Who Has The Greatest Name In Tennis History?

73west

Semi-Pro
I have no idea what the correct pronunciation is (maybe someone will help me) but I always found it more fun to say

goRON eeVANeeSAYvich
rather than the more common

Goren EEvunEEsuhvich

(also pardon my complete lack of mastery of linguistic/punctuation symbols)
 
And for crying when losing
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Baseline_Bungle

Hall of Fame
This is the WINNER by far.
My second is FABIO FOGNINI.
Something about the name that oozes sexiness.
It's like Vito Corleone ya know.

Wow, talk about reality vs perception! Although I guess the "oozing" part is spot-on...

Fognini in Italian actually means sewage workers - the guys who would go into the sewers to clean them out, emerging literally covered in **** from head to toe. The word comes from "fogna", or sewer - which is also, appropriately, Fabio's longtime nickname.
 

stringertom

Bionic Poster
Reto Schmidli deserves a nod, not so much for the sound of his name but rather for the distinction of actually serving up double bagels to a guy more associated with baking them for his opponents. Now the “double bagelee” is very GOAT-like while Reto has added a few pounds around the midsection and spends his days in/on court defending parking infraction tickets he has issued as a policeman in Basel municipal courts.
 

Hamnavoe

Hall of Fame
Yoshihito Nishioka
Thomas Enqvist
Daniel Muñoz de la Nava
Juan Carlos Ferrero
Juan Ignacio Londero
Roko Karanusic
Giovanni Lapentti
 

Baseline_Bungle

Hall of Fame
I'd also give an honorable mention to Beatrice Capra, the once-promising junior who was double-bageled by Sharapova in the 3R of the 2010 US Open. Her name, of course, means Beatrice GOAT.

Oh yeah, and then there's Ryan Peniston.
 

SaintPetros

Hall of Fame
Swindlerer
Frauder*r
FalseDAWNerer
Humblerer
Breakpointerer
Makeanotherexcuserer
Homogenizerer
Dancerer
Roflerer
Stringerer
Mugerer
Loserer
 
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UnderratedSlam

G.O.A.T.
1. Anna Smashnova
Top 20 Israeli from this century, notably won 12 of her 13 finals on WTA tour.

2. Mercedes Paz
Top 30 player from Argentina, competed during the eighties and nineties.

3. Flora Perfetti
Italian top 100 player from the nineties. Her surname means 'perfect'.
Open a poll next time.
 

LETitBE

Hall of Fame
Wow, talk about reality vs perception! Although I guess the "oozing" part is spot-on...

Fognini in Italian actually means sewage workers - the guys who would go into the sewers to clean them out, emerging literally covered in **** from head to toe. The word comes from "fogna", or sewer - which is also, appropriately, Fabio's longtime nickname.
sounds like a load of sh^t to be honest
 

RaulRamirez

Legend
There are so many candidates - whether you're looking for alliteration, rhyming names, names that flow or ones that somehow fit, such as Ilie (Nasty) Nastase.

Perusing the current ATP top 100, some that come to mind which weren't mentioned are: Pablo Cuevas, Casper Ruud, Marco Cecchinato (Matteo Berrettini ain't bad, either) and Egor Gerasimov.

For the women, Elina Svitolina, Naomi Osaka, Sloane Stephens, Anna Blinkova, Sorana Cirstea.
 

SaintPetros

Hall of Fame
You seem spited :)
Not at all. Was up last night watching him clinch a marathon 2 set victory for the ages over Isner at the legendary Laver Cup, then graciously allow Zverev to win it for the team. Wasn't sure whether to feel awe, grace or gratitude so I pushed myself to feel all three.
 
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lud

Hall of Fame
Goran Ivanisevic
Pete Sampras
Thanasi Kokkinakis
Roger Federer
Ivan Ljubicic
Jason Stoltenberg
Paradorn Srichaphan
Sebastian Grosjean
Richard Krajicek
Fred Perry


Martina Navratilova
Gabriela Sabatini
Victoria Azarenka
Jennifer Capriati
Kim Clijsters
Angelique Kerber
Amanda Coetzer
Jelena Jankovic
Anke Huber
Tamarine Tanasugarn
Natasha Zvereva

All cool sounding names. Also, in my opinion it's better sounding when last name has more letters than first.
 

VilasFan

Rookie
Jana Novotna
Océane Dodin
Catherine Tanvier
Alizé Cornet
Suzanne Lenglen
Evonne Goolagong
Elise Mertens
Gabriela Sabatini

Juan Carlos Ferrero
José Luis Clerc
Guillermo Vilas
Henri Leconte
Joakim Johannson
Yannick Noah
Albert Portas
Victor Pecci
Victor Amaya
Mikael Pernfors
Cédric Pioline
Anders Järryd
 
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