McEnroe John McEnroe by David Shankbone Left-handed One-handed backhand  
John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. (born February 16, 1959) is an American former World No. 1 professional tennis player. McEnroe won seven Grand Slam singles titles—three at Wimbledon and four at the US Open—nine Grand Slam men's doubles titles, and one...
x Bobby Riggs Bobby Riggs on the cover of Sports Illustrated just before his match with Billie Jean King in 1973      
Robert Larimore "Bobby" Riggs (February 25, 1918 – October 25, 1995) was a 1930s–40s tennis player who was the World No. 1 or the co-World No. 1 player for three years, first as an amateur in 1941, then as a professional in 1946 and 1947. He played...
x Thomas Blake blake.jpg     1999
Thomas Blake, Jr. (born December 29, 1976) is an American professional tennis player. Blake was born in Yonkers, New York to Thomas Sr. (who is African-American) and Betty (who is English). He has a younger brother, James Blake, who is also a...
x Sergi Bruguera       1988
Sergi Bruguera Torner (born 16 January 1971, in Barcelona, Spain) is a retired professional tennis player from Spain. He is best remembered for winning consecutive men's singles titles at the French Open in 1993 and 1994. Bruguera was Spain's...
x Grant Connell       1986
Grant Connell (Pronounced: KAHN-nell)(born November 17, 1965 in Regina) is a former professional tennis player from Canada. He was one of the world's top doubles player from the early through middle 1990s. Connell won 22 career doubles titles during...
x Nadia Petrova Nadia Petrova 2007 Australian Open R1     Sep 6, 1999
Nadia Petrova (born June 8, 1982 in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian professional tennis player. Overall, she has won 27 WTA Titles, nine in singles and eighteen in doubles. In singles, Petrova has reached a career high ranking of World No. 3 in May...
x Gastón Gaudio 2004-06-06-front-gaudio     1996
Gastón Norberto Gaudio (born December 9, 1978 in Temperley, Buenos Aires), nicknamed El Gato (The Cat in Spanish), is a professional tennis player from Argentina. His career-high ATP Entry ranking was No. 5 in 2005. His most significant victory came...
x Stanislas Wawrinka Stanislas Wawrinka     2002
Stanislas Wawrinka (born 28 March 1985 in Lausanne) is a Swiss professional tennis player. His career ranking high is #9, achieved on 9 June 2008. He considers clay his best surface, and the backhand his best shot. He won the gold medal for...
x Marat Safin Marat Safin, 2006     1997
Marat Mikhailovich Safin (Tatar: Марат Мөбин улы Сафин, Marat Möbin ulı Safin [mɑˈrɑt ˈsɑfɪn]; Russian: Мара́т Миха́йлович (Муби́нович) Са́фин; born January 27, 1980, in Moscow) is a former World No. 1 Russian ATP tennis player. He is the older...
x Rainer Schüttler Rainer Schuettler     1995
Rainer Schüttler (born 25 April 1976 in Korbach, Hesse) is a German professional tennis player. He began playing tennis at the age of ten. He resides in Switzerland, and 29th in the ATP rankings. He had his breakthrough year in 2003, when he...
x Lee Hyung-taik Hyung Taik Lee at the 2008 US Open     1995
Hyung-Taik Lee (이형택) (born January 3, 1976) is a retired professional tennis player from South Korea. Lee's career-high ranking in singles is World No. 36, which he achieved in August 2007. Lee was born in a potato-farming village in Hoengseong...
x Joachim Johansson Joachim Johansson warming-up in Cincinnati 2004     2000
Joachim Johansson (born 1 July 1982) is a professional male tennis player from Sweden. Johansson was born in Lund and currently lives in Södertälje, Sweden. His father, Leif Johansson, was also a tennis player and represented Sweden in the Davis Cup...
x Nicolás Almagro Nicolás Almagro     2003
Nicolas Almagro Sanchez Rolle (Spanish: Nicolás Almagro Sánchez Rolle; born 21 August 1985 in Murcia, Spain) is a Spanish tennis player. As of late 2008, Almagro is the third-youngest of the many Spanish players in the ATP Top 100 (after Rafael...
x Novak Djokovic Novak Djokovic 2007 Australian Open R1 Right-handed   2003
Novak Djokovic (Serbian: Новак Ђоковић, Novak Đoković, pronounced [ˈnɔvaːk ˈdʑɔːkɔvitɕ]  ( listen), born May 22, 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player, currently ranked World No. 3. He won his first Grand Slam singles title at the 2008...
x Gaël Monfils Gaël Monfils     2004
Gaël Monfils (French pronunciation: [ɡaɛl mɔ̃ˈfis]) (born September 1, 1986) is a French professional male tennis player. He is currently the third highest ranked French tennis player, and number 13 in the world. He has won two ATP singles finals,...
x David Nalbandian David Nalbandian     2000
David Nalbandian (born January 1, 1982) is an Argentine professional tennis player of Armenian (father) and Italian (mother) descent, who is ranked 20th in the world as of August 19, 2009. He turned professional in 2000. In 2001, he finished in the...
x Milagros Sequera Milagros Sequera 2007 Australian Open womens doubles R1     Jan 1, 1999
Milagros Sequera (born September 30, 1980 in San Felipe, Yaracuy, Venezuela) is a professional female tennis player from San Felipe, Yaracuy, Venezuela. She joined the WTA Tour in 1999 and was ranked World No. 48 on July 9, 2007. She won her first...
x Alicia Molik 2008 Australian Olympic team 094 - Sarah Ewart     1999
Alicia Molik (born 27 January 1981) is a professional female tennis player from Australia. She reached a career high singles rank of number 8 and also won a bronze medal for Australia at the 2004 Athens Olympics. She retired from the sport in...
x Marion Bartoli Marion Bartoli     Feb 2000
Marion Bartoli (born October 2, 1984) is a French professional tennis player and the current French No. 1. She has won five Women's Tennis Association titles, and was runner-up at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships. As of October 19 2009, Bartoli is...
x Mark Woodforde       1984
Mark Woodforde (born 23 September 1965) is a retired professional tennis player from Australia. He is most famously remembered as one half of "The Woodies", a doubles partnership with Todd Woodbridge. Woodforde was born in Adelaide, and joined the...
x Dominik Hrbatý Dominik Hrbatý in 2006     1996
Dominik Hrbatý (born 4 January 1978, Bratislava) is a professional tennis player from Slovakia. Hrbatý has won six ATP titles and has been ranked as high as No. 12 in the world at 18 October 2004. Hrbatý was born on 4 January 1978 in Bratislava,...
x Sébastien Grosjean Grosjean at the 2006 Australian Open     1996
Sébastien René Grosjean (French pronunciation: [sebastjˈẽ ʁəne ɡʁoˈʒã]) (born May 29, 1978, Marseille, France) is a professional tennis player from France. His career-high ATP Entry ranking is No. 4 (achieved on October 28, 2002). Grosjean joined...
x Maria Kirilenko Maria Kirilenko striking a backhand at the 2006 U.S. Open     2001
Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko (Russian: Мари́я Ю́рьевна Кириле́нко; born in Moscow on January 25, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player. Kirilenko won her first WTA Tour title in 2005, defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld 6–3, 6–4 in the China Open....
x Ai Sugiyama Sugiyama Ai     Oct 1992
Ai Sugiyama (杉山愛, Sugiyama Ai, born July 5, 1975, Yokohama, Japan) is a retired Japanese professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 in women's doubles, and was considered to be one of the best doubles player in the WTA Tour. Her career...
x Jana Novotná       1987
Jana Novotná (Jana Novotna) (born 2 October 1968 in Brno, Czechoslovakia) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. She won...
x Pete Sampras Pete Sampras Right-handed One-handed backhand 1988
Pete Sampras (born August 12, 1971) is a retired Greek - American tennis player and former World No. 1. During his 15-year tour career, he won 14 Grand Slam men's singles titles. This is more titles than any other player except Roger Federer who...
x Guillermo Cañas Guillermo Cañas US Open 08     1995
Guillermo Ignacio Cañas (born November 25, 1977) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He was born in Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, and named after Argentine tennis star Guillermo Vilas. His highest singles ranking was 8th (June 2005)....
x Corina Morariu Corina Morariu Acura Classic 2007     1994
Corina Marie Morariu (born January 26, 1978 in Detroit, Michigan) is a former American female professional tennis player of Romanian heritage. Morariu (pronounced: mo-RA-RHEE-yoo) turned professional in 1994. Mainly known as a doubles specialist,...
x Fernando Verdasco Fernando verdasco2     2001
Fernando Verdasco Carmona (born 15 November 1983 in Madrid) is a professional tennis player from Spain. He is currently the second-highest ranked Spanish tennis player, ranked number 9 in the world (as of September 14, 2009). Verdasco started...
x Séverine Bremond Severine-bremond     2002
Séverine Brémond Beltrame (born August 14, 1979 in Montpellier, France) is a professional female tennis player from France. In 2005, Beltrame was selected by the team leader Georges Goven to play with Mary Pierce, Amelie Mauresmo and Nathalie Dechy...
x Tracy Austin 1980 Tracy Austin     Oct 23, 1978
Tracy Ann Austin Holt (b. December 12, 1962, in Palos Verdes, California) is a former World No. 1 women's professional tennis player from the United States who won the women's singles title at the US Open in 1979 and 1981 and the mixed doubles title...
x Radek Štěpánek Radek Stepanek 2007 Australian Open R1     1996
Radek Štěpánek (born 27 November 1978 in Karviná) (Czech pronunciation: [ˈradɛk ˈʃcɛpaːnɛk]) is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. Štěpánek turned professional in 1996. He started on tour as a doubles specialist, winning 12 ATP...
x Amanda Coetzer Amanda Coetzer     1988
Amanda Coetzer (born 22 October 1971 in Hoopstad, South Africa) is the most accomplished female professional tennis player from South Africa. Coetzer turned professional in 1988 and retired in 2004. She won her first top-level singles title in 1993...
x Kenneth Carlsen Kenneth Carlsen Copyright Getty Images     1992
Kenneth Carlsen (born April 17, 1973) is a former Danish professional tennis player, who was active between 1992 and 2007. Carlsen played left-handed with a one-handed backhand. His greatest asset was his powerful serve, and his game was therefore...
x Tszvetana Pironkova        
Tszvetana Pironkova (born 13 September 1987) is a female Bulgaria tennis player. She was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and resides there. Pironkova is right-handed and plays with a two-handed backhand. Pironkova started playing tennis at the age of...
x Patty Schnyder Patty Schnyder 2007 Australian Open R2     1994
Patty Schnyder (born 14 December 1978 in Basel) is a Swiss professional tennis player. She has been playing on the WTA tour since 1993 and is a former World No. 7. She has defeated several World No. 1 players, including Martina Hingis, Lindsay...
x Joakim Nyström       1980
Joakim "Jocke" Nyström (born 20 February 1963 in Skellefteå, Sweden) is a former top ten ranked tennis player from Sweden who won thirteen singles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest singles ranking on the ATP...
x Liu Nan-Nan       2001
Liu Nannan (simplified Chinese: 刘南楠; traditional Chinese: 劉南楠; pinyin: Liú Nánnán; born June 19, 1983) is a women's tennis player from the People's Republic of China. Starting in 2001, she has enjoyed considerable success on the ITF circuit, and...
x Davide Sanguinetti Davide Sanguinetti     1993
Davide Sanguinetti (born 25 August 1972) is an Italian former professional male tennis player. Born in Viareggio in Tuscany, he attended the Harry Hopman academy in Florida and then UCLA. He now resides in Monte Carlo. Sanguinetti has won two ATP...
x Anna-Lena Grönefeld Grönefeld     Apr 2003
Anna-Lena Grönefeld (born on June 4, 1985 in Nordhorn, Lower Saxony, then West Germany) is a professional tennis player from Germany. She turned professional in 2003. As of February 2006, Grönefeld was the No. 1 tennis player from Germany. She was...
x Jiří Novák Jiří Novák     1993
Jiří Novák (pronounced [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈnovaːk] (help·info)) (born March 22, 1975) is a former Czech tennis player, who was born in Zlín, Czechoslovakia but resides nowadays in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Novák turned professional in 1993 and has won 7 singles...
x Jill Craybas JillCraybas-2007AcuraClassic     1996
Jill Craybas (born July 4, 1974, Providence, Rhode Island) is an American professional tennis player. Before entering the professional ranks in 1996, she attended and graduated from the University of Florida in Gainesville, and was the 1996 NCAA...
x Rennae Stubbs Stubbs Australian Open 2009 1      
Rennae Stubbs (born 26 March 1971 in Sydney) is an Australian professional female tennis player. She has won several Grand Slam doubles titles and represented Australia at three successive Olympic Games. She has recorded more double triumphs than...
x Flavia Pennetta Flavia Pennetta 2007 Australian Open womens doubles R1     2000
Flavia Pennetta (born 25 February 1982 in Brindisi, Puglia) is an Italian professional tennis player. She became Italy's first top 10 female player on 17 August 2009. She is also ranked World No. 21 in doubles. Pennetta has won eight career WTA...
x Roger Federer Roger Federer cropped Right-handed One-handed backhand 1998
Template:Infobox Tennis player Roger Federer (IPA pronunciation: [ˈɹɑ.dʒər ˈfɛ.dər.ər]) (born August 8, 1981) is a Swiss tennis professional, currently ranked World No. 1. Many experts and many of his own tennis peers believe that Federer may be the...
x Anthony Dupuis       1992
Antony Dupuis is a French tennis player. In 2006 he tested positive for the banned drug Salbutamol, and was suspended for two and a half months. Dupuis began playing tennis at the age of nine with his father Xavier. He mentioned in an interview once...
x José Acasuso At the 2006 Australian Open     1999
José Javier "Chucho" Acasuso (born October 20, 1982 in Posadas, Misiones) is a professional male tennis player from Argentina. Like many of his fellow countrymen, he favours clay. He is known for his strong serve and his hard groundstrokes off both...
x Patrick McEnroe Patrick McEnroe     1988
Patrick McEnroe (born July 1, 1966) also known as "P-Mac", is a former professional tennis player and the present Captain of the United States Davis Cup team. Born in Manhasset, New York, he is the younger brother of tennis legend John McEnroe....
x Goran Prpić       1984
Goran Prpić (born May 4, 1964, in Zagreb) is a former professional tennis player from Croatia. He played also for, then, Yugoslavia, prior to 1991. Prpić turned professional in 1984. His career was nearly ended by a serious knee injury in February...
x Paradorn Srichaphan Srichaphan at the US Open, 2004     1997
Paradorn Srichaphan (Thai: ภราดร ศรีชาพันธุ์; born 14 June 1979) is a professional tennis player from Thailand. He is the highest ranked player from Thailand in history, reaching a career high World No. 9, the highest ranking that has been achieved...
x Daniel Nestor Daniel Nestor     Jul 29, 1991
Daniel Mark Nestor (born on September 4, 1972, in Belgrade, Serbia, as Danijel Nestorović; Данијел Несторовић) is a Serbian-Canadian tennis player from the Toronto, Ontario, area. In his career so far he has won 62 men's doubles titles, including a...
x Rafael Nadal Rafael Nadal Left-handed   2001
Rafael "Rafa" Nadal Parera (Spanish pronunciation: [rafaˈel naˈðal]) (born 3 June 1986) is a former World No. 1 Spanish professional tennis player, currently ranked #2. Nadal has won six Grand Slam singles titles, and the 2008 Olympic gold medal in...
x Juan Carlos Ferrero Juan Carlos Ferrero 2006 Australian Open     1998
Juan Carlos Ferrero Donat (born 12 February 1980) is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from Spain. He captured the men's singles title at the 2003 French Open, and in September that year, he became the 21st player to hold the world no....
x Camille Pin Camille Pin 2006 Australian Open     1999
Camille Pin (born 25 August 1981 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes) is a French tennis player. As of 15 January 2007, she is ranked No. 62 on the WTA Singles Tour. Pin plays right-handed and is 164 cm, or 5' 3¾" tall. Camille's 2006 season was rather...
x Paul-Henri Mathieu Paul-Henri Mathieu     1999
Paul-Henri Mathieu (born January 12, 1982 in Strasbourg, France) is a French tennis player. Mathieu was born in Strasbourg, France. He first began playing tennis at age 3, with his older brother Pierre-Yves. Between 1997 and 2000 he trained at the...
x Dmitry Tursunov Dmitry Turnsunov 2006 Australian Open     2000
Dmitry Igorevich Tursunov (Russian: Дми́трий И́горевич Турсу́нов​ (help·info); born December 12, 1982, in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian professional male tennis player. He was 12 years old when he moved to live in the United States, where he has...
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