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The modern game of tennis originated in the United Kingdom in the late 19th century as "lawn tennis" which has heavy connections to various field/lawn games as well as to the ancient game of real tennis. After its creation, tennis spread throughout the upper-class English-speaking population before...
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Suzanne Lenglen
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen (24 May 1899, Compiègne, Oise – 4 July 1938) was a French tennis player who won 31 Grand Slam titles between 1914 and 1926. A flamboyant, trendsetting athlete, she was the first female tennis celebrity and one of the...
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Seiichiro Kashio
Seiichiro Kashio (柏尾誠一郎, January 2, 1892 in Osaka – September 6, 1962) was a male tennis player from Japan. He graduated from Tokyo Higher Commercial School (now Hitotsubashi University).
At the Antwerp Olympics in 1920 he won the silver medal in...
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Ichiya Kumagae
Ichiya Kumagae (熊谷一弥, Kumagai Ichiya), born September 10, 1890 — August 16, 1968, in Omuta, Fukuoka Prefecture) was a male tennis player from Japan and the first Japanese Olympic medalist. He is best known for his two Olympic silver medals at the...
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Bob Bryan
Robert ("Bob") Charles Bryan was born on April 29, 1978, in Camarillo, California and is an American male professional tennis player. With his twin brother Mike, he has been a World No. 1 doubles player for the last several years. He has won...
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James Blake
James Riley Blake (born December 28, 1979 in Yonkers, New York, United States) is a professional tennis player and currently the fourth-highest ranked American, 44rd in the world (as of November 16, 2009). Blake is known for his speed and powerful,...
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Venus Williams
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 November 2, 2009, she is ranked World No. 6. She is...
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Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber (born August 21, 1976 in Durban) is a tennis player from South Africa who competes for, resides in, and is a naturalized citizen of the United States. Huber has won the women's doubles title in Wimbledon in 2005 and the Australian Open...
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Sam Querrey
Sam Austin Querrey (born October 7, 1987 in San Francisco, California, United States) is a professional American tennis player from Thousand Oaks, California currently living in Santa Monica, California. As of September 2009, he is the second...
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Mike Bryan
Michael ("Mike") Carl Bryan (born 29 April 1978 in Camarillo, California) is an American professional tennis player. He stands 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) tall, weighs 192 lbs and plays right-handed. He turned professional in 1998.
He played for Stanford...
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Serena Williams
Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American professional tennis player and current World Number 1. She has been ranked World Number 1 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) on five separate occasions. She regained this ranking...
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Robby Ginepri
Robert Louis ("Robby") Ginepri (born October 7, 1982) is an American professional tennis player.
Robby Ginepri attended Joseph Wheeler High School, located in Marietta, Georgia, in Cobb County. He graduated as a member of the class of 2001.
Ginepri...
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Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Ann Davenport (born June 8, 1976 in Palos Verdes, California) is a former World No. 1 American professional tennis player. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in singles. In 2005, TENNIS Magazine ranked...
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Louis Raymond
Louis Raymond (1895 - 1962) was a male tennis player from South Africa. At the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, he defeated Ichiya Kumagai in the finals to win the gold medal.
In his book, The Art of Lawn Tennis, Raymond is described as a ...
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Charles Winslow
Charles Lyndhurst Winslow (August 1, 1888 – September 15, 1963) is a three time Olympic tennis medalist from South Africa. He won two golden medals: men's singles and doubles at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Eight years, in Antwerp, later he won a...
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Justine Henin
Justine Henin (born 1 June 1982), formerly known as Justine Henin-Hardenne 2002–2007, is a professional Belgian tennis player. On 14 May 2008, Henin announced her immediate retirement from professional tennis. She was 25 years old and ranked World...
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Roger Federer
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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...
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Daniel Nestor
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 63 men's doubles titles, including a...
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Frank Dancevic
Frank Russell Dancevic (born September 26, 1984) is a professional touring and Canadian Davis Cup tennis player. He first became the country's top singles player, according to ATP rankings, on February 10, 2003, as an eighteen-year old, and has...
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Frederic Niemeyer
Frédéric Niemeyer (born April 24, 1976) is a recently retired, veteran minor tour and Canadian Davis Cup tennis player and newly named Tennis Canada coach. Born in Campbellton, New Brunswick, Niemeyer hails from Deauville, Sherbrooke, Quebec. He...
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Charlotte Cooper
Charlotte Reinagle Cooper (22 September 1870 – 10 October 1966) was a tennis player born in Ealing, Middlesex, England where, as a young lady, she was a member of the Ealing Lawn Tennis Club. She won her first of five Wimbledon championships singles...
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Sofia Arvidsson
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...
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Simon Aspelin
Simon Aspelin (born 11 May 1974 in Saltsjöbaden) is a professional doubles player (tennis) from Sweden who turned professional in 1998. Aspelin has achieved a career-high singles ranking relevant as of 23 March 2007, of World Number 436 which he...
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Jonas Björkman
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...
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Thomas Johansson
Karl Thomas Conny Johansson (born 24 March, 1975, in Linköping, Sweden), commonly known as Thomas Johansson, is a former Swedish professional tennis player. He is a former Australian Open singles champion and Olympic silver medalist in doubles....
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Robin Söderling
Robin Bo Carl Söderling (born August 14, 1984 in Tibro, Västra Götaland County) is a professional tennis player from Sweden, who's as of December 7 ranked world no. 8. Currently he is the only Swede in the top 200 in the ATP rankings.
Söderling...
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Dionysios Kasdaglis
Dionysios Kasdaglis (1880 - ?) was a Greek-Egyptian tennis player. He competed in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Kasdaglis, the only competitor from Egypt, made it to the finals in both the singles and doubles events. In the singles, he...
