The Most Famous
TENNIS PLAYERS from Curaçao
This page contains a list of the greatest Tennis Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,569 Tennis Players, 1 of which were born in Curaçao. This makes Curaçao the birth place of the 76th most number of Tennis Players behind Cyprus, and Guadeloupe.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Jean-Julien Rojer (b. 1981)
With an HPI of 37.21, Jean-Julien Rojer is the most famous Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.
Jean-Julien Rojer ( "John Julian" ROH-zhair, Dutch: [ˌʑɑ̃ːʑyˈljɛ̃ː ˈroːi.ər]; born 25 August 1981) is a Dutch professional tennis player from Curaçao, who specializes in doubles. He reached his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 3 in November 2015. He is a four-time Grand Slam champion, having won 2015 Wimbledon and 2017 US Open with Horia Tecău, the 2022 French Open with Marcelo Arévalo in men's doubles, as well as the 2014 French Open in mixed doubles alongside Anna-Lena Grönefeld. By winning the 2022 French Open, Rojer became the oldest major men's doubles champion in the Open Era. He has won 37 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including the 2015 ATP World Tour Finals and four at Masters 1000 level. He recorded 500 wins in August 2023 at the Canadian Open. He attended UCLA where he competed for the UCLA Bruins men's tennis team. Since 2012, Rojer has represented the Netherlands in the Davis Cup, having previously represented the Netherlands Antilles from 1999 to 2010. He has also competed at the Summer Olympic Games on three occasions.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as tennis players born between 1981 and 1981. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living tennis players include Jean-Julien Rojer.
