Don Budge
The former American tennis champion who was the World No. 1 player for five years! Don Budge is most famous as the first player, male or female, and also the only American male to have won in a single year the four tournaments which make up the Grand Slam. He’s also the second male player, and the youngest (!), to win all four Grand Slams in his career. Budge won 10 majors and four Pro Slams, and was considered to have the best backhand in history, at least until Ken Rosewall came up in the 50’s and 60’s.
Don Budge
Lleyton Hewitt
Up next is the Australian former world no. 1, who in November 2001 became the youngest male ever ranked no. 1 in the world in singles, aged at just 20. Hewitt also won the 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon men’s singles titles, the 2000 US Open men’s doubles title, back-to-back Tennis Masters Cup titles (2001 and 2002), and the Davis Cup with Australia in 1999 and 2003.
Lleyton Hewitt
