Almost certainly, Roy Emerson - at least as far as the men are concerned:
Emerson won 16 grand slam men's doubles titles - each of the majors at least 3 times, showing his all-around capacity to play on all surfaces.
He also was in no less than 8 winning Davis Cup teams for Australia.
In fact, even as singles grand slam titles go, he held the record at 12 titles for some decades before the record was finally broken by Pete Sampras.
Further, Emerson is the only male player in history to win all grand slam events, both singles and doubles ... and he won each of those titles at least twice!
In women's competition, the honour of the best of all-time would probably have to go to another Australian, Margaret [nee Smith] Court.
Court not only holds the greatest singles record of all-time, but won 19 grand slam women's doubles titles and 21 grand slam Mixed-sex doubles titles [2 of the latter were shared due to inclement weather preventing finals play-offs]. Some mixed-competition titles were also not held at certain Grand Slam events during her career; she almost certainly would have won more doubles majors.
As it stands, she is the only female player to win all 4 majors in all 3 possible competitions of singles, doubles and mixed doubles twice.
Probably her only rival for the title of best female doubles player in history would be Martina Navratilova, who won 31 women's doubles majors and 10 mixed-sex doubles major titles. She also won every possible major - but not twice.
Serena Williams is the greatest professional tennis player in history.
With 71 mens doubles titles, including an Olympic gold medal, the Tennis Masters Cup (3x), and six Grand Slam doubles titles, the answer could only be Daniel Nestor. No matter who his partner is, Nestor continues to win.
Rafael Nadal.
With 71 mens doubles titles, including an Olympic gold medal, the Tennis Masters Cup (3x), and six Grand Slam doubles titles, the answer could only be Daniel Nestor. No matter who his partner is, Nestor continues to win.
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The first tennis ball player was Freda Hendrik's from Massachusetts.
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Answer1Bill Tilden.He dominated the sport from 1912 until about 1930, winning 138 of 192 tournaments in that period, and compiling a match record of 907-62.He wrote about the sport for newspapers, and authored the classic tennis book "Match Play and the Spin of the Ball."His arrests on morals charges seriously tarnished his image.Answer 2Rod Laver is probably the greatest lawn tennis player of all.Certainly, most polls have chosen him as the greatest ever tennis player, but even as a 'grass player' only, I would choose him as the Best.The reason I say this is that 9 of his 11 Grand slam singles titles were won on grass. Yet a further 4 Professional Slam singles titles were also won on grass, whereas, if one was to compare with Tilden [as suggested above] - Tilden won only 2 on grass.Also, Doubles on grass: Tilden rarely won a doubles slam; Rod Laver won 7 grand slam doubles titles on grass surface.
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According to Wikipedia (refer to the links, below), as of January 2009, Steffi Graf held the #1 ranking for women for 377 weeks, non-consecutively, and 186 weeks, consecutively. As of June 2009, Pete Sampras held the #1 men's singles player for the longest total period of time at 286 weeks, non-consecutively, and Roger Federer had held the #1 ranking for the most consecutive weeks: 237.
Sharath Kamal Achanta is currently the best player from India.
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