1. Martina Navratilova

    Martina Navratilova (born October 18, 1956, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a former World No. 1 woman tennis player. Billie Jean King said about Navratilova in 2006, "She's the greatest singles, doubles and mixed doubles player who's ever lived." Tennis writer Steve Flink, in his book "The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century", named her as the second best female player of the 20th century, directly behind Steffi Graf.

  2. Ivan Lendl

    Ivan Lendl (born March 7 1960) is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s. "Tennis magazine" named him as one of the ten greatest tennis players since 1966, calling him "the game’s greatest overachiever" and emphasizing his importance in the game’s history.

  3. Helena Suková

    Helena Suková is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. During her career, she won 14 Grand Slam titles, 9 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles. She also was a four-time Grand Slam singles runner-up. Suková comes from a prominent Czech tennis family. Her mother, Věra Pužejová Suková, was a women's singles finalist at Wimbledon in 1962. Her father, Cyril Suk II, was president of the Czechoslovakian Tennis Federation.

  4. Jana Novotná

    Jana Novotná is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She is best remembered for winning the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and for crying on the shoulder of the Duchess of Kent after losing the Wimbledon singles final in 1993. Novotná also won 12 Grand Slam women's doubles titles and 4 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles.

  5. Cyril Suk

    Cyril Suk III is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. A doubles specialist, Suk has won one Grand Slam men's doubles title and four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles during his career. Suk comes from a prominent Czech tennis family. His mother, Věra Suková, was a women's singles finalist at Wimbledon in 1962. His father, Cyril Suk II, was President of the Czechoslovakian Tennis Federation.

  6. Jan Kodeš

    Jan Kodeš is a right-handed Czech former tennis player who won three Grand Slam events in the early-1970s. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), Kodeš' greatest success was on the clay courts of the French Open. He won his first title there in 1970, beating Zeljko Franulovic 6-2, 6-4, 6-0. He followed that the next year by beating Ilie Năstase 8-6, 6-2, 2-6, 7-5, before he made the successful transition to grass by winning Wimbledon in 1973.

  7. Hana Mandlíková

    Hana Mandlíková 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 U.S. Open. She was the runner-up at four Grand Slam singles events and won one Grand Slam women's doubles title, the U.S. Open in 1989 with Martina Navratilova. Beginning with the 1980 US Open and extending through Wimbledon in 1981, …

  8. Miloslav Mečíř

    Miloslav Mečíř (born May 19 1964) is a former professional tennis player from Slovakia. He is best remembered for having won the men's singles Gold Medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics for the former Czechoslovakia, and for having played in two Grand Slam singles finals.

  9. Regina Maršíková

    Regina Maršíková is a successful former Czechoslovakian tennis player, winning 5 singles titles and 12 doubles titles. Her single titles were at Rome, Toronto and Christchurch in 1978, Phoenix in 1980 and Berlin in 1981. In Grand Slam competition she never went further than the semi-finals (three, all at the French Open, 1977-79). Her major doubles win was at the French Open in 1977 with Pam Teeguarden.

  10. Petr Korda

    Petr Korda (Pronounced: KOR-da) (b. January 23 1968, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. He is best known for winning the Australian Open in 1998.

  11. Věra Suková

    Věra Pužejová Suková (born June 13, 1931 in Uherské Hradiště, Czechoslovakia - died May 13, 1982 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a tennis player from Czechoslovakia. She was the women's singles runner-up at Wimbledon in 1962, losing to Karen Hantze Susman 6-4, 6-4. Suková was a women's singles semifinalist at the French Championships in 1957 and 1963. She teamed with Jiří Javorský to win the mixed doubles title at that tournament in 1957.

  12. Jaroslav Drobný

    Jaroslav Drobný was an amateur tennis champion as well as being an ice hockey player for the Czechoslovakian national team. He became an Egyptian citizen from 1949 to 1954, and then moved to Great Britain, where he died in 2001. He was a silver medallist with the Czechoslovakian ice hockey team in the 1948 Olympics. As a tennis player he was good enough as early as 1946 to be able to beat Jack Kramer in the round of 16 at Wimbledon before losing in the semi-finals.

  13. Milan Šrejber

    Milan Šrejber (born December 30, 1963 in Prague) is a former tennis player from Czechoslovakia, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. There here reached the semi finals of the men's doubles competition, partnering Miloslav Mečíř. The pair was defeated by America's eventual winners Ken Flach and Robert Seguso, but still won the bronze medal. The righthander won one career singles title (Rye Brook, 1988), …

  14. Regina Rajchrtová

    Regina Rajchrtová is a former tennis player from Czechoslovakia, who competed for her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. There she was defeated in the first round. She married top player Petr Korda, and the two of them have two daughters and a son: Jessica Regina, born on February 27, 1993, Sebastian, and Nellie.

  15. Jan Koželuh

    Jan Koželuh was a Czech tennis player of the 1920s, not to be confused with his older brother Karel Koželuh (1895 - 1950), a player of the same era. Although Karel was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, in 2006, Jan is almost totally forgotten today outside his native Czechoslovakia.

  16. Renáta Tomanová

    Renáta Tomanová was a female tennis player from Czechoslovakia. In 1976, Tomanová reached the singles final at both the French Open and the Australian Open. She lost at the French Open to Sue Barker 6-2, 0-6, 6-2 and at the Australian Open to Evonne Goolagong Cawley 6-2, 6-2. Tomanová also reached the women's doubles final at the Australian Open with her partner Lesley Turner Bowrey, where they lost to Goolagong and Helen Gourlay Cawley.

  17. Karel Nováček

    Karel Nováček is a retired Czech tennis player. Born in Prostějov, Czech Republic. Nováček now lives in Boca Raton, Florida, USA. In his career, Nováček won 13 singles titles and 6 doubles titles. His highest singles ranking was World No. 8, which he achieved on November 18, 1991.