Brad Gilbert
Brad Gilbert’s wide-ranging success is unique in the history of tennis: Top 10 ATP player including a career-high #4 ranking; elite coach of grand slam champions; author of the international best-seller Winning Ugly; and popular commentator on ESPN. In 1994 Gilbert began coaching Agassi who was struggling with a serious wrist injury and had dropped […]
Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King was not only the finest women’s player of her time—the winner of 39 grand slam singles, doubles and mixed doubles—she was also her sport’s inspirational leader off the court. She was the founder of the Women’s Tennis Association, a co-founder of World TeamTennis and a major influence in the formation of the […]
John McEnroe
John McEnroe launched his spectacular tennis career at 18 years of age when he reached the semifinals of Wimbledon in 1977. Later that same year, he decided to remain an amateur and attend Stanford University. While at Stanford, he won the 1978 NCAA singles title and led the Cardinal that year to an undefeated dual […]
Dick Gould
In 38 years as Stanford’s tennis coach, Dick Gould produced 17 NCAA championship teams, ten singles champions, and seven doubles team winners. He was named intercollegiate tennis’s Coach of the Decade for both the 1980s and 1990s, with his teams winning three straight titles from 1988 through 1990 and four from 1995 through 1998. His […]
Rosie Casals
Rosie Casals developed her tennis skills at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. At the age of 16, she was ranked top 5 in women’s singles for 11 consecutive years. Ranked #1 worldwide in doubles with 12 grand-slam doubles titles, she is a pioneer of women’s tennis, co-founder of the Women’s Tennis Association, and was inducted […]
J. “Don” Donald Budge
Tennis great, Don Budge was first to win the great slam in 1938 and was both the Wimbledon and U.S. Champion in 1937. The Number one player of the era, he twice won the national amateur tennis title and three times won top professional honors. He was born and raised in Oakland and attended University […]
Helen Hull Jacobs
Tennis great Helen Hull Jacobs, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, set a record when she won the United States Singles title four successive years: 1932, 1933, 1934 and 1935. Her rivalry and intensive contests with Helen Wills Moody was the talk of the tennis world in the 1930s and brought her […]
Alice Marble
Alice Marble learned tennis at the age of 13 at the San Francisco Golden Gate Park courts. At age 12, she was the official mascot of the San Francisco Seals baseball team. She also played basketball and track at San Francisco Polytechnic High School. She was the winner of the U.S. Women’s singles title at […]
Helen Wills Roark
Considered one the best women tennis players of all time, “Little Miss Poker Face” began her remarkable career at the Berkeley Tennis Club. From her initial victories there, Helen Wills Roark moved swiftly to international renown, beginning at age 17 on the courts of Forest Hills. Included in her 16 years of conquests are eight […]