If we talk about tennis achievements definitely Grigor Dimitrov.Bulgaria has only 1 other tennis player who was at Top 100-Orlin Stanoychev who was 98.By the way he defeated baby Fed in 97 or 98 at Challenger.
If we talk about likeability Grigor is not even in Top 5 for bulgarians-There are players lile Pampoulov twins,Todor Enev,the abovementioned Orlin and others.If we talk women -The Maleevi sisters-Manuela,Katerina and Magdalena-the only 3 sisters to reach Top 10 at WTA.

 

All-time: Jarkko Nieminen (Career high ranking #13. 2 titles; could've had more with additional 11 finals; a couple of them were there for the taking)
Current: Emil Ruusuvuori (Career high ranking #66. No titles yet. Nieminen's ranking record might be safe; title record not necessarily)
Doubles: Henri Kontinen

Career high ranking, all-time:
1. Nieminen (b. 1981) #13
2. Paloheimo (b. 1967) #48
3. Rahunen (b. 1971) #57
4. Ruusuvuori (b. 1999) #66 (active)
5. Rahnasto (b. 1965) #88
6. Palin (b. 1956) #92

 

Updated career high ranking list:
1. Nieminen (b. 1981) #13
2. Ruusuvuori (b. 1999) #41 (active)
3. Paloheimo (b. 1967) #48
4. Rahunen (b. 1971) #57
5. Rahnasto (b. 1965) #88
6. Palin (b. 1956) #92

Surging / bubbling under:
10. Virtanen (b. 2001) #195 (active; #182 in Live Rankings)

Surging in doubles:
Heliövaara (b. 1989) #12 (active)

 

Right now it should be Berrettini I guess? All time some old boomer like Panatta or Pietrangeli.

 

For me the best italian player was always-Nicola Pietrangelli-not only due to his GS success, but Davis cup also-i think he s still a leader in most singles wins and overall most wins at DC.After him i ll place Panatta due to his 2 RG victories vs Bord and his RG trophy.You forget Corrado Barazzutti,who also was excellent player.From modern players i give some advantage overall to Fognini but at the moment it's Berrettini.Of course in the future Sinner can become the greatest italian player,he has talent,Musetti also can become great player.

 

Laver or Rosewall obviously in terms of all time. Current players is more difficult to assess; Kyrgios has the talent but is a part-time player, while de Minaur has the ranking but has stagnated a little recently.

 

In India, it's most likely Leander Paes, who has two single grand slam titles, as well as olympic gold and numerous doubles grand slam titles,

I think Mr. Paes never won a grandslam singles title, and he only won a bronze medal on Olympics game.

 

I think the last time we had a top player dates back to pre-Open Era. Felicisimo Ampon is considered to be the best player in our history with two RG quarterfinal appearances.

 

Some say Kim Kim Clijsters but I can't really see the similarity.

 

 

My dad says among these Frenchmen, they were Kings of the World:

Les Quatre Mousquetaires (The Four Musketeers)

Their names are enshrined forever: René Lacoste, Henri Cochet, Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon
From 1926 until 1930 a musketeer, Lacoste or Cochet, was ranked No. 1 in the world and in 1926 and 1927 all four musketeers were ranked in the top-10. They won 6 consecutive Davis Cup championships when Davis Cup was equivalent in prestige to today's Fifa World Cup.

The "Crocodile", Lacoste, won 7 singles majors (3@FC, 2 @WC, 2@USC), 2 doubles majors,
Cochet, also won 7 singles majors, (4@FC, 2@WC, 1@USC), 5 doubles majors, and the French Pro Slam as a professional.
Borotra won 4 singles majors, (1@FC. 2@WC, 1@AC), made 6 other finals, only losing to his countrymen Lacoste and Cochet, and won 9 doubles majors.
Brugnon won 10 doubles majors. His best singles result was a SF at Wimbledon and 5 other QF.


In contrast, the "New Musketeers" - Jo W. Tsonga, Gael Monfils, Ricard Gasquet, and Gilles Simon, though good players, have had trouble reaching the pinnacle, not a slam title among the bunch, but they did achieve a single Davis Cup win in 2017 though Monfils and Simon did not play in the final.
Tsonga lost his only major singles final, made 5 major SF, and 9 QF and 18 titles overall, including 2 Masters1000, and a final at the YEC. Monfils made 2 major SF, and 7QF, and won 10 500/250 titles . Gasquet has 15 250 titles. Simon has 13 250 titles and 1 500 title.

 

Jeremy Bates and Sam(mantha) Smith

 

Sir Andy Murray
Sir Daniel Evans
Sir Cameron Norrie
and
Sir Greg Rusedski

for me.

 

NextGenKing

 

For the moment, unfortunately, it is between Laaksonen and Stricker.
We'll have to see whether or not Federer and Wawrinka will be able to achieve anyhting of relevance next year.
Based on career achievements, of course:
1) Federer
2) Wawrinka
3) Rosset
4) Hlasek
5) Günthardt
If you count doubles as well, Günthardt should be ranked ahead of Rosset and Hlasek.

 

Ronald Agenor the best Haitian player ever

More recently Olivier Sajous made like top 500. Hillel Rousseau is still playing as is Gonzales Austin, though neither have ATP ranking currently

 

Daniil Medvedev.

 

Ernests Gulbis. He is the only Latvian male tennis player who has reached TOP 200 in the rankings with a career high of #10

 

Gulbis is a strong former International Master.

 

Apparently, Juan Antonio Marín ??‍♀

 

Where is @El Alto to tell us there is already a thread about this topic?

 

He is right! In fact just look at the number of threads, each one again all about the topic of tennis.

Discussion should be merged on any topic where there has been a thread before. In fact, why not just one thread: "tennis" .....
oh..on second though, maybe there would be a few threads for just arguing about stuff not necessarily tennis at all

 

Singles: Safin - no one possess a talent like him, defeating ATG Fed at his prime at his own game is historic.
Doubles: Kafelnikov

 

Men: Raonic. His 2016 form would have been good enough for some more slam final appearances (I'm looking at the Cilic finals or Anderson). Could have been good enough to win a slam in a transition era but his body was never going to hold up.

Women : Bianca (thankfully she came along so it wouldn't be Bouchard). She still has a chance at more success but is also constantly injured.

 

Richard Krajicek, because he won Wimbledon. Tom Okker deserves to be mentioned in the same breath imo.

 

 

Who is this guy?

 

It's Grigor and the rest are not even close.

 

Candidate Master, Márton Fucsovics.

 

From the past: Boris Becker and Steffi Graf
Current: Alexander Zverev and Angie Kerber

 

Balázs Taróczy as he won 2 doubles slams (RG, WB) partnering Heinz Günthardt who was mainly a doubles specialist.
In singles probably József Asbóth, but he won RG such a long ago that even tennis historians might have forgotten about him.

Shout out for Márton Fucsovics, but he should reach a slam semi and a Top 20 ranking to be considered here.