2023 Tennis Hall of Fame voting officially began on Thursday. Fans around the world can decide the final list of next year, along with 140 tennis journalists, experts, and members who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Among the seven candidates in this year's Hall of Fame, we are very familiar with some, and we may not understand them. Let's see who they are?
1, Anna Ivanovich
She should be the most familiar star on this list. The Serbian girl born in 1987 is the former WTA world number one and Grand Slam champion.
Ivanovic has won a total of 15 singles championship trophys, including the 2008 French Open Grand Slam championship. The two years in 2007 and 2008 were her outbreaks, and all three Grand Slam finals in her career took place at this stage.
In the French Open in 2007, Ivanovic eventually lost to Heining , and then lost to Sharapova in the 2008 Australian Open final. It was not until her third Grand Slam final that she defeated Safina in Paris in 2008 and won the only Grand Slam championship trophy in her life.
Ivanovic's world ranking has risen to the world's first place, and he stayed at this position for a total of 12 weeks.
2, Daniele Nestor
Nestor, 50, is a Canadian tennis doubles legend. He has a long career from 1991 to 2018.
Nestol has won a total of 91 doubles championships, including 12 Grand Slam championships (8 men's doubles and 4 mixed doubles), 4 men's doubles championships in in the year-end finals of ATP, and an Olympic gold medal. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Nestor and his compatriot Sebastian Lalaw won the men's doubles championship, the first Olympic doubles medal in Canadian tennis history.
In addition, Nestor stayed at the world number one ATP doubles for more than 100 weeks and was the first player to win 1,000 doubles.
3, Flavia Penetta
Penetta was the former WTA doubles number one in the world and the champion of the one-time singles Grand Slam.
Penetta became the first top 10 player in Italian tennis history in 2009 and the first Italian to come to the top of the doubles world.
At the Australian Open in 2011, Penetta and Argentine player Durko won the Grand Slam women's doubles championship. US Open in 2015 was the first time in history that two Italians competed for the Grand Slam championship. In the end, Penetta defeated his friend Vinci and wrote himself on the list of Grand Slam champions.
And that year's US Open was also a farewell trip for Penetta's career. After leaving New York, she announced that she retired at the end of the season.
4, Juan Carlos Ferrero
men's singles coach is the world's number one Alcaras , we should be very familiar with it. Like his disciples, Ferrero is also the world's number one and Grand Slam champion.
Ferrero, born in 1980, is called a "mosquito" because of his fast movement and a slender figure. He has won 16 singles championships in his career, including 4 TP1000 Masters and the French Open championship in 2003.
In addition, Ferrero also won two runner-ups in the Grand Slam in 2002 and New York in 2003. In September of that excellent 2003 season, Ferrero reached the world's number one for the first time and maintained it for a total of 8 weeks.
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2012 Valencia Open, Ferrero chose to retire.Now he has opened a tennis school in his hometown of Alicante, where Alcalas grew up.
5, Lisa Raymond
American born in 1973 is also a doubles legend. Her career began in 1989 and continued to 2014. Among her 84 doubles titles in total, she includes 6 Grand Slam women's doubles champions, 5 Grand Slam mixed doubles champions, and a bronze medal in mixed doubles from the 2012 London Olympics.
In June 2000, Raymond became the world's number one in doubles for the first time. She has been to this position five times and has maintained a total of 137 weeks. This is the fourth longest record in doubles history.
Raymond played a total of 1,206 doubles games in his 25-year career and won 860 games. Both of these data are WTA records.
6, Kara Black
Blake, born in 1979, is from Zimbabwe , and is also a good doubles player.
Blake has won a total of 60 WTA doubles championships, including 5 Grand Slam women's doubles championships and 5 Grand Slam mixed doubles championships. He has also been the number one in the doubles world.
After reaching the top of the mixed doubles match at the Australian Open in 2010, Black became the third female player to achieve a grand grand achievement in the mixed doubles event after Navratinova and Hantuchuwa since the Open.
Blake will also participate in the women's singles competition, and he has won the championship once. In 1999, her highest women's singles ranking reached 31st.
7, Carlos Moya
even the younger fans will not know the coach of Nadal .
Moya was born in 1976 and is the first in the world in Spanish history and an early representative of a group of Spanish clay masters. Moya has reached the ATP men's singles finals 44 times in his career, 28 of which occurred on clay courts.
And among the 20 championships that Moya has won, Red Clay accounts for 16 times. He once reached the Grand Slam final twice. At the Australian Open in 1997, Moya lost to Sampras 0:3; at the French Open in 1998, he defeated his compatriot Kretga 3:0 and won the championship as he wished.
fans' voting channel will start from the 20th and will last until the 30th of this month. The voting results will be announced soon, and the top three players will have extra points to varying degrees, and will be accumulated in the subsequent selection results of reporters and experts.
23 will be announced in the first half of next year, and the induction ceremony of the Hall of Fame is scheduled for July 22, 2023. (Source: Tennis Home Author: bobo)
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