Nucknames of Tennis Players

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1. Pete Sampras -- Pistol Pete
2. Arantxa Sanchez Vicario --Bumble Bee of Spain
3. Monica Seles --Baltic Basher/Teenage Juggernaut
4. Steffi Graf--Fraulein Forehand
5. Martina Hingis --Swiss Miss
6. Anna Kournikova --Lolita of Tennis

Any other nicknames you would like to share?
 
Is it my imagination or did Bud Collins come up with all of those? And isn't there a list on his website somewhere?
 
Fee said:
Is it my imagination or did Bud Collins come up with all of those? And isn't there a list on his website somewhere?
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Fee, I think it's on Bud Collins website. But I haven't checked that out yet.
 
Gustavo Kuerten- Guga
Lleyton Hewitt- Rocky
Tim Henman- Tiger Tim
Rafael Nadal- Spanish Bull or the Prodigy
Juan Carlos Ferrero- Mosquito
 
Andy Roddick is known as A Rod and I think Seles is also known as Double Fusillades.
 
Mario Ancic - Baby Goran
Fernando Gonzalez - Gonzo or Feña
Coria - el mago or something like that
Gaudio - el gato
 
gugafanatic said:
Gustavo Kuerten- Guga
Lleyton Hewitt- Rocky
Tim Henman- Tiger Tim
Rafael Nadal- Spanish Bull or the Prodigy
Juan Carlos Ferrero- Mosquito
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I thought Hewitt's nickname was Rusty...
 
croatian sensation said:
Goran was/is called "Zec" in Croatia...which means "rabbit" .don't ask me why :-)
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Does the rabbit animal have a significance in the croatian history? maybe it signifies greatness?
 
Mark Phillipou.asdjhfasdfj. = Scud or Flipper

Fabrice Santoro = The Magician
^^the name suits him well.

Joachim Johansson - Pim Pim
 
From ARG (the ones i recall the most)...

Acasuso = Chucho
Zabaleta = "El negro" (the ******)
Calleri = "El gordo" (the fat one)
Nalbandian = Rey David (King David)
Coria = Mago (Magician, Wizard)
Gaudio = Gato (Cat)

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F. Gonzalez = Feña
Massú = Vampiro (Vampire)
 
Nuckname?;)

I don't think these are official nicknames but they've stuck with me:

Amelie "the Man" Mauresmo
Venus "Predator" Williams - this was from her beaded hair days
Serena "Gorilla" Williams

:)
 
croatian sensation said:
Goran was/is called "Zec" in Croatia...which means "rabbit" .don't ask me why :-)
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Zec! Lol, how about "Zeko"?

PS: Jeli pada snjeg u Hrvatskoj sada?
trans: Is it snowing in Croatia now?

:D
 
croatian sensation said:
Goran was/is called "Zec" in Croatia...which means "rabbit" .don't ask me why :-)
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Because he looked like one when he was little boy playing soccer and tennis in Split... And Zec is a really a nickname not "made up" like many other on the lists here. Also, Mario Ancic nickname is Chunchi.
 
The Aussies had always some pretty nicknames, Rocket, Muscles and so on. Nice was 'Nails' for Bob Carmichael, because he was a carpenter (or undertaker). And 'Snake' for Ross Case. The older were more lyric, like the 'Californian Comet' (McLaughlin) or 'Bounding Basque' for Borotra or 'Crocodile' for Lacoste, who made the most money with it.
 
Nice list!

Rodeo said:
1. Pete Sampras -- Pistol Pete
2. Arantxa Sanchez Vicario --Bumble Bee of Spain
3. Monica Seles --Baltic Basher/Teenage Juggernaut
4. Steffi Graf--Fraulein Forehand
5. Martina Hingis --Swiss Miss
6. Anna Kournikova --Lolita of Tennis

Any other nicknames you would like to share?
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2] Ahhh, the Barcelona Bumblebee. Funny, all of her sorority sisters still call her that. (kidding)

3] Baltic? Maybe Max Mirnyi or Vlad Voltchkov.
Seles is a Hungarian from Yugoslavia, so I bet you were thinking Balkan Basher. I had never heard it, but the double entendre is funny. Did the zany Bud Collins give Monica that moniker?

5] Patty Schyder is probably like, "ay what about me, she is Slovak". Well Patty is going to have to earn that one.

6] Perfect. But I wonder what Nabokov would think of this? Amy Fisher?
 
Max Mirni- The Beast
McEnroe- Super Brat (English press)
Muster- The animal, or Raging Bull (per an interview circa 1996 Tennis mag)
Rafter- Skunky (from his brothers, figure it out!)
Stefan Koubek- Stef, Coolie (probably from his dope dealer)
Becker- Boom Boom (from English press)
Jocob Hlasek- Kuba (not sure how he got that one)
 
Klippy said:
Zec! Lol, how about "Zeko"?

PS: Jeli pada snjeg u Hrvatskoj sada?
trans: Is it snowing in Croatia now?

:D
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Not currently, but a week ago we were buried in snow. It was snowing for 2 days non-stop..it was chaotic.
 
melzer federer said:
Rafter- Skunky (from his brothers, figure it out!)
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I thought he got his 'skunk' nickname because of the white patch he had on his hair on Wimby 2001 ;)
 
Fernando Lopez: F-Lo
Slobodan Zivojinovic: Bobo (he actually signed his autograph that way when i got it from him in 1988!)
 
slice bh compliment said:
Attn: Aussie tennisheads (and Raftermania)

Is this true?
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You rang?
St. Pat has a white patch on his scalp about the size of a U.S. Half Dollar, I think. Therefore when his hair is long there is a white streak. Though he has said, can't recall now if it was from an injury or not.
BTW, nobody showers more than Our Pat.
 
Yours!05 said:
You rang?
St. Pat has a white patch on his scalp about the size of a U.S. Half Dollar, I think. Therefore when his hair is long there is a white streak. Though he has said, can't recall now if it was from an injury or not.
BTW, nobody showers more than Our Pat.
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Thanks for confirming.
I actually do remember an interview in the 90s in which Rafter copped to 'skunky' as a pet name from his youth. In the same interview, Pat even referred to himself a 'sack of crap'............a nice humble guy from a huge family with a great sense of humor.

Yours!05, you mentioned 'Our Pat', which reminds me of a couple of English nicknames, Our Ginny (Virginia Wade) and Our Tim (Henman). Our Pat wins.

Speaking of 'Ourses', the UK and the USA have got an Andy thing going on. Our Andy wears Rene Lacoste. Their Andy wears Fred Perry.

Someone already outlined some of the 4 Mousketaires:
Rene Lacoste = le crocodile
Jacques Brugnon = Toto
Jean Borotra = the bounding Basque
Mais oui...mais... what about Henri Cochet?
 
Taylor Dent = The Zalophus Californianus (so I hear from posters)

Roger Federer = genius of tennis (Aykhan) or Fedex
 
Pancho Gonzales was called 'Gorgo' for Gorgonzola cheese by journalists, when he lost at Wimbledon. The name stuck with him. I think, Cochet was called 'Magician from Lyon'. Art Larsen was called 'Tappy', because he tapped on all things, especially women.
 
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