- 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.
- 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.
- Steffi Graf
Stefanie Maria Graf (born June 14, 1969, in Mannheim, West Germany) is a former World No. 1 ranked female tennis player from Germany. Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Smith Court's 24. In December 1999, Graf was named the greatest female tennis player of the 20th century by a panel of experts assembled by the Associated Press.
- Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters (born June 8, 1983) is a retired Belgian tennis player. She is a former World No. 1 ranked player in singles and in doubles. During her professional career, Clijsters won 34 WTA singles titles and 11 WTA doubles titles. She won the U.S. Open singles title in 2005 and the WTA Tour Championships singles title in 2002 and 2003. In doubles, she won the French Open and Wimbledon titles in 2003.
- Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber is a tennis player from South Africa who won the women's doubles title in Wimbledon in 2005 and the Australian Open in 2007 with partner Cara Black. It was the first Wimbledon title for Huber, born in Durban on August 21, 1976. In 2005, Liezel started a foundation, Liezel's Cause, to raise money and gather basic supplies to assist the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
- Cara Black
Cara Black (born February 17, 1979 in Harare) is a professional female tennis player from Zimbabwe. As the daughter of Don and Velia Black, the tennis-playing Cara is the younger sister of Wayne Black and Byron Black, both professional male tennis players. All three compete mostly in doubles with Wayne being the 2001 US Open and 2005 Australian Open champion and Byron the 1994 French Open winner.
- Fabrice Santoro
Fabrice Santoro (born December 9, 1972) is a French professional male tennis player. He was born in Tahiti, the largest island in the French Polynesia, located in the Pacific Ocean. He has been most successful in doubles; he has twice won the Australian Open (2003, 2004) doubles title partnering Michael Llodra and has been runner-up at the Australian Open (2002), at the French Open (2004) and at Wimbledon (2006).
- Elena Baltacha
Elena Baltacha ; is a Ukrainian-born tennis player who has played for Great Britain and Scotland. Baltacha was born August 14, 1983 in Kiev, Ukraine. She comes from a sporting family: her father Sergei was a professional footballer, representing the USSR and playing in the United Kingdom with Ipswich Town and St Johnstone, and her mother Olga represented the USSR in both the pentathlon and heptathlon at the Olympic Games.
- Tatiana Perebiynis
Tatiana Perebiynis born on December 15, 1982 is a female professional tennis player born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, where she lives. She is an only child. She reached the Wimbledon junior girls' singles final in 2000, and won the Wimbledon juniors doubles final that year. She finished 2006 ranked 161 in Singles, and 70 in Doubles.
- Evonne Goolagong
Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley AO MBE (born July 31 1951, in Griffith, New South Wales, Australia) was one of the world's leading female tennis players in the 1970s and early 1980s. She won 14 Grand Slam titles: seven in singles (four Australian Open, two Wimbledon and one French Open), six in women's doubles, and one in mixed doubles.
- Amélie Mauresmo
Amélie Simone Mauresmo (born on 5 July 1979) is a French professional tennis player and is a former World No. 1. She is currently the sixth ranked player in the world. She has won two Grand Slam singles titles. Mauresmo first attained the top ranking on September 13, 2004, holding it for five weeks on that occasion. She was the fourteenth World No. 1 in women's tennis since the computer rankings began.
- Chanda Rubin
Chanda Rubin (born February 18, 1976 in Lafayette, Louisiana) is a professional tennis player from the United States. Throughout her long career, she has been ranked as high as No. 6 in the world even though she has been plagued by injuries. Rubin was the third African American woman in the Open era to reach the top ten after Zina Garrison and Lori McNeil. Rubin reached the quarterfinals at the French Open in 1995, 2000, and 2003.
- Mark Knowles
Mark Knowles (born September 4, 1971 in Nassau, Bahamas) is a professional male tennis player from the Bahamas. He was awarded All American honors at UCLA in both singles and doubles. His highest singles ranking on the ATP was 93. He has been extremely successful in doubles partnering w/ Canadian Daniel Nestor. The pair have won the Australian Open in 2002, the US Open in 2004, and the French Open in 2007.
- Benjamin Becker
Benjamin Becker (born June 16, 1981 in Merzig, Saarland, Germany) is a professional tennis player. Becker is not related to former "World No. 1" Boris Becker. He won the 2004 NCAA singles title while helping Baylor University to the team title. In June 2006, he qualified for Wimbledon and defeated Juan Ignacio Chela before losing in the second round to Fernando Verdasco.
- Wesley Moodie
Wesley Moodie (born February 14, 1979) is a professional tennis player from South Africa. He began to play tennis at an early age and won the South African Junior Masters tournament in February 1996. Moodie is a serve-and-volley specialist who has developed his baseline game to a high level of proficiency. His 6ft 9in height is combined with a powerful serve. Moodie played college tennis in the United States from January 1997 until May 2000, …
- Amy Frazier
Amy Frazier (born September 19, 1972 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a professional female tennis player from the United States. She will be most remembered for her longevity on the WTA Tour. In her 20 years on the tour, she manages to play well enough to qualify for major tournaments, though once there she rarely advances to the finals.
- 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, …
- Agnieszka Radwańska
Agnieszka Roma Radwańska is a Polish tennis player. She defeated Tamira Paszek of Austria to win the 2005 Girl's Singles Championship at Wimbledon. In May 2006, she played in her first WTA tournament in Warsaw (Tier II), where she reached the Quarterfinals (thanks to a wild card given to her by the organizers). In her first match she sensationally defeated # 7 seed Anastasia Myskina 6:4, 4:6, 6:4. In the second round she easily beat Klára Koukalová, …
- Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi
Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi was born on the 17th of March in Lahore in Pakistan. He is right handed tennis player. He turned professional in 1998. He reache the 3rd round doubles at the 2002 Wimbledon Open, with partner Amir Hadad. His highest ATP ranking as a singles player was 181, achieved on the 1st of November 2004. His highest ATP ranking as a doubles player was 89, achieved on the 19th of May 2003. His coach is Robert Davis. All of his clothing and footwear is from Lotto.
- Stephen Huss
Stephen Huss, is a professional tennis player from Australia. However, he is a citizen of Sweden. He, along with partner Wesley Moodie, became the first qualfier to win the Wimbledon men's doubles championship in 2005, beating the 6th, 9th, 3rd, 1st & 2nd seeds in the process. His Wimbledon title was only his second doubles title on the ATP tour after his 2002 success at Casablanca with Myles Wakefield.
- Richard Bloomfield
Richard Bloomfield (born 27 April 1983 in Norwich) is an English professional male tennis player. in 2006 he recorded his best ever result by winning a first round match at Wimbledon. 'Bloomers', as he is known to the tennis world, is from the Norfolk village of Alpington which has proved to be somewhat of a tennis hotbed, producing the likes of the Green brothers, Tom and Nick, who are regular fixtures in the Norfolk county team.<br
- 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.
- Elena Bovina
Elena Bovina (born March 10, 1983, Moscow, Russia) is a Russian professional female tennis player. On April 4, 2005 Bovina reached her career-high singles ranking: World No. 14. In June 2005, Bovina sustained a right shoulder injury, which forced her to withdraw from Wimbledon and summer hardcourt tournaments. She was scheduled to return to the tour in New Haven, where she was the defending champion.
- 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.
- Paul Hanley
Paul Hanley (born November 12, 1977 in Melbourne, Australia) is a professional male tennis player from Australia. He lost the 2005 Wimbledon finals in mixed doubles, playing with Tatiana Perebiynis against Mary Pierce and Mahesh Bhupathi. In 2006 Hanley was chosen to play for the Australian Davis Cup Team.
- Corina Morariu
Corina Marie Morariu (born January 26, 1978 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American female professional tennis player of Romanian heritage. Morariu (pronounced: mo-RAR-yoo) turned professional in 1994. Mainly known as a doubles specialist, she won the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1999 with Lindsay Davenport. She also won the mixed doubles title at the 2001 Australian Open with Ellis Ferreira.
- Wayne Arthurs
Wayne Arthurs (b. March 18, 1971 in Adelaide, Australia) is an Australian professional tennis player. He is currently 195th in the ATP rankings for singles and is ranked 79th in doubles. However, Arthurs announced after his first round qualifying match at Wimbledon that he would retire after the tournament. Arthurs is left-handed and uses a one-handed backhand. His serve is his strongest weapon by far, …
- Anastasia Rodionova
Anastasia Ivanovna Rodionova (born May 12, 1982 in Tambov, Soviet Union) is a Russian female tennis player. She has won the 2000 Russian Championships 18s in singles and doubles. She was a finalist in Wimbledon 2003 in mixed doubles with Andy Ram.
- Lori McNeil
Lori McNeil (born December 18 1963, in San Diego, California) is an African American tennis coach and former professional tennis player from the United States. McNeil a childhood friend of fellow African American pro Zina Garrison. McNeil played on the WTA Tour for 19 years from 1984-2002. During that time she won one Grand Slam mixed doubles title at the French Open in 1988 (partnering Jorge Lozano). She won a total of 10 singles and 33 doubles titles during her career.
- Larisa Neiland
Larisa Savchenko Neiland (born Larisa Savchenko July 21, 1966 in Lvov) is a retired Ukrainian-born tennis player who represented Latvia in play. She turned professional in 1988, one of a group of other Soviet players (Natasha Zvereva, Leila Meskhi) that emerged in time for tennis's full re-entry into the Olympics. A former number one doubles player, Neiland won sixty-five top-level doubles titles.
- Goran Ivanišević
Goran Šimun Ivanišević is a former professional tennis player from Croatia. He is best remembered for being the only person to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon as a wildcard. He achieved this in 2001, having previously been runner-up at the championships in 1992, 1994 and 1998. Ivanišević's name is synonymous with his strong serve, which is one of the greatest to date. His career-high singles ranking was World No. 2 (behind Pete Sampras) in 1994.
- Shenay Perry
Shenay Perry (born July 6, 1984 in Washington, D.C.) is a professional female tennis player from the United States. Her father was a firefighter when she was growing up and now teaches tennis full-time. He was her first coach. When Shenay was 11, her family moved to Florida so that she could train at the famous tennis academies there. She is the first cousin of Timothy Perry, a rising star in the men's tennis world. She began her professional career in 2004 in Auckland, …
- Alizé Cornet
Alizé Cornet is a female tennis player from France. She made her Grand Slam debut at the French Open in 2005 and made it to the second round. In 2006, she reached the second round again by beating Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain in the first round. She could not repeat this performance in 2007, as she lost in the first round to Venus Williams 6-4 6-3. Alizé was defeated in the 2007 Wimbledon qualifing event by Olga Govortsova 7-6 (14-12) 3-6 6-4, …
- Betty Stöve
Betty Stöve is a Dutch former professional tennis player. During her tennis career, she won ten Grand Slam titles in women's doubles and mixed doubles: in the French Open (1972, 1979), Wimbledon (1972, 1978, 1981), and U.S. Open (1972, 2x1977, 1978, 1979).
- Andrea Jaeger
Sister Andrea Jaeger (born June 4, 1965, in Chicago, Illinois) is a former World No. 2 professional tennis player from the United States whose brief but highly successful tennis career ended prematurely due to major shoulder injuries. Jaeger reached the singles final of Wimbledon in 1983 and the French Open in 1982. She reached the singles semifinals of the Australian Open in 1982 and of the U.S. Open in 1980 and 1982. She also won 11 singles titles.
- Olga Morozova
Olga Vasilievna Morozova is a retired female tennis player, who competed for the Soviet Union. Morozova was the women's singles runner-up at Wimbledon and the French Open in 1974, losing to Chris Evert in both tournaments. Morozova was the first Russian tennis player to reach the singles final of a major tournament, when she was the runner-up at the 1972 Italian Open.
- Joshua Goodall
Joshua Goodall born 17th October 1985, Basingstoke, England is a British Tennis Player and one the brightest prospects for the future of British Tennis along with the likes of Alex Bogdanovic and Jamie Baker. His highest ATP ranking was 205 at the end of 2006. The player surprised many last year by making the main draw of both Wimbledon and The US Open. The player is currently playing on the Challenger and Future circuit.
- Owen Davidson
"'"' (born October 4, 1943 in Melbourne) was a professional tennis player of the 1960s and 1970s. Partnering Billie Jean King, he managed to win eight grand slam mixed doubles titles. Davidson was one of very few to win a calendar year slam for mixed doubles, when he won the Australian Championships, French Championships, Wimbledon and the U.S. Championships all in the same year-1967.
- Kimberly Po
Kimberly Po-Messerli (born October 20 1971, in Los Angeles, California) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. During her career, she won the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 2000 (partnering Donald Johnson). She was also a women's doubles runner-up at the US Open in 2001 (partnering Nathalie Tauziat), and a mixed doubles runner-up at the US Open in 1999 (partnering Johnson). She won a total of six top-level doubles titles.