List of Famous Tennis Players

Stanley Roger Smith is a former world No. 1 American tennis player and two-time Grand Slam singles champion who also, with his partner Bob Lutz, formed one of the most successful doubles teams of all time. Together, they won many major titles all over the world. In 1970, Smith won the first year end championship Masters Grand Prix title. Smith's two major singles titles were the 1971 US Open, and 1972 Wimbledon. In 1972, he was the year-ending world No. 1 singles player. In 1973, he won his second and last year end championship title at the Dallas WCT Finals. In addition, he won four Grand Prix Championship Series titles. His name is also used in a popular brand of tennis shoes. In his early years he improved his tennis game through lessons from Pancho Segura, the Pasadena Tennis Patrons, and the sponsorship of the Southern California Tennis Association headed by Perry T. Jones.

Barbora Strýcová, formerly known as Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová, is a Czech professional tennis player. Her highest WTA rankings are world No. 16 in singles and No. 1 in doubles. Her best singles and doubles Grand Slam performances both came at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships, where she reached the singles semifinals and won the women's doubles title alongside Hsieh Su-wei.

Elise Mertens is a Belgian professional tennis player. A top fifteen player in both singles and doubles, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 12 on 26 November 2018 and a career-high of world No. 2 in doubles on 9 September 2019.

Kiki Bertens is a Dutch tennis player who turned professional in 2009. Her highest WTA singles ranking is No. 4, which she reached on 13 May 2019, becoming the highest ranked Dutch female player ever. Her career high in doubles is world No. 16, achieved in April 2018. To date, she has won ten singles and ten doubles titles on the WTA Tour including 2018 Western & Southern Open and 2019 Mutua Madrid Open. Bertens is widely regarded as a clay-court specialist, but also is successful on hardcourts.

Gilles Moretton is a former professional tennis player from France. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career, he won four doubles titles. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 55 in 1984.

Yulia Antonovna Putintseva is a Kazakh tennis player of Russian origin and descent. She is a three-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist, and she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 27 in February 2017. So far, she has won one WTA singles title.

James Ward is a British tennis player. He is a Davis Cup champion and former British No. 2.

Anastasija Sevastova is a professional tennis player from Latvia. She reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 11 in October 2018, after reaching her first Premier Mandatory final at the China Open. She has won four singles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as 13 singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

Lorenzo Sonego is an Italian professional tennis player. Sonego has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 32. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 222 achieved on 19 October 2020. Sonego made his ATP main-draw debut at the 2016 Internazionali BNL d'Italia, where he received a main-draw wildcard.

Magdaléna Rybáriková is retired Slovak professional tennis player. She has won four WTA singles titles and reached the semifinals of the 2017 Wimbledon Championships. She broke into the top 30 for the first time in September 2017 and reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 17, in March 2018.