Celebrity Tennis works with most of the senior
players around the world.
Some of our regulars include
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Known as the Clown
Prince of Tennis, Mansour Bahrami was a late bloomer in the game and now
delights crowds on the Seniors Tour with his quite
remarkable tennis talents.
He played in the
Davis Cup in 1974 at the age of 16 and was beginning to make in-roads into the
pro game when the Iranian regime banned competitive sports in the late 1970s.
At the age of 30 he
began competing on the ATP Tour and attained a singles ranking of 192, achieved
on 9 May, 1988, and won 2 doubles titles.
He is now a supreme
entertainer on the seniors tour
where he
is renowned for his
unique showmanship on court with his famous trick shots and an ability to catch
a ball in his pocket.
Generally acknowledged
as being the first to put women's tennis on the map, Maria Bueno was ranked No 1
in the world in 1959, 1960, 1964 and 1966, during which time she won the singles
title at Wimbledon three times and the US National title four times.
As a doubles player,
Maria was second to none, winning 12 major championships with six different
partners and capturing the Doubles Grand Slam in tennis in 1960, the year she
was a finalist in all three events at both Wimbledon and Forest Hills.
She garnered a total
19 grand slam titles and notably became the first non-US woman to win both
Wimbledon and the US Championships in one season. In fact, she is one of only 8
women to win Wimbledon and the US titles three times during her career.
Maria continues to
make personal appearances around the world, including after-dinner speaking and
television and radio commentary.
Visit
www.mariabueno.org for more
information on Maria.
As Miss
Truman, Christine she won the French Open Championship in 1959, and lost the
1961 Wimbledon ladies singles final to Angela Mortimer.
She was ranked in the World Top 10 six times between 1957 and 1965, reaching a
career high World No 2 in 1959.
Married to
former Wasps rugby player Gerry Janes, she retired as a singles player in 1975,
and began broadcasting at Wimbledon the same year.
She
has remained close to the game since, coaching, writing and
commentating on it over the years as well as becoming a popular after dinner
speaker.
One of the
most gifted players of all time, Ilie Nastase was the first player to be ranked
number one on the ATP computer on 23 August 1973.
Always
controversial and a delight to watch, he won the US Open in 1972 and the French
Open the following year. He was a finalist at Wimbledon and won 57 singles and
51 doubles titles in the Open era.
He is now
President of the Romanian Tennis Federation and spends much of his time
traveling and promoting the game via personal appearances.
Best known for his television
and radio commentary,
Mark
Petchey represented Great Britain in the Davis Cup 11 times and spent 10 years
on the international circuit.
As a
junior, he claimed four singles and eight national doubles titles, and as a
professional won three Challenger singles and three doubles events, attaining a
world ranking of 80 in 1996.
He retired
two years later to concentrate on coaching
and media work, joining the LTA as
Manager of Men’s National
Training before famously becoming Andy
Murray's coach for 9 months in 2005.
A
former British No 1, Samantha Smith
attained a career high
singles ranking of 55 on the WTA Tour in 1999 and represented Great Britain in
the Federation
Cup and European Cup.
· She
rates playing at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona as her most memorable
experience in tennis
· Sam
is now a
part-time coach, a regular tennis commentator for BBC Radio and TV, Sky Sports
and Eurosport and a columnist and feature writer for Ace Magazine.
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