Tennis is an intense sport, it requires a lot of dedication, skill, and perseverance – not many can live up to the challenge, but there are a select few who would become the ‘greats’. While it can be difficult to compare tennis players because of the changes to technology and higher fitness standards in the 21st Century, we compiled a list of the greatest male tennis players of all-time. How many do you recognize?
Boris Becker
Forget about those make money now schemes because we’re kicking off this list with Becker, the German former world No. 1 pro tennis player. He is a six-time major singles champion; and was actually the youngest Wimbledon men’s champion when he was 17. In his career, he won 3 Wimbledon titles, 13 Masters Series titles, five elite indoor titles (three ATP Tour Finals, a WCT Finals, and a Grand Slam Cup). He is the only player to have won all 3 Open era season end finals ATP Tour Finals, WCT Finals and Grand Slam Cup. Becker also won Olympic gold medal in doubles. From 2013 to 2016, he coached the legend that is Novak Djokovic.
Boris Becker
Fred Perry
Fred Perry was an English tennis and table tennis player 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. He also won three consecutive Wimbledon Championships and was the World Amateur number one tennis player from 1934 to 1936. Before Andy Murray came along in 2013, Perry was the last British player to win the men’s Wimbledon championship, in 1936, and the last British player to win a men’s singles Grand Slam title until Andy Murray won the 2012 US Open. All of this without any enhancing drug assistance!
Fred Perry
