Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of top international male singles tennis players, both past and present. It includes players who have met one or more of the following criteria in singles: Officially ranked among the top 25 players by the Association of Tennis Professionals (since 1973) Ranked among the top 10 by an expert (e.g. A. Wallis Myers) before 1973
Leonard Roscoe Tanner (born October 15, 1951) is an American former professional tennis player. [1] He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 on July 30, 1979.
Christine Marie Evert (born December 21, 1954), known as Chris Evert Lloyd from 1979 to 1987, is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. Widely considered among the greatest tennis players of all time, Evert won 18 major singles titles, including a record seven French Open titles and a joint-record six US Open titles (tied with Serena Williams).
In 1976, only one other American player, Connors, had a better record than Dibbs. [3] In 1977, Dibbs was the 2nd highest ranked American in the tour. [3] In the 1978 season, he ended the year as the leading money winner on the professional tennis tour. [4] Dibbs was consistently ranked in the top 10 tour rankings for five years from 1975 to ...
In 1978, Gerulaitis won the year-end championship WCT Finals for the World Championship Tennis tour, beating Eddie Dibbs 6–3, 6–2, 6–1. By 1978, he was the third-ranked men's singles player in the world. Gerulaitis advanced to the men's singles finals at the US Open in 1979, but lost in straight sets to fellow New Yorker John McEnroe.
This article presents top ten lists of male singles tennis players, as ranked by various official and non-official ranking authorities throughout the history of the sport. The article is split into two sections: 1912–1972, and since 1973 when the first official ATP rankings were published, for ease of navigation.
Jannik Sinner, the current men's singles world No. 1. The PIF ATP rankings [1] are the Association of Tennis Professionals' (ATP) merit-based system for determining the rankings in men's tennis. The top-ranked player is the player who, over the previous 52 weeks, has garnered the most ranking points on the ATP Tour. Points are awarded based on ...
World number 1 ranked male tennis players; Top ten ranked male tennis players; Top ten ranked male tennis players (1912–1972) Women. List of female tennis players; Rankings List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players; List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players; World number 1 ranked female tennis players; Top ten ranked female ...