International Tennis Hall of Fame
Encyclopedia
The International Tennis Hall of Fame is located in Newport, Rhode Island
Newport, Rhode Island
Newport is a city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States, about south of Providence. Known as a New England summer resort and for the famous Newport Mansions, it is the home of Salve Regina University and Naval Station Newport which houses the United States Naval War...

, United States. The hall of fame
Hall of Fame
A hall of fame, wall of fame, walk of fame, walk of stars or avenue of stars is a type of attraction established for any field of endeavor to honor individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field...

 and honors players and contributors to the sport of tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 and includes a museum, grass tennis courts, an indoor tennis facility, and a court tennis (or real tennis) facility.

History

The hall of fame and museum are located in the Newport Casino
Newport Casino
The Newport Casino is located at 186-202 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, United States. It was designated a National Historic Landmark on February 27, 1987.- 1879 - 1900 :The complex was commissioned in 1880 by James Gordon Bennett, Jr...

, which was commissioned in 1880 by James Gordon Bennett, Jr.
James Gordon Bennett, Jr.
James Gordon Bennett, Jr. was publisher of the New York Herald, founded by his father, James Gordon Bennett, Sr., who emigrated from Scotland. He was generally known as Gordon Bennett to distinguish him from his father....

 as an exclusive resort for the rich and wealthy, and was designed by Charles McKim
Charles McKim
Charles McKim may refer to:*Charles Follen McKim , American Beaux-Arts architect*Charles M. McKim , American architect...

 along with Stanford White
Stanford White
Stanford White was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms. He designed a long series of houses for the rich and the very rich, and various public, institutional, and religious buildings, some of which can be found...

, who did the interiors. By the 1950s, the retreat was struggling financially and was in danger of being demolished for modern retail space.

The United States Lawn Tennis Association had held its first championships at the Newport Casino in 1881, an event that would continue through 1914, by which time tennis had become the key attraction at the resort. In 1954, James Henry Van Alen established the Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum in the Casino. The combination of tennis matches and the museum allowed the building to be saved. It is an example of Victorian Shingle Style architecture.

Van Alen intended the facility to be "a shrine to the ideals of the game", and was elected president of the hall in 1957. The International Tennis Hall of Fame was officially sanctioned by the United States Tennis Association
United States Tennis Association
The United States Tennis Association is the national governing body for the sport of tennis in the United States. A not-for-profit organization with more than 700,000 members, it invests 100% of its proceeds to promote and develop the growth of tennis, from the grass-roots to the professional levels...

 on its foundation in 1954, and recognized by the International Tennis Federation
International Tennis Federation
The International Tennis Federation is the governing body of world tennis, made up of 205 national tennis associations.It was established as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by 12 national associations meeting at a conference in Paris, France on 1 March 1913...

 in 1986. The first Hall of Fame members were inducted in 1955; as of 2010, there are 218 inductees from 19 countries.

Collection

The museum houses a vast collection of artifacts and memorabilia – including videos, photographs, audio recordings, tennis equipment and apparel, trophies, and art – highlighting the history of tennis from its origins up through the modern era. The collection is displayed year-round in the museum's 13000 square feet (1,207.7 m²) of exhibit space.

Awards

For a description of each award and a list of its recipients, see footnote.
  • Chairman’s Award
  • Davis Cup Award of Excellence
  • Eugene L. Scott Award
  • Fed Cup Award of Excellence
  • Golden Achievement Award
  • Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Award
  • Samuel Hardy Award
  • Tennis Educational Merit Award

Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships

The Hall of Fame hosts several tournaments, including the Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships. Part of the ATP World Tour, the tournament is one of 15 events and the only grass court event in North America. Top male players come to Newport directly from Wimbledon to compete for the Van Alen Cup and $442,500 in prize money at the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Past competitors include Americans Sam Querrey
Sam Querrey
Sam Austin Querrey is a professional American tennis player from Thousand Oaks, California currently living in Las Vegas, Nevada. As of August 2010, he is the fourth-highest ranked American. His career high rank was #17, achieved on January 31, 2011. His height allows him to play with a strong...

 and Mardy Fish
Mardy Fish
Mardy Simpson Fish is an American professional tennis player, and Olympic silver medalist. He is a hardcourt specialist...

, as well as two-time champion Fabrice Santoro
Fabrice Santoro
Fabrice Vetea Santoro is a retired French professional male tennis player from Tahiti. Though not counted among the top ranked players, he had an unusually long professional career – with many of his accomplishments coming toward the end of his career – and he is popular among spectators and other...

 of France.

Members

For a list of inductees—alphabetically, by country, and by year of induction—see footnote.
Note: Inductees are listed below in two categories (Player category and #Contributor category).

Player category

NameNationalityYear inducted
Addie, Pauline Betz  United States 1965
Agassi, Andre
Andre Agassi
Andre Kirk Agassi is a retired American professional tennis player and former world no. 1. Generally considered by critics and fellow players to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Agassi has been called the best service returner in the history of the game...

United States 2011
Alexander, Frederick "Fred"
Fred Alexander
Frederick Beasley Alexander was a top-ranked tennis player in the early 20th century....

 
United States 1961
Allison, Wilmer
Wilmer Allison
Wilmer Lawson Allison, Jr. was an American amateur tennis champion of the 1930s...

 
United States 1963
Alonso, Manuel
Manuel Alonso
Manuel Alonso was a former Spanish top-ranking tennis player.Alonso was a Wimbledon All-comers finalist in 1921 and French Open semi-finalist in 1921 as well. He was a quarter-finalist in the U.S. Championships in 1922, 1923, 1925, and 1927. Additionally, Alonso was a Davis Cup Team Member in...

 
Spain 1977
Anderson, Malcolm
Malcolm Anderson
Malcolm "Mal" J. Anderson was a top-ranking Australian tennis player from the middle 1950s to the early 1970s....

 
Australia 2000
Ashe, Arthur
Arthur Ashe
Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. was a professional tennis player, born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. During his career, he won three Grand Slam titles, putting him among the best ever from the United States...

 
United States 1985
Atkinson, Juliette
Juliette Atkinson
Juliette Paxton Atkinson was an American female tennis player. She was born in Rahway, New Jersey, United States....

 
United States 1974
Austin, Henry  Great Britain 1997
Austin, Tracy
Tracy Austin
Tracy Ann Austin Holt is a former World No. 1 female professional tennis player from the United States who won the women's singles title at the US Open in 1979 and 1981 and the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 1980, before a series of injuries cut her career short.-To 1980:Austin defeated...

 
United States 1992
Barrett, Angela Mortimer  Great Britain 1993
Becker, Boris
Boris Becker
Boris Franz Becker is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from Germany. He is a six-time Grand Slam singles champion, an Olympic gold medalist, and the youngest-ever winner of the men's singles title at Wimbledon at the age of 17...

 
Germany 2003
Behr, Karl
Karl Behr
Karl Howell Behr was an American tennis player and banker. He was also a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.-Personal life:...

 
United States 1969
Borg, Björn
Björn Borg
Björn Rune Borg is a former world no. 1 tennis player from Sweden. Between 1974 and 1981 he won 11 Grand Slam singles titles. He won five consecutive Wimbledon singles titles and six French Open singles titles...

 
Sweden 1987
Borotra, Jean
Jean Borotra
Jean Robert Borotra was a French champion tennis player. He was one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from his country who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s.-Career:...

 
France 1976
Bowrey, Lesley Turner
Lesley Turner Bowrey
Lesley Rosemary Turner Bowrey AM is an Australian female tennis player.Bowrey won 13 Grand Slam titles during her career: two in singles, seven in women's doubles, and four in mixed doubles. She lost in the final of 14 other Grand Slam events.Bowrey twice won the singles title at the French...

 
Australia 1997
Brinker, Maureen Connolly  United States 1968
Bromwich, John
John Bromwich
John Edward Bromwich was a male tennis player from Australia who, along with his countryman Vivian McGrath, was one of the first great players to use a two-handed forehand....

 
Australia 1984
Brookes, Norman
Norman Brookes
Brookes was also an Australian rules footballer in his youth, playing two matches for Victorian Football League club St Kilda Football Club in 1898, kicking two goals.-Honours:Norman Brookes was knighted "in recognition of service to public service" in 1939...

 
Australia 1977
Browne, Mary Kendall  United States 1957
Brugnon, Jacques
Jacques Brugnon
Jacques "Toto" Brugnon was a French tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s.He was born in Paris and died in Paris....

 
France 1976
Buchholz Jr., Earl  United States 2005
Budge, John Donald "Don"
Don Budge
John Donald Budge was an American tennis champion who was a World No. 1 player for five years, first as an amateur and then as a professional...

 
United States 1964
Bueno, Maria
Maria Bueno
Maria Esther Andion Bueno is a former professional tennis player from Brazil. During her 11-year career , she won 19 Major titles ....

 
Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

 
1978
Bundy, May Sutton  United States 1956
Cahill, Mabel
Mabel Cahill
Mabel Esmonde Cahill was a female tennis player from Ireland ....

 
Ireland 1976
Campbell, Oliver
Oliver Campbell
Oliver Edward Michael Campbell was an American male tennis player....

 
United States 1955
Casals, Rosemary
Rosemary Casals
Rosemary "Rosie" Casals is a former American professional tennis player.Rosemary Casals earned her reputation as a rebel in the staid tennis world when she began competing in the early 1960s. During a tennis career that spanned more than two decades, she won more than 90 tournaments and worked for...

 
United States 1996
Cawley, Evonne Goolagong  Australia 1988
Chance, Malcolm
Malcolm Chance
Malcolm Chace was an American amateur tennis player whose highest ranking was US number 3 in 1895.Chace was born in Valley Falls, Rhode Island and played for both Harvard and Yale...

 
United States 1961
Chambers, Dorothea Douglass Lambert
Dorothea Douglass Chambers
Dorothea Katherine Lambert Chambers was an English female tennis player who was born in Guayamas, Ealing in the United Kingdom.-Biography:...

 
Great Britain 1981
Chang, Michael
Michael Chang
Michael Te-Pei Chang is a former American professional tennis player. He is best remembered for becoming the youngest-ever male player to win a Grand Slam singles title when he won the French Open in 1989 at the age of 17....

 
United States 2008
Cheney, Dorothy Bundy
Dorothy Cheney
Dorothy “Dodo” Bundy Cheney is the daughter of Tennis Hall of Famer May Sutton Bundy and U.S. doubles champion Tom Bundy . She has been an outstanding American tennis player from her youth into her 90s. She played most of her tennis at the Los Angeles Tennis Club , during the years that Perry T...

 
United States 2004
Clapp, Louise Brough  United States 1967
Clark, Clarence
Clarence Clark
Clarence Munroe Clark was an American tennis player active near the end of the 19th century.-Biography:Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, he was part of a distinguished family from Philadelphia. In 1881, he became the first secretary of the recently-formed United States Lawn Tennis Association...

 
United States 1983
Clark, Joseph
Joseph Clark (tennis)
Joseph Sill Clark, Sr. was a champion American tennis player. Clark won 1885 U.S. National Championship in doubles, partnering with Dick Sears. He was also the inaugural singles and doubles national collegiate champion, in 1883...

 
United States 1955
Clothier, William
William Clothier
This article is about the tennis player. For the cinematographer, see William H. Clothier.----William Jackson Clothier was a male tennis player from the United States....

 
United States 1956
Cochet, Henri
Henri Cochet
Henri Jean Cochet was a champion tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s....

 
France 1976
Connors, James "Jimmy"
Jimmy Connors
James Scott "Jimmy" Connors is an American former world no. 1 tennis player....

 
United States 1998
Cooke, Sarah Palfrey
Sarah Palfrey Cooke
Sarah Hammond Palfrey Fabyan Cooke Danzig was a female tennis player from the United States....

 
United States 1963
Cooper, Ashley  Australia 1991
Courier, Jim
Jim Courier
James Spencer "Jim" Courier, Jr. is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from the United States. During his career, he won four Grand Slam singles titles, two at the French Open and two at the Australian Open...

 
United States 2005
Court, Margaret  Australia 1979
Cramm, Gottfried von
Gottfried von Cramm
Gottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt Freiherr von Cramm was a German amateur tennis champion and twice French Open champion.-Birth:...

 
Germany 1977
Crawford, Jack  Australia 1979
Davidson, Owen
Owen Davidson
' was a professional tennis player of the 1960s and 1970s.Partnering Billie Jean King, Davidson managed to win eight grand slam mixed doubles titles. Davidson was one of very few to win a calendar year slam for mixed doubles, when he won the Australian Championships, French Championships,...

 
Australia 2010
Davidson, Sven
Sven Davidson
Sven Davidson was a Swedish tennis player who became the first Swede to win a Grand Slam title when he won the French Championships in 1957...

 
Sweden 2007
Davis, Dwight F.
Dwight F. Davis
Dwight Filley Davis was an American tennis player and politician. He is best remembered as the founder of the Davis Cup international tennis competition.-Biography:...

 
United States 1956
Dod, Charlotte "Lottie"
Lottie Dod
Charlotte "Lottie" Dod was an English sportswoman best known as a tennis player. She won the Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Championship five times, the first one when she was only fifteen, in the summer of 1887...

 
Great Britain 1983
Doeg, John
John Doeg
John Thomas Godfray Hope Doeg was a male tennis player from the United States.He has won one major tournament: the U.S. Championships in 1930....

 
United States 1962
Doherty, Lawrence  Great Britain 1980
Doherty, Reggie  Great Britain 1980
Drobný, Jaroslav
Jaroslav Drobný
Jaroslav Drobný was an amateur tennis champion as well as being an ice hockey player for the Czechoslovakian national team...

 
Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

 
1983
duPont, Margaret Osborne
Margaret Osborne duPont
Margaret Evelyn Osborne duPont is a former World No. 1 American female tennis player.DuPont won a total of 37 singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles Grand Slam titles, which places her fourth on the all-time list despite never entering the Australian Championships. She won 25 of her Grand...

 
United States 1967
Dwight, James  United States 1955
Durr, Françoise
Françoise Durr
Françoise Durr is a retired tennis player from France. She won 26 major singles titles and over 60 doubles titles....

 
France 2003
Edberg, Stefan
Stefan Edberg
Stefan Bengt Edberg is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from Sweden. A major proponent of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam men's doubles titles. He also won one season ending championship title the Masters Grand Prix...

 
Sweden 2004
Emerson, Roy
Roy Emerson
Roy Stanley Emerson is an Australian former tennis player who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles and 16 Grand Slam men's doubles titles. He is the only male player to have won singles and doubles titles at all four Grand Slam tournaments. His 28 Grand Slam titles are an all-time record for a male...

 
Australia 1982
Etchebaster, Pierre
Pierre Etchebaster
Pierre Etchebaster is widely considered history's greatest player of real tennis , the original racquet sport from which the modern game of lawn tennis , is descended.Born in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France, a Basque fishing village, he served in the French Army during World War I before...

 
France 1978
Evert, Christine "Chris"
Chris Evert
Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former world number 1 professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, including a record seven championships at the French Open and a record six championships at the U.S. Open. She was the year-ending World No...

 
United States 1995
Falkenburg, Robert "Bob"
Bob Falkenburg
Robert Falkenburg is a former American amateur tennis player and entrepreneur. He is best known for winning the 1948 men's singles Wimbledon Championship and for introducing soft ice cream and American fast food to Brazil in 1952...

 
United States/Brazil 1974
Fernández, Beatriz "Gigi"
Gigi Fernández
Beatriz "Gigi" Fernández is a former professional tennis player, the first female athlete from her native Puerto Rico to turn professional, the first Puerto Rican woman to ever win an Olympic gold medal and the first to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.Fernandez won 17 Grand...

 
United States (Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

)
2010
Fraser, Neale
Neale Fraser
Neale Andrew Fraser AO MBE is a former tennis player from Australia, born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of a Victorian judge. He began playing tennis at age 11 and attended St Kevin's College, Melbourne where he became Captain of Tennis at the school.Fraser won Wimbledon in 1960 and the US...

 
Australia 1984
Garland, Chuck  United States 1969
Gibson, Althea
Althea Gibson
Althea Gibson was a World No. 1 American sportswoman who became the first African-American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour and the first to win a Grand Slam title in 1956. She is sometimes referred to as "the Jackie Robinson of tennis" for breaking the color barrier...

 
United States 1971
Gimeno, Andres
Andrés Gimeno
Andrés Gimeno Tolaguera is a retired Spanish tennis player. He major achievement came in 1972, when he won the French Open....

 
Spain 2009
Godfree, Kathleen McKane
Kathleen McKane Godfree
Kathleen "Kitty" McKane Godfree was a British female tennis and badminton player....

 
Great Britain 1978
Gonzalez, Pancho  United States 1968
Graf, Stefanie "Steffi"
Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...

 
Germany 2004
Grant, Bitsy
Bitsy Grant
Bryan Morel "Bitsy" Grant, Jr was an American professional tennis champion. At 5 feet 4 inches and 120 lbs , Grant was the smallest American man to win a championship on the international tennis circuit...

 
United States 1972
Hackett, Harold
Harold Hackett
Harold Humphrey Hackett was an American tennis player.Born in Hingham, Massachusetts, but a long-time resident of New York, Hackett turned in his best results in doubles with Fred Alexander. Beginning in 1905, they were finalists at the U.S...

 
United States 1961
Hansell, Ellen
Ellen Hansell
Ellen Forde Hansell Alderdice was a female tennis player from the United States who is best known for being the first women's singles champion of the U.S. Championships in 1887. She was also a losing finalist to Bertha Townsend the next year.-Win :-Runner-up :-External links:*...

 
United States 1965
Hard, Darlene
Darlene Hard
Darlene Hard is an American former amateur tennis player. Known for her volleying ability and strong serves, she captured singles titles at the French Championships in 1960 and the U.S...

 
United States 1973
Hart, Doris
Doris Hart
Doris Hart is a former World No. 1 American female tennis player.As a child, she suffered from osteomyelitis, which resulted in a permanently impaired right leg...

 
United States 1969
Hewitt, Robert "Bob"
Bob Hewitt
Robert "Bob" Anthony John Hewitt is a former professional male tennis player from Australia...

 
Australia/South Africa 1992
Hoad, Lewis "Lew"
Lew Hoad
Lewis Alan Hoad was a champion tennis player....

 
Australia 1980
Hopman, Harry
Harry Hopman
Henry Christian Hopman, CBE was a world-acclaimed Australian-American tennis player and coach, born in Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales, and soon moving to Parramatta, a city adjoining Sydney and now effectively a suburb of the metropolis.Hopman was a student at Rosehill Public Primary school...

 
Australia 1978
Hovey, Frederick
Frederick Hovey
Frederick "Fred" Howard Hovey was a male tennis player from the United States.Hovey won the NCAA men's singles championship in 1890 while attending Harvard University....

 
United States 1974
Hunt, Joseph "Joe"  United States 1966
Hunter, Frank
Francis Hunter
For the Distinguished Service Cross recipient, see Francis Hunter .----Francis "Frank" Townsend Hunter was a male tennis player from the United States of America...

 
United States 1961
Irvin, Shirley Fry  United States 1970
Jacobs, Helen
Helen Jacobs
Helen Hull Jacobs was a World No. 1 American female tennis player who won ten Grand Slam titles. She was born in Globe, Arizona, United States.- Tennis career :...

 
United States 1962
Johnston, William "Bill"  United States 1958
Jones, Ann Haydon  Great Britain 1985
King, Billie Jean Moffitt
Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King is a former professional tennis player from the United States. She won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. King has been an advocate against sexism in sports and society...

 
United States 1987
Kodeš, Jan
Jan Kodeš
Jan Kodeš is a right-handed Czech former tennis player who won three Grand Slam events in the early-1970s.Kodeš's greatest success was on the clay courts of the French Open. He won the title there in 1970, beating Željko Franulović in the final, and in 1971, defeating Ilie Năstase in the final...

 
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

 
1990
Koželuh, Karel
Karel Koželuh
Karel Koželuh was a top Czech tennis, soccer, and ice hockey player of the 1920s and 1930s. Koželuh never played in the major tournaments of amateur tennis but was an all-around athlete at the very highest level....

 
Czechoslovakia 2006
Kramer, John Albert "Jack"  United States 1968
Lacoste, René
René Lacoste
Jean René Lacoste was a French tennis player and businessman. He was nicknamed "the Crocodile" by fans because of his tenacity on the court; he is also known worldwide as the namesake of the Lacoste tennis shirt, which he introduced in 1929.Lacoste was one of The Four Musketeers, French tennis...

 
France 1976
Larned, William "Bill"
William Larned
William Augustus Larned was an American male tennis player.-Biography:He was raised in Summit, New Jersey on the estate of his father, William Zebedee Larned. Larned Road in Summit honors both father and son. William came from a family that could trace its American roots to shortly after the...

 
United States 1956
Larsen, Arthur "Art"
Art Larsen
Arthur David Larsen was an American male tennis player best remembered for his victory at the U.S. Championships in 1950 and for his eccentricities...

 
United States 1956
Laver, Rodney "Rod"
Rod Laver
Rodney George "Rod" Laver MBE is an Australian former tennis player who holds the record for titles won in career, and was the World No. 1 player for seven consecutive years, from 1964 to 1970...

 
Australia 1981
Lendl, Ivan
Ivan Lendl
Ivan Lendl is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Lendl became a United States citizen. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s. He is considered to be one of the greatest tennis...

 
Czechoslovakia/United States 2001
Lenglen, Suzanne
Suzanne Lenglen
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen was a French tennis player who won 31 Championship titles between 1914 and 1926...

 
France 1978
Little, Dorothy Round
Dorothy Round Little
Dorothy Edith Round Little was a World No. 1 British female tennis player. She was born in Dudley, Worcestershire, England, where she attended the Dudley Girls High School....

 
Great Britain 1986
Lott, George
George Lott
George Martin Lott was an American tennis player and tennis coach who was born in Springfield, Illinois, United States. Lott is mostly remembered as being one of the greatest doubles players of all time. He won the U.S. title five times with three different partners: John Hennessey in 1928; John...

 
United States 1964
Macdonald, Andrew
Andrew MacDonald
Andrew MacDonald may refer to:*Andrew MacDonald , Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman*Andrew Macdonald , Scottish film producer*Duck MacDonald, real name Andrew MacDonald, American rock guitarist...

 
Great Britain 1987
Mako, Constantine "Gene"
Gene Mako
Constantine Mako is a former American tennis player and is also an art gallery owner. He was born in Budapest, capital of Hungary. He won four Grand Slam doubles titles in the 1930s...

 
United States 1973
Mallory, Molla
Molla Mallory
Anna Margarethe "Molla" Bjurstedt Mallory was a Norwegian-born American tennis player.-Tennis career:...

 
Norway/United States 1958
Mandlíková, Hana
Hana Mandlíková
Hana Mandlíková is a former Czech professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia and later Australia. During her career, she won four Grand Slam singles titles – two at the Australian Open, one at the French Open, and one at the US Open...

 
Czechoslovakia/Australia 1994
Marble, Alice
Alice Marble
Alice Marble was a World No. 1 American tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam championships : 5 in Singles, 6 in Women's Doubles, and 7 in Mixed Doubles.-Early life:Born in the small town of Beckwourth, Plumas County, California, Marble moved with her family at the age of...

 
United States 1964
Martin, Alastair
Alastair Martin
Alastair Bradley Martin was a U.S. National Championships title winner, Tennis Hall of Fame inductee, and president of the United States Lawn Tennis Association...

 
United States 1973
Martin, William McChesney  United States 1982
Maskell, Dan
Dan Maskell
Daniel "Dan" Maskell was an English tennis player, who later became even better known as a radio and television commentator on the game, and was known as the BBC's "voice of tennis"....

 
Great Britain 1996
McEnroe, John
John McEnroe
John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from the United States. During his career, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles , nine Grand Slam men's doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title...

 
United States 1999
McGregor, Kenneth "Ken"
Ken McGregor
Kenneth Bruce McGregor was a former tennis player from Australia who won the Men's Singles title at the Australian Championships in 1952. He and his longtime doubles partner, Frank Sedgman, are generally considered to be one of the greatest men's doubles teams of all time...

 
Australia 1999
McKinley, Charles Robert "Chuck"
Chuck McKinley
Charles Robert "Chuck" McKinley Jr. was an American men’s amateur tennis player of the 1960s. He is remembered as an undersized, hard working dynamo, whose relentless effort and competitive spirit led American tennis to the top of the sport during a period heavily dominated by Australians.McKinley...

 
United States 1986
McLoughlin, Maurice
Maurice McLoughlin
Maurice Evans McLoughlin was an American tennis player. Known for his powerful serve and overhead volley, McLoughlin was the first male tennis champion from the western United States.-Biography:...

 
United States 1957
McMillan, Frew
Frew McMillan
Frew Donald McMillan is a former professional male tennis player from South Africa.He won five major doubles championships including three Wimbledons with Bob Hewitt. The most notable aspect of his game was that he had both a two-handed backhand and forehand, which simultaneously increased his...

 
South Africa 1992
McNeill, Don
Don McNeill (tennis)
William Donald McNeill was an American male tennis player. He was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma and died in Vero Beach, Florida, United States....

 
United States 1965
Moody, Helen Wills
Helen Wills Moody
Helen Newington Wills Roark , also known as Helen Wills Moody, was an American tennis player. She has been described as "the first American born woman to achieve international celebrity as an athlete."-Biography:...

 
United States 1969
Moore, Elisabeth
Elisabeth Moore
Elisabeth Holmes Moore was an American tennis champion. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971.-Biography:She was born on March 5, 1876 in Brooklyn...

 
United States 1971
Mulloy, Gardnar
Gardnar Mulloy
Gardnar Putnam Mulloy is a tennis player primarily known for playing in doubles matches with partner Billy Talbert. When he was the Tennis Coach of the University of Miami, he recruited Pancho Segura for the tennis team. Pancho won three straight NCAA Singles Titles in 1943, 1944, and 1945,...

 
United States 1972
Murray, Robert  United States 1958
Năstase, Ilie
Ilie Nastase
Ilie Nastase is a Romanian former professional tennis player, one of the world's top players of the 1970s. Năstase was the World No. 1 tennis player between 1973 and 1974 . He is one of the five players in history to win more than 100 ATP professional titles . He was inducted into the...

 
Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

 
1991
Navrátilová, Martina  Czechoslovakia/United States 2000
Newcombe, John
John Newcombe
John David Newcombe, AO, OBE is a former World No. 1 tennis player.-Biography:He won seven Grand Slam singles titles, A natural athlete, Newcombe played several sports as a boy until devoting himself to tennis. He was the Australian junior champion in 1961, 1962, and 1963 and was a member of...

 
Australia 1986
Noah, Yannick
Yannick Noah
Yannick Noah is a former professional tennis player from France. He is best remembered for being the last French man to win the French Open in 1983, and as a highly-successful captain of France's Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams...

 
France 2005
Novotná, Jana
Jana Novotná
Jana Novotná is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam tournaments...

 
Czech Republic 2005
Nüsslein, Hans
Hans Nüsslein
Hans Nüsslein was a German tennis player of the 1930s.Born in Nuremberg, he had almost no background in amateur tennis. In late 1931, as a professional, he played Bill Tilden twice in Europe, taking him to 5 sets each time. Later in the 1930s, as Tilden aged, Nüsslein would beat the far more...

 
Germany 2006
Nuthall, Betty
Betty Nuthall
Betty May Nuthall Shoemaker was an English tennis player.Known for her powerful forehand, according to Wallis Myers of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Shoemaker was ranked in the world top ten in 1927, 1929 through 1931, and 1933, reaching a career high in those rankings of World No...

 
Great Britain 1977
Olmedo, Alex
Alex Olmedo
Alejandro "Alex" Rodríguez Olmedo is a former tennis player from Peru, who was ranked as the top amateur player in the world in 1959. Although born and raised in Peru, he came to Southern California and was mentored by Perry T. Jones, President of the Southern California Tennis Association at the...

 
Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

/United States
1987
Osuna, Rafael
Rafael Osuna
Rafael Osuna Herrera is the most successful tennis player in the history of Mexico. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico, and is best remembered for his singles victory at the U.S. Open Championships in 1963, winning Wimbledon Doubles championships twice, the U.S...

 
Mexico 1979
Parker, Frank
Frank Parker
----Frank "Frankie" Andrew Parker was an American male tennis player. He was coached by Mercer Beasley....

 
United States 1966
Patterson, Gerald
Gerald Patterson
Gerald Leighton Patterson MC was an Australian male tennis player. He was born in Melbourne, educated at Scotch College Melbourne and died in Melbourne in 13 June 1967. He was the co-World No...

 
Australia 1989
Patty, Jesse "Budge"
Budge Patty
John "Budge" Edward Patty was an American male tennis player. He was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States.1950 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles...

 
United States 1977
Pell, Theodore
Theodore Pell
Theodore Roosevelt Pell was an American tennis player. Pell was the only U.S. participant in tennis events at the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was selected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1966.-External links:*...

 
United States 1966
Perry, Frederick "Fred"
Fred Perry
Frederick John Perry was a championship-winning English tennis and table tennis player who won 10 Majors including eight Grand Slams and two Pro Slams. Perry won three consecutive Wimbledon Championships between 1934 and 1936 and was World No. 1 four years in a row...

 
Great Britain 1975
Pettitt, Tom
Tom Pettitt
Tom Pettitt was the real tennis world champion from 1885 to 1890.-Biography:Born in Beckenham, Kent, England, Pettitt emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts as a penniless teenager. He quickly rose from being the dressing-room boy at a private court on Buckingham Street, to being its head...

 
Great Britain 1982
Pietrangeli, Nicola
Nicola Pietrangeli
Nicola "Nicky" Pietrangeli is a former tennis player from Italy. He is considered by many to be Italy's greatest-ever tennis champion....

 
Italy 1986
Quist, Adrian
Adrian Quist
Adrian Karl Quist was an Australian male tennis player.-Biography:Adrian Quist was born in Medindie, South Australia. The tennis legend grew up in Adelaide and once played Harry Hopman, however he lost, only because he gave Hopman a head start...

 
Australia 1984
Rafter, Patrick "Pat"
Patrick Rafter
Patrick "Pat" Michael Rafter is an Australian former World No. 1 tennis player. He twice won the men's singles title at the US Open and was twice the runner-up at Wimbledon. Rafter was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006. He was known for his natural serve-and-volley style of...

 
Australia 2006
Ralston, Dennis
Dennis Ralston
Richard Dennis Ralston is an American former professional tennis player. He attended the University of Southern California and won NCAA championships under their legendary coach, George Toley. He was coached in his earlier years by the legendary tennis player, Pancho Gonzales...

 
United States 1987
Renshaw, Ernest
Ernest Renshaw
Ernest Renshaw was an English tennis player.Together with his twin brother William Renshaw, Ernest won the men's doubles at Wimbledon five times. He also won the singles championship at Wimbledon once, in 1888 and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1983...

 
Great Britain 1983
Renshaw, William
William Renshaw
William "Willie" Charles Renshaw is one of the greatest British male tennis players of all time, and a candidate for the greatest tennis player of all time...

 
Great Britain 1983
Richards, Vincent
Vincent Richards
Vincent "Vinnie" Richards was a top American tennis player in the early decades of the 20th Century, particularly known as being a superlative volleyer....

 
United States 1961
Richey, Nancy
Nancy Richey
Nancy Richey is a former tennis player from the United States.Richey won two Grand Slam singles titles and four Grand Slam women's doubles titles . She was ranked World No...

 
United States 2003
Riggs, Robert "Bobby"
Bobby Riggs
Robert Larimore "Bobby" Riggs was a 1930s–40s tennis player who was the World No. 1 or the co-World No. 1 player for three years, first as an amateur in 1941, then as a professional in 1946 and 1947...

 
United States 1967
Roche, Anthony "Tony"
Tony Roche
Anthony "Tony" Dalton Roche is a former professional Australian tennis player, native of Tarcutta. He played junior tennis in the New South Wales regional city of Wagga Wagga. He won one Grand Slam singles title and twelve Grand Slam doubles titles. He is also very well known for coaching...

 
Australia 1986
Roosevelt, Ellen
Ellen Roosevelt
Ellen Crosby Roosevelt was an American tennis player.She won the women's singles title and the women's doubles title at the 1890 U.S. Championships and the mixed doubles title at the 1893 U.S. Championships.A first cousin of Franklin D...

 
United States 1975
Rose, Mervyn
Mervyn Rose
Mervyn Rose was an Australian male tennis player. He was born in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales and turned professional in 1959...

 
Australia 2001
Rosewall, Kenneth "Ken"
Ken Rosewall
Kenneth Robert Rosewall AM MBE is a former world top-ranking amateur and professional tennis player from Australia. He won 23 Majors including eight Grand Slam singles titles and before the Open Era a record fifteen Pro Slam titles . Rosewall won 9 slams in doubles with a career double grand slam...

 
Australia 1980
Ryan, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Ryan
Elizabeth Montague Ryan was an American tennis player who was born in Anaheim, California but lived most of her life in the United Kingdom. Ryan won 30 Grand Slam titles. Nineteen of those titles were in women's doubles and mixed doubles at Wimbledon, an all-time record for those two events...

 
United States 1972
Sabatini, Gabriela
Gabriela Sabatini
Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini is a former professional Argentine tennis player. She was one of the leading players on the women's circuit in the late-1980s and early-1990s...

 
Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 
2006
Sampras, Pete
Pete Sampras
Pete Sampras is a retired American tennis player and former world no. 1. During his 15-year tour career, he won 14 Grand Slam singles titles and became recognized as one of the greatest tennis players of all time....

 
United States 2007
Santana, Manuel
Manuel Santana
Manuel Martínez Santana, best known as Manolo Santana, is a former tennis champion from Spain. He was born in Madrid....

 
Spain 1985
Savitt, Richard "Dick"
Dick Savitt
Richard "Dick" Savitt is a 6’ 3" and 185-pound right-handed American male former tennis player.Savitt was ranked 2nd in the world in 1951. That year, at the age of 24, he won both the Wimbledon Singles Championship and the Australian Singles title...

 
United States 1976
Schroeder, Frederick "Ted"
Ted Schroeder
Frederick Rudolph "Ted" Schroeder was an American tennis player who won the two most prestigious amateur tennis titles, Wimbledon and the U.S. National. He was the No. 1-ranked American player in 1942 and the No. 2 for 4 consecutive years, 1946 through 1949...

 
United States 1966
Sears, Eleonora
Eleonora Sears
Eleonora Randolph Sears was an American tennis player of the interwar period.She won the women's doubles at the US Women's National Championship four times, including three consecutively...

 
United States 1968
Sears, Richard  United States 1955
Sedgman, Frank
Frank Sedgman
Frank Arthur Sedgman, born 29 October 1927, in Mont Albert, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, was a tennis player who was arguably the world No.1 in 1952. In his 1979 autobiography Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter and great player himself, included Sedgman in his list of the 21...

 
Australia 1979
Segura, Pancho
Pancho Segura
Pancho Segura, born Francisco Olegario Segura , was a leading tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s, both as an amateur and as a professional. In 1950 and 1952, as a professional, he was the World Co-No. 1 player...

 
Ecuador
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...

 
1984
Seixas, Elias Victor "Vic"
Vic Seixas
Elias Victor Seixas, Jr. is an American former tennis player.Seixas was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of Portuguese Sephardi Jewish ancestry. After serving in World War II, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , where he was a member of Alpha Sigma of the Chi Psi...

 
United States 1971
Seles, Monica
Monica Seles
Monica Seles is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She was born in Novi Sad, Serbia, former Yugoslavia to Hungarian parents. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007...

 
Yugoslavia/United States 2009
Shriver, Pamela "Pam"
Pam Shriver
Pamela Howard Shriver Lazenby , is a former professional tennis player and is currently a sports broadcaster from the United States for ESPN2. During the 1980s and 1990s, she won 133 top-level titles, including 21 women's doubles titles and one mixed doubles title at Grand Slam tournaments...

 
United States 2002
Shields, Frank
Frank Shields
Francis Xavier Alexander Shields, Sr. was an amateur American tennis player of the 1920s and 1930s.-Tennis career:Between 1928 and 1945 he was ranked eight times in the U.S...

 
United States 1964
Slocum, Henry  United States 1955
Smith, Stanley "Stan"
Stan Smith
Stanley Roger "Stan" Smith is a former American tennis player and two time Grand Slam singles champion who also, with his partner Bob Lutz, formed one of the most successful doubles teams of all time. Together, they won many major titles all over the world...

 
United States 1987
Stolle, Frederick "Fred"
Fred Stolle
Frederick "Fred" Sydney Stolle is an Australian tennis player. He was born in Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia. He is the father of former Australian Davis Cup player Sandon Stolle....

 
Australia 1985
Talbert, William "Bill"
Bill Talbert
William Franklin "Billy" Talbert was an American tennis player and administrator.He was ranked in the U.S. Top 10 13 times between 1941 & 1954. He won nine Grand Slam doubles titles, and also reached the men’s doubles finals of the U.S. National Championship nine times. mainly with favorite...

 
United States 1967
Tilden, William "Bill"
Bill Tilden
William Tatem Tilden II , nicknamed "Big Bill," is often considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time. An American tennis player who was the World No. 1 player for seven years, he won 14 Majors including ten Grand Slams and four Pro Slams. Bill Tilden dominated the world of...

 
United States 1959
Townsend, Bertha Toulmin
Bertha Townsend
Bertha Louise Townsend Toulmin was a female tennis player from the United States. She is best remembered for being the first repeating women's singles champion at the U.S. Championships...

 
United States 1974
Trabert, Anthony "Tony"
Tony Trabert
Marion Anthony Trabert is a retired American tennis champion and long-time tennis author, TV commentator, instructor, and motivational speaker...

 
United States 1970
Van Ryn, John
John Van Ryn
John Van Ryn was an American tennis champion of the 1930s. He was primarily known as being a great doubles player with Wilmer Allison.- External links :*...

 
United States 1963
Sánchez Vicario, Arantxa
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Aránzazu 'Arantxa' Isabel Maria Sánchez Vicario is a Spanish former professional tennis player...

 
Spain 2007
Vilas, Guillermo
Guillermo Vilas
Guillermo Apolinario Vilas is a retired and former World No. 2 professional tennis player from Argentina. He was the second Latin-American to win a Grand Slam tournament.-Career:...

 
Argentina 1991
Vines, Henry Ellsworth
Ellsworth Vines
Henry Ellsworth Vines, Jr. was an American tennis champion of the 1930s, the World No. 1 player or the co-No. 1 for four years in 1932, 1935, 1936 and 1937.-Biography:...

 
United States 1962
Wallach, Maud Barger
Maud Barger-Wallach
Maud Barger-Wallach was an American female tennis player of the early 1900s....

 
United States 1958
Ward, Holcombe
Holcombe Ward
Holcombe Ward was an American male tennis player.Ward is best remembered for winning the men's singles title at the US Championships in 1904.- US Championships :...

 
United States 1956
Washburn, Watson
Watson Washburn
Watson Washburn was an American tennis player who was in the top 10 in the US seven times between 1914 and 1922...

 
United States 1965
Whitman, Malcolm
Malcolm Whitman
Malcolm "Mal" Douglass Whitman was a male American tennis player.Whitman is best known for this hat trick at the U.S. Championships. Between 1898 and 1900, he stayed undefeated there...

 
United States 1955
Wightman, Hazel Hotchkiss
Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman was an American tennis player.-Personal life:Wightman was born in Healdsburg, California and married George Wightman of Boston in 1912. She died in Newton, Massachusetts...

 
United States 1957
Wilander, Mats
Mats Wilander
Mats Wilander is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Sweden. From 1982 through 1988, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles , and one Grand Slam men's doubles title...

 
Sweden 2002
Wilding, Anthony "Tony"
Tony Wilding
Anthony "Tony" Frederick Wilding was a champion tennis player from Christchurch, New Zealand and a soldier killed in action during World War I near Neuve-Chapelle, Pas-de-Calais, France....

 
New Zealand 1978
Williams, Richard
R. Norris Williams
Richard "Dick" Norris Williams II , generally known as R. Norris Williams, was an American male tennis player.-Biography:He was born in Geneva, Switzerland....

 
United States 1957
Wood, Sidney
Sidney Wood
Sidney Wood was an American tennis player.Wood was born in Black Rock, Connecticut. He won the Arizona State Men’s Tournament on his 14th birthday, which qualified him for the French Championship and led to him earning a spot at Wimbledon He attended The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania,...

 
United States 1964
Wrenn, Robert "Bob"
Robert Wrenn
----Robert "Bob" Duffield Wrenn was a left-handed American tennis player, four-time U.S. singles championship winner, and one of the first "enshrinees" in the International Tennis Hall of Fame....

 
United States 1955
Wright, Beals
Beals Wright
Beals Coleman Wright , was an American male tennis player.Beals was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, the son of Cincinnati Red Stockings great George Wright and nephew of Cincinnati Red Stockings team founder Harry Wright...

 
United States 1956
Wade, Virginia
Virginia Wade
Sarah Virginia Wade, OBE is a former English tennis player. She won three Grand Slam singles championships and four Grand Slam doubles championships. She won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon on 1 July 1977, in that tournament's centenary year, the last time any Briton has won a...

 
Great Britain 1989
Wagner, Marie
Marie Wagner
Marie Wagner was an American tennis champion.-Biography:She was born on February 2, 1883. Wagner won the United States tennis indoor championships a record number of times. She won the singles in 1908, 1913, 1914, and 1917. She won the doubles in four years.She was inducted into the International...

 
United States 1969
Woodbridge, Todd
Todd Woodbridge
Todd Andrew Woodbridge is an Australian former tennis player. He was born in Sydney and turned professional in 1988. He is best known for his successful Doubles partnerships with Mark Woodforde and later Jonas Björkman...

 
Australia 2010
Woodforde, Mark
Mark Woodforde
Mark Woodforde is a former professional tennis player from Australia. He is best known as one half of "The Woodies", a doubles partnership with Todd Woodbridge....

 
Australia 2010
Zvereva, Natalya "Natasha"
Natasha Zvereva
Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva, or Zverava is a former tennis player from Belarus. Zvereva was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be able to keep her tournament earnings...

 
Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

 
2010

Contributor category

NameLife spanNationalityYear inducted
Adams, Russ  1930– United States 2007
Adee, George
George Adee
George Townsend Adee was an American football player and tennis official. Born in Stonington, Connecticut, Adee attended Yale University where he was the quarterback of the school's football team. In 1894, he was selected as one of eleven players named to the 1894 College Football All-America...

 
1874–1948 United States 1964
Baker, Lawrence  1890–1980 United States 1975
Chatrier, Philippe
Philippe Chatrier
Philippe Chatrier was a French tennis player. After his playing career ended, he became a journalist, and was then involved in sports administration...

 
1926–2003 France 1992
Clerici, Gianni
Gianni Clerici
Gianni Clerici is an Italian tennis commentator and journalist, and a former tennis player.Clerici is known for his often off-topic banter with partner Rino Tommasi...

 
1930– Italy 2006
Collins, Arthur "Bud"
Bud Collins
-External links:*** 2001 interview with Collins*...

 
1929– United States 1994
Cullman III, Joseph  1912–2004 United States 1990
Danzig, Allison
Allison Danzig
Allison "Al" Danzig was an American sportswriter who specialized in writing about tennis, but also covered college football, squash, many Olympic Games, and rowing. Danzig was the only American sportwriter to extensively cover real tennis, the precursor to modern lawn tennis.Danzig covered every...

 
1898–1987 United States 1968
David, Herman  1905–1974 Great Britain 1998
Dell, Donald
Donald Dell
Donald Dell is an attorney and was a professional tennis player, U.S. Davis Cup captain, and administrator. Dell was one of the first professional sports agents, having represented professional tennis players Arthur Ashe, Stan Smith, Jimmy Connors, and Ivan Lendl during pro tennis' golden age...

 
1937– United States 2009
Gray, David  1927–1983 Great Britain 1985
Griffin, Clarence
Clarence Griffin
Clarence James "Peck" Griffin was an American tennis player.Griffin ranked in singles in the U.S. Top Ten three times: he was No. 7 in 1915, No. 6 in 1916, and No. 6 in 1920...

 
1888–1973 United States 1970
Gustav V of Sweden  1858–1950 Sweden 1980
Hardwick, Derek  1921–1987 Great Britain 2010
Heldman, Gladys
Gladys Heldman
Gladys Medalie Heldman was the founder of World Tennis magazine; she supported Billie Jean King and other female tennis players who formed the Virginia Slims Tour in the early 1970s...

 
1922–2003 United States 1979
Hester, William  1912–1993 United States 1981
Hunt, Lamar
Lamar Hunt
Lamar Hunt was an American sportsman and promoter of American football, soccer, basketball, and ice hockey in the United States and an inductee into three sports' halls of fame. He was one of the founders of the American Football League and Major League Soccer , as well as MLS predecessor the...

 
1932–2006 United States 1993
Johnson, Robert
Robert Walter Johnson
Robert Walter Johnson was an American physician and founder of the American Tennis Association Junior Development Program for African American youths, where he coached and fostered the careers of tennis greats, Arthur Ashe and Althea Gibson.-Biography:Johnson graduated in 1924 from Lincoln...

 
1899–1971 United States 2009
Jones, Perry
Perry Jones
Perry James Jones III is an American college basketball player. He is a sophomore at Baylor, and was one of the top rated basketball players in the class of 2010.-High school career:...

 
1890–1970 United States 1970
Kelleher, Robert
Robert J. Kelleher
Robert J. Kelleher is a former American tennis player and official, inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2000, and a United States federal judge...

1913– United States 2000
Kellmeyer, Fern "Peachy"
Peachy Kellmeyer
Fern 'Peachy' Kellmeyer was born February 19, 1944 in West Virginia, USA. As a tennis player she captured numerous titles, and as an administrator she helped change the face of women's tennis...

 
1944– United States 2011
Laney, Al  1895–1988 United States 1979
McCormack, Mark
Mark McCormack
Mark Hume McCormack was an American lawyer, sports agent for professional athletes and a prolific writer...

 
1930–2003 United States 2008
Myrick, Julian
Julian Myrick
Julian Southall Myrick was an insurance salesman and promoter of tennis from the United States.Myrick was born in Murfreesboro, North Carolina on March 1, 1880. In 1898, Myrick entered the insurance business as an application clerk at the Mutual Insurance Company. In 1906, Myrick partnered with his...

 
1880–1969 United States 1963
Nielsen, Arthur
Arthur Nielsen
Arthur Charles Nielsen, Sr. was an American market analyst who founded the ACNielsen company.-Background:Arthur Charles Nielsen was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was of Danish descent. Nielsen was educated at University of Wisconsin , where he received a B.S., summa cum laude in 1918...

 
1923–1980 United States 1971
Outerbridge, Mary
Mary Ewing Outerbridge
Mary Ewing Outerbridge was an American woman who imported the lawn game tennis to the United States from Bermuda.-Birth and siblings:...

 
1852–1886 United States 1979
Parks, Brad  1957– United States 2010
Scott, Eugene
Gene Scott (tennis)
Eugene Lytton Scott was an American tennis player of the 1960s.Scott was the grandson of Dr. Eugene C. Sullivan, one of the inventors of Pyrex and chair and president of Corning Glass Works. He graduated with a BA in history from Yale University in 1960, where he was a member of Skull and Bones...

 
1937–2006 United States 2008
Tingay, Lance  1915–1990 Great Britain 1982
Tinling, Ted
Ted Tinling
Cuthbert Collingwood "Ted" Tinling , sometimes known as Teddy Tinling, was an English tennis player, fashion designer, spy and author. He was a firm fixture on the professional tennis tour for over sixty years....

 
1910–2000 Great Britain 1986
Tobin, Brian  1930– Australia 2003
Van Alen, James
James Van Alen
James Henry Van Alen is best known for being the founder of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, the largest tennis museum in the world. A poet, musician, publisher, civic leader and raconteur, Jimmy Van Alen achieved his greatest renown in tennis...

 
1902–1991 United States 1965
Wingfield, Walter Clopton
Walter Clopton Wingfield
Major Walter Clopton Wingfield was a British army officer who was one of the pioneers of lawn tennis. Inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1997, an example of the original equipment for the sport and a bust of Wingfield himself can be seen at the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis...

 
1833–1912 Great Britain 1997

Nationalities

Country # of members
 United States 121
 Australia 25
 United Kingdom 24
 Early Modern France 10
 Sweden 5
 Puerto Rico 1
 Spain 4
 Germany
 Czech Republic
 Argentina 2
 Brazil
 Italy
 South Africa
 Kingdom of Romania 1
 Belarus
 Ecuador
 Republic of Ireland
 Mexico
 New Zealand
 Norway
 Peru
 / Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....


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