The Most Famous
TENNIS PLAYERS from Israel
This page contains a list of the greatest Israeli Tennis Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,569 Tennis Players, 6 of which were born in Israel. This makes Israel the birth place of the 37th most number of Tennis Players behind Montenegro, and Chile.
Top 7
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Israeli Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous Israeli Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Amos Mansdorf (b. 1965)
With an HPI of 41.91, Amos Mansdorf is the most famous Israeli Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Amos Mansdorf (Hebrew: עמוס מנסדורף; born 20 October 1965) is an Israeli former professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking was World No. 18 (achieved in November 1987), the highest ever for any male Israeli tennis player. His career-high doubles ranking was World No. 67 (May 1986).
2. Dudi Sela (b. 1985)
With an HPI of 36.70, Dudi Sela is the 2nd most famous Israeli Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 29 different languages.
David "Dudi" Sela (Hebrew: דודי סלע; born 4 April 1985) is an Israeli former professional tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 29 in July 2009. Sela won the French Open 2003 junior doubles title. Representing Israel in the Davis Cup, his highlights include a win in 2007 over then-world No. 7 Fernando González, and being a key player in Israel's semifinal run in 2009. In 2008 he beat world No. 5 David Ferrer in straight sets, and in 2010 he beat world No. 7 Andy Roddick in straight sets. Sela reached the fourth round of the 2009 Wimbledon Championships and has finished runner-up in two ATP tournaments in Beijing and Atlanta. In 2015, he won his 24th career ATP Challenger event of his career, moving him into second place on the all-time list of Challenger title wins (behind Lu Yen-hsun).
3. Shahar Pe'er (b. 1987)
With an HPI of 35.57, Shahar Pe'er is the 3rd most famous Israeli Tennis Player. Her biography has been translated into 36 different languages.
Shahar Pe'er (Hebrew: שחר פאר, pronounced [ˈʃaχaʁ peˈʔeʁ]; born (1987-05-01)1 May 1987) is an Israeli retired tennis player.Pe'er won five singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as four singles and three doubles titles on the ITF circuit in her career. She reached her best singles ranking of world number 11, the highest of any Israeli tennis player in history, in January 2011. She peaked at number 14 in the doubles rankings in May 2008. Pe'er is widely regarded as the most successful Israeli female tennis player in history, having twice reached a Grand Slam quarterfinal in singles and appeared in the doubles final of the 2008 Australian Open, with Victoria Azarenka of Belarus. She won her first senior national title at the age of 14, and won the Junior Girls’ Australian Open title when she was 16. Playing for Israel at the Fed Cup, Pe'er has a win–loss record of 39–28. She also represented Israel in two Olympics.
4. Denis Shapovalov (b. 1999)
With an HPI of 35.34, Denis Shapovalov is the 4th most famous Israeli Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 29 different languages.
Denis Viktorovich Shapovalov (born (1999-04-15)April 15, 1999) is an Israeli-born Canadian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 10 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) which he first achieved in September 2020. He is the third highest-ranked Canadian male player in history behind Milos Raonic (world No. 3 in 2016) and Félix Auger-Aliassime (world No. 6 in 2022). He has won one ATP Tour singles title and produced his best Grand Slam performance at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships, where he reached the semifinals. Shapovalov also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 44, which he attained in February 2020. As a junior, Shapovalov has been ranked as high as No. 2 in the world. He won two junior Grand Slam titles, his first being the doubles title at the 2015 US Open with Auger-Aliassime and his second being the singles title at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships. As a professional, Shapovalov broke into the top 100 for the first time in 2017 after making the semifinals of the 2017 Canadian Open; at the age of 18, he became the youngest player ever to reach the semifinal of an ATP Masters 1000 tournament. The next year, Shapovalov continued his success with a second Masters semifinal appearance at the 2018 Madrid Open and ended the year ranked inside the top 30, making him the youngest player in the group. In 2019, Shapovalov won his first ATP title at the 2019 Stockholm Open and made his first Masters finals appearance at the 2019 Paris Masters, after which he ended the year ranked No. 15. For 2020, Shapovalov reached his maiden Grand Slam quarterfinal at the 2020 US Open and his fourth Masters semifinal at the 2020 Italian Open, taking him to his career-high ranking of world No. 10. He made two more tour final appearances in 2021. With partner Rohan Bopanna, Shapovalov has also succeeded in doubles at the Grand Slam level, having reached his first quarterfinal at the 2020 US Open, and the Masters level after making five quarterfinals and one semifinal. Together, they also reached their first doubles final at the 2019 Stuttgart Open, which brought Shapovalov past Adil Shamasdin to become the No. 1 Canadian doubles player. After their quarterfinal appearance at the 2019 Paris Masters, he entered the top 50 in doubles for the first time. A left-handed player with a one-handed backhand, Shapovalov plays an aggressive, high-risk ground game and has some of the strongest groundstrokes on the tour, complemented by his powerful forehand and serve. He also often plays serve-and-volley to quickly end points, which has rewarded him on faster surfaces. In recognition of his breakout tennis success in 2017, his peers on the ATP Tour voted him as the ATP Most Improved Player and ATP Star of Tomorrow. That same year, he was also awarded the Lionel Conacher Award as Canada's male athlete of the year, making him the second tennis player to have won the award since its inception in 1932.
5. Tzipora Obziler (b. 1973)
With an HPI of 33.72, Tzipora Obziler is the 5th most famous Israeli Tennis Player. Her biography has been translated into 20 different languages.
Tzipora "Tzipi" Obziler (Hebrew: ציפורה אובזילר; born 19 April 1973) is an Israeli former professional tennis player. She reached her career-high singles world ranking of No. 75 in on 8 July 2007, and career-high doubles ranking of No. 149 on 10 April 2000.
6. Harel Levy (b. 1978)
With an HPI of 33.48, Harel Levy is the 6th most famous Israeli Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.
Harel Levy (Hebrew: הראל לוי; born 5 August 1978) is a retired Israeli professional tennis player, and the current captain of Israel's Davis Cup team. He reached the final of the 2000 Toronto Masters and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 30 (June 2001), with his best doubles ranking being World No. 71 in May 2008. Levy was a key factor in Israel's semifinal run in the 2009 Davis Cup. In a career interrupted first by Israeli Army service and later by serious right hip surgery in 2001, Levy notably scored victories over Pete Sampras, Andy Roddick, Michael Chang and Wayne Ferreira. As well as reaching the singles final of the 2000 Toronto Masters, he finished runner-up at Nottingham in 2001 and won a doubles title in Newport, Rhode Island. In September 2017, Levy was named the captain of Israel's Davis Cup team.
7. Amir Weintraub (b. 1986)
With an HPI of 28.20, Amir Weintraub is the 7th most famous Israeli Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Amir Weintraub (Hebrew: אמיר ויינטרוב; born 16 September 1986) is an Israeli professional tennis player. In 2010, he won the Israeli Tennis Championship. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 161 in May 2012.
People
Pantheon has 7 people classified as Israeli tennis players born between 1965 and 1999. Of these 7, 7 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Israeli tennis players include Amos Mansdorf, Dudi Sela, and Shahar Pe'er. As of April 2024, 1 new Israeli tennis players have been added to Pantheon including Amir Weintraub.
Living Israeli Tennis Players
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Amos Mansdorf
1965 - Present
HPI: 41.91
Dudi Sela
1985 - Present
HPI: 36.70
Shahar Pe'er
1987 - Present
HPI: 35.57
Denis Shapovalov
1999 - Present
HPI: 35.34
Tzipora Obziler
1973 - Present
HPI: 33.72
Harel Levy
1978 - Present
HPI: 33.48
Amir Weintraub
1986 - Present
HPI: 28.20
