Original name of Tennis game is lawn tennis and it is a racket sport. The game in which two opposing players (singles) or pairs of players (doubles) use tautly strung rackets to hit a ball of specified size, weight, and bounce over a net on a rectangular court. Points are awarded to a player or team whenever the opponent fails to correctly return the ball within the prescribed dimensions of the court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society and at all ages. This modern game of tennis is played by millions in clubs and on public courts. Tennis game originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century. The four Grand Slam tournaments (also referred to as the Majors) are especially popular: the Australian Open played on hard courts, the French Open played on red clay courts, Wimbledon played on grass courts, and the US Open also played on hard courts. Here is the list of top 10 Best Tennis Players I the world in 2021
1.Novak Djokovic(12113points)
Novak Djokovic is a Serbian Professional Tennis Player. He is the Number One Tennis Player in the world ranked by Association of Tennis Professional(ATP). He is the only player to win all the big titles, all 4 Grand Slam tournaments, all 9 ATP Master events and ATP Finals. He completed the career Golden Masters events, which has done twice. He has won 20 Grand Slam men’s singles titles and 85 ATP singles titles overall, including a record 9 Australian open titles and a joint record 36 Master events shared with Rafael Nadal. Novak Djokovic born on May 22, 1987, Belgrade, Yugoslavia (in Serbia). Djokovic began his professional career in 2003. As a young child, Djokovic was given a mini-racket and a soft foam ball, by his parents, which his father claimed, became “the most beloved toy in his life”. At the age of 14, he began his international career, winning European championships in singles, doubles, and team competition. Srdjan Djokovic Novak Djokovic’s father, was a professional skier and ski instructor. Novak Djokovic’s parents have had an important role in his professional tennis career.
2.Daniil Medvedev(10053 points)
Daniil Sergeyevich Medvedev is a Russian professional tennis player. According to ATP rankings he is the second tennis player in the world. Daniil won 11 ATP Tour Singles titles including 2020 ATP Finals. He won two Masters 1000 titles. He become the world no 5 in singles (men). In 2019 he won Silver doe award and he won the Russian Tennis player of the year award. Medvedev became the first and only player to defeat the top 3 players (Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, and Dominic Thiem) in the world, when he participated in Grand Slam for the first time in Wimbledon. Medvedev is one of just two active players outside of the Big Four with three Masters 1000 titles, the other one being Alexander Zverev, against whom he earned two of these titles. He achieved a breakthrough in 2019, making his top 10 debut at Wimbledon and reaching six consecutive tournament finals, including a Grand Slam final. He born on 11 Feb 1996. He was motivated by his father and started practicing tennis at the age of six. He achieved his first ATP singles title in Chennai Open 2017.
3.Rafael Nadal(8630 points)
Rafael Rafa Nadal Parera is a Spanish Professional tennis player. Nadal has been the most successful player in history on clay courts. Nadal has won 20 Grand Slam men’s singles titles, an all time record shared with Roger Federer, and 36 Masters 1000 men’s singles titles, an all time record shared with Novak Djokovic. He won 14 French open titles. On the clay he won 62 of 88 ATP singles titles including 26 of 36 ATP Masters titles, and 81 consecutive wins on clay. Nadal has been a regular member of Indian Davis Cup teams since 2016. Nadal born on 3rd June 1986(Manacor, Mallorca, Spain). Rafael began playing tennis at age four, guided by another uncle, Toni Nadal, who remained his coach on the professional tour. A 19-year-old Nadal claimed the first of four consecutive trophies in Paris on his tournament debut in 2005. Often referred to as ‘The King of Clay’ in his earlier years on the ATP Tour, Nadal soon proved his abilities on other surfaces. At the age of 24, Nadal became the seventh man to complete the Career Grand Slam at the 2010 US Open.
4.Stefanos Tsitsipas(7980 points)
Stefanos Tsitsipas is a Greek professional tennis player is a Greek professional tennis player. If Stefanos Tsitsipas becomes Greece’s first Grand Slam champion at Wimbledon, his first thoughts will be for his father Apostolos whose split-second bravery once saved his son from drowning. Stefanos Tsitsipas is a Greek professional tennis player. He has won 7 ATP singles titles. As a junior, he was ranked No. 1 in the world. He also became the third Greek player, and first Greek male in the Open Era, to win a junior Grand Slam title with a victory in the 2016 Wimbledon boys’ doubles event. Tsitsipas was named the 2019 Greek Male Athlete of the Year. Since culminating his season with an exhibition title at the Next Gen ATP Finals, Tsitsipas has become a fixture in the top 10 of the ATP rankings. He won his first Masters 1000 event at the 2021 Monte-Carlo Masters. He became the youngest winner of the year-end championships in 18 years in 2019 ATP Finals. He won his first match in late 2017.
5.Dominic Thiem(7425 points)
Dominic Thiem born on 3rd September 1993 and he is an Austrian professional tennis player. He is the Third Singles Tennis player in the world in 2020. Dominic Thiem has won 17 ATP singles titles including 1 Grand Slam title at 2020 US open. Thiem became first male player to claim Grand Slam singles title and also first Australian to win US Open singles title. He is the second-highest ranked Austrian player in history, behind former world No. 1 Thomas Muster. Thiem entered his first event on the International Tennis Federation (ITF) junior circuit in early 2008 when he was 14. His parents were the tennis Coaches. His first dream was to win Kitzbuhel. In 2010 Thiem won his first Grade 1 tournament on clay at the Country Club Barranquilla Open, in Columbia. Thiem won three Atp titles in the year 2015. Austrian Tennis Player “Dominic Thiem” considered as a great clay-court player which is apparent to Rafael Nadal. He is an aggressive player and he relies mostly on single hand backhand.
6.Alexander Zverev(7305 points)
Alexander Zverev is German tennis player and reached the final of the US Open in 2020 and in the same year was a semi-finalist in the Australian Open in Melbourne. Zverev is an aggressive baseliner who uses his height and power to send the ball consistently deep and push his opponents on the backfoot. Zverev is the youngest winner at the year-end championship in a decade. He was the champion in 2018 ATP Finals. He has won 4 ATP Masters 1000 titles. He has won 16 ATP titles in singles and 2 in doubles. His best tournament result was winning the Tour Finals in 2018. Zverev’s early-season success in doubles proved to be the precursor of a major improvement in singles as well. During the European clay court season, he won his first Grade 1 title over Andrey Rublev at the Open International Junior de Beaulieu-sur-Mer. In 2021, he won the gold medal in singles at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He entered his first event on the International Tennis Federation (ITF) junior circuit in early 2011 when he was 13. Near the beginning of 2012, Zverev won his first ITF title at the Fujairah Junior Championships. Alexander “Sascha” Zverev was born on 20 April 1997 in Hamburg, Germany to Russian parents, Irina Zvereva and Alexander Mikhailovich Zverev. Zverev started playing tennis at the age of 3. Since Sascha began playing tennis at a very young age. Both of Sascha’s parents were professional tennis players for the Soviet Union. His father was ranked as high as No. 175 in the world. He was also the top-ranked men’s player nationally, while his mother was the fourth-highest ranked women’s player. Zverev is often considered the brightest prospect among all the young players
7.Andrey Rublev(6120 points)
Andrey Andreyevich Rublev is a Russian professional tennis player and he was born 20 October 1997. He reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 7 by the ATP on 19 April 2021. Rublev broke into top 10 of ATP Tour in October 2020. He has won 8 ATP singles titles. He won a bronze medal in singles and a silver in doubles at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing. He won his first of two doubles titles at the 2015 Kremlin Cup with Dmitry Tursunov, and among his singles titles are home victories in Moscow and St. Petersburg. His doubles ranking number is 74 in 2020. He has won two doubles titles and is an Olympic gold medalist, winning the mixed doubles title at the 2020 Summer Olympics with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. He has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 67, achieved on 24 May 2021. Andrey Andreyevich Rublev was born on 20 October 1997 Moscow, Russia. His father name is Andrey Rublev. Sr and his mother name is Marina Marenko. His father is a former professional boxer while his mother is a professional tennis coach. Rublev is nicknamed the “Rubl'” which means the Russian word ‘ruble’. Rublev debuted in Luxembourg at age 13, getting his first win in his second competition in Phoenix. As an Under 18 player he created a history by winning one ATP title out of five in a single season. He was the one among the two young players to achieve these feet.
5.Roger Federer(4815 points)
Roger Federer was on born August 8, 1981, Basel, Switzerland. Swiss tennis player who dominated the sport in the early 21st century with his exceptional all-around game. His total of 20 career men’s singles Grand Slam championships (a feat later matched by Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic) is the most in tennis history. He has won 103 ATP singles titles, the second most of all time behind Jimmy Connors and including a record 6 ATP Finals. Federer, who started playing tennis at age eight, became Switzerland’s junior champion when he was 14. In 1998 he captured the Wimbledon junior singles championship and secured the Orange Bowl junior tournament crown in Miami. Federer competed at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, advancing to the bronze medal match. A gifted shot maker, he was victorious in 11 of the 17 tournaments he played in 2004 and finished the year ranked number one in the world. In 2005 Federer’s numbers were similarly remarkable, as he won 11 of 15 tournaments, including Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. From July 2003 to November 2005 he also won a modern-record 24 straight finals. Roger Federer was born on born 8 August 1981 in Basel, Switzerland. His Swiss father, Robert Federer, is from Berneck in the Canton of St. Gallen, and his Afrikaner mother, Lynette Federer (née Durand), is from Kempton Park, Gauteng, in South Africa.
9.Matteo Berrettini(4468 points)
Matteo Berrettini is an Italian Professional Tennis player. He is ranked No. 9 in the world by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). At the Swiss Open 250 Series 2018, he won his first ATP singles title defeating Roberto Bautista Agut 1-0 as well as the doubles title, partnering with Daniele Bracciali. Won the doubles title of St. Petersburg Open in September 2018 on hard court, partnering with the Italian player Fabio Fognini. Clinched the singles title at the Hungarian Open 2019 and Stuttgart Open 2019, defeating Filip Krajinović and Félix Auger-Aliassime, respectively. At the 2019 US Open, he became the first Italian player to reach the semi-finals of the tournament since 1977, after defeating Gaël Monfils in the quarterfinals. Matteo achieved the career-high World No. 8 ATP singles ranking in November 2019 to become the highest-ranked Italian tennis player since 1978. Won the Ultimate Tennis Showdown held in 2020, defeating the Greek tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas. Matteo Berrettini born 12 April 1996 in Rome to parents Luca Berrettini and Claudia Bigo. Tennis seems to run in the family as Matteo Berrettini’s younger brother, Jacopo, is also a tennis player. In 2019, Matteo Berrettini became the first Italian player to qualify for the ATP Finals since Corrado Barazzutti in 1978. After thrashing Dominic Thiem, he also became the first player from his country to win an ATP Finals match.
10.Roberto Bautista Agut
Roberto Bautista Agut is a professional tennis player from Spain and he was born 14 April 1988. Roberto Bautista Agut is a Spanish professional tennis player and started his career in 2005. He won a gold medal in the men’s singles and a bronze in men’s doubles event in the 2009 Mediterranean Games. He has won 9 ATP singles titles, including the biggest win in the 2018 Dubai Tennis Championship. Bautista Agut won his first ATP title at the 2014 Rosmalen Championships where he defeated former champion Benjamin Becker in the final in three sets. He won two ATP 250 series titles in 2016, including the Auckland Open and the Sofia Open. His best performance was in the 2019 Wimbledon Championships, where Roberto reached the semifinals. His father name is Joaquin Bautista and his mother name is Ester Agut.
