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Tennis Champion; Founder, Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation

Andy Murray has been hailed as the player with the talent to end that drought ever since he established himself in the Top 5 in 2008.

Andy Roddick was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1982 and started playing tennis when he was seven.

Russian-born Anna Kournikova left Moscow at the age of 9 to come toNick Bollettieri's Tennis Academy in Florida, USA - the same academywhich has also produced Monica Seles and Andre Agassi.

Billie Jean King is one of the most illustrious and celebrated tennis players in history.

Billie Jean King has long been a champion for social change and equality. King created new inroads for women in sports and beyond during her legendary career and she continues to make her mark today.

For nearly 20 years, tennis great Chris Evert provided fans throughout the world with one guarantee - she gave every match all she had. She was always more than just the best tennis player in the world. Evert was ranked number one for seven years and had a 90 percent win average spanning her 17 year career as a pro. She won 18 grand slam titles including three Wimbledons, seven French Opens, two Australian Opens and six U.S. Opens.

2007 Davis Cup Winner and Member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Tennis Team; Author of the NY Times best-seller "Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life"

During her career, she has won three Grand Slam singles titles (2 Australian Open, 1 French Open), as well as the women's singles Gold Medal at the 1992 Olympic Games.

Jim Courier (b. August 17, 1970 in Sanford, Florida) is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from the United States.

Connors began playing tennis when he was three years old, under the tutelage of his mother Gloria, a teaching professional. When he was a young teen-ager, the family moved to California so he could receive advanced training from Pancho Gonzales and Pancho Segura.

John McEnroe embodies the American spirit. For two decades, he set an unparalleled standard of excellence both on and off the court. His pursuit of perfection and intensity to win have made him a popular champion and a tennis legend for the ages.

Clijsters, known as Kim Kong, Killing Kim or Kim Possible to many fans, is recognized for her deep, powerful, well-placed groundstrokes

Maria Sharapova was born on 19th April 1987 in Nyagan, Russia.

If there was a record in tennis, chances are Martina Navratilova broke it. By the time of her retirement, she had acquired more tournament titles than any man or woman in tennis history, winning at least one tour event for 21 consecutive years. She dominated the scene in the 1980s and is the game's all-time money winner. Martina boasts two winning streaks: 74 singles matches and 109 in doubles with Pam Shriver.

Mary Carillo joined CBS Sports as a tennis analyst in 1986 and has covered the U.S. Open Tennis Championships as a match analyst with Tony Trabert each year since. She also serves as the analyst for the CBS Television Network's late-night highlights program.

Former professional tennis player, Mary Joe Fernndez serves as an analyst on tennis

Michael Chang charged onto the international tennis scene and shocked the world by upsetting Ivan Lendl and Stefan Egberg and becoming the youngest player in history to win a Grand Slam event.

Monica Seles became a teen tennis sensation in 1990, when she won the French Open at age 16 and then became the world's number-one ranked female tennis player.

Patrick John McEnroe was born July 1, 1966 and is a former professional tennis player and the former Captain of the United States Davis Cup team.

Pete Sampras started playing tennis young and makes no plans to stop anytime soon.

Roger Federer is a Swiss tennis player whose amazing achievements helped rank him along the best tennis professionals of all time.

Stefanie Maria Graf was born on June 14, 1969 in Neckerau, Germany.

Henman comes from a sporting family - his mother and father both played tennis and his grandfather and great-grandmother

Tennis prodigy Tracy Austin stormed into women's tennis in 1977 and set a number of amazing records as the youngest player in the sport.

Professional tennis player. Born June 17, 1980, in Lynwood, California.

U.S. Olympic Tennis Player, Grand Slam Doubles Champion with brother Mike, Member of the 2007 U.S. Davis Cup Champion Team

Both on and off the courts, Cliff Drysdale is one of the most popular personalities in the International tennis community. This American played 45 Davis Cup matches for his former homeland, South Africa, over a six-year period. In 1972, Drysdale teamed with Roger Taylor to win the U.S. Open doubles crown.

Although there are many who play great tennis, there are only a few tennis greats. Fred Stolle is one of them. The Australian's 1985 induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame is testimony to his talents, and a lasting tribute to a Legend.

The tennis establishment wasn't quite ready for the brothers' arrival in 1993 when, just six months into their professional careers, they pulled off a staggering coup: a French Open doubles win that catapulted them onto the global stage. And, among the raised eyebrows and disapproving looks at the chest butts, high fives and self-expression of this new breed of rock ,˜n' roll tennis, the brothers built themselves a loyal following that persists to this day.

John Newcombe has always been more than a tennis legend - he is an Australian icon. As a player, he was the world number one, a multiple Wimbledon, US and Australian Open champion, a fighter who would push himself to the limit and beyond to win. Yet he never (or almost never) lost his sense of humour or fun. You could tell he loved playing the game, and that made watching him all the more enjoyable.

As the Doomsday Stroking Machine, the remarkable Kenneth Robert "Muscles" Rosewall was a factor in three decades of tennis, winning his first major titles, the Australian and French singles in 1953, and continuing as a tournament winner past his 43rd birthday.

Kiran Bedi was one of India's top cops -- tough, innovative and committed to social change.

Lindsay Davenport was born on June 8,1976 at Palas Verdes, California, USA and now lives at Newport Beach also in sunny California.

Now hailing from Switzerland, tennis star Martina Hingis was born on Sept. 30, 1980, in the town of Kosice, zechoslovakia.

U.S. Olympic Tennis Player, Grand Slam Doubles Champion with brother Bob, Member of the 2007 U.S. Davis Cup Champion Team

President & Founder of Bollettieri Tennis Academy

Pam Shriver is a powerful doubles player with 22 career Grand Slam championships to prove it. Shriver and Martina Navratilova teamed to win 20 Grand Slam doubles titles and 79 overall. The duo won a record 109 consecutive doubles matches from April 1983 to July 1985.

Serena Williams was born in Saginaw, Michigan, on the 26th September, 1981, the youngest of 5 sisters.

Ted is a versatile speaker...he connects well with audiences and can entertain his audience with numerous stories from his experiences not only as an Olympic Broadcaster.

Trabert won a total of 10 Grand Slam titles in his career, five each in singles--where he was a perfect 5-0 in finals--and doubles. Trabert also captured three of the four Grand Slam singles titles at least once, including the U.S. crown in 1953 and 1955. He still stands, with Jimmy Connors, as one of only two American men since 1955 to win three of the four Grand Slam singles events in the same year.

Virginia Wade is Great Britain's greatest player ever. She was Britain's top player for more than a decade and achieved her lifetime goal by winning Wimbledon in 1977. When she won her Wimbledon crown, she was presented with her trophy by Queen Elizabeth II, who was celebrating her 25-year reign simultaneously with the Centenary at Wimbledon.

Wendy Turnbull, a native of Brisbane, Australia, was nicknamed "Rabbit" by her fellow players because of her quickness on the court. She was ranked in the Top 20 for ten consecutive years, from 1977 through 1986, and in the Top 10 from 1977 through 1984, with a career high ranking of No. 3 in 1985.

One of the best female tennis players in the modern era. Only the 12th woman to have won in excess of 500 matches; Member of the U.S. Olympic team in 1988 and 1992, where she captured a gold medal in doubles (with Pam Shriver) and a bronze medal in singles competition. Her highest ranking came in 1989, when she was ranked by the WTA as 4th best in the world.