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This category lists tennis players with Wikipedia articles who have represented the United States notably in men's or boys' tennis competition.
United States: 2008 [b] 1967 U.S. Championship semifinalist Richard Sears: 1861: 1943: United States: 1955: Winner of 7 Grand Slam titles • 1881–1887 U.S. champion: Frank Sedgman: 1927 – Australia: 1979: 1: Winner of 5 Grand Slam titles • 1949/1950 Australian champion • 1951/1952 U.S. champion • 1952 Wimbledon champion ...
The US Open men's singles championship is an annual tennis tournament that is part of the US Open [c] [d] and was established in 1881. It is played on outdoor hard courts [ e ] at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows – Corona Park , New York City, United States.
100 Greatest of All Time was a sports television series of five one-hour episodes, produced and first aired by the Tennis Channel in March 2012. It presented a list of 100 tennis players to be considered the greatest of all time, both men and women. The series was hosted by Jack Nicklaus, Jerry Rice, Wayne Gretzky, Lisa Leslie and Carl Lewis. [1]
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).
Todd Martin (born July 8, 1970) is an American retired tennis player. He reached the men's singles final at the 1994 Australian Open and the 1999 US Open and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4.
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 1979. [4] He is also the American tennis player with most singles victories in clay ever in the Open Era and ranks 7th all-time in overall singles victories ...
Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) [1] is an American former professional tennis player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, [a] she was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 319 weeks, including a joint-record 186 consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 five times.