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Top Ten British Tennis Players

Andy Murray​
Andy Murray​

Andy Murray was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Judy Murray (née Erskine) and William Murray. His maternal grandfather, Roy Erskine, was a professional footballer in the late 1950s. Murray is a supporter of Hibernian Football Club, one of the teams his grandfather represented.

Kyle Edmund​
Kyle Edmund​

Edmund turned professional in 2012, but where was the British tennis star born? Kyle Edmund was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1995. His mother Denise is originally from South Africa and his father Steven was born in Wales and moved to Zimbabwe as a child.

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Heather ​Watson​
Heather ​Watson​

Heather Miriam Watson (born 19 May 1992) is a British professional tennis player and a Wimbledon mixed doubles champion. She is a former British No. 1 and current British No. 2 behind Johanna Konta. She won the Mixed Doubles title at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships with Henri Kontinen.

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Cameron ​Norrie​
Cameron ​Norrie​

Cameron Norrie (born 23 August 1995) is a British tennis player and the UK's No. 2 player, behind Kyle Edmund. In 2018, Norrie won his debut Davis Cup match in Spain against world No. 23 Roberto Bautista-Agut, despite only turning professional eight months previously, and last playing on clay in 2013.

Johanna ​Konta​
Johanna ​Konta​

Johanna Konta (/ ˈ k ɒ n t ə / KON-tə; born 17 May 1991) is a British professional tennis player who represented Australia until 2012. She has won three singles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as 11 singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

Laura Robson​
Laura Robson​

Laura Robson (born 21 January 1994) is a British tennis player. She debuted on the ITF junior tour in 2007, and a year later won the Wimbledon Junior Girls' Championship at the age of 14. As a junior, she also twice reached the final of the girls' singles tournament at the Australian Open, in 2009 and 2010.

Greg ​Rusedski​
Greg ​Rusedski​

Gregory Rusedski (born 6 September 1973) is a Canadian born former British tennis player who represented Canada until 1995. He was the British No. 1 in 1997, 1999 and 2006, and reached the ATP ranking of world No. 4 for periods from 6 October 1997 to 12 October 1997 and from 25 May 1998 to 21 June 1998.

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Tim Henman​
Tim Henman​

Timothy Henry Henman OBE (born 6 September 1974) is a retired British professional tennis player. Henman played a serve-and-volley style of tennis. He was the first male player from the United Kingdom since Roger Taylor in the 1970s to reach the semi-finals of the Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship.

James Ward​
James Ward​

James Ward (born 9 February 1987) is a British tennis player. He is a Davis Cup champion and former British No. 2. He reached the quarterfinals of the 2010 Aegon International and the semifinals of the 2011 Aegon Championships as a wildcard entry. His best Grand Slam performance to date was reaching the third round of Wimbledon in 2015.

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Aljaž Bedene​
Aljaž Bedene​

Aljaž Bedene (born 18 July 1989) is a professional tennis player from Slovenia. He was naturalised British and played with this nationality from 2015 to 2017, returning to represent Slovenia in 2018. He has won five Futures and 14 Challenger singles titles.

Dan Evans​
Dan Evans​

Daniel Evans (born 23 May 1990) is an English professional tennis player, and a Davis Cup Champion. He is a top 50 player and British No. 4. In Grand Slam events, Evans reached the fourth round of the 2017 Australian Open after beating seventh-seed Marin Čilić.

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Fred Perry​
Fred Perry​

Fred Perry (18 May 1909 – 2 February 1995) was a British tennis and table tennis player from England and former World No. 1 who won 10 Majors including eight Grand Slams and two Pro Slams single titles, as well as six Major doubles titles.

Leon Smith​
Leon Smith​

Leon Smith, OBE (born 1976) is a ... and was later appointed Head of Player Development in Men's Tennis. ... Smith was appointed Officer of the Order of the British ...

Naomi Broady​
Naomi Broady​

Naomi Broady (/ ˈ b r oʊ d i /; born 28 February 1990 in Stockport) is a British tennis player. Broady has won one WTA doubles title. She has won nine singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 7 March 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 76. On 22 May 2017, she peaked at world number 56 in the doubles rankings.

Liam Broady​
Liam Broady​

Liam Tarquin Broady (born 4 January 1994) is a professional tennis player and current British no 4.

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Katie Boulter​
Katie Boulter​

Katie Boulter was born in Leicester in 1996. Fast forward to 2017, and the 20-year-old is heading to Wimbledon's legendary tennis courts. Having first represented her country at the age of eight, she went on to hold the number one junior tennis player title for some time and so, at just aged 20, she's heading to Wimbledon for the second time.

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Alexander ​Ward​
Alexander ​Ward​

Alexander Ward is a British tennis player.

Sue Barker​
Sue Barker​

Susan Barker, OBE (born 19 April 1956 in Paignton, Devon) is an English television presenter and former professional tennis player. During her tennis career, she won fifteen WTA Tour singles titles, including one Grand Slam singles title at the 1976 French Open.

Virginia Wade​
Virginia Wade​

Sarah Virginia Wade, OBE (born 10 July 1945) is a former professional tennis player from Great Britain. She won three Grand Slam singles championships and four Grand Slam doubles championships, and is the only British woman in history to have won titles at all four Grand Slam tournaments.

Tom ​Farquharson​
Tom ​Farquharson​

Tom Farquharson is a British tennis player who in 2010 won the Boys' Doubles at Wimbledon partnered with Liam Broady. He primarily competes on the Futures Circuit, and has a career high singles ranking of 429, achieved on 17 March 2014.

Jay Clarke​
Jay Clarke​

Jay Alexander Clarke (born 27 July 1998) is a British tennis player. In 2017, on a Wimbledon wildcard, Clarke and Marcus Willis beat the defending champions and second seeds Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert in a five-setter, to progress to the third round.

Katie Swan​
Katie Swan​

Katie Swan is a British tennis player.

Edward ​Corrie​
Edward ​Corrie​

He was primarily a doubles player until achieving success in singles in 2013, earning him a wildcard to the main draw of the 2013 Queen's Club Championships, losing his first round match 4–6, 6–7(1) to Sergiy Stakhovsky, ranked 116th.

Marcus Willis​
Marcus Willis​

Great Britain's Marcus Willis, who went from teaching pro to the main draw in a matter of weeks, hugs his mother after a first-round win at Wimbledon. Getty Images British qualifier Marcus Willis is congratulated by fans at the All England Club after making a winning debut at Wimbledon.

Lloyd ​Glasspool​
Lloyd ​Glasspool​

Lloyd Glasspool (born 19 November 1993) is a professional British tennis player and is the younger brother of Hollyoaks actor Parry Glasspool. He has a career high doubles ranking of No. 224 and a career high singles ranking of No. 282 (both July 2016).

John Lloyd​
John Lloyd​

John Lloyd (born 27 August 1954) is a British former professional tennis player. Lloyd reached an ATP world ranking of 21 from 23 July 1978 to 30 July 1978, and was ranked as UK number 1 in 1984 and 1985.

Roger Taylor​
Roger Taylor​

Roger Taylor MBE (born 14 October 1941) is a British former tennis player. Born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, he won 6 singles titles and 10 doubles titles during his career.

Jo Durie​
Jo Durie​

Joanna Mary Durie (born 27 July 1960) is a former singles world No. 5 tennis player from the United Kingdom. During her career, she also reached No. 9 in doubles, and won two Grand Slam titles, both in the mixed doubles with Jeremy Bates.

Elena ​Baltacha​
Elena ​Baltacha​

Elena Sergeevna Baltacha (Ukrainian: Олена Сергіївна Балтача; 14 August 1983 – 4 May 2014) was a Ukrainian-born British professional tennis player. Being a four-time winner of the AEGON Awards, she was also a long-term British No. 1, a position she held intermittently from 2002 to 2012.

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Anne ​Keothavong​
Anne ​Keothavong​

Anne Keothavong. Anne Viensouk Keothavong (born 16 September 1983) is a retired British tennis player. She announced her retirement on 24 July 2013. During her career she won a total of 20 International Tennis Federation singles titles, 8 ITF doubles titles and reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 48 (achieved 23 February 2009).

Oliver Golding​
Oliver Golding​

Oliver Golding (born 29 September 1993) is a British professional tennis player and former child actor.Showing promise in reaching a world junior ranking of number two and being the 2011 U.S. Open Boys' Champion.,

Luke ​Bambridge​
Luke ​Bambridge​

Luke Bambridge (born 21 January 1995) is a British tennis player. Bambridge has a career high ATP singles ranking of 481 achieved on 9 May 2016. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 102 achieved on 28 May 2018.

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Christine ​Truman​
Christine ​Truman​

Christine Truman Janes MBE (born 16 January 1941) is a former tennis player from the United Kingdom who was active from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. She won a singles Grand Slam title at the French Championships in 1959 and was a finalist at Wimbledon and the U.S. Championships.

Katy Dunne​
Katy Dunne​

Katy Dunne (born 16 February 1995 in Hemel Hempstead) is a British tennis player. Dunne has won four singles and six doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 27 February 2017, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 265. On 22 May 2017, she peaked at world number 226 in the doubles rankings.

Harriet Dart​
Harriet Dart​

Harriet Dart (born 28 July 1996 in London) is a British tennis player. Dart has a career-high WTA singles ranking of World No. 194 achieved in May 2018. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of No. 169 achieved in May 2018.

Tara Moore​
Tara Moore​

Tara Shanice Moore (born 6 August 1992) is a Hong Kong-born British professional tennis player. She is currently the British No. 11, with a career-high of world no. 145, which she reached on 8 May 2017.

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James Cecil ​Parke​
James Cecil ​Parke​

James Cecil Parke (26 July 1881 – 27 February 1946) was an Irish rugby player, tennis player, golfer and Olympic medallist. Parke was born in Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland. He played rugby with both Monkstown and Dublin University and between 1901 and 1908 played ten times for Leinster. Between 1903 and 1909, he won twenty Ireland caps.

Wilberforce ​Eaves​
Wilberforce ​Eaves​

Dr. Wilberforce Vaughan Eaves MBE (10 December 1867 – 10 February 1920) was a former co-world No. 1 male tennis player from the United Kingdom. At the 1908 London Olympics he won a bronze medal in the Men's Singles tournament.

Joshua Pim​
Joshua Pim​

Dr Joshua Pim F.R.C.S.I. (20 May 1869 in Bray, Wicklow – 15 April 1942 in Killiney, Dublin) was a medical doctor and world No. 1 Irish amateur tennis player. He won the Wimbledon men's singles title two years in a row, in 1893 and 1894. He won the Wimbledon men's doubles in 1890 and 1893.

Algernon ​Kingscote​
Algernon ​Kingscote​

Algernon Robert Fitzhardinge "Algy" Kingscote (3 December 1888 – 21 December 1964) was a British tennis player, who won the Men's Singles event at the Australasian Championships in 1919. Kingscote also competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. He was born in Bangalore, India, in 1888.

Willoughby ​Hamilton​
Willoughby ​Hamilton​

Willoughby Hamilton (born as James Willoughby "Willoby" Hamilton; 9 December 1864 in Monasterevin – 27 September 1943 in Dublin) was a former co-world No. 1 Irish male tennis player, a footballer and international badminton player.

Annabel Croft​
Annabel Croft​

Annabel Nicola Croft (born 12 July 1966 in Farnborough, Kent) is a former professional British No. 1 female tennis player and current radio and television presenter. As a tennis player she won the WTA Tour event Virginia Slims of San Diego and represented Great Britain in the Fed Cup and the Wightman Cup.

Neil Pauffley​
Neil Pauffley​

Neil Pauffley is a British professional tennis player. He plays right handed. Neil has won 5 ITF Pro Futures Titles (4 x $10K & 1 x $15K) including his biggest victory of his career thus far, winning the AEGON ITF $15K Futures tournament in Tipton, West Midlands.

Gordon Reid​
Gordon Reid​

Gordon "Gio" Reid MBE (born 2 October 1991) is a British professional wheelchair tennis player from Scotland, ranked world No.4 in singles and world No.1 in doubles. He is a paralympic gold medallist and 2 time singles grand slam champion.

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Colin Beecher​
Colin Beecher​

Colin Beecher (born 16 October 1970) is a former professional tennis player from Great Britain.. Biography. Beecher, a right-handed player from Croydon, competed on the professional circuit in the 1990s.

Betty Nuthall​
Betty Nuthall​

Betty May Nuthall Shoemaker (née Nuthall; 23 May 1911 – 8 November 1983) was an English tennis player. Known for her powerful forehand, according to Wallis Myers of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Nuthall was ranked in the world top ten in 1927, 1929 through 1931, and 1933, reaching a career high in those rankings of World No. 4 in 1929.

Kay ​Stammers​
Kay ​Stammers​

Katherine "Kay" Esther Stammers (3 April 1914 – 23 December 2005) was a female tennis player from the United Kingdom.

Ken Skupski​
Ken Skupski​

Ken Skupski Jr. (born 9 April 1983) is a British tennis player, best known as a doubles player, who has regularly partnered with his younger brother Neal Skupski since 2013. His breakthrough year was 2009, when he won his first two ATP tournaments and broke into the world's top 50 doubles players.

Alfie Hewett​
Alfie Hewett​

Hewett won the 2017 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters in Loughborough, UK. He ended 2017 ranked No 2 in the world, a career-high for him. On 29 January 2018 Hewett became the world number 1.