List of Famous Tennis Players
Mónica Puig
Monica Puig Marchán is a Puerto Rican professional tennis player and the reigning Olympic champion. She is also a Central American and Caribbean champion and Pan American silver medalist. She is the first Puerto Rican in history to win an Olympic gold medal while representing Puerto Rico.
Barbora Krejčíková
Barbora Krejčíková is a Czech tennis player. Krejčíková has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 33, reached on 31 May 2021, and on 22 October 2018, she became No. 1 in the WTA doubles rankings.
Roberta Vinci
Roberta Vinci is a retired Italian tennis player. She is the winner of five Grand Slam tournaments in doubles. Until 6 April 2015, she held the position of world No. 1 in doubles, and reached a career-high of No. 7 in singles in May 2016. She is the fourth Italian woman to have reached the top 10 in singles, having attained the rank after Flavia Pennetta, Francesca Schiavone and Sara Errani. At 33 years and 4 days old, she became the oldest player ever to make her first appearance in the top 10.
Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta is a retired Italian tennis player and Grand Slam champion in both singles and doubles. She became Italy's first top-ten female singles player on 17 August 2009 and the first Italian to be ranked world No. 1 in doubles, on 28 February 2011. She became a Grand Slam singles champion by winning the US Open in 2015, where she defeated her childhood friend Roberta Vinci in the first all-Italian Grand Slam final.
John Millman
John H. Millman is an Australian professional tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 33 in October 2018. He has won one ATP title in his career.
Jennifer Brady
Jennifer Elizabeth Brady is an American professional tennis player.
Andrew Richardson
Andrew Richardson is a former professional tennis player from Great Britain.
Yannick Noah
Yannick Noah is a former professional tennis player and singer from France. He won the French Open in 1983, and is currently the captain of both France's Davis Cup and Fed Cup team. During his career, which spanned almost two decades, Noah captured a total of 23 singles titles and 16 doubles titles, reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No. 3 in July 1986 and attaining the World No. 1 doubles ranking the following month. Since his retirement from the game, Noah has remained in the public eye as a popular music performer and as the co-founder, with his mother, of a charity organization for underprivileged children. Noah is also the father of NBA player Joakim Noah.
Chung Hyeon
Chung Hyeon is a South Korean professional tennis player. He is currently the second highest ranked South Korean and also the 2017 Next Gen Finals champion. As an unseeded player, he became the first Korean player to reach a Grand Slam semifinal at the 2018 Australian Open.
Richard Gasquet
Richard Gabriel Cyr Gasquet is a French professional tennis player. His career-high ATP singles ranking is world No. 7, attained on 9 July 2007. He has won a total of 15 singles titles on the ATP Tour. His best performance in Grand Slam singles tournaments was reaching the semifinals of the 2007 and 2015 Wimbledon Championships and the semifinals of the 2013 US Open. His best performance in ATP World Tour Masters 1000 singles tournaments was being the runner-up in Hamburg in 2005 and Toronto in 2006 and 2012. He won the mixed doubles Grand Slam title at the 2004 French Open, partnering Tatiana Golovin. He won the men's doubles Olympic bronze medal in 2012 with his doubles partner Julien Benneteau. Gasquet is best known for his elegant groundstrokes and his one-handed backhand.