Timothy Mayotte is a former professional tennis player from the United States.
Wayne Richard Ferreira is a South African tennis coach and a former professional player. Ferreira won 15 ATP singles titles and 11 doubles titles. His career-high rankings were world No. 6 in singles and world No. 9 in doubles.
Amanda Coetzer is a South African former professional tennis player. Coetzer finished in the WTA rankings top 20 for ten consecutive seasons (1992–2001), peaking at world No. 3. She reached three Grand Slam semifinals and one Grand Slam doubles final. Coetzer earned a reputation for regularly beating players who were ranked higher than her. By virtue of scoring so many upset wins in spite of her five-foot-two (1.58m) stature, she gained the nickname: "The Little Assassin".
Robert Anthony John Hewitt is a former professional tennis player from Australia. In 1967, after marrying a South African, he became a South African citizen. He has won 15 major titles and a career Grand Slam in both men's and mixed doubles.
Filip Dewulf is a former professional male tennis player from Belgium.
Kevin Ullyett is a former professional tennis player from Zimbabwe. His primary success on the tour was in men's doubles.
Charles Gustav Fichardt was a South African cricketer who played in two Test matches in 1892 and 1896. He was also a Boer soldier in the Second Boer War and later a politician and a prominent advocate of Boer independence.
Ricardo Augusto Amaral Acioly is a former tennis player from Brazil. He has what is considered by many one of the most complete and successful careers in Brazilian tennis, having been recognized Internationally as a player, coach, executive, tournament promoter, and sports commentator.
Ismail El Shafei is an Egyptian former professional tennis player and president of the Egyptian Tennis Federation. He is currently a member of the board of directors of the International Tennis Federation and is chairman of the ITF Junior Circuit. He won six career singles titles and reached eleven finals. In doubles, he won nine career titles.
Marcelo Pinheiro Davi de Melo is a Brazilian professional tennis player who is a doubles specialist. He is a former world No. 1, which he achieved in November 2015. Melo is the only Brazilian player who has reached number one in the ATP doubles rankings.
Etienne de Villiers is a South African investor and executive in global media and sports businesses. He is chairman of DataEQ, a leading South African opinion mining company.
Gary Muller is a former professional South African tennis player.
Izak van der Merwe is a retired South African tennis player.
The 2009 SA Tennis Open was a men's tennis tournament played on hard courts outdoors. It is the 1st edition of the SA Tennis Open, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Montecasino in Johannesburg, South Africa from 2 February through 8 February 2009.
The South African Open – formerly known as the South African Championships, and for sponsorship reasons the Altech NCR South African Open and the Panasonic South African Open – is a defunct Grand Prix Tennis Tour, World Championship Series, ATP Tour and Virginia Slims Circuit affiliated tennis tournament played from 1891 to 1995 in South Africa. It was part of the pre-open era international seasonal tours from 1891 to 1967 from 1968 to 1971, part of the open era independent events tour from 1972, when it became part the men's Grand Prix Tour until 1989. The women's side of the competition was only briefly part of Virginia Slims tour (1970–74) before it returned to the independent circuit.
Nicolaas (Nikala) "Nik" Scholtz is a former professional tennis player from Greyton, South Africa. Nicolaas qualified for the 2011 SA Tennis Open.
Lloyd George Muirhead Harris is a South African professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 31 in singles by the ATP, achieved on 13 September 2021, making him the current African and South African No. 1 men's singles player. He has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 108, achieved on 6 June 2022. Harris has won one doubles ATP tournament, three ATP Challenger singles titles and two Challenger doubles titles and has also won 13 ITF singles titles and 4 ITF doubles titles.
Louis Vosloo is a former professional tennis player from South Africa.
Philip Henning is a South African tennis player.
Fichardt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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