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Tennis Magazine is a monthly magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
 which covers the most important news from the world of tennis
Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
.

as been published for over forty years and it has been offered online
Online magazine

An online magazine shares some features with a blog, but can usually be distinguished by its approach to editorial control. Magazines typically have editors or editorial boards who review submissions and perform a quality control function to ensure that all material meets the expectations of the publishers and the readership....
 for over ten years. Aside from articles about the most recent events and most active players
List of tennis players

* List of male tennis players* List of female tennis playersBy championship* List of Australian Open champions* French Open#Champions* List of Wimbledon champions...
, the magazine also includes the recent ranking for both ATP
Association of Tennis Professionals

File:ATP Tennis.pngThe Association of Tennis Professionals or ATP was formed in 1972 to protect the interests of male professional tennis players....
 and WTA
Women's Tennis Association

The Women's Tennis Association, formed in 1973, is the principal organizing body of women's professional tennis. It organizes the WTA Tour, the worldwide professional tennis tour for women, which has for sponsorship reasons been known since 2005 as The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour....
, as well as brief summaries of the future tournaments
List of tennis tournaments

List of tennis tournaments:...
, their participants and the past winners.

is legend Chris Evert
Chris Evert

Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record 7 at the French Open....
 has her own personal section in the magazine, usually the first page, which is called "Chrissie’s page."

Aside from Christ Evert, other famous players and coaches also contribute to the magazine.






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Tennis Magazine is a monthly magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
 which covers the most important news from the world of tennis
Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
.

History

It has been published for over forty years and it has been offered online
Online magazine

An online magazine shares some features with a blog, but can usually be distinguished by its approach to editorial control. Magazines typically have editors or editorial boards who review submissions and perform a quality control function to ensure that all material meets the expectations of the publishers and the readership....
 for over ten years. Aside from articles about the most recent events and most active players
List of tennis players

* List of male tennis players* List of female tennis playersBy championship* List of Australian Open champions* French Open#Champions* List of Wimbledon champions...
, the magazine also includes the recent ranking for both ATP
Association of Tennis Professionals

File:ATP Tennis.pngThe Association of Tennis Professionals or ATP was formed in 1972 to protect the interests of male professional tennis players....
 and WTA
Women's Tennis Association

The Women's Tennis Association, formed in 1973, is the principal organizing body of women's professional tennis. It organizes the WTA Tour, the worldwide professional tennis tour for women, which has for sponsorship reasons been known since 2005 as The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour....
, as well as brief summaries of the future tournaments
List of tennis tournaments

List of tennis tournaments:...
, their participants and the past winners.

Content

Tennis legend Chris Evert
Chris Evert

Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record 7 at the French Open....
 has her own personal section in the magazine, usually the first page, which is called "Chrissie’s page."

Aside from Christ Evert, other famous players and coaches also contribute to the magazine. Paul Annacone
Paul Annacone

Paul Annacone was a touring professional tennis player and later well-known tennis coach....
, former coach of Pete Sampras
Pete Sampras

Petros "Pete" Sampras is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players tennis player from the United States of America. During his 15-year career, he won a record 14 Grand Slam men's singles titles , and had a 203?38 win-loss record over 52 Grand Slam singles tournament appearances....
, is the Senior Instruction Editor and Brad Gilbert
Brad Gilbert

Brad Gilbert is an American tennis coach, a television tennis commentator, and former professional tennis player. He is the current coach of Britain's 2nd highest ranked tennis player, Alex Bogdanovic, as part of his contract with the Lawn Tennis Association....
, former coach of Andre Agassi
Andre Agassi

Andre Kirk Agassi is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional Armenian American tennis player who won eight Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Tennis at the Summer Olympics gold medal in singles....
 and Andy Roddick
Andy Roddick

Andrew Stephen "Andy" Roddick is an United States of America professional tennis player, and a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players.He is the 6th-ranked player in the world, and top-ranked in the U.S., as of February 2, 2009....
, is Touring Instruction Editor. Pete Sampras himself is a part owner and a special consultant of the magazine.

Editors

Editor-in-Chief: James Martin
Executive Editor: Steve Tignor
Senior Editors: Peter Bodo
Peter Bodo

Peter Bodo is an United States sports journalist and author, currently Senior Editor/Blogger at Tennis . He is also an occasional columnist for the "Outdoor" section of the New York Times and for the Atlantic Salmon Journal....
, Jon Levey, Tom Perrotta
Online editor: Kamakshi Tandon
Art Director: Gary Stewart
Photo Editor: David Rosenberg


"The 40 Greatest Players of the Tennis Era" (2005)

For the official list on the website, see .
In celebration of their 40th anniversary (1965-2005), Tennis Magazine put together a detailed listing of the 40 best players of the last four decades.
  1. Pete Sampras
    Pete Sampras

    Petros "Pete" Sampras is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players tennis player from the United States of America. During his 15-year career, he won a record 14 Grand Slam men's singles titles , and had a 203?38 win-loss record over 52 Grand Slam singles tournament appearances....
  2. Martina Navratilova
    Martina Navratilova

    Martina Navratilova is a former List of WTA number 1 ranked players women's tennis player. Billie Jean King said about Navratilova in 2006, "She's the greatest singles, doubles and Types of tennis match player who's ever lived." Tennis writer Steve Flink, in his book The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century, named her as the...
  3. Steffi Graf
    Steffi Graf

    Stefanie Maria Graf is a former List of WTA number 1 ranked players ranked female tennis player from Germany. Billie Jean King is quoted as saying in 1999, "Steffi is definitely the greatest women's tennis player of all time." Martina Navratilova has included Graf on her list of great players....
  4. Chris Evert (Lloyd)
    Chris Evert

    Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record 7 at the French Open....
  5. Björn Borg
    Björn Borg

    is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players tennis player from Sweden who is widely regarded by observers and tennis players as one of the greatest players in the sport's history....
  6. Margaret Smith (Court)
  7. Jimmy Connors
    Jimmy Connors

    James Scott "Jimmy" Connors is a former World number one male tennis player rankings American tennis player. He held the top ranking for 160 consecutive weeks from July 29, 1974 through August 29, 1977 and an additional eight times during his career ....
  8. Rod Laver
    Rod Laver

    Rodney George "Rod" Laver Order of the British Empire is a former tennis player from Australia who was the World number one male tennis player rankings player for seven consecutive years, from 1964 to 1970....
  9. Billie Jean King
    Billie Jean King

    Billie Jean King is a retired tennis player from the United States. She won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles....
  10. Ivan Lendl
    Ivan Lendl

    Ivan Lendl is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player of Czechs origin. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s....
  11. John McEnroe
    John McEnroe

    John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. is an American former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player. McEnroe won seven Grand Slam title singles titles?three at Wimbledon Championships and four at the U.S....
  12. Andre Agassi
    Andre Agassi

    Andre Kirk Agassi is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional Armenian American tennis player who won eight Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Tennis at the Summer Olympics gold medal in singles....
  13. Monica Seles
    Monica Seles

    Monica Seles is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She was born in Novi Sad, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to Hungarians in Vojvodina parents but became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994....
  14. Stefan Edberg
    Stefan Edberg

    Stefan Bengt Edberg is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player from Sweden. A major proponent of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam doubles titles during the course of his career....
  15. Mats Wilander
    Mats Wilander

    Mats Wilander is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players tennis player from Sweden. From 1982 through 1988, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles , and one Grand Slam men's doubles title ....
  16. John Newcombe
    John Newcombe

    John David Newcombe Order of Australia Order of the British Empire is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players tennis champion....
  17. Serena Williams
    Serena Williams

    Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player who, as of February 2, 2009, is ranked World No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association, having now held that ranking on four different occasions....
  18. Boris Becker
    Boris Becker

    Boris Franz Becker is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player from Germany. He is a six-time Grand Slam singles champion, an Olympic Games gold medalist, and the youngest-ever winner of the men's singles title at Wimbledon Championships at the age of 17....
  19. Roger Federer
    Roger Federer

    Roger Federer is a Switzerland professional tennis player who is currently ranked World No. 2. He was the List of ATP number 1 ranked players ranked player for a ATP Tour records#Ranking, from February 2, 2004 to August 17, 2008....
  20. Ken Rosewall
    Ken Rosewall

    Kenneth Robert Rosewall Order of Australia Order of the British Empire is a former amateur and professional tennis player who won Grand Slam singles titles in Australia, the United States, and France....
  21. Roy Emerson
    Roy Emerson

    Roy Stanley Emerson is a former Australian tennis player who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles and 16 Grand Slam men's doubles titles. He is the only male player to have won singles and doubles titles at all four Grand Slam tournaments....
  22. Martina Hingis
    Martina Hingis

    Martina Hingis is a retired professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles ....
  23. Evonne Goolagong (Cawley)
    Evonne Goolagong

    Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley, Order of Australia, Order of the British Empire is a former World No. 1 Australian female tennis player. She was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s, when she won 14 Grand Slam title titles: seven in singles , six in women's doubles, and one in mixed doubles....
  24. Guillermo Vilas
    Guillermo Vilas

    Guillermo Vilas is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina....
  25. Venus Williams
    Venus Williams

    Venus Ebony Starr Williams is a former List of WTA number 1 ranked players American tennis player who, as of February 23, 2009, is ranked World No....
  26. Jim Courier
    Jim Courier

    James Spencer "Jim" Courier, Jr. is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player from the United States. During his ATP career, he won four Grand Slam singles titles – two at the French Open and two at the Australian Open....
  27. Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
    Arantxa Sánchez Vicario

    Ar?nzazu Arantxa Isabel Maria S?nchez Vicario is a Spanish professional tennis player. She won four Grand Slam singles titles, six Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles....
  28. Ilie Nastase
    Ilie Nastase

    Ilie Nastase is a former Romanians professional tennis player, one of the world's top players of the 1970s. Nastase was the List of ATP number 1 ranked players in 1973 according to the ATP Entry Ranking, which placed him first from August 23, 1973 to June 2, 1974....
  29. Lindsay Davenport
    Lindsay Davenport

    Lindsay Ann Davenport is a former World No. 1 American professional tennis player. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic Games gold medal in singles....
  30. Arthur Ashe
    Arthur Ashe

    Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. was a professional tennis player, born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, Virginia. During his career, he won three Grand Slam titles, putting him among the best ever from the United States of America Ashe, an African American, is also remembered for his efforts to further social causes....
  31. Justine Henin (Hardenne)
  32. Tracy Austin
    Tracy Austin

    Tracy Ann Austin Holt is a former World No. 1 women's professional tennis player from the United States who won the women's singles title at the US Open in 1979 and 1981 and the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon Championships in 1980, before a series of injuries cut short her career....
  33. Hana Mandlikova
    Hana Mandlíková

    Hana Mandl?kov? is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. During her career, she won four Grand Slam singles titles ? two at the Australian Open, one at the French Open, and one at the US Open ....
  34. Lleyton Hewitt
    Lleyton Hewitt

    Lleyton Glynn Hewitt is a tennis player from Australia. In 2001, he became the youngest male ever to be ranked number one. His career best achievements are winning the 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon Championships men's singles titles....
  35. Stan Smith
    Stan Smith

    Stanley Roger Smith is a former American tennis player who, with his partner Bob Lutz , was one of the most successful Doubles teams of all time....
  36. Jennifer Capriati
    Jennifer Capriati

    Jennifer Marie Capriati is a former World No. 1 women's tennis player from the United States. She has won three Grand Slam singles titles and the women's singles gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games....
  37. Gustavo Kuerten
    Gustavo Kuerten

    Gustavo Kuerten is a retired former List of ATP number 1 ranked players tennis player from Brazil. He won the French Open three times between 1997 and 2001, and was the Tennis Masters Cup champion in 2000....
  38. Virginia Wade
    Virginia Wade

    Sarah Virginia Wade is a former professional tennis player from the United Kingdom. She won three Grand Slam singles titles and four Grand Slam doubles titles....
  39. Patrick Rafter
    Patrick Rafter

    Patrick "Pat" Michael Rafter is a retired Australian former List of ATP number 1 ranked players tennis player. He twice won the men's singles title at the U.S....
  40. Gabriela Sabatini
    Gabriela Sabatini

    Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini is a former professional Argentina tennis player. She was one of the leading players on the women's circuit in the late-1980s and early-1990s....


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