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x Li Na Li Na at the 2007 Medibank International.     1999
Li Na (Chinese: 李娜; pinyin: Lǐ Nà; born February 26, 1982 in Wuhan, Hubei), is a Chinese professional tennis player. She became the first Chinese player to reach the top 30 (in 2006), then the top 20 (in 2007). She has been one of the most...
x Marc Gicquel Marc Gicquel     1999
Marc Gicquel (born March 30, 1977, in Tunis, Tunisia) is a professional male tennis player from France. He turned pro in 1999. On November 6, 2006, Gicquel broke into the top 50 after reaching his first ATP Tour final in Lyon, where he was defeated...
x Maria Sharapova maria-sharapova.jpg Right-handed   Apr 19, 2001
Maria Sharapova is a professional tennis player who became the world´s highest-paid female athlete in 2008. She was born in Russia in April 19, 1987 in the town of Nyagan in western Siberia. At the age of 2 Maria and her parents moved to the...
x Dominique Monami       Jun 1991
Dominique Monami (born 31 May 1973 in Verviers, Belgium) is a former Belgian professional female tennis player. In 1995 she married her coach Bart Van Roost and played under the name Van Roost or Van Roost-Monami, until their divorce in 2003. Her...
x Sandrine Testud       1989
Sandrine Testud (born April 3, 1972) in Lyon, France is a former professional female tennis player from France. Testud broke into top 20 singles rankings in July 1997. On February 7, 1999, she became the fourth Frenchwoman after Françoise Durr, Mary...
x Dinara Safina Safina at the 2006 Australian Open.     2001
Dinara Mikhailovna Safina (Tatar: Динара Мөбин кызы Сафина, Dinara Möbin qızı Safina; Russian: Дина́ра Миха́йловна (Муби́новна) Са́фина, born April 27, 1986 in Moscow) is a Russian professional tennis player and is a former world number 1 women's...
x Sabine Appelmans Sabine Appelmans     1988
Sabine Appelmans listen (help·info) (born 22 April 1972) is a former tennis player from Belgium. Appelmans started playing at the neighbour's court at the age of seven. Her first trainer, Fred Debruyn, saw immediately that she was very talented....
x Slobodan Živojinović       1981
Slobodan Živojinović (Serbian: Слободан Живојиновић; born on July 23, 1963 in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a retired Serbian tennis player who competed for SFR Yugoslavia. He is also the husband of folk singer Lepa Brena. Together with...
x Raemon Sluiter       1996
Raemon Sluiter (born 13 April 1978 in Rotterdam, Netherlands; RAY-mon SLIGHT-er) is a professional male tennis player from the Netherlands. His career-high Association of Tennis Professionals Entry ranking is Number 46 (achieved on 24 February 2003)...
x Jonathan Erlich Yoni erlich     1996
Jonathan Dario "Yoni" Erlich (Hebrew: יונתן דאריו "יוני" ארליך, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 5, 1977) is a professional Israeli tennis player. Erlich has reached 24 doubles finals and won 13 of them, mostly with partner Andy Ram. He...
x Brian Teacher        
Brian David Teacher (born December 23, 1954) is a 6' 3" right handed American former professional male tennis player. He reached World # 7 in 1981. Teacher learned both tennis and swimming at the age of five, but concentrated solely on tennis after...
x Sofia Arvidsson Sofie     2001
Lena Sofia Alexandra Arvidsson (born 1984) is a Swedish tennis player. As of April 27, 2009, she is ranked World No. 120. Arvidsson began playing tennis at the age of 8 under her neighbor, a tennis coach. His father, Yngve is a policeman and her...
x Mara Santangelo Mara Santangelo 2007 Australian Open womens doubles R1     2003
Mara Santangelo (born 28 June 1981 in Latina, Italy) is a professional female tennis player from Italy. Santangelo reached the fourth round at the 2004 Australian Open, defeating 16th-seeded Magüi Serna, Barbara Schett, and 19th-seeded Eleni...
x Phil Dent        
Phil Dent (born 14 February 1950, in Sydney, Australia) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. He is best remembered for reaching the men's singles final at the Australian Open in 1974, where he lost to Jimmy Connors 7–6, 6–4, 4–6, 6...
x Michal Tabara       1997
Michal Tabara (born October 16, 1979 in Uherské Hradiště) is a tennis player from the Czech Republic, who turned professional in 1997. The right-hander has won one singles title (2001, Chennai) so far in his career. Tabara reached his highest...
x John Newcombe       1968
John David Newcombe, AO, OBE (born 23 May 1944; Sydney, Australia) is a former World No. 1 tennis champion. A natural athlete, as a boy Newcombe played several sports until devoting himself to tennis. He was the Australian junior champion in 1961,...
x Julie Halard-Decugis       1986
Julie Halard-Decugis (born September 10, 1970) is a former professional female tennis player from Versailles, France. Halard-Decugis lived in La Baule, France during the initial stages of her career and later moved to Pully, Switzerland. She turned...
x Michaëlla Krajicek Michaella Krajicek 2007 Australian Open R1     2003
Michaëlla Krajicek (born 9 January 1989) is a Dutch professional tennis player. Her highest WTA ranking (singles) was number 30 on 11 February 2008. Michaëlla Krajicek was born on 9 January 1989 in Delft. She is the younger half-sister of former...
x Aiko Nakamura Aiko Nakamura 2007 Australian Open womens doubles R1     1999
Aiko Nakamura (中村藍子, Nakamura Aiko) (born 28 December 1983 in Osaka), is a female Japanese tennis player. She was once the second highest WTA-ranked Japanese singles tennis player, at 107 (21 July 2008), after Ai Sugiyama. Like her role-model Monica...
x Chris Guccione       2003
Christopher ("Chris") Luke Guccione (born 30 July 1985), is an Australian tennis player from Greenvale, Victoria; his father is Italian and his mother is Australian. Guccione is coached by countryman and former ATP professional Anthony Lane....
x Gustavo Kuerten       1995
Gustavo Kuerten (born September 10, 1976 in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina) is a retired former World No. 1 tennis player from Brazil. He won the French Open three times between 1997 and 2001, and was the Tennis Masters Cup champion in 2000. After 12...
x Mark Philippoussis Mark Philippoussis     1994
Mark Anthony Philippoussis (Μαρκ Φιλιππούσης)(born 7 November 1976) is an Australian tennis player. He turned professional in 1994. His father is Greek, while his mother is of Italian ancestry but speaks Greek. He has had a minor career in modeling...
x Nathalie Dechy Dechy at the 2006 Australian Open.     1995
Nathalie Dechy (born on February 21, 1979 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe) is a French former professional tour tennis player. Dechy is a three-time doubles Grand Slam champion, winning the 2006 US Open women's doubles title with Vera Zvonareva, the 2007...
x Yuan Meng       2003
Yuan Meng (born May 9, 1986) (simplified Chinese: 袁梦; traditional Chinese: 袁夢; pinyin: Yuán Mèng) is a Chinese female professional tennis player. She is China's fifth-highest ranked women's singles player after Zheng Jie, Li Na, Peng Shuai, and Yan...
x Florent Serra Florent serra     2000
Florent Serra (born 28 February 1981 in Bordeaux, France) is a French male tennis player. A right-hander, he has won two ATP titles during his career and is coached by Pierre Cherret. Serra was born in Bordeaux, in the southwest of France, in 1981...
x Xavier Malisse Xavier Malisse at the 2005 Australian Open     1998
Xavier Malisse (born 19 July 1980) is a Belgian tennis player. Born in Kortrijk, Belgium, he is considered the biggest Belgian tennis talent on the ATP tour. He is sponsored by Prince and Lotto. Malisse turned professional in 1998. In his...
x Mats Wilander       1981
Mats Wilander (born 22 August 1964, in Växjö, Sweden) is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Sweden. From 1982 through 1988, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles (three at the French Open, three at the Australian Open, and one at the US Open),...
x Sue Barker       1973
Susan Barker, MBE (born 19 April 1956, in Paignton, Devon, England) is a television presenter and former professional tennis player. During her tennis career, she won the women's singles title at the French Open and reached a career-high singles...
x Rossana de los Rios De Los Rios at the 2008 US Open     1993
Rossana de los Rios born September 16, 1975 is a professional tennis player from Paraguay. As of August 31, 2009, she is ranked 80 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. She was born in the Paraguayan capital, Asunción, and now lives in Miami, USA, with her...
x Julien Benneteau Julien Benneteau at the 2008 Masters France 2     2000
Julien Benneteau (born December 20, 1981 in Bourg en Bresse) is a professional male tennis player from France. His career best singles ranking is ATP World No. 33, which he reached in October 2009. He resides in Boulogne Billancourt. In the 1996...
x Stefan Koubek Stefan Koubek 1     1994
Stefan Koubek (born January 2, 1977 in Klagenfurt) is a tennis player from Austria. Koubek plays left-handed with a double-handed backhand. His idol when growing up was Thomas Muster. Koubek has won three titles, two of which have come on hardcourts...
x Nicolas Devilder Nicolas Devilder at the 2008 US Open     2000
Nicolas Devilder (born March 25, 1980) is a French male tennis player. He reached a career high singles ranking of 60 in the world on September 8, 2008, after reaching the semifinals of the Montevideo Challenger, where he lost to former top ten...
x Jérôme Haehnel       1998
Jérôme Haehnel (born July 14, 1980 in Mulhouse) is a tennis player who defeated Andre Agassi in the first round of the French Open in 2004. Haehnel's career-high singles ranking is no. 78, which he reached on February 21, 2005. Recently he has been...
x Thomas Enqvist       1991
Thomas Karl Johan Enqvist (born 13 March 1974 in Stockholm) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. He was quickly touted as the only Swede who could follow in the footsteps of Stefan Edberg and Björn Borg, and was ranked as high as No....
x Magnus Norman       1995
Magnus Norman (born 30 May 1976 in Filipstad) is a retired Swedish professional tennis player who is best known for being the runner up at the French Open in 2000 and for briefly being ranked World Number 2. He won 12 singles titles, including a...
x Aravane Rezaï Aravane Rezai 2007 Australian Open womens doubles R1     Jan 1, 2005
Aravane Rezai (Persian: ارغوان رضائی , Latin alphabet: Aravane Rezaï, born March 14, 1987) is an Iranian-French tennis player born in St. Etienne, France to Iranian parents. Rezaï took up tennis after a childhood stint as her older brother's ball...
x Elena Likhovtseva Elena Likhovtseva     1992
Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva (Russian: Елена Лиховцева (jelena lixɔvtseva; born 8 September 1975 in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan) is a Russian tennis player, She turned professional in January 1992 at the age of 16. Likhovtseva's career best appearance in...
x Jennifer Hopkins       1999
Jennifer Dent (born Jennifer Hopkins on September 2, 1981) is an American professional tennis player. She has won six International Tennis Federation (ITF) women's circuit titles in her career and nearly cracked the top 50. In 2003, she played some...
x Nicolás Lapentti Nicolas Lapentti     1995
Nicolás Alexander Lapentti Gómez (born August 13, 1976 in Guayaquil) is a professional tennis player from Ecuador who is currently ranked 114th. He is Andrés Gómez's nephew. Lapentti began playing tennis at the age of six. He first came to the...
x Evonne Goolagong Evonne Goolagong Park, Barellan.     1971
Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley, AO, MBE (born 31 July 1951 in Griffith, New South Wales, Australia) is a former World No. 1 Australian female tennis player. She was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s, when she won 14 Grand...
x Rick Leach Rick Leach 2009 US Open 01     1987
Rick Leach (b. December 28, 1964, in Arcadia, California) is a professional tennis player from the United States. A doubles specialist, he has won 5 Grand Slam men's doubles titles (3 Australian Open, 1 Wimbledon, 1 US Open), and 4 Grand Slam mixed...
x Lucie Šafářová Lucie Šafářová At The 2007 US Open     2002
Lucie Šafářová (Czech pronunciation: [ˈlutsɪjɛ ˈʃafaːr̝ovaː]) (born February 4, 1987) is a professional Czech tennis player. She was born in Brno. Šafářová has won four WTA tour singles titles and reached the quarterfinals of the 2007 Australian...
x Anastasia Myskina Anastasia Myskina     1998
Anastasia Andreyevna Myskina (Анастасия Мыскина; IPA: [ʌnəstʌˈsʲijə ˈmɨskʲɪnə]) (born July 8, 1981, Moscow, Russia) is a professional tennis player from Russia. In 2004 she won the French Open, becoming the first Russian female tennis player to win...
x Maret Ani Maret Ani and Andreea Vanc      
Maret Ani (born January 31, 1982 in Tallinn) is an Estonian tennis player. At the start of 2006, she was the top-ranked player in Estonia, before losing that spot to Kaia Kanepi. Ani was a junior basketball champion, but devoted herself to tennis...
x Andy Roddick AndyRoddickHairstyle.jpg     2000
Andrew Stephen "Andy" Roddick (born August 30, 1982) is an American professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. His best surfaces are hard court and grass. He is the top-ranked American player and the only male American inside the top 10....
x Luis Horna Luis Horna     1998
Luis Horna Biscari (born September 14, 1980 in Lima) is a former tennis player from Peru, who turned professional in 1998. Horna plays right-handed, he has a strong serve for a relatively short player and the forehand is his best stroke. He uses a...
x Shahar Pe'er During the 2006 Australian Open     2004
Shahar Pe'er (pronounced /ˈʃɑːhɑr ˈpeɪ.ər/; Hebrew: שחר פאר shahar pe'er, IPA: [ˈʃɑχɑʁ peˈʔer]; born May 1, 1987, Jerusalem) is a 1.71 m (5' 7") right-handed Israeli professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking of World #15 on January...
x Benjamin Becker Benjamin-becker-2007-usopen     2005
Benjamin Becker (born June 16, 1981) is a German professional tennis player. Becker's primary weapon is a very big serve that he can hit at up to 220 km/h (136.7 mph), along with powerful groundstrokes. Becker was born at Merzig, Saarland, then part...
x Mario Ančić Mario Ančić Serving at Wimbledon, 2006. Photo by David Wilmot     2001
Mario Ančić (born March 30, 1984) is a professional tennis player from Croatia. He has won three singles titles and five doubles titles. His highest international ranking came during the 2006 ATP Tour, when he reached No. 7 in singles. Apart from...
x Angela Haynes haynes.jpg      
Angela Haynes (born September 27, 1984 in Bellflower, California) is a professional tennis player from the United States. Haynes's top WTA singles ranking is World No. 95 which she attained in August, 2005. Angela is currently ranked World No. 157,...
x Anastassia Rodionova Anastasia Rodionova Serving At The U.S. Open     1997
Anastasia Rodionova (Russian: Анастасия Ивановна Родионова) (Pron: Rodi-o-nova) (born 12 May 1982 in Tambov, Soviet Union) is an Australian professional female tennis player. She competed for Russia prior to gaining Australian Citizenship She won...
x Jamie Murray Jamie Murray at Montreal 2007     2004
James "Jamie" Murray (born 13 February 1986 in Dunblane) is a Scottish tennis player who specialises in doubles. He is the older brother of Andy Murray Along with Jelena Janković, he won the mixed doubles final of Wimbledon in 2007 Jamie Murray was...
x Tamarine Tanasugarn Tamarine Tanasugarn 2007 Australian Open R1     1994
Tamarine Tanasugarn (Thai: แทมมารีน ธนสุกาญจน์, IPA: [tʰɛːmmāːrīːn tʰánásùkāːn]; born 24 May 1977) is a professional Thai tennis player. She was born in Los Angeles, California, U.S. and turned professional in 1994. She has been in the top twenty in...
x Bernard Tomic Bernard Tomic     2009
Bernard Tomic (Croatian: Bernard Tomić, born 21 October 1992 in Stuttgart, Germany) is an Australian professional tennis player of Croatian descent. Tomic is considered by many as Australia's next best and up and coming player since Lleyton Hewitt,...
x Luke Jensen Luke Jensen 2009 US Open 01     1987
Luke Jensen (born June 18, 1966 in Grayling, Michigan, U.S.) is a former professional male tennis player from the United States. He attended University of Southern California from 1986–87 and earned singles All-American honors both years (doubles in...
x Miroslava Vavrinec       Jan 15, 1998
Miroslava "Mirka" Federer, (born Miroslava Vavrinec on 1 April 1978 in Bojnice, Slovakia, then Czechoslovakia) is a former WTA tennis player from Switzerland who retired from the game in 2002 due to a persistent foot injury. She is the wife of World...
x Jamea Jackson Jamea Jackson     2003
Jamea Jackson (born September 7, 1986), is a female American former tennis player. She reached a singles ranking of 45 in the world at the end of 2006. Jackson was born in Atlanta, Georgia and attended the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in...
x Murphy Jensen Murphy Jensen     1981
Murphy Jensen (born October 30, 1968) is an American professional tennis player from Ludington, Michigan and currently the coach of the Washington Kastles of World TeamTennis. His elder brother is former professional tennis player Luke Jensen....
x Jonas Björkman Jonas Bjorkman 2007 Australian Open mens doubles R1     1991
Jonas Lars Björkman (pronounced: YOO-nass BYERK-mann) (born 23 March 1972, Alvesta, Sweden) is a former World No. 4 Swedish professional tennis player. He is also a former World No. 1 in doubles. Bjorkman retired from professional tennis after...
x Hana Mandlíková Hana mandlikova     1978
Hana Mandlíková (born 19 February 1962, in Prague) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. During her career, she won four Grand Slam singles titles – two at the Australian Open, one at the French Open, and one at the US Open...
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