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1958 Australian Championships – Men's Singles

Ashley Cooper defeated Mal Anderson 7–5, 6–3, 6–4 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1958 Australian Championships.

Alfred Beamish

Alfred Ernest Beamish (6 August 1879 – 28 February 1944) was an English tennis player born in Richard, Surrey, England.

Christophe Pognon

Christophe Pognon (born 11 October 1977 in Cotonou) is a former tennis player from Benin.

Colin Gregory

Doctor John Colin Gregory (28 July 1903 – 10 January 1959) was an amateur British tennis player, best remembered for winning the Australian Open in 1929.

Diego Hartfield

Diego Hartfield (born January 31, 1981 in Oberá, Misiones), nicknamed El Gato Hartfield (Hartfield the Cat in Spanish) is a tennis player on the ATP Tour from Argentina.

Guimarães

João Sousa, Tennis player, first Portuguese player winning an ATP World Tour Tennis in Malaysia 2013

Harald Elschenbroich

Harald Elschenbroich (born 19 June 1941, in Mönchengladbach) is a former West German international tennis player.

John Doeg

John Thomas Godfray Hope Doeg (December 7, 1908 in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico – April 27, 1978) was a male tennis player from the United States.

Kirstin Freye

Kirstin Freye-Menzler (born 29 May 1975 in Herford) is a German professional tennis player.

Mal Anderson

Earlier that year, Anderson had reached the semi-finals of the Australian Championships and won the French Championship doubles, partnering with Ashley Cooper, the man he went on to defeat in the 1957 US Championships final.

Margaret Jessee

Margaret Jessee Warren (born in 1921, died July 27, 2001, age 79) was an American tennis player and a Napa Valley vintner.

Marjorie Cox Crawford

She also teamed with her husband Jack Crawford, a six-time winner of singles titles in Grand Slam tournaments and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, to win the mixed doubles title at the Australian Championships in 1931, 1932, and 1933.

Mark Gurr

Mark Gurr (born February 18, 1966) is a retired tennis player from Zimbabwe, who represented his native country as a qualifier at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Oliver Campbell

Oliver Edward Michael Campbell (February 25, 1871, Brooklyn, New York - July 11, 1953, Campbellton, New Brunswick, Canada) was a former American male tennis player.

Philip Tuckniss

Philip Tuckniss (born May 5, 1962) is a retired tennis player from Zimbabwe, who represented his native country as a qualifier at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Susan Partridge

Susan Partridge (tennis player) (born 1930), British tennis player who was for some time married to Philippe Chatrier

Wayne Valley High School

Gene Mayer (born 1956), former tennis player from the United States who won fourteen singles titles during his career.

Xóchitl Escobedo

Xóchitl Escobedo (born September 17, 1968) is a retired female tennis player from Mexico, who represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.


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15 Union Square West

In 2011 two of the two-bedroom apartments were purchased by tennis player Caroline Wozniacki for $9 million.

AKS Chorzów

The club also made its mark on the international stage: Halina Richter-Górecka was part of the gold-medal winning women's 100m relay team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games; tennis player Danuta Wieczorek appeared at Wimbledon as a junior.

Aleksandr Aksyonov

Aleksandr Aksyonov (tennis), Ukrainian tennis player who was a runner-up at the 2006 Alexander Kolyaskin Memorial

Alex Hales

His father Gary broke several local batting records (including 321 not out for Gerrards Cross versus Chalfont St Peter in a limited overs league match in 1991) while his grandfather Dennis was a talented tennis player who once forced Rod Laver to five sets at Wimbledon.

Amritraj

Stephen Amritraj (born 1984), American tennis player of Indian origin; son of Anand Amritraj.

Prakash Amritraj (born 1983), American tennis player of Indian origin; son of Vijay Amritraj.

Vijay Amritraj (born 1953), former Indian tennis player, sports commentator and actor.

Ančić

Mario Ančić (born 1984), professional male tennis player, brother of Ivica and Sanja

Ivica Ančić (born 1979), professional male tennis player, brother of Mario and Sanja

Apatin

Frank Dancevic (born 1984), a Croatian-Canadian tennis player whose father hails from Apatin.

Carillo

Mary Carillo (born 1957), an American writer, sportscaster, and former women's tennis player

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.

Charlie McNeil

McNeil is the father of professional tennis player Lori McNeil.

Daphne Deckers

On July 7, 1999, Deckers married former tennis player Richard Krajicek.

Darmon

Pierre Darmon (born in 1934), former French tennis player, husband of Rosa Maria Darmon

Dennis Viollet

Dennis and Helen's daughter Rachel (born 1972) became the British number one ranked tennis player when she reached the second round of Wimbledon in 1996.

Empangeni

Empangeni is the birthplace of star tennis player Ian Vermaak.

Evelyn Sears

Evelyn Georgianna Sears (March 9, 1875, Waltham, Massachusetts - November 10, 1966, Waltham) was an American tennis player at the beginning of the 20th century.

Forest Lodge, New South Wales

Hoad went on to be a member of Australia’s four Davis Cup winning squads in 1952 to 1956, won Wimbledon twice and was the world’s number one tennis player in 1956 before turning professional.

Gérard Solvès

Gérard Solvès (born Lagny-sur-Marne, Paris, 7 April 1968) is a French tennis player, coach and director of the Tennis Club de Paris.

Ģirts

Ģirts Dzelde (born 1963), a Latvian professional tennis player

Gré Brouwenstijn

Brouwenstijn was married twice; from 1948 to 1953 to tenor Jan van Mantgem, and from 1954 until her death to former tennis player and TV doctor Hans van Swol.

Henri Rochon

Henri Rochon (12 March 1924 – 5 February 2005) was a Canadian National tennis champion and Canadian Davis Cup tennis player.

Herbert Wilberforce

Herbert William Wrangham Wilberforce (8 February 1864 in Munich, Germany – 28 March 1941 in Kensington, London) was a British male tennis player.

Hugh Doherty

Laurence Doherty (Hugh Laurence Doherty, 1875–1919), tennis player

Hurra Deutschland

Puppets from the German popular culture entered the ensemble to public appraisal, such as entertainer Thomas Gottschalk, singer Heino and tennis player Boris Becker.

Iva Budařová

Iva Budařová (born July 30, 1960 in Duchcov) is a former professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia.

James Parke

James Cecil Parke (1881-1946), tennis player, Australian Open winner 1912

Jean Schopfer

Under the name Claude Anet, Schopfer published many books, including La Révolution Russe, written after a trip to Russia during World War I, Mayerling, based on the Mayerling Incident, and Simon Kra, a biography of tennis player Suzanne Lenglen.

John Boland

John Pius Boland (1870–1958), Member of Parliament and tennis player

Joshua Cohen

Josh Cohen, tennis player, head coach of Philadelphia Freedoms

Kiskunhalas

The town is the birthplace of the highest ranked Hungarian tennis player Ágnes Szávay (at one time ranked 13th in the world), who has won five WTA titles.

Lawrence Dundas

Lawrence Dundas, 3rd Marquess of Zetland (1908–1989), lawn tennis player known before 1971 as the Earl of Ronaldshay

Mariana Pérez Roldán

Mariana Pérez Roldán is an Argentine professional tennis player who won the French Open girls' doubles championship and ITF World Champions Girls' doubles in 1985 with Patricia Tarabini.

Masku

The most famous resident of Masku is Finnish tennis player Jarkko Nieminen.

Michaela Paštiková

Michaela Paštiková (born 27 March 1980 in Šumperk, Czechoslovakia) is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic.

Miguel Olvera

Miguel Olvera (born November 14, 1939 in Salitre Canton, Ecuador) was a tennis player in the 1960s and 1970s, playing for Ecuador.

Miloslav Mečíř, Jr.

He is the son of Slovak tennis player and Olympic Gold medalist, Miloslav Mečíř.

Norm L. Oliver

Also a talented tennis player, there was a possibility of a future Davis Cup appearance.

Potito

Potito Starace (born 1981), an Italian professional tennis player

Richard Huish College, Taunton

Andrew Castle, former British number one tennis player and television presenter.

Saketh Myneni

Saketh Myneni (born 19 October 1987) is an Indian professional tennis player who came to the limelight when h won 9 singles title in the 2014 ITF Men's Circuit.

Santiago Ventura

Santiago Ventura Bertomeu (born 1980), professional tennis player from Spain

Seminole State College of Florida

The most notable alumni of Seminole State College of Florida are Mikael Pernfors the former professional tennis player, John Hart the former general manager of the Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers, Rob Ducey the former Major League Baseball player and olympian, and Doug Marlette the pulitzer prize winning cartoonist.

Simonsson

Stefan Simonsson (born 1960), former professional tennis player from the United States

Testerman

Ben Testerman (born 1962), former professional tennis player from the United States

Tkalec

Marko Tkalec, a retired professional tennis player from Slovenia

Wolfgang Popp

Wolfgang Popp (born May 19, 1959, in Neu-Isenburg, Hesse), is a former professional tennis player from Germany.

Young Elders

The band released an extended play, Fly Monica Fly, in 1993, the lead track was adopted by the tennis player, Monica Seles.