- Roger Federer
Roger Federer (born August 8, 1981) is a Swiss tennis professional, currently ranked World No. 1. Many experts and many of his own tennis peers believe Federer may be the best player in the history of the game. Federer has won eleven Grand Slam men's singles titles in 33 appearances (all eleven coming in a record 17 consecutive appearances), three Tennis Masters Cup titles, and 13 ATP Masters Series titles.
- Rafael Nadal
Rafael "Rafa" Nadal Parera (born June 3, 1986, in Manacor, Mallorca) is a top Spanish professional tennis player. As of July 2007, he is ranked No. 2 in the world. He is a three-time Grand Slam champion, having won three consecutive French Open singles titles (2005-07), and has twice been a runner-up at Wimbledon (2006-07). Nadal is undefeated in his career at the French, having won all 21 matches he has played en route to his three championships.
- Justine Henin
Justine Henin; (born June 1, 1982 in Liège) is a Belgian professional tennis player from the Walloon region of Belgium. She is the current World No. 1. She has won six Grand Slam singles titles, including four French Open singles titles (four of the last five and the last three, consecutively). She also has won a WTA Tour Championships singles title and the singles gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
- Maria Sharapova
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (born April 19, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. She is currently the second ranked player in the world. At the end of 2006, she was the world's highest-paid female athlete. Sharapova has won two Grand Slam singles titles. She is the reigning U.S. Open champion, having defeated Justine Henin in the final of the 2006 U.S. Open. Two years earlier, she defeated Serena Williams in the final at Wimbledon.
- Venus Williams
Venus Williams (born June 17, 1980 in Lynwood, California) is an American professional tennis player. As of July 2007, she is the reigning Wimbledon ladies' singles champion. She was formerly ranked as the World No. 1 tennis player. Venus has won the Olympic gold medal in women's tennis and 14 Grand Slam titles, including six singles (four at Wimbledon), six women's doubles, and two mixed doubles titles. Williams is the older sister of fellow former World No.
- Andy Roddick
Andrew Stephen "Andy" Roddick (born August 30, 1982) is an American professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. He is the top-ranked American player and fourth-ranked player in the world as of July 2007. He finished sixth in the 2006 ATP Race. He became a Grand Slam singles champion when he won the title at the 2003 U.S. Open. He has reached three other Grand Slam finals, losing to Roger Federer each time. Roddick is known for his fast serves and forehands.
- Serena Williams
Serena Jameka Williams, (born September 26, 1981) is an American former World No. 1 ranked female tennis player who has won eight Grand Slam singles titles and an Olympic gold medal in women's doubles.. She is the last player, male or female, to have held all four Grand Slams at the same time. In 2005, "Tennis" magazine ranked her as the 17th-best player of the preceding forty years. She is the younger sister of another former world no.
- James Blake
James Riley Blake (born December 28, 1979 in Yonkers, New York, United States) is an American professional tennis player and is currently the 9th ranked player in the world (8th in the ATP Race points). He is the second-ranked American player behind Andy Roddick. Blake is known for his speed and powerful forehand. In 2006 he reached the final of the Tennis Masters Cup but lost to World No. 1 Roger Federer in three sets.
- Svetlana Kuznetsova
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova (Cyrillic: ; born June 27, 1985) is a Russian professional tennis player. She is currently the fourth ranked women's player in the world.
- David Ferrer
David Ferrer Ern is a professional tennis player from Spain. He was born in Javea, Spain and lives in Valencia, Spain. He turned professional in 2000. Ferrer is known as a particularly dangerous clay court player, though he has had several respectable results on hard courts as well, especially his back-to-back semifinal appearances at the NASDAQ-100 Open in 2005-2006.
- Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Glynn Hewitt (born February 24, 1981), is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Australia. In 2001, he became the youngest male ever to be ranked number one. His career best achievements are winning the 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon men's singles titles. Hewitt is known for his competitiveness and wins most of his matches with relentless aggression, fitness, consistent shots, and highly skilled footwork. His serve improved greatly in 2004 and 2005.
- Nikolay Davydenko
Nikolay Davydenko ; born June 2, 1981 in Severodonezk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is currently the number one ranked Russian male tennis player, fifth in the world, and the winner of ten ATP singles titles. Davydenko's best result in a Grand Slam tournament has been reaching the semi-finals at the 2005 Roland Garros, 2006 US Open and again at the 2007 French Open.
- Richard Gasquet
Richard Gasquet (born 18 June, 1986) is a French tennis player. He has reached a career high of No. 7 in the world on July 9, 2007 after making it to the semi-finals of Wimbledon 2007.
- Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis (born September 30, 1980 in Košice, Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia) is a former World No. 1 Swiss tennis player. Known as the "Swiss Miss", she has won five Grand Slam singles titles (three Australian Open, one Wimbledon, and one US Open). She has also won nine Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar year Grand Slam in 1998, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title. She spent a total of 209 weeks as World No.
- Elena Dementieva
Elena Vyacheslavovna Dementieva (pronounced: L-e-nuh de-MENT-ye-vuh Russian:); born October 15, 1981, Moscow), is a professional tennis player from Russia.
- Tommy Haas
Thomas Mario Haas (born April 3, 1978) is a German tennis player. He is 187 cm tall and plays right-handed. He is currently ranked #10 in the world. He reached a career-high ranking of World No. 2 in May 2002. Haas is particularly well-known for his strong forehand.
- Dinara Safina
Dinara Safina (Russian: Дина́ра Муби́новна (Миха́йловна) Са́фина), born April 27, 1986, is a Russian professional tennis player of Tatar origins. She was born in Moscow, USSR (now Russia), where she currently lives. She is the younger sister of tennis player, former world number one Marat Safin. She is coached by Glen Schaap, former trainer of Nadia Petrova.
- David Nalbandian
David Nalbandian is a professional tennis player from Argentina. As of July 2007 he is the World's No. 24 male tennis player. <sup></sup> Nalbandian is of Armenian descent; his last name means "one who makes horse shoes" in Persian.
- Nadia Petrova
Nadia Petrova is a professional tennis player from Russia. Petrova's career high ranking is World No. 3, a ranking she achieved after beating Justine Henin in the final of the Qatar Telecom German Open in May 2006. She has reached the French Open semi-finals twice in her career, once in 2003 and again in 2005. As of July 9 2007, she is the No. 9 player in the world.
- Marcos Baghdatis
Marcos Baghdatis born 17 June 1985, Limassol, Cyprus) is a Greek Cypriot professional tennis player. He was the runner-up at the 2006 Australian Open and a semifinalist at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships. As of July 9, 2007, he is ranked No. 18 on the ATP rankings.
- Juan Ignacio Chela
Juan Ignacio Chela (born August 30, 1979, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a professional male tennis player from Argentina, and his strongest surface is slow hardcourt, but like all Argentine players he is comfortable on the clay. Chela was suspended by the ATP in 2001 for 3 months and US$ 8,000 for the use of Methyltestosterone during the Cincinnati Masters. On August 9, 2004 he reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 15. On January 19, 2006, …
- Patty Schnyder
Patty Schnyder (born December 14 1978, Basel, Switzerland) is one of the most popular players in women's professional tennis. She has been playing on the WTA tour since the mid-1990s and is a former World "No.7". She has had significant wins over World No. 1's. During her long career, she has reached four Grand Slam quarterfinals, and one Grand Slam semifinal.
- Tommy Robredo
Tommy Robredo Garcés (born 1 May 1982 in Hostalric, Girona) is a professional tennis player from Spain. On 8 May 2006, he broke into the world's top ten for the first time after rising to a rank of No. 10 in the world, and apart from one week he has maintained a position in the top ten ever since. His highest singles ranking to date is No. 5, which he first reached on 28 August 2006. He turned professional in 1998 and is currently coached by Jose Manuel "Pepó" Clavet, …
- Dmitry Tursunov
Dmitry Igorevich Tursunov (born December 12, 1982 in Moscow, Russia) is a professional male tennis player from Russia. Tursunov, like his countrymen Marat Safin and Igor Andreev, left Russia at an early age. In Tursunov's case, he was 12 years old when he moved overseas to further his prospects of becoming a professional player. Unlike Safin and Andreev who went to Valencia, Spain, Tursunov went to live in the U.S. and has lived there ever since, …
- Mikhail Youzhny
Mikhail Youzhny (Russian: "'"'; b. June 25, 1982, Moscow, USSR) (now Russia) is a professional tennis player from Russia. Youzhny is noted for his consistency and all court play style.
- Tim Henman
Timothy Henry Henman OBE (born 6 September 1974 in Oxford) is an English tennis player. He is the first player from the United Kingdom since Roger Taylor in the 1970s to reach the semi-finals of the Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship. Having reached 6 grand slam semis and been ranked number 4 in the world he is Britain's most successful open era player. Nevertheless, he has been criticised by some for not winning a Grand Slam event and for refusing to retire.
- Sania Mirza
Sania Mirza (born November 15, 1986) is an Indian tennis player. She was born in Mumbai but brought up in Hyderabad. Coached by her father Imran Mirza, she began playing tennis at the age of six, turning professional in 2003. She was the highest ranked female tennis player ever from India, with career high rankings of number 31 in singles and 24 in doubles. She is now ranked 46th in singles and 38th in doubles as of June 21st, 2007.
- Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli (born October 2, 1984) is a French professional tennis player. She has won three Women's Tennis Association titles in her career, but her biggest career achievement is a run to the 2007 Wimbledon Championships final. As of July 9, 2007 she is ranked 11th in the world by the WTA.
- Andy Murray
Andrew "Andy" Murray (born 15 May 1987 in Glasgow), is a Scottish tennis player, who represents both Scotland and Great Britain. Murray is currently the UK's highest ranked player, with a current world ranking of #14 as of July 16, 2007. In December 2005, he won the BBC Scotland Sports Personality of the Year Award, and the sport section of the Top Scot awards. His elder brother Jamie is the UK's best ranked doubles player.
- Stanislas Wawrinka
Stanislas Wawrinka (born March 28, 1985 in Lausanne) is a Swiss male tennis player. As of April 2007, he is one of two Swiss players in the ATP top 40 (the other being Roger Federer). The surname Wawrinka is of Polish decent but Stanislas is only Polish by ancestry. His nickname is 'Stan'. His father Wolfram is German, and his mother Isabelle is Swiss. Both work on a biological farm helping handicapped people. Wawrinka's grandparents are Czech.
- Max Mirnyi
Max Mirnyi (nicknamed "The Beast"; ; born July 6, 1977) is a tennis player from Belarus. Like Natasha Zvereva (a Belarusian tennis star from 1980s and early 1990s), Max Mirnyi focuses on doubles. His biggest achievements so far are the two victories in doubles at the US Open in 2000 and 2002 and his 2005 and 2006 French Open titles. In 2003 he reached the doubles final at Wimbledon. On June 9, 2003, he reached 1st position in ATP Doubles Entry Ranking.
- Juan Carlos Ferrero
Juan Carlos Ferrero Donat (born February 12 1980) is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Spain. He captured the men's singles title at the French Open in 2003, and in October that year he became the 21st player to hold the World No. 1 ranking. He has also been a runner-up at two other Grand Slams during his career. His nickname is "Mosquito" due to his speed and wiry, strong physique.
- Paul-Henri Mathieu
Paul-Henri Mathieu (born January 12, 1982) is a French tennis player.
- Fernando Verdasco
Fernando Verdasco Carmona (born November 15, 1983 in Madrid) is a professional tennis player from Spain. Currently he is one of the best Spanish tennis players, and he plays well on all of the surfaces. Verdasco started playing tennis at four years old and got a full-time coach when he was eight. Verdasco considers his forehand his best shot, plays left-handed and has a double-handed backhand.
- Jarkko Nieminen
Jarkko Nieminen (born July 23, 1981 in Masku, Finland) is a professional tennis player from Finland. Nieminen is ranked World No. 21 in the ATP Rankings published on June 18, 2007. He has won one ATP singles title in his career so far. His best performances in Grand Slam tournaments have been reaching the quarter-finals of the 2005 U.S. Open and the 2006 Wimbledon Championships. Arguably Finland's best ever player, Nieminen is the highest ranked Finn ever, …
- Francesca Schiavone
Francesca Schiavone (June 23, 1980, Milan) is a professional tennis player from Italy. She turned professional in 1998. She has finished the 2005 season on the WTA Tour ranked #13 in the world in singles. She has yet to win a singles title on the WTA tour but has reached eight finals, six of them since the Autumn of 2005. Schiavone has also been to two Grand Slam Quarter Finals in her career; once in her debut at the French Open in 2001 and again at the US Open in 2003.
- Tatiana Golovin
Tatiana Golovin (born 25 January 1988) is a French professional tennis player. She is best known for winning the 2004 French Open mixed-doubles event with her countryman Richard Gasquet, and also, reaching the singles quarterfinal at the 2006 US Open, losing to the eventual champion Maria Sharapova. She was born in Moscow, but she moved to Paris with her parents, and earned French citizenship. She has two sisters, Olga and Oxana.
- Ernests Gulbis
Ernests Gulbis is a tennis player from Latvia. He is currently ranked 86thth in the world for singles, and 195th for doubles. Considered one of the brightest young talents in men's tennis, he is the second-highest ranked player born in 1988 behind Juan Martin Del Potro. Gulbis is coached by Nikola Pilić, the former Yugoslavian tennis player and Croatian Davis Cup captain, and has been training at the Niki Pilic Tennis Academy in Germany since he was 12.
- Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka (Belarusian: "Вікторыя Азарэнка, Азаранка", Russian: "Виктория Азаренко"; born July 31, 1989) is a tennis player from Minsk, Belarus, who became junior world champion in 2005. Currently she lives and trains in Marbella, Spain. On July 9, 2007 she reached a career high of No. 42.
- Feliciano López
Feliciano López Díaz-Guerra is a Spanish professional male tennis player. He was born in Toledo and now lives in the Spanish capital Madrid. In his career he has won one singles title (Vienna 2004, beat Guillermo Cañas in the final) and one doubles title (Stockholm 2004, with Fernando Verdasco). In 2005 he was the first male Spanish tennis player to reach the quarter-final of Wimbledon since 1972, when Manuel Orantes reached the semi-finals.