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Tuesday, 20 November 2012

Ivan Lendl - Jimmy Connors 1982 US Open Final

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Jimmy Connors v John McEnroe Wimbledon 1977

Jimmy Connors - Miloslav Mecir 1988 Key Biscayne Semifinal

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Jimmy Connors Tributes US Open 1990/1991

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Arthur Ashe Stadium
Arthur Ashe Stadium, a part of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center located within Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the New York City borough of Queens, is the main tennis stadium of the US Open, the last of each year's four Grand Slam tournaments, and also where the annual Arthur Ashe Kids' Day takes place. The stadium is named after the famous African-American tennis player, Arthur Ashe, who won the inaugural US Open in which professionals could compete in 1968.
Opening in 1997, Arthur Ashe Stadium replaced Louis Armstrong Stadium as the primary venue for the tournament. The Stadium, which cost $254 million to construct, features 22,547 individual seats, 90 luxury suites, five restaurants and a two-level players' lounge—making it, by far, the largest outdoor tennis-only venue in the world. The Stadium, like the other 32 courts in the facility, has a DecoTurf cushioned acrylic surface. Due to its location near Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets, all these stadiums share the Mets–Willets Point stop on the New York City Subway's 7 Train.

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Australia
Australia ( /əˈstreɪljə/), officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent as well as the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north; the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east.
For at least 40,000 years before European settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who belonged to one or more of roughly 250 language groups. After discovery by Dutch explorers in 1606, Australia's eastern half was claimed by Great Britain in 1770 and settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales from 26 January 1788. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades; the continent was explored and an additional five self-governing Crown Colonies were established.

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Australian Open
The Australian Open is a major tennis tournament held annually over the last fortnight of January in Melbourne, Australia. First held in 1905, the tournament is chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events of the year – the other three being the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. It features men's and women's singles; men's, women's, and mixed doubles and junior's championships; as well as wheelchair, legends and exhibition events. Since 1988 the tournament has been played on hard courts at Melbourne Park.
The Australian Open typically has very high attendance – second only to the US Open – and was the first Grand Slam tournament to feature indoor play during wet weather or extreme heat with its two primary courts, Rod Laver Arena and Hisense Arena, equipped with retractable roofs.
The Australian Open is managed by Tennis Australia, formerly the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia (LTAA), and was first played at the Warehouseman's Cricket Ground in Melbourne in 1905. This facility is now known as the Albert Reserve Tennis Centre.

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Austria
Austria (ⁱ/ˈɒstriə/ or /ˈɔːstriə/; German: Österreich [ˈøːstɐˌʁaɪç] ( listen)), officially the Republic of Austria (German: Republik Österreich (help·info)), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.47 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Hungary and Slovakia to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers 83,855 square kilometres (32,377 sq mi) and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below 500 metres (1,640 ft), and its highest point is 3,798 metres (12,461 ft). The majority of the population speak local Austro-Bavarian dialects of German as their native language, and German in its standard form is the country's official language. Other local official languages are Burgenland Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
The origins of modern-day Austria date back to the time of the Habsburg dynasty when the vast majority of the country was a part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Austria became one of the great powers of Europe and, in response to the coronation of Napoleon I as the Emperor of the French, the Austrian Empire was officially proclaimed in 1804. In 1867, the Austrian Empire was reformed into Austria-Hungary.

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Boca Raton, Florida
Boca Raton ( /ˈboʊkə rəˈtoʊn/) is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA, incorporated in May 1925. In the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 74,764; the 2006 population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau was 86,396. The Census 2010 count was down slightly, to 84,392. However, the majority of the people under the postal address of Boca Raton, about 200,000 in total, are not actually within Boca Raton's municipal boundaries. As a business center, the city's daytime population increases significantly.
In terms of both population and land area, Boca Raton is the largest city between West Palm Beach and Pompano Beach, Broward County.
The literal translation of "Boca Raton" is "Mouth of The Mouse" ("mouse" in Spanish is "ratón"), the Spanish word boca meaning inlet and ratón being a Spanish nautical term describing rocks that gnawed at a ship's cable. Another explanation is that it refers metaphorically to a pirate's cove. The name Boca Ratones originally appeared on eighteenth century maps associated with an inlet in the Biscayne Bay area of Miami. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, the term was mistakenly moved north to its current location on most maps and applied to the inland waterway from the closed inlet north for 8.5 miles (13.7 km), which was called the "Boca Ratones Lagoon".

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Brazil
Brazil ⁱ/brəˈzɪl/ (Portuguese: Brasil, IPA: [bɾaˈziw]), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: República Federativa do Brasil, listen (help·info)), is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people. It is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas and the largest lusophone country in the world.
Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of 7,491 km (4,655 mi). It is bordered on the north by Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and the French overseas region of French Guiana; on the northwest by Colombia; on the west by Bolivia and Peru; on the southwest by Argentina and Paraguay and on the south by Uruguay. Numerous archipelagos form part of Brazilian territory, such as Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atoll, Saint Peter and Paul Rocks, and Trindade and Martim Vaz. It borders all other South American countries except Ecuador and Chile.
Brazil was a colony of Portugal from the landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500 until 1815, when it was elevated to the rank of kingdom and the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves was formed. The colonial bond was in fact broken in 1808, when the capital of the Portuguese colonial empire was transferred from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, after Napoleon invaded Portugal.Independence was achieved in 1822 with the formation of the Empire of Brazil, a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system. The country became a presidential republic in 1889, when a military coup d'état proclaimed the Republic, although the bicameral legislature, now called Congress, dates back to the ratification of the first constitution in 1824. Its current Constitution, formulated in 1988, defines Brazil as a Federal Republic. The Federation is formed by the union of the Federal District, the 26 States, and the 5,564 Municipalities.

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Caesars Palace
Caesars Palace is a luxury hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, an unincorporated township in Clark County, Nevada, United States in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. Caesars Palace is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment Corporation. Caesars is located on the west side of the Strip, between the Bellagio and the Mirage. The hotel includes a convention facility of over 300,000 square feet (28,000 m²).
Caesars has 3,960 rooms in six towers: Augustus, Centurion, Roman, Palace, Octavius, and Forum. The Forum tower features guest suites with 1,000 square feet (93 m²) of space. It is the only venue in Las Vegas to host a World Series of Poker Circuit Event.
In 1962, Jay Sarno, a cabana motel owner, used US$35 million that had been lent to him by the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund to begin plans for a hotel on land owned by Kirk Kerkorian. Sarno would later act as designer of the hotel he planned to construct.
Building of the 14-story Caesars Palace hotel began in 1962. That first tower would have 680 rooms on the 34 acre (138,000 m²) site.

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Chile
Chile (ⁱ/ˈtʃɪliː/ or /ˈtʃɪleɪ/), officially the Republic of Chile (Spanish: República de Chile [reˈpuβlika ðe ˈtʃile] ( listen)), is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. Along with Ecuador, it is one of two countries in South America that do not border Brazil. Chilean territory includes the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas and Easter Island. Chile also claims about 1,250,000 square kilometres (480,000 sq mi) of Antarctica, although all claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty.
Chile's distinctive shape—4,300 kilometres (2,700 mi) long and on average 175 kilometres (109 mi) wide—makes it the longest country in the world, north to south, with the fifth lengthiest coastline at over 78 thousand kilometers. The diverse climate of Chile ranges from the world's driest desert in the north—the Atacama—through a Mediterranean climate in the centre, humid subtropical in Easter Island, to an Oceanic climate, including alpine tundra and glaciers in the east and south. The northern desert contains great mineral wealth, principally copper. The relatively small central area dominates in terms of population and agricultural resources, and is the cultural and political center from which Chile expanded in the late 19th century when it incorporated its northern and southern regions. Southern Chile is rich in forests and grazing lands, and features a string of volcanoes and lakes. The southern coast is a labyrinth of fjords, inlets, canals, twisting peninsulas, and islands.

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Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia (Czech and Slovak: Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992. From 1939 to 1945, the state did not de facto exist because of its forced division and partial incorporation into Nazi Germany, but the Czechoslovak government-in-exile nevertheless continued to exist during this period. In 1945, the eastern part of Carpathian Ruthenia was taken over by the Soviet Union. On 1 January 1993, Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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The country was of generally irregular terrain. The western area was part of north-central European uplands. The eastern region was composed of northern reaches of Carpathian Mountains and Danube River basin lands.
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The weather was predominantly continental, but varied from the moderate temperature of Western Europe in the west, to more severe weather of Eastern Europe and the western Soviet Union in the east.

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French Championships
The French Open, often referred to as Roland Garros (French: Les internationaux de France de Roland-Garros or Tournoi de Roland-Garros, IPA: [ʁɔlɑ̃ ɡaʁɔs]), named after the famous French aviator Roland Garros, is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks between late May and early June in Paris, France, at the Stade Roland Garros. It is the premier clay court tennis tournament in the world and the second of the four annual Grand Slam tournaments – the other three are the Australian Open, US Open and Wimbledon. Roland Garros is the only Grand Slam held on clay and ends the spring clay court season.
It is one of the largest events in tennis, and the most watched French event in the world. Because of the slow playing surface and the five-set men's singles matches without a tiebreak in the final set, the event is widely considered to be the most physically demanding tennis tournament in the world.
Currently, the 2012 French Open is being conducted from May 27 to June 10, 2012 in Paris.
Officially named in French Les internationaux de France de Roland-Garros or Tournoi de Roland-Garros (the "French Internationals of Roland Garros" or "Roland Garros Tournament" in English), the tournament is often referred to in English as the "French Open" and alternatively as "Roland Garros", which is the designation used by the tournament itself in all languages, including English. In French, a hyphen is inserted after death, hence the French spelling "Roland-Garros".

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French Open
The French Open, often referred to as Roland Garros (French: Les internationaux de France de Roland-Garros or Tournoi de Roland-Garros, IPA: [ʁɔlɑ̃ ɡaʁɔs]), named after the famous French aviator Roland Garros, is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks between late May and early June in Paris, France, at the Stade Roland Garros. It is the premier clay court tennis tournament in the world and the second of the four annual Grand Slam tournaments – the other three are the Australian Open, US Open and Wimbledon. Roland Garros is the only Grand Slam held on clay and ends the spring clay court season.
It is one of the largest events in tennis, and the most watched French event in the world. Because of the slow playing surface and the five-set men's singles matches without a tiebreak in the final set, the event is widely considered to be the most physically demanding tennis tournament in the world.
Currently, the 2012 French Open is being conducted from May 27 to June 10, 2012 in Paris.
Officially named in French Les internationaux de France de Roland-Garros or Tournoi de Roland-Garros (the "French Internationals of Roland Garros" or "Roland Garros Tournament" in English), the tournament is often referred to in English as the "French Open" and alternatively as "Roland Garros", which is the designation used by the tournament itself in all languages, including English. In French, a hyphen is inserted after death, hence the French spelling "Roland-Garros".

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Germany
Germany (ⁱ/ˈdʒɜrməni/), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant] ( listen)), is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km² and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state and the largest economy in the European Union. It is one of the major political powers of the European continent and a technological leader in many fields.
A region named Germania, inhabited by several Germanic peoples, was documented before AD 100. During the Migration Period, the Germanic tribes expanded southward, and established successor kingdoms throughout much of Europe. Beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation while southern and western parts remained dominated by Roman Catholic denominations, with the two factions clashing in the Thirty Years' War, marking the beginning of the Catholic–Protestant divide that has characterized German society ever since. Occupied during the Napoleonic Wars, the rise of Pan-Germanism inside the German Confederation resulted in the unification of most of the German states into the German Empire in 1871 which was Prussian dominated. After the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and the subsequent military surrender in World War I, the Empire was replaced by the Weimar Republic in 1918, and partitioned in the Treaty of Versailles. Amidst the Great Depression, the Third Reich was proclaimed in 1933. The latter period was marked by Fascism and World War II. After 1945, Germany was divided by allied occupation, and evolved into two states, East Germany and West Germany. In 1990 Germany was reunified.

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Harlem
Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, which since the 1920s has been a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Harlem was annexed to New York City in 1873.
Harlem has been defined by a series of boom-and-bust cycles, with significant ethnic shifts accompanying each cycle. Black residents began to arrive en masse in 1904, with numbers fed by the Great Migration. In the 1920s and 1930s, the neighborhood was the focus of the "Harlem Renaissance", an outpouring of artistic and professional works without precedent in the American black community. However, with job losses in the time of the Great Depression and the deindustrialization of New York City after World War II, rates of crime and poverty increased significantly.
New York's revival in the late 20th century has led to renewal in Harlem as well. By 1995, Harlem was experiencing social and economic gentrification. Though the percentage of residents who are black peaked in 1950, the area remains predominantly black.

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Henderson, Nevada
Henderson is a suburban city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, within the Las Vegas metropolitan area of the Mojave Desert. It is the second largest city in Nevada, after Las Vegas, with a population of 257,729 in the 2010 census. It occupies the southeast end of the Las Vegas Valley at an elevation of approximately 1,330 feet (410 m).
The city received its charter from the State Legislature in 1953 establishing a Council/Manager form of government.
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Lorna Kesterson was elected as Henderson's first female mayor, serving two terms until 1993. She remains the only woman to serve as mayor to date.
Fire prevention services are provided by the Henderson Fire Department and police services by the Henderson Police Department.
Henderson is located at 36°2′23″N 114°58′52″W / 36.03972°N 114.98111°W / 36.03972; -114.98111 (36.03972, -114.98111).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 79.7 square miles (206 km²), all land.
As of 2006, according to the city, the city measured 94.5 square miles (245 km²).

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Las Vegas Strip
The Las Vegas Strip is an approximately 4.2-mile (6.8 km) stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard South in Clark County, Nevada. The Strip is not located within the city of Las Vegas proper— it passes through the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester, which are south of the Las Vegas city limits. Most of the Strip has been designated an All-American Road.
Many of the largest hotel, casino and resort properties in the world are located on the Las Vegas Strip. Fifteen of the world's 25 largest hotels by room count are on the Strip, with a total of over 62,000 rooms.
One of the most visible aspects of Las Vegas' cityscape is its use of dramatic architecture. The modernization of hotels, casinos, restaurants, and residential high-rises on the Strip has established the city as one of the most popular destinations for tourists.
Historically, the casinos that were not in Downtown Las Vegas along Fremont Street were restricted to outside of the city limits on Las Vegas Boulevard. In 1959 the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign was constructed exactly 4.5 miles (7.2 km) outside of the city limits. The sign is today about 0.4 miles (0.64 km) south of the southernmost entrance to Mandalay Bay (the southernmost casino).

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Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas (/lɑːs ˈveɪɡəs/) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Clark County. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous for its consolidated casino–hotels and associated entertainment. A growing retirement and family city, Las Vegas is the 28th-most populous city in the United States, with a population at the 2010 census of 583,756. The 2010 population of the Las Vegas metropolitan area was 1,951,269.
Established in 1905, Las Vegas was incorporated as a city in 1911. At the close of the 20th century, Las Vegas was the most populous American city founded in that century (a distinction held by Chicago in the 19th century). The city's tolerance for various forms of adult entertainment earned it the title of Sin City, and this image has made Las Vegas a popular setting for films and television programs. There are numerous outdoor lighting displays on Fremont Street, as well as elsewhere in the city.

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Romania
Romania (ⁱ/roʊˈmeɪniə/ roh-MAY-nee-ə; dated: Roumania; or Rumania;Romanian: România [romɨˈni.a] ( listen)) is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Romania shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and Moldova to the northeast and east, and Bulgaria to the south.
At 238,400 square kilometers (92,000 sq mi), Romania is the ninth largest country of the European Union by area, and has the seventh largest population of the European Union with over 19 million people. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, the tenth largest city in the EU with about two million people.
The Kingdom of Romania emerged when the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia were united under Prince Alexander Ioan Cuza in 1859. Independence from the Ottoman Empire was declared on 9 May 1877, and was internationally recognized the following year. At the end of World War I, Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia united with the Kingdom of Romania. Greater Romania emerged into an era of progression and prosperity that would continue until World War II. By the end of the War, many north-eastern areas of Romania's territories were occupied by the Soviet Union, and Romania forcibly became a socialist republic and a member of the Warsaw Pact.

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Russia
Russia ⁱ/ˈrʌʃə/ or /ˈrʊʃə/ (Russian: Россия, tr. Rossiya; IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə] ( listen)), also officially known as the Russian Federation (Russian: Российская Федерация, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya; IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə] ( listen)), is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both via Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk, and the US state of Alaska by the Bering Strait. At 17,075,400 square kilometres (6,592,800 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than one eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area. Russia is also the eighth most populous nation with 143 million people. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning nine time zones and incorporating a wide range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources and is the largest producer of oil and natural gas globally. Russia has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's fresh water.

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Serbia
Serbia ⁱ/ˈsɜrbiə/, officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Република Србија / Republika Srbija, pronounced [rɛpǔblika sř̩bija]), is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans. Serbia borders Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; the Republic of Macedonia to the south; and Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the west; additionally, it borders Albania through Kosovo, whose status as part of Serbia is disputed. Serbia covers an area of 88,361 km² and has a population of just over 7.1 million, while the capital and largest city is Belgrade.
The arrival of the Serbs to the Balkans in the 7th century, established several states, eventually forming the Serbian Empire in the 14th century. By the 16th century, Serbia was conquered and occupied by the Ottoman Empire, at times interrupted by the Habsburgs. In the early 19th century the Serbian revolution re-established the country as the region's first constitutional monarchy, which subsequently expanded its territory and pioneered the abolition of feudalism in the Balkans. The former Habsburg crownland of Vojvodina united with Serbia in 1918. Following World War I, Serbia formed Yugoslavia with other South Slavic peoples which existed in several forms up until 2006, when the National Assembly of Serbia declared independence and the legal succession to the former State Union. In February 2008 the parliament of UNMIK-governed Kosovo, Serbia's southern province, declared independence, with mixed responses from international governments.

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Spain
Spain (ⁱ/ˈspeɪn/ SPAYN; Spanish: España, pronounced: [esˈpaɲa] ( listen)), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España), is a sovereign state and a member of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar; to the north and north east by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the northwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal.
Spanish territory also includes the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast, and two autonomous cities in North Africa, Ceuta and Melilla, that border Morocco. Furthermore, the town of Llívia is a Spanish exclave situated inside French territory. With an area of 504,030 square kilometres (194,610 sq mi), it is the second largest country in Western Europe and the European Union after France, and the fourth largest country in Europe after Russia, Ukraine and France.

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St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis /seɪnt ˈluːɪs/ (French: Saint-Louis or St-Louis, [sɛ̃ lwi] ( listen)) is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States, and is the second-largest city in the state. With a population of 318,069 in July 2011, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) population of 2,812,896 is the 18th-largest in the country. The Greater St. Louis combined statistical area's (CSA) population of 2,878,255 is the 16th-largest CSA in the country, the fourth-largest in the Midwest. The Greater St. Louis area is the largest metropolitan area in Missouri.
The city of St. Louis was founded in 1764 by Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, and after the Louisiana Purchase, it became a major port on the Mississippi River. Its population expanded after the American Civil War, and it became the fourth-largest city in the United States in the late 19th century. It seceded from St. Louis County in March 1877, allowing it to become an independent city and limiting its political boundaries. In 1904, it hosted the 1904 World's Fair and the 1904 Olympic Games. The city's population peaked in 1950, then began a long decline that reversed only at the beginning of the 21st century.

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Sweden
Sweden (ⁱ/ˈswiːdən/ SWEE-dən; Swedish: Sverige [ˈsværjɛ] ( listen)), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sverige (help·info)), is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland, and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Øresund.
At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the third largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of about 9.4 million. Sweden has a low population density of 21 inhabitants per square kilometre (54 /sq mi) with the population mostly concentrated to the southern half of the country. About 85% of the population live in urban areas. Sweden's capital city is Stockholm, which is also the largest city.
Sweden emerged as an independent and unified country during the Middle Ages. In the 17th century, the country expanded its territories to form the Swedish Empire. The empire grew to be one of the great powers of Europe in the 17th and early 18th century. Most of the conquered territories outside the Scandinavian Peninsula were lost during the 18th and 19th centuries. The eastern half of Sweden, present-day Finland, was lost to Russia in 1809. The last war in which Sweden was directly involved was in 1814, when Sweden by military means forced Norway into a personal union. Since then, Sweden has been at peace, practicing "non-participation in military alliances during peacetime and neutrality during wartime". However, Sweden has been a member of the European Union since 1 January 1995 and is a member of the OECD.

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Switzerland
Switzerland (German: die Schweiz[ˈʃvaɪts]; French: Suisse [sɥis(ə)]; Italian: Svizzera [ˈzvit͡sːɛra]; Romansh: Svizra [ˈʒviːtsrɐ] or [ˈʒviːtsʁːɐ]), in its full name the Swiss Confederation (Latin: Confoederatio Helvetica, hence its abbreviation CH), is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in western Europe, where it is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
Switzerland is a landlocked country geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning an area of 41,285 km² (15,940 sq mi). While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, the Swiss population of approximately 8 million people is concentrated mostly on the Plateau, where the largest cities are to be found. Among them are the two global cities and economic centres of Zurich and Geneva.
The Swiss Confederation has a long history of armed neutrality—it has not been in a state of war internationally since 1815—and did not join the United Nations until 2002. It pursues, however, an active foreign policy and is frequently involved in peace-building processes around the world. Switzerland is also the birthplace of the Red Cross and home to a large number of international organizations, including the second largest UN office. On the European level, it is a founding member of the European Free Trade Association and is part of the Schengen Area – although it is notably not a member of the European Union, nor the European Economic Area.

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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.

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US Open (tennis)
The US Open Championship, formally the United States Open Tennis Championships, is a hardcourt tennis tournament which is the modern iteration of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, the U.S. National Championship, which for men's singles was first contested in 1881. Since 1987, the US Open has been chronologically the fourth and final tennis major comprising the Grand Slam each year; the other three are the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon. It is held annually in August and September over a two-week period (the weeks before and after Labor Day weekend). The main tournament consists of five different event championships: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles, with additional tournaments for senior, junior, and wheelchair players. Since 1978, the tournament has been played on acrylic hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York City.
The US Open has tiebreaks in every set, including the last set. The other three Grand Slam tournaments have tiebreaks in every set other than the last set (i.e. the fifth set for men and third set for women), and therefore their last set continues indefinitely until a two-game lead is reached.

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Wimbledon (tennis)
Coordinates: 51°26′1.48″N 0°12′50.63″W / 51.4337444°N 0.2140639°W / 51.4337444; -0.2140639
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon (25 June – 8 July in 2012), is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors being the Australian Open, French Open and US Open. Wimbledon is the only Major still played on grass, the game's original surface, which gave the game of lawn tennis its name.
The tournament takes place over two weeks in late June and early July, culminating with the Ladies' and Gentlemen's Singles Final, scheduled respectively for the second Saturday and Sunday. Each year, five major events are contested, as well as four junior events and three invitational events.
The hard court (Plexicushion) Australian Open and clay court French Open precede Wimbledon in the calendar year. The hard court (DecoTurf) US Open follows. For men, the grass court Queen's Club Championships, also in London, as well as the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany, serve as warm-up events. For women, the AEGON Classic in Birmingham and 2 joint events, the UNICEF Open in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands and the Eastbourne International serve as warm-up events to Wimbledon.

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Aaron Krickstein
Aaron Krickstein (born August 2, 1967), nicknamed "Marathon Man", is a former American professional tennis player, who competed on the ATP Tour from 1983 to 1996. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he currently competes on the Outback Champions Series Over-30 tour.
Krickstein reached his career high ATP ranking of World No. 6, on February 26, 1990. He achieved this ranking on the back of wins in Sydney and Los Angeles, as well as his best ever results at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.
Krickstein is Jewish, and in the mid-1990s was one of three highly ranked Jewish-American tennis players, along with Jay Berger and Brad Gilbert. His coach Nick Bollettieri remarked as to his personality when he was a teenager: "Aaron was brought up in a Jewish background and babied for 16 years. Now his father wants me to make him Italian."
His sister Kathy won the Big Ten tennis championship in 1998. He is the uncle of LPGA's golfer Morgan Pressel, who is the daughter of his sister Kathy and the youngest winner of an LPGA major.

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Alex O'Brien
Alex O'Brien (born March 7, 1970 in Amarillo, Texas) is a professional tennis player from the United States, who competed on the ATP Tour. He was the No. 1 doubles player in the world (gaining that ranking on May 8, 2000) and was ranked as high as 30 in the world in singles (gaining that ranking on June 21, 1997).
He won his only singles title at New Haven, Connecticut, in 1996. He won 13 doubles titles, the biggest coming at the US Open in 1999, the Cincinnati Masters in 1994 (his first doubles title), the Indian Wells Masters in 2000, and the Paris Masters in 1999.
He also reached 20 doubles finals, including the Australian Open in 1996 & 1997, the U.S. Open in 1995, the Miami Masters in 1998, and the Canada Masters and the Rome Masters in 1997.
He also played on the United States Davis Cup team, competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, and was a four-time All-American at Stanford University where he won NCAA singles, doubles and team titles in 1992. He earned a bachelor's degree in American Studies at Stanford in 1992.

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Alex Olmedo
Alejandro "Alex" Rodríguez Olmedo (born March 24, 1936 in Arequipa) is a former tennis player from Peru with American citizenship, who was ranked as the top amateur player in the world in 1959. Although born and raised in Peru, he came to Southern California and was mentored by Perry T. Jones, President of the Southern California Tennis Association at the Los Angeles Tennis Club (LATC). George Toley recruited him to play for the University of Southern California (USC), as he wrote in his book "The Golden Age of College Tennis, 2009". Olmedo graduated with a Business Degree from USC. While there, he won the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Singles and Doubles Championships in 1956 and 1958. (In 1957, USC was excluded from NCAA competition.)
Perry T. Jones became Davis Cup Captain in 1958 and recruited Olmedo to play on the team. He represented the U.S. in Davis Cup competition in 1958 and 1959, winning in both singles and doubles – achieving 2 of the 3 points required to win the Cup. His teammates were Ham Richardson and Barry MacKay, when they won the Cup in 1958. Even though he was not a U.S. citizen, he was technically eligible to represent the U.S. in Davis Cup because he had lived in the country for at least five years and because his country of citizenship, Peru, did not have a Davis Cup team. His participation was very controversial, however. Sports columnist Arthur Dailey at the New York Times wrote, "This would seem to be the saddest day in the history of American tennis. A few more such rousing victories and the prestige of this country in tennis will sink to a new low." Olmedo himself refused to file for U.S. citizenship, said he was content to remain a Peruvian citizen, and denied he was ducking U.S. citizenship to avoid being drafted into the Army. Still, many Americans "took a dim view of the largest nation in the competition stooping to borrow a little player from Peru to win the Cup".

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Andre Agassi
Andre Kirk Agassi ( /ˈɑːndreɪ ˈæɡəsi/; born April 29, 1970) is a retired American professional tennis player and former world no. 1. Generally considered by critics and fellow players to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Agassi has been called the best service returner in the history of the game. Described by the BBC upon his retirement as "perhaps the biggest worldwide star in the sport's history", Agassi's performances, along with his unorthodox apparel and attitude, have seen him cited as one of the most charismatic players in the history of the game, and credited for helping revive the popularity of tennis during the 1990s.
In singles tennis, Agassi is an eight-time Grand Slam champion who competed in 15 Grand Slam finals, and an Olympic gold medalist. A multi-surface specialist, he is the first of two male players to have achieved a singles Career Golden Slam, and one of four to have achieved a singles Career Grand Slam in the Open Era (one of seven in history). He was the first male player to win all four Grand Slams on three different surfaces (hard, clay and grass), and is the last American male to win the French Open (1999) and the Australian Open (2003). Agassi also won 17 ATP Masters Series titles, the 1990 ATP Tour World Championships, and was part of a winning Davis Cup team in 1990 and 1992. He is the only male singles player in history to have won all four Grand Slam tournaments, the Olympic gold medal and the ATP Tour World Championships: a distinction dubbed as a "Career Super Slam" by Sports Illustrated.

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Andrés Gómez
Andrés Gómez Santos (born February 27, 1960, in Guayaquil, Ecuador) is a former professional tennis player from Ecuador. He is best remembered for winning the men's singles title at the French Open in 1990.
Gómez turned professional in 1979. Early success in his career came mainly in doubles competition. He won five doubles titles in 1980, and seven in 1981.
In 1986, Gómez attained the World No. 1 doubles ranking. He won seven doubles events that year, including the US Open men's doubles title (partnering Slobodan Živojinović). Gómez won a second Grand Slam men's doubles title in 1988 at the French Open (partnering Emilio Sánchez).
His first top-level singles title came in 1981 in Bordeaux. He then the won the Italian Open in 1982, beating Eliot Teltscher in the final (6–2, 6–3, 6–2), and again in 1984, when he defeated Aaron Krickstein in four sets (2–6, 6–1, 6–2, 6–2).
The crowning achievement of Gómez's career came in 1990 when he reached his first (and only) Grand Slam singles final at the French Open. There he faced 19 year-old Andre Agassi who, like Gómez, was playing in his first Grand Slam singles final. The up-and-coming American star was considered the favourite, but Gómez seized the moment and claimed the title with a four-set win (6–3, 2–6, 6–4, 6–4). Gómez reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 4 later that year.

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Andy Roddick
Andrew Stephen "Andy" Roddick (born August 30, 1982) is an American professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. He is currently the third highest-ranked American player, behind Mardy Fish and John Isner.
He became a Grand Slam singles champion when he won the title at the 2003 US Open, defeating Juan Carlos Ferrero in the finals, which currently makes him the last North American male player to win a grand slam singles event. Roddick has reached four other Grand Slam finals (Wimbledon in 2004, 2005 and 2009, and the US Open in 2006), losing to Roger Federer each time. He is married to Brooklyn Decker, a Sports Illustrated swimwear model and actress.
Roddick was born in Omaha, Nebraska to Jerry and Blanche Roddick. Roddick's father was a businessman and his mother was a school teacher. She now directs the Andy Roddick Foundation. Roddick has two older brothers, Lawrence and John (All-American tennis player at University of Georgia (1996–98) and head tennis coach at the University of Oklahoma), who were both promising tennis players at a young age.

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Arnaud Clément
Arnaud Clément (born 17 December 1977) is a professional tennis player from France. His best achievement is reaching the final of the 2001 Australian Open.
Clément was born in Aix-en-Provence, and currently lives in Geneva, Switzerland. He turned professional in 1996, and his most significant achievement has been to reach the Australian Open men's singles final in 2001, where he was defeated by Andre Agassi, defeating the then-unseeded but future number one Roger Federer and former number one Yevgeny Kafelnikov on his way to the final.
While playing he often wears a bandana and sunglasses. The sunglasses have been medically prescribed for Clement because of severe eye problems he has encountered through his life, which had nearly left him blind as a child. At only 13 months old he was diagnosed with unilateral coloboma, meaning the condition only affects one eye, at that time Clément was only given a 40/60 % chance of having healthy eyesight for the rest of his life^{[citation needed]}, throughout his tennis career Clément has worn sunglasses to protect his eyes.

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Arthur Ashe
Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. (July 10, 1943 – February 6, 1993) was a former World No. 1 professional tennis player, born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. During his career, he won three Grand Slam titles, putting him among the best ever from the United States. Ashe, an African American, was the first black player ever selected to the United States Davis Cup team and the only black man to ever win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, or Australian Open. He is also remembered for his efforts to further social causes.
Born in Gum Spring, Virginia, to parents Arthur Ashe Sr. and Mattie Cordell Cunningham Ashe, Arthur and his younger brother, Johnnie, suffered a tragic loss when their mother died suddenly from heart related complications during routine surgery. Arthur Ashe first attended Maggie L. Walker High School, being coached by Ronald Charity, and later coached by Robert Walter Johnson. Tired of having to travel great distances to play Caucasian youths in segregated Richmond, Ashe accepted an offer from a St. Louis tennis official to move there and attend Sumner High School. Young Ashe was recognized by Sports Illustrated for his playing.

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Austria
Austria (ⁱ/ˈɒstriə/ or /ˈɔːstriə/; German: Österreich [ˈøːstɐˌʁaɪç] ( listen)), officially the Republic of Austria (German: Republik Österreich (help·info)), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.47 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Hungary and Slovakia to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers 83,855 square kilometres (32,377 sq mi) and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below 500 metres (1,640 ft), and its highest point is 3,798 metres (12,461 ft). The majority of the population speak local Austro-Bavarian dialects of German as their native language, and German in its standard form is the country's official language. Other local official languages are Burgenland Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
The origins of modern-day Austria date back to the time of the Habsburg dynasty when the vast majority of the country was a part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Austria became one of the great powers of Europe and, in response to the coronation of Napoleon I as the Emperor of the French, the Austrian Empire was officially proclaimed in 1804. In 1867, the Austrian Empire was reformed into Austria-Hungary.

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Balázs Taróczy
Balázs Taróczy (Taróczy Balázs; born May 9, 1954 in Budapest) is a former tennis player from Hungary, who won thirteen singles titles in his career. The right-hander achieved his highest ranking during the ATP Tour on February 8, 1982, when he became World Number 13. He's a six times Hungarian champion. One of the game's premier doubles artists, Balazs and partner Heinz Gunthardt surged from the pack to win the 1985 Wimbledon doubles title. Though never especially proficient on the grass prior to their magic fortnight, the duo played beautifully on the historic centre court at the All-England Club to defeat Pat Cash-John Fitzgerald in four sets. Has been the Hungarian No. 1 player since 1973. Member of the Hungarian Davis Cup team, 1973-85. Despite playing part-time, still managed to finish in the top 50 doubles at No. 45 in 1989
From September 1989 to the end of 1990 he was the coach of Goran Ivanišević.

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Bill Tilden
William Tatem Tilden II (February 10, 1893 - June 5, 1953), nicknamed "Big Bill," was an American tennis player. He is often considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Tilden was the World No. 1 player for seven years, he won 14 Majors including ten Grand Slams and four Pro Slams. Bill Tilden dominated the world of international tennis in the first half of the 1920s. During his 18 year amateur period of 1912-30, he won 138 of 192 tournaments, and had a match record of 907-62, a winning percentage of 93.6 percent.
Tilden was born into a wealthy Philadelphia family bereaved by the death of three older siblings. He lost his semi-invalid mother when he was 18 and, even though his father was still alive and maintained a large house staffed with servants, was sent a few houses away to live with a maiden aunt. The loss at 22 of his father and older brother marked him deeply. After several months of deep depression, and with encouragement from his aunt, tennis, which he had taken up starting at age five, became his primary means of recovery. According to his biographer, Frank Deford, because of his early family losses Tilden spent all of his adult life attempting to create a father-son relationship with a long succession of ball boys and youthful tennis protégés, of whom Vinnie Richards was the most noted. In spite of his worldwide travels, Tilden lived at his aunt's house until 1941 when he was 48 years old.

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Björn Borg
Björn Rune Borg (Swedish pronunciation: [bjœːɳ bɔrj] ( listen); born 6 June 1956) is a former world no. 1 tennis player from Sweden. Between 1974 and 1981 he won 11 Grand Slam singles titles. He won five consecutive Wimbledon singles titles (a record shared with Roger Federer) and six French Open singles titles (a record shared with Rafael Nadal). He is considered by many to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time.
During his relatively brief pro career, Borg won 41% of the Grand Slam singles tournaments he entered (11 of 27) and 89.81% (141–16) of the Grand Slam singles matches he played. His winning rate across all surfaces (carpet, clay, hard, and grass) was 82.72% (608-127), and his winning percentage at Wimbledon was 92.73% (51–4); both are records for an entire career. He is one of four players in the open era to win both Wimbledon and the French Open in the same year and the only player to do so for three consecutive years. He is the first player to win two Grand Slams without dropping a set (a record shared with Rafael Nadal). He also won three year-end championship titles, including two Masters Grand Prix titles and one WCT Final title. In addition, he won 15 Championship Series titles (1974–1980) the precursors to the current Masters 1000.

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Bob Hewitt
Robert "Bob" Anthony John Hewitt (born 12 January 1940 in Dubbo, New South Wales) is a former professional male tennis player from Australia. After he married Dalaille, a young woman from Johannesburg, South Africa he became an South African citizen.
Hewitt's most significant accomplishments were winning all of the Grand Slam doubles titles, both the Men's Doubles Grand Slam titles as well as the Mixed Doubles Grand Slam titles (U.S. Open, Wimbledon, Australian Open, French Open) and being central to South Africa's only Davis Cup title in 1974. That victory was a little controversial though with India boycotting the final because the team on the orders of its government refused to play the final in South Africa due to its Apartheid policies which were affecting the ethnic Indian community of the country.
Hewitt had seven titles in singles, along with 65 in doubles. His career prize money amounted to more than a million dollars. He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 6. In 1992 he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

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Bob Lutz (tennis)
Robert ("Bob") Lutz (born August 29, 1947, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US) was a top amateur and professional tennis player of the 1960s and 1970s. He and his longtime partner Stan Smith were one of the best doubles teams of all time. Together they won many major titles all over the world. In 1972 Lutz was briefly the World No. 7 ranked male player in the world. Between 1967 and 1977 he was ranked among the top-10 American players 8 times, with his highest ranking being number 5 in both 1968 and 1970.
Lutz won nine singles titles, the most important being in Paris in 1978, and reached 15 other singles finals, including the Cincinnati in 1974. He also won 43 doubles titles, many with Stan Smith, and reached 30 other doubles finals. His doubles titles include the US Open in 1980, 1978, 1974, and 1968, the Australian Open in 1970 and Cincinnati in 1969. In addition, he also played on 5 winning Davis Cup teams and had a 14-2 record playing doubles in Davis Cup ties. He was nominated for the ITF Tennis Hall of Fame thanks to these achievements.

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Bobby Riggs
Robert Larimore "Bobby" Riggs (February 25, 1918 – October 25, 1995) was a 1930s–40s tennis player who was the World No. 1 or the co-World No. 1 player for three years, first as an amateur in 1941, then as a professional in 1946 and 1947. He played his first professional tennis match on December 26, 1941.
After being mostly forgotten for many years, he gained far more fame in 1973 at the age of 55 by challenge matches against two of the top female players in the world. "The Battle of the Sexes" match against Billie Jean King was one of the most famous tennis events of all time, in which he lost the $100,000 winner take all prize.
Riggs was born in Los Angeles, the son of a minister and one of six siblings. He was an excellent table tennis player as a boy and when he began playing tennis at age 11, he was quickly befriended and then coached by Esther Bartosh, who was the third-ranking woman player in Los Angeles. Depending entirely on speed and ball control, he soon began to win boys (through 15 years old) and then juniors (through 18 years old) tournaments. Although it is sometimes said that Riggs was one of the great tennis players nurtured at the Los Angeles Tennis Club (LATC) by Perry T. Jones and the Southern California Tennis Association. Riggs writes in his autobiography that for many years Jones considered Riggs to be too small and not powerful enough to be a top-flight player. (Kramer, however, said in his autobiography that Jones turned against Riggs "for being a kid hustler".) After initially helping Riggs, Jones then refused to sponsor him at the important Eastern tournaments. With the help of Bartosh and others, Riggs played in various National Tournaments and by the time he was 16 was the fifth-ranked junior player in the United States. The next year, he won his first National Championship, winning the National Juniors by beating Joe Hunt in the finals. That same year, 1935, he met Hunt in 17 final-round matches and won all 17 of them.

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Boris Becker
Boris Franz Becker (born 22 November 1967) is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from Germany. He is a six-time Grand Slam singles champion, an Olympic gold medalist, and the youngest-ever winner of the men's singles title at Wimbledon at the age of 17. Becker also won five major indoor championships titles including three ATP Masters World Tour Finals (played eight finals, second all-time to Ivan Lendl, who played nine) and one WCT Finals and one Grand Slam Cup. He also won five Masters 1000 series titles and eight Championship Series titles. Tennis Magazine put Becker in 18th place on its list of the 40 greatest tennis players from 1965 to 2005.
Becker was born in Leimen, West Germany, the only son of Elvira (née Pisch), who was raised in Czechoslovakia. His parents were Catholic, and part of his mother's family were Jewish. His father Karl-Heinz, an architect, founded the tennis centre (Tennis-Club Blau-Weiß 1964 Leimen e. V.) in Leimen, where Becker learned the game.
Becker turned professional in 1984, under the guidance of Romanian-born coach, Günther Bosch, and with Ion Ţiriac as manager and won his first professional doubles title that year in Munich. As a West German teenager, Becker won his first top-level singles title in June 1985 at Queen's Club and two weeks later on 7 July, became the first unseeded player and the first German to win the Wimbledon singles title, defeating Kevin Curren in four sets. At the time, he was the youngest ever male Grand Slam singles champion at &1000000000000001700000017 years, &10000000000000227000000227 days (a record later broken by Michael Chang in 1989, who won the French Open when he was &1000000000000001700000017 years, &10000000000000110000000110 days). Two months after his triumph, Becker became the youngest winner of the Cincinnati Open.

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Brian Gottfried
Brian Edward Gottfried (born January 27, 1952) is a retired tennis player from the United States who won 25 singles titles and 54 doubles titles during his professional career. The right-hander was the runner-up at the 1977 French Open and achieved a career-high singles ranking on the ATP tour on June 19, 1977, when he became World No. 3.
Gottfried was born in Baltimore, Maryland. When he was five years old, some Japanese players stayed with his family while competing in a local tournament. Before leaving, they gave him a tennis racket as a present, thus launching his tennis career. In all, Gottfried won 14 national junior titles. He won the 1962 National 12-and-under singles title, and the doubles title with Jimmy Connors. Gottfried repeated the victory in 1963 with Dick Stockton. In 1964, he won the 12-and-under singles crown.
In 1970, as a freshman at Trinity University in Texas, he won the USTA boys 18s singles championship, as well as the doubles championship with Alexander Mayer. He was an All-American in 1971 and 1972. He was the runner-up in NCAA singles and doubles in 1972.

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Brian Teacher
Brian David Teacher (born December 23, 1954) is a 6' 3" right handed American former professional male tennis player. He reached a career-high ranking World No. 7 in 1981.
Teacher is best remembered for his singles championship at the Australian Open in 1980. He won the final over Kim Warwick of Australia in straight sets (7-5, 7-6, 6-2), becoming the first Jewish male to win a singles title in a Grand Slam event since the 1950s.
With his Grand Slam victory, Teacher is one of only five American players in the Open era to have won a single Grand Slam event (along with Chang, Gerulaitis, Roddick & Tanner). Seven more Americans have one more than one slam (Smith, Ashe, Courier, Connors, Agassi, McEnroe & Sampras).
Following his playing career, he became a ATP & WTA touring coach working with, among others, Andre Agassi & Greg Rusedski. Under his tutelage, Rusedski made a run from #85 in the world to the top ten and the U.S. Open finals. Teacher also coached world #1 doubles players Jim Grabb, Richey Renenberg, Daniel Nestor, & Max Mirnyi. On the women's side, he coached WTA tour player Marissa Irvin.

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Bud Collins
Arthur Worth "Bud" Collins, Jr. (born June 17, 1929 in Lima, Ohio) is an American journalist and television sportscaster, best known for his tennis commentary. Collins is married to photographer Anita Ruthling Klaussen.
Collins is a 1947 graduate of Berea High School in Berea, Ohio and a graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College, where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. After his U.S. Army service, Collins decided to attend Boston University graduate school. From 1959–1963 he served as the tennis coach at Brandeis University, where one of his players was Abbie Hoffman.
Collins started writing for the Boston Herald as a sportswriter while he was a student at Boston University. In 1963, he moved to the Boston Globe and also began doing tennis commentary for Boston's Public Broadcasting Service outlet, WGBH. From 1968-72, he worked for CBS Sports during its coverage of the US Open tournament, moving to NBC Sports in 1972 to work that network's Wimbledon coverage. He also teamed with Donald Dell to call tennis matches for PBS television from 1974-77.

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Budge Patty
John "Budge" Edward Patty (born February 11, 1924) is a former American male tennis player. He was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States.
1950 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
In 1950, he won the men's singles championship at both Wimbledon and the French Championships. Only two other American men have achieved this double victory: Don Budge in 1938 and Tony Trabert in 1955.
He was inducted in the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1977.
Patty attended Los Angeles High School. He now lives in Lausanne, Switzerland, with his wife, Marcina.

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Carlos Moyá
Carlos Moyá Llompart (Catalan: Carles Moyà, Spanish: Carlos Moyá; born 27 August 1976) is a retired former World No. 1 tennis player from Spain. He was the French Open singles champion in 1998 and was the singles runner-up at the 1997 Australian Open. In 2004, he helped his country win the Davis Cup. He currently resides in Switzerland.
Moyá was born in Palma, Spain. He began playing tennis at six with his parents. He turned professional in 1995 and won his first tour title later that year in Buenos Aires. He previously dated Italian Flavia Pennetta. The two split in 2007. He is dating Spanish actress Carolina Cerezuela, with whom he has a daughter, Carla, born by C-section on 18 August 2010 at the USP Clínica Palmaplanas in Palma, Majorca.
In 1997, Moyá reached his first Grand Slam final at the Australian Open, defeating World No. 3 Michael Chang in the semifinals in straight sets, before losing in straight sets to Pete Sampras.
In 1998, Moyá won the French Open. He defeated the tournament favourite, Marcelo Ríos in the quarterfinals, and fellow-Spaniard Álex Corretja in the final with a straight-sets win. He also won his first Tennis Masters Series tournament that year at Monte Carlo. He reached the semifinals of the US Open, losing to Mark Philippoussis. He concluded the year by finishing runner-up at the ATP World Championships (now known as the Tennis Masters Cup), where he lost in a five-set final to Corretja, having won the first two sets.

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Chris Evert
Christine Marie "Chris" Evert (born December 21, 1954) is a former world #1 professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, including a record seven championships at the French Open and a record six championships at the U.S. Open. She was the year-ending World No. 1 singles player in 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, and 1981.
Evert's career win–loss record in singles matches of 1,309–145 (90.05%) is the best of any professional player, man or woman, in the Open Era. On clay courts her career match win loss rate of 94.05% (316/20) remains a WTA record. In tennis writer Steve Flink's book The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century, he named Evert as the third best female player of the 20th century, after Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova. Evert never lost in the first or second rounds of a Grand Slam singles tournament. She won 157 singles championships. In women's doubles, Evert won three Grand Slam titles and 29 regular tour championships.

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Cliff Drysdale
Cliff Drysdale (born May 26, 1941, Nelspruit (former Transvaal, present-day Mpumalanga), South Africa) is a former top-ranked professional tennis player of the 1960s and early 1970s who became a well-known tennis announcer. He was one of the Handsome Eight, signed by Lamar Hunt in 1968 for the newly formed World Championship Tennis (WCT) group. He became President of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) when it was formed by Jack Kramer, Donald Dell, and himself in 1972.
During his career, Drysdale captured five singles titles and six doubles titles including winning the 1972 U.S. Open doubles crown. He defeated Rod Laver in the first US Open in 1968. He became a naturalized United States citizen after retiring as a player. Today, he serves as a tennis commentator on ESPN. He is the founder of Cliff Drysdale Tennis (along with partners Don Henderson and Tom Brownhill) which specializes in resort, hotel, and club tennis management.^{[citation needed]}

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Danie Visser
Danie Visser (b. 26 July 1961, in Rustenburg, South Africa) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. A doubles specialist, he won 3 Grand Slam men's doubles titles (2 Australian Open and 1 US Open). Visser reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in 1990.
Visser won the first of 17 career doubles titles in 1985 at Bristol. In 1990 he won the men's doubles titles at both the Australian Open and the US Open, partnering his fellow South African player Pieter Aldrich. The pair were also doubles runners-up at Wimbledon that year. Visser won the Australian Open doubles crown again in 1993, partnering Laurie Warder. Visser won the final doubles title of his career in 1994 at Manchester.
Visser's best singles ranking was World No. 59, which he attained in 1984.
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Daniel Nestor
Daniel Mark Nestor, CM (Serbian: Данијел Нестор, Danijel Nestor), born on September 4, 1972, in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia, is a Serbian-born Canadian professional tennis player from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
In his career thus far he has won 76 men's doubles titles, including a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics, the ATP World Tour Finals 4 times, and 7 Grand Slam men's doubles titles. In addition, Nestor won the 2007 Australian Open mixed doubles title with Elena Likhovtseva. This pairing also reached the finals of the 2006 Australian Open and the 2006 French Open. Nestor also won the 2011 Australian Open mixed doubles title with Katarina Srebotnik. In June 2011, he captured the 2011 French Open men's doubles title with Max Mirnyi.
His 76 doubles titles make him the third most decorated champion among active doubles players, and fourth all time. He is the only player in tennis history to have won all four Grand Slams, all of the Masters Series events, the Year End Championships and Olympic gold medal in doubles at least once. He was named ATP Doubles Team of the Year in 2002 and 2004 (with Mark Knowles) and 2008 (with Nenad Zimonjić).

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Daniel Vacek
Daniel Vacek (born 1 April 1971 in Prague) is a former tennis player from Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic who turned professional in 1990.
Vacek represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was defeated in the second round. The right-hander won 25 career titles in doubles with various partners, including the French Open in 1996 and 1997 and the U.S. Open in 1997 with Yevgeny Kafelnikov. Vacek reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 29 January 1996, when he became World No. 26.
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Dick Savitt
Richard "Dick" Savitt (born March 4, 1927) is a 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 metres) and 185-pound (84 kg) right-handed American male former tennis player.
Savitt was ranked World No. 2 in 1951. That year, at the age of 24, he won both the Wimbledon Singles Championship and the Australian Singles title. He retired the following year.
Savitt is one of three American men who have won both the Australian and British Championships in one year, following Don Budge (1938) and preceding Jimmy Connors (1974).
Savitt is Jewish, and was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. He taught himself tennis at the age of 14, but never took a tennis lesson in his life. The self-taught Savitt played tennis well enough, however, to make the finals of the New Jersey Boys Championship and, for two years afterward, the National Boys Tennis Tournament before moving up to the junior ranks.
His first love was basketball, though, and when his family moved to Texas, he was an All-State forward and a co-captain of his El Paso, Texas high school basketball team in 1944. In 1945 Savitt entered the Navy, and played on a service basketball team.

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Don Budge
John Donald ("Don" or "Donnie") Budge (June 13, 1915 – January 26, 2000) was an American tennis champion who was a World No. 1 player for five years, first as an amateur and then as a professional. He is most famous as the first player, male or female, and only American male to win in a single year the four tournaments that comprise the Grand Slam of tennis and second male player to win all 4 Grand Slams in his career after Fred Perry. He won 10 Majors of which six Grand Slams and four Pro Slams, the latter achieved on three different surfaces. Budge was considered to have the best backhand in the history of tennis, at least until the emergence of Ken Rosewall in the 1950s and 1960s.
Born in Oakland, California, Budge was the son of a Scottish immigrant and former football player - his father had played several matches for the Rangers reserve team before emigrating to the United States. Growing up, he played a variety of sports before taking up tennis. He was tall and slim and his height would later help what is still considered one of the most powerful serves of all time.^{[citation needed]} Budge studied at the University of California, Berkeley in late 1933 but left to play tennis with the U.S. Davis Cup auxiliary team.

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Donald Johnson
Donald James "Don" Johnson (born September 9, 1968, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) is a former professional tennis player from the United States who reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in 2002. Although born in Bethlehem, PA he was raised and learned the sport of tennis in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania [1]. Johnson attended Fairview High School in Erie, Pennsylvania and won the PIAA State Singles Championship in 1984. During his career, he won the Wimbledon men's doubles title in 2001 (partnering Jared Palmer), and the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 2000 (partnering Kimberly Po). He also won the doubles title at the Tennis Masters Cup in 2000 (partnering Piet Norval). He won a total of 23 top-level doubles titles.
Prior to turning professional, Johnson played collegiate tennis for the University of North Carolina from 1987-1991. As a youngster, he earned the Sportsmanship Award at the USTA National Junior Championships in 1986.
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Eddie Dibbs
Eddie Dibbs (born February 23, 1951, in Brooklyn) is a retired American tennis player. He attained a career-high singles ranking of World No. 5 in July 1978.
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Ellsworth Vines
Henry Ellsworth Vines, Jr. (September 28, 1911 – March 17, 1994) was an American tennis champion of the 1930s, the World No. 1 player or the co-No. 1 for four years in 1932, 1935, 1936 and 1937, able to win Pro Slam titles on three different surfaces. He later became a professional golfer.
Vines attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, where he played on the freshman basketball team. Many believe that Mercer Beasley started him on his tennis career at age 14 in Pasadena. He was mentored by Perry T. Jones through the Los Angeles Tennis Club and the Southern California Tennis Association.
In the amateur ranks Vines won three Grand Slam tournaments, the Wimbledon Championships in 1932 and the U.S. Championships in 1931 and 1932 and he reached the final of Wimbledon in 1933. He played his first professional tennis match on January 10, 1934 and then became undoubtedly the leading pro player until 1938 (and the World No. 1 or No. 2 in the combined amateur-professional rankings). In 1934 and 1935 he won almost all the great pro events and the two big annual tours. Vines won five professional majors, which were the Wembley Pro in 1934, 1935 and 1936, the French Pro in 1935 and the US Pro in 1939. Vines also won the Paris Indoor (not to be confused with the French Pro) in 1934 and Southport Pro in 1935.

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Frank Sedgman

Frank Arthur Sedgman, born 29 October 1927, in Mont Albert, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, was a tennis player who was arguably the World No. 1 in 1952. In his 1979 autobiography Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter and great player himself, included Sedgman in his list of the 21 greatest players of all time. Sedgman, Kramer wrote, "was as quick as anybody who ever played the game, but he couldn't keep the heat on."
In a four-year span from 1949 through 1952 Sedgman won 22 Grand Slam titles in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles, three fewer than John Newcombe and six fewer than Roy Emerson won over longer periods of time. In both singles and doubles, Sedgman was the major force in the first three years of the Australian domination of the Davis Cup matches in which they won 15 victories in an 18-year span from 1950 through 1967.

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Fred Perry
Frederick John Perry (18 May 1909 – 2 February 1995) was a championship-winning English tennis and table tennis player who won 10 Majors including eight Grand Slams and two Pro Slams. Perry won three consecutive Wimbledon Championships between 1934 and 1936 and was World No. 1 four years in a row. Perry also became the last British player to win the men's Wimbledon championship in 1936.
Perry was the first player to win all four Grand Slam singles titles (though not all in the same year) and completed this "Career Grand Slam" at the age of 26. Although Perry began his tennis career aged 18, he was also a Table Tennis World Champion in 1929.
In 1933, Perry helped lead the Great Britain team to victory over France in the Davis Cup; the team's first success since 1912, followed by wins over the United States in 1934, 1935, and a fourth consecutive title with victory over Australia in 1936.
Perry was acclaimed across the tennis world, but was not universally admired in his homeland, and was widely ostracised by the tennis establishment for turning professional after completing a hat-trick of Wimbledon singles triumphs. After becoming disillusioned with the class-conscious nature of the Lawn Tennis Club of Great Britain, the working-class Perry moved to the United States before becoming a naturalised US citizen in 1938. In 1942, he was drafted into the US Air Force during the Second World War.

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Fred Stolle
Frederick "Fred" Sydney Stolle (born 8 October 1938) is a former Australian tennis player. He was born in Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia. He is the father of former Australian Davis Cup player Sandon Stolle.
Stolle won two Grand Slam tournament singles titles, the 1965 French Championships and the 1966 US Championships, but failed to win Wimbledon and the Australian Championships, finishing as runner-up in these tournaments and losing to compatriot Roy Emerson on no fewer than five occasions.
Stolle won 10 Grand Slam doubles titles, partnering with compatriots Bob Hewitt (4 titles), Roy Emerson (4 titles) and Ken Rosewall (2 titles). In addition Stolle won 7 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles.
As a member of the Australian Davis Cup team Stolle won the Davis Cup title in 1964 , 1965 and 1966 . In 1964 Stolle and Emerson were briefly suspended from the Australian Davis Cup team for going on an overseas tour in defiance of a Lawn Tennis Association of Australia order to remain in Australia until April.

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Frew McMillan
Frew Donald McMillan (born 20 May 1942 in Springs, South Africa) is a former professional male tennis player from South Africa.
He won five major doubles championships including three Wimbledons with Bob Hewitt. Altogether, he won 63 doubles titles, surpassed only by John McEnroe and Tom Okker.
The most notable aspect of his game was that he had both a two-handed backhand and forehand, which simultaneously increased his power while restricting his mobility. In the 1967 Wimbledon, the pair did not lose a set, and McMillan did not once lose a service game.
McMillan was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island in 1992. He works as a tennis commentator for Eurosport and on BBC Radio 5 during Wimbledon.

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Gene Mayer
Gene Mayer (born April 11, 1956) is a former tennis player from the United States who won fourteen singles titles during his career.
Mayer was born in Flushing, Queens, New York. He grew up in Wayne, New Jersey, and played tennis at Wayne Valley High School, where he went unbeaten in his two years on the tennis team. He was a double hander on both forehand and backhand.
The right-hander Mayer reached his highest ranking on the ATP Tour on October 6, 1980, when he reached the rank of World No. 4.
Mayer has been a resident of Woodmere, New York. In 2005, he was inducted into the Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame.
Gene's older brother Sandy was also a tour player. He achieved the rank of World No. 7 in 1982. They met each other in the Stockholm Open final 1981.

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Geoff Masters
Geoff Masters (born 19 May 1950 in Brisbane, Queensland) is a former Australian tennis player.
In 1977 Masters and Ross Case won the doubles in Wimbledon.
Masters can be heard calling Australian Open matches for television.

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Goran Ivanišević
Goran Ivanišević (Croatian pronunciation: [ɡǒran iʋanǐːʃɛʋitɕ]; born 13 September 1971) is a retired Croatian professional tennis player. He is the only person to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon as a wildcard. He achieved this in 2001, having previously been runner-up at the championships in 1992, 1994 and 1998. Ivanišević is famous for his strong serve, which is considered among the greatest to date. His career-high singles ranking was World No. 2 (behind Pete Sampras) in 1994. He is the reigning Legends under 45 French Open doubles Champion.
Goran is the son of Srđan and Gorana (née Škaričić). He turned professional in 1988 and later that year, with Rudiger Haas, won his first career doubles title in Frankfurt, but he focused more on his singles career, yet had some success in doubles, winning nine titles and reaching a career high ranking of 20.
Ivanišević made his first significant impact on the tour in 1990, knocking Boris Becker out of the first round of the French Open men's singles; he went on to reach the quarter-finals. He was also, with Petr Korda, the runner-up in the French Open men's doubles. At that year's Wimbledon, Ivanišević reached the semi-finals, where he lost to Becker in four sets. Ivanišević also won his first tour singles title in 1990 at Stuttgart and helped Yugoslavia win the World Team Cup. He played in eight ties for Yugoslavia in the Davis Cup before quitting the team after the Croatian declaration of independence in 1991. Yugoslavia lost its subsequent tie against France 5–0.

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Gottfried von Cramm
Gottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt Freiherr von Cramm (7 July 1909, Nettlingen – 8 November 1976) was a German amateur tennis champion and twice French Open champion.
The Nazis wanted to exploit his blonde good looks as a symbol of Aryan supremacy, but he refused to identify with Nazism. Probably in revenge, they jailed him for an earlier homosexual relationship with a Jewish actor, and this damaged his career abroad. In the war, he was also discharged from the military on the same count.
He figured briefly in the gossip-columns as the sixth husband of Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress.
The third of the seven sons of Burchard Baron (Freiherr) von Cramm, and his wife Jutta née von Steinberg, Cramm was born at the family estate near Nettlingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. The family title, which was bestowed upon his paternal grandfather in 1891, was inherited in 1936 by von Cramm's eldest brother, Aschwin.

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Guillermo Vilas
Guillermo Apolinario Vilas (born 17 August 1952, in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina) is a retired and former World No. 2 professional tennis player from Argentina. He was, however, thought to be the true World No. 1 in 1977 by several sources and publications, as well as through the current ATP-ranking system. Vilas was the second Latin-American to win a Grand Slam tournament.
Raised in the seaside resort of Mar del Plata, Vilas was a southpaw and played his first tour event in 1969. He was in the year-ending top ten from 1974 through 1982. He was a clay-court specialist but also played well on hard, grass, and carpet surfaces.
He won four Grand Slam titles: the 1977 French Open and the 1977 US Open (both played on clay) and the 1978 and 1979 Australian Open (both played on grass). He was also the runner-up at the French Open three times (1975, 1978, and 1982) and at the Australian Open once (January 1977).
In 1974 he won the year end Masters Grand Prix title. In addition he won five Championship Series titles (1975–80) the precursors to the current Masters 1000.

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Gustavo Kuerten
Gustavo Kuerten (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɡusˈtavu ˈkiɾtẽ]; born September 10, 1976) is a retired former World No. 1 tennis player from Brazil. He won the French Open three times between 1997 and 2001, and was the Tennis Masters Cup champion in 2000.
Kuerten suffered many problems with injuries which led him to miss a number of tournaments between 2002 and 2005. After a few failed attempts of comebacks, he retired from top-level tennis in May 2008.
Kuerten is also known as "Guga" (pronounced: [ˈɡuɡɐ]), an affectionate nickname which is a common abbreviation of the name "Gustavo" in Portuguese-speaking countries. He is a polyglot who speaks fluent Portuguese, Spanish, English and French.^{[citation needed]}
Kuerten was born in Florianópolis in southern Brazil. He comes from an ethnically German family. He began playing tennis when he was six, an early start to a life and career marked by family tragedy. His father, a former amateur tennis player, died of a heart attack in 1985 while umpiring a junior tennis match in Curitiba, when Kuerten was only eight years old. His older brother, Raphael, is currently his business manager. His youngest brother suffered prolonged oxygen deprivation and consequently irreparable brain damage during birth, and as a result suffered from mental retardation and severe physical disability until his death in 2007. Kuerten was deeply affected by his brother's daily struggles, later donating the entire prize money from one tournament he has won every year of his professional career so far to a hometown NGO that provides assistance for people suffering from similar disabilities. He gave every trophy he won to his younger brother as a souvenir, including the three miniature replicas of the French Open men's singles trophy. His favourite football team is brazilian Avaí Futebol Clube.

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Harold Solomon
Harold Solomon (born September 17, 1952, in Washington, D.C.) is a former American professional tennis player during the 1970s and 1980s. He achieved a career-high ranking of No. 5 in the world in 1980.
Solomon began playing tennis at the age of five, and as a junior player he was ranked as high as No. 2 in the United States in the 14, 16, and 18 age groups, and won the U.S. Boys 18 Clay Court Championship.
He earned All-America honors at Rice University in (Texas) at the close of his sophomore year.[2] At Rice he was a member of Wiess College.
He then turned professional in 1972, and won his first pro singles titles in Washington, D.C. in 1974.
Solomon would go on to reach the singles final at the French Open in 1976, falling to Adriano Panatta. He also reached the semifinals at the French Open in 1974 and 1980, and was a quarterfinalist in 1972 and 1975.
At the U.S. Open, he was a semifinalist in 1977. He also won the tournament now known as the Cincinnati Masters twice (in 1977 and 1980), and was a finalist at the 1976 and 1978 United States Pro Championships.

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Heinz Günthardt
Heinz Peter Günthardt (born February 8, 1959 in Zürich) is a former tennis player from Switzerland, who won five singles titles during his professional career, including the Rotterdam WCT in 1980.
In doubles Günthardt captured a total number of thirty titles. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on April 7, 1986, when he became the World No. 22. Günthardt won the men's doubles at the 1985 Wimbledon Championships, and the mixed doubles at the 1985 US Open partnering Martina Navrátilová. He was also a member of the Swiss team at the 1988 Olympic Games.
He was the coach of all-time great Steffi Graf, from the start of 1992 until the end of Graf's tennis playing career in July 1999, and he has also worked briefly with Jelena Dokić. From February to November 2010 he worked with former WTA No. 1 Ana Ivanović.
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Henri Cochet
Henri Jean Cochet (14 December 1901 – 2 April 1987) was a champion tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Born in Villeurbanne, Rhône, Cochet won ten amateur majors and one pro major during his singles career. He was the World No. 1 player for three consecutive years, 1928 through 1930.
Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter, and a great player himself, in his 1979 autobiography included Cochet in his list of the 21 greatest players of all time.
The Four Musketeers were inducted simultaneously into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island in 1976. Cochet died at age 85 in Paris.
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Ilie Năstase
Ilie Năstase (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈli.e nəsˈtase], born July 19, 1946, in Bucharest, Romania) is a Romanian former professional tennis player, one of the world's top players of the 1970s. Năstase was the World No. 1 tennis player between 1973 (August 23) and 1974 (June 2). He is one of the five players in history to win more than 100 ATP professional titles (57 singles and 45 in doubles). He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1991. Năstase won seven Grand Slam titles: two in singles, three in men's doubles, and two in mixed doubles. He also won four Masters Grand Prix year end championship titles and seven Championship Series titles (1970–73) the precursors to the current Masters 1000. In 2005, Tennis magazine ranked him as the 28th-best player of the preceding forty years. He is the second male player to win a Grand Slam without dropping a set and the first one to achieve this feat at French Open (1973).
At the beginning of his career in 1966 Năstase travelled around the world competing with his good friend Ion Ţiriac. Together, they represented Romania in the Davis Cup competition, being three times runners up: in 1969, 1971 and 1972.

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Ivan Lendl
Ivan Lendl (born March 7, 1960) is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, he became a United States citizen in 1992. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s. He is considered to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Lendl captured eight Grand Slam singles titles. He competed in 19 Grand Slam singles finals, record surpassed by Roger Federer in 2009. He reached at least one Grand Slam final for 11 consecutive years, a record shared with Pete Sampras, with the male primacy of 8 consecutive finals in a slam tournament (a record shared with Bill Tilden at US Open). Before the formation of the ATP Lendl reached a record 12 year-end championships (equaled by John McEnroe). He won two WCT Finals titles and five Masters Grand Prix titles, with the record of 9 consecutive finals. He also won a record 22 Championship Series titles (1980–89) the precursors to the current ATP Masters 1000. Lendl first attained the world no. 1 ranking on February 28, 1983 and bolstered his claim to the top spot when he defeated John McEnroe in the 1984 French Open final. For much of the next five years, Lendl was the top ranked player until August 1990 (with a break from September 1988 to January 1989 when Mats Wilander was at the top). He finished four years ranked as the world's top player (1985–1987 and 1989) and was ranked no. 1 for a total of 270 weeks and set a new record previously held by Jimmy Connors, since broken by Pete Sampras and Roger Federer. In 2011 he became Andy Murray's coach.

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Jacco Eltingh
Jacco Folkert Eltingh (born 29 August 1970 in Heerde, Gelderland) is a former professional male tennis player and former World No. 1 doubles player from the Netherlands.
He is best remembered for his success in doubles with fellow countryman Paul Haarhuis. Together they managed to win all four Grand Slam doubles titles at least once.
Eltingh reached his career high singles ranking in February 1995, when he climbed to World No. 19. In his professional career he has won 4 singles and 44 doubles titles.
In November 2005, Eltingh was elected to the ATP Board as the player representative for Europe.

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Jack Kramer
John Albert Kramer (August 1, 1921 - September 12, 2009) was an American tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s. A World No. 1 player for a number of years, he is a possible candidate for the title of the greatest tennis player of all time. He was considered the father and the leading promoter of the professional tennis tours. He was a relentless advocate for the establishment of Open Tennis between amateur and professional players. Open Tennis lost by five votes in 1960, but became a reality in 1968. In 1970, he created the Mens Grand Prix points system. In 1972, he helped found the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) with Donald Dell and Cliff Drysdale, and was the first Executive Director. He was unpaid at his request. In that role, he was the leader of an ATP boycott of Wimbledon in 1973, for the banning of Nikola Pilić from the tournament. Tall and slim, he was the first world-class player to play "the Big Game", a consistent serve-and-volley game, in which he came to the net behind all of his serves, including the second serve. He was particularly known for his powerful serve and forehand, as well as his ability to play "percentage tennis", which he learned from Cliff Roche, a retired Railroad Engineer, at the Los Angeles Tennis Club (LATC). This strategy maximized his efforts on certain points and in certain games during the course of a match to increase his chances of winning. The key was to hold serve at all costs.

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Jaime Oncins
Jaime Oncins (born June 16, 1970 in São Paulo) is a former tennis player from Brazil.
Oncins represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he reached the quarter-finals before falling to Russia's Andrei Cherkasov. The right-hander won two individual career titles (Bologna and Buzios, both in 1992). He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on May 3, 1993, when he became World No. 34.
Oncins' best performance at a major was at the 1992 French Open, where he reached the Round of 16, losing to eventual finalist, Petr Korda. In the second round of the tournament, Oncins had a famous victory from two sets down against former World No. 1 and 3-time French Open champion, Ivan Lendl. Oncins beat Lendl 3–6, 3–6, 6–3, 6–2, 8–6. Oncins was also the last player that Jimmy Connors beat at the US Open. Connors beat Oncins 6–1, 6–2, 6–3 in the first round of the 1992 US Open, which was on Connors' 40th birthday.

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Jan Kodeš
Jan Kodeš (Czech: Jan Kodeš; born March 1, 1946, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a right-handed Czech former tennis player who won three Grand Slam events in the early-1970s.
Kodeš's greatest success was on the clay courts of the French Open. He won the title there in 1970, beating Željko Franulović in the final, and in 1971, defeating Ilie Năstase in the final. He also won Wimbledon on grass in 1973, although 13 of the top 16 players, and 81 players in total, did not play the tournament that year because of a boycott over the ILTF banning Nikola Pilic from that Wimbledon. Kodeš beat home favorite Roger Taylor in the semifinals 8–9, 9–7, 5–7, 6–4, 7–5 and Alex Metreveli in the final 6–1, 9–8, 6–3.
Kodeš never played the Australian Open but he was twice the runner-up at the US Open, in 1971 and 1973.
Kodeš reached his highest tour ranking of World No. 4 in September 1973. During his career, he won a total of 8 top-level singles titles and 17 doubles titles.
He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1990.

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Jared Palmer
Jared Eiseley Palmer (born July 2, 1971 in New York City, New York, USA) is a professional tennis player who won 28 professional doubles titles and one singles title in his career on the ATP Tour. He also won four double titles on the challenger's circuit (two in 1992 and two in 1993). Palmer turned professional in 1991 after winning the 1991 NCAA Division 1 singles title as a sophomore playing for Stanford University.
Palmer's biggest doubles titles came at the 1995 Australian Open and the 2001 Wimbledon. Palmer also won the ATP Masters Series event at Indian Wells in 2000. Additionally, Palmer reached the doubles final at two other Grand Slam events, Wimbledon in 1999 and the US Open in 2001. Palmer made the finals at six additional AMS events: Canada (1994 and 2001), Miami (1994 and 2002), Hamburg (1999) and Paris (1999).
Palmer was ranked the World No. 1 men's doubles player on March 20, 2000. He was also ranked as high as World No. 35 in singles. His lone singles title on the ATP tour came at (Pinehurst in 1994). Palmer retired from tennis in 2005 after earning US$3,471,164 in career prize money while on the ATP Tour.

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Jim Courier
James Spencer "Jim" Courier, Jr. (born August 17, 1970) is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from the United States. During his career, he won four Grand Slam singles titles, two at the French Open and two at the Australian Open. He holds the record for being the youngest man to have reached the finals of all four Grand Slam singles tournaments, at the age of 22 years and 11 months. He also won five Masters 1000 series titles.
Jim was raised in Dade City, Florida and though he excelled at youth sports in general, after a certain point it became clear that tennis was where his true talent lay. As a junior player in the 1980s, Courier attended the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy and won the prestigious Orange Bowl in 1986 and 1987, as well as the French Open junior doubles title in 1987.
Courier turned professional in 1988 and made his Grand Slam breakthrough at the 1991 French Open when he defeated Stefan Edberg and Michael Stich to reach his first Grand Slam final. In the final, he defeated his former Bollettieri Academy roommate Andre Agassi in five sets to win his first Slam. He made the quarterfinals of Wimbledon before losing to eventual champion Stich. At the US Open, he defeated defending champion Pete Sampras in the quarterfinals and then Jimmy Connors in the semifinals before losing the final to Edberg.

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Jim Pugh
Jim Pugh (born February 5, 1964 in Burbank, California) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. A doubles specialist, he won three Grand Slam men's doubles titles (two Australian Open, one Wimbledon) and five Grand Slam mixed doubles titles (three Australian Open, one Wimbledon, one US Open). Pugh reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in 1989.
Pugh was a member of the U.S. team that won the Davis Cup in 1990. Partnering with Rick Leach, he won the doubles rubbers in all four of the rounds which the U.S. played in that year and clinched the team's victory in the final with a win over Pat Cash and John Fitzgerald of Australia. Pugh has a 6–0 career record in the Davis Cup.
Pugh won 27 doubles titles (22 men's doubles and 5 mixed doubles). He also won one top-level singles title at Newport, Rhode Island in 1989. (His career-high singles ranking was World No. 37 in 1987.) Pugh won his last career doubles title at Los Angeles in 1992. Pugh was inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Hall of Fame.

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Jimmy Connors
James Scott "Jimmy" Connors (born September 2, 1952, in East St. Louis, Illinois) is a former world no. 1 tennis player from the United States. He is regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.
Connors won eight Grand Slam singles titles and two Grand Slam doubles titles with Ilie Năstase. He was also a runner-up seven times in Grand Slam singles, a doubles runner-up with Năstase at the 1973 French Open, and a mixed doubles runner-up with Chris Evert at the 1974 US Open. He held the top ranking for a then-record 160 consecutive weeks from July 29, 1974 to August 22, 1977 and an additional eight times during his career for a total of 268 weeks
In 1974, Connors became the second male in the open era to win three or more Grand Slam singles titles in a calendar year (Rod Laver being the first in 1969 and having been joined since by Mats Wilander, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic). Connors is also the only man to win U.S. Open singles championships on grass, clay, and hard courts.

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Joakim Nyström
Joakim "Jocke" Nyström (born 20 February 1963 in Skellefteå, Sweden) is a former top ten ranked tennis player from Sweden who won thirteen singles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest singles ranking on the ATP Tour on 31 March 1986, when he was ranked World No. 7 and was also ranked as high as World No. 4 in doubles that same year.
He was a singles quarter-finalist at both the French Open (1985) and US Open (1985, 1986) tournaments, the 1986 Wimbledon doubles champion with Mats Wilander, and a member of the winning 1985 and 1987 Davis Cup teams from Sweden. He qualified for The Masters year-end singles tournament in 1984, 1985, and 1986.
Nystrom was part of the generation of outstanding Swedish players in the 1980s and early 1990s, which included Anders Järryd, Jonas Svensson, Mikael Pernfors, Kent Carlsson, Stefan Edberg, Henrik Sundström, and Mats Wilander.
Since retiring from tennis, Nyström has served as Fed Cup captain for Sweden and as an assistant coach to Wilander with the Swedish Davis Cup team. Outside these commitments, he coaches both Finn Jarkko Nieminen and Austrian Jürgen Melzer.

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Johan Kriek
Johan Kriek (born April 5, 1958) is a South African-American professional male tennis player and founder of the Global Water Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to delivering clean water to the world's neediest communities. Kriek won two Australian Opens and reached the semifinals at the French Open and US Open, as well as the quarterfinals of Wimbledon. He won 14 professional singles and 8 doubles titles, reaching an all-time high ranking of no. 7 in the world. Kriek’s most memorable wins include victories over Andre Agassi, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, and Björn Borg.
Currently Kriek and his wife Daga Mrozek Kriek run the The Johan Kriek Tennis Academy in Virginia, where they reside with their daughter, Karolina.

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John McEnroe
John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. (born February 16, 1959) is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from the United States. During his career, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles (three at Wimbledon and four at the US Open), nine Grand Slam men's doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title. McEnroe also won a record eight season ending championships, comprising five WCT Finals titles and three Masters Grand Prix titles from twelve final appearances at these two events, a record he shares with Ivan Lendl. He posted the best single season win-loss record in the Open Era in 1984 at 96.47% (82/3). In addition he won 19 Championship Series top tier events of the Grand Prix Tour that were the precursors to the current Masters 1000.
He is best remembered for his shot-making artistry and superb volleying; for his famous rivalries with Björn Borg, Jimmy Connors and Ivan Lendl; for his confrontational on-court behavior which frequently landed him in trouble with umpires and tennis authorities; and for the catchphrase "You cannot be serious!" directed toward an umpire during a match at Wimbledon in 1981. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1999, and is regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.

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John Newcombe
John David Newcombe, AO, OBE (born 23 May 1944 in Sydney) is a former World No. 1 tennis player.
He won seven Grand Slam singles titles, A natural athlete, Newcombe played several sports as a boy until devoting himself to tennis. He was the Australian junior champion in 1961, 1962, and 1963 and was a member of Australia's Davis Cup winning team in 1964. He won his first Grand Slam title in 1965 by taking the Australian Championships doubles title with fellow Australian Tony Roche. That same year, the duo won the Wimbledon doubles title. They teamed to win the Australian doubles championship three more times, Wimbledon another four times and the US Championships in 1967, the French Championships in 1967, and the French Open in 1969. They won 12 Grand Slam titles, more than any other men's team in tennis history.
Newcombe's powerful serve and volley was the backbone of his attacking game. He frequently came up with a second-serve ace. He was the top ranked amateur in the world in 1967 according to Lance Tingay, although Rex Bellamy ranked him second behind Roy Emerson. As a professional, Newcombe was the joint world number one player in 1970 and 1971. In singles play, he was a two-time winner of the Australian Open, a three-time winner of Wimbledon, and a two-time winner of the US Open.

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Juan Carlos Ferrero
Juan Carlos Ferrero Donat (born 12 February 1980) is a professional tennis player, and a former World No. 1 player, from Spain. He captured the men's singles title at the 2003 French Open, and in September of that year, became the 21st player to hold the World No. 1 ranking. He was also the runner-up at the 2002 French Open and the 2003 US Open. His nickname is "Mosquito" due to his speed and his slight physical build.
Ferrero began playing tennis at age seven with his father, Eduardo, who often travels with son. He has two sisters, Ana and Laura and admires the play of former No. 1 and two-time Roland Garros champion Jim Courier. Ferrero's inspiration has been his mother, Rosario, who died from cancer when he was 17. In July 2007, he bought an old cottage in Bocairente, 50 minutes south from Valencia and refurbished it into "Hotel Ferrero", which features 12 luxury suites. He is also a joint owner of the Valencia Open 500 tournament together with David Ferrer. His fitness trainer is Miguel Maeso, and he is coached by Antonio Martinez (since 1989) and Salvador Navarro (since May 2008), who travels with him most of the time.

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Julian Knowle
Julian Knowle (born 29 April 1974) is an Austrian male professional tennis player. Being a born left-hander Knowle is one of now only few on the ATP Tour who plays his forehand, backhand and even volleys double-handed. He is Austria's most successful doubles player in history by reaching no. 6 in the ATP doubles ranking in January 2008; this attribute he has to share now with Jürgen Melzer, who reached no. 6 in the ATP doubles ranking in September 2010.
Knowle was a successful player on the ATP Challenger Series, winning the Challenger tournaments in Kyoto (1999), Caracas (2001), Graz (2001) and Andrezieux (2002) and reaching the finals in Yokohama (2000), Bristol (2000), Besançon (2000) and Graz (2003). He also won several Futures tournaments. Knowle's best ATP singles ranking was no. 86 in July 2002. He appeared last in the main draw of a singles tournament in the Graz Challenger in 2005 where he reached the quarter final.
Knowle reached his first of two Grand Slam finals at Wimbledon in 2004 together with Nenad Zimonjić of Serbia. Eventually the team was defeated in four sets by Jonas Björkman and Todd Woodbridge. The only Austrian to reach a final at Wimbledon before was Georg von Metaxa in doubles in 1938 where he too lost.

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Jürgen Melzer
Jürgen Melzer (born 22 May 1981 in Vienna) is an Austrian tennis player. He reached a career-high ranking of World No. 8 on 18 April 2011, and a doubles ranking of World No. 6 on 13 September 2010. He is the only current player on the ATP Tour to be ranked in the top 10 in both singles and doubles. He is a left-handed tennis player, but is right-handed in everyday life. He has a younger brother, Gerald Melzer, with whom he has played doubles in several tournaments.
In 1999, he won the boys' singles event at Wimbledon. For many years, he was known as one of the best players on the tour not to have progressed past the third round of a Grand Slam event. He ended this streak when he reached the semifinals of the French Open in 2010. He has also had success in doubles, winning the mens doubles event at Wimbledon in 2010 and the US Open in 2011 with Philipp Petzschner, as well as the mixed doubles event at Wimbledon in 2011 with Iveta Benešová.
He is endorsed by Adidas and Dunlop Sport. Melzer is currently coached by Joakim Nystrom.

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Ken Flach
Kenneth Eliot "Ken" Flach (born 24 May 1963 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. A doubles specialist, he won 4 Grand Slam men's doubles titles (2 Wimbledon and 2 US Open), and 2 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles (1 Wimbledon and 1 French Open). He also won the men's doubles Gold Medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, partnering Robert Seguso. Flach reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in 1985.
Flach played doubles on the US Davis Cup team from 1985–1991, compiling an 11–2 record. He was also a member of the US team which won the World Team Cup in 1985.
During his career, Flach won 36 doubles titles (34 men's doubles and 2 mixed doubles). His final career title was won in 1994 at Scottsdale, Arizona.
Prior to turning professional, Flach played tennis for Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, where he won the NCAA Division II singles championships in 1981, 1982 and 1983, and teamed-up with Seguso to reach the 1983 Division I doubles final.

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Ken Rosewall
Kenneth Robert ("Ken") Rosewall AM MBE (born 2 November 1934) is a former world top-ranking amateur and professional tennis player from Australia. He won 23 Majors including eight Grand Slam singles titles and before the Open Era a record fifteen Pro Slam titles (and completed the Pro Grand Slam in 1963). Rosewall won 9 slams in doubles with a career double grand slam. He is considered to be one of the top male tennis players of all time. He had a renowned backhand and enjoyed a long career at the highest levels from the early 1950s to the early 1970s. He was one of the two best male players for about nine years and was the World No. 1 player for a number of years in the early 1960s. He was ranked among the top 20 players, amateur or professional, every year from 1952 through 1977. Rosewall is the only player to have simultaneously held Pro Grand Slam titles on three different surfaces (1962-1963). He was the first male player during the open era to win a Grand Slam without dropping a set (1971 Australian Open).

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Kevin Curren
Kevin Melvyn Curren (born 2 March 1958 in Durban, South Africa) is a former professional tennis player. He played in two Grand Slam singles finals and won four Grand Slam doubles titles.
Curren became a naturalized American citizen in April 1985.
Curren played both tennis and cricket at Glenwood High School in Durban. He also quickly rose among the ranks as a junior at Montclair Lawn Tennis Club in Montclair, Durban. At college he played tennis for the University of Texas at Austin in the United States and won the NCAA singles title in 1979. He turned professional later that year, and won his first top-level singles title in 1981 in Johannesburg.
In 1983, Curren reached his first Grand Slam semifinal at Wimbledon, beating defending champion, Jimmy Connors, 6–3, 6–7, 6–3, 7–6, in the fourth round, a big upset. Curren lost to unseeded New Zealander Chris Lewis in a dramatic five-set semifinal match, 7-6, 4-6, 6-7, 7-6, 6-8, which allowed Lewis to become only the seventh unseeded player to reach the Wimbledon final. In 1984, Curren powered his way through the draw and played Mats Wilander in the final of the Australian Open, after making a comeback from two sets down to defeat Ben Testerman in the semifinals. Wilander won the match, played on the grass courts at Kooyong, in four sets, 6–7, 6–4, 7–6, 6–2.

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Kevin Ullyett
Kevin Ullyett (born 23 May 1972 in Salisbury, now Harare) is a former professional tennis player from Zimbabwe. His primary success on the tour was in men's doubles.
Ullyett won 34 doubles titles during his career, including two Grand Slams at the 2001 US Open and the 2005 Australian Open with countryman Wayne Black. He also competed in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, coming in at fifth place in 2004 with Black. In mixed doubles, Ullyett won the 2002 Australian Open with Daniela Hantuchová. He reached the final of Wimbledon in 2002 with Hantuchová, and the semifinals there in 2003 and 2005 with Hantuchová and Liezel Huber, respectively. He and Huber were also the runners-up at the 2005 Australian Open.
Black, Ullyett's compatriot and long-time doubles partner, retired at the end of 2005. He then played with Paul Hanley for two seasons, then with Jonas Björkman, who retired at the end of 2008, and finally with Brazilian Bruno Soares.
His father, Robert Ullyett, represented Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) at cricket and field hockey. He was part of the national team that competed at the 1964 Olympics (they beat New Zealand 2–1 and came 11th out of 15).

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Laurence Doherty
Hugh Laurence "Laurie" Doherty (8 October 1875 in Wimbledon, London – 21 August 1919 in Broadstairs, Kent) was an English tennis player and younger brother of Reggie Doherty. He was an Olympic gold medalist in the sport.
Doherty was the shorter of the two brothers, at 5-foot-10, who played championship tennis in their native England and at Wimbledon at the turn of the century.
He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he played for the Cambridge University Lawn Tennis Club.
Known as "Little Do", Doherty won Wimbledon five consecutive times in singles and eight times in doubles with his brother. In 1903, he became the first tennis player to win a Grand Slam tournament outside of his native country by beating defending champion William Larned at the U.S. Championships 6–0, 6–3, 10–8. He also won Queens indoor six times in a row (1901–1906) and The South of France Championships (Nice) seven times in a row (1900–1906). He gave up tennis for golf in 1906 and distinguished himself in that sport as well.

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Leander Paes
Leander Adrian Paes (Bengali: লিয়েন্ডার পেজ; born 17 June 1973) is an Indian professional tennis player who currently features in the doubles events in the ATP tour and the Davis Cup tournament. He is the sports ambassador of Haryana. Paes completed the career grand slam in men's doubles after winning the Australian Open in 2012. Having won seven doubles and six mixed doubles Grand Slam titles and finishing as runner up in numerous other Grand Slam finals, he is considered to be one of the greatest and most respected contemporary doubles and mixed doubles players in the world. He is among the most successful professional Indian tennis players and is also the former captain of the Indian Davis Cup team. He is the recipient of India's highest sporting honour, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, in 1996–1997; the Arjuna Award in 1990; and the Padma Shri award in 2001 for his outstanding contribution to tennis in India. Paes is the great-grandson of the Bengali poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt.

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Lew Hoad
Lewis Alan ("Lew") Hoad (Glebe, New South Wales, 23 November 1934 – 3 July 1994 in Fuengirola, Spain) was a former World No. 1 tennis player.
In his 1979 autobiography, Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter and great player himself, ranks Hoad as one of the 21 best players of all time. For five straight years, beginning in 1952, he was ranked in the world top 10 for amateurs, reaching the World No. 1 spot in 1956. Hoad turned professional in July 1957.
In 2012 Rod Laver, writing for Melbourne newspaper the Herald Sun, ranked Lew as the greatest player of the "Past Champions" era of Tennis. Laver described his strengths of "Power, Volleying and Explosiveness" as justification of his accolade.
Hoad won four majors as an amateur, and won the 1959 Tournament of Champions as a professional.
With his movie-star good looks, powerful physique, and outgoing personality, Hoad became a tennis icon in the 1950s. As Kramer says,
Strength played an important part of Hoad's game, as he often drove for winners rather than rallying and waiting for the right opportunity. Although he assaulted his opponents, he also had the skill to win the French Championships on the slower clay court. According to Kramer, "Hoad had the loosest game of any good kid I ever saw. There was absolutely no pattern to his game.... He was the only player I ever saw who could stand six or seven feet behind the baseline and snap the ball back hard, crosscourt. He'd try for winners off everything, off great serves, off tricky short balls, off low volleys. He hit hard overspin drives, and there was no way you could ever get him to temporise on important points."

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Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Glynn Hewitt ( /ˈleɪtən ˈhjuːɨt/; born 24 February 1981) is an Australian professional tennis player and former world no. 1, who has a current ATP ranking of 176.
Hewitt is the youngest male ever to be ranked no. 1 at the age of 20. His career achievements include winning the 2000 US Open men's doubles, the 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon men's singles, and back-to-back Tennis Masters Cup titles (2001 and 2002). In 2005, TENNIS Magazine put Hewitt in 34th place on its list of the 40 greatest tennis players since 1965.
Hewitt might well have followed in the footsteps of his Australian rules football-playing father Glynn. Instead, he became one of the youngest winners of an Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tournament when, as an almost unknown youngster, he won the 1998 Next Generation Adelaide International, defeating Andre Agassi in the semifinals. Only Aaron Krickstein winning Tel Aviv in 1983 and Michael Chang winning San Francisco in 1988 were younger when claiming their first ATP title. Hewitt then left Immanuel College to concentrate on his tennis career.. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.

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Lukáš Dlouhý
Lukáš Dlouhý (born April 9, 1983 in Písek) is a professional Czech tennis player on the ATP Tour. A doubles specialist, Dlouhý reached a career-high ranking of World Number 5 on June 22, 2009.
Dlouhý has been part of two long-term doubles partnerships, first with countryman and coach Pavel Vízner and actively with Leander Paes. He has reached numerous grand slam finals with each. At the 2006 French Open, he reached the third round of the men's singles event and the semifinals of the men's doubles tournament with Vízner. In 2007, Dlouhý and Vízner reached two grand slam finals at the 2007 French Open and 2007 U.S. Open.

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Mahesh Bhupathi
Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi is an Indian professional tennis player widely regarded as among the best doubles players in the world with 11 Grand Slam titles to his credit. In 1997, he became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam tournament (with Rika Hiraki). With his win at the Australian Open mixed doubles in 2006, he joined the elite group of eight tennis players who have achieved a career Grand Slam in mixed doubles.
Mahesh Bhupathi is best known as one of the top doubles players in the '90s and '00s. In 1999, Bhupathi won three doubles titles with Leander Paes, including Roland Garros and Wimbledon. He and Leander became the first doubles team to reach the finals of all four Grand Slams, the first time such a feat has been achieved in the open era and the first time since 1952. On 26 April of that year, they became the world no. 1 doubles team. Bhupathi also won the US Open mixed doubles with Ai Sugiyama of Japan.
In 2006, Bhupathi teamed with Martina Hingis in the Australian Open mixed doubles competition. Entering the tournament unseeded and as wildcards, the first-time pair defeated four seeded opponents along the way, while only dropping a single set throughout. Bhupathi and Hingis defeated the sixth-seeded team of Daniel Nestor and Elena Likhovtseva in straight sets, 6–3, 6–3, to capture the championship. It was the sixth mixed doubles Grand Slam for Bhupathi, and a first for Hingis. By winning the Australian Open, Bhupathi completed a career Grand Slam in mixed doubles.

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Manuel Orantes
Manuel Orantes Corral (born February 5, 1949 in Granada, Spain) was a tennis player in the 1970s and 1980s. He won the US Open in 1975, beating defending champion Jimmy Connors in the final. Orantes reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 2.
On September 7, 1975, he defeated top-seeded Jimmy Connors in the finals of the US Open at Forest Hills, New York to win his only Grand Slam title. A year earlier, he was runner-up to Björn Borg in the final of the French Open, taking a two-set lead before Borg won the last three sets for the loss of just two games.
Overall, he won 33 singles titles, including Rome (1972), Hamburg (1972 & 1975), Canada (1975) and the Masters in 1976. He also reached 35 finals, the biggest being the French Open (1974), Cincinnati (1973), Monte Carlo (1970), Canada (1973 & 1974), Rome (1973 & 1975), and Hamburg (1976 & 1977).
He was a stalwart member of the Spanish Davis Cup team from 1967 to 1980, earning a record of 60-27 in Davis Cup match play. He also was a member of the Spanish team which won the inaugural World Team Cup in 1978.

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Marat Safin
Marat Mikhailovich Safin (Russian: Марат Михайлович Сафин, Tatar: Марат Мөбин улы Сафин, Marat Möbin uğlı Safin) (born January 27, 1980) is a Russian politician and retired tennis player of Tatar descent. Safin won two grand slams and reached the World No. 1 ranking during his career. He was also famous for his emotional outbursts and sometimes fiery temper on court. Safin also holds the record for most broken racquets in a year with 87. Safin is the older brother of former World No. 1 WTA player Dinara Safina (Dinara Mikhailovna Safina) (Russian: Динара Михайловна Сафина), born April 27, 1986 in Moscow. They are the first brother-sister tandem in tennis history to both achieve No. 1 rankings.
Safin began his professional career in 1997, and held the No. 1 world ranking for a total of 9 weeks between November 2000 and April 2001. He won his first Grand Slam title at the 2000 U.S. Open after defeating Pete Sampras, and won the 2005 Australian Open, defeating Australian Lleyton Hewitt in the final. Safin helped lead Russia to Davis Cup victories in 2002 and 2006. Despite his dislike of grass courts, he became the first Russian man to reach the semi-finals of Wimbledon at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships. At the time of his final Grand Slam appearance at the US Open on September 2, 2009, Safin was No. 58 in the official world men's tennis rankings.

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Marc Rosset
Marc Rosset (born 7 November 1970 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a former professional tennis player from Switzerland who is best remembered for winning the men's singles Gold Medal at the 1992 Olympic Games.
Rosset first came to prominence as a junior tennis player who was ranked No. 4 in the world junior rankings in 1988.
Rosset turned professional in 1988 and won his first tour singles title in 1989 Geneva as a wildcard, defeating Guillermo Pérez Roldán. His first doubles title was also won in Geneva in 1991 partnering Sergi Bruguera.
1992 was the pinnacle of Rosset's career. Representing Switzerland at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, he defeated several big-name players on route to qualifying for the men's singles final, including Jim Courier, Goran Ivanišević, Wayne Ferreira, and Emilio Sánchez. In the final, he faced Spain's Jordi Arrese and won an exciting five-set match, 7–6, 6–4, 3–6, 4–6, 8–6, to claim the Gold Medal. Rosset also won the 1992 French Open men's doubles title partnering Jakob Hlasek. Rosset was also a member of the Swiss team which reached the final of the 1992 Davis Cup. Switzerland lost in the final to the United States, despite Rosset's winning a five-set singles rubber against Jim Courier (who was ranked the World No. 1 at the time).

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Marcelo Ríos
Marcelo Andrés Ríos Mayorga (born December 26, 1975) is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Chile. Nicknamed El Chino ("Chinaman") and El zurdo de Vitacura ("Vitacura's Lefty"), he became the first Latin American player to reach the top position on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles rankings in 1998. He held the World No. 1 ranking for six weeks. He has held the top ranking in both juniors and seniors. He was the first player to win the three clay-court Masters Series tournaments (Monte Carlo, Rome, and Hamburg) since the format began in 1990. He is the only male player in the open era to have been World No. 1 while never managing to win a Grand Slam singles tournament in his career. He did reach the 1998 Australian Open final, losing to Petr Korda.
He retired prematurely in 2004, after being overtaken by a back injury. He played his last ATP level tournament while only 27 years old at the 2003 French Open.
Ríos began playing tennis at the age of 11 at the Sport Francés golf club in Vitacura (Greater Santiago), adjacent to his house.

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Mark Edmondson
Mark Edmondson (sometimes mistakenly spelt Edmundson) (born 24 June 1954 in Gosford, New South Wales) is a former professional Australian male tennis player.
Edmondson is best remembered for his victory at the Australian Open in 1976, in which he was unseeded in the tournament and beat three-time Wimbledon champion John Newcombe. He is the last Australian to date to win the men's singles at the Australian Open. This win was particularly notable because he is the lowest-ranked winner of a major since the ATP rankings were introduced in 1973. He was ranked 212th at the time.
Eddo has won six career singles titles and 34 in doubles, including five major titles.
NH = tournament not held.
A = did not participate in the tournament.
NH = tournament not held.
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Mark Knowles
Mark Knowles (born September 4, 1971 in Nassau, Bahamas) is a former World number 1 doubles professional male tennis player from the Bahamas, who will go down as one of the greatest athletes of his country for his longevity within his sport and charitable contributions off the court.
After being awarded a scholarship to the Nick Bollettieri's famed academy, Knowles played three seasons at UCLA, where he earned All-American honors in both singles and doubles. His highest ATP singles ranking is World No. 96. He has been very successful in doubles, partnering Daniel Nestor, Mahesh Bhupathi, Brian MacPhie and Mardy Fish. With Nestor, Knowles won the 2002 Australian Open, the 2004 U.S. Open, and the 2007 French Open. He also won the 2009 Wimbledon mixed doubles title with Anna-Lena Grönefeld of Germany.
On July 5, 2006, Knowles participated in one of the longest matches in Wimbledon history, lasting 6 hours and 9 minutes.
Knowles played singles and doubles for the Bahamas Davis Cup team for more than 13 years and he is a five-time Olympian, reaching the quarterfinals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

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Martin Damm
Martin Damm (born 1 August 1972 in Liberec) is a former a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. He is best known as a doubles player (his highest ranking being No. 5 in the world in April 2007). His highest singles ranking was No. 42 in August 1997. Damm won a total of 40 titles in doubles, including one Grand Slam title. He reached 5 singles finals.
Married to Michaela Damm, two sons, one daughter: Maxmillian Martin (born 1 February 2002 i, Martin Joseph (born 30 September 2003), Laura Michelle Damm (born 3 December 2007) all were born in Bradenton, Florida USA. His sons are also playing tennis.
He played his last tournament in September 2011 at the US Open (with Stepanek), lost to Fleming/Hutchins 63 63.

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Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilova (Czech: Martina Navrátilová; born Martina Šubertová; October 18, 1956) is a retired Czech American tennis player and a former World No. 1. Billie Jean King said about Navratilova in 2006, "She's the greatest singles, doubles and mixed doubles player who's ever lived."
Navratilova won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 major women's doubles titles (an all-time record), and 10 major mixed doubles titles. She reached the Wimbledon singles final 12 times, including nine consecutive years from 1982 through 1990, and won the women's singles title at Wimbledon a record nine times. She and King each won 20 Wimbledon titles, an all-time record. Navratilova is one of just three women to have accomplished a career Grand Slam in singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles (called the Grand Slam "boxed set") a record she shares with Margaret Court and Doris Hart. She holds the open era record for most singles titles (167) and doubles titles (177). She recorded the longest winning streak in the open era (74 consecutive matches) and three of the six longest winning streaks in the women's open era. Navratilova, Margaret Court and Maureen Connolly share the record for the most consecutive major singles titles (six). Navratilova reached 11 consecutive major singles finals, second all-time to Steffi Graf's 13. In women's doubles, Navratilova and Pam Shriver won 109 consecutive matches and won all four major titles in 1984, i.e. the Grand Slam. Also the pair set an all time record of 79 titles together and tied Louise Brough Clapp's and Margaret Osborne duPont's record of 20 major women's doubles titles as a team. In addition she won the season ending WTA Tour Championships a record 8 times and made the finals a record 14 times and won the doubles title a record 11 times. Navratilova is the only person of either sex to have won eight different tournaments at least seven times.

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Marty Riessen
Marty Riessen (born December 4, 1941 in Hinsdale, Illinois) played amateur and professional tennis in the 1960s and 1970s. He was ranked as high as No. 11 in the world in singles on the ATP Rankings (achieving that ranking on September 4, 1974). Renowned for his doubles play, Riessen was also a regular doubles partner of Australian tennis great Margaret Court, winning six of his seven major mixed titles and a career grand slam alongside her. Additionally a winner of two men's doubles grand slams, his highest doubles ranking was No. 3 on March 3, 1980.
Marty Riessen played collegiate tennis at Northwestern University, where he reached the NCAA Singles finals three times: 1962 (falling to Rafael Osuna of USC); 1963 and 1964 (falling to Dennis Ralston of USC both times). He was a semifinalist at the NCAA doubles championship with Clark Graebner in 1963 and 1964.
He won six singles titles in the open era, with the biggest coming in Cincinnati in 1974. (He won numerous other pre-open era titles, including two other Cincinnati titles in the pre-Open Era.) He also reached the quarterfinals in singles at both the Australian Open and the US Open in 1971.

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Mats Wilander
Mats Wilander (born 22 August 1964, in Växjö, Sweden) is a former world no. 1 tennis player from Sweden. From 1982 through 1988, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles (three at the French Open, three at the Australian Open, and one at the US Open), and one Grand Slam men's doubles title (at Wimbledon). He won three of the four Grand Slam singles events in 1988 and finished that year ranked World No. 1. Although he never won the singles title at Wimbledon, Wilander twice won the Australian Open when that tournament was still played on grass courts. This makes Wilander one of only five men (along with Jimmy Connors, Andre Agassi, Rafael Nadal, and Roger Federer) to have won Grand Slam singles titles on grass courts, hard courts, and clay courts. He and Rafael Nadal are the only men in tennis history to have won at least two Grand Slam singles titles on each of the three surfaces. Wilander won his fourth career Grand Slam singles title at the age of 20, the youngest man in history to have achieved that feat. In addition he also won eight Championship Series titles (1983–88) the precursors to the current Masters 1000.

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Michael Chang
Michael Te-Pei Chang (born February 22, 1972) is a former American professional tennis player. He is best remembered for becoming the youngest-ever male player to win a Grand Slam singles title when he won the French Open in 1989 at the age of 17.
Known for his on-court speed and fighting spirit, Chang is considered by many observers to have been one of the best tennis counterpunchers of all time. He also introduced the jumping two-handed backhand. He remained in the top 10 of the ATP world rankings for several years in the 1990s, peaking at world no. 2.
Chang was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2008.
Chang first came to the tennis world's attention as an outstanding junior player who set numerous "youngest-ever" records. He won his first national title, the USTA Junior Hard Court singles, at the age of 12. Aged 13, he won the Fiesta Bowl 16s. Two years later, aged 15, Chang won the USTA Boys 18s Hardcourts and the Boys 18s Nationals, and became the youngest player to win a main draw match at the US Open when he defeated Paul McNamee in four sets in the first round. A month later he reached the semifinals at Scottsdale, Arizona to become the youngest player to reach the semifinal stage of a top-level professional tournament. He won his first top-level singles title in 1988 at San Francisco, aged 16 years and 7 months.

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Michael Stich
Michael Detlef Stich (born October 18, 1968 in Pinneberg, Schleswig-Holstein) is a former professional tennis player from Germany. He is best remembered for winning the men's singles title at Wimbledon in 1991. He also won the men's doubles titles at both Wimbledon and the Olympic Games, and was a singles runner-up at the 1994 US Open and the 1996 French Open. Stich won 18 singles titles and 10 doubles titles. His career-high singles ranking was World No. 2 in 1993.
Stich was raised in Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein. He turned professional in 1988 and won his first top-level singles title in 1990 at Memphis, Tennessee.
Stich won Wimbledon in 1991. He defeated the defending champion and World No. 1 Stefan Edberg in the semifinals, 4–6, 7–6, 7–6, 7–6, without breaking his service once. Then in the final, he beat his compatriot and three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker in straight sets.
In 1992, Stich teamed with John McEnroe to win the men's doubles title at Wimbledon in a five-set and five-hour final that stretched into Monday (the day after the tournament normally ends) and ended with a 19–17 final set. Then at the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Stich teamed with Becker to win the men's doubles gold medal. Stich also won the 1992 Grand Slam Cup, defeating Michael Chang in the final.

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Michaël Llodra
Michaël Llodra (born May 18, 1980) is a French professional tennis player. He is a prolific doubles player with three Grand Slam championships, and has also had success in singles.
Llodra was born in Paris, where his father Michel played for football club Paris Saint-Germain. A left-hander, his serve-and-volley style is modelled on that of his idol, Stefan Edberg.
Llodra and his wife Camille were married on September 9, 2003, and have two children, a daughter, Manon (born March 23, 2004) and a son, Teo (born September 5, 2007). He is a well-known supporter of French football club Paris Saint-Germain, and has often been seen wearing the club's shirt prior to tennis games.
Llodra reached his first Grand Slam final, the Australian Open Men's Doubles, with Fabrice Santoro. Unseeded, they lost to Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor. During the semifinals, Llodra inadvertently hit a bird.
Llodra won his first Grand Slam title, the Australian Open Men's Doubles, with Fabrice Santoro. Their opponents in the final were once again Knowles and Nestor.

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Neale Fraser
Neale Andrew Fraser AO MBE (born 3 October 1933) is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Australia, born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of a Victorian judge.
He began playing tennis at age 11 and attended St Kevin's College, Melbourne (Class of 1950) where he became Captain of Tennis at the school.^{[citation needed]}
Fraser won the Wimbledon singles in 1960 and the US Championships singles in 1959 and 1960. Fraser failed to win the Australian Championships, finishing as runner-up on three occasions (1957, 1959 and 1960) and held a championship point in the 1960 final. Team play – doubles and Davis Cup – proved nearest to Fraser's heart. In doubles, Fraser took three Australian (1957, 1958, and 1962), French (1958, 1960, and 1962) and US (1957, 1959, and 1960) titles, and two Wimbledon (1959, and 1961) with three different partners, Ashley Cooper, Lew Hoad, and Roy Emerson.
Fraser was also successful in the mixed doubles, winning the Australian in 1956 with Beryl Penrose, Wimbledon in 1962, and the US from 1958 to 1960 with Margaret Osborne duPont. He holds the distinction of having won the US National (now Open) singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles in 1959 and then successfully defending those titles a year later. Since that time, no one has equalled that feat in a single year, let alone successively.

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Nenad Zimonjić
Nenad Zimonjić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Зимоњић, Serbian pronunciation: [nê̞nad zîmo̞ɲit͡ɕ]; born June 4, 1976 in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a professional Serbian tennis player who is currently ranked World No. 3 in men's doubles. He is the second tennis doubles player from Serbia to hold the World No.1, after Slobodan Živojinović.
Zimonjić turned pro in 1995 and remained relatively unknown outside his native country until a surprise victory in the Mixed Doubles at the 2004 Australian Open. Paired for the first time with Russian Elena Bovina, he beat defending champions Martina Navratilova and Leander Paes in straight sets in an hour and nine minutes 6–1, 7–6 . Alongside Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia, he won the 2006 French Open crown with a straight-sets victory over Daniel Nestor and Elena Likhovtseva, 6–3, 6–4. At the 2006 Wimbledon Championships, Zimonjić reached the final of the Men's Doubles (alongside France's Fabrice Santoro) and the quarter-finals of the Mixed Doubles.

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Nikola Pilić
Nikola "Niki" Pilić (born 27 August 1939) and professionally known as Nikola Pilic, is a retired Croatian professional tennis player who competed for SFR Yugoslavia. He was one of the Handsome Eight.
Pilić was born in Split to Krsto Pilić and Danica Tomić-Ferić just before the outbreak of World War II, in what was then Littoral Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Young Nikola took up tennis during the summer of 1952. Thirteen years of age at this point, he began practicing on the clay courts of Firule tennis club in parallel to studying shipbuilding at the streamlined high school in Split. Upon graduating he attempted to enroll at a community college (viša škola) in Zagreb, but due to not meeting the entrance criteria ended up in Novi Sad where he studied administration (viša upravna škola).
Pilić was central to the 1973 Wimbledon Boycott. That year the Yugoslav tennis federation alleged that Pilić had refused to represent them in a Davis Cup tie. Pilić denied the charge, but was suspended by the federation, and the suspension was upheld by the ILTF, meaning that he could not enter major tournaments. In protest at the suspension, 81 of Pilić's fellow professionals, including 13 of the 16 seeds, withdrew from the 1973 Wimbledon championship.

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Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic (Serbian: Новак Ђоковић or Novak Đoković; pronounced [nɔ̂ʋaːk dʑɔ̂ːkɔʋitɕ] ( listen); born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player who has been ranked World No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) since 4 July 2011. He has won five Grand Slam singles titles: the 2008, 2011 and 2012 Australian Open, the 2011 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2011 US Open. By winning three Majors in 2011, Djokovic became the sixth male player in the open era to win three Majors in a calendar year.
He is the first male player representing Serbia to win a Major singles title and the youngest player in the open era to have reached the semifinals of all four Grand Slam events, separately and consecutively. Amongst other titles, he won the Tennis Masters Cup in 2008 and was on the team which won the 2010 Davis Cup. He also won the bronze medal in singles at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. He has won 11 Masters 1000 series titles placing him joint fourth on the all time list. Djokovic has quickly moved up in the rankings of history. Tennis Channel ranked him number 40 , and former player Pat Cash said he is one of the greatest ever.

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Owen Davidson
Owen Davidson (born 4 October 1943 in Melbourne) was a professional tennis player of the 1960s and 1970s.
Partnering Billie Jean King, Davidson managed to win eight grand slam mixed doubles titles. Davidson was one of very few to win a calendar year slam for mixed doubles, when he won the Australian Championships, French Championships, Wimbledon and the U.S. Championships all in the same year-1967.
At the Australian Championships, Davidson teamed with Lesley Turner Bowrey and with King to win the other three grand slams. His best grand slam singles result was at Wimbledon in 1966, when he reached the semifinals. He is also the 1972 Australian Open and the 1973 US Open men's doubles champion, partnering John Newcombe and Ken Rosewall. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island in 2010. He was inducted into the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame at the Rod Laver Arena Melbourne on 26 January 2011 (Australia Day).

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Pancho Segura
Pancho "Segoo" Segura, born Francisco Olegario Segura on June 20, 1921, is a former leading tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s, both as an amateur and as a professional. In 1950 and 1952, as a professional, he was the World Co-No. 1 player. He was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, but moved to the United States in the late 1930s and is a citizen of both countries. He is the only player to have won the US Pro title on three different surfaces (which he did consecutively from 1950-1952).
Segura almost died at his premature birth, then suffered from hernias and malaria. No more than 5'6" (1.68 m) tall, he had badly bowed legs from the rickets that he also had as a child. In spite of this, he had extremely fast footwork and a devastating two-handed forehand that his frequent adversary and tennis promoter Jack Kramer once called the greatest single shot ever produced in tennis.
By the time he was 17 Segura had won a number of titles in Latin America and was offered a tennis scholarship by Gardnar Mulloy, Tennis Coach, at the University of Miami. He won the National Collegiate Singles Championship for three straight years: in 1943, 1944, and 1945. He was also the No. 3 ranked American player during those years. He won the U.S. Indoors in 1946 and U.S. Clay Courts in 1944 but was never able to win the United States Championships at Forest Hills, NY although he reached the semifinals a number of times.

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Pat Cash
Patrick Hart "Pat" Cash (born 27 May 1965) is a retired Australian professional tennis player who won the men's singles title at Wimbledon in 1987.
Cash first came to the tennis world's attention as a junior player in the early 1980s. He was awarded a scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport. He was ranked the top junior player in the world in 1981, and in 1982 he won the junior titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open. He turned professional in 1982 and won his first top-level singles title that year in Melbourne.
Cash established a reputation on the tour as a hard-fighting serve-and-volleyer and for wearing his trademark black-and-white checked headband and his cross earring.
In 1983, Cash became the youngest player to play in a Davis Cup final. He won the decisive singles rubber against Joakim Nyström as Australia defeated Sweden 3–2 to claim the cup.
In 1984, Cash reached the men's singles semi-finals at both Wimbledon and the US Open. He lost in three sets in the Wimbledon semi-finals to John McEnroe and was defeated in the semi-finals at the US Open by Ivan Lendl, who won their match in a fifth set tiebreaker. This day regarded as the greatest day in US open history featured the 3 set thriller women's final Evert v Navratilova and a McEnroe v Connors 5 set marathon creating the day now known as 'Super Saturday'

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Patrick Rafter
Patrick "Pat" Michael Rafter (born 28 December 1972) is an Australian former World No. 1 tennis player. He twice won the men's singles title at the US Open and was twice the runner-up at Wimbledon. Rafter was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006. He was known for his natural serve-and-volley style of play. He became the first man in the Open Era to win Montreal/Toronto, Cincinnati and the US Open in the same year (1998); this achievement has been dubbed the American Summer Slam.
Rafter turned professional in 1991 and won his first career singles title in 1994 in Manchester. Prior to 1997, this was the only ATP singles title he had won.
Rafter's breakthrough came in 1997. At that year's French Open he reached the semifinals, falling in four sets to Sergi Bruguera. Then he surprised many by winning the US Open, defeating Greg Rusedski in a four-set final and Andre Agassi and Michael Chang, among others, in earlier rounds; he was the first non-American to win the title since Stefan Edberg in 1992. This was his first Grand Slam title, and catapulted him ahead of Chang to finish the year ranked #2 in the world, behind only Pete Sampras. The unexpected nature of his U.S. Open title led many, including Hall-of-famer and four-time U.S. Open champion John McEnroe to criticise Rafter as a "one-slam wonder".

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Paul Haarhuis
Paul Vincent Nicholas Haarhuis (born 19 February 1966) is a Dutch former professional tennis player. He is a former World No. 1 doubles player. He won six Grand Slam men's doubles titles, five with Jacco Eltingh and one with Yevgeny Kafelnikov.
Haarhuis was born on 19 February 1966 in Eindhoven in the Netherlands. He played tennis for Florida State University.
In June 1995, he reached his highest singles ranking of World No. 18. He is best remembered for his success in doubles with fellow countryman Jacco Eltingh, winning five Grand Slam titles together. In his career he has won one singles title and 54 doubles titles.
He is, together with Sergi Bruguera, Richard Krajicek, Leander Paes, and Michael Stich, the only player of the same generation with a positive head-to-head record against Pete Sampras: 3–1.
After retiring, he won the end of the year Blackrock Masters Tennis tournament in the Royal Albert Hall in 2005 and 2006, beating legends such as Goran Ivanišević and John McEnroe. He completed a hat-trick of victories in the tournament in 2007, beating Frenchman Guy Forget.

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Pete Sampras
Peter "Pete" Sampras (/ˈsæmprəs/; born August 12, 1971) is a retired Greek–American tennis player and former world number 1. During his 15-year tour career, he won 14 Grand Slam singles titles and became recognized as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.
Sampras debuted on the professional tour in 1988 and played his last top-level tournament in 2002 when he won the US Open, defeating rival Andre Agassi in the final. He was the year-end world no. 1 for six consecutive years (1993–1998), a record for the open era. His seven Wimbledon singles championships are also an Open Era record. He spent 286 weeks at no. 1, the most of any male player. His five US Open singles titles is an Open Era record shared with former world no. 1 players Jimmy Connors and Roger Federer. Sampras is the last American male to win Wimbledon (2000) and the ATP World Tour Finals (1999).

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Peter McNamara
Peter McNamara (born 5 July 1955, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a retired Australian tennis player.
He won five singles and nineteen doubles titles during his professional career. A right-hander, McNamara reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 14 March 1983 when he became World No. 7. He is also the former coach of Bulgarian tennis professional Grigor Dimitrov.

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Petr Korda
Petr Korda (born 23 January 1968) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. He is best known for winning the Australian Open in 1998 and for testing positive for the banned substance, nandrolone, following a match at Wimbledon that same year.
Korda was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
He first came to the tennis world's attention as a promising junior player. In 1985, he partnered with fellow Czech Cyril Suk to win the boy's doubles title at the French Open. Korda and Suk ranked the joint-World No. 1 junior doubles players that year.
Korda turned professional in 1987. He won his first career doubles title in 1988, and his first top-level singles title in 1991. Korda was involved in four Grand Slam finals during his career — two in singles and two in doubles.
In 1990, Korda and Goran Ivanišević finished runners-up in the men's doubles at the French Open. In 1992, he rose to the men's singles final at the French Open, where he was defeated in straight sets by defending champion Jim Courier 7–5, 6–2, 6–1. In 1996, he teamed-up with Stefan Edberg to win the men's doubles title at the Australian Open.

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Phil Dent
Phillip "Phil" Dent, born on 14 February 1950, in Sydney, Australia, is a former professional tennis player. Dent's high water mark as a pro singles player was reaching the Australian Open final in 1974, which he lost to Jimmy Connors 7–6, 6–4, 4–6, 6–3. Dent was also the Men's Doubles champion at the Australian Open in 1975 (with teammate John Alexander), and the Mixed Doubles champion at the US Open in 1976 (with teammate Billie Jean King).
Dent also reached five more Men's Doubles finals in Grand Slam Tournaments, finishing second in the Australian Open in 1970, 1973, and 1977, and second in the French Open in 1975 and 1979. Dent was a member of the Australian tennis teams that won the Davis Cup in 1977 and the World Team Cup in 1979.
Before turning professional, Dent won the Boy's Singles titles at both the Australian Open tournament and at the French Open in 1968.
During his professional career, Dent won 3 top-level singles titles (in Sydney and in Brisbane, Australia, both in 1979, and the former also in 1971) and 25 doubles titles. His career-high singles ranking was World No. 17 (in 1977). Dent retired from professional tennis in 1983.

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Philipp Petzschner
Philipp Petzschner (born on March 24, 1984 in Bayreuth, Germany) is a professional German tennis player. He is known for his hard-hitting and bursts of speed around the court, and now for controversy in the US Open Men's Doubles Final which he won partnered with Jurgen Melzer against the Polish team of Fystenberg/Matkowski. He is sponsored by Wilson for his racquets and Adidas for his attire and shoes. His career high rank was No. 9 for doubles which he achieved on April 4, 2011.
He entered the 2007 US Open as a Qualifier entry. He defeated fellow German player Benjamin Becker in the first round 2–6, 3–6, 6–4, 6–4, 6–1 before losing to other fellow German player Tommy Haas in four sets.
In 2008 he managed to qualify for the Wimbledon Championships where he fell to Croatian Mario Ančić in the second round 1–6, 4–6, 7–6, 6–4, 3–6.
In October, he captured his first ATP Title in Vienna after he won his qualifying round matches and defeating top seeded Stanislas Wawrinka in the first round.
At the 2009 Australian Open he was defeated by Brian Dabul in the first round. In Paris at the second Grand Slam of the year Petzschner reached the second round after defeating Canadian Peter Polansky in five sets. There he lost to Spaniard Fernando Verdasco in straight sets. At the 2009 Gerry Weber Open he took revench for the second round defeat in Paris against Fernando Verdasco. He won in three sets before losing to Olivier Rochus from Belgium in the second round. At the 2009 Wimbledon Championships, he beat Rajeev Ram in the first round, then Mischa Zverev in the second round, but lost to Lleyton Hewitt in the third round. After this he reached the last sixteen in Washington, D.C. and Montreal. Petzschner was defeated by Juan Carlos Ferrero in the second round of the 2009 US Open after leading 2:0 sets. He was not able to defend his title in Vienna as he had to pull out due to an injury.

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Pierre Barthès
Pierre Barthès (born 13 September 1941) is a French retired professional tour tennis player.
Born in Béziers, Barthès was one of the Handsome Eight and reached a career-high ATP singles ranking in 1974 of World No. 54, though this is not a true indication, as he was one of the Top 20 players in 1971 before the creation of the ATP ranking system. He was also a US Open doubles champion in 1970, partnering Nikola Pilić.

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Pieter Aldrich
Pieter ("Piet") Aldrich (b. 7 September 1965, in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. A doubles specialist, he won 2 Grand Slam men's doubles titles (1 Australian Open and 1 US Open). Aldrich reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in 1990.
Aldrich won the first of 9 career doubles titles in 1988 at Charleston, South Carolina.
In 1990 Aldrich won the men's doubles titles at both the Australian Open and the U.S. Open, partnering his fellow South African player Danie Visser. The pair were also doubles runners-up at Wimbledon that year.
1990 also saw Aldrich win his first (and only) top-level singles title at Newport, Rhode Island. His career-high ranking in singles was World No. 64, which he achieved in 1988.
Aldrich won the final doubles title of his career in 1992 in Johannesburg.
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Rafael Nadal
Rafael "Rafa" Nadal Parera (Catalan: [rəˈfɛɫ nəˈðaɫ pəˈɾeɾə]; Spanish: [rafaˈel naˈðal paˈɾeɾa]) (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. As of 28 May 2012 (2012 -05-28)^[update], he is ranked No. 2 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time; his success on clay has earned him the nickname "The King of Clay", and has prompted many experts to regard him as the greatest clay court player of all time.
Nadal has won ten Grand Slam singles titles, including a record six French Open titles (tied with Bjorn Borg), the 2008 Olympic gold medal in singles, a record 21 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments, and also was part of the Spain Davis Cup team that won the finals in 2004, 2008, 2009 and 2011. He completed the Career Grand Slam by winning the 2010 US Open, being the seventh player in history, and the youngest in the open era, to achieve it. He is the second male player to complete the Career Golden Slam (winner of the four grand slams and the Olympic Gold medal) after only Andre Agassi.

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Raúl Ramírez
Raúl Ramírez (born 20 June 1953 in Ensenada, Baja California) is a retired Mexican professional tennis player. He was active during the 1970s and 1980s, and is regarded as one of the great all-around players of the modern era. Ramírez was also the first player to finish first in both singles and doubles Grand Prix point standings, accomplishing the feat in 1976. He attended and played tennis at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California.
Ramirez was ranked as high as World No. 4 (achieving this ranking on November 7, 1976) and he is one of the all time leading doubles winners spending 61 weeks ranked World No. 1 in doubles, beginning April 12, 1976. He won 19 singles titles, including titles at the ATP Masters Series events in Rome (1975) and Monte Carlo (1978).
He won 60 doubles titles, including Wimbledon (1976), the French Open (1975 & '77), and at ATP Masters Series events in Cincinnati (1978), Canada (1976, ’77 & ’81), Monte Carlo (1979), Paris (1977), and Rome (1974, ’75, ’76 & ’77).

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René Lacoste
Jean René Lacoste (July 2, 1904 - October 12, 1996) was a French tennis player and businessman. He was nicknamed "the Crocodile" by fans because of his tenacity on the court; he is also known worldwide as the namesake of the Lacoste tennis shirt, which he introduced in 1929.
Lacoste was one of The Four Musketeers with Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon, and Henri Cochet, French tennis stars who dominated the game in the 1920s and early 1930s. He won seven Grand Slam singles titles in the French, American, and British championships but never made the long trip to Australia to play in their championships. He was the World No. 1 player for both 1926 and 1927.
In 1933, Lacoste founded La Société Chemise Lacoste with André Gillier. The company produced the tennis shirt which Lacoste often wore when he was playing, which had a crocodile (often thought to be an alligator) embroidered on the chest.
In 1963, Lacoste created a sensation in racquet technology by patenting the first tubular steel tennis racquet. Until then, racquets had almost always been made of wood. This new racquet's strings were attached to the frame by a series of wires, which wrapped around the racquet head. The racquet was marketed in Europe under the Lacoste brand, but in the United States it was marketed by Wilson Sporting Goods and achieved critical acclaim and huge popularity as the Wilson T-2000, used by American tennis great Jimmy Connors.

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Richey Reneberg
Richey Reneberg (born October 5, 1965 in Phoenix, Arizona) was an American professional male tennis player.
He attended Southern Methodist University, where he was a three-time All-American and reached the 1986 National Collegiate Athletics Association finals.
He was the Association of Tennis Professionals Newcomer of the Year when he turned professional in 1987.
He and his partner Jim Grabb were ranked World No. 1 in doubles and won the 1992 US Open doubles title. His career-high singles ranking in the ATP Tour was World No. 20. He won a second doubles Grand Slam with Jared Palmer at the 1995 Australian Open.
The right-hander represented the United States at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was defeated as the eleventh seed in the first round by India's Leander Paes. He also played on the American Davis Cup team.
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Rick Leach
Rick Leach (b. December 28, 1964, in Arcadia, California) is a former professional tennis player and a coach from the United States. A doubles specialist, he won 5 Grand Slam men's doubles titles (3 Australian Open, 1 Wimbledon, 1 US Open), and 4 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles (2 Australian Open, 1 Wimbledon, 1 US Open). Leach reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in 1990.
Leach was a member of the US team which won the Davis Cup in 1990. Partnering Jim Pugh, he won the doubles rubbers in all four of the rounds which the US played in that year, and clinched the team's victory in the final with a win over Pat Cash and John Fitzgerald of Australia.
Prior to turning professional, Leach became the first four-time Division 1 All-American in singles and doubles at the University of Southern California (where he played for his father Dick), and won the NCAA doubles title in 1986 and 1987. He is currently the coach of the St. Louis Aces. His brother, Jon Leach, is married to tennis star Lindsay Davenport.

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Robert Seguso
Robert Arthur Seguso (born May 1, 1963 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. A doubles specialist, he won 4 Grand Slam men's doubles titles (2 Wimbledon, 1 French Open and 1 US Open). He also won the men's doubles Gold Medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, partnering Ken Flach. Seguso reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in 1985. He won a total of 29 career doubles titles between 1984 and 1991 .
Seguso played doubles with Flach on the US Davis Cup team from 1985–91, compiling an 10–2 record. He was also a member of the US team which won the World Team Cup in 1985.
Prior to turning professional, Seguso played tennis for Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, where he was an NCAA Division II singles finalist in 1982 and Division I doubles finalist in 1983.
Seguso married the Canadian tennis player Carling Bassett in 1987. The couple have three children – sons Holden John (born in 1988) and Ridley Jack (1991), and daughter Carling Junior (1992).

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Rod Laver
Rodney George "Rod" Laver MBE (born 9 August 1938) is an Australian former tennis player who holds the record for most singles titles won in history of tennis, with 200 career titles. He was the World No. 1 player for seven consecutive years, from 1964 to 1970 (from 1964 to 1967 in the professional circuit) . He is the only tennis player to have twice won the Grand Slam (all four major singles titles in the same year) – first as an amateur in 1962 and second as a professional in 1969. He is the only male player and was the first player, male or female, to have won the Grand Slam during the open era (in 1988 Steffi Graf also achieved this feat). Laver won a total of twenty major tournaments, including eleven Grand Slam tournament titles and nine Pro Slam titles. In 1967, Laver also won the Professional Grand Slam. In addition he won nine Championship Series titles (1970–75) the precursors to the current Masters 1000. Laver won and excelled on all the surfaces of his time (grass, clay and wood/parquet), and was ranked as the best professional player in the world during the five-year period he was excluded from the Grand Slam tournaments. Rod Laver is the second and last male player to win each major title twice in his career. Only Roy Emerson and Margaret Court had won all four Grand Slam tournaments twice before Laver in the history of tennis. Laver is regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Within his slams there are also 6 in doubles and 3 in mixed doubles.

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Roger Federer
Roger Federer (German pronunciation: [ˈfeːdəʁɐ]) (born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss professional tennis player who held the ATP No. 1 position for a record 237 consecutive weeks from 2 February 2004 to 18 August 2008. Federer has occupied the #1 ranking for 285 overall weeks, one week short of the record 286 weeks held by Pete Sampras. As of 28 May 2012, he is ranked World No. 3. Federer has won a men's record 16 Grand Slam singles titles. He is one of seven male players to capture the career Grand Slam and one of three (with Andre Agassi and Rafael Nadal) to do so on three different surfaces (clay, grass, and hard courts). He is the only male player in tennis history to have reached the title match of each Grand Slam tournament at least five times and also the final at each of the nine ATP Masters 1000 Tournaments. Many sports analysts, tennis critics, and former and current players consider Federer to be the greatest tennis player of all time.
Federer has appeared in an unprecedented 23 career Grand Slam tournament finals, including a men's record ten in a row, and appeared in 18 of 19 finals from the 2005 Wimbledon Championships through the 2010 Australian Open, the lone exception being the 2008 Australian Open. He holds the record of reaching the semifinals or better of 23 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments over five and a half years, from the 2004 Wimbledon Championships through the 2010 Australian Open. At the 2012 Australian Open, he reached a record 31st consecutive Grand Slam quarterfinal. During the course of his run at the 2012 French Open in Roland Garros, Federer eclipsed Jimmy Connors long standing record of 233 match wins in Grand Slam tournaments when he defeated Adrian Ungur in a second round match.

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Roscoe Tanner
Roscoe Tanner (born October 15, 1951) is an American former professional tennis player, who turned pro in 1972 and reached a career high world singles ranking of World No. 4 on July 30, 1979.
Tanner was famous for his big left-handed serve, which was clocked at 153 mph at Palm Springs in 1978 during the final against Raúl Ramírez. He is also known for winning the men's singles title at the first of two Australian Open tournaments held in 1977. Tanner won the tournament held in January, Vitas Gerulaitis won the December tournament. Tanner also reached the Wimbledon final in 1979, losing the final to Björn Borg in five sets.
Tanner has been in the news in recent years for his legal problems.
Leonard Roscoe Tanner III was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, graduated from the Baylor School, and with teammate Sandy Mayer, helped to lead Stanford University's rise to the number one ranking in collegiate tennis in 1973. Tanner played number one singles, with Mayer playing number two. The team also featured Rick Fisher, Stanley Pasarell, Jim Delaney, James "Chico" Hagey, Gery Groslimond, Pat DuPre, Tim Noonan and Paul Sidone. Of the winning 1973 Stanford tennis team, Tanner, Mayer and DuPre were all brothers in the Zeta Psi fraternity.

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Ross Case
Ross Case (aka "The Snake", born 1 November 1951, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia) was an Australian tennis player. His career-high singles ranking was World No. 14.
With Geoff Masters he won two Grand Slam titles: the 1974 doubles at the Australian Open and the 1977 doubles at Wimbledon. He was also runner up in 1976 at Wimbledon. He played in the Australian Davis Cup team in 1971, 1972, 1976, 1978 and 1979.

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Roy Emerson
Roy Stanley Emerson (born 3 November 1936) is an Australian former World No. 1 tennis player who won 12 Grand Slam tournament singles titles and 16 Grand Slam tournament men's doubles titles. He is the only male player to have won singles and doubles titles at all four Grand Slam events. His 28 Major titles are an all-time record for a male player. Most of his titles were won in the final years of the period where the Major tournaments were open only to amateur players, just before the start of the open era when professionals were admitted into tennis's most prestigious events. Roy Emerson is the first male player to win each Major title at least twice in his career. In the history of tennis, only Margaret Court achieved this feat before him. He is one of only seven men to win all four Majors in his career (the others are Fred Perry, Don Budge, Rod Laver, Andre Agassi, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal). He was the first male player to win 12 Majors (this was surpassed by Pete Sampras (14) and Roger Federer (16)). Tennis critics and former and current tennis players consider Emerson to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time.

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Sandon Stolle
Sandon Stolle (born 13 July 1970 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is a former professional male tennis player from Australia and former World No. 2 in doubles.
Stolle is the son of former Australian tennis champion Fred Stolle. He was born in Sydney and now lives in Aventura, Florida, United States .
In his career Stolle has won twenty-two ATP doubles titles, including one Grand Slam title (1998 U.S Open) and four Grand Slam finals.
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Sergio Casal
Sergio Casal Martínez (born 8 September 1962 in Barcelona, Spain) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. During his career, he won three Grand Slam doubles titles, as well as the men's doubles Silver Medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Casal turned professional in 1981. He won his first top-level doubles title in 1983 at Aix-en-Provence. He captured a total of 47 men's doubles titles during his career. Partnering his fellow Spaniard Emilio Sánchez, he won the men's doubles titles at the US Open in 1988 and the French Open in 1990. The pair were also the men's doubles runners-up at Wimbledon in 1987 and won the Silver Medal for Spain at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. Casal also won the US Open mixed doubles title in 1986, partnering Raffaella Reggi. Casal's career-high doubles ranking was World No. 3.
Casal also won one top-level singles title at Florence in 1985. He was a singles runner-up at Aix-en-Provence in 1983, and at the Paris Open in 1986. His career-high singles ranking was World No. 31.

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Slobodan Živojinović
Slobodan Živojinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Живојиновић, Serbian pronunciation: [slɔbɔ̌dan ʒiʋɔjǐːnɔʋit͡ɕ]; born on July 23, 1963) is a retired Serbian tennis player who competed for SFR Yugoslavia. Together with Nenad Zimonjić he is the only tennis player from Serbia to be the World No. 1 in doubles. As a singles player, he reached the semi-finals of the 1985 Australian Open and the 1986 Wimbledon Championships, achieving a career-high ranking of World No. 19. Živojinović is president of Serbia Tennis Federation.
Živojinović represented SFR Yugoslavia as the number fifteen seed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, where he was defeated in the second round by France's Guy Forget.
The right-hander won two career singles titles (Houston, 1986 and Sydney, 1988), as well as eight doubles titles. He reached his highest singles ATP ranking on October 26, 1987, when he became World No. 19.
Živojinović's most notable Grand Slam results were two semifinals. As an unseeded player at the 1985 Australian Open, he memorably beat John McEnroe in a gruelling 5-set quarterfinal to reach the semi-finals (where he lost in straight sets to Mats Wilander). The next year, at the 1986 Wimbledon semifinal, again as an unseeded player, he lost to Ivan Lendl in a hard fought five-set match.

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Stan Smith
Stanley Roger "Stan" Smith (born December 14, 1946 in Pasadena, California) is a former 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 (over Jan Kodeš in the final), and 1972 Wimbledon (over Ilie Năstase in the final). 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 and the Pasadena Tennis Patrons.
Smith played collegiate tennis at the University of Southern California, under Coach George Toley, where he was a three-time All-American and won the 1968 NCAA singles championship and the 1967 and 1968 doubles titles. At USC, Smith was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

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Stefan Edberg
Stefan Bengt Edberg (born 19 January 1966 in Västervik, Sweden) is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player (in both singles and doubles) from Sweden. A major proponent of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam men's doubles titles between 1985 and 1996. He also won one season-ending championship title, the Masters Grand Prix. In addition he won four Masters Series titles and four Championship Series titles.
Edberg first came to the tennis world's attention as a junior player. He won all four Grand Slam junior titles in 1983 to become the first-ever player to achieve the "Junior Grand Slam". Later that year as a professional, Edberg won his first career doubles title in Basel. Edberg accidentally caused the death of Dick Wertheim with an errant serve during the 1983 US Open.
In 1984, Edberg won his first top-level singles title in Milan. Edberg also won the tennis tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics when the sport was an exhibition event and partnered with fellow Swede Anders Järryd to reach the final of the US Open. Edberg also reached the French Open doubles final with Järryd in 1986 and consequently was World No. 1 in doubles in that year.

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Steve Denton
Steve Denton (born September 5, 1956, in Kingsville, Texas) is a former professional tennis player for the ATP Tour. He is currently the head men's tennis coach at Texas A&M University.
After becoming an all-American at the University of Texas in 1978, Denton spent nine seasons playing for the ATP Tour. He won the 1982 US Open doubles championship with Kevin Curren, ranking No. 2 in doubles and No. 11 in singles in the world tennis rankings. He won a total of 20 professional doubles titles, and appeared in the singles final of the Australian Open in 1981 and 1982. In 1984, his 138 miles per hour (222 km/h) serve broke the world record, which would not be broken until 13 years later. After retiring from the pros, he moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, coaching several local junior tennis teams. In 2001, he debuted his college coaching career at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, where he led his teams to three conference championships and a first-ever NCAA tournament appearance. In 2006, he resigned to become the head coach at Texas A&M University.

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Ted Schroeder
Frederick Rudolph "Ted" Schroeder (July 20, 1921 – May 26, 2006) was an American tennis player who won the two most prestigious amateur tennis titles, Wimbledon and the U.S. National. He was the No. 1-ranked American player in 1942 and the No. 2 for 4 consecutive years, 1946 through 1949. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, but developed as a tennis player in Southern California under the guidance of Perry T. Jones.
Schroeder was an almost exact contemporary of Jack Kramer, having been born only 10 days earlier in 1921, and they began to play against each other as top boy players in the mid-1930s. Schroeder's career is similar to Kramer's in that they both became top players whose careers were then interrupted by World War II. They were also life-long friends and at least once Schroeder mortgaged his house on short notice in order to be able to lend an unsolicited $25,000 to Kramer. Schroeder, however, attended college for 4 years, the first two at the University of Southern California (USC), and the last two at Stanford University, while Kramer, apparently, spent only two years at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. After the war Kramer proved himself to be slightly better than Schroeder in the amateur ranks. Kramer then turned professional, where he immediately established himself as the best player in the world by demolishing the pro champion, Bobby Riggs, by 69 victories to 20 losses in the 1948 tour.

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Thomas Johansson
Karl Thomas Conny Johansson (born 24 March 1975), commonly known as Thomas Johansson, is a former Swedish professional tennis player. He is a former Australian Open singles champion and Olympic silver medalist in doubles.
Johansson began to play tennis at age five with his father, Krister. In 1989, became European 14s singles champion and won doubles title (with Magnus Norman). Even when he injured his right elbow while playing Orange Bowl 16s in 1991, he reached the final, losing to Spain's Gonzalo Corrales. He finished No. 10 in the 1993 world junior rankings.
That same year he joined the pro tour for the first time. He has managed to win 9 top-level singles titles and 1 doubles title, including the 1999 Canada Masters (df. Yevgeny Kafelnikov) and the 2002 Australian Open Grand Slam championship, which he unexpectedly won (on his 25th attempt at winning a Grand Slam title) after defeating his heavily favored opponent, Marat Safin, in four sets, 3–6 6–4 6–4 7–6. Johansson became the first Swedish player to win a Slam since Stefan Edberg won the 1992 U.S. Open title, and the first Swede to claim the Australian since Mats Wilander in 1988.

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Todd Woodbridge
Todd Andrew Woodbridge, OAM (born 2 April 1971) is an Australian former tennis player. He was born in Sydney and went to school in the ACT at Lyneham High School (The Best High School of all) then turned professional in 1988. He is best known for his successful Doubles partnerships with Mark Woodforde and later Jonas Björkman. He is among the most successful doubles players of all time, having won 16 Grand Slam men's doubles titles (nine Wimbledons, three US Opens, three Australian Opens and one French Open), and a further six Grand Slam mixed doubles titles (three US Opens, one Wimbledon, one French Open, one Australian Open). Additionally, he was a gold medalist with Woodforde at the 1996 Summer Olympics to complete a career Golden Slam. In total he has won a record 83 ATP doubles titles.
In 2002, he was inducted into the Australian Institute of Sport 'Best of the Best'.
He is best known as one of the top doubles players in the world for most of the 1990s and into the early 2000s (decade). His primary doubles partnerships were first with fellow Australian Mark Woodforde and later with Swede Jonas Björkman. Woodbridge and Woodforde are often referred to as "The Woodies" in the tennis world. Woodbridge also had a career high singles ranking of 19 after reaching the semifinals of Wimbledon in 1997, beating Patrick Rafter before losing to Pete Sampras. He did however have the distinction of being one of the few players to beat Sampras at Wimbledon, knocking him out in the first round in 1989.

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Tom Okker
Thomas S. "Tom" Okker (born 22 February 1944) is a former Dutch tennis player. He was ranked among the world's top 10 singles players for seven consecutive years, 1968–74, reaching a career high of world no. 3 in 1969. He also was ranked world no. 1 in doubles in 1969.
Okker was the Dutch champion from 1964 through 1968. In 1968, he turned professional and won his first important tournaments in singles and in doubles (with Marty Riessen) at the Italian Open. At Wimbledon, Okker reached the quarterfinals in 1968 and the semifinals in 1978. He achieved his best result in a Grand Slam tournament in 1968, when he lost the final of the US Open to Arthur Ashe, 14–12, 5–7, 6–3, 3–6, 6–3.
Okker won 31 singles titles. As of 2000, 20 years after his retirement, Okker's 31 career open tennis singles victories (combined ATP tour, Grand Prix, and WCT tournaments) still ranked 20th all-time. Among Okker's singles titles were the 1970 German Open and Belgian Open, 1973 Dewar Cup and Canadian Open, and 1974 WCT Rothmans. He also was the runner-up in 24 singles tournaments.

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Tomáš Šmíd
Tomáš Šmíd (born May 20, 1956 in Plzeň) is a former tennis player from Czechoslovakia, who won nine singles titles during his career. In doubles, he won fifty-four titles and was the world's highest-ranking doubles player from December 17, 1984, to August 11, 1985. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP ranking on July 16, 1984, when he became number 11 in the world. Šmíd participated in 31 Davis Cup ties for Czechoslovakia from 1977–1989, posting a 20-10 record in doubles and a 22-15 record in singles.

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Tony Roche
Anthony "Tony" Dalton Roche (born 17 May 1945) is a former professional Australian tennis player, native of Tarcutta. He played junior tennis in the New South Wales regional city of Wagga Wagga. He won one Grand Slam singles title and twelve Grand Slam doubles titles, reaching a career-high singles ranking of World No. 2. He is also very well known for coaching multi-Grand Slam winning World No. 1s, Ivan Lendl, Patrick Rafter, Roger Federer, Lleyton Hewitt and former World No. 4, Jelena Dokić.
Roche grew up playing in Australia under the tutelage of Harry Hopman, who also coached other Australian tennis players such as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall.
A left-hander, Roche had a successful singles and double career. He won one singles Grand Slam tournament, the 1966 French Open at Roland Garros. He was five times the runner-up at Grand Slam tournaments: the French Championships in 1965 and 1967, Wimbledon in 1968, and the US Open in 1969 and 1970. With John Newcombe, he won 12 Grand Slam men's doubles tournaments.

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Tony Trabert
Marion Anthony (Tony) Trabert (born August 16, 1930 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a retired American tennis champion and long-time tennis author, TV commentator, instructor, and motivational speaker. In his 1979 autobiography Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter and great player himself, included Trabert in his list of the 21 greatest players of all time.
Trabert was a stand-out athlete in Tennis and Basketball at the University of Cincinnati, and was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity. In 1951, he won the NCAA Championship Singles title. He was coached by George Menefee. He was also a starter on the basketball team. Previously, at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, he had been state singles champion three times and played guard on the 1948 basketball team that won the district championship.
Trabert honed his tennis skills on the courts of the Cincinnati Tennis Club with the help of another member of that club, fellow International Tennis Hall of Famer Billy Talbert. Talbert became Trabert's mentor. The first win Trabert posted over Talbert came in the final of Cincinnati's international tennis tournament (now known as the Cincinnati Masters) in 1951. Both were enshrined into the Cincinnati Tennis Hall of Fame in 2002. Barry MacKay was enshrined in 2003.

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Wayne Black
Wayne Hamilton Black (born 17 November 1973 in Salisbury, now Harare) is a former professional male tennis player from Zimbabwe.
Black is the son of Don and Velia Black and the brother of Cara Black and Byron Black, also professional tennis players. He attended the University of Southern California and was an All-American in singles and doubles (1993, 1994). Black retired from the doubles circuit at the end of 2005. He won two men's doubles Grand Slam titles (2001 U.S. Open and 2005 Australian Open) with compatriot Kevin Ullyett and two Grand Slam mixed doubles titles (2002 French Open and 2004 Wimbledon) with sister Cara.
As a junior Wayne played league tennis for Highlands Sports Club in Harare.
Black reached his career-high doubles ranking of 4 on 31 January 2005, following his second Grand Slam title win at the 2005 Australian Open with compatriot Kevin Ullyett. Black, like his two siblings, was a doubles specialist.
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Wesley Moodie
Wesley Moodie (born 14 February 1979) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. Wesley is now retired.
He began to play tennis at an early age and won the South African Junior Masters tournament in February 1996.
Moodie played college tennis in the United States from January 1997 until May 2000, originally for Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM), and then from September 1998 at Boise State (BSU). He turned professional in June 2000.
Moodie first came to public notice when he reached the 3rd round at Wimbledon in 2003, losing to Sébastien Grosjean, whom he beat in the USA later that year. Moodie won his first top-flight tour singles event in capturing the 2005 Japan Open, beating #5 seed Mario Ančić in the final 1–6, 7–6, 6–4 after saving two match points in the tie-break (he also saved four match points in the semifinal against Jarkko Nieminen).
Along with Stephen Huss, who formerly played college tennis for the Auburn Tigers, he became the first qualifier to win the Wimbledon men's doubles championship in 2005, beating the #6, 9, 3, 1 & 2 seeds in the process.

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Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kafelnikov (Russian: Евгений Александрович Кафельников; IPA: [jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈkafʲɪlʲnʲɪkəf]; born 18 February 1974) is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Russia. He won two Grand Slam singles titles, which were the 1996 French Open and the 1999 Australian Open. He also won four Grand Slam doubles titles, and the men's singles gold medal at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. He also helped Russia win the Davis Cup in 2002. He is the last man to have won both the singles and men's doubles titles at the same Grand Slam tournament, which he did at the 1996 French Open.
Since retiring, Kafelnikov cashed three times at the 2005 World Series of Poker. He also played golf on the European PGA tour at the 2005 and 2008 Russian Open. He stated that he was there not to make up the numbers, before finishing last by 20 odd shots in 2005 (and second to last in 2008).
He now works as a commentator for Russian TV covering tennis. During the 2008 Miami Masters, Kafelnikov coached Marat Safin in the absence of Hernán Gumy.

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Country	United States
Residence	Santa Barbara, California
Born	(1952-09-02) September 2, 1952 (age 59) East St. Louis, Illinois
Height	5 ft 9¹⁄₂ in (1.77 m)
Weight	150 lb (68 kg; 11 st)
Turned pro	1972, international debut in 1970
Retired	1996
Plays	Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	US$8,641,040
Int. Tennis HOF	1998 (member page)
Career record	1241–277 (81.75% at ATP Tour, Grand Prix tour, WCT tour, and Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	148 including 109 listed by the ATP Players' Guide
Highest ranking	No. 1 (July 29, 1974)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	W (1974)
French Open	SF (1979, 1980, 1984, 1985)
Wimbledon	W (1974, 1982)
US Open	W (1974, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1983)
Other tournaments
Tour Finals	W (1977) WCT Finals (1977,1980)
Doubles
Career record	173–78 (68.9% at ATP Tour, Grand Prix tour, WCT tour, and Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	15
Highest ranking	No. 370 (March 1, 1993)
Grand Slam Doubles results
French Open	F (1973)
Wimbledon	W (1973)
US Open	W (1975)
Last updated on: August 28, 2007.

James Scott "Jimmy" Connors (born September 2, 1952, in East St. Louis, Illinois)^[1] is a former world no. 1 tennis player from the United States. He is regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.^[2]^[3]

Connors won eight Grand Slam singles titles and two Grand Slam doubles titles with Ilie Năstase. He was also a runner-up seven times in Grand Slam singles, a doubles runner-up with Năstase at the 1973 French Open, and a mixed doubles runner-up with Chris Evert at the 1974 US Open. He held the top ranking for a then-record 160 consecutive weeks from July 29, 1974 to August 22, 1977 and an additional eight times during his career for a total of 268 weeks

In 1974, Connors became the second male in the open era to win three or more Grand Slam singles titles in a calendar year (Rod Laver being the first in 1969 and having been joined since by Mats Wilander, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic). Connors is also the only man to win U.S. Open singles championships on grass, clay, and hard courts.

Connors' career win-loss record of 1241-277 (81.75%) is third after Björn Borg (82.7%) and Ivan Lendl (81.8%), and he holds the record for total number of wins for a male player.

Connors won three year-end championship titles, including two WCT Finals and one Masters Grand Prix. He also won 18 Championship Series titles (1973–1984). He was the first male player to rank no. 1 for more than 200 weeks in total and the first male player to be no. 1 for more than five years in total. He is the only male player to win more than 100 singles titles during his career. He also holds the records for the most Grand Slam semifinals (31) and most Grand Slam quarterfinals (41) reached.

Career [link]

Early years [link]

Connors grew up in Belleville, Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. He played in his first U.S. Championship, the U.S. boys' 11-and-under of 1961, when he was only eight years old. Connors' mother, Gloria, took him to Southern California to be coached by Pancho Segura, starting at age 16, in 1968.^[4]

In 1970, Connors recorded his first significant victory in the first round of the Pacific Southwest Open in Los Angeles, defeating Roy Emerson.

In 1971, Connors won the NCAA singles title while attending the University of California, Los Angeles and attaining All-American status. He turned professional in 1972 and won his first tournament at Jacksonville.

Connors was acquiring a reputation as a maverick in 1972 when he refused to join the newly formed Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), the union that was embraced by most male professional players, in order to play in and dominate a series of smaller tournaments organized by Bill Riordan, his manager and a clever promoter. However, Connors played in other tournaments and made his first big splash by winning the 1973 U.S. Pro Singles, his first significant title, toppling Arthur Ashe in a five-set final, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 3-6. 6-2.

Peak years [link]

Connors won eight Grand Slam singles championships: five U.S. Opens, two Wimbledons, one Australian Open. He did not participate in the French Open during his peak years (1974–78) only played in two Australian Opens in his entire career, winning it in 1974 and reaching the final in 1975.

Connors reached the final of the US Open in five straight years from 1974 through 1978, winning three times with each win being on a different surface (1974 on grass, 1976 on clay and 1978 on hard). He reached the final of Wimbledon four out of five years during his peak (1974, 1975, 1977 and 1978). Despite not being allowed to play in the French Open in his prime, he was still able to reach the semifinals four times in his later years.

In 1974, Connors was by far the most dominant player. He had a stunning 99-4 record that year and won 15 tournaments, including all the Grand Slam singles titles except the French Open. The French Open did not allow Connors to participate due to his association with World Team Tennis (WTT). However, he won the Australian Open, defeating Phil Dent in four sets. He also beat Ken Rosewall in straight sets in the finals of both Wimbledon and the US Open. His exclusion from the French Open may have prevented him from becoming the first man player since Rod Laver to win all four Major singles titles in a calendar year.

In the open era, Connors is one of only six men to win three or more Grand Slam singles titles in a calendar year. Others include: Rod Laver who won the Grand Slam in 1969; Mats Wilander won the Australian, French and US Open in 1988; Roger Federer won the Australian, Wimbledon and US Open in 2004, 2006 and 2007; Rafael Nadal won the French, Wimbledon, and US Open in 2010; and Novak Djokovic won the Australian, Wimbledon, and US Open in 2011.

Connors reached the world no. 1 ranking on July 29, 1974 and held it for 160 consecutive weeks (a record until it was surpassed by Roger Federer on February 26, 2007). He was considered the year-end no. 1 player from 1974 through 1978 and held the world no. 1 ranking for a total of 268 weeks during his career.

Contemporaries and rivalries [link]

Contemporaries included Eddie Dibbs, Brian Gottfried, Raúl Ramírez, Harold Solomon, Dick Stockton, Roscoe Tanner, and Guillermo Vilas. Older rivals included Arthur Ashe, Phil Dent, Rod Laver, Ilie Năstase, John Newcombe, Manuel Orantes, Ken Rosewall, and Stan Smith. Younger opponents included Björn Borg, Vitas Gerulaitis, Ivan Lendl, and John McEnroe.

Björn Borg [link]

During his best years of 1974 through 1978, Connors was challenged the most by Borg, with twelve matches on tour during that timeframe. Borg won only four of those meetings, but two of those wins were in the Wimbledon finals of 1977 and 1978. Connors lost his stranglehold on the top ranking to Borg in early 1979 and eventually ended up with a tour record of 8-15 against Borg. However, Borg is four years younger than Connors and had a losing record against Connors until Borg won the last ten times they met. Head to head in major championship finals, they split their four meetings, Borg winning two Wimbledons (1977 & 1978) and Connors winning two US Opens {(1976 & 1978).

Ilie Năstase [link]

Nastase was another rival in Connors' prime, with Connors winning five of their eight meetings from 1974 through 1978. Interestingly, they only met once in 1974, which was Connors' best year. The two would team up to win the doubles championships at the 1973 Wimbledon and the 1975 US Open.

Manuel Orantes and Guillermo Vilas [link]

As the world no. 1, Connors went 7-2 against Orantes, but Orantes beat Connors in the final of the 1975 US Open. Connors was 2-2 against Vilas during those years, but Vilas won the 1977 US Open final against Connors.

Rod Laver and John Newcombe [link]

In 1975, Connors won two highly-touted "Challenge Matches", both arranged by Riordan and televised nationally by CBS Sports from Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The first match, in February and billed as $100,000 ($431,911 today) winner-takes-all, was against Laver. Connors won that match, 6–4, 6–2, 3–6, 7–5. In April, Connors met Newcombe in a match billed as a $250,000 winner-takes-all. Connors won the match, 6–3, 4–6, 6–2, 6–4. Connors would end his business relationship with Riordan later in 1975.

Connors played Newcombe in only two tour events from 1974 to 1978, with Newcombe winning the 1975 Australian Open and Connors taking the 1978 Sydney Indoor. Connors won all three meetings with Rod Laver in tour events.

Maverick [link]

In 1974, Connors and Riordan began filing lawsuits, amounting to $10 million, against the ATP and its president, Arthur Ashe, for allegedly restricting his freedom in the game. The lawsuits stemmed from the French Open banning Connors in 1974 after he had signed a contract to play World Team Tennis (WTT) for the Baltimore Banners. Connors was seeking to enter the French Open, but the ATP and French officials opposed WTT because of scheduling conflicts, so the entries of WTT players were refused between 1974 and 1978. Connors dropped Riordan and the lawsuits shortly thereafter^[when?].

Despite this turnabout, Connors remained an independent character. At Wimbledon in 1977, he refused to participate in a parade of former champions to celebrate the tournament's centenary and was booed when he played in the final the following day. He lost in five sets to Borg, who a month later was able briefly to interrupt Connors's long hold on the world no. 1 ranking. Connors also irritated sponsors and tennis officials by shunning the end-of-year Masters championship from 1974 through 1976. However, he entered this round-robin competition in 1977 when it moved to New York City. Although Connors lost a celebrated late-night match to Vilas, 4-6, 6-3, 5-7, he took the title by defeating Borg in the final, 6–4, 1–6, 6–4.

Later years [link]

Connors had shining moments against John McEnroe and Ivan Lendl, both of whom rose to prominence after Connors peaked in the mid-1970s. He would continue to compete against much younger players and had one of the most remarkable comebacks for any athlete when he reached the semifinals of the 1991 US Open at the age of 39.

John McEnroe [link]

Connors' best win during 1979-81 was the 1980 WCT Finals, when he defeated the defending champion, John McEnroe. McEnroe and Borg were battling for the top spot in those years, while Connors played the role of the spoiler. However, in 1982, at age 29, Connors was back in the Wimbledon singles final, where he faced McEnroe, who by then was established firmly as the world's top player. Connors recovered from being three points away from defeat in a fourth-set tie-break (at 3–4) to win the match, 3–6, 6–3, 6–7(2), 7–6(5), 6–4, and claim his second Wimbledon title, eight years after his first. Although Connors' tour record against McEnroe is 14-20, McEnroe is six years younger than Connors and had a losing record against Connors until he won 12 out of their last 14 meetings. Head to head in major championship finals, they split their two meetings, Connors winning the 1982 Wimbledon and McEnroe winning the 1984 Wimbledon.

Ivan Lendl [link]

Connors defeated another of the next generation of tennis stars, Ivan Lendl, in the 1982 U.S. Open final and soon regained the world no. 1 ranking. Connors has a tour record of 13-22 against Lendl, but Lendl is seven years younger than Connors and had a losing record against Connors until he won their last seventeen matches from 1984 through 1992, well after Connors' prime. Head to head in major championship finals, Connors took both meetings, winning the 1982 and 1983 U.S. Opens.

A low point in Connors' career occurred on February 21, 1986, when he was defaulted in the fifth set of a semifinal match against Lendl at the Lipton International Players Championships in Boca Raton, Florida after being angered by the officiating. He paid a $20,000 fine and accepted a ten-week suspension from the professional tour, starting March 30. He was forced to miss the French Open. He subsequently lost in the first round at Wimbledon and the third round at the US Open, a tournament where he had reached at least the semifinals for twelve consecutive years.

Respected elder [link]

Connors gradually transformed himself into a respected elder of the tennis world in the later years of his career. He continued to compete forcefully against much younger men until he was well into his 41st year.

In the fourth round of the 1987 Wimbledon Championships, Connors defeated Mikael Pernfors, ten years his junior, 1–6, 1–6, 7–5, 6–4, 6–2, after having trailed 4–1 in the third set and 3–0 in the fourth set. In July 1988, Connors ended a four-year title drought by winning the Sovran Bank Tennis Classic in Washington, D.C. It was the 106th title of his career. Connors had played in 56 tournaments and 12 finals since his previous victory in the Tokyo Indoors against Lendl in October 1984.

At the 1989 US Open, Connors defeated the third seed (and future two-time champion), Stefan Edberg, in straight sets in the fourth round and pushed sixth-seeded Andre Agassi to five sets in a quarterfinal.

His career seemed to be at an end in 1990, when he played only three tournament matches (and lost all three), dropping to no. 936 in the world rankings. However, after surgery on his deteriorating left wrist, he came back to play 14 tournaments in 1991. An ailing back forced him to retire from a five-sets match in the third round of the French Open against Michael Chang, the 1989 champion. Ironically, Connors walked off the court after hitting a winner against Chang.

The defining moment of Connors' later career came when he made an improbable run to the 1991 US Open semifinals at the age of 39. On his birthday, he defeated 24-year-old Aaron Krickstein, 3–6, 7–6(8), 1–6, 6–3, 7–6(4), in 4 hours and 41 minutes, coming back from a 2–5 deficit in the final set. Connors then defeated Paul Haarhuis in the quarterfinals before suffering a defeat to Jim Courier.

Connors participated in his last major tournament in the 1992 US Open, where he beat Jaime Oncins, 6–1, 6–2, 6–3, in the first round, before losing to Lendl (then ranked no. 7), 6–3, 3–6, 2–6, 0–6, in the second round.

In September 1992, Connors played Martina Navratilova in the third Battle of the Sexes tennis match at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. Connors was allowed only one serve per point and Navratilova was allowed to hit into half the doubles court. Connors won, 7–5, 6–2.

However, this would not be the end of his playing career. As late as June 1995, three months shy of his 43rd birthday Connors beat Sébastien Lareau, 6–4, 7–6, and Martin Sinner, 7–6, 6–0, to progress to the quarterfinals of the Halle event in Germany. Connors lost this quarterfinal, 6–7, 3–6 to Marc Rosset. Connors' last match on the main ATP tour came in April 1996, when he lost, 2–6, 6–3, 1–6, to Richey Reneberg in Atlanta.^[5]

Distinctions and honors [link]

Connors won a male record 109 singles titles.^[6] He also won 15 doubles titles (including the men's doubles titles at Wimbledon in 1973 and the US Open in 1975).

In his 1979 autobiography, Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter and great player himself, ranked Connors as one of the 21 best players of all time.^[7]

Connors won more matches (1,337) than any other male professional tennis player in the open era. His career win-loss record was 1,337–285 for a winning percentage of 82.4. He played 401 tournaments and through many years it was a record until Fabrice Santoro overcame it in 2008.^[8]

Connors was the only player to win the US Open on three different surfaces: grass, clay, and hard. Connors was also the first male tennis player to win Grand Slam singles titles on three different surfaces: grass (1974), clay (1976), and hard (1978).

Connors reached the semifinals or better of Grand Slam Men's Singles events a total of 31 times, an all time record. This achievement is particularly remarkable considering that he entered the Australian Open Men's Singles only twice and that he did not enter the French Open Men's Singles for five of his peak career years. Roger Federer holds the record for most consecutive semifinal appearances at these events and is one semifinal away from equalling Connors' total career number in this category.

Connors was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1998 and Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Hall of Fame in 1986.

Playing style [link]

Larry Schwartz on ESPN.com said about Connors, "His biggest weapons were an indomitable spirit, a two-handed backhand and the best service return in the game. It is difficult to say which was more instrumental in Connors becoming a champion. ... Though smaller than most of his competitors, Connors didn't let it bother him, making up for a lack of size with determination."^[9] Of his own competitive nature Connors has said, "[T]here's always somebody out there who's willing to push it that extra inch, or mile, and that was me. (Laughter) I didn't care if it took me 30 minutes or five hours. If you beat me, you had to be the best, or the best you had that day. But that was my passion for the game. If I won, I won, and if I lost, well, I didn't take it so well."^[1]

His on-court antics, designed to get the crowd involved, both helped and hurt his play. Schwartz said, "While tennis fans enjoyed Connors' gritty style and his never-say-die attitude, they often were shocked by his antics. His sometimes vulgar on-court behavior—like giving the finger to a linesman after disagreeing with a call or strutting about the court with the tennis racket handle between his legs; sometimes he would yank on the handle in a grotesque manner and his fans would go wild or groan in disapproval—did not help his approval rating. During the early part of his career, Connors frequently argued with umpires, linesmen, the players union, Davis Cup officials and other players. He was even booed at Wimbledon – a rare show of disapproval there—for snubbing the Parade of Champions on the first day of the Centenary in 1977."^[9] His brash behavior both on and off the court earned him a reputation as the brat of the tennis world. Tennis commentator Bud Collins nicknamed Connors the "Brash Basher of Belleville" after the St Louis suburb where he grew up.^[10] But Connors himself thrived on the energy of the crowd, positive or negative, and manipulated and exploited it to his advantage in many of the greatest matches of his career.

Connors was taught to hit the ball on the rise by his teaching-pro mother, Gloria Connors, a technique he used to defeat the opposition in the early years of his career. Gloria sent her son to Southern California to work with Pancho Segura at age 16. Segura advanced Connors' game of hitting the ball on the rise which enabled Connors to reflect the power and velocity of his opponents back at them. Segura was the master strategist in developing Jimmy's complete game. In the 1975 Wimbledon final, Arthur Ashe countered this strategy by taking the pace off the ball, giving Connors only soft junk shots (dinks, drop shots, and lobs) to hit.

Ashe and Connors did not get along, as Ashe frequently criticized Connors for playing in lucrative exhibitions instead of representing his country in Davis Cup competition.^{[citation needed]} Connors' racial insensitivity also played a role; while playing Ashe in an exhibition in South Africa, he derisively complained that the pro-Ashe crowd reminded him of Harlem.^{[citation needed]} He was denied the opportunity to play the French Open and sued Ashe, et al., due to Ashe's role in the ban.^{[citation needed]} They settled out of court after Ashe defeated Connors in the 1975 Wimbledon final. The enmity Connors held for Ashe continued even after Ashe's death, as Connors refused to attend the US Open Champions Ceremony during the christening of Arthur Ashe Stadium in 1997.^{[citation needed]}

In an era where serve and volley was the norm, Björn Borg excepted, Connors was one of the few players to hit the ball flat, low, and predominantly from the baseline. Connors hit his forehand with a continental grip and with little net clearance. Some^[who?] considered his forehand to be his greatest weakness, especially on extreme pressure points, as it lacked the safety margin of hard forehands hit with topspin. His serve, while accurate and capable, was never a great weapon for him as it did not reach the velocity and power of his opponents.

His lack of a dominating serve and net game, combined with his individualist style and maverick tendencies, meant that he was not as successful in doubles as he was in singles, although he did win Grand Slam titles with Ilie Năstase and Chris Evert and amassed 15 doubles titles during his career.

Racket evolution [link]

At a time when most other tennis pros played with wooden rackets, Connors pioneered the Wilson T2000 steel racket, which utilized a method for stringing devised and patented by Lacoste in 1953.^[11] "The T2000 set the wood racquet traditionalists on their ears with its lightweight steel construction. It didn't need a racket-press (it didn't warp), and its slender framework meant less wind resistance."^[12]

He played with this chrome tubular steel racket until 1984, when most other pros had shifted to new racket technologies, materials, and designs. The T2000 in the eighties "had the aura of a dinosaur – it had been introduced in 1968."^[12]

In 1984, Connors switched to the new Wilson ProStaff that had been designed especially for him. But 1985 again found Connors playing with the T2000. Not until 1987 did he finally switch to a graphite racket when he contracted with Slazenger to play their Panther Pro Ceramic. In 1990 Connors signed with Estusa.^[12]

Connors used lead tape which he would wind around the racquet head to provide the proper "feel" for his style of game.

Commentating [link]

Connors did commentary with NBC in 1990 and 1991, during their coverage of the French Open and Wimbledon tournaments. During the Wimbledon tournaments of 2005, 2006 and 2007, Connors commentated for the BBC alongside John McEnroe (among others), providing moments of heated discussion between two former arch-rivals. Connors has also served as a commentator and analyst for the Tennis Channel since the 2009 US Open tournament.^[13]

Coaching [link]

On July 24, 2006, at the start of the Countrywide Classic tournament in Los Angeles, American tennis player Andy Roddick formally announced his partnership with Connors as his coach. On March 6, 2008, Roddick announced the end of that 19-month relationship.

Personal life [link]

In 1968, Connors' mother Gloria sent her son to work with Pancho Segura in Southern California. Segura refined his game, mentored him, and provided the court strategy that made Jimmy great.

In 1979, Connors married Playboy model Patti McGuire. They have two children and live in the Santa Barbara, California area.^[14]

In the 1990s he joined his brother John Connors as investors in the Argosy Gaming Company which owned riverboat casinos on the Mississippi River. The two owned 19 percent of the company which was headquartered in the St. Louis metropolitan area of East Alton, Illinois.^[15] Argosy narrowly averted bankruptcy in the late 1990s and Jimmy's brother John personally sought Chapter 7 bankruptcy. In the liquidation, Jimmy, through his company, Smooth Swing, acquired the Alystra Casino in Henderson, Nevada, for $1.9 million from Union Planters Bank, which had foreclosed on John. John had opened the casino in 1995 with announced plans to include a Jimmy Connors theme area.^[16] It was shuttered in 1998 and became a magnet for homeless and thieves who stripped its copper piping. The casino never reopened under Jimmy's ownership and it was destroyed in a May 2008 fire.^[17]

In October 2005, Connors had successful hip-replacement surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

On January 8, 2007, Connors's mother and long-time coach, Gloria, died at the age of 82.^[18]

On November 21, 2008, Connors was arrested outside an NCAA Basketball game between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of California at Santa Barbara after refusing to comply with an order to leave an area near the entrance to the stadium.^[19] The charges were dismissed by a judge on February 10, 2009.^[20]^[21]

In December 2010, Douglas Henderson Jr., a long-time Connors associate and close friend, published Endeavor to Persevere, his book detailing his relationship with Connors and Arthur Ashe.[1]

Career statistics [link]

Main article: Jimmy Connors career statistics

Singles performance timeline [link]

Key

SF-B

NMS

Won tournament, or reached Final, Semifinal, Quarterfinal, Round 4, 3, 2, 1, played in Round Robin or lost in Qualification Round 3, Round 2, Round 1, Absent from a tournament or Participated in a team event, played in a Davis Cup Zonal Group (with its number indication) or Play-off, won a bronze or silver match at the Olympics. The last is for a Masters Series/1000 tournament that was relegated (Not a Masters Series).

Tournament	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open					W	F											NH											1 / 2	11–1^[22]	91.67
French Open			2R	1R						SF	SF	QF	QF	QF	SF	SF		QF		2R		3R	1R					0 / 13	40–13	75.47
Wimbledon		1R	QF	QF	W	F	QF	F	F	SF	SF	SF	W	4R	F	SF	1R	SF	4R	2R		3R	1R					2 / 21	84–18	82.35
US Open	1R	2R	1R	QF	W	F	W	F	W	SF	SF	SF	W	W	SF	SF	3R	SF	QF	QF		SF	2R					5 / 22	98–17	85.22
Win-Loss	0–1	1–1	5–3	8–3	20–0	17–3	11–1	12–2	13–1	15–3	15–3	14–3	18–1	14–2	16–3	15–3	2–2	14–3	7–2	6–3	0–0	9–3	1–3	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	8 / 58	233–49	82.62
Year End Championships
The Masters			SF	SF				W	RR	SF	SF	RR	SF	SF	SF			RR										1 / 11	18–17	51.43
WCT Finals								W		RR	W				F	SF												2 / 5	10–3	76.92
Win–Loss			2–2	2–2				7–1	1–1	3–3	6–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	3–2	1–1		0–3										3 / 16	28–20	58.33
Y-E Ranking	–	–	–	3	1	1	1	1	1	2	3	3	2	3	2	4	8	4	7	14	936	48	84	370	672	419	1300	Career money: $8,641,040

Records [link]

These records were attained in Open Era of tennis.
Combined tours included Association of Tennis Professionals, Grand Prix Circuit, World Championship Tennis.
Records in bold indicate peer-less achievements.
^ Denotes consecutive streak.

Time span	Selected Grand Slam tournament records	Players matched
1974 Australian Open — 1991 US Open	31 semi-finals	Stands alone
1972 Wimbledon — 1991 US Open	41 quarter-finals	Stands alone
1974 Australian Open — 1974 US Open	100% (20–0) match winning percentage in 1 season	Rod Laver
1972 Wimbledon — 1991 Wimbledon	107 grass court match wins	Stands alone

Grand Slam tournaments	Time Span	Records at each Grand Slam tournament	Players matched
Wimbledon	1972–1991	84 match wins	Stands alone
Wimbledon	1972–1982	11 consecutive quarterfinals	Stands alone
US Open	1974–1983	5 titles overall	Pete Sampras Roger Federer^
US Open	1974–1983	3 titles as a Father	Stands alone
US Open	1974 1976 1978	3 titles on 3 different surfaces^[23]	Stands alone
US Open	1974–1985	12 consecutive semi-finals^[24]	Stands alone
US Open	1971–1992	98 match wins^[24]	Stands alone
US Open	1970–1992	115 matches played^[24]	Stands alone
US Open	1970–1992	22 tournaments played^[24]	Stands alone
US Open	1974	Shortest Grand Slam final (20 games) vs. Ken Rosewall	Stands alone

Time span	Other selected records	Players matched
1972–1989	109 titles^[23]	Stands alone
1974	4 grass court titles in 1 season	Stands alone
1972–1989	48 WCT titles	Stands alone
1972–1989	158 finals	Stands alone
1970–1995	1217 matches won	Stands alone
1970–1996	1479 matches played	Stands alone
1973	9 hard court titles in 1 season	Roger Federer
1972–1989	54 indoor titles	Stands alone
1972–1989	44 carpet court titles	Stands alone
1970–1989	169 grass court match wins	Stands alone
1970–1989	460 indoor match wins	Stands alone
1973–84	12 consecutive years with match winning percentage of 80%+	Stands alone
1972–1980	9 consecutive years winning at least 5 titles	Stands alone
1974–1978	3 calendar years as wire-to-wire world number one	Roger Federer
1974–1984	Ended 8 years ranked inside the top 2	Roger Federer
1973–1984	Ended 12 years ranked inside the top 3	Stands alone
1973–1984	Ended 12 consecutive years ranked inside the top 3	Stands alone
1973–1987	Ended 14 years ranked inside the top 4	Stands alone
1973–1987	Ended 14 years ranked inside the top 5	Stands alone
1973–1988	Ended 16 years ranked inside the top 10	Andre Agassi
1973–1988	Ended 16 consecutive years ranked inside the top 10	Stands alone
1972–1984	788 consecutive weeks ranked inside the top 10	Stands alone

Professional awards [link]

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Jimmy Connors (Achievement precedessor & successor)

Sporting positions
Preceded by John Newcombe Björn Borg Björn Borg John McEnroe John McEnroe John McEnroe John McEnroe Ivan Lendl John McEnroe	World No. 1 July 29, 1974 - August 22, 1977 August 30, 1977 - April 8, 1979 May 21, 1979 - July 8, 1979 September 13, 1982 - October 31, 1982 November 8, 1982 - November 14, 1982 January 31, 1983 - February 6, 1983 February 14, 1983 - February 27, 1983 May 16, 1983 - June 5, 1983 June 13, 1983 - July 3, 1983	Succeeded by Björn Borg Björn Borg Björn Borg John McEnroe John McEnroe John McEnroe Ivan Lendl John McEnroe John McEnroe
Awards and achievements
Preceded by John McEnroe	ITF World Champion 1982	Succeeded by John McEnroe

Jimmy Connors in the Grand Slam Tournaments

Australian Open men's singles champions

(1969) Rod Laver
(1970) Arthur Ashe
(1971) Ken Rosewall
(1972) Ken Rosewall
(1973) John Newcombe
(1974) Jimmy Connors
(1975) John Newcombe
(1976) Mark Edmondson
(1977 (Jan)) Roscoe Tanner
(1977 (Dec)) Vitas Gerulaitis
(1978) Guillermo Vilas
(1979) Guillermo Vilas
(1980) Brian Teacher
(1981) Johan Kriek
(1982) Johan Kriek
(1983) Mats Wilander
(1984) Mats Wilander
(1985) Stefan Edberg
(1986) Not Held
(1987) Stefan Edberg
(1988) Mats Wilander
(1989) Ivan Lendl
(1990) Ivan Lendl
(1991) Boris Becker
(1992) Jim Courier
(1993) Jim Courier
(1994) Pete Sampras
(1995) Andre Agassi
(1996) Boris Becker
(1997) Pete Sampras
(1998) Petr Korda
(1999) Yevgeny Kafelnikov
(2000) Andre Agassi
(2001) Andre Agassi
(2002) Thomas Johansson
(2003) Andre Agassi
(2004) Roger Federer
(2005) Marat Safin
(2006) Roger Federer
(2007) Roger Federer
(2008) Novak Djokovic
(2009) Rafael Nadal
(2010) Roger Federer
(2011) Novak Djokovic
(2012) Novak Djokovic

Wimbledon (Open Era) gentlemen's singles champions

(1968) Rod Laver
(1969) Rod Laver
(1970) John Newcombe
(1971) John Newcombe
(1972) Stan Smith
(1973) Jan Kodeš
(1974) Jimmy Connors
(1975) Arthur Ashe
(1976) Björn Borg
(1977) Björn Borg
(1978) Björn Borg
(1979) Björn Borg
(1980) Björn Borg
(1981) John McEnroe
(1982) Jimmy Connors
(1983) John McEnroe
(1984) John McEnroe
(1985) Boris Becker
(1986) Boris Becker
(1987) Pat Cash
(1988) Stefan Edberg
(1989) Boris Becker
(1990) Stefan Edberg
(1991) Michael Stich
(1992) Andre Agassi
(1993) Pete Sampras
(1994) Pete Sampras
(1995) Pete Sampras
(1996) Richard Krajicek
(1997) Pete Sampras
(1998) Pete Sampras
(1999) Pete Sampras
(2000) Pete Sampras
(2001) Goran Ivanišević
(2002) Lleyton Hewitt
(2003) Roger Federer
(2004) Roger Federer
(2005) Roger Federer
(2006) Roger Federer
(2007) Roger Federer
(2008) Rafael Nadal
(2009) Roger Federer
(2010) Rafael Nadal
(2011) Novak Djokovic

US Open men's singles champions

(1968) Arthur Ashe
(1969) Rod Laver
(1970) Ken Rosewall
(1971) Stan Smith
(1972) Ilie Năstase
(1973) John Newcombe
(1974) Jimmy Connors
(1975) Manuel Orantes
(1976) Jimmy Connors
(1977) Guillermo Vilas
(1978) Jimmy Connors
(1979) John McEnroe
(1980) John McEnroe
(1981) John McEnroe
(1982) Jimmy Connors
(1983) Jimmy Connors
(1984) John McEnroe
(1985) Ivan Lendl
(1986) Ivan Lendl
(1987) Ivan Lendl
(1988) Mats Wilander
(1989) Boris Becker
(1990) Pete Sampras
(1991) Stefan Edberg
(1992) Stefan Edberg
(1993) Pete Sampras
(1994) Andre Agassi
(1995) Pete Sampras
(1996) Pete Sampras
(1997) Patrick Rafter
(1998) Patrick Rafter
(1999) Andre Agassi
(2000) Marat Safin
(2001) Lleyton Hewitt
(2002) Pete Sampras
(2003) Andy Roddick
(2004) Roger Federer
(2005) Roger Federer
(2006) Roger Federer
(2007) Roger Federer
(2008) Roger Federer
(2009) Juan Martín del Potro
(2010) Rafael Nadal
(2011) Novak Djokovic

Wimbledon (Open Era) gentlemen's doubles champions

(1968) John Newcombe / Tony Roche
(1969) John Newcombe / Tony Roche
(1970) John Newcombe / Tony Roche
(1971) Roy Emerson / Rod Laver
(1972) Bob Hewitt / Frew McMillan
(1973) Jimmy Connors / Ilie Năstase
(1974) John Newcombe / Tony Roche
(1975) Vitas Gerulaitis / Gene Mayer
(1976) Brian Gottfried / Raúl Ramírez
(1977) Ross Case / Geoff Masters
(1978) Bob Hewitt / Frew McMillan
(1979) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1980) Peter McNamara / Paul McNamee
(1981) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1982) Peter McNamara / Paul McNamee
(1983) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1984) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1985) Heinz Günthardt / Balázs Taróczy
(1986) Joakim Nyström / Mats Wilander
(1987) Ken Flach / Robert Seguso
(1988) Ken Flach / Robert Seguso
(1989) John Fitzgerald / Anders Järryd
(1990) Rick Leach / Jim Pugh
(1991) John Fitzgerald / Anders Järryd
(1992) John McEnroe / Michael Stich
(1993) Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
(1994) Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
(1995) Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
(1996) Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
(1997) Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
(1998) Jacco Eltingh / Paul Haarhuis
(1999) Mahesh Bhupathi / Leander Paes
(2000) Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
(2001) Donald Johnson / Jared Palmer
(2002) Jonas Björkman / Todd Woodbridge
(2003) Jonas Björkman / Todd Woodbridge
(2004) Jonas Björkman / Todd Woodbridge
(2005) Stephen Huss / Wesley Moodie
(2006) Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan
(2007) Arnaud Clément / Michaël Llodra
(2008) Daniel Nestor / Nenad Zimonjić
(2009) Daniel Nestor / Nenad Zimonjić
(2010) Jürgen Melzer / Philipp Petzschner
(2011) Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan

US Open men's doubles champions

(1968) Bob Lutz / Stan Smith
(1969) Ken Rosewall / Fred Stolle
(1970) Pierre Barthès / Nikola Pilić
(1971) John Newcombe / Roger Taylor
(1972) Cliff Drysdale / Roger Taylor
(1973) Owen Davidson / John Newcombe
(1974) Bob Lutz / Stan Smith
(1975) Jimmy Connors / Ilie Năstase
(1976) Tom Okker / Marty Riessen
(1977) Bob Hewitt / Frew McMillan
(1978) Bob Lutz / Stan Smith
(1979) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1980) Bob Lutz / Stan Smith
(1981) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1982) Kevin Curren / Steve Denton
(1983) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1984) John Fitzgerald / Tomáš Šmíd
(1985) Ken Flach / Robert Seguso
(1986) Andrés Gómez / Slobodan Živojinović
(1987) Stefan Edberg / Anders Järryd
(1988) Sergio Casal / Emilio Sánchez
(1989) John McEnroe / Mark Woodforde
(1990) Pieter Aldrich / Danie Visser
(1991) John Fitzgerald / Anders Järryd
(1992) Jim Grabb / Richey Reneberg
(1993) Ken Flach / Rick Leach
(1994) Jacco Eltingh / Paul Haarhuis
(1995) Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
(1996) Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
(1997) Yevgeny Kafelnikov / Daniel Vacek
(1998) Sandon Stolle / Cyril Suk
(1999) Sébastien Lareau / Alex O'Brien
(2000) Lleyton Hewitt / Max Mirnyi
(2001) Wayne Black / Kevin Ullyett
(2002) Mahesh Bhupathi / Max Mirnyi
(2003) Jonas Björkman / Todd Woodbridge
(2004) Mark Knowles / Daniel Nestor
(2005) Mike Bryan / Bob Bryan
(2006) Martin Damm / Leander Paes
(2007) Simon Aspelin / Julian Knowle
(2008) Mike Bryan / Bob Bryan
(2009) Lukáš Dlouhý / Leander Paes
(2010) Mike Bryan / Bob Bryan
(2011) Jürgen Melzer / Philipp Petzschner

v t e Male tennis players who have won 3 or more Grand Slam singles titles in one season

(1933) Jack Crawford (3) (1934) Fred Perry (3) (1938) Don Budge (4) (1955) Tony Trabert (3) (1956) Lew Hoad (3) (1958) Ashley Cooper (3) (1962) Rod Laver (4) (1964) Roy Emerson (3) (1969) Rod Laver (4) (1974) Jimmy Connors (3) (1988) Mats Wilander (3) (2004) Roger Federer (3) (2006) Roger Federer (3) (2007) Roger Federer (3) (2010) Rafael Nadal (3) (2011) Novak Djokovic (3)

Men’s tennis players who won two or more Grand Slam singles titles in one calendar year

Four wins

1938: Don Budge (AC&FC&WI&US) 1962: Rod Laver (AC&FC&WI&US) 1969: Rod Laver (AO&FO&WI&US)

Three wins

1933: Jack Crawford (AC&FC&WI)
1934: Fred Perry (AC&WI&US)
1955: Tony Trabert (FO&WI&US)
1956: Lew Hoad (AO&FO&WI)
1958: Ashley Cooper (AC&WI&US)
1964: Roy Emerson (AC&WI&US)
1974: Jimmy Connors (AO&WI&US)
1988: Mats Wilander (AO&FO&US)
2004: Roger Federer (AO&WI&US)
2006: Roger Federer (AO&WI&US)
2007: Roger Federer (AO&WI&US)
2010: Rafael Nadal (FO&WI&US)
2011: Novak Djokovic (AO&WI&US)

Two wins

1903: Laurence Doherty (WI&US)
1920: Bill Tilden (WI&US)
1921: Bill Tilden (WI&US)
1925: René Lacoste (FC&WI)
1927: René Lacoste (FC&US)
1928: Henri Cochet (FC&US)
1932: Ellsworth Vines (WI&US)
1935: Fred Perry (FC&WI)
1936: Fred Perry (WI&US)
1937: Don Budge (WI&US)
1939: Bobby Riggs (WI&US)
1947: Jack Kramer (WI&US)
1950: Budge Patty (FC&WI)
1951: Dick Savitt (AC&WI))
1952: Frank Sedgman (WI&US)
1953: Ken Rosewall (AC&FO)
1959: Alex Olmedo (AC&WI)
1960: Neale Fraser (WI&US)
1961: Roy Emerson (AC&US)
1963: Roy Emerson (AC&FC)
1965: Roy Emerson (AC&WI)
1967: Roy Emerson (AC&FC)
1967: John Newcombe (WI&US)
1967: John Newcombe (AO&US)
1977: Guillermo Vilas (FO&US)
1978: Björn Borg (FO&WI)
1979: Björn Borg (FO&WI)
1980: Björn Borg (FO&US)
1981: John McEnroe (WI&US)
1982: Jimmy Connors (WI&US)
1984: John McEnroe (WI&US)
1986: Ivan Lendl (FO&US)
1987: Ivan Lendl (FO&US)
1989: Boris Becker (WI&US)
1992: Jim Courier (AO&FO)
1993: Pete Sampras (WI&US)
1994: Pete Sampras (AO&WI)
1995: Pete Sampras (WI&US)
1997: Pete Sampras (AO&WI)
1999: Andre Agassi (FO&US)
2005: Roger Federer (WI&US)
2008: Rafael Nadal (FO&WI)
2009: Roger Federer (FO&WI)

AC=Australasian/Australian Championships, AO=Australian Open, FC=French Championships, FO=French Open, WI=Wimbledon, US=U.S. National Championships/US Open

Jimmy Connors Achievements

v t e Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World No. 1 singles players

Ilie Năstase (1973/1974 – 40 w) John Newcombe (1974 – 8 w) Jimmy Connors (1974/1983 – 268 w) Björn Borg (1977/1981 – 109 w) John McEnroe (1980/1985 – 170 w) Ivan Lendl (1983/1990 – 270 w) Mats Wilander (1988/1989 – 20 w) Stefan Edberg (1990/1992 – 72 w) Boris Becker (1991 – 12 w) Jim Courier (1992/1993 – 58 w) Pete Sampras (1993/2000 – 286 w) Andre Agassi (1995/2003 – 101 w) Thomas Muster (1996 – 6 w) Marcelo Ríos (1998 – 6 w) Carlos Moyá (1999 – 2 w) Yevgeny Kafelnikov (1999 – 6 w) Patrick Rafter (1999 – 1 w) Marat Safin (2000/2001 – 9 w) Gustavo Kuerten (2000/2001 – 43 w) Lleyton Hewitt (2001/2003 – 80 w) Juan Carlos Ferrero (2003 – 8 w) Andy Roddick (2003/2004 – 13 w) Roger Federer (2004/2010 – 285 w) Rafael Nadal (2008/2011 – 102 w) Novak Djokovic (2011/2012 – 48 w)

ATP singles rankings since inception on August 23, 1973 (year first held/year last held – number of weeks (w)) current No. 1 in bold, as of May 28, 2012

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Date of birth	September 2, 1952
Place of birth	East St. Louis, Illinois
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Ivan Lendl
Singles
Lendl in Miami, 2012.
Country	Czechoslovakia (1978–1992) United States (1992-present)
Residence	Goshen, Connecticut, US (1992- ), Vero Beach, Florida, US (2004- )^[1]
Born	(1960-03-07) March 7, 1960 (age 52) Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	79 kg (170 lb; 12.4 st)
Turned pro	1978
Retired	December 20, 1994
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$21,262,417 8th All-time leader in earnings
Int. Tennis HOF	2001 (member page)
Career record	1071–239 (81.8%)
Career titles	144 including 94 listed by the ATP
Highest ranking	No. 1 (February 28, 1983)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	W (1989, 1990)
French Open	W (1984, 1986, 1987)
Wimbledon	F (1986, 1987)
US Open	W (1985, 1986, 1987)
Other tournaments
Tour Finals	Masters W (1981, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987) WCT W (1982, 1985)
Doubles
Career record	187–140 (57.2%)
Career titles	6
Highest ranking	No. 20 (May 12, 1986)
Last updated on: July 13, 2007.

Ivan Lendl (born March 7, 1960) is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, he became a United States citizen in 1992. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s. He is considered to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time.^[2] Lendl captured eight Grand Slam singles titles. He competed in 19 Grand Slam singles finals, record surpassed by Roger Federer in 2009. He reached at least one Grand Slam final for 11 consecutive years, a record shared with Pete Sampras, with the male primacy of 8 consecutive finals in a slam tournament (a record shared with Bill Tilden at US Open). Before the formation of the ATP Lendl reached a record 12 year-end championships (equaled by John McEnroe). He won two WCT Finals titles and five Masters Grand Prix titles, with the record of 9 consecutive finals. He also won a record 22 Championship Series titles (1980–89) the precursors to the current ATP Masters 1000. Lendl first attained the world no. 1 ranking on February 28, 1983 and bolstered his claim to the top spot when he defeated John McEnroe in the 1984 French Open final. For much of the next five years, Lendl was the top ranked player until August 1990 (with a break from September 1988 to January 1989 when Mats Wilander was at the top). He finished four years ranked as the world's top player (1985–1987 and 1989) and was ranked no. 1 for a total of 270 weeks and set a new record previously held by Jimmy Connors, since broken by Pete Sampras and Roger Federer. In 2011 he became Andy Murray's coach.

Lendl's game relied particularly on strength and heavy topspin from the baseline and helped usher in the modern era of "power tennis". He himself described his game as "hitting hot", a relentless all-court game that was coming to dominate in tennis.

1 Personal life
- 1.1 South African exhibition and aftermath
2 Playing style
3 Equipment
4 Tennis career
5 Tennis coaching career
6 Career statistics
7 Singles performance timeline
- 7.1 Records
8 Professional Awards
9 Recognition
10 See also
11 References
12 External links

Personal life [link]

Lendl was born into a tennis family in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). His parents were top players in Czechoslovakia. (His mother Olga was at one point ranked the no. 2 female player in the country). Lendl turned professional in tennis in 1978. He started to live in the United States in 1981, first at the home of mentor and friend Wojtek Fibak; later, in 1984, Lendl bought his own residence in Greenwich, Connecticut. Ivan applied for and received a U.S. Permanent Resident Card (also known as a Green Card) in 1987 and wanted to get U.S. citizenship as soon as possible to represent the USA in the 1988 Olympic Games and in Davis Cup. A bill in Congress to bypass the traditional five-year waiting procedure was rejected in 1988 because Czechoslovak authorities refused to provide the necessary waivers.^[3] He became a U.S. citizen on July 7, 1992.^[4]

On September 16, 1989 six days after losing the final of the US Open to Boris Becker, Lendl married Samantha Frankel.^[5] They have five daughters: Marika (born May 4, 1990), twins Isabelle and Caroline (born July 29, 1991), Daniela (born June 24, 1993) Nikola (born January 20, 1998). He transferred his competitive interests to professional golf where he achieved a win on the Celebrity Tour. Still competitive at the mini-tour levels, Lendl now devotes much of his time managing the development of his daughters' golfing abilities. Two of his daughters (Marika and Isabelle) are members of the University of Florida Women's Golf Team.^[6] Daniela is a member of the University of Alabama Women's Golf Team.^[7] His daughter Caroline walked onto the University of Alabama Women's Rowing Team for the 2011–2012 academic year, and his daughter Nikola enjoys eventing horses.

South African exhibition and aftermath [link]

In July 1983, Lendl played three exhibition matches (against Johan Kriek, Kevin Curren, Jimmy Connors) in Sun City, in the apartheid-era bantustan of Bophuthatswana.^[8] The Czechoslovak Sport Federation (ČSTV), controlled by the Communist Party, expelled him from the Czechoslovak Davis Cup team and fined him $150,000.^[9] Lendl disagreed with the punishment and fine.

In addition, the publication of his name and results in the Czechoslovak media was prohibited. The ban was extended not only to Lendl, but to anything about world tennis, all tennis tournaments and both men's and women's circuits (with the exception of blank Grand Slam results).^{[citation needed]}

The appearance in this exhibition in Sun City and Lendl's Americanized living style ignited a long-lasting dispute between Lendl and the Czechoslovak communist authorities, which was never settled and resulted in his decision to apply for a green card in 1987 and later on for U.S. citizenship.

Playing style [link]

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Lendl was known, along with Björn Borg, for using his heavy topspin forehand to dictate play. His trademark shot was his running forehand, which he could direct either down the line or cross-court.

Early in his career Lendl played a sliced backhand, but in the early 1980s he learned to hit his backhand with significant topspin. This shift allowed him to defeat John McEnroe in 1984 in the French Open – Lendl's first Grand Slam victory. In the first two sets McEnroe used his habitual proximity to the net to intercept Lendl's cross-court passing shots. In the third set Lendl started using lobs, forcing McEnroe to distance himself from the net to prepare for the lobs. McEnroe's further distance from the net opened the angles for Lendl's cross-court passing shots, which ultimately gained Lendl points and turned the match around.

Lendl's serve was powerful but inconsistent. His very high toss may have been to blame. Lendl's consistency from the baseline was machine-like. Though tall and apparently gangly, Lendl was very fast on the court. Lendl did not win Wimbledon because he could not sufficiently improve his consistency at the net. Grass courts yield notoriously bad bounces, and that destabilized his baseline game more than other baseliners. His groundstroke setup was very complete, almost robotic and repeated bad bounces made him uncomfortable. Wimbledon in those days required reducing baseline play by coming to the net. He devoted considerable effort to improving his net play, but fell short of a Wimbledon title. Toward the end of his days on the ATP tour Lendl ended his long term clothing, shoe and racket deal with Adidas. He signed with Mizuno, and finally began to play with a mid-sized racket very similar to the Adidas racket he had used throughout most of his career, itself based on the Kneissl White Star model.

Equipment [link]

While professional, Lendl used Adidas clothing and Kneissl racquet, changed later for Adidas racquet. Since 2010, he began using Bosworth racquet.

Tennis career [link]

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Lendl first came to the tennis world's attention as an outstanding junior player. In 1978, he won the boys' singles titles at both the French Open and Wimbledon and was ranked the World No. 1 junior player.

Lendl made an almost immediate impact on the game after turning professional. After reaching his first top-level singles final in 1979, he won seven singles titles in 1980, including three tournament wins in three consecutive weeks on three different surfaces. The success continued in 1981 as he won 10 titles including his first season ending Masters Grand Prix tour title defeating Vitas Gerulaitis in five sets.

In 1982, he won in total 15 of the 23 singles tournaments he entered and had a 44-match winning streak.

He competed on the separate World Championship Tennis (WCT) tour where he won all 10 WCT tournaments he entered, including winning his first WCT Finals where he defeated John McEnroe in straight sets. He met McEnroe again in the Masters Grand Prix final and won in straight sets to claim his second season ending championship of that particular tour.

In an era when tournament prize money was rising sharply due to the competition between 2 circuits (Grand Prix and WCT), Lendl's haul of titles quickly made him the highest-earning tennis player of all time.

He won another seven tournaments in 1983.

But Grand Slam titles eluded Lendl in the early years of his career. He reached his first Grand Slam final at the French Open in 1981, where he lost in five sets to Björn Borg. His second came at the US Open in 1982, where he was defeated by Jimmy Connors. In 1983, he was the runner-up at both the Australian Open and the US Open.

Lendl's first Grand Slam title came at the 1984 French Open, where he defeated John McEnroe in a long final to claim what was arguably his best victory. Down two sets to love and later trailing 4–2 in the fourth set, Lendl battled back to claim the title 3–6, 2–6, 6–4, 7–5, 7–5. McEnroe gained a measure of revenge by beating Lendl in straight sets in both finals of the US Open 1984 and Volvo Masters 1984 (played in January 1985).

Lendl lost in the final of the 1985 French Open to Mats Wilander. He then faced McEnroe again in the final of the US Open, and this time it was Lendl who emerged victorious in a straight sets win. It was the first of three consecutive US Open titles for Lendl and part of a run of eight consecutive US Open finals. He reached the WCT Finals for the second and last time defeating Tim Mayotte in three sets. Success continued when he also took the Masters Grand Prix title for the third time defeating Boris Becker in straight sets.

In 1986 and 1987 he added wins in the French Open to his U.S Open victories including the season ending 1986 and 1987 Masters Grand Prix championship titles, Where he defeated Boris Becker (86) in straight sets and Mats Wilander (87) in three sets. This took him to his fifth and last Grand Prix year end tour title.

During each of the years from 1985 through 1987, Lendl's match winning percentage was greater than 90%. This record was equalled by Roger Federer in 2006. Lendl, however, remains the only male tennis player with at least 90% match wins in five different years (1982 was the first, 1989 the last). From the 1985 US Open through the 1988 Australian Open, Lendl reached ten consecutive Grand Slam singles semifinals—a record that was broken by Federer at the 2006 US Open.

1989 was another very strong year for Lendl. He started the year by capturing his first Australian Open title with a straight sets final victory over Miloslav Mečíř and went on to claim 10 titles out of 17 tournaments he entered. Lendl successfully defended his Australian Open title in 1990.

The only Grand Slam singles title Lendl never managed to win was Wimbledon. After reaching the semifinals in 1983 and 1984, he reached the final there twice, losing in straight sets to Boris Becker in 1986 and Pat Cash in 1987. In the years that followed, Lendl put in intensive efforts to train and hone his game on grass courts. But despite reaching the Wimbledon semifinals again in 1988, 1989 and 1990, he never again reached the final.

Lendl was part of the team that won Czechoslovakia's only Davis Cup title in 1980. He was the driving force behind the country's team in the first half of the 1980s but stopped playing in the event after he moved to the United States in 1986 because, in the eyes of communist Czechoslovakia's Tennis Association, he was an "illegal defector" from their country.

Lendl was also part of the Czechoslovakian team that won the World Team Cup in 1981 and was runner-up in 1984 and 1985.

Lendl's success in the game was due in large part to his highly meticulous and intensive training and physical conditioning regime, his scientific approach to preparing for and playing the game, and a strong desire to put in whatever it took to be successful. It is believed that a contributing factor to his run of eight successive US Open finals and long record of success at that tournament was that he hired the same workers who laid the hardcourt surfaces at Flushing Meadows each year to install an exact copy in the grounds of his home in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Lendl announced his retirement from professional tennis on December 21, 1994, due to chronic back pain.^[10] Although he didn't play any official match following his defeat in the 2nd round of the US Open in 1994, Lendl's final decision to retire came only three and a half months later.

Lendl won a total of 94 career singles titles listed by the ATP (plus 49 other non-ATP tournaments, thus making a total of 144 singles titles) and 6 doubles titles, and his career prize money of U.S. $21,262,417 was a record at the time. In 2001, he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

After finishing his tennis career, Lendl took up golf, earning a handicap of 0 and organizing a charity competition in 2004 called the "Ivan Lendl Celebrity Golf Tournament".

Lendl's professional attitude, modern playing style, scientific training methods, and unprecedented long-term success have had a considerable impact on today's tennis world. A typical Lendl quote is: "If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can."^{[citation needed]}'

On April 10, 2010 Ivan Lendl returned to play his first tournament since his 1994 retirement from tennis. He played in the Caesars Tennis Classic exhibition match in Atlantic City, New Jersey, against his rival from the late 1980s, Mats Wilander. He lost the one set match 6-3.

On February 28, 2011, Lendl returned to the court again in an exhibition match with John McEnroe at Madison Square Garden. It was planned to be a one-set, first-to-eight event. However, McEnroe, leading 6–3, injured his ankle and had to retire from the match.

In May 2012, Lendl played in Prague for the first time since the 1970s, as part of the 2012 Sparta Prague Open tournament. He defeated fellow Czech Jiří Novák in the exhibition match.^[11]

Tennis coaching career [link]

On 31 December 2011 Lendl was appointed coach to Andy Murray.^[12] and coached him at the 2012 Australian Open.

Career statistics [link]

Main article: Ivan Lendl career statistics

Singles performance timeline [link]

Name	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	SR	W–L
Grand Slams
Australian Open			2R			F	4R	SF	NH	SF	SF	W	W	F	QF	1R	4R	2 / 12	48–10
French Open	1R	4R	3R	F	4R	QF	W	F	W	W	QF	4R			2R	1R	1R	3 / 15	53–12
Wimbledon		1R	3R	1R		SF	SF	4R	F	F	SF	SF	SF	3R	4R	2R		0 / 14	48–14
US Open		2R	QF	4R	F	F	F	W	W	W	F	F	QF	SF	QF	1R	2R	3 / 16	73–13
Win–Loss	0–1	4–3	9–4	9–3	9–2	20–4	20–3	20–3	20–1	24–2	20–4	21–3	16–2	13–3	12–4	1–4	4–3	8 / 57	222–49
Year-End Championships
The Masters			F	W	W	F	F	W	W	W	F	SF	SF	SF				5 / 12	39–10
WCT Finals			SF		W	F		W				SF						2 / 5	10–3

Records [link]

These records include only results in the Open Era of tennis.
Combined year end championships are: WCT Finals, ATP World Tour Finals
Records in bold indicate peer-less achievements.
^ Denotes consecutive streak.

Time span	Selected Grand Slam tournament records	Players matched
1981 French Open — 1986 Wimbledon	Runner-up at all four	Roger Federer
1981 French Open — 1991 Australian Open	11 consecutive years reaching 1+ final	Pete Sampras

Grand Slam tournaments	Time Span	Records at each Grand Slam tournament	Players matched
Australian Open	1989–91	3 consecutive finals	Mats Wilander
Australian Open	1989–90	2 consecutive titles	Ken Rosewall Guillermo Vilas Johan Kriek Mats Wilander Stefan Edberg Jim Courier Andre Agassi Roger Federer Novak Djokovic
French Open	1984–87	4 consecutive finals	Björn Borg Roger Federer Rafael Nadal
US Open	1982–89	8 consecutive finals^[13]	Stands alone
US Open	1982–89	8 finals overall^[13]	Pete Sampras
US Open	1985–86	26 consecutive sets won^[13]	Stands alone

Year End championships	Time span	Record accomplished	Players matched
Combined WCT and GP	1980–88	12 finals overall	John McEnroe
Combined WCT and GP	1980–88	17 semi-finals overall	Stands alone
Grand Prix Tour Finals	1985–87	3 consecutive titles	Ilie Năstase
Grand Prix Tour Finals	1980–88	9 finals^	Stands alone
Grand Prix Tour Finals	1980–91	12 semi-finals overall	Stands alone
Grand Prix Tour Finals	1980–91	12 consecutive appearances	Stands alone
Grand Prix Tour Finals	1980–91	39 match wins	Roger Federer
Grand Prix Tour Finals	1985	Won championship without losing a set	John McEnroe

Time span	Other selected records	Players matched
1980–89	22 Championship Series titles	Stands alone
1981–83	66 consecutive carpet court match victories	John McEnroe
1981–83	18 consecutive finals	Stands alone
1981–82	8 consecutive titles	John McEnroe
1982–89	5 years with match winning percentage of 90%+ (417–36)	Stands alone
1980–93	14 consecutive years winning 1+ title	Stands alone
1982	9 carpet court titles in 1 season	Stands alone
1983–93	5 Tokyo Indoor titles	Stands alone
1980–89	6 Canadian Open titles	Stands alone

Professional Awards [link]

ITF World Champion: 1985, 1986,1987, 1990.
ATP Player of The Year: 1985, 1986, 1987.
ATP Most Improved Player: 1981.

Recognition [link]

Tennis magazine named him as one of the ten greatest tennis players since 1966, calling him "the game's greatest overachiever" and emphasizing his importance in the game's history.^[14] In his book Modern Encyclopedia of Tennis, Bud Collins included Lendl in his list of the 21 greatest men's tennis players for the period from 1946 through 1992.
In July 1986 DPR Korea issued a postage stamp depicting Ivan Lendl in play.^[15]

References [link]

^ Potter, Jerry. "Fatherhood, golf keep Lendl busy", USA Today, December 2006.
^ "Top 10 Men's Tennis Players of All Time". Sports Illustrated. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1009/top.ten.tennis/content.1.html. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
^ "Lendl's bid to get U.S.citizenship earlier denied". The New York Times. September 6, 1988. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE0DB1331F935A3575AC0A96E948260. Retrieved June 25, 2007.
^ "Lendl becomes U.S.citizen". The New York Times. July 8, 1992. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEFD7143BF93BA35754C0A964958260. Retrieved June 28, 2007.
^ "Lendl gets married". The New York Times. September 19, 1989. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE0D8153EF93AA2575AC0A96F948260. Retrieved June 25, 2007.
^ 2009 Women's Golf Roster
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^ "Connors beats Lendl in the final of the Sun City round robin exhibition tournament". New York Times. July 11, 1983. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980CEFD91439F932A25754C0A965948260. Retrieved June 28, 2007.
^ SPORTS PEOPLE; Lendl Suspended
^ "Chronic back problems bring an end to Lendl's career". New York Times. December 21, 1994. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E0D71038F932A15751C1A962958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all. Retrieved April 1, 2008.
^ Fishpool, Nick (21 May 2012). "Lendl takes to court at ITF Pro Circuit event in Prague". ITFTennis.com. http://www.itftennis.com/procircuit/news/articles/lendl-takes-to-court-at-itf-pro-circuit-event-in-prague.aspx. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
^ "Andy Murray appoints Ivan Lendl as his new coach". BBC Web-site. December 31, 2011. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/16372414.stm. Retrieved January 3, 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c "US Open Singles Record Book". USOpen.com. http://2011.usopen.org/pdf/Record_Book_Singles_Records.pdf. Retrieved 2012-02-01.
^ "40 Greatest Players of the Tennis Era". Tennis magazine. http://www.tennis.com/features/40greatest/40greatest.aspx?id=544. Retrieved February 14, 2007.
^ (in Russian)USSR Philately (Moscow) (4): cover's 4th page. April 1991. ISSN 0130—5689. – photo of this postage stamp

Jiri Janousek, Pavel Vitous (1990). Ivan Lendl. Lidove nakladatelstvi, Praha, Czechoslovakia. ISBN 80-7022-088-0.
Ivan Lendl, George Mendoza (1986). Hitting Hot: Ivan Lendl's 14-days Tennis Clinic. Random House, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-394-55407-8.

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Ivan Lendl (Achievement precedessor & successor)

Sporting positions
Preceded by Jimmy Connors John McEnroe John McEnroe John McEnroe John McEnroe John McEnroe John McEnroe Mats Wilander	World No. 1 February 28, 1983 - May 15, 1983 October 31, 1983 - December 11, 1983 January 9, 1984 - March 11, 1984 June 11, 1984 - June 17, 1984 July 9, 1984 - August 12, 1984 August 19, 1985 - August 25, 1985 September 9, 1985 - September 11, 1988 January 30, 1989 - August 12, 1990	Succeeded by Jimmy Connors John McEnroe John McEnroe John McEnroe John McEnroe John McEnroe Mats Wilander Stefan Edberg
Awards and achievements
Preceded by not awarded, 1980 Victor Pecci, 1979	ATP Most Improved Player 1981	Succeeded by Peter McNamara
Preceded by John McEnroe	ITF World Champion 1985-1987	Succeeded by Mats Wilander
Preceded by Boris Becker	ITF World Champion 1990	Succeeded by Stefan Edberg

Ivan Lendl in the Grand Slam Tournaments

Men’s tennis players who won two or more Grand Slam singles titles in one calendar year

Four wins

1938: Don Budge (AC&FC&WI&US) 1962: Rod Laver (AC&FC&WI&US) 1969: Rod Laver (AO&FO&WI&US)

Three wins

1933: Jack Crawford (AC&FC&WI)
1934: Fred Perry (AC&WI&US)
1955: Tony Trabert (FO&WI&US)
1956: Lew Hoad (AO&FO&WI)
1958: Ashley Cooper (AC&WI&US)
1964: Roy Emerson (AC&WI&US)
1974: Jimmy Connors (AO&WI&US)
1988: Mats Wilander (AO&FO&US)
2004: Roger Federer (AO&WI&US)
2006: Roger Federer (AO&WI&US)
2007: Roger Federer (AO&WI&US)
2010: Rafael Nadal (FO&WI&US)
2011: Novak Djokovic (AO&WI&US)

Two wins

1903: Laurence Doherty (WI&US)
1920: Bill Tilden (WI&US)
1921: Bill Tilden (WI&US)
1925: René Lacoste (FC&WI)
1927: René Lacoste (FC&US)
1928: Henri Cochet (FC&US)
1932: Ellsworth Vines (WI&US)
1935: Fred Perry (FC&WI)
1936: Fred Perry (WI&US)
1937: Don Budge (WI&US)
1939: Bobby Riggs (WI&US)
1947: Jack Kramer (WI&US)
1950: Budge Patty (FC&WI)
1951: Dick Savitt (AC&WI))
1952: Frank Sedgman (WI&US)
1953: Ken Rosewall (AC&FO)
1959: Alex Olmedo (AC&WI)
1960: Neale Fraser (WI&US)
1961: Roy Emerson (AC&US)
1963: Roy Emerson (AC&FC)
1965: Roy Emerson (AC&WI)
1967: Roy Emerson (AC&FC)
1967: John Newcombe (WI&US)
1967: John Newcombe (AO&US)
1977: Guillermo Vilas (FO&US)
1978: Björn Borg (FO&WI)
1979: Björn Borg (FO&WI)
1980: Björn Borg (FO&US)
1981: John McEnroe (WI&US)
1982: Jimmy Connors (WI&US)
1984: John McEnroe (WI&US)
1986: Ivan Lendl (FO&US)
1987: Ivan Lendl (FO&US)
1989: Boris Becker (WI&US)
1992: Jim Courier (AO&FO)
1993: Pete Sampras (WI&US)
1994: Pete Sampras (AO&WI)
1995: Pete Sampras (WI&US)
1997: Pete Sampras (AO&WI)
1999: Andre Agassi (FO&US)
2005: Roger Federer (WI&US)
2008: Rafael Nadal (FO&WI)
2009: Roger Federer (FO&WI)

AC=Australasian/Australian Championships, AO=Australian Open, FC=French Championships, FO=French Open, WI=Wimbledon, US=U.S. National Championships/US Open

French Open boys' singles champions

Wimbledon (Open Era) boys' singles champions

Australian Open men's singles champions

(1969) Rod Laver
(1970) Arthur Ashe
(1971) Ken Rosewall
(1972) Ken Rosewall
(1973) John Newcombe
(1974) Jimmy Connors
(1975) John Newcombe
(1976) Mark Edmondson
(1977 (Jan)) Roscoe Tanner
(1977 (Dec)) Vitas Gerulaitis
(1978) Guillermo Vilas
(1979) Guillermo Vilas
(1980) Brian Teacher
(1981) Johan Kriek
(1982) Johan Kriek
(1983) Mats Wilander
(1984) Mats Wilander
(1985) Stefan Edberg
(1986) Not Held
(1987) Stefan Edberg
(1988) Mats Wilander
(1989) Ivan Lendl
(1990) Ivan Lendl
(1991) Boris Becker
(1992) Jim Courier
(1993) Jim Courier
(1994) Pete Sampras
(1995) Andre Agassi
(1996) Boris Becker
(1997) Pete Sampras
(1998) Petr Korda
(1999) Yevgeny Kafelnikov
(2000) Andre Agassi
(2001) Andre Agassi
(2002) Thomas Johansson
(2003) Andre Agassi
(2004) Roger Federer
(2005) Marat Safin
(2006) Roger Federer
(2007) Roger Federer
(2008) Novak Djokovic
(2009) Rafael Nadal
(2010) Roger Federer
(2011) Novak Djokovic
(2012) Novak Djokovic

French Open men's singles champions

(1968) Ken Rosewall
(1969) Rod Laver
(1970) Jan Kodeš
(1971) Jan Kodeš
(1972) Andrés Gimeno
(1973) Ilie Năstase
(1974) Björn Borg
(1975) Björn Borg
(1976) Adriano Panatta
(1977) Guillermo Vilas
(1978) Björn Borg
(1979) Björn Borg
(1980) Björn Borg
(1981) Björn Borg
(1982) Mats Wilander
(1983) Yannick Noah
(1984) Ivan Lendl
(1985) Mats Wilander
(1986) Ivan Lendl
(1987) Ivan Lendl
(1988) Mats Wilander
(1989) Michael Chang
(1990) Andrés Gómez
(1991) Jim Courier
(1992) Jim Courier
(1993) Sergi Bruguera
(1994) Sergi Bruguera
(1995) Thomas Muster
(1996) Yevgeny Kafelnikov
(1997) Gustavo Kuerten
(1998) Carlos Moyà
(1999) Andre Agassi
(2000) Gustavo Kuerten
(2001) Gustavo Kuerten
(2002) Albert Costa
(2003) Juan Carlos Ferrero
(2004) Gastón Gaudio
(2005) Rafael Nadal
(2006) Rafael Nadal
(2007) Rafael Nadal
(2008) Rafael Nadal
(2009) Roger Federer
(2010) Rafael Nadal
(2011) Rafael Nadal

US Open men's singles champions

(1968) Arthur Ashe
(1969) Rod Laver
(1970) Ken Rosewall
(1971) Stan Smith
(1972) Ilie Năstase
(1973) John Newcombe
(1974) Jimmy Connors
(1975) Manuel Orantes
(1976) Jimmy Connors
(1977) Guillermo Vilas
(1978) Jimmy Connors
(1979) John McEnroe
(1980) John McEnroe
(1981) John McEnroe
(1982) Jimmy Connors
(1983) Jimmy Connors
(1984) John McEnroe
(1985) Ivan Lendl
(1986) Ivan Lendl
(1987) Ivan Lendl
(1988) Mats Wilander
(1989) Boris Becker
(1990) Pete Sampras
(1991) Stefan Edberg
(1992) Stefan Edberg
(1993) Pete Sampras
(1994) Andre Agassi
(1995) Pete Sampras
(1996) Pete Sampras
(1997) Patrick Rafter
(1998) Patrick Rafter
(1999) Andre Agassi
(2000) Marat Safin
(2001) Lleyton Hewitt
(2002) Pete Sampras
(2003) Andy Roddick
(2004) Roger Federer
(2005) Roger Federer
(2006) Roger Federer
(2007) Roger Federer
(2008) Roger Federer
(2009) Juan Martín del Potro
(2010) Rafael Nadal
(2011) Novak Djokovic

Ivan Lendl Achievements

v t e Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World No. 1 singles players

Ilie Năstase (1973/1974 – 40 w) John Newcombe (1974 – 8 w) Jimmy Connors (1974/1983 – 268 w) Björn Borg (1977/1981 – 109 w) John McEnroe (1980/1985 – 170 w) Ivan Lendl (1983/1990 – 270 w) Mats Wilander (1988/1989 – 20 w) Stefan Edberg (1990/1992 – 72 w) Boris Becker (1991 – 12 w) Jim Courier (1992/1993 – 58 w) Pete Sampras (1993/2000 – 286 w) Andre Agassi (1995/2003 – 101 w) Thomas Muster (1996 – 6 w) Marcelo Ríos (1998 – 6 w) Carlos Moyá (1999 – 2 w) Yevgeny Kafelnikov (1999 – 6 w) Patrick Rafter (1999 – 1 w) Marat Safin (2000/2001 – 9 w) Gustavo Kuerten (2000/2001 – 43 w) Lleyton Hewitt (2001/2003 – 80 w) Juan Carlos Ferrero (2003 – 8 w) Andy Roddick (2003/2004 – 13 w) Roger Federer (2004/2010 – 285 w) Rafael Nadal (2008/2011 – 102 w) Novak Djokovic (2011/2012 – 48 w)

ATP singles rankings since inception on August 23, 1973 (year first held/year last held – number of weeks (w)) current No. 1 in bold, as of May 28, 2012

Year-end championships winners singles

(1970) Stan Smith
(1971) Ilie Năstase
(1972) Ilie Năstase
(1973) Ilie Năstase
(1974) Guillermo Vilas
(1975) Ilie Năstase
(1976) Manuel Orantes
(1977) Jimmy Connors
(1978) John McEnroe
(1979) Björn Borg
(1980) Björn Borg
(1981) Ivan Lendl
(1982) Ivan Lendl
(1983) John McEnroe
(1984) John McEnroe
(1985) Ivan Lendl
(1986) Ivan Lendl
(1987) Ivan Lendl
(1988) Boris Becker
(1989) Stefan Edberg
(1990) Andre Agassi
(1991) Pete Sampras
(1992) Boris Becker
(1993) Michael Stich
(1994) Pete Sampras
(1995) Boris Becker
(1996) Pete Sampras
(1997) Pete Sampras
(1998) Alex Corretja
(1999) Pete Sampras
(2000) Gustavo Kuerten
(2001) Lleyton Hewitt
(2002) Lleyton Hewitt
(2003) Roger Federer
(2004) Roger Federer
(2005) David Nalbandian
(2006) Roger Federer
(2007) Roger Federer
(2008) Novak Djokovic
(2009) Nikolay Davydenko
(2010) Roger Federer
(2011) Roger Federer

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Björn Borg
Singles

Full name	Björn Rune Borg
Country	Sweden
Residence	Stockholm
Born	(1956-06-06) 6 June 1956 (age 56) Södertälje, Stockholm County, Sweden
Height	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	72 kg (160 lb)
Turned pro	1973 (international debut in 1971)
Retired	4 April 1983^[1] (comeback from 1991 to 1993)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	US$3,655,751
Int. Tennis HOF	1987 (member page)
Career record	608–127 (82.7%)
Career titles	101 (including 64 listed by the ATP)
Highest ranking	No. 1 (23 August 1977)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	3R (1974)
French Open	W (1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981)
Wimbledon	W (1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980)
US Open	F (1976, 1978, 1980, 1981)
Other tournaments
Tour Finals	W Masters (1979, 1980) W WCT (1976)
Doubles
Career record	86–81 (51.2%)
Career titles	4
Highest ranking	890 (22 March 1993)
Last updated on: 24 March 2007.

Björn Rune Borg (Swedish pronunciation: [bjœːɳ bɔrj] ( listen); born 6 June 1956) is a former world no. 1 tennis player from Sweden. Between 1974 and 1981 he won 11 Grand Slam singles titles. He won five consecutive Wimbledon singles titles (a record shared with Roger Federer)^[3] and six French Open singles titles (a record shared with Rafael Nadal).^[4]^[5] He is considered by many to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time.^[6]^[7]^[8]

During his relatively brief pro career, Borg won 41% of the Grand Slam singles tournaments he entered (11 of 27) and 89.81% (141–16) of the Grand Slam singles matches he played. His winning rate across all surfaces (carpet, clay, hard, and grass) was 82.72% (608-127), and his winning percentage at Wimbledon was 92.73% (51–4); both are records for an entire career. He is one of four players in the open era to win both Wimbledon and the French Open in the same year and the only player to do so for three consecutive years. He is the first player to win two Grand Slams without dropping a set (a record shared with Rafael Nadal). He also won three year-end championship titles, including two Masters Grand Prix titles and one WCT Final title. In addition, he won 15 Championship Series titles (1974–1980) the precursors to the current Masters 1000.

Borg was the first "rock star" of professional tennis^[2] and first player to earn more than one million dollars in prize money in a single season (1979).

1 Life and career
- 1.1 Retirement
- 1.2 Attempted comeback
2 Memorabilia preserved
3 Distinctions and honors
4 Place among the all-time greats
5 Playing style
6 Career statistics
7 Grand Slam and Masters Performance timeline
8 Records
9 Professional Awards
10 Footnotes
11 See also
12 References
13 Bibliography
14 Video
15 External links

Life and career [link]

Borg was born in Södertälje, Sweden. As a child, Borg became fascinated with a golden tennis racquet that his father won at a table-tennis tournament. His father gave him the racquet, beginning his tennis career.^[9]

A player of great athleticism and endurance, he had a distinctive style and appearance—bowlegged, yet very fast. His muscularity allowed him to put heavy topspin on both his forehand and two-handed backhand. He was perhaps the first top professional to use the two-handed backhand. By the time he was 13 he was beating the best of Sweden's under-18 players, and Davis Cup captain Lennart Bergelin cautioned against anyone trying to change Borg's rough-looking, jerky strokes. They were effective.^{[citation needed]}

Borg joined the professional circuit at age 14. In 1972, at the age of 15, Borg became one of the youngest players ever to represent his country in the Davis Cup and won his debut singles rubber in five sets against seasoned professional Onny Parun of New Zealand. Later that year, he won the Wimbledon junior singles title, recovering from a 5–2 deficit in the final set to overcome Britain's Buster Mottram.

In 1973, Borg reached the Wimbledon main draw quarterfinals in his first attempt. Just before his 18th birthday in 1974, Borg won his first top-level singles title at the Italian Open, becoming its youngest winner. Two weeks later he became the then-youngest winner of the French Open defeating Manuel Orantes in the final, 2–6, 6–7, 6–0, 6–1, 6–1. Barely 18 at the time, Borg was the youngest-ever male French Open champion (the record has since been lowered by Mats Wilander in 1982 and Michael Chang in 1989).

In early 1975, Borg defeated the great Rod Laver, then 36 years old, in a semifinal of the World Championship Tennis (WCT) finals in Dallas, Texas, 7–6, 3–6, 5–7, 7–6, 6–2. Borg subsequently lost to Arthur Ashe in the final.

Borg retained his French Open title in 1975, beating Guillermo Vilas in the final in straight sets. Borg then reached the Wimbledon quarterfinals, where he lost to eventual champion Ashe, 6–2, 4–6, 6–8, 1–6. Borg did not lose another match at Wimbledon until 1981.

Borg won two singles and one doubles rubber in the 1975 Davis Cup final, as Sweden beat Czechoslovakia 3–2. With these singles wins, Borg had won 19 consecutive Davis Cup singles rubbers since 1973. That was already a record at the time. However, Borg never lost another Davis Cup singles rubber, and, by the end of his career, he had stretched that winning streak to 33—a Davis Cup record that still stands.^[10]

In early 1976, Borg won the World Championship Tennis year-end WCT Finals in Dallas, Texas with a four-set victory over Guillermo Vilas in the final.

At the 1976 French Open, Borg lost to the Italian Adriano Panatta, who remains the only player to defeat Borg at this tournament. Panatta did it twice: in the fourth round in 1973 (7–6, 2–6, 7–5, 7–6), and in the 1976 quarterfinals (6–3, 6–3, 2–6, 7–6).

Borg won Wimbledon in 1976 without losing a set, defeating the favored Ilie Năstase in the final. Borg became the youngest male Wimbledon champion of the modern era at 20 years and 1 month (a record subsequently broken by Boris Becker, who won Wimbledon aged 17 in 1985). It would be the last time Borg played Wimbledon as an underdog. Năstase later exclaimed, "We're playing tennis, he's [Borg] playing something else."

Borg also reached the final of the 1976 US Open, which was then being played on clay courts. Borg lost in four sets to world no. 1 Jimmy Connors.

Borg skipped the French Open in 1977 because he was under contract with WTT, but he repeated his Wimbledon triumph, although this time he was pushed much harder. He defeated his good friend Vitas Gerulaitis in a semifinal, 6–4, 3–6, 6–3, 3–6, 8–6.^[11] In the final, Borg was pushed to five sets for the third time in the tournament, this time by Connors. The win propelled Borg to the no. 1 ranking on the computer, albeit for just one week in August.

Through 1977, he had never lost to a player younger than himself.

Borg was at the height of his career from 1978 through 1980, completing the difficult French Open-Wimbledon double all three years.

In 1978, Borg won the French Open with a win over Vilas in the final. Borg did not drop a set during the tournament, a feat only he, Năstase (in 1973), and Rafael Nadal (in 2008 and 2010) have accomplished at the French Open during the open era.

Borg defeated Connors in straight sets at the 1978 Wimbledon. At the US Open, now held on hard courts in Flushing Meadow, New York, he lost the final in straight sets to Connors. That autumn, Borg faced John McEnroe for the first time in a semifinal of the Stockholm Open and was upset, 3–6, 4–6.

Borg lost to McEnroe again in four sets in the final of the 1979 WCT Finals but was now overtaking Connors for the top ranking. Borg established himself firmly in the top spot with his fourth French Open singles title and fourth straight Wimbledon singles title, defeating Connors in a straight-set semifinal at the latter tournament. At the French Open, Borg defeated big-serving Victor Pecci in a four-set final, and at Wimbledon, Borg took five sets to overcome an even bigger server, Roscoe Tanner. Borg was upset by Tanner at the US Open, in a four-set quarterfinal played under the lights.

At the season-ending Masters tournament in January 1980, Borg survived a close semifinal against McEnroe, 6–7, 6–3, 7–6(1). He then beat Gerulaitis in straight sets, winning his first Masters and first title in New York. In June, he overcame Gerulaitis, again in straight sets, for his fifth French Open title. Again, he did not drop a set.

Borg won his fifth consecutive Wimbledon singles title, the 1980 Wimbledon Men's Singles final, by defeating McEnroe in a five-set match, often cited as the best Wimbledon final ever played. Having lost the opening set 6–1 to an all-out McEnroe assault, Borg took the next two 7–5, 6–3 and had two championship points at 5–4 in the fourth. However, McEnroe averted disaster and went on to level the match in Wimbledon's most memorable 34-point tiebreaker, which he won 18–16. In the fourth-set tiebreak, McEnroe saved five match points, and Borg six set points, before McEnroe won the set. Bjorn served first to begin the 5th set and fell behind 15–40. Borg then won 19 straight points on serve in the deciding set and prevailed after 3 hours, 53 minutes. Borg himself commented years later that this was the first time that he was afraid that he would lose, as well as feeling that it was the beginning of the end of his dominance.^[12]

Borg married Romanian tennis pro Mariana Simionescu in Bucharest on 24 July 1980.

He defeated McEnroe in the final of the 1980 Stockholm Open, 6–3, 6–4, and faced him one more time that year, in the round-robin portion of the year-end Masters, played in January 1981. With 19,103 fans in attendance, Borg won a deciding third-set tie-break for the second year in a row, 6–4, 6–7, 7–6(2). Borg then defeated Ivan Lendl for his second Masters title, 6–4, 6–2, 6–2.

Borg won his last Grand Slam title at the French Open in 1981, defeating Lendl in a five-set final. Borg has a six French Open Grand Slam titles record equaled only by Rafael Nadal in 2011.

In reaching the Wimbledon final in 1981, Borg stretched his winning streak at the All England Club to a record 41 matches. In a semifinal, Borg was down to Connors by two sets to love, before coming back to win the match, 0–6, 4–6, 6–3, 6–0, 6–4. However, Borg's streak was brought to an end by McEnroe, who defeated him in four sets, 6–4, 6–7, 6–7, 4–6.

Borg went on to lose to McEnroe at the 1981 US Open, 6–4, 2–6, 4–6, 3–6. After that defeat, Borg walked off the court and out of the stadium before the ceremonies and press conference had begun. There are reports that Borg received threats after his semifinal win over Connors. In later years, Borg apologized to McEnroe. The 1981 US Open would be the Swede's last Grand Slam final. Major tournaments and tour organizers were enforcing a new rule by 1982, that players had to play at least 10 official tournaments per year. However, Borg wanted to curtail his schedule after many years of winning so often. Although he felt in good condition physically, he recognized that the relentless drive to win and defy tour organizers had begun to fade.^[12]

Borg failed to win the US Open in 10 tries, losing four finals, 1976 and 1978 to Jimmy Connors, and 1980 and 1981 to McEnroe. He played on hard courts at the US Open from 1978–1981 and reached the final there on three occasions, in 1978, 1980, and 1981. He led 3–2 in the fifth set of the 1980 final, before losing. That match followed Borg's classic encounter with McEnroe at the 1980 Wimbledon. In 1978, 1979 and 1980, Borg was halfway to a Grand Slam after victories at the French and Wimbledon (the Australian Open being the last Grand Slam tournament of each year at the time) only to falter at Flushing Meadow, lefty Tanner his conqueror in 1979.

He appeared only once at the Australian Open, at the age of 17, at which he lost in an early round.

In 1982, Borg played only one tournament, losing to Yannick Noah in the quarterfinals of Monte Carlo in April. Nevertheless, Borg's announcement in January 1983 that he was retiring from the game at the age of 26 was a shock to the tennis world. McEnroe tried unsuccessfully to persuade Borg to continue. (He did, however, play Monte Carlo again in March 1983, reaching the second round, and Stuttgart in July 1984.)

Retirement [link]

When he retired, Borg had a choice of homes, a penthouse in Monte Carlo, not far from his successful pro shop, and a small island off the Swedish coast. His marriage to the tennis player Mariana Simionescu ended in divorce, he fathered a child by the Swedish model Jannike Björling, and he was briefly married to the Italian singer Loredana Bertè.^[12] There were rumours of a drug overdose and an attempted suicide, yet Borg laughs them off as silly rumours. He states that he only took sleeping pills, yet the Italian press reported it as a suicide attempt,^[12] and he narrowly avoided personal bankruptcy due to bad business partners.^[13]^[14]

Borg later bounced back as the owner of the Björn Borg fashion label, whose most noted advertising campaigns asked Swedes (from the pages of a leading national newspaper) to "F*ck for the Future." His label has since become extremely successful second only to Calvin Klein in his home country.^[12]^[15]

Attempted comeback [link]

In the early-1990s, Borg attempted a comeback on the men's professional tennis tour. In doing so, he grew his hair out as it had been when he retired and returned to using a wooden racket; he had kept his hair cut and used modern graphite rackets in exhibitions he played during the later 1980s. This time around, however, he was completely unsuccessful. In fact, Borg failed to win a single match. He faced Jordi Arrese in his first match back, again at Monte Carlo, and fell 2–6, 3–6. In his first nine matches, played in 1991 and 92, Borg failed to win a single set. He fared slightly better in 1993, taking a set off his opponent in each of the three matches he played. He came closest to getting a win in what turned out to be his final tour match, falling 6–4, 3–6, 6–7 to Alexander Volkov.

In 1992, Borg, 35, using a Donnay Graphite Midsize racket strung at 85 lbs. tension defeated John Lloyd, 37, at the Inglewood Forum Tennis Challenge 6–4, 6–3.

Borg later joined the champions tour, returning to shorter hair and using modern racquets.

Memorabilia preserved [link]

In March 2006, Bonhams Auction House in London announced that it would auction Borg's Wimbledon trophies and two of his winning rackets on 21 June 2006.^[16] Several players then called Borg wondering what he was thinking, but only McEnroe was able to make Borg reconsider. According to Dagens Nyheter – who had talked to Borg – McEnroe called from New York and asked, "What's up? Have you gone mad?"^[17] The conversation apparently persuaded Borg to buy out the trophies from Bonhams at an undisclosed amount.

Distinctions and honors [link]

Borg was ranked by the ATP rankings world no. 1 in six different stretches between 1977 and 1981, totaling 109 weeks.
During his career, he won a total of 77 (61 listed on the Association of Tennis Professionals website) top-level singles and four doubles titles.
Borg won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality Award in 1979.
Borg was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987.
On 10 December 2006, the British Broadcasting Corporation gave Borg a Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented by Boris Becker.^[18]
Borg was named one of the 10 Most Superstitious Athletes by Men's Fitness^[19]

Place among the all-time greats [link]

With Grand Slam 11 titles, Borg ranks fourth in the list of male tennis players who have won the most Grand Slam singles titles behind Roger Federer (16), Pete Sampras (14), and Roy Emerson (12). The French Open—Wimbledon double he achieved three times consecutively was called by Wimbledon officials "the most difficult double in tennis"^[20] and "a feat considered impossible among today's players."^[21] Only Rafael Nadal (in 2008 and 2010) and Roger Federer (in 2009) have managed to achieve this double since, and Rafael Nadal, Andre Agassi, Roger Federer and are the only male players since Borg to have won the French Open and Wimbledon men's singles titles over their career. Ilie Năstase once said about Borg, "We're playing tennis, and he's playing something else".

In his 1979 autobiography, Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter and great player himself, had already included Borg in his list of the 21 greatest players of all time. And in 2003, Bud Collins chose Borg as one of his top-five male players of all time.^[22]

In 2008, ESPN.com asked tennis analysts, writers, and former players to build the perfect open era player. Borg was the only player mentioned in four categories—defense, footwork, intangibles, and mental toughness—with his mental game and footwork singled-out as the best in open era history.^[23]

Borg never won the US Open or the Australian Open, losing in the final at the US Open four times. The only players to defeat Borg in a Grand Slam final were fellow world no. 1 tennis players John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors. Even though it was then played on grass, a surface where he enjoyed much success, Borg chose to play the Australian Open only once, in 1974, where he lost in the third round. Phil Dent, a contemporary of Borg, has pointed out that skipping Grand Slam tournaments—especially the Australian Open—was not unusual then, before counting Grand Slam titles became the norm.^[24] Additionally, another contemporary Arthur Ashe told Sports Illustrated, "I think Bjorn could have won the U.S. Open. I think he could have won the Grand Slam. But by the time he left, the historical challenge didn't mean anything. He was bigger than the game. He was like Elvis or Liz Taylor or somebody."^[25]

Playing style [link]

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Borg had one of the most distinctive playing styles in the open era. Borg played from the baseline, with powerful ground-strokes and a double-handed backhand (very rare at the time and unorthodox). He hit the ball hard and high from the back of the court and brought it down with considerable topspin, which made his ground strokes very consistent.^[26] There had been other players, particularly Rod Laver and Arthur Ashe, who played with topspin on both the forehand and backhand. Yet Laver and Ashe used topspin only as a way to mix up their shots and pass their opponents at the net easily. Borg was one of the first top players to use heavy topspin on his shots consistently.

Complementing his consistent ground-strokes was his fitness. Both of these factors allowed Borg to be dominant at the French Open.

One of the factors that made Borg unique was his dominance on the grass courts of Wimbledon, where baseliners since World War II did not usually succeed. Some experts attributed his dominance on this surface to his consistency, an underrated serve, and his adaptation to grass courts. Against the best players, he almost always served-and-volleyed on his first serves (but he naturally played from the baseline after his second serves).

Another trait usually associated with Borg is his grace under pressure. His calm court demeanor earned him the nickname of the "Ice Man" or "Ice-Borg."^[2]

Borg's physical conditioning was legendary and unrivalled. He could outlast most of his opponents under the most grueling conditions. Contrary to popular belief, however, this wasn't due to his exceptionally low resting heart rate, often reported to be near 35 beats per minute. In his introduction to Borg's autobiography My Life and Game, Eugene Scott relates that this rumor arose from a medical exam the 18-year-old Borg once took for military service, where his pulse was recorded as 38. Scott goes on to reveal Borg's true pulse rate as "about 50 when he wakes up and around 60 in the afternoon."^[27] Borg is credited with helping to develop the style of play that has come to dominate the game today.^{[citation needed]}

Career statistics [link]

Main article: Björn Borg career statistics

Grand Slam and Masters Performance timeline [link]

Tournament	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	3R	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	1–1	50.00
French Open	4R	W	W	QF	A	W	W	W	W	6 / 8	49–2	96.08
Wimbledon	QF	3R	QF	W	W	W	W	W	F	5 / 9	51–4	92.73
US Open	4R	2R	SF	F	4R	F	QF	F	F	0 / 9	40–9	81.63
Win–Loss	10–3	11–3	16–2	17–2	10–1	20–1	18–1	20–1	19–2	11 / 27	141–16	89.81
Year-End Championship
The Masters^[a]	A	RR	F	A	F	A	W	W	A	2 / 5	15–7	68.18
Year End Rankings	18	3	3	2	3	2	1	1	4

Records [link]

These records were attained in the Open Era of tennis.
Records in bold indicate peer-less achievements.
^ Denotes consecutive streak.

Time span	Selected Grand Slam tournament records	Players matched
1974 French Open — 1981 French Open	8 consecutive years winning 1+ title	Pete Sampras Roger Federer
1976 Wimbledon — 1981 French Open	41% (11/27) title winning percentage	Stands alone
1976 Wimbledon — 1981 French Open	89.8% (141–16) career match winning percentage^[28]	Stands alone
1976 Wimbledon — 1980 French Open	3 titles won without losing a set	Stands alone
1977 Australian Open — 1981 US Open	5 consecutive seasons with match winning percentage of 90%+	Stands alone
1976 Wimbledon — 1980 French Open	60.8% (3066–1973) career games winning percentage	Stands alone
1978 French Open — 1978 US Open	66.5% (380–191) games winning percentage in 1 season	Stands alone
1974 French Open — 1981 French Open	4 finals reached without losing a set^[b]	Rafael Nadal
1976 Wimbledon — 1980 Wimbledon	6 existing Grand Slam champions defeated in finals^[c]	Stands alone
1974 French Open — 1981 French Open	8 different Grand Slam champions defeated in finals	Stands alone

Grand Slam tournaments	Time Span	Records at each Grand Slam tournament	Players matched
French Open	1974–75, 1978–81	6 titles overall^[29]	Rafael Nadal
French Open	1974–81	6 finals	Rafael Nadal
French Open	1978–81	4 consecutive titles^[29]	Rafael Nadal
French Open	1978–81	4 consecutive finals	Ivan Lendl Rafael Nadal Roger Federer
French Open	1978 & 1980	2 wins without losing a set^[29]	Rafael Nadal
French Open	1978	79.9% (127–32) win–loss games single tournament	Stands alone
French Open—Wimbledon	1978–80	3 "Channel Slams"^: Winning both tournaments in the same year^[20]	Stands alone
French Open—Wimbledon	1974–81	French Open (6) & Wimbledon (5) titles combination	Stands alone
Wimbledon	1976–80	5 consecutive titles^[3]^[20]	Roger Federer
Wimbledon	1976	Only player to win title without losing a set	Stands alone
Wimbledon	1973–81	92.72% (51–4) match winning percentage	Stands alone
Wimbledon	1976–81	41 consecutive match victories	Stands alone

Time span	Other selected records	Players matched
1975–81	82.72% (608–127) career match winning percentage (all surfaces)^[30]	Stands alone
1973–81	70.52% (67–28) career match winning percentage against top 10 players^[31]	Stands alone
1977–80	4 consecutive seasons with match winning percentage of 90%+	Stands alone
1979–80	2 winning streaks of 35+ matches	Roger Federer
1975–81	16 titles won as a teenager	Rafael Nadal
1973–80	33 consecutive Davis Cup match wins^[10]	Stands alone

Professional Awards [link]

ITF World Champion: 1978, 1979, 1980
ATP Player of the Year: 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980

Footnotes [link]

^a The Masters tournaments for 1977, 1979 and 1980 were actually held in January of the following year. In this table, however, the year of the tournament is listed for the preceding year.
^b The finals Borg reached without losing a set were the 1976 Wimbledon Championships and the 1978, 1980 & 1981 French Open.
^c The existing Grand Slam champions Borg defeated were Guillermo Vilas (1978 French Open), Ilie Nastase (1976 Wimbledon), Jimmy Connors (1977 & 1978 Wimbledon), Roscoe Tanner (1979 Wimbledon), Vitas Gerulaitis (1980 French Open) and John McEnroe (1980 Wimbledon).

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Bibliography [link]

Borg, Björn (1975). The Björn Borg Story. Chicago: H. Regnery Co. ISBN 0-8092-8184-8.
Borg, Björn; Eugene L. Scott (1980). My Life and Game. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-283-98663-8.
John Barrett, editor, World of Tennis Yearbooks, London, from 1976 through 1983.
Michel Sutter, Vainqueurs Winners 1946–2003, Paris, 2003. Sutter has attempted to list all tournaments meeting his criteria for selection beginning with 1946 and ending in the fall of 1991. For each tournament, he has indicated the city, the date of the final, the winner, the runner-up, and the score of the final. A tournament is included in his list if: (1) the draw for the tournament included at least eight players (with a few exceptions, such as the Pepsi Grand Slam tournaments in the second half of the 1970s which included only players that had won a Grand Slam tournament); and (2) the level of the tournaments was at least equal to the present day challenger tournaments. Sutter's book is probably the most exhaustive source of tennis tournament information since World War II, even though some professional tournaments held before the start of the open era are missing. Later, Sutter issued a second edition of his book, with only the players, their wins, and years for the 1946 through 27 April 2003, period.

Video [link]

The Wimbledon Collection – Legends of Wimbledon – Bjorn Borg Standing Room Only, DVD Release Date: 21 September 2004, Run Time: 52 minutes, ASIN: B0002HODA4.
The Wimbledon Collection – The Classic Match – Borg vs. McEnroe 1981 Final Standing Room Only, DVD Release Date: 21 September 2004, Run Time: 210 minutes, ASIN: B0002HODAE.
The Wimbledon Collection – The Classic Match – Borg vs. McEnroe 1980 Final Standing Room Only, DVD Release Date: 21 September 2004, Run Time: 240 minutes; ASIN: B0002HOEK8.
Wimbledon Classic Match: Gerulaitis vs Borg Standing Room Only, DVD Release Date: 31 October 2006, Run Time: 180 minutes, ASIN: B000ICLR8O.

External links [link]

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Björn Borg (Achievement precedessor & successor)

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Rolf Edling	Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal 1974	Succeeded by Ingemar Stenmark
Preceded by Frank Andersson	Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal with Ingemar Stenmark 1978	Succeeded by Malmö FF
Preceded by —	ITF World Champion 1978–1980	Succeeded by John McEnroe
Sporting positions
Preceded by Jimmy Connors Jimmy Connors Jimmy Connors John McEnroe John McEnroe John McEnroe	World No. 1 23 August 1977 – 29 August 1977 9 April 1979 – 20 May 1979 9 July 1979 – 2 March 1980 24 March 1980 – 10 August 1980 18 August 1980 – 5 July 1981 20 July 1981 – 2 August 1981	Succeeded by Jimmy Connors Jimmy Connors John McEnroe John McEnroe John McEnroe John McEnroe

Björn Borg in Grand Slam Tournaments

Men’s tennis players who won two or more Grand Slam singles titles in one calendar year

Four wins

1938: Don Budge (AC&FC&WI&US) 1962: Rod Laver (AC&FC&WI&US) 1969: Rod Laver (AO&FO&WI&US)

Three wins

1933: Jack Crawford (AC&FC&WI)
1934: Fred Perry (AC&WI&US)
1955: Tony Trabert (FO&WI&US)
1956: Lew Hoad (AO&FO&WI)
1958: Ashley Cooper (AC&WI&US)
1964: Roy Emerson (AC&WI&US)
1974: Jimmy Connors (AO&WI&US)
1988: Mats Wilander (AO&FO&US)
2004: Roger Federer (AO&WI&US)
2006: Roger Federer (AO&WI&US)
2007: Roger Federer (AO&WI&US)
2010: Rafael Nadal (FO&WI&US)
2011: Novak Djokovic (AO&WI&US)

Two wins

1903: Laurence Doherty (WI&US)
1920: Bill Tilden (WI&US)
1921: Bill Tilden (WI&US)
1925: René Lacoste (FC&WI)
1927: René Lacoste (FC&US)
1928: Henri Cochet (FC&US)
1932: Ellsworth Vines (WI&US)
1935: Fred Perry (FC&WI)
1936: Fred Perry (WI&US)
1937: Don Budge (WI&US)
1939: Bobby Riggs (WI&US)
1947: Jack Kramer (WI&US)
1950: Budge Patty (FC&WI)
1951: Dick Savitt (AC&WI))
1952: Frank Sedgman (WI&US)
1953: Ken Rosewall (AC&FO)
1959: Alex Olmedo (AC&WI)
1960: Neale Fraser (WI&US)
1961: Roy Emerson (AC&US)
1963: Roy Emerson (AC&FC)
1965: Roy Emerson (AC&WI)
1967: Roy Emerson (AC&FC)
1967: John Newcombe (WI&US)
1967: John Newcombe (AO&US)
1977: Guillermo Vilas (FO&US)
1978: Björn Borg (FO&WI)
1979: Björn Borg (FO&WI)
1980: Björn Borg (FO&US)
1981: John McEnroe (WI&US)
1982: Jimmy Connors (WI&US)
1984: John McEnroe (WI&US)
1986: Ivan Lendl (FO&US)
1987: Ivan Lendl (FO&US)
1989: Boris Becker (WI&US)
1992: Jim Courier (AO&FO)
1993: Pete Sampras (WI&US)
1994: Pete Sampras (AO&WI)
1995: Pete Sampras (WI&US)
1997: Pete Sampras (AO&WI)
1999: Andre Agassi (FO&US)
2005: Roger Federer (WI&US)
2008: Rafael Nadal (FO&WI)
2009: Roger Federer (FO&WI)

AC=Australasian/Australian Championships, AO=Australian Open, FC=French Championships, FO=French Open, WI=Wimbledon, US=U.S. National Championships/US Open

Wimbledon (Open Era) boys' singles champions

French Open men's singles champions

(1968) Ken Rosewall
(1969) Rod Laver
(1970) Jan Kodeš
(1971) Jan Kodeš
(1972) Andrés Gimeno
(1973) Ilie Năstase
(1974) Björn Borg
(1975) Björn Borg
(1976) Adriano Panatta
(1977) Guillermo Vilas
(1978) Björn Borg
(1979) Björn Borg
(1980) Björn Borg
(1981) Björn Borg
(1982) Mats Wilander
(1983) Yannick Noah
(1984) Ivan Lendl
(1985) Mats Wilander
(1986) Ivan Lendl
(1987) Ivan Lendl
(1988) Mats Wilander
(1989) Michael Chang
(1990) Andrés Gómez
(1991) Jim Courier
(1992) Jim Courier
(1993) Sergi Bruguera
(1994) Sergi Bruguera
(1995) Thomas Muster
(1996) Yevgeny Kafelnikov
(1997) Gustavo Kuerten
(1998) Carlos Moyà
(1999) Andre Agassi
(2000) Gustavo Kuerten
(2001) Gustavo Kuerten
(2002) Albert Costa
(2003) Juan Carlos Ferrero
(2004) Gastón Gaudio
(2005) Rafael Nadal
(2006) Rafael Nadal
(2007) Rafael Nadal
(2008) Rafael Nadal
(2009) Roger Federer
(2010) Rafael Nadal
(2011) Rafael Nadal

Wimbledon (Open Era) gentlemen's singles champions

(1968) Rod Laver
(1969) Rod Laver
(1970) John Newcombe
(1971) John Newcombe
(1972) Stan Smith
(1973) Jan Kodeš
(1974) Jimmy Connors
(1975) Arthur Ashe
(1976) Björn Borg
(1977) Björn Borg
(1978) Björn Borg
(1979) Björn Borg
(1980) Björn Borg
(1981) John McEnroe
(1982) Jimmy Connors
(1983) John McEnroe
(1984) John McEnroe
(1985) Boris Becker
(1986) Boris Becker
(1987) Pat Cash
(1988) Stefan Edberg
(1989) Boris Becker
(1990) Stefan Edberg
(1991) Michael Stich
(1992) Andre Agassi
(1993) Pete Sampras
(1994) Pete Sampras
(1995) Pete Sampras
(1996) Richard Krajicek
(1997) Pete Sampras
(1998) Pete Sampras
(1999) Pete Sampras
(2000) Pete Sampras
(2001) Goran Ivanišević
(2002) Lleyton Hewitt
(2003) Roger Federer
(2004) Roger Federer
(2005) Roger Federer
(2006) Roger Federer
(2007) Roger Federer
(2008) Rafael Nadal
(2009) Roger Federer
(2010) Rafael Nadal
(2011) Novak Djokovic

Björn Borg's Achievements

v t e Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World No. 1 singles players

Ilie Năstase (1973/1974 – 40 w) John Newcombe (1974 – 8 w) Jimmy Connors (1974/1983 – 268 w) Björn Borg (1977/1981 – 109 w) John McEnroe (1980/1985 – 170 w) Ivan Lendl (1983/1990 – 270 w) Mats Wilander (1988/1989 – 20 w) Stefan Edberg (1990/1992 – 72 w) Boris Becker (1991 – 12 w) Jim Courier (1992/1993 – 58 w) Pete Sampras (1993/2000 – 286 w) Andre Agassi (1995/2003 – 101 w) Thomas Muster (1996 – 6 w) Marcelo Ríos (1998 – 6 w) Carlos Moyá (1999 – 2 w) Yevgeny Kafelnikov (1999 – 6 w) Patrick Rafter (1999 – 1 w) Marat Safin (2000/2001 – 9 w) Gustavo Kuerten (2000/2001 – 43 w) Lleyton Hewitt (2001/2003 – 80 w) Juan Carlos Ferrero (2003 – 8 w) Andy Roddick (2003/2004 – 13 w) Roger Federer (2004/2010 – 285 w) Rafael Nadal (2008/2011 – 102 w) Novak Djokovic (2011/2012 – 48 w)

ATP singles rankings since inception on August 23, 1973 (year first held/year last held – number of weeks (w)) current No. 1 in bold, as of May 28, 2012

Year-end championships winners singles

(1970) Stan Smith
(1971) Ilie Năstase
(1972) Ilie Năstase
(1973) Ilie Năstase
(1974) Guillermo Vilas
(1975) Ilie Năstase
(1976) Manuel Orantes
(1977) Jimmy Connors
(1978) John McEnroe
(1979) Björn Borg
(1980) Björn Borg
(1981) Ivan Lendl
(1982) Ivan Lendl
(1983) John McEnroe
(1984) John McEnroe
(1985) Ivan Lendl
(1986) Ivan Lendl
(1987) Ivan Lendl
(1988) Boris Becker
(1989) Stefan Edberg
(1990) Andre Agassi
(1991) Pete Sampras
(1992) Boris Becker
(1993) Michael Stich
(1994) Pete Sampras
(1995) Boris Becker
(1996) Pete Sampras
(1997) Pete Sampras
(1998) Alex Corretja
(1999) Pete Sampras
(2000) Gustavo Kuerten
(2001) Lleyton Hewitt
(2002) Lleyton Hewitt
(2003) Roger Federer
(2004) Roger Federer
(2005) David Nalbandian
(2006) Roger Federer
(2007) Roger Federer
(2008) Novak Djokovic
(2009) Nikolay Davydenko
(2010) Roger Federer
(2011) Roger Federer

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John McEnroe
Singles

Country	United States
Residence	New York City
Born	(1959-02-16) February 16, 1959 (age 53) Wiesbaden, West Germany
Height	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)^[1]
Weight	165 lb (75 kg)
College	Stanford Cardinal
Turned pro	1978, international debut in 1976
Retired	1992
Plays	Left-handed (one-handed backhand)
Career prize money	US$12,547,797
Int. Tennis HOF	1999 (member page)
Career record	875–198 (81.55%)
Career titles	104 including 77 listed by the ATP
Highest ranking	No. 1 (March 3, 1980)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	SF (1983)
French Open	F (1984)
Wimbledon	W (1981, 1983, 1984)
US Open	W (1979, 1980, 1981, 1984)
Other tournaments
Tour Finals	Masters W (1978, 1983, 1984) WCT W (1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1989)
Doubles
Career record	530–103 (83.73%)
Career titles	71^[1]
Highest ranking	No. 1 (January 3, 1983)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	SF (1989)
French Open	QF (1992)
Wimbledon	W (1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1992)
US Open	W (1979, 1981, 1983, 1989)
Mixed Doubles
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
French Open	W (1977)
Last updated on: July 6, 2006.

John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. (born February 16, 1959) is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from the United States. During his career, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles (three at Wimbledon and four at the US Open), nine Grand Slam men's doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title. McEnroe also won a record eight season ending championships, comprising five WCT Finals titles and three Masters Grand Prix titles from twelve final appearances at these two events, a record he shares with Ivan Lendl. He posted the best single season win-loss record in the Open Era in 1984 at 96.47% (82/3). In addition he won 19 Championship Series top tier events of the Grand Prix Tour that were the precursors to the current Masters 1000.

He is best remembered for his shot-making artistry and superb volleying; for his famous rivalries with Björn Borg, Jimmy Connors and Ivan Lendl; for his confrontational on-court behavior which frequently landed him in trouble with umpires and tennis authorities; and for the catchphrase "You cannot be serious!" directed toward an umpire during a match at Wimbledon in 1981. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1999, and is regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.^[2]

McEnroe is the older brother of Patrick McEnroe, who is also a former professional tennis player and the former Captain of the United States Davis Cup team, a position in which John served previously. They also both are now often commentators for Grand Slam tennis television coverage in the United States, and John McEnroe is also a commentator on Wimbledon for the BBC.

Early life [link]

McEnroe was born in Wiesbaden, West Germany, to Kay (née Tresham) and John Patrick McEnroe, Sr.^[3] His father, who is of Irish descent, was at the time stationed with the United States Air Force.^[3] In 1960, the family moved to the New York City area, where McEnroe's father worked daytime as an advertising agent while attending Fordham Law School^[4] by night. He has two younger brothers: Mark (born 1964), and former professional tennis player Patrick (born 1966).

McEnroe grew up in Douglaston, Queens. He started playing tennis when he was eight years old at the nearby Douglaston Club with his brothers. When he was nine, his parents enrolled him in the Eastern Lawn Tennis Association, and he soon started playing regional tournaments. He then began competing in national juniors tournaments, and at twelve—when he was ranked seven in his age group—he joined the Port Washington Tennis Academy, Long Island, New York.^[5] McEnroe attended Trinity School and graduated in 1977.

Career [link]

As an 18-year-old amateur in 1977, McEnroe won the mixed doubles at the French Open with Mary Carillo, and then made it through the qualifying tournament and into the main draw at Wimbledon, where he lost in the semifinals to Jimmy Connors in four sets. It was the best performance by a qualifier at a Grand Slam tournament^[6] and a record performance by an amateur in the open era.^[6]

After Wimbledon in 1977, McEnroe entered Stanford University and won the National Collegiate Athletic Association singles and team titles in 1978. Later in 1978, he joined the ATP tour and signed his first professional endorsement deal, with Sergio Tacchini. He won five titles that year, including his first Masters Grand Prix, beating Arthur Ashe in straight sets.

In 1979, McEnroe won his first Grand Slam singles title at the US Open. He defeated his good friend Vitas Gerulaitis in straight sets in the final to become the youngest male winner of the singles title at the US Open since Pancho Gonzales, who was also 20 in 1948.^[7] He also won the prestigious season-ending WCT Finals, beating Björn Borg in four sets. McEnroe won 10 singles and 17 doubles titles that year (for a total of 27 titles, which marked an open-era record).^{[citation needed]}

At Wimbledon, McEnroe reached the 1980 Wimbledon Men's Singles final—his first final at Wimbledon—where he faced Björn Borg, who was gunning for his fifth consecutive Wimbledon title. At the start of the final, McEnroe was booed by the crowd as he entered Centre Court following heated exchanges with officials during his semifinal victory over Jimmy Connors. In a fourth-set tiebreaker that lasted 20 minutes, McEnroe saved five match points and eventually won 18–16. McEnroe, however, could not break Borg's serve in the fifth set, which the Swede won 8–6. This match was called the best Wimbledon final by ESPN's countdown show "Who's Number One?"

McEnroe demonstrating his swing at a Vanity Fair party in New York City.

McEnroe exacted revenge two months later, beating Borg in the five-set final of the 1980 US Open.

McEnroe remained controversial when he returned to Wimbledon in 1981. Following his first-round match against Tom Gullikson, McEnroe was fined U.S. $1,500 and came close to being thrown out after he called umpire Ted James "the pits of the world" and then swore at tournament referee Fred Hoyles. He also made famous the phrase "you cannot be serious", which years later would become the title of McEnroe's autobiography, by shouting it after several umpires' calls during his matches.^[8] This behavior was in sharp contrast to that of Borg, who was painted by the tabloid press as an unflappable "ice man."^{[citation needed]} Nevertheless, in matches played between the two, McEnroe never lost his temper.^[4]

However, despite the controversy and merciless criticism from the British press (Ian Barnes of the Daily Express nicknamed him "SuperBrat"), McEnroe again made the Wimbledon men's singles final against Borg. This time, McEnroe prevailed in four sets to end the Swede's run of 41 consecutive match victories at the All England Club. TV commentator Bud Collins quipped after the Independence Day battle, paraphrasing "Yankee Doodle", "Stick a feather in his cap and call it 'McEnroe-ni'!".^[9]

The controversy, however, did not end there. In response to McEnroe's on-court outbursts during the Championships, the All England Club did not accord McEnroe honorary club membership, an honor normally given to singles champions after their first victory. McEnroe responded by not attending the traditional champions' dinner that evening. He told the press: "I wanted to spend the evening with my family and friends and the people who had supported me, not a bunch of stiffs who are 70–80 years old, telling you that you're acting like a jerk." The honor was eventually accorded to McEnroe after he won the championship again.

Borg and McEnroe had their final confrontation in the final of the 1981 US Open. McEnroe won in four sets, becoming the first male player since the 1920s to win three consecutive US Open singles titles. Borg never played another Grand Slam event. McEnroe also won his second WCT Final, beating Johan Kriek in straight sets.

McEnroe lost to Jimmy Connors in the 1982 Wimbledon final. McEnroe lost only one set (to Johan Kriek) going into the final; however, Connors won the fourth-set tiebreak and the fifth set.

In 1983, McEnroe reached his fourth consecutive Wimbledon final, dropping only one set throughout the tournament (to Florin Segărceanu) and sweeping aside the unheralded New Zealander Chris Lewis in straight-sets. He also played at the Australian Open for the first time, making it to the semifinals, before being defeated in four sets by Mats Wilander. He made the WCT Final for the third time and beat Ivan Lendl in an epic five setter. He took the Masters Grand Prix title for the second time, again beating Lendl in straight sets.

At the 1984 French Open, McEnroe lost a close final match to Ivan Lendl. McEnroe was on the verge of beating Lendl after winning the first two sets, but Lendl's decision to use more topspin lobs and cross-court backhand passing shots, as well as fatigue and temperamental outbursts, got the better of McEnroe, allowing Lendl to win a dramatic five-setter. The loss ended a 42-match winning streak since the start of the season and was the closest McEnroe ever came to winning the French Open. In his autobiography, McEnroe described this loss as his bitterest defeat and conveyed the impression that this was a shadow on his career that could never be chased off.

In the 1984 Wimbledon final, McEnroe played a virtually flawless match to defeat Connors in just 80 minutes, 6–1, 6–1, 6–2. That was McEnroe's third and final Wimbledon singles title. Again McEnroe had won Wimbledon while dropping just one set throughout the entire tournament, this time to Paul McNamee.

McEnroe won his fourth US Open title in 1984 by defeating Lendl in straight sets in the final, after defeating Connors in a five-set semifinal.

He won his fourth WCT Final, defeating Connors in five sets, and took his third Masters Grand Prix, beating Ivan Lendl in straight sets.

1984 was McEnroe's best year on the tennis tour, as he compiled an 82–3 record^[4] and won a career-high 13 singles tournaments, including Wimbledon and the US Open. He also was on the winning US World Team Cup and runner-up Davis Cup teams. The only male who has come close to matching McEnroe's 1984 win-loss record since then was Roger Federer in 2005. Federer was 81–3 before losing his last match of the year to David Nalbandian in five sets.

McEnroe's 1984 season did not end without controversy. While playing and winning the tournament in Stockholm, McEnroe had an on-court outburst that became notorious in sports highlight reels. After questioning a call made by the chair umpire, McEnroe demanded, "Answer the question, jerk!" McEnroe then slammed his racquet into a juice cart beside the court. He was suspended for 21 days for exceeding a $7,500 limit on fines that had been created because of his behavior.^[4]

In 1985, McEnroe reached his last Grand Slam singles final at the US Open. This time, he was beaten in straight sets by Lendl.

Taking time out [link]

By 1986, the pressures of playing at the top had become too much for McEnroe to handle, and he took a six-month break from the tour. It was during this sabbatical that on August 1, 1986, he married actress Tatum O'Neal, with whom he had already had a son, Kevin (born May 23, 1986). They had two more children, Sean (born September 23, 1987) and Emily (born May 10, 1991), before divorcing in 1994. When he returned to the tour later in 1986, he won three ATP tournaments, but in 1987 he failed to win a title for the first time since turning pro. He took a seven-month break from the game following the US Open, where he was suspended for two months and fined US$17,500 for misconduct and verbal abuse.

Style of play [link]

A left hander, McEnroe played a Continental forehand, which by the 1980s had almost completely disappeared from the professional tour due to the high level of touch needed to master this shot, especially in on-the-run situations. His backhand was similarly Continental and one-handed. His serve was unique in tennis. McEnroe would stand at least a meter from the center of the court with his back almost entirely to his opponent, thereby frustrating attempts at guessing whether he would pull the serve wide or jam his opponent. Few, including Pete Sampras, have managed to generate the extreme slice which sent his serve skidding low and wide. McEnroe was not known for a power game, but rather for his serve and volley mastery, a style of play that faded in the 2000s with the advent of rackets and courts that enhanced the return of serve and made approaches to the net following a serve problematic for even the finest exponents of the craft. He possesses an excellent net game, in which he can redirect powerful shots from his opponents to the open court or use his finesse to execute drop-volleys.

World No. 1 ranking [link]

According to the Association of Tennis Professionals, McEnroe became the top-ranked singles player in the world on March 3, 1980.^[10] He was the top ranked player on 14 separate occasions between 1980 and 1985 and finished the year ranked World No. 1 four straight years from 1981 through 1984. He spent a total of 170 weeks at the top of the rankings.

Success in doubles [link]

McEnroe has been called "the greatest doubles player of all time" and "possibly the greatest team player never to have played a team sport."^[4] He was ranked the World No. 1 in doubles for 270 weeks. He formed a powerful partnership with Peter Fleming, with whom he won 57 men's doubles titles, including four at Wimbledon and three at the US Open. (Fleming was always very modest about his own contribution to the partnership – he once said "the best doubles partnership in the world is McEnroe and anybody.")^[4] McEnroe won a fourth US Open men's doubles title in 1989 with Mark Woodforde, and a fifth Wimbledon men's doubles title in 1992 with Michael Stich. He also won the 1977 French Open mixed doubles title with childhood friend Mary Carillo. McEnroe got along well with his childhood friend Mary Carillo.

Davis Cup [link]

More than any other player in his era, McEnroe was responsible for reviving U.S. interest in the Davis Cup,^[4] which had been shunned by Jimmy Connors and other leading U.S. players, and had not seen a top U.S. player regularly compete since Arthur Ashe (Connors' refusal to play Davis Cup in lieu of lucrative exhibitions became a source of enmity between him and Ashe). In 1978, McEnroe won two singles rubbers in the final as the U.S. captured the cup for the first time since 1972, beating the United Kingdom in the final. McEnroe continued to be a mainstay of U.S. Davis Cup teams for the next 14 years and was part of U.S. winning teams in 1979, 1981, 1982, and 1992. He set numerous U.S. Davis Cup records, including years played (12), ties (30), singles wins (41), and total wins in singles and doubles (59). He played both singles and doubles in 13 series, and he and Peter Fleming won 14 of 15 Davis Cup doubles matches together.

An epic performance was McEnroe's 6-hour, 22-minute victory over Mats Wilander in the deciding rubber of the 3–2 quarterfinal win over Sweden in 1982, played in St. Louis, Missouri. McEnroe won the match, at the time the longest in Davis Cup history, 9–7, 6–2, 15–17, 3–6, 8–6.

McEnroe nearly broke that record in a 6-hour, 20-minute loss to Boris Becker five years later. Becker won their match, the second rubber in a 3–2 loss to West Germany in World Group Relegation play, 4–6, 15–13, 8–10, 6–2, 6–2.

McEnroe also helped the U.S. win the World Team Cup in 1984 and 1985.

Final years on the tour [link]

McEnroe struggled to regain his form after his 1986 sabbatical. He lost three times in Grand Slam tournaments to Ivan Lendl, losing straight-set quarterfinals at both the 1987 US Open and the 1989 Australian Open and a long four-set match, played over two days, in the fourth round of the 1988 French Open. Rumors of drug abuse had begun during his second sabbatical. McEnroe denied them at the time, but acknowledged that he had used cocaine during his career in a 2000 interview that implied that the use occurred during this period, although he denied that the drug affected his play.^[4]

Nevertheless McEnroe had multiple notable victories in the final years of his career. In the 1988 French Open, McEnroe crushed 16-year old Michael Chang 6–0, 6–3, 6–1 in the third round; Chang would go on to win the title the next year. In 1989, McEnroe won a record fifth title at the World Championship Tennis Finals (the championship tournament of the WCT tour, which was being staged for the last time), defeating top-ranked Lendl in the semifinals. At Wimbledon, he defeated Mats Wilander in a four-set quarterfinal before losing to Stefan Edberg in a semifinal. He won the RCA Championships in Indianapolis and reached the final of the Canadian Open, where he lost to Lendl. He also won both of his singles rubbers in the quarterfinal Davis Cup tie with Sweden.

Controversy was never far from McEnroe, however; in his fourth round match against Mikael Pernfors at the 1990 Australian Open, McEnroe was ejected from the tournament^[4] for swearing at the umpire, supervisor, and referee. He was warned by the umpire for intimidating a lineswoman, and then docked a point for smashing a racket. McEnroe was apparently unaware that a new Code of Conduct, which had been introduced just before the tournament, meant that a third code violation would not lead to the deduction of a game but instead would result in immediate disqualification; therefore, when McEnroe unleashed a volley of abuse at umpire Gerry Armstrong, he was defaulted. He was fined $65,000 for the incidents.

Later that year, McEnroe reached the semifinals of the US Open, losing to the eventual champion, Pete Sampras in four sets. He also won the Davidoff Swiss Indoors in Basel, defeating Goran Ivanišević in a five-set final. The last time McEnroe was ranked in the world top ten was on October 22, 1990, when he was ranked 9th. His end-of-year singles ranking was 13th.

In 1991, McEnroe won the last edition of the Volvo Tennis-Chicago tournament by defeating his brother Patrick in the final. He won both of his singles rubbers in the quarterfinal Davis Cup tie with Spain. And he reached the fourth round at Wimbledon (losing to Edberg) and the third round at the US Open (losing to Chang in a five-set night match). His end-of-year singles ranking was 28th in the world.

In 1992, McEnroe defeated third-ranked and defending champion Boris Becker in the third round of the Australian Open 6–4, 6–3, 7–5 before a sell-out crowd. In the fourth round, McEnroe needed 4 hours 42 minutes to defeat ninth ranked Emilio Sánchez 8–6 in the fifth set. He lost to Wayne Ferreira in the quarterfinals. At Wimbledon, McEnroe reached the semifinals where he lost in straight sets to the eventual champion Andre Agassi. McEnroe teamed with Michael Stich to win his fifth Wimbledon men's doubles title in a record-length 5 hour 1 minute final, which the pair won 5–7, 7–6, 3–6, 7–6, 19–17. At the end of the year, he teamed with Sampras to win the doubles rubber in the Davis Cup final, where the U.S. defeated Switzerland 3–1.

McEnroe retired from the professional tour at the end of 1992. He ended his singles career ranked 20th in the world.

After retirement from the tour [link]

McEnroe separated from O'Neal in 1992, and divorced in 1994. He married musician Patty Smyth in April 1997, with whom he has two daughters, Anna (16) and Ava (13), and one stepdaughter, Ruby (26) from Smyth's previous marriage to rock star Richard Hell.

McEnroe met Smyth while pursuing his post-tour goal of becoming a rock star. He had learned to play guitar with the help of friends like Eddie Van Halen and Eric Clapton. During his divorce, McEnroe formed The Johnny Smyth Band with himself as lead singer and guitarist, began writing songs, and played small gigs in cities where he played with the senior tour. Although Lars Ulrich complimented his "natural instinct for music", a bar owner where McEnroe's band played said that "he couldn't sing to save his life." The band toured for two years, but McEnroe suddenly quit in 1997 just before finishing his first album.^[4]

McEnroe was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1999. He now works as a sports commentator in tennis and has regularly appeared in US national telecasts of Grand Slam tennis matches on such networks as CBS, NBC, USA, and ESPN, as has his brother Patrick. He also commentates on Wimbledon for the BBC in the UK.

John McEnroe, Madrid Masters Senior 2007

McEnroe became the U.S. Davis Cup captain in September 1999. His team barely escaped defeat in their first two outings in 2000, beating Zimbabwe and the Czech Republic in tight 3–2 encounters. They were then defeated 5–0 by Spain in the semifinals. McEnroe resigned in November 2000 after 14 months as captain, citing frustration with the Davis Cup schedule and format as two of his primary reasons. His brother Patrick took over the job.

In July 2004, McEnroe began a CNBC talk show entitled McEnroe. The show, however, was unsuccessful, twice earning a 0.0 Nielsen rating, and was cancelled within five months. He also hosted The Chair quiz show in both the U.K. and the U.S., but this venture also was unsuccessful. In 2002, McEnroe played himself in Mr. Deeds and again in 2008 in You Don't Mess with the Zohan. McEnroe played himself in the 2004 movie Wimbledon.

McEnroe is active in philanthropy and tennis development. For years he has co-chaired the CityParks Tennis charity benefit, an annual fundraiser produced by the City Parks Foundation. The charitable event raises crucial funds for New York City's largest municipal youth tennis programs. He collects American contemporary art, and opened a gallery in Manhattan in 1993.^[4]

McEnroe still plays regularly on the ATP Champions Tour. His most recent victory came at the Jean-Luc Lagardere Trophy in Paris in 2010, where he defeated Guy Forget in the final. Playing on the Champions Tour allows him to continue his most iconic rivalries with old adversaries Ivan Lendl and Bjorn Borg.

He is a TV commentator at major tournaments. In charity events and World Team Tennis, he has beaten many top players, including Mardy Fish and Mark Philippoussis.

In 2007, McEnroe appeared on the NBC comedy 30 Rock as the host of a game show called "Gold Case" in which he uttered his famous line "You cannot be serious!" when a taping went awry. McEnroe also appeared on the HBO comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm.

John McEnroe, Champions Cup Boston 2007

In 2009, McEnroe appeared on 30 Rock again, in the episode Gavin Voloure, where Steve Martin (playing the title character) invites him to dinner because he is of the world of "Art critique and yelling."

During the 2009 US Open, McEnroe and Serbian star Novak Djokovic shared a comic on-court moment after Djokovic's fourth-round win over Radek Štěpánek. Djokovic, known for his off-court impersonations of other star players (many of them his friends), mimicked McEnroe's pre-service ritual and some of his best-known antics before motioning McEnroe to come down from the press box to join him. McEnroe loosened his shirt, grabbed a racquet, and then proceeded to mimic Djokovic's pre-serve ritual. The two then played a few points, ending with McEnroe hitting a winning cross-court volley; they then congratulated one another at the net.^[11]

Return to the tour [link]

McEnroe returned to the ATP Tour in 2006 to play two doubles tournaments.

In his first tournament, he teamed with Jonas Björkman to win the title at the SAP Open in San Jose.^[12] This was McEnroe's first title since capturing the Paris Indoor doubles title in November 1992 with his brother Patrick. The win meant that McEnroe had won doubles titles in four different decades and surpassed Tom Okker for the second highest number (71) of doubles titles in history (trailing Todd Woodbridge).

In his second tournament, McEnroe and Björkman lost in the quarter-finals of the tournament in Stockholm.

Career statistics [link]

Main article: John McEnroe career statistics

Grand Slam singles tournament timeline [link]

Key

SF-B

NMS

Tournament	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open							SF		QF	NH			QF	4R		QF	0 / 5	18–5	78.26
French Open	2R			3R	QF		QF	F	SF		1R	4R			1R	1R	0 / 10	25–10	71.43
Wimbledon	SF	1R	4R	F	W	F	W	W	QF			2R	SF	1R	4R	SF	3 / 14	59–11	84.29
US Open	4R	SF	W	W	W	SF	4R	W	F	1R	QF	2R	2R	SF	3R	4R	4 / 16	66–12	84.62
Win–Loss	9–3	5–2	9–1	15–2	18–1	11–2	18–3	20–1	18–4	0–1	4–2	5–3	10–3	8–3	5–3	12–4	7 / 45	168–38	81.55
Year End Championships
The Masters		W	SF	RR	SF	F	W	W	1R				SF				3 / 9	19–11	63.33
WCT Finals			W	F	W	F	W	W	QF		F		W				5 / 9	21–4	84.00
Win–Loss			8–0	4–3	3–3	4–3	5–1	6–0	3–1	0–1	2–1		5–2				8 / 18	40–15	72.73
Year End Ranking	21	4	3	2	1	1	1	1	2	14	10	11	4	13	28	20	$12,547,797

Records [link]

These records were attained in the Open Era of tennis.
Combined tours include the Association of Tennis Professionals, the Grand Prix Circuit and World Championship Tennis.

Championship	Years	Record accomplished	Player tied
US Open	1979–89	8 singles and doubles titles	Stands alone
Grand Slam	1984	89.9% (62–7) sets winning percentage in 1 season	Stands alone
Combined year end championships WCT ATP	1980–88	12 singles finals overall	Ivan Lendl
Combined year end championships	1979–88	8 singles titles overall	Stands alone
Grand Prix Tour Finals	1983	Won championship without losing a set	Ivan Lendl
WCT Tour Finals	1979–85	5 titles overall	Stands alone
WCT Tour Finals	1983–84	2 consecutive titles	Ken Rosewall
WCT Tour Finals	1979–89	8 finals overall	Stands alone
WCT Tour Finals	1979–84	6 consecutive finals	Stands alone
Combined Tours	1978–92	148 singles and doubles titles	Stands alone
Grand Prix Championship Series	1982	Carpet Triple (London, Philadelphia and Tokyo)	Stands alone
Grand Prix Championship Series	1984	Hard Triple (Forest Hills, Toronto and Stockholm)	Stands alone
Grand Prix Tour	1979	27 singles and doubles titles in 1 season	Stands alone
Grand Prix Tour	1979	16 doubles titles in 1 season	Stands alone
Grand Prix Tour Wembley	1978–84	5 titles overall	Stands alone
Grand Prix Tour	1981–82	8 consecutive titles	Ivan Lendl
Grand Prix Tour	1984	96.47% (82–3) single season match winning percentage	Stands alone
Grand Prix Tour	1978–91	346 carpet court match wins	Stands alone
Grand Prix Tour	1983–85	66 consecutive carpet court match victories	Ivan Lendl
Grand Prix Tour	1978–91	84.18% (346–64) carpet court match winning percentage^[13]	Stands alone
Grand Prix Tour	1978–91	85.34% (419–72) indoor court match winning percentage^[14]	Stands alone
Grand Prix Tour	1982–89	19 finals against same player (Ivan Lendl)	Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal
No. 1 Ranking	1982–84	108 consecutive weeks at No. 1 in doubles	Stands alone
No. 1 Ranking	1984	Achieved both singles and doubles simultaneously	Stands alone
No. 1 Ranking	1978–92	Achieved both singles and doubles	Stefan Edberg
Most consecutive wins from beginning of season	1984	42 consecutive matches won	Stands alone

Time span	Record with Peter Fleming	Players matched
1978–84	7 Grand Prix Tour Finals doubles titles consecutive and overall	Peter Fleming
1978–84	7 Grand Prix Tour Finals doubles titles consecutive and overall as a team	Stands alone
1979	14 doubles titles in 1 season as a team	Stands alone

Professional awards [link]

ITF World Champion:1981, 1983, 1984
ATP player of the year: 1981, 1983, 1984
ATP most improved player: 1978
World Number 1 Male Player

Pop-culture appearances [link]

McEnroe's fiery temper led to him being parodied in pop culture. In 1982, British impressionist Roger Kitter made a record called "Chalk Dust: The Umpire Strikes Back" in which he parodied McEnroe losing his temper during a match. Kitter made the record as "The Brat" and it reached the UK Top 20.
His bursts of rage were parodied in the satirical British program Spitting Image, on which he and wife Tatum frequently screamed and threw things at each other. He was also lampooned in the Australian The Paul Hogan Show, in which Paul Hogan played "John MacEnhoax" who used a handshake to fling his opponent, destroying a tennis court.
Punk band End of a Year references his famous temper in the song "McEnroe".

Television and filmography [link]

Year	Production	Role	Notes
1996	Arliss	Himself	Episode: "Crossing the Line"
1997	Suddenly Susan	Himself	Episode: "I'll See That and Raise You Susan"
1998	Frasier	Patrick (radio show caller)	Episode: "Sweet Dreams"
2002	The Chair	Himself	Hosted for 13 episodes
2002	Mr. Deeds	Himself
2003	Anger Management	Himself
2003	Saturday Night Live	Himself	Episode 552, broadcast November 8
2004	Wimbledon	Himself/commentator
2006	Parkinson	Himself	broadcast December 16
2007	30 Rock	Himself	Episode: “The Head and the Hair”
	WFAN Breakfast Show	Himself	Co-hosted with brother Patrick on May 8 and 9
	CSI: NY	Himself	Episode: “Comes Around”^[15]
	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Himself	Episode: “The Freak Book”
2008	30 Rock	Himself	Episode: "Gavin Volure"
2008	You Don't Mess with the Zohan	Himself
2009	Penn & Teller: Bullshit!	Himself	“Stress”
2010	Saturday Night Live	Uncredited	Episode 692, broadcast December 18
2010	The Lonely Island	Himself	"I Just Had Sex"
2012	30 Rock	Himself	Episode: “Dance Like Nobody's Watching”
2012	Saturday Night Live	Himself	Episode 719, broadcast March 10

| 2012 | "Jack & Jill" | Himself

References [link]

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^ ^a ^b Player Profile
^ "Top 10 Men's Tennis Players of All Time". Sports Illustrated. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1009/top.ten.tennis/content.1.html. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
^ ^a ^b McEnroe, with Kaplan, 2002, Serious, p. 17-18.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Rubinstein, Julian. "Being John McEnroe" The New York Times Magazine, January 30, 2000.
^ McEnroe, with Kaplan, 2002, Serious, p. 24-25.
^ ^a ^b "ATP Player Profile". ATP. http://www.atpworldtour.com/Tennis/Players/Mc/J/John-Mcenroe.aspx. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
^ Pete Sampras eventually became the youngest US Open Champion at 19 years old.
^ "John McEnroe: 'I am being deadly serious... Murray is a kindred spirit'". The Independent. June 15, 2011. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/john-mcenroe-i-am-being-deadly-serious-murray-is-a-kindred-spirit-2297421.html. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
^ ESPN Classic – McEnroe was McNasty on and off the court
^ "Player Profile. John McEnroe (USA)". ATPWorldTour.com. http://www.atpworldtour.com/tennis/5/en/players/playerprofiles/default.asp?playernumber=M047. Retrieved April 17, 2009.
^ Slater, Jim, AFP (September 8, 2009). "Djokovic, McEnroe share magic mimic moment". Google News. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hwoHMdD0jBE0w1mvFUSVX9QN1Sbg. Retrieved September 13, 2009.
^ "McEnroe hasn't lost his touch or tongue". The Hindu. February 21, 2006. http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/21/stories/2006022100112100.htm. Retrieved April 17, 2009.
^ "FedEx ATP Reliability Index – Winning percentage on Carpet". ATPWorldTour.com. http://www.atpworldtour.com/Reliability-Zone/Reliability-Carpet-Career-List.aspx. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
^ "FedEx ATP Reliability Index – Winning percentage Indoor". ATPWorldTour.com. http://www.atpworldtour.com/Reliability-Zone/Reliability-Indoor-Career-List.aspx. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
^ Episode "Comes Around" –Season 3, Episode 23

Video [link]

The Wimbledon Collection – Legends of Wimbledon – John McEnroe Standing Room Only, DVD Release Date: September 21, 2004, Run Time: 52 minutes, ASIN: B0002HOD9U
The Wimbledon Collection – The Classic Match – Borg vs. McEnroe 1981 Final Standing Room Only, DVD Release Date: September 21, 2004, Run Time: 210 minutes, ASIN: B0002HODAE
The Wimbledon Collection – The Classic Match – Borg vs. McEnroe 1980 Final Standing Room Only, DVD Release Date: September 21, 2004, Run Time: 240 minutes; ASIN: B0002HOEK8
Charlie Rose with John McEnroe (February 4, 1999) Charlie Rose, DVD Release Date: September 18, 2006, ASIN: B000IU3342

External links [link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: John McEnroe

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: John McEnroe

John McEnroe at the Association of Tennis Professionals
John McEnroe at the International Tennis Federation
John McEnroe at the Davis Cup
John McEnroe at the International Tennis Hall of Fame
Official Wimbledon website profile
BBC profile
John McEnroe's ESPN Bio
John McEnroe at the Internet Movie Database

John McEnroe (Achievement precedessor & successor)

Sporting positions
Preceded by Björn Borg Björn Borg Björn Borg Björn Borg Jimmy Connors Jimmy Connors Jimmy Connors Jimmy Connors Jimmy Connors Ivan Lendl Ivan Lendl Ivan Lendl Ivan Lendl Ivan Lendl	World No. 1 March 3, 1980 - March 23, 1980 August 11, 1980 - August 17, 1980 July 6, 1981 - July 19, 1981 August 3, 1981 - September 12, 1982 November 1, 1982 - November 7, 1982 November 15, 1982 - January 30, 1983 February 7, 1983 - February 13, 1983 June 6, 1983 - June 12, 1983 July 4, 1983 - October 30, 1983 December 12, 1983 - January 8, 1984 March 12, 1984 - June 10, 1984 June 18, 1984 - July 8, 1984 August 13, 1984 - August 18, 1985 August 26, 1985 - September 8, 1985	Succeeded by Björn Borg Björn Borg Björn Borg Jimmy Connors Jimmy Connors Jimmy Connors Jimmy Connors Jimmy Connors Ivan Lendl Ivan Lendl Ivan Lendl Ivan Lendl Ivan Lendl Ivan Lendl
Preceded by Björn Borg Jimmy Connors	ITF World Champion 1981 1983-1984	Succeeded by Jimmy Connors Ivan Lendl
Preceded by First season Petr Korda	ATP Champions Tour Year-End No.1 1998-2001 2003	Succeeded by Petr Korda Jim Courier
Awards and achievements
Preceded by Brian Gottfried	ATP Most Improved Player 1978	Succeeded by Víctor Pecci
Preceded by U.S. Olympic hockey team	Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year 1981	Succeeded by Wayne Gretzky
Preceded by Alan Hansen	RTS Television Sport Awards Best Sports Pundit 2001	Succeeded by Simon Hughes

v t e Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World No. 1 singles players

Ilie Năstase (1973/1974 – 40 w) John Newcombe (1974 – 8 w) Jimmy Connors (1974/1983 – 268 w) Björn Borg (1977/1981 – 109 w) John McEnroe (1980/1985 – 170 w) Ivan Lendl (1983/1990 – 270 w) Mats Wilander (1988/1989 – 20 w) Stefan Edberg (1990/1992 – 72 w) Boris Becker (1991 – 12 w) Jim Courier (1992/1993 – 58 w) Pete Sampras (1993/2000 – 286 w) Andre Agassi (1995/2003 – 101 w) Thomas Muster (1996 – 6 w) Marcelo Ríos (1998 – 6 w) Carlos Moyá (1999 – 2 w) Yevgeny Kafelnikov (1999 – 6 w) Patrick Rafter (1999 – 1 w) Marat Safin (2000/2001 – 9 w) Gustavo Kuerten (2000/2001 – 43 w) Lleyton Hewitt (2001/2003 – 80 w) Juan Carlos Ferrero (2003 – 8 w) Andy Roddick (2003/2004 – 13 w) Roger Federer (2004/2010 – 285 w) Rafael Nadal (2008/2011 – 102 w) Novak Djokovic (2011/2012 – 48 w)

ATP singles rankings since inception on August 23, 1973 (year first held/year last held – number of weeks (w)) current No. 1 in bold, as of May 28, 2012

John McEnroe in Grand Slam Tournaments

Men’s tennis players who won two or more Grand Slam singles titles in one calendar year

Four wins

1938: Don Budge (AC&FC&WI&US) 1962: Rod Laver (AC&FC&WI&US) 1969: Rod Laver (AO&FO&WI&US)

Three wins

1933: Jack Crawford (AC&FC&WI)
1934: Fred Perry (AC&WI&US)
1955: Tony Trabert (FO&WI&US)
1956: Lew Hoad (AO&FO&WI)
1958: Ashley Cooper (AC&WI&US)
1964: Roy Emerson (AC&WI&US)
1974: Jimmy Connors (AO&WI&US)
1988: Mats Wilander (AO&FO&US)
2004: Roger Federer (AO&WI&US)
2006: Roger Federer (AO&WI&US)
2007: Roger Federer (AO&WI&US)
2010: Rafael Nadal (FO&WI&US)
2011: Novak Djokovic (AO&WI&US)

Two wins

1903: Laurence Doherty (WI&US)
1920: Bill Tilden (WI&US)
1921: Bill Tilden (WI&US)
1925: René Lacoste (FC&WI)
1927: René Lacoste (FC&US)
1928: Henri Cochet (FC&US)
1932: Ellsworth Vines (WI&US)
1935: Fred Perry (FC&WI)
1936: Fred Perry (WI&US)
1937: Don Budge (WI&US)
1939: Bobby Riggs (WI&US)
1947: Jack Kramer (WI&US)
1950: Budge Patty (FC&WI)
1951: Dick Savitt (AC&WI))
1952: Frank Sedgman (WI&US)
1953: Ken Rosewall (AC&FO)
1959: Alex Olmedo (AC&WI)
1960: Neale Fraser (WI&US)
1961: Roy Emerson (AC&US)
1963: Roy Emerson (AC&FC)
1965: Roy Emerson (AC&WI)
1967: Roy Emerson (AC&FC)
1967: John Newcombe (WI&US)
1967: John Newcombe (AO&US)
1977: Guillermo Vilas (FO&US)
1978: Björn Borg (FO&WI)
1979: Björn Borg (FO&WI)
1980: Björn Borg (FO&US)
1981: John McEnroe (WI&US)
1982: Jimmy Connors (WI&US)
1984: John McEnroe (WI&US)
1986: Ivan Lendl (FO&US)
1987: Ivan Lendl (FO&US)
1989: Boris Becker (WI&US)
1992: Jim Courier (AO&FO)
1993: Pete Sampras (WI&US)
1994: Pete Sampras (AO&WI)
1995: Pete Sampras (WI&US)
1997: Pete Sampras (AO&WI)
1999: Andre Agassi (FO&US)
2005: Roger Federer (WI&US)
2008: Rafael Nadal (FO&WI)
2009: Roger Federer (FO&WI)

AC=Australasian/Australian Championships, AO=Australian Open, FC=French Championships, FO=French Open, WI=Wimbledon, US=U.S. National Championships/US Open

French Open boys' singles champions

Wimbledon (Open Era) gentlemen's singles champions

(1968) Rod Laver
(1969) Rod Laver
(1970) John Newcombe
(1971) John Newcombe
(1972) Stan Smith
(1973) Jan Kodeš
(1974) Jimmy Connors
(1975) Arthur Ashe
(1976) Björn Borg
(1977) Björn Borg
(1978) Björn Borg
(1979) Björn Borg
(1980) Björn Borg
(1981) John McEnroe
(1982) Jimmy Connors
(1983) John McEnroe
(1984) John McEnroe
(1985) Boris Becker
(1986) Boris Becker
(1987) Pat Cash
(1988) Stefan Edberg
(1989) Boris Becker
(1990) Stefan Edberg
(1991) Michael Stich
(1992) Andre Agassi
(1993) Pete Sampras
(1994) Pete Sampras
(1995) Pete Sampras
(1996) Richard Krajicek
(1997) Pete Sampras
(1998) Pete Sampras
(1999) Pete Sampras
(2000) Pete Sampras
(2001) Goran Ivanišević
(2002) Lleyton Hewitt
(2003) Roger Federer
(2004) Roger Federer
(2005) Roger Federer
(2006) Roger Federer
(2007) Roger Federer
(2008) Rafael Nadal
(2009) Roger Federer
(2010) Rafael Nadal
(2011) Novak Djokovic

US Open men's singles champions

(1968) Arthur Ashe
(1969) Rod Laver
(1970) Ken Rosewall
(1971) Stan Smith
(1972) Ilie Năstase
(1973) John Newcombe
(1974) Jimmy Connors
(1975) Manuel Orantes
(1976) Jimmy Connors
(1977) Guillermo Vilas
(1978) Jimmy Connors
(1979) John McEnroe
(1980) John McEnroe
(1981) John McEnroe
(1982) Jimmy Connors
(1983) Jimmy Connors
(1984) John McEnroe
(1985) Ivan Lendl
(1986) Ivan Lendl
(1987) Ivan Lendl
(1988) Mats Wilander
(1989) Boris Becker
(1990) Pete Sampras
(1991) Stefan Edberg
(1992) Stefan Edberg
(1993) Pete Sampras
(1994) Andre Agassi
(1995) Pete Sampras
(1996) Pete Sampras
(1997) Patrick Rafter
(1998) Patrick Rafter
(1999) Andre Agassi
(2000) Marat Safin
(2001) Lleyton Hewitt
(2002) Pete Sampras
(2003) Andy Roddick
(2004) Roger Federer
(2005) Roger Federer
(2006) Roger Federer
(2007) Roger Federer
(2008) Roger Federer
(2009) Juan Martín del Potro
(2010) Rafael Nadal
(2011) Novak Djokovic

Wimbledon (Open Era) gentlemen's doubles champions

(1968) John Newcombe / Tony Roche
(1969) John Newcombe / Tony Roche
(1970) John Newcombe / Tony Roche
(1971) Roy Emerson / Rod Laver
(1972) Bob Hewitt / Frew McMillan
(1973) Jimmy Connors / Ilie Năstase
(1974) John Newcombe / Tony Roche
(1975) Vitas Gerulaitis / Gene Mayer
(1976) Brian Gottfried / Raúl Ramírez
(1977) Ross Case / Geoff Masters
(1978) Bob Hewitt / Frew McMillan
(1979) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1980) Peter McNamara / Paul McNamee
(1981) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1982) Peter McNamara / Paul McNamee
(1983) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1984) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1985) Heinz Günthardt / Balázs Taróczy
(1986) Joakim Nyström / Mats Wilander
(1987) Ken Flach / Robert Seguso
(1988) Ken Flach / Robert Seguso
(1989) John Fitzgerald / Anders Järryd
(1990) Rick Leach / Jim Pugh
(1991) John Fitzgerald / Anders Järryd
(1992) John McEnroe / Michael Stich
(1993) Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
(1994) Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
(1995) Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
(1996) Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
(1997) Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
(1998) Jacco Eltingh / Paul Haarhuis
(1999) Mahesh Bhupathi / Leander Paes
(2000) Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
(2001) Donald Johnson / Jared Palmer
(2002) Jonas Björkman / Todd Woodbridge
(2003) Jonas Björkman / Todd Woodbridge
(2004) Jonas Björkman / Todd Woodbridge
(2005) Stephen Huss / Wesley Moodie
(2006) Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan
(2007) Arnaud Clément / Michaël Llodra
(2008) Daniel Nestor / Nenad Zimonjić
(2009) Daniel Nestor / Nenad Zimonjić
(2010) Jürgen Melzer / Philipp Petzschner
(2011) Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan

US Open men's doubles champions

(1968) Bob Lutz / Stan Smith
(1969) Ken Rosewall / Fred Stolle
(1970) Pierre Barthès / Nikola Pilić
(1971) John Newcombe / Roger Taylor
(1972) Cliff Drysdale / Roger Taylor
(1973) Owen Davidson / John Newcombe
(1974) Bob Lutz / Stan Smith
(1975) Jimmy Connors / Ilie Năstase
(1976) Tom Okker / Marty Riessen
(1977) Bob Hewitt / Frew McMillan
(1978) Bob Lutz / Stan Smith
(1979) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1980) Bob Lutz / Stan Smith
(1981) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1982) Kevin Curren / Steve Denton
(1983) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1984) John Fitzgerald / Tomáš Šmíd
(1985) Ken Flach / Robert Seguso
(1986) Andrés Gómez / Slobodan Živojinović
(1987) Stefan Edberg / Anders Järryd
(1988) Sergio Casal / Emilio Sánchez
(1989) John McEnroe / Mark Woodforde
(1990) Pieter Aldrich / Danie Visser
(1991) John Fitzgerald / Anders Järryd
(1992) Jim Grabb / Richey Reneberg
(1993) Ken Flach / Rick Leach
(1994) Jacco Eltingh / Paul Haarhuis
(1995) Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
(1996) Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
(1997) Yevgeny Kafelnikov / Daniel Vacek
(1998) Sandon Stolle / Cyril Suk
(1999) Sébastien Lareau / Alex O'Brien
(2000) Lleyton Hewitt / Max Mirnyi
(2001) Wayne Black / Kevin Ullyett
(2002) Mahesh Bhupathi / Max Mirnyi
(2003) Jonas Björkman / Todd Woodbridge
(2004) Mark Knowles / Daniel Nestor
(2005) Mike Bryan / Bob Bryan
(2006) Martin Damm / Leander Paes
(2007) Simon Aspelin / Julian Knowle
(2008) Mike Bryan / Bob Bryan
(2009) Lukáš Dlouhý / Leander Paes
(2010) Mike Bryan / Bob Bryan
(2011) Jürgen Melzer / Philipp Petzschner

French Open mixed doubles champions

(1968) Françoise Durr / Jean-Claude Barclay
(1969) Margaret Court / Marty Riessen
(1970) Billie Jean King / Bob Hewitt
(1971) Françoise Durr / Jean-Claude Barclay
(1972) Evonne Goolagong Cawley / Kim Warwick
(1973) Françoise Durr / Jean-Claude Barclay
(1974) Martina Navrátilová / Iván Molina
(1975) Fiorella Bonicelli / Thomas Koch
(1976) Ilana Kloss / Kim Warwick
(1977) Mary Carillo / John McEnroe
(1978) Renáta Tomanová / Pavel Složil
(1979) Wendy Turnbull / Bob Hewitt
(1980) Anne Smith / Billy Martin
(1981) Andrea Jaeger / Jimmy Arias
(1982) Wendy Turnbull / John Lloyd
(1983) Barbara Jordan / Eliot Teltscher
(1984) Anne Smith / Dick Stockton
(1985) Martina Navrátilová / Heinz Günthardt
(1986) Kathy Jordan / Ken Flach
(1987) Pam Shriver / Emilio Sánchez Vicario
(1988) Lori McNeil / Jorge Lozano
(1989) Manon Bollegraf / Tom Nijssen
(1990) Arantxa Sánchez Vicario / Jorge Lozano
(1991) Helena Suková / Cyril Suk
(1992) Arantxa Sánchez Vicario / Mark Woodforde
(1993) Eugenia Maniokova / Andrei Olhovskiy
(1994) Kristie Boogert / Menno Oosting
(1995) Larisa Savchenko Neiland / Todd Woodbridge
(1996) Patricia Tarabini / Javier Frana
(1997) Rika Hiraki / Mahesh Bhupathi
(1998) Venus Williams / Justin Gimelstob
(1999) Katarina Srebotnik / Piet Norval
(2000) Mariaan de Swardt / David Adams
(2001) Virginia Ruano Pascual / Tomas Carbonell
(2002) Cara Black / Wayne Black
(2003) Lisa Raymond / Mike Bryan
(2004) Tatiana Golovin / Richard Gasquet
(2005) Daniela Hantuchová / Fabrice Santoro
(2006) Katarina Srebotnik / Nenad Zimonjić
(2007) Nathalie Dechy / Andy Ram
(2008) Victoria Azarenka / Bob Bryan
(2009) Liezel Huber / Bob Bryan
(2010) Katarina Srebotnik / Nenad Zimonjić
(2011) Casey Dellacqua / Scott Lipsky

v t e Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World No. 1 doubles players

Bob Hewitt (1976 – 6 w) Raúl Ramírez (1976/1977 – 62 w) Frew McMillan (1977/1979 – 85 w) Tom Okker (1979 – 11 w) John McEnroe (1979/1989 – 269 w) Stan Smith (1981 – 8 w) Paul McNamee (1981 – 3 w) Peter Fleming (1982/1984 – 17 w) Tomáš Šmíd (1984/1985 – 34 w) Anders Järryd (1985/1992 – 107 w) Robert Seguso (1985/1988 – 62 w) Ken Flach (1985/1986 – 5 w) Stefan Edberg (1986/1987 – 15 w) Yannick Noah (1986/1987 – 19 w) Slobodan Živojinović (1986 – 7 w) Andrés Gómez (1986 – 13 w) Emilio Sánchez (1989 – 6 w) Jim Grabb (1989/1993 – 13 w) Jim Pugh (1989/1990 – 26 w) Danie Visser (1990 – 27 w) Pieter Aldrich (1990 – 19 w) David Pate (1991 – 25 w) John Fitzgerald (1991/1992 – 40 w) Todd Woodbridge (1992/2001 – 204 w) Kelly Jones (1992 – 1 w) Mark Woodforde (1992/2000 – 83 w) Richey Reneberg (1993 – 5 w) Patrick Galbraith (1993/1994 – 4 w) Jonathan Stark (1994 – 6 w) Grant Connell (1993/1994 – 17 w) Paul Haarhuis (1994/1999 – 71 w) Byron Black (1994 – 8 w) Jacco Eltingh (1995/1998 – 63 w) Mahesh Bhupathi (1999 – 4 w) Leander Paes (1999/2000 – 39 w) Jared Palmer (2000/2002 – 39 w) Alex O'Brien (2000 – 5 w) Jonas Björkman (2000/2005 – 74 w) Donald Johnson (2002 – 20 w) Mark Knowles (2002/2005 – 65 w) Daniel Nestor (2002/2012 – 90 w) Max Mirnyi (2003/2012 – 40 w) Bob Bryan (2003/2012 – 291 w) Mike Bryan (2003/2012 – 291 w) Nenad Zimonjić (2008/2010 – 40 w)

ATP doubles rankings incepted on 1 March 1976 (year first held/year last held – number of weeks (w)) current No. 1 in bold, as of 7 May 2012

ATP Masters Series: Doubles champions

Indian Wells Masters

1990: Boris Becker/Guy Forget
1991: Jim Courier/Javier Sánchez
1992: Steve DeVries/David Macpherson
1993: Guy Forget/Henri Leconte
1994: Grant Connell/Patrick Galbraith
1995: Tommy Ho/Brett Steven
1996: Todd Woodbridge/Mark Woodforde
1997: Mark Knowles/Daniel Nestor
1998: Jonas Björkman/Patrick Rafter
1999: Wayne Black/Sandon Stolle
2000: Alex O'Brien/Jared Palmer
2001: Wayne Ferreira/Yevgeny Kafelnikov
2002: Mark Knowles/Daniel Nestor
2003: Wayne Ferreira/Yevgeny Kafelnikov
2004: Arnaud Clément/Sébastien Grosjean
2005: Mark Knowles/Daniel Nestor
2006: Mark Knowles/Daniel Nestor
2007: Martin Damm/Leander Paes
2008: Jonathan Erlich/Andy Ram
2009: Mardy Fish/Andy Roddick
2010: Marc López/Rafael Nadal
2011: Alexandr Dolgopolov/Xavier Malisse
2012: Marc López/Rafael Nadal

Miami Masters

Monte-Carlo Masters

Hamburg/Madrid Masters

1990: Sergi Bruguera/Jim Courier
1991: Sergio Casal/Emilio Sánchez
1992: Sergio Casal/Emilio Sánchez
1993: Paul Haarhuis/Mark Koevermans
1994: Scott Melville/Piet Norval
1995: Wayne Ferreira/Yevgeny Kafelnikov
1996: Mark Knowles/Daniel Nestor
1997: Luis Lobo/Javier Sánchez
1998: Donald Johnson/Francisco Montana
1999: Wayne Arthurs/Andrew Kratzmann
2000: Todd Woodbridge/Mark Woodforde
2001: Jonas Björkman/Todd Woodbridge
2002: Mahesh Bhupathi/Jan-Michael Gambill
2003: Mark Knowles/Daniel Nestor
2004: Wayne Black/Kevin Ullyett
2005: Jonas Björkman/Max Mirnyi
2006: Paul Hanley/Kevin Ullyett
2007: Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan
2008: Daniel Nestor/Nenad Zimonjić
2009: Daniel Nestor/Nenad Zimonjić
2010: Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan
2011: Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan
2012: Mariusz Fyrstenberg/Marcin Matkowski

Rome Masters

Canada Masters

1990: Paul Annacone/David Wheaton
1991: Patrick Galbraith/Todd Witsken
1992: Patrick Galbraith/Danie Visser
1993: Jim Courier/Mark Knowles
1994: Byron Black/Jonathan Stark
1995: Yevgeny Kafelnikov/Andrei Olhovskiy
1996: Patrick Galbraith/Paul Haarhuis
1997: Mahesh Bhupathi/Leander Paes
1998: Martin Damm/Jim Grabb
1999: Jonas Björkman/Patrick Rafter
2000: Sébastien Lareau/Daniel Nestor
2001: Jiří Novák/David Rikl
2002: Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan
2003: Mahesh Bhupathi/Max Mirnyi
2004: Mahesh Bhupathi/Leander Paes
2005: Wayne Black/Kevin Ullyett
2006: Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan
2007: Mahesh Bhupathi/Pavel Vízner
2008: Daniel Nestor/Nenad Zimonjić
2009: Mahesh Bhupathi/Mark Knowles
2010: Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan
2011: Michaël Llodra/Nenad Zimonjić

Cincinnati Masters

Stockholm/Essen/Stuttgart/Madrid/Shanghai Masters

1990: Guy Forget/Jakob Hlasek
1991: John Fitzgerald/Anders Järryd
1992: Todd Woodbridge/Mark Woodforde
1993: Todd Woodbridge/Mark Woodforde
1994: Todd Woodbridge/Mark Woodforde
1995: Jacco Eltingh/Paul Haarhuis
1996: Sébastien Lareau/Alex O'Brien
1997: Todd Woodbridge/Mark Woodforde
1998: Sébastien Lareau/Alex O'Brien
1999: Byron Black/Jonas Björkman
2000: Jiří Novák/David Rikl
2001: Max Mirnyi/Sandon Stolle
2002: Mark Knowles/Daniel Nestor
2003: Mahesh Bhupathi/Max Mirnyi
2004: Mark Knowles/Daniel Nestor
2005: Mark Knowles/Daniel Nestor
2006: Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan
2007: Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan
2008: Mariusz Fyrstenberg/Marcin Matkowski
2009: Julien Benneteau/Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
2010: Jürgen Melzer/Leander Paes
2011: Max Mirnyi/Daniel Nestor

Paris Masters

1990: Scott Davis/David Pate
1991: Anders Järryd/John Fitzgerald
1992: John McEnroe/Patrick McEnroe
1993: Byron Black/Jonathan Stark
1994: Jacco Eltingh/Paul Haarhuis
1995: Grant Connell/Patrick Galbraith
1996: Jacco Eltingh/Paul Haarhuis
1997: Jacco Eltingh/Paul Haarhuis
1998: Mahesh Bhupathi/Leander Paes
1999: Sébastien Lareau/Alex O'Brien
2000: Nicklas Kulti/Max Mirnyi
2001: Ellis Ferreira/Rick Leach
2002: Nicolas Escudé/Fabrice Santoro
2003: Wayne Arthurs/Paul Hanley
2004: Jonas Björkman/Todd Woodbridge
2005: Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan
2006: Arnaud Clément/Michaël Llodra
2007: Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan
2008: Jonas Björkman/Kevin Ullyett
2009: Daniel Nestor/Nenad Zimonjić
2010: Mahesh Bhupathi/Max Mirnyi
2011: Rohan Bopanna/Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi

Year-end championships winners doubles

(1970) Stan Smith / Arthur Ashe
(1975) Juan Gisbert / Manuel Orantes
(1976) Fred McNair / Sherwood Stewart
(1977) Bob Hewitt / Frew McMillan
(1978) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1979) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1980) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1981) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1982) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1983) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1984) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1985) Stefan Edberg / Anders Järryd
(1986) Stefan Edberg / Anders Järryd
(1987) Miloslav Mečíř / Tomáš Šmíd
(1988) Rick Leach / Jim Pugh
(1989) Jim Grabb / Patrick McEnroe
(1990) Guy Forget / Jakob Hlasek
(1991) John Fitzgerald / Anders Järryd
(1992) Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
(1993) Jacco Eltingh / Paul Haarhuis
(1994) Jan Apell / Jonas Björkman
(1995) Grant Connell / Patrick Galbraith
(1996) Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
(1997) Rick Leach / Jonathan Stark
(1998) Jacco Eltingh / Paul Haarhuis
(1999) Sébastien Lareau / Alex O'Brien
(2000) Donald Johnson / Piet Norval
(2001) Ellis Ferreira / Rick Leach
(2003) Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan
(2004) Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan
(2005) Michaël Llodra / Fabrice Santoro
(2006) Jonas Björkman / Max Mirnyi
(2007) Mark Knowles / Daniel Nestor
(2008) Daniel Nestor / Nenad Zimonjić
(2009) Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan
(2010) Daniel Nestor / Nenad Zimonjić

Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year

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1935: Joe Louis
1936: Jesse Owens
1937: Don Budge
1938: Don Budge
1939: Nile Kinnick
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1941: Joe DiMaggio
1942: Frank Sinkwich
1943: Gunder Hägg
1944: Byron Nelson
1945: Byron Nelson
1946: Glenn Davis
1947: Johnny Lujack
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1949: Leon Hart
1950: Jim Konstanty
1951: Dick Kazmaier
1952: Bob Mathias
1953: Ben Hogan
1954: Willie Mays
1955: Howard Cassady
1956: Mickey Mantle
1957: Ted Williams
1958: Herb Elliot
1959: Ingemar Johansson
1960: Rafer Johnson
1961: Roger Maris
1962: Maury Wills
1963: Sandy Koufax
1964: Don Schollander
1965: Sandy Koufax
1966: Frank Robinson
1967: Carl Yastrzemski
1968: Denny McLain
1969: Tom Seaver
1970: George Blanda
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1976: Bruce Jenner
1977: Steve Cauthen
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1986: Larry Bird
1987: Ben Johnson
1988: Orel Hershiser
1989: Joe Montana
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1991: Michael Jordan
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1993: Michael Jordan
1994: George Foreman
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1999: Tiger Woods
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Miloslav Mečíř
Singles
Country	Czechoslovakia
Residence	Prague, Czech Republic
Born	(1964-05-19) May 19, 1964 (age 48) Bojnice, Czechoslovakia
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	81 kg (180 lb; 12.8 st)
Turned pro	1982
Retired	1990
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$2,632,538
Career record	262 - 122
Career titles	11
Highest ranking	No. 4 (February 22, 1988)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	F (1989)
French Open	SF (1987)
Wimbledon	SF (1988)
US Open	F (1986)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	Gold medal (1988)
Doubles
Career record	100 - 54
Career titles	9
Highest ranking	No. 4 (March 7, 1988)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	4R (1987)
French Open	4R (1989)
Wimbledon	3R (1987, 1989)
US Open	4R (1987, 1988)
Other Doubles tournaments
Olympic Games	Bronze medal (1988)
Last updated on: 21 February 2007.

Olympic medal record
Men's Tennis
Gold	1988 Seoul	Singles
Bronze	1988 Seoul	Doubles

Miloslav Mečíř (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmɪloslaf ˈmɛtʃiːr̝]) (born 19 May 1964) is a former professional tennis player from Slovakia. He won the men's singles gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games where he represented Czechoslovakia and played in two Grand Slam singles finals. In 1987 he won the WCT Finals, the major season-ending championship for the World Championship Tennis tour.

His son, Miloslav Jr., followed his father's footsteps and is a professional tennis player.^[1]

1 Career
2 Playing style
3 Major finals
- 3.1 Grand Slam finals
  - 3.1.1 Singles: 2 (0-2)
- 3.2 Olympic finals
  - 3.2.1 Singles: 1 (1 gold medal)
4 Tournament wins
- 4.1 Singles
  - 4.1.1 Wins (11)
5 Grand Slam singles tournament timeline
6 Grand Prix singles tournament timeline
7 References
8 External links

Career [link]

Mečíř was born in Bojnice, Czechoslovakia (now part of Slovakia).

He reached two ATP finals in 1984 and began 1985 by beating Jimmy Connors in the semi final at Philadelphia, before losing to World No. 1 John McEnroe in the final. He won his first ATP singles title in Rotterdam later that year, and ended 1985 ranked just outside the world's top 10.

He consolidated his position as a world class player in 1986, beating rising Stefan Edberg in straight sets at Wimbledon, before losing to defending champion Boris Becker in the quarter finals. He reached his first Grand Slam final at the US Open later that year, beating Mats Wilander and Boris Becker along the way to the final, where he faced fellow Czechoslovakian, defending champion and World No. 1 Ivan Lendl. The 1986 US Open was notable for the fact that four players from Czechoslovakia competed in the two singles finals for men and women - Mečíř and Lendl, Helena Suková and Martina Navrátilová. Lendl won the match in straight sets 6–4, 6–2, 6–0. Mečíř's 1986 US Open final appearance was the last major final to see a player still using a wooden racket.

Mečíř improved further in 1987, winning six singles and six doubles titles. Notably winning the WCT Finals in Dallas where he defeated John McEnroe in four sets. He met Lendl again in three high profile matches that year, winning the final of the Lipton International Players Championships in Key Biscayne, Florida, while Lendl won the final of the German Open in Hamburg and the semi-finals of the French Open.

By this time, Mečíř's sedate playing style was known to frustrate a lot of the more powerful top ranked players. The Swedish players, in particular, were said to dislike playing against him.

Mečíř was on top form at Wimbledon in 1988, where he defeated Mats Wilander in the quarter-final. It was Wilander's only Grand Slam singles defeat of the year (he won the 1988 Australian Open, French Open and US Open) yet Mečíř beat him 6–3 6–1 6–3. He took a two-set lead in the semi-final against Edberg with a similar display, and later led by a break of serve in the final set, but Edberg eventually wore him down on the way to his first Wimbledon crown.

The highlight of Mečíř's career came later in 1988 when he was selected to represent Czechoslovakia in the Seoul Olympics. In the men's singles semi-finals he exacted revenge over Wimbledon champion Edberg, in a five-set match 3–6, 6–0, 1–6, 6–4, 6–2. He then met Tim Mayotte of the U.S. in the men's singles final and won in four sets 3–6, 6–2, 6–4, 6–2 to claim the Gold Medal. He also won a Bronze medal in the men's doubles, partnering Milan Šrejber.

In 1989, Mečíř reached his second Grand Slam final at the Australian Open in Melbourne. Again he came up against Lendl and lost in straight sets 6–2, 6–2, 6–2. It was a tactical victory for Lendl, whose win saw him to reclaim the World No. 1 ranking from Wilander. After the match, Lendl apologized to the crowd, explaining that he and coach Tony Roche had decided the best tactic against Mečíř was to hit shots deep and down the centre of the court, denying his opponent the angles he thrived on.

Mečíř was a member of the Czechoslovakian teams which won the World Team Cup in 1987 and the inaugural Hopman Cup in 1989. He is currently the Slovak Davis Cup captain.

During his career, Mečíř won 11 singles titles and 9 doubles titles. His career-high world ranking in both singles and doubles was World No. 4. His total career prize money earnings was US$2,632,538. His final career singles title came in 1989 at Indian Wells. His last doubles title was also won in 1989 in Rotterdam.

Throughout most of 1989 and into 1990, Mečíř suffered from a worsening back injury and he retired in July 1990, aged just 26.

Playing style [link]

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Mečíř was a finesse player whose career straddled the transition from wooden and metal racquets towards modern graphite composites. He was noted for his touch shots as well as the ability to disguise his shots, particularly his two-handed backhand. His court coverage and graceful footwork earned him the nickname "The Big Cat". The French called him "Le Prestidigitateur" (The Conjuror).

Many top players used to cite Mečíř as the one player they most enjoyed watching because of his beautifully simple style and touch. He was known as the "Swede Killer" for the success that he had against Swedish players, especially Mats Wilander.^[2]

Major finals [link]

Grand Slam finals [link]

Singles: 2 (0-2)[link]

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1986	US Open	Hard	Ivan Lendl	4–6, 2–6, 0–6
Runner-up	1989	Australian Open	Hard	Ivan Lendl	2–6, 2–6, 2–6

Olympic finals [link]

Singles: 1 (1 gold medal)[link]

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Gold	1988	Seoul	Hard	Tim Mayotte	3–6, 6–2, 6–4, 6–2

Tournament wins [link]

Singles [link]

Wins (11)[link]

Legend
Grand Slam (0)
WCT Finals (1)
Olympic Gold (1)
ATP Masters Series (3)
ATP Tour (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	18 March 1985	Rotterdam	Carpet	Jakob Hlasek	6–1, 6–2
2.	29 April 1985	Hamburg	Clay	Henrik Sundström	6–4, 6–1, 6–4
3.	4 April 1986	Kitzbühel	Clay	Andrés Gómez	6–4, 4–6, 6–1, 2–6, 6–3
4.	5 January 1987	Auckland	Hard	Michiel Schapers	6–2, 6–3, 6–4
5.	26 January 1987	Sydney	Hard	Peter Doohan	6–2, 6–4
6.	23 February 1987	Miami	Hard	Ivan Lendl	7–5, 6–2, 7–5
7.	7 April 1987	Dallas, – WCT Finals	Carpet	John McEnroe	6–0, 3–6, 6–2, 6–2
8.	13 July 1987	Stuttgart	Clay	Jan Gunnarsson	6–0, 6–2
9.	27 July 1987	Hilversum	Clay	Guillermo Pérez Roldán	6–4, 1–6, 6–3, 6–2
10.	20 September 1988	Seoul Olympics	Hard	Tim Mayotte	3–6, 6–2, 6–4, 6–2
11.	13 March 1989	Indian Wells	Hard	Yannick Noah	3–6, 2–6, 6–1, 6–2, 6–3

Grand Slam singles tournament timeline [link]

Tournament	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	Career SR	Career Win-Loss
Australian Open	1R	2R	A	NH	QF	A	F	4R	0 / 5	12–5
French Open	A	1R	3R	2R	SF	A	1R	1R	0 / 6	8–6
Wimbledon	A	2R	1R	QF	3R	SF	3R	2R	0 / 7	15–7
US Open	A	A	2R	F	QF	3R	3R	A	0 / 5	15–5
Grand Slam Win-Loss	0–1	2–3	3–3	11–3	14–4	7–2	10–4	4–3	N/A	50–23
Grand Slam SR	0 / 1	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 2	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 23	N/A
Year End Ranking	101	50	9	9	6	13	18	116	N/A

NH = tournament not held

A = did not participate in the tournament

SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played

Grand Prix singles tournament timeline [link]

Tournament	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	Career SR
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	QF	QF	W	1R	1 / 4
Miami	NH	NH	2R	A	W	SF	2R	A	1 / 4
Monte Carlo	A	A	A	3R	A	A	A	A	0 / 1
Rome	A	1R	F	3R	1R	A	1R	A	0 / 5
Hamburg	A	A	W	F	F	A	A	A	1 / 3
Canada	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	0 / 1
Cincinnati	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	0 / 1
Paris	A	A	A	1R	2R	2R	2R	A	0 / 4
The Masters	A	A	A	A	RR	A	A	A	0 / 1
Grand Prix SR	0 / 0	0 / 1	1 / 3	0 / 4	1 / 5	0 / 4	1 / 5	0 / 1	3 / 23

Note these events were known as The Championship Super Series (single Week) from 1970 to 1989 as part of the Grand Prix Tennis Tour they became known as the Championship Series (single week) by the ATP from 1990 to 1993 eventually becoming the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 as they are known today

NH = tournament not held

A = did not participate in the tournament

SR = the ratio of the number of Masters Series singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played

References [link]

External links [link]

Miloslav Mečíř at the Association of Tennis Professionals
Miloslav Mečíř at the International Tennis Federation
Miloslav Mečíř at the Davis Cup

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1896: John Pius Boland 1900: Laurence Doherty 1904: Beals Wright 1908: Josiah Ritchie, Arthur Gore (indoors) 1912: Charles Winslow, André Gobert (indoors) 1920: Louis Raymond 1924: Vincent Richards 1988: Miloslav Mečíř 1992: Marc Rosset 1996: Andre Agassi 2000: Yevgeny Kafelnikov 2004: Nicolás Massú 2008: Rafael Nadal

Year-end championships winners doubles

(1970) Stan Smith / Arthur Ashe
(1975) Juan Gisbert / Manuel Orantes
(1976) Fred McNair / Sherwood Stewart
(1977) Bob Hewitt / Frew McMillan
(1978) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1979) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1980) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1981) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1982) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1983) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1984) Peter Fleming / John McEnroe
(1985) Stefan Edberg / Anders Järryd
(1986) Stefan Edberg / Anders Järryd
(1987) Miloslav Mečíř / Tomáš Šmíd
(1988) Rick Leach / Jim Pugh
(1989) Jim Grabb / Patrick McEnroe
(1990) Guy Forget / Jakob Hlasek
(1991) John Fitzgerald / Anders Järryd
(1992) Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
(1993) Jacco Eltingh / Paul Haarhuis
(1994) Jan Apell / Jonas Björkman
(1995) Grant Connell / Patrick Galbraith
(1996) Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
(1997) Rick Leach / Jonathan Stark
(1998) Jacco Eltingh / Paul Haarhuis
(1999) Sébastien Lareau / Alex O'Brien
(2000) Donald Johnson / Piet Norval
(2001) Ellis Ferreira / Rick Leach
(2003) Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan
(2004) Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan
(2005) Michaël Llodra / Fabrice Santoro
(2006) Jonas Björkman / Max Mirnyi
(2007) Mark Knowles / Daniel Nestor
(2008) Daniel Nestor / Nenad Zimonjić
(2009) Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan
(2010) Daniel Nestor / Nenad Zimonjić

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Name	Lendl, Ivan
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Date of birth	1960-03-06
Place of birth	Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic
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Place of birth	Stockholm, Sweden
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Name	McEnroe, John
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Date of birth	February 16, 1959
Place of birth	Wiesbaden, West Germany
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Name	Mecir, Miloslav
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Date of birth	19 May 1964
Place of birth	Bojnice, Czechoslovakia
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