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'''''100 Greatest of All Time''''' was a [[television series]] of five one-hour episodes, produced and initially aired by [[Tennis Channel]] in March 2012. It presented a list of the "100 greatest tennis players of all time", both men and women. The series was hosted by [[Jack Nicklaus]], [[Jerry Rice]], [[Wayne Gretzky]], [[Lisa Leslie]] and [[Carl Lewis]].<ref name="list">{{cite web|url=http://www.tennispanorama.com/archives/tag/100-greatest-of-all-time|title=Tennis Panorama News|work=Tennis Panorama|accessdate=2012-03-23}}</ref> Many retired tennis luminaries provided commentary, including [[Rod Laver]], [[Billie Jean King]], [[Chris Evert]], [[Björn Borg]], [[John McEnroe]], [[Martina Navratilova]], [[Pete Sampras]], and [[Andre Agassi]]. |
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==List== |
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An "international panel of tennis experts" determined this ranking of 62 men and 38 women.<ref name="list"/> The [[United States]] was credited with the most great players (38), followed by [[Australia]] (17), [[France]] (7) and [[Great Britain]] (6). Forty-three players made the list from the [[Americas]], 39 from [[Europe]] and 18 from [[Oceania]]. |
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Note: '''bolded''' players were still active in 2012. Slams figures reflect number of wins in Singles draws. |
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| 1 || '''[[Roger Federer]]''' || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|SUI}} || 17 || 0 |
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| 2 || [[Rod Laver]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|AUS}} || 11 || 8 |
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| 3 || [[Steffi Graf]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|GER}} || 22 || 0 |
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| 4 || [[Martina Navratilova]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|TCH}}/{{flag|USA}} || 18 || 0 |
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| 5 || [[Pete Sampras]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}}|| 14 || 0 |
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| 6 || '''[[Rafael Nadal]]''' || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|ESP}} || 12 || 0 |
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| 7 || [[Björn Borg]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|SWE}} || 11 || 0 |
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| 8 || [[Margaret Court]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|AUS}} || 24 || 0 |
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| 9 || [[Chris Evert]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 18 || 0 |
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| 10 || [[Billie Jean King]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 12 || 0 |
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| 11 || [[Don Budge]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 6 || 4 |
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| 12 || [[Andre Agassi]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 8 || 0 |
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| 13 || [[John McEnroe]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 7 || 0 |
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| 14 || '''[[Serena Williams]]''' || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 16 || 0 |
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| 15 || [[Jimmy Connors]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 8 || 0 |
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| 16 || [[Bill Tilden]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 10 || 4 |
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| 17 || [[Roy Emerson]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|AUS}} || 12 || 0 |
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| 18 || [[Ivan Lendl]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|TCH}} || 8 || 0 |
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| 19 || [[Monica Seles]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|YUG}}/{{flag|USA}} || 9 || 0 |
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| 20 || [[Ken Rosewall]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|AUS}} || 8 || 15 |
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| 21 || [[Boris Becker]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|GER}} || 6 || 0 |
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| 22 || '''[[Venus Williams]]''' || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 7 || 0 |
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| 23 || [[Fred Perry]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|GBR}} || 8 || 2 |
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| 24 || [[Suzanne Lenglen]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|FRA}} || 12|| 0 |
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| 25 || [[Stefan Edberg]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|SWE}} || 6 || 0 |
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| 26 || [[Justine Henin]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|BEL}} || 7 || 0 |
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| 27 || [[Maureen Connolly]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 9 || 0 |
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| 28 || [[Arthur Ashe]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 3 || 0 |
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| 29 || [[Helen Wills]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 19 || 0 |
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| 30 || [[Martina Hingis]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|SUI}} || 5 || 0 |
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| 31 || [[John Newcombe]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|AUS}} || 7 || 0 |
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| 32 || [[Lew Hoad]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|AUS}} || 4 || 1 |
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| 33 || [[Mats Wilander]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|SWE}} || 7 || 0 |
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| 34 || [[Jack Kramer]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 3 || 2 |
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| 35 || [[Pancho Gonzalez]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 2 || 15 |
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| 36 || [[René Lacoste]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|FRA}} || 7 || 0 |
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| 37 || [[Evonne Goolagong Cawley]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|AUS}} || 7 || 0 |
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| 38 || [[Maria Bueno]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|BRA}} || 7 || 0 |
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| 39 || [[Althea Gibson]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 5 || 0 |
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| 40 || '''[[Novak Djokovic]]''' || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|SRB}} || 6 || 0 |
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| 41 || [[Guillermo Vilas]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|ARG}} || 4 || 0 |
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| 42 || [[Jim Courier]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 4 || 0 |
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| 43 || [[Lindsay Davenport]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 3 || 0 |
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| 44 || [[Arantxa Sánchez Vicario]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|ESP}} || 4 || 0 |
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| 45 || [[Kim Clijsters]]|| {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|BEL}} || 4 || 0 |
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| 46 || [[Henri Cochet]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|FRA}} || 7 || 1 |
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| 47 || [[Jean Borotra]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|FRA}} || 5 || 0 |
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| 48 || [[Frank Sedgman]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|AUS}} || 5 || 2 |
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| 49 || [[Ilie Năstase]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|ROM|1965}} || 2 || 0 |
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| 50 || [[Tony Trabert]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 5 || 2 |
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| 51 || [[Doris Hart]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 6 || 0 |
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| 52 || [[Jack Crawford (tennis)|Jack Crawford]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|AUS}} || 6 || 0 |
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| 53 || [[Tracy Austin]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 2 || 0 |
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| 54 || [[Manuel Santana]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|ESP|1945}} || 4 || 0 |
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| 55 || [[Gustavo Kuerten]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|BRA}} || 3 || 0 |
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| 56 || [[Stan Smith]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 2 || 0 |
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| 57 || [[Jennifer Capriati]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 3 || 0 |
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| 58 || [[Alice Marble]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 5 || 0 |
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| 59 || [[Margaret Osborne duPont]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 6 || 0 |
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| 60 || [[Virginia Wade]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|GBR}} || 3 || 0 |
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| 61 || [[Neale Fraser]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|AUS}} || 3 || 0 |
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| 62 || [[Hana Mandlíková]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|TCH}} || 4 || 0 |
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| 63 || '''[[Lleyton Hewitt]]''' || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|AUS}} || 2 || 0 |
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| 64 || [[Ellsworth Vines]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 3 || 5 |
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| 65 || [[Pancho Segura]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|ECU}} || 0 || 3 |
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| 66 || [[Bobby Riggs]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 3 || 3 |
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| 67 || [[Fred Stolle]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|AUS}} || 2 || 0 |
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| 68 || [[Helen Hull Jacobs]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 5 || 0 |
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| 69 || [[Louise Brough]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 6 || 0 |
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| 70 || [[Patrick Rafter]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|AUS}} || 2 || 0 |
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| 71 || '''[[Maria Sharapova]]''' || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|RUS}} || 4 || 0 |
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| 72 || [[Gottfried Von Cramm]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|GER|Nazi}} || 2 || 0 |
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| 73 || [[Jaroslav Drobný]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|TCH}} || 3 || 0 |
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| 74 || [[Tony Roche]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|AUS}} || 1 || 0 |
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| 75 || [[Pauline Betz Addie]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 5 || 0 |
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| 76 || [[William Renshaw]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|GBR}} || 7 || 0 |
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| 77 || [[Molla Mallory]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 8 || 0 |
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| 78 || [[Ashley Cooper (tennis)|Ashley Cooper]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|AUS}} || 4 || 0 |
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| 79 || [[Gabriela Sabatini]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|ARG}} || 1 || 0 |
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| 80 || [[Marat Safin]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|RUS}} || 2 || 0 |
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| 81 || [[Vic Seixas]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 2 || 0 |
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| 82 || [[Yevgeny Kafelnikov]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|RUS}} || 2 || 0 |
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| 83 || [[Jan Kodeš]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|TCH}} || 3 || 0 |
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| 84 || [[Norman Brookes]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|AUS}} || 3 || 0 |
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| 85 || [[Yannick Noah]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|FRA}} || 1 || 0 |
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| 86 || [[Tony Wilding]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|NZL}} || 6 || 0 |
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| 87 || [[Mary Pierce]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|FRA}} || 2 || 0 |
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| 88 || [[Amélie Mauresmo]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|FRA}} || 2 || 0 |
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| 89 || [[Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|GBR}} || 7 || 0 |
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| 90 || [[Bill Johnston (tennis)|Bill Johnston]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 3 || 0 |
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| 91 || [[Shirley Fry Irvin]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 4 || 0 |
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| 92 || '''[[Svetlana Kuznetsova]]''' || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|RUS}} || 2 || 0 |
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| 93 || [[Nicola Pietrangeli]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|ITA}} || 2 || 0 |
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| 94 || [[Andy Roddick]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 1 || 0 |
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| 95 || [[Thomas Muster]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|AUT}} || 1 || 0 |
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| 96 || [[Manuel Orantes]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|ESP|1945}} || 1 || 0 |
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| 97 || [[Pat Cash]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|AUS}} || 1 || 0 |
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| 98 || [[Bunny Austin]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|GBR}} || 0 || 0 |
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| 99 || [[Ann Haydon-Jones]] || {{Hs|Female}}[[File:Female.svg|10px]] || {{flag|GBR}} || 3 || 0 |
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| 100 || [[Michael Chang]] || {{Hs|Male}}[[File:Male.svg|10px]] || {{flag|USA}} || 1 || 0 |
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==See also== |
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*[[Tennis_(magazine)#Greatest|40 Greatest Players of the ''TENNIS'' Era (2005)]] |
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==References== |
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{{reflist}} |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.tennischannel.com/goat Official site] |
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[[Category:Tennis-related lists]] |
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[[Category:Top sports lists]] |