Three top female tennis players during the early 1970s were Linda Tuero, Billie Jean King, and Karen Krantzcke. Wendy Turnbull was one of the top female tennis players during the late 1970s and the early 1980s.
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According to Wikipedia (refer to the links, below), here is a list of players having one at least one Grand Slam during the 1970's (the number in parentheses indicate the number of Grand Slam titles in singles only):
* Chris Evert (9) * Margaret Smith Court (8) * Billie Jean King (7) * Evonne Goolagong Cawley (6) * Martina Navratilova, Virginia Wade (2) * Tracy Austin, Sue Barker, Mima Jausovec, Barbara Jordan, Chris O'Neil, Kerry Melville Reid, Virginia Ruzici (1)
* Borg (8) * Newcombe, Connors (5) * Vilas (4) * Rosewall, Kodes (3) * Smith, Nastase, Ashe (2) * Edmondson, Gerulaitis, Gimeno, McEnroe, Orantes, Panatta, Tanner (1)
(n.b., there are more than 10 listed due to tie number of wins)
Popular Tennis players of 60's: Ken Rosewall, Pancho Gonzales, Pancho Segura, Tony Tarbert, Lew Hoad, Roy Emerson.
Some famous Men's tennis players includes Bjorn Borg, Jimmy Connors, John Newcombe, Guillermo Vilas, and John McEnroe.