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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
James Riley Blake [2] (born December 28, 1979) is an American former professional tennis player. He won 10 titles on the ATP Tour (out of 24 finals contested), reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4.
Brad Gilbert (born August 9, 1961) is an American former professional tennis player, tennis coach, and tennis commentator and analyst for ESPN.During his career, he won 20 singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 in 1990, and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 18 four years prior.
Lindsay Ann Davenport Leach (born June 8, 1976) is an American former professional tennis player. Davenport was ranked singles world No. 1 for a total of 98 weeks, and was the year-end singles world No. 1 four times (1998, 2001, 2004, and 2005). She also held the doubles world No. 1 ranking for 32 weeks. [3]
John Robert Isner (born April 26, 1985) is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 8 in singles and No. 14 in doubles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). [2]
While he retained the ATP No. 1 ranking at the end of the year, the ATP and most tennis authorities rated Borg, who also won the French Open, as the player of the year. Connors reached the ATP 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.
She won her first Grand Slam singles at the US Open a year later in 1999. Serena was just 17 when she won the 1999 U.S. Open, beating Martina Hingis in the finals.
Arriving at a number one pro ranking for 1947 is difficult, because in the pro ranks there was no long annual tour and Riggs, Budge and Kovacs all achieved significant wins. Riggs ranked pro No. 1 by Peter Underwood in 2019. [249] Courier-Post (Camden, N. J.) on January 15, 1948, which said Riggs was the "top professional player last year". [250]