- Andre Agassi
Andre Kirk Agassi (born April 29 1970, in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from the United States who won eight Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in singles. He is one of only five male players to have won all four Grand Slam singles events during his career. He is the only player in the open era to have won every Grand Slam singles title, to have won the Tennis Masters Cup, …
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, …
- Guillermo Cañas
Guillermo Ignacio 'Willy' Cañas is an Argentine professional tennis player. He was born in Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, and named after Argentine tennis star Guillermo Vilas. His highest singles ranking was 8th (June 2005). Canas plays a defensive counter-punching game from the baseline, and utilises his retrieving skills in order to frustrate opponents. He uses a two-handed backhand and his favourite surface is clay, but he is adept on hardcourt and grass too.
- 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.
- 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.
- Patrick McEnroe
Patrick McEnroe (born July 1, 1966) is an American former professional tennis player and the present Captain of the United States Davis Cup team. Born in Manhasset, New York, he is the younger brother of tennis legend John McEnroe. Though his playing career was not quite as successful as that of his older brother, Patrick was a world-class player in his own right.
- Albert Costa
Albert Costa Casals (born June 25 1975, in Lleida) is a professional tennis player from Spain. He is best remembered for winning the men's singles title at the French Open in 2002. Costa began playing tennis at the age of five. He first came to the tennis world's attention as an outstanding junior player. In 1993, he reached the French Open junior final and won the Orange Bowl.
- Mats Wilander
Mats Wilander (born August 22 1964) is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Sweden who won seven Grand Slam singles titles and one Grand Slam doubles title. He is particularly remembered for winning three of the four Grand Slam singles events in 1988, his most successful year on the tour. He was also a driving force behind Sweden's run of seven consecutive Davis Cup finals in the 1980s.
- Karol Beck
Karol Beck (born April 3, 1982 in Zvolen) is a male tennis player from the Slovakia, who turned professional in 2001. He has been ranked as high as 36 in the world (August 26 2005). On February 13 2006 the International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced Beck had tested positive for the steroid clenbuterol during the 2005 Davis Cup semifinal against Argentina. As a consequence, the ITF suspended him from the game for two years until October 31 2007.
- Leander Paes
Leander Adrian Paes is an Indian male tennis professional who currently features in the doubles events in the ATP tour and the Davis Cup tournament. He is as one of the most successful professional Indian tennis players. He has won various doubles and mixed doubles events at the Tennis Grand Slam events. He is also the recipient of India’s highest sporting honour, …
- Chris Guccione
Chris Guccione (born July 30, 1985), is an Australian tennis player from Greenvale, Victoria. The lanky, red-headed Guccione was born to Italian father Santo and Australian mother Diane. Guccione burst onto the scene in the 2004 Medibank International tournament, where he defeated then-recent World No. 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero. Guccione is noted for his good service; he hit 50 aces in a qualifying match at Wimbledon in 2005.
- Frank Dancevic
Frank Dancevic (born 26 September 1984 in Niagara Falls, Ontario) is a professional touring and Canadian Davis Cup tennis player. He is currently the country's top singles player at 107 in the ATP Rankings and 101 in the 2007 ATP Race.
- Juan Martín del Potro
Juan Martín del Potro is a tennis player from Tandil, Argentina. After ending 2005 ranked 1,077, Del Potro jumped over 900 positions, largely due to winning three Futures tournaments. As of July 2007, he is the youngest player in the ATP top 100 with a current and career high ranking of 54. On February 11th, 2007, …
- 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, …
- Vince Spadea
Vincent Spadea (born July 4, 1974 in Chicago) is an ATP Tour professional tennis player from the United States. Spadea turned professional in 1993. Going into the 2006 season, he has won one singles and three doubles titles and over $4,105,000 in prize money. He is credited with overcoming the longest losing streak in pro tennis history (21 matches). Working hard on the challenger circuit after his fall, …
- 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.
- Yannick Noah
Yannick Noah (born May 18 1960, Sedan, Ardennes, France) is a former professional tennis player from France. He is best remembered for winning the men's singles title at the French Open in 1983, and as a highly-successful captain of France's Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams. Since his retirement from the game, Noah has remained in the public eye as a popular music performer and as the co-founder of a charity organization for underprivileged children with his mother.
- John Lloyd
John Lloyd (born August 27 1954, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England) is a former professional tennis player from the United Kingdom. During his career, he reached one Grand Slam singles final and won three Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. He was the first husband of the former top woman player Chris Evert and the younger brother of the former British Davis Cup captain David Lloyd.
- Peter Luczak
Peter Luczak (born August 31, 1979 in Warsaw, Poland) is an Australian professional tennis player. Luczak Attended the High School Mazenod College in the Years (1995-2000) He turned professional in 2000 after playing NCAA college tennis in the United States at Fresno State University, where he holds the school record for most career singles wins. He has had a relatively average ATP Tour career, with his best performance coming in the 2006 Australian Open, …
- Raemon Sluiter
Raemon Sluiter (RAY-mon SLIGH-ter; born on April 13 1978 in Rotterdam) is a professional male tennis player from the Netherlands. His career-high Association of Tennis Professionals Entry ranking is #46 (achieved on February 24 2003), and his current ranking is #87 (as of September 18 2006). His career highlights were mostly on home soil: ATP finals in Amsterdam (2000), Rotterdam (2003) and Amersfoort (2003), …
- Prakash Amritraj
Prakash Amritraj (born October 2, 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA) is a professional tennis player. He turned professional in 2003 after winning the National Championships at the University of Southern California. He is the son of Vijay Amritraj and the cousin of Stephen Amritraj. He is a non-resident Indian who represents India in tournaments and the Davis Cup. He played tennis for the University of Southern California where he majored in business.
- Guy Forget
Guy Forget (born January 4, 1965 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a former French professional tennis player. During his career, he helped France win the Davis Cup in both 1991 and 1996. Since retiring as a player, he has served as France's Davis Cup team captain.
- John Fitzgerald
John Basil Fitzgerald (born December 28, 1960, in Cummins, Australia) is a former professional tennis from Australia. During his career, he has won 6 top-level singles titles and 30 tour doubles titles, including 7 Grand Slam doubles titles. He reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in 1991. His career-high singles ranking was World No. 25 (in 1988). He was a member of the Australian team which won the Davis Cup in 1986.
- Thomas Enqvist
Thomas Enqvist is a former professional tennis player from Sweden, who played on the ATP circuit since turning pro in 1991. He announced his retirement from tennis in April, 2006. He was quickly touted as the only Swede who could follow in the footsteps of Stefan Edberg and Björn Borg, and was ranked as high as No. 4 (which he attained in 1999) on the ATP Rankings. Enqvist was a force on the Swedish Davis Cup team.
- John Newcombe
John David Newcombe AO OBE (born May 23, 1944 in Sydney, Australia) is a former World No. 1 tennis champion. A natural athlete, as a boy Newcombe played several sports until devoting himself to tennis. He was the Australian junior champion in 1961, 1962 and 1963 and became a member of Australia's Davis Cup winning team in 1964. He won his first Grand Slam major in 1965 by taking the Australian Championships doubles title with fellow Australian Tony Roche.
- Kenneth Carlsen
Kenneth Carlsen (born April 17, 1973) is a Danish tennis player, who turned professional in 1992. Carlsen is left-handed and uses a one-handed backhand. His greatest asset is his powerful serve. His game is therefore best suited to fast surfaces (grass and hardcourt). For most of his long career Carlsen has been Denmark's best tennis player, and consistently among the few Danish players playing at the highest international level.
- Davide Sanguinetti
Davide Sanguinetti (born August 25 1972) is an Italian professional male tennis player. Born in Viareggio in Tuscany, he attended the Harry Hopman academy in Florida and then UCLA. He now resides in Monte Carlo. Sanguinetti has won two ATP singles titles in 2002, defeating Roger Federer and Andy Roddick in the finals, and one doubles titles (Umag 1997). He has been ranked as high as 42 in the world in singles (december 31 2005), …
- Pablo Cuevas
"' (born January 1, 1986 in Montevideo) is a professional Uruguyan tennis player. At the 2007 French Open, Cuevas and Argentine partner Carlos Berlocq made the third round of the men's doubles tournament. Cuevas, as of July 7, 2007, was ranked 152 for singles and has reached a career-high singles ranking of World Number 151, achieved on June 18, 2007, and is on his career-high doubles ranking of World Number 77"', first achieved on June 11, 2007.
- Magnus Larsson
Magnus Larsson is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. Larsson turned professional in 1989 and won his first top-level singles title at Florence in 1990. His first doubles title was also won in Florence, in 1991. Some of the most significant highlights of Larsson's career came in 1994. He won that year's Grand Slam Cup, defeating World No. 1 Pete Sampras in the final in four sets 7-6, 4-6, 7-6, 6-4. Larsson also reached the semi-finals of the 1994 French Open.
- Mark Woodforde
Mark Woodforde (born September 23, 1965) is a retired professional tennis player from Australia. He is most famously remembered as one half of "The Woodies", a doubles partnership with Todd Woodbridge. Woodforde was born in Adelaide, and joined the men's professional tennis ATP Tour in 1984. Woodforde won four singles titles, including his hometown Adelaide tournament twice. Woodforde won twelve Grand Slam doubles titles in his career - one French Open, …
- Henri Leconte
Henri Leconte (born July 4, 1963 in Lillers, Pas-de-Calais) is a former French professional tennis player. He is best remembered for reaching the men's singles final at the French Open in 1988, for winning the French Open men's doubles title in 1984, and for helping France win the Davis Cup in 1991. Leconte first came to the tennis world's attention as an outstanding junior player who won the French Open junior title in 1981.
- Frederic Niemeyer
Frederic Niemeyer is a tour and Davis Cup tennis player. Niemeyer resides in Deauville, Quebec. He i s currently the World No. 275 in singles. His career ATP tour record (for International Series events or better) is 10-23. The 6'3, right-handed Niemeyer joined the challenger circuit in 1998. His best results have been winning the 1999 Urbana, 2001 São Paulo-1, 2005 Joplin, 2005 Forest Hills, 2006 Santa Clarita, California, and 2007 Cardiff ATP Challenger Series events.
- Marc Rosset
Marc Rosset (born November 7 1970, in Geneva, Switzerland) is a former professional tennis player from Switzerland who is best remembered for winning the men's singles Gold Medal at the 1992 Olympic Games. Rosset first came to prominence as an outstanding junior tennis player who was ranked No. 4 in the world junior rankings in 1988. Rosset turned professional in 1988 and won his first tour singles title in 1989 Geneva as a wildcard defeating Guillermo Perez-Roldan.
- Darren Cahill
Darren Cahill (born October 2, 1965 in Adelaide, Australia) is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from Australia. He is the son of legendary South Australian football player and coach, John Cahill. Nicknamed "Killer", Cahill turned professional in 1984. He won his first tour doubles title in 1985 at Melbourne, and his first top-level singles title in 1988 at Gstaad. Cahill's best performance at a Grand Slam event came at the 1988 US Open, …
- Anders Järryd
Anders Pierre Järryd is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. During his career he won 8 Grand Slam doubles titles (3 French Open, 2 Wimbledon, 2 US Open, 1 Australian Open), reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 5. Järryd turned professional in 1980. He won his first tour doubles title in 1981 in Linz. One year later he captured his first top-level singles title, also at Linz.
- Jeremy Bates
Michael Jeremy Bates (born June 19, 1962 in Solihull, England) is a former professional tennis player from the United Kingdom. During his career, he won two Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. After retiring from the professional circuit, he has served as the captain of Britain's Davis Cup team. Bates turned professional in 1982. Partnering his fellow British player Jo Durie, he won the mixed doubles titles at Wimbledon in 1987 and the Australian Open in 1991.
- David Lloyd
David Lloyd is an English tennis player and businessman, born on 3 January 1948. He was born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. He and his younger brother John Lloyd became two of the most successful British tennis players throughout the 1970s and 1980s. David captained the British Davis Cup team and became a leading figure in the Lawn Tennis Association.
- Jan Siemerink
Johannes Martinus ("Jan") Siemerink (born April 14, 1970 in Rijnsburg, Zuid-Holland) is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands. As a junior player, Siemerink was the Dutch 18-under champion in 1988. He also won the doubles title at the 1988 Orange Bowl junior championship in Florida. Siemerink turned professional in 1989. Over the course of his career he won four top-level singles titles (at Singapore in 1991, Nottingham in 1996, …