Tennis

Players across the courts and tours.

People in Tennis

57 profiles

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Serena Williams

Winning 23 Grand Slam singles titles.

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Billie Jean King

Winning tennis titles while campaigning for equal treatment in sport.

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Roger Federer

Winning 20 Grand Slam singles titles.

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Rafael Nadal

Winning fourteen French Open singles titles and twenty-two major titles overall.

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Novak Djokovic

Winning twenty-four major singles titles by 2023 and Olympic singles gold in 2024.

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Naomi Osaka

Winning major tennis titles and becoming the first Asian singles world number one.

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Sania Mirza

Becoming doubles world number one and winning six tennis majors.

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Evonne Goolagong Cawley

Winning seven major singles titles with an elegant all-court tennis game.

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Li Na

Becoming the first Asian-born major singles champion in tennis.

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Steffi Graf

Winning all four tennis majors and Olympic singles gold in one year.

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Martina Navratilova

Winning eighteen major singles titles and an extraordinary doubles record.

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Venus Williams

Winning seven major singles titles and helping advance equal prize money.

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Arthur Ashe

Winning major tennis titles while challenging racial barriers.

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Rod Laver

Completing tennis’s calendar Grand Slam twice.

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Pete Sampras

Winning fourteen major singles titles with a dominant serve-and-volley game.

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Carlos Alcaraz

Becoming the youngest man to complete a career Grand Slam.

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Chris Evert

Winning 18 major singles titles with relentless baseline consistency.

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Monica Seles

Winning nine major singles titles, including a comeback Australian Open after an on-court attack.

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Martina Hingis

Becoming a teenage world number one before building a second championship career in doubles.

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Björn Borg

Winning five consecutive Wimbledon singles titles and six French Opens.

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Andre Agassi

Completing the career Grand Slam and winning Olympic singles gold.

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Jimmy Connors

Winning eight major singles titles and sustaining one of tennis’s longest elite careers.

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John McEnroe

Combining seven major singles titles with exceptional doubles success and a fiercely confrontational on-court personality.

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Pancho Gonzales

Dominating professional tennis in the years when paid players were barred from the Grand Slam tournaments.

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Ken Rosewall

Winning major titles across the amateur, professional and Open eras with an exceptional backhand.

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Ivan Lendl

Winning eight Grand Slam singles titles and helping establish the power-baseline style of modern tennis.

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Althea Gibson

Breaking tennis’s racial barriers while winning five major singles titles.

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Stefan Edberg

Winning six major singles titles with precision serve-and-volley tennis.

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Maureen Connolly

Becoming the first woman to win all four major tennis singles titles in one calendar year.

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Mats Wilander

The seven-time major tennis champion who won three Grand Slam singles titles in 1988.

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Maria Bueno

Winning seven major singles titles and a calendar-year women’s doubles Grand Slam.

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Boris Becker

Winning Wimbledon at seventeen as an unseeded player.

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Arantxa Sánchez Vicario

Winning four major singles titles and reaching world number one in both singles and doubles.

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Andy Murray

Ending Britain’s long wait for a Wimbledon men’s singles champion.

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Gabriela Sabatini

Winning the 1990 US Open singles title.

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Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling

Winning three consecutive French singles championships.

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Tony Roche

Winning the French singles championship and excelling in doubles.

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Roy Emerson

Winning twelve major singles titles and sixteen major doubles titles.

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Karel Koželuh

Winning three US professional tennis championships.

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Natasha Zvereva

Winning eighteen major women’s doubles titles.

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Thelma Coyne Long

Winning nineteen major tennis titles.

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Jaroslav Drobný

Winning Wimbledon after an international career in both tennis and ice hockey.

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Neale Fraser

Winning Wimbledon and two US singles titles before leading Australia’s Davis Cup team.

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Adrian Quist

Winning three Australian singles titles and ten consecutive Australian doubles championships.

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Ken McGregor

Completing a doubles Grand Slam with Frank Sedgman in 1951.

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David Hall

Winning wheelchair-tennis singles gold at the Sydney Paralympics.

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René Lacoste

Winning seven major singles titles and founding Lacoste

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Lesley Turner Bowrey

Winning two French singles titles and eleven major doubles titles.

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Pierre Etchebaster

Holding the real-tennis world title from 1928 to 1954.

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Ann Jones

Winning the 1969 Wimbledon singles title

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Darlene Hard

Major singles titles and an exceptional doubles career

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Margaret Scriven

Britain’s first women’s singles champion at the French Championships

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Lottie Dod

Five Wimbledon singles titles and success across several sports.

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Daphne Akhurst

Five Australian Championships singles titles.

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Guillermo Vilas

Four major singles titles and a dominant 1977 tennis season.

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Cliff Drysdale

Professional tennis and decades of ESPN commentary.

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Betty Nuthall

Winning the 1930 US women’s singles championship.