Victoria "Vicky" Rogers McEvoy is a former American tennis player. [1] She reached the third round of Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in 1968 and was ranked third in the United States that year. [2]
Following her tennis career, Rogers attended Harvard Medical School and as of 2015 was an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics there. [3]
The United States Open Tennis Championships is a hard court tennis tournament. The tournament is the modern version of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, the U.S. National Championship, for which men's singles and men's doubles were first played in 1881.
Doris Hart was a tennis player from the United States who was active in the 1940s and first half of the 1950s. She was ranked world No. 1 in 1951. She was the fourth player, and second woman, to win a Career Grand Slam in singles. She was the first of only three players to complete the career "Boxed Set" of Grand Slam titles, which is winning at least one title in singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles at all four Grand Slam events. Only Margaret Smith Court and she achieved this during the amateur era of the sport.
Patrick William McEnroe is an American former professional tennis player, broadcaster, and former captain of the United States Davis Cup team.
Renée Richards is an American ophthalmologist and former tennis player who had some success on the professional circuit in the 1970s, and became widely known following male-to-female sex reassignment surgery, when she fought to compete as a woman in the 1976 US Open.
Mary Carillo is a U.S. sportscaster and former professional tennis player. She is a reporter for NBC Sports and NBC Olympics.
Stephanie DeFina Johnson is an American former amateur tennis player who was active in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Betty Rosenquest Pratt was an American amateur tennis player who competed in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
Mary Arnold Prentiss was an amateur American tennis player of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
Michael Craig Russell is a retired American professional tennis player, who is now a tennis coach. He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 60 in August 2007. His 23 United States Tennis Association (USTA) Pro Circuit singles titles were the all-time record, as of November 2013. That month he became the third-highest-ranked American in the world.
Ronald "Ronnie" E. Holmberg is a former American tennis player who competed during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He was ranked World No. 7 in 1960 and was ranked in the U.S. Top 10 for nine years. He is currently one of the USPTA's select "Master Professionals" and devotes most of his time coaching, participating and directing charity events and clinics and other tennis related projects.
Wayne Odesnik is a South African-born American retired professional left-handed tennis player, with a two-handed backhand. His highest singles ranking was No. 77 in 2009.
Helen Houston Homans McLean was an American tennis champion.
Shelby Rogers is an American tennis player from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. She won the Girls National Championship at 17. Her best results as a professional came at the 2016 French Open and the 2020 US Open where she reached the quarterfinals. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 48, while her highest doubles ranking is No. 101. She has won 6 singles titles and 2 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Her victories against the top ranking players include Simona Halep (#4) at the 2017 Australian Open and Serena Williams (#9) at the 2020 Top Seed Open in Lexington, Kentucky, as well as a win over 6th seed Petra Kvitova in the 2020 US Open in which she saved four match points.
Lauren Davis is an American professional tennis player. Known for her aggressive backhand, quickness, and clay-court ability, she won her first title on the WTA Tour at the ASB Classic in Auckland and reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 26 in May 2017. Davis has also won eight singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.
Victoria Duval is an American professional tennis player. In 2012, she won the USTA Girls' 18s National Championship.
Jamie Loeb is an American tennis player.
Denise Carter, also known as Denise Carter-Triolo, is an American former tennis player. She was ranked eighth in the United States in 1969, tenth in 1970, and tenth again in 1971. She reached the third round of the U.S. Open in 1968 and 1969 and the third round of Wimbledon in 1969, 1970, and 1971.
The 2020 US Open was the 140th edition of tennis's US Open and the second Grand Slam event of the year. It was held on outdoor hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, New York.
Vicki Berner was a Canadian professional tennis player. During her career, Berner won the doubles event at the Canadian Open five times. Between 1964 and 1973, Berner competed in Grand Slam events. Her highest finishes were the quarterfinals of the 1967 Wimbledon Championships in women's doubles and the semifinals at the 1964 U.S. National Championships in mixed doubles. At the Fed Cup in the 1960s, Berner reached the quarterfinals at the 1964 Federation Cup in singles and the 1967 Federation Cup in doubles. In 1995, Berner was named into the Tennis Canada Hall of Fame.
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