- 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. - 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. - Marat Safin
Marat Safin ; b. January 27, 1980) is a Russian former World No. 1 tennis player of Tatar ethnicity. Safin began his professional career in 1997 and held the No. 1 world ranking for 9 weeks in November and December of 2000. He is known for his large physical size, athleticism, controversial antics, and aggressive "power" style of play. He is fluent in Russian, English and Spanish. - 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. - Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Ann Davenport (born June 8 1976 in Palos Verdes, California) is a former World No. 1 American professional female tennis champion. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments: the 1998 U.S. Open, 1999 Wimbledon, and the 2000 Australian Open. She also won an Olympic gold medal in singles in 1996. Davenport has earned over US $21 million in prize money. - 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. - Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (born April 17, 1985) is a professional tennis player. A French citizen, born in Le Mans, he has a French mother and Congolese father, Didier Tsonga. He had a successful junior career, winning the U.S. Open Juniors title in 2003 by defeating Marcos Baghdatis in the final, and also reached the semi-final stage of the other 3 Grand Slam events. - 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. - 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. - Nicolas Kiefer
Nicolas Kiefer, is a tennis player from Germany. His mother, Nicole, is French. He is currently the second-highest ranked German player (48th), behind Tommy Haas. He won a silver medal in men's doubles with partner Rainer Schüttler at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Kiefer was taken notice of as an outstanding junior. - Mardy Fish
Mardy Fish (born December 9, 1981 in Edina, Minnesota), is an American professional tennis player. He is one of several young American tennis players who rose to prominence at the beginning of the 21st century. He is currently ranked #31 in the ATP Race after beating several top ranked players in the 2007 Australian Open. - 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). - Thomas Johansson
Thomas Johansson is a professional tennis player. He joined the pro tour for the first time in 1994 and has won 9 top-level singles titles and 1 doubles title, including the 1999 Canada Masters (df. Yevgeny Kafelnikov) and the 2002 Australian Open Grand Slam championship, which he unexpectedly won (on his 25th attempt at winning a Grand Slam title) after defeating his heavily favored opponent, Marat Safin, in four sets, 3-6 6-4 6-4 7-6. - 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. - 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. - 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, … - Sam Querrey
Sam Querrey (born October 7, 1987 in San Francisco, California, United States) is a pro American tennis player from Thousand Oaks, California. Many tennis experts have touted Querrey as America's next great talent, including Davis Cup Captain Patrick McEnroe. Querrey stands at 6'6, 200 pounds. He has a huge serve and forehand. Querrey turned down a scholarship offer from USC to turn pro. - Jennifer Capriati
Jennifer Marie Capriati (born March 29, 1976, in New York City) is a former world number one women's tennis player from the United States. During her career, she has won three Grand Slam singles titles (2 Australian Open, 1 French Open), as well as the women's singles gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games. - Nathalie Dechy
Nathalie Dechy (born on February 21, 1979 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe) is a French professional tennis player. She is a two-time doubles Grand Slam champion, winning the 2006 U.S. Open ladies title with Vera Zvonareva and the 2007 French Open mixed doubles title with Andy Ram. Her biggest singles achievement is reaching the semifinals of the 2005 Australian Open, where she was just two points away from the final, before eventually losing to Lindsay Davenport. - 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. - Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki (born July 11, 1990, Odense) is a Danish tennis player. As of July 9, 2007, she is 88th in the WTA rankings. Being born to Polish parents, she is trilingual, fluent in Polish as well as Danish and English. She has won several junior tournaments (including the 2005 Orange Bowl tennis championship), and made her debut on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour at Cincinnati's Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open on July 19, 2005, … - Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond is a professional female tennis player from the United States. On June 12, 2000, she reached the #1 spot in the world in doubles. Her career high singles ranking was 15, in October 1997. Raymond has earned over 7 million dollars in prize money in her career, and reached the quarterfinals in singles at the Australian Open and at Wimbledon. Raymond, who plays right-handed, has wins over Venus Williams, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Monica Seles and Martina Hingis. - 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. - Casey Dellacqua
Casey Dellacqua (born February 11, 1985) is a professional tennis player from Australia who currently resides in Perth, Australia. Her highest rankings are 101 in singles (achieved on July 9, 2007) and 111 in doubles (November 1, 2004). She has 10 ITF singles titles and 13 ITF doubles titles to her name. Casey has notable victories over former world number eight Alicia Molik and former top 20 players Karolina Sprem and Tamarine Tanasugarn. - Mike Bryan
Michael ("Mike") Carl Bryan (born April 29, 1978 in Camarillo, California) is an American male professional tennis player. Mike stands 6'3" tall, weighs 192 lbs and plays right-handed. He turned pro in 1998. He played for Stanford University in 1997 and 1998, where he helped the Cardinal win back-to-back NCAA team championships. In 1998, he won the NCAA doubles title with his twin brother Bob. Together with his twin brother Bob he has been very successful in doubles. - Daniel Nestor
Daniel Mark Nestor is a Canadian tennis player from the Toronto, Ontario area. In his career, he won 48 doubles titles, including one gold medal in 2000 Summer Olympics and three Grand Slam titles. - Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Likhovtseva (Елена Лиховцева (jelena lixɔvtseva; born 8 September 1975 in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan) is a Russian tennis player, She turned professional in January 1992 at the age of 16. Likhovtseva's career best appearance in a Grand Slam was when she reached the semi finals of the French Open 2005 before she was comprehensively defeated by Mary Pierce 6-1 6-1. - Marta Domachowska
Marta Domachowska (born January 16, 1986, Warsaw) is a Polish professional tennis player. She began playing at age 7. She reached the semi finals of Australian Open Junior Championships in 2003. Her racquet brand is Wilson and her favourite surface is hard. She recently reached the final of the WTA tournament in Memphis, in 2006, playing Sofia Arvidsson in the final. Speaks three languages: Polish, English and Russian. - 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. - Eleni Daniilidou
Eleni Daniilidou is a Greek tennis player born in Chania, on the island of Crete. As of 2006, she has won four WTA singles titles and one doubles title. In 2003, she reached the Australian Open mixed doubles final. Her highest singles ranking has been 14th. - Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kafelnikov (born 18 February, 1974;, "yev-GHE-neey KAH-fill-nee-coff") is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Russia. During his career, he won two Grand Slam singles titles (one French Open and one Australian Open), four Grand Slam doubles titles, and the men's singles Gold Medal at the Olympic Games - Emilie Loit
Emilie Loit (June 9, 1979) is a French professional female tennis player. She was born in Cherbourg, France. She rose to fame when she played against American Serena Williams 6-3, 6-7, 5-7 in this tough match at first round of Australian Open 2003. In her career Loit has won three career singles titles: 2004 Estoril, Casablanca and 2007 Acapulco (all on clay) and eight doubles titles. Emilie's highest WTA Ranking has been #27 in singles and #15 in doubles. - 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. - 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. - 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, … - Bobby Reynolds
Robert "Bobby" Thomas Reynolds (born on July 17, 1982]] in Cape Cod, Massachusetts) is a pro American tennis player. Reynolds currently lives in Acworth, Georgia with fellow pro and doubles partner Robby Ginepri. He is currently ranked 127th in the world singles rankings and 57th in doubles (INDESIT ATP Rankings). Reynolds reached the third round of the Australian Open in 2005, defeating Nicolas Almagro and Andrei Pavel before falling to Spanish sensation Rafael Nadal. - Tony Roche
Anthony "Tony" Dalton Roche (born May 17, 1945) is a former professional Australian tennis player, born in Tarcutta. He played junior tennis in the New South Wales regional city of Wagga Wagga. He is also very well known for coaching multi-grand slam winning World Number Ones Ivan Lendl and Roger Federer. - Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (born 3 July, 1991 in Samara, Russia) is a Russian tennis player. At just fifteen years of age, she is currently the No. 1 ranked singles and doubles junior player on the girl's ITF tour. As of January 27th 2007, Pavlyuchenkova won three Junior Grand Slam titles, twice at the Australian Open and once at the US Open and during 2006 won three of the Junior Grand Slam titles in doubles (Australian Open, French Open, … - Nicole Pratt
Nicole Pratt (born March 5, 1973 in Mackay) is a professional female tennis player from Australia. She is the middle sibling of five children of cane farmers and was taught to play by her father, George, who was a top junior player. She attended school in Calen and received a tennis scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra. She turned professional at 18. She became Australia's no. 1 ranked player in January of 2001.
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