Christophe Pognon (born 11 October 1977, in Cotonou) is a former tennis player from Benin.
Pognon represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where he was defeated in the first round by Brazil's Gustavo Kuerten. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 27 August 2001, when he became World Number 804.
Pognon participated in Davis Cup ties for Benin from 1994–2003, posting a 14–17 record in singles and a 1–1 record in doubles.
Ramesh Krishnan is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from India. As a junior player in the late 1970s, he won the singles titles at both, Wimbledon and the French Open. He went on to reach three Grand Slam quarterfinals in the 1980s and was a part of the Indian team captained by Vijay Amritraj which reached the final of the Davis Cup in 1987 against Sweden. Krishnan also beat then-world No. 1, Mats Wilander, at the 1989 Australian Open. He became India's Davis Cup captain in 2007.
Olivier Rochus is a retired Belgian tennis player. He is the younger brother of Christophe Rochus, also a former top-40 tennis player.
Chris Pridham is a former touring professional tennis player.
Radek Štěpánek is a Czech former professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking was world No. 8 and best doubles ranking was world No. 4. Štěpánek's biggest achievements are reaching two Masters 1000 event finals and the quarterfinals of Wimbledon in 2006, as well as winning the deciding match for Czech Republic's Davis Cup winning team in 2012 and again in 2013. In doubles, he won his first Grand Slam title at the 2012 Australian Open, along with Indian partner Leander Paes, defeating the Bryan Brothers in the final. Paes and Štěpánek also won the men's doubles title at the 2013 US Open, defeating Bruno Soares and Alexander Peya in the final. In November 2017, he became a coach of Novak Djokovic and in May 2019, he joined Andre Agassi as part of Grigor Dimitrov's coaching staff.
Adrian Karl Quist was an Australian tennis player.
Christophe Rochus is a retired professional male tennis player from Belgium.
Richard James Fromberg is a former professional tennis player from Australia.
Nicolás Alexander Lapentti Gómez is a former professional tennis player from Ecuador. His brothers, Giovanni and Leonardo, uncle Andrés, and cousins Roberto and Emilio also are or were on the pro circuit. His father, also named Nicolás Lapentti, was a star basketball player at the College of St. Thomas in Minnesota from 1963 to 1967, and played on the Ecuador Olympic team.
Nicolas Jean-Christophe Escudé is a former professional tennis player from France, who turned professional in 1995. He won four singles titles and two doubles titles during his career.
Christophe Roger-Vasselin is a French former professional tennis player.
Benjamin Balleret is a former professional tennis player from Monaco. Balleret was a member of the Monaco Davis Cup team.
Antonio Muñoz is a former professional tennis player from Barcelona, Spain.
Sergiy Eduardovych Stakhovsky is a Ukrainian former professional tennis player. Stakhovsky turned professional in 2003 and played mostly at the Challenger level from 2005 to 2008. His career-high rankings were World No. 31 in singles and No. 33 in doubles.
Pognon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Hermes Gamonal is a former professional tennis player from Chile.
Bernard Balleret is a French-born Monegasque professional tennis player.
Ivan Dupasquier is a former professional tennis player from Switzerland.
Gonçalo Nicau is a Portuguese former professional tennis player who competed in the ITF Men's Circuit. He achieved his highest singles ranking of 531 in the world by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in February 2007. Though he did not enter a singles event in the ATP Challenger Tour, Nicau did play in the doubles event at the 2006 Estoril Open and was selected for two Davis Cup ties in 2006.
Alexis Klégou is a French-born Beninese tennis player.
Jean-Christophe Nabi is an Ivorian former professional tennis player.
