Andy Roddick
Good ol’ Andy became a Grand Slam singles champion when he won the title back at the 2003 US Open, defeating Juan Carlos Ferrero in the final. Roddick is the most recent North American male player to win a Grand Slam singles event, the most recent to reach the top ranking, and the most recent to claim the year-end world No. 1 (2003). He reached four other Grand Slam finals (Wimbledon in 2004, 2005, and 2009, and the US Open in 2006), losing to Roger Federer every time though; the pair had a rivalry from 2001 until 2012. He ranked in the top 10 for 9 consecutive years between 2002 and 2010 and won five Masters Series in that period. He still remains one of the only players in the Grand Slam era to have remained so highly ranked and to have reached more than three grand slam finals and only won one major.
Andy Roddick
Stan Wawrinka
Meet the Swiss sensation who reached a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals world No. 3 singles ranking for the first time in 2014. So far he has won three Grand Slam titles at the 2014 Australian Open, 2015 French Open and 2016 US Open, where he defeated the world No. 1 player in all 3 finals; and a ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title at the Monte-Carlo Masters in 2014, as well as 2 other finals at the 2008 Rome Masters and 2013 Madrid Masters. Why rely on a make money now scheme when you’re got one of the most powerful backhands ever? Exactly.
Stan Wawrinka
