Jade Hopper
AustraliaJade Hopper (born 13 July 1991) is a former professional Australian tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On 31 January 2011 she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 448. On 14 February 2011 she reached her highest WTA doubles ranking of 174. Jade is now Marketing Executive with Garanti Koza.Daniel Muñoz de la Nava
SpainDaniel Muñoz de la Nava (Spanish pronunciation: [daˈnjel muˈɲoθ ðe la ˈnaβa]; born 29 January 1982 in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He reached the quarterfinals of Estoril in 2012 and Delray Beach in 2013, both as a qualifier.Anna Arina Marenko
RussiaAnna Arina Marenko (Russian: Анна Арина Маренко; born 2 January 1992) is a Russian tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 411, which she reached on 4 July 2011. Her highest WTA doubles ranking is 338, which she reached on 20 December 2010.Maud Watson
United KingdomMaud Edith Eleanor Watson MBE (9 October 1864 – 5 June 1946) was an English tennis player and the first female Wimbledon champion.Carl-Olof Nylén
Carl-Olof "Olle" Siggesson Nylén (30 June 1892 – 2 October 1978) was a Swedish otologist and tennis player who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He is also known in microsurgery as a first man who designed surgical microscope which was used in otolaryngology. In 1912 he and his partner Charles Wennergren were eliminated in the quarter-finals of the outdoor doubles. In the indoor doubles they lost in the first round.In the outdoor mixed doubles as well as in the indoor mixed doubles he and his partner Edith Arnheim lost in the first round.Nylén was born to the military doctor Sixtus Nylen (1854–1911) and Anna Choler (1862–1929). In 1915–16 he won a few Swedish titles in the singles and doubles, and in 1917 was ranked as the best test player in Sweden.- FranceAndré Vacherot (27 August 1860 in Paris, France – 22 March 1950 in Paris, France) was a French male tennis player. He is best remembered for having won the French Championships on four occasions: 1894, 1895, 1896, and 1901. He achieved his 1901 title at the age of 40, which is a record that stands to this day. He was the brother of tennis player Michel Vacherot.
Jose Rubin Statham
Rubin Statham (born 25 April 1987), often referred to by his nickname of "Jose," is a professional tennis player from New Zealand. His twin brother Mikal is also a professional tennis player, although he only played a couple of tournaments between 2011 and his return to the ITF tour in 2018.Jaroslav Pospíšil
Czech RepublicJaroslav Pospíšil (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjaroslaf ˈpospiːʃɪl]; born 9 February 1981) is a Czech tennis player playing on the ITF Futures Tour and ATP Challenger Tour. On 23 May 2011 he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 103.Giulia Casoni
ItalyGiulia Casoni (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒuːlja kaˈzoːni -ˈsoː-]; born 19 April 1978 in Ferrara) is a retired Italian tennis player. As a junior player, she won 1996 French Open in doubles, while her best professional results include singles quarterfinals at Internazionali Femminili di Palermo in 1999 and Tier I Italian Open in 2000, and three WTA Tour doubles titles. A member of Italy Fed Cup team from 2000 to 2001. She has won 3 in doubles WTA titles. Casoni defeated players such as Dominique Monami, Katarina Srebotnik, Mariya Koryttseva, Francesca Schiavone, Émilie Loit and Nuria Llagostera Vives. She has won 4 singles and 27 in doubles ITF Circuit titles. Casoni retired from professional tennis in 2006, after struggling with a knee injury.Grace Roosevelt
United States of AmericaGrace Walton Roosevelt (married name Appleton Clark) (June 3, 1867 – November 29, 1945) was a right-handed American tennis player of the end of the 19th century, born in Hyde Park, New York.Christian Boussus
FranceChristian Boussus (5 March 1908 – August 2003) was a left-handed French tennis player who found success in the 1920s and 1930s.- Republic of IrelandJames Cecil Parke (26 July 1881 – 27 February 1946) was an Irish rugby player, tennis player, golfer and Olympic medallist. Parke was born in Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland. He played rugby with both Monkstown and Dublin University and between 1901 and 1908 played ten times for Leinster. Between 1903 and 1909, he won twenty Ireland caps.As a tennis player, Parke was a baseliner whose best shot was a running down-the-line forehand. Parke won the Wimbledon Mixed Doubles title in 1914. He won the Australian Men's singles and doubles tennis titles in 1912. He was Singles Champion of Europe in 1907 and played for Britain in the Davis Cup. In 1908 he won an Olympic Silver medal in Men's Doubles. He won eight Irish Lawn Tennis Singles titles, four doubles and two mixed titles. Parke was ranked World No. 3 for 1912 by Karoly Mazak, and in both 1913 and 1920 he was ranked World No. 4 by A. Wallis Myers of The Daily Telegraph. He recorded his greatest feats in the Davis Cup where he defeated Norman Brookes and Rodney Heath in the Challenge Round on 28–30 November 1912 when his team, the British Isles captured the Cup and next year he beat Maurice McLoughlin and Richard Norris Williams in the Challenge Round on 25–28 July 1913, though his nation lost the meeting against the USA. He also won the depleted Australasian Championships in 1912. He played golf for Ireland in 1906 and was also a top-class track and field sprinter and a cricketer. He played chess for the Clones team when he was nine years old. He died in Llandudno, Wales.
John Van Ryn
United States of AmericaJohn Van Ryn (June 30, 1905 – August 7, 1999) was an American tennis champion of the 1930s. He was primarily known as the doubles partner of Wilmer Allison. Van Ryn won the Men’s Doubles at Wimbledon three straight years (1929–31). He took two of the titles with Wilmer Allison and won the third with George Lott. In 1931, he was also successful with Lott at the French Championships. He became the first male player to win the French, British and American doubles titles when he won the 1931 U.S. National Championships with Allison. Van Ryn had an excellent record when he competed for the United States in Davis Cup, winning 22 of 24 encounters in a period of eight years. He was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame in 1963.On 22 October 1930 he married tennis player Midge Gladman.Kristina Brandi
Kristina Brandi (born March 29, 1977) is a former Puerto Rican tennis player. She was the first tennis player representing Puerto Rico to win a singles match in an Olympic tennis match.Muriel Robb
United KingdomMuriel Evelyn Robb (13 May 1878 – 12 February 1907) was an English female tennis player. She is best remembered for her ladies' singles title at the 1902 Wimbledon Championships. She also won the Irish and Scottish singles titles in 1901 and the Welsh singles title in 1899. She attended the Cheltenham Ladies’ College, in Gloucestershire from 1893 to 1897 and was a member of the Jesmond Lawn Tennis Club in Newcastle. From 1899 to 1902 she participated in four Wimbledon Championships and reached at least the quarterfinal on all occasions.She died of "Lymphadenoma 2 years 4 months” and “Exhaustion and cardiac failure” (death certificate) on 12 February 1907 in Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne.Evgeny Donskoy
RussiaEvgeny Evgenyevich Donskoy (Russian: Евге́ний Евге́ньевич Донско́й; born 9 May 1990) is a Russian tennis player playing on the regular ATP tour. He was born and currently resides in Moscow, Russia. Donskoy was mentored by former player and two-time Grand Slam champion Marat Safin. In December 2014, Donskoy decided to join the team of Boris Sobkin, coach of Mikhail Youzhny.- GermanyGero Kretschmer (German pronunciation: [ˈɡeːʁo ˈkʁɛtʃmɐ]; born 6 May 1985) is a German retired tennis player. He was a doubles specialist, who achieved his highest doubles ranking of world No. 79 in May 2014. He won his only ATP World Tour title with partner Alexander Satschko as alternates in Quito on 7 February 2015.
- RomaniaCristina-Andreea Mitu (born 22 September 1991) is a professional tennis player from Romania. On 8 June 2015, she reached her career-high singles ranking of No. 68, and her best doubles ranking is No. 69, reached on 24 October 2016. Mitu is also a member of the Romania Fed Cup team. On 19 April 2015, she beat then-ranked world No. 7 Eugenie Bouchard 4–6, 6–4, 6–1 at Fed Cup. She is coached by Marius Cristian Onilă.
Hanne Skak Jensen
DenmarkHanne Skak Jensen (born 29 April 1986) is a Danish former tennis player. She was Danish No. 2, behind then-world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki. Jensen won nine doubles events organized by the International Tennis Federation, and was a regular member of Denmark Fed Cup team. Playing for Denmark, she scored two wins and seven losses in singles, and six wins and five losses in doubles. Hanne Skak Jensen was born to Erik and Karen Jensen, and has a brother, Soren. She began playing tennis aged six and was coached by Michael Mortensen.Amir Hadad
IsraelAmir Hadad (in Hebrew אמיר חדד) (born February 17, 1978, in Lod, Israel) is a retired professional tennis player. His highest singles ATP ranking was World No. 180, achieved in April 2003, and his highest doubles ranking was No. 87, achieved in May 2003.Dan Maskell
Daniel "Dan" Maskell (11 April 1908 – 10 December 1992) was an English tennis professional who later became even better known as a radio and television commentator on the game. He was recognised as the BBC's "voice of tennis", and the "voice of Wimbledon".Debbie Graham
United States of AmericaDebbie Graham or Debbie Graham Shaffer (born August 25, 1970) is a retired tennis player from the United States. She was awarded the "Most Impressive Newcomer" by WTA in 1992. She was a "High Performance Coach" for women with the USTA at the USTA Training Center in Carson, California. She is the director of Little Aces Tennis, where she is teaching children to play tennis with low compression balls, smaller rackets, and smaller nets.Graham played college tennis for Stanford University. She was inducted into the Stanford Hall of Fame in 1997 for winning NCAAA singles her sophomore year and only losing one match on an undefeated team.Evie Dominikovic
AustraliaEvie Dominikovic (Croatian: Evie Dominiković, pronounced [dominǐːkoʋitɕ, domǐni-]; born 29 May 1980) is a retired Australian tennis player. She turned professional in 1997. Her best Grand Slam results came at the 2001 Australian Open and at the 2002 French Open where she reached the third round. Her best ranking was 64th, achieved on 10 September 2001. Dominikovic also played women's doubles; her best doubles ranking was 52nd, achieved on 5 August 2002. In her career, she won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as 12 singles and 16 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Her younger sister (by seven years) is the fellow former tennis player Daniella Dominikovic. Evie Dominikovic also has a child.- United States of AmericaGene Mayer (born April 11, 1956) is a former tennis player from the United States who won 14 professional 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 and won 5 doubles tournaments together, including 1979 French Open.
- United States of AmericaKathryn "Kathy" Jordan (born December 3, 1959) is a former American tennis player. During her career, she won seven Grand Slam titles, five of them in women's doubles and two in mixed doubles. She also was the 1983 Australian Open women's singles runner-up and won three singles titles and 42 doubles titles.
Julián Alonso
SpainJulián Alonso Pintor (born 2 August 1977) is a retired tennis player from Catalonia, Spain, who turned professional in 1995 and retired in 2003. He was known in tennis because of his incredible serve, many times compared with the Goran Ivanisevic´s service. In 1997, playing against Ivanisevic (2nd seeded), in Long Island, beat him for first Top 10 victory en route to SF and in that match fired a 143 mph serve to become just third player (Philippoussis, Rusedski) to register a serve of at least 143. In these days Julian Alonso is the founder of "Julian Alonso Team" Academy located in Palm Beach, FL focusing on junior development. Married to Arantxa Vivanco and father of two children Juli Alonso and Oliver AlonsoAdrian Cruciat
RomaniaAdrian Cruciat (born 31 March 1983) is former a Romanian tennis player. On 16 June 2008 he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 148. He retired in 2012, and in 2013 he became a television pundit for Digi Sport.- United KingdomAnna Smith (born 14 August 1988) is a professional British tennis player, who specialises in doubles. Smith has won one WTA Tour doubles title, five International Tennis Federation (ITF) singles titles and 28 ITF doubles titles. Smith is the current British No. 9 in doubles.
- GermanyAlexander Satschko (born 12 November 1980) is a German retired tennis player. He was a doubles specialist, who achieved his highest doubles ranking of world No. 80 in October 2014. He won his first ATP World Tour title with partner Gero Kretschmer as alternates in Quito on 7 February 2015.
Kristýna Plíšková
Czech RepublicKristýna Plíšková (Czech pronunciation: [ˈkrɪstiːna ˈpliːʃkovaː]; born 21 March 1992) is a Czech professional tennis player. Plíšková has won one singles and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as nine singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 31 July 2017, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 35. On 15 September 2014, she peaked at No. 51 in the doubles rankings. Plíšková won the 2010 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Singles tournament, beating Sachie Ishizu in straight sets;She currently holds the record for the most aces (31) in a match on the WTA Tour, which she set in a second-round match against Monica Puig at the 2016 Australian Open.
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