- Pete Sampras
Peter “Pete” Sampras, is a former World No. 1 tennis player from the United States. During his 15 year career he won a record 14 Grand Slam men's singles titles in 52 appearances. For six consecutive years Sampras finished as No. 1 on the ATP rankings, a record for the open era and tying him for third all-time. Sampras won the singles title at Wimbledon seven times, a record shared with William Renshaw. He also won five singles titles at the US Open, … - John McEnroe
John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. (born February 16, 1959 in Wiesbaden, Germany) is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from the United States. Scott Riley, writing for The Sports Network, recognized him as one of the greatest tennis players of all time. During his career, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles - three at Wimbledon and four at the U.S. Open. He also won nine Grand Slam men's doubles titles and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title. - Jim Courier
James Spencer "Jim" Courier, Jr. (born August 17 1970, in Sanford, Florida) is a former world number one professional tennis player from the United States. During his ATP career, he won four Grand Slam singles titles - two at the French Open and two at the Australian Open. In 2004, he co-founded InsideOut Sports & Entertainment, a New York City based sports event company. - Bud Collins
Arthur "Bud" Collins (b. June 17, 1929 in Lima, Ohio) is an American journalist and former television commentator for NBC Sports. - Stan Smith
Stan Smith (born December 14, 1946 in Pasadena, California) is a former American tennis player who, with his partner Bob Lutz, was one of the best doubles players of all time. Together they won many major titles all over the world. Smith was also an excellent singles player who won many titles including the Wimbledon championship once and the United States Open championship once. In 1972 he was the World No. 1 player for the year. - Patrick Rafter
Patrick Michael Rafter (born 28 December 1972) is an Australian former World No. 1 tennis player. He was twice men's singles champion at the US Open, and twice runner-up at Wimbledon. Rafter was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006. He lives in Bermuda. - Henri Cochet
Henri Jean Cochet was a champion tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Born in Villeurbanne, near Lyon, France, Cochet won seven Grand Slam singles titles in the French, American, and British championships, failing to win only in Australia. He was the World No. 1 player for three consecutive years, 1928 through 1930. Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter, and a great player himself, … - Margaret Smith Court
Margaret Smith Court AO MBE (born 16 July 1942) is a retired former World No. 1 tennis player from Australia, who in 1970, became the first woman in the open era to win all four Grand Slam singles titles in the same calendar year. Court won a record 24 Grand Slam singles titles, more than any other player – male or female – in tennis. She won a record 62 Grand Slam titles – 24 singles, 19 women's doubles, and 19 mixed doubles, again, … - Jean Borotra
Jean Robert Borotra (August 13, 1898 - June 17, 1994) was a French champion tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from his country who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Borotra was born in Domaine du Pouy, near Biarritz, Aquitaine. Known as "the Bounding Basque", he won five Grand Slam singles titles in the French, Australian, and British championships, failing to win only in the American championships. - Neale Fraser
Neale Andrew Fraser <small>AO MBE</small> (born on October 3, 1933) is a former tennis player from Australia, born in Melbourne, Victoria. He attended St. Kevin's College, Toorak. Fraser is one of the twenty men to win all four majors in doubles and in 1984 he was elected into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.. - Bill Talbert
William Franklin "Bill" Talbert was an American tennis player and administrator. He was ranked in the U.S. Top 10 13 times between 1941 & 1954. He won nine Grand Slam doubles titles, and also reached the men’s doubles finals of the U.S. National Championship nine times. He also was a Davis Cup player and one of the most successful Davis Cup captains in U.S. history. Talbert was a diabetic, one of the very few, or possibly the only one, … - Jack Crawford
John Herbert ("Jack") Crawford (March 22, 1908 - September 10, 1991) was a great Australian tennis player of the 1930s. He was the World No. 1 player for 1933. Born in Albury, New South Wales, Crawford won a number of major championship titles, although he is best known, perhaps, for something he did not do - complete the tennis Grand Slam five years before Don Budge accomplished the feat for the first time. - Fred Stolle
Frederick "Fred" Sydney Stolle (October 8, 1938) is an Australian male tennis player. He was born in Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1985. - Ashley Cooper
Ashley John Cooper AO (born September 15, 1936 in Melbourne, Victoria) is a former tennis player from Australia, who was World No. 1 amateur in the late 1950s. 1958 was Cooper's big year where he became one of only nine men to date (2007) to win three of the four Grand Slam events in the same year - he won singles at the Australian, British, and American championships and was a semi-finalist at the French championship, losing to Luis Ayala 11-9, 6-4, 4-6, … - Bill Johnston
William ("Little Bill") Johnston (born November 2, 1894 in San Francisco, California - died May 1, 1946 in San Francisco, California) was an American tennis champion. He was the co-World No. 1 player in 1919 along with Gerald Patterson. Until "Big Bill" Tilden began to defeat him regularly in 1920, Johnston had been the best American player for a number of years. He remained competitive with Tilden for the next seven or eight years, … - Maria Bueno
Maria Ester Audion Bueno, born October 11, 1939, in São Paulo, Brazil, is a female tennis player who won nineteen Grand Slam titles (7 singles, 11 women's doubles, 1 mixed doubles) during her career. Bueno began playing tennis at a very young age and, without having received any formal training, won her first tournament at age 12. She was 14 when she captured her country’s women's singles championship. - Nancy Richey
Nancy Richey (born August 23, 1942 in San Angelo, Texas, United States) is a former tennis player from the U.S. During her career, she won two Grand Slam singles titles (1967 Australian Championships and 1968 French Open) and four Grand Slam women's doubles titles (1965 U.S. Championships and 1966 Australian, Wimbledon and U.S. Championships). She was ranked the World No. 2 in 1969. - Gianni Clerici
Gianni Clerici (b. 1930, Como) is an Italian tennis commentator and journalist, and a former tennis player. Clerici is known for his often off-topic banter with partner Rino Tommasi. As a tennis player one highlight of his career was being part of the main draw at Wimbledon in 1953. Clerici was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006. - William Renshaw
William ("Willie") Charles Renshaw (born January 3, 1861 in Leamington, Warwickshire - died August 12, 1904 in Swanage, Dorset) is one of the greatest British male tennis players of all time. He won a total of fourteen Wimbledon titles. Seven of those were in singles, an all-time record he now shares with Pete Sampras. The first six were all in a row, … - Norman Brookes
Sir Norman Everard Brookes (born November 14, 1877 in Melbourne, Victoria - died September 28, 1968 in Melbourne, Victoria) was an Australian tennis champion and president of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia. Brookes' father (William Brookes) had become rich from gold mining in the Bendigo area, and Norman Brookes received a private education. On leaving school he went to work as a clerk at the paper mill where his father was managing director, … - Louise Brough
Althea Louise Brough Clapp (born March 11, 1923) was an American female tennis player who was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. She was one of the greatest volleyers in history and won 13 Wimbledon titles in singles, doubles and mixed doubles and 16 at the U.S. championships. She was inducted in the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1967. - Lamar Hunt
Lamar Hunt was a promoter of American football, soccer, tennis, basketball, and ice hockey in the United States and an inductee of the first three sports' halls of fame. He was one of the founders of the American Football League (AFL) and Major League Soccer (MLS), as well as MLS predecessor the North American Soccer League (NASL). He was also the founder and owner of the National Football League's Kansas City Chiefs, and at his death owned two MLS teams, … - Shirley Fry
Shirley June Fry Irvin (June 30, 1927) was an American female tennis player who was born in Akron, Ohio, United States. Irvin is one of a dozen persons to have won each Grand Slam singles tournament at least once during the person's career. She also is one of only five persons to have won each Grand Slam tournament in same-sex doubles as well. The others are Doris Hart, Margaret Smith Court, Martina Navratilova, and Roy Emerson. - Chuck McKinley
Charles Robert "Chuck" McKinley Jr. (January 5 1941 - August 10 1986) was a tennis player from the United States. He is best remembered for winning the men's singles title at Wimbledon in 1963, where he beat Fred Stolle in the final 9-7, 6-1, 6-4. He was also the runner-up at Wimbledon in 1961, when he lost in the final to Rod Laver. McKinley also won the men's doubles title at the US Championships three times (1961, 1963 and 1964) partnering Dennis Ralston. - James van Alen
James Henry Van Alen (born on September 19, 1902 in Newport, Rhode Island, USA - died on July 3, 1991) is best known for being the founder of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, the largest tennis museum in the world. A poet, musician, publisher, civic leader and raconteur, Jimmy Van Alen achieved his greatest renown in tennis. - Pauline Betz
Pauline May Betz Addie (born August 6, 1919 in Dayton, Ohio) was an American female tennis player. She won five Grand Slam singles titles and was the runner-up on three other occasions. Jack Kramer has called her the second best female tennis player he ever saw, just behind Helen Wills Moody. Addie won the Wimbledon singles title in 1946 without losing a set. Her amateur career ended when she explored the possibilities of turning professional. - Arthur Gore
Arthur William Charles Wentworth Gore (born January 2, 1868 in Lyndhurst, Hampshire - died December 1, 1928 in Kensington, London) was a male tennis player from Great Britain. He is best known for his two gold medals at the London Olympics in 1908 winning the men's indoor singles and the men's indoor doubles(with Herbert Barrett). He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006. - Herbert Lawford
Herbert Lawford (born May 15, 1851 - died April 20, 1925) was a tennis player from Great Britain who won the men's singles championship at Wimbledon in 1887, and was runner-up five times. In the 1887 final, he defeated Ernest Renshaw (also of Great Britain) in five sets: 1-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. He reached the finals of Wimbledon in 1880, 1884-86, and 1888. First person to introduce "topspin" to the game of tennis. - Jacques Brugnon
Jacques ("Toto") Brugnon (born May 11, 1895 in Paris - died March 20, 1978 in Paris) was a champion tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He was primarily a doubles specialist who won 10 Grand Slam doubles titles in the French, American, Australian and British championships. He was also a fine singles player but never won a major title. - Dick Savitt
Richard "Dick" Savitt, was a 6’3" and 185 pound right-handed American male tennis player. He is one of the three American men to win both the Australian and British Championships in one year (following Don Budge, 1938, and preceding Jimmy Connors, 1974). - Darlene Hard
Darlene Hard (born January 6, 1936 in Los Angeles, California, United States) was a tennis player known for her volleying ability and strong serves. She captured singles titles at the French Championships in 1960 and the U.S. Championships in 1960 and 1961. With eight different partners, she won a total of 13 doubles titles in Grand Slam tournaments. Her last doubles title, at the age of 33 at the 1969 U.S. Open, … - Frank Parker
Frank ("Frankie") Andrew Parker (born on January 31, 1916 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA - July 24, 1997) was an American male tennis player. Parker is one of the few Americans to win both the French Championships (1948, 1949) and the U.S. Championships (1944, 1945). Others have been Don Budge (1937), Don McNeill (1939-'40), Tony Trabert (1953-'54), Andre Agassi (1994, 1999). Parker also a singles champion (1941) and four-time singles finalist at Cincinnati, … - Philippe Chatrier
Philippe Chatrier (2 February 1926 - 22 June 2000) was a French tennis player. After his playing career ended, he became a journalist, and was then involved in sports administation. He was president of the French Tennis Federation for 20 years, from 1973 to 1993, and president of the International Tennis Federation for 14 years, from 1977 to 1991. Chatrier was born in Cretell in France. He was the French junior tennis champion in 1945. - Adrian Quist
Adrian Karl Quist (born August 4, 1913 in Medindie, South Australia - died November 17, 1991 in Sydney, NSW) was an Australian male tennis player. The tennis legend grew up in Adelaide and once played Harry Hopman, however lost, only because he gave Hopman a head start. This is why it was called the Hopman Cup. He was a three-time Australian Championships men's singles champion but is primarily remembered today as a great doubles player. - Walter Clopton Wingfield
Major Walter Clapton Wingfield was a Welsh inventor of lawn tennis (1874), which he called "Sphairistikè" (Greek for "ball games"). Wingfield was educated at Rossall School, and was living at Nantclwyd Hall, Llanelidan, in north Wales, when he patented nets for the new sport in 1873. He also authored two tennis works: "The Book of the Game" and "The Major's Game of Lawn Tennis." He also invented the butterfly bicycle. - Maurice McLoughlin
Maurice McLoughlin (January 7, 1890 in Carson City, NV, - December 10, 1957 in Hermosa Beach, CA) was an American tennis player known for his powerful serve and overhead volley. He was the first male tennis champion from the western United States. At the U.S. Championships, he won the singles twice, 1912 and 1913, and the doubles three times with Thomas Bundy,1912-14. In 1913 he also became the first American to be a finalist in the singles at Wimbledon. - Bob Hewitt
Robert ("Bob") Anthony John Hewitt (born January 12, 1940 in Dubbo, New South Wales) was a professional male tennis player from Australia. After he married Dalaille, a young woman from Johannesburg, South Africa he became an official South African citizen. His most significant accomplishments were winning all of the Grand Slam doubles titles, both the Men's Doubles Grand Slam titles as well as the Mixed Doubles Grand Slam titles (U.S. Open, Wimbledon, Australian Open, … - Rafael Osuna
Rafael Herrera Osuna (September 15, 1938 - June 6, 1969), was a Mexican tennis player. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico and is best remembered for his victory at the U.S. Championships in 1963. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1979. - Nicola Pietrangeli
Nicola "Nicky" Pietrangeli is a former tennis player from Italy. He is considered by many to be Italy's greatest-ever tennis champion. Pietrangeli appeared in four men's singles finals at Roland Garros – winning the title in 1959 and 1960, and finishing runner-up in 1961 and 1964. He also won the Roland Garros men's doubles title in 1959 (together with Orlando Sirola), and the mixed doubles in 1958. - Gardnar Mulloy
Gardnar Putnam ("Gar") Mulloy (born November 22, 1913 in Washington, D.C.) is a tennis player primarily known for his play in doubles matches with partner Bill Talbert. The pair won the U.S. men's doubles title in 1942, 1945, 1946, and 1948. As of 2006, he is still participating in, and winning, senior matches. Mulloy was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island in 1972.
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