Who is your favourite foreign former player? Mens Round 1, Group 8

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Who is your favourite foreign former player? Mens Round 1, Group 8

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Roy Stanley Emerson AC (born 3 November 1936) is an Australian former tennis player who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles and 16 Grand Slam doubles titles, for a total of 28 Grand Slam tournament titles. He is the only male player to have completed a career Grand Slam (winning titles at all four Grand Slam events) in both singles and doubles, and the only man to have completed a double career Grand Slam in singles. His 28 major titles are the all-time record for a male player. In 1964, he was ranked world No. 1.

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It is possible some would argue Mariano Puerta shouldn't be in this field. He is an Argentine former professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ATP world No. 9 singles ranking in August 2005. His career highlight of reaching the final of the French Open in 2005 was marred by testing positive for the banned substance etilefrine in a drugs test directly after the French Open final, for which he received an eight-year doping ban.

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Victor Pecci, Paraguayan number one, reached 9 in singles in 1980 and world No. 31 in doubles in 1984. Pecci is famous for reaching the 1979 French Open final. He beat Guillermo Vilas 60, 62, 75 in the quarterfinals and Jimmy Connors 75, 64, 57, 63 in the semifinals, but lost to three-time champion Björn Borg in the final. He also reached the semifinals in 1981 and was runner-up in Rome. Pecci had won the French Open boys' singles in 1973.

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Born 11 September 1933, in Tunis, Tunisia, Nicola Pietrangeli appeared in four men's singles finals at Roland Garros winning the title in 1959 and 1960, and finishing runner-up in 1961 and 1964. He also won the Roland Garros men's doubles title in 1959 (together with Orlando Sirola), and the mixed doubles in 1958. At Wimbledon, Pietrangeli was a single semifinalist in 1960, when he lost to Rod Laver in 5 sets. He won the Italian Open in 1957 and 1961 and was ranked World No. 3 by Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph in 1959 and 1960 and also by Ned Potter in 1961.[3][4]

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Emerson leads now from Kafelnikov, Pecci, Pietrangelli, Orantes and Berdych all tied in 3rd

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Emerson leads with 5 votes, 4 players all in 3rd place tied

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4 players tied 2nd here. Emerson a slam dunk though.

Michael D · All-time great

Haha this will be funny if we all have to vote again in the group where no-one wanted to vote! wink

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15 votes cast here and poll is closed, results as follows:

Roy Emerson 6 votes

A tie for 2nd place! Manuel Orantes, Victor Pecci, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Nicola Pietrangelli all got 2 votes - 2 of them will come through the tie play off later