Tennis names can be funny, hard to pronounce, and very interesting. Here’s a list we put together that’s interesting for many reasons.
Some players like Katie Volynets and Tennys Sandgren had to pick up tennis just because of their names.
Interesting Names In Tennis
- Max Cocks (ATP link for those who think it’s a made-up name)
- Katie Volynets
- Tennys Sandgren
- Anna Smashnova (career-high singles ranking of world number 15)
- Jannik Sinner (I once searched for Sinner online and went to dark places, I am still “repenting”)
- Storm Hunter
- Ryan Peniston (I feel for this guy’s entire family that has carry this name)
- Tallon Griekspoor
- JJ Wolf
- Boris Becker
- Maria Camila Osorio Serrano
- Harmony Tan
- Krystina Titz
- Guy Forget
- Thierry Champion (he won zero titles in his career)
- Jack Draper
- MaliVai Washington
- Gabriela Sabatini
- Evonne Goolagong
- Venus Williams
- Botic van de Zandschulp
- Roger Federer (such a smooth name)
- Tornado Alicia Black
- Vitas Gerulaitis
- Tamarine Tanasugarn
- René Lacoste
- Aslan Karatsev
- Diego Schwartzman
- Yevgeny Kafelnikov
- Goran Ivanisevic
- Miloslav Mecir
- Ocean Dodin
- Pete Sampras
- Yannick Noah
- Margaret Court
- Jack Sock
- Mardy Fish
- Henri Cochet
- Thanasi Kokkinakis
- Bjorn Borg
- Gustavo Kuerten
- Paradorn Srichaphan
- Shi-Ting Wang
- Marcelo Melo
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