Who was #1 when you were born?

[musicalmedic81]

Johnny Mac, march 1981

 

[Mustard]

Ivan Lendl and Martina Navratilova.

 

[Mustard]

For me it was probably either MacEnroe, Connors, or Borg (April 1975)

It was Connors in April 1975. McEnroe didn't start playing on the tour until 2 years after that.

 

[Tall Bama Guy]

1957 - Auburn was #1 - war eagle!

 

[stoo]

Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall and John Newcombe.

1970

 

[Fuji]

Pistol Pete! 94

 

[Seany]

Fred Perry

 

[Serendipitous]

Nadal

 

[Limpinhitter]

The #1 hit was "Jailhouse Rock."
The NFL Champions were the Cleveland Browns (pre-Superbowl).
The World Series Champions were the Milwaukee Braves.
The NBA Champions were the Boston Celtics!
The Heavyweight Champion was Floyd Patterson!
The #1 tennis player was Pancho Gonzalez!

 

[D-man]

Jimmy Connors

 

[D-man]

Pat Rafter - 1999

for 1 week :mrgreen:

 

[heftylefty]

In 1964, according to Wikipedia, there were two Number One, Laver and Rosewall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_number_one_male_tennis_player_rankings

 

[Solomnstr]

Wikipedia says that Edberg was number 1 when I was born. On that very day.
September 9, 1991

 

[Dream_On]

Jim Courier

 

[fundrazer]

I like this thread a lot, quite interesting to see the age differences between posters.

If I read the ATP ranking correctly Stefan Edberg was numero uno when I was born.

 

[viduka0101]

top 100 when I was born
http://www.atpworldtour.com/Rankings/Singles.aspx?d=04.07.1988&c=&r=1#

 

[Kirko]

neat question ! >>

NUMBER ONE 1953 JACK KRAMER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv7dwH2G8CI

 

[jrepac]

Rod "the Rocket" Laver...Lord, I feel old....

 

[bluescreen]

mats wilander.

 

[Richards19]

Ivan Lendl, september 1987...

 

[bms2011]

pete sampras

 

[nadalbestclass]

Cool thread!

Lendl

 

[aceX]

Yeah I agree this is a cool thread.

Lendl.

 

[jmverdugo]

Uhmm, I was born in 1977, and the number 2 was Vilas.

 

[Tennis_Monk]

Rafael Nadal was the #1.

 

[Commando Tennis Shorts]

Lendl here.

 

[Sentinel]

Nadal

way back when you were a lil kitteh.

Meow !

 

[dave t]

ivan lendl

 

[BigForehand]

Ivan Lendl for me

 

[Commando Tennis Shorts]

Not surprised to see a lot of people with Lendl. He was number one several times spanning over many, many years, so all these people saying Lendl may actually be relatively far apart in age from each other.

 

[jdawgg]

Jimmy Connors

 

[JJK947]

Week of 11/12/1990:

Edberg
Becker
Lendl
Agassi
Sampras

Great top 5

 

[SystemicAnomaly]

It look like the Pancho's (Pancho Gonazales & Pancho Segura) were on top, the year that Jimmy Connors and I were born.

 

[aaziz]

who was no.1 on 8th march, 1972

 

[Dreamcastin]

j-mac, which also happens to be my favorite player.

 

[SystemicAnomaly]

who was no.1 on 8th march, 1972

I may have been Stan Smith.

 

[15_ounce]

Björn Borg

 

[nethawkwenatchee]

January 23, 1977

1 Connors, Jimmy (USA)
2 Borg, Bjorn (SWE)
3 Nastase, Ilie (ROU)
4 Orantes, Manuel (ESP)
5 Ramirez, Raul (MEX)
6 Vilas, Guillermo (ARG)
7 Panatta, Adriano (ITA)
8 Solomon, Harold (USA)
9 Dibbs, Eddie (USA)
10 Gottfried, Brian (USA)

 

[EnigmaticPragmatic]

It was Lendl. Reality check cuz I always thought it was Edberg (Apr. 1 '90)

 

[rafan]

There has only been one number one for me - guess who!!!

 

[120mphBodyServe]

Jimmy Connors.

 

[Colin]

Jimmy Connors.

Same here. Of course, if my mother hadn't uncrossed her legs for a few more months, I could have had Bjorn Borg.

 

[Knightmace]

whoever was number during august 24 1993

 

[kairosntx]

The glory days of Ausie tennis...

Rod Laver
Margaret Court

 

[aphex]

Ernests Gulbis.

Yes, I'm from the future.

 

[piece]

Ivan Lendl

 

[piece]

Same here. Of course, if my mother hadn't uncrossed her legs for a few more months, I could have had Bjorn Borg.

How you can bear to muse upon such things I will never know

 

[sdont]

John McEnroe.

 

[Tennis sensation]

Andre Agassi

 

[Mig1NC]

John Newcombe