List of Famous Tennis Players

Marcin Matkowski is a Polish professional tennis player whose speciality is in doubles. He played college tennis at UCLA, where Jean-Julien Rojer was one of his teammates. Matkowski and Mariusz Fyrstenberg won the Madrid Open twice, in addition to reaching the final at the US Open as well. The duo also reached the final of the ATP Finals and participated six times at the event overall.

Dorothy Shepherd-Barron was a tennis player from Great Britain who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Gail Chanfreau, also known as Gail Lovera and Gail Benedetti, is a French former amateur and professional tennis player.

Vijay Amritraj is an Indian sports commentator, occasional actor and former tennis player from Madras. He was awarded the Padma Shri, India's 4th highest civilian honour, in 1983.

Anand Amritraj is a former Indian tennis player and businessman.

Meilen Tu is a retired professional tennis player from the U.S. She has won one WTA Tour singles title, four WTA Tour doubles titles, four ITF Women's Circuit singles titles and three ITF Women's Circuit doubles titles.

Lesley Rosemary Turner Bowrey, AM is a retired professional tennis player from Australia. Her career spanned two decades from the late 1950s until the late 1970s. Turner Bowrey won the singles title at the French Championships, one of the four Grand Slam events, in 1963 and 1965. In addition she won 11 Grand Slam events in doubles and mixed doubles. Turner Bowrey achieved her highest singles ranking of No. 2 in 1964.

Sergei Sergeevich Bubka is a Ukrainian former professional tennis player. He was a member of the Ukraine Davis Cup team and was coached by Tibor Toth, who is also the former coach of Sergiy Stakhovsky. Bubka is the son of pole vaulter Sergey Bubka.

John Lloyd is a British former professional tennis player. Lloyd reached an ATP world ranking of 21 from 23 July 1978 to 30 July 1978, and was ranked as UK number 1 in 1984 and 1985. He now works as sports commentator.

Nancy Richey is a former tennis player from the United States, who won two Grand Slam singles titles and four Grand Slam women's doubles titles. She was ranked World No. 2 in singles at year-end in 1969. Richey won 69 singles titles during her career and helped the U.S. win the Federation Cup in 1969. She won the singles title at the U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships a record six consecutive years, from 1963 through 1968.