List of Famous Tennis Players
Damir Džumhur
Damir Džumhur is a Bosnian professional tennis player and currently Bosnia and Herzegovina's No. 1 player. He is a member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Davis Cup team, and he competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics, being selected as the first male tennis player from his country to do so.
Barbara Schett
Barbara Schett Eagle is an Austrian former professional tennis player, who reached her highest singles ranking of world No. 7 in September 1999. Between 1993 and 2004 she played in 48 matches for the Austria Fed Cup team, winning 30. She also represented Austria at the 2000 Sydney Olympics in singles and doubles, reaching the quarterfinals of the singles event. She retired after the 2005 Australian Open and now works for Eurosport as a commentator and presenter.
Sara Sorribes Tormo
Sara Sorribes Tormo is a professional Spanish tennis player. Sorribes Tormo has won one singles and two doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as one doubles title on the WTA Challenger circuit. On the ITF Circuit, she has won ten singles and five doubles titles. She won her maiden WTA title at the 2021 Abierto Zapopan in Guadalajara. As a result she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 57 on 15 March 2021. She peaked at No. 40 in the doubles rankings on 3 February 2020. In the 125K series, she has been runner-up at the Bol Open, and champion at the Open de Limoges in doubles.
Jurij Rodionov
Jurij Rodionov is an Austrian tennis player.
Luke Saville
Luke Saville is an Australian professional tennis player. As a junior, Saville enjoyed a successful career in which he won two junior grand slam singles titles at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships and 2012 Australian Open respectively. Saville is also a former junior World No. 1 and an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. In January 2013, he competed in his first ATP main draw event at the 2013 Australian Open, but has struggled in transitioning from Juniors onto the professional circuit, reaching a highest singles ranking of only 152. However he has had greater success as a doubles player where he has reached his highest ranking of 37 in February 2020.
Robert Farah
Robert Charbel Farah Maksoud is a Canadian-born Colombian professional tennis player. Currently, he is ranked No. 1 in the world in men's doubles. Farah has a long-standing doubles partnership with countryman Juan Sebastián Cabal, with whom he has won 15 ATP titles, including the 2019 Wimbledon title, 2019 US Open title and two Italian Open titles. He currently resides in Bogota, Colombia.
Guillermo Vilas
Guillermo Vilas, also known as Willy Vilas, is an Argentine former professional tennis player, No. 1 of the Grand Prix seasons in 1974, 1975 and 1977, who won four Grand Slam tournaments, one year-end Masters, nine Grand Prix Super Series titles and 62 total ATP titles. World Tennis, Agence France-Presse and Livre d'or du tennis 1977, among other rankings and publications, rated him as world No. 1 in 1977. In the ATP computer rankings, he peaked at No. 2 in April 1975, a position that he held for a total of 83 weeks. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1991, two years after his first retirement.
Thomas Muster
Thomas Muster is an Austrian former world No. 1 tennis player. One of the world's leading clay court players in the 1990s, he won the 1995 French Open and at his peak was called "The King of Clay". In addition, he won eight Masters 1000 Series titles. Muster is one of the nine players to win Super 9/ATP Masters Series/ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles on clay, hardcourt and carpet.
Catherine Bellis
Catherine Cartan "CiCi" Bellis is an American professional tennis player. In early 2018, she was the second youngest player in the top 100 of the WTA rankings and has a career-high of No. 35, which she achieved in August 2017. Bellis is known for winning a match at the 2014 US Open as a 15 year old against a top-20 opponent, making her the youngest match-winner at the US Open since 1996.
Iwona Kuczyńska
Iwona Kuczyńska is a retired professional tennis player from Poland. She won one doubles title in 1988, partnering with Martina Navratilova. From 2010 to 2017, she lived in the village of Omice in Czech Republic, with her partner, former Wimbledon champion Jana Novotná.