TENNIS PLAYERS from Paraguay

Top 3

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Paraguayan Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous Paraguayan Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Víctor Pecci (b. 1955)

With an HPI of 46.94, Víctor Pecci is the most famous Paraguayan Tennis Player.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Víctor Pecci Sr. (born October 15, 1955) is a Paraguayan former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 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 in the quarterfinals and Jimmy Connors 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 won the French Open boys' singles in 1973.

2. Rossana de los Ríos (b. 1975)

With an HPI of 32.99, Rossana de los Ríos is the 2nd most famous Paraguayan Tennis Player.  Her biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Rossana Neffa de los Rios (born 16 September 1975) is a former tennis player from Paraguay. She was born in the Paraguayan capital, Asunción, and now resides in Miami, Florida, with her daughter Ana Paula Neffa de los Ríos, who is also a professional tennis player, and her husband Gustavo Neffa, a retired Paraguayan Association football player who played for Boca Juniors. De los Ríos achieved career-high WTA rankings of No. 51 in singles and 52 in doubles. She played doubles with Grand Slam champions such as Maria Sharapova, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, as well as Jelena Janković and Dinara Safina. She is also a former world-number-one junior player, having won the 1992 Roland Garros Juniors event. De los Ríos participated in six editions of the Australian Open (1994, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2009 and 2010). She was the only female tennis representative for Paraguay in the 1992 and 2000 Olympic Games. De los Ríos was also in Paraguay's Fed Cup team in 1991 and 1992, and the Pan American team in 1999.

3. Verónica Cepede Royg (b. 1992)

With an HPI of 25.99, Verónica Cepede Royg is the 3rd most famous Paraguayan Tennis Player.  Her biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Verónica Cepede Royg (Latin American Spanish: [beˈɾonika seˈpeðe ˈrojɣ]; born 21 January 1992) is a Paraguayan former tennis player. On 7 August 2017, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of No. 73. Her best doubles ranking is No. 85, achieved on 19 September 2016. Cepede Royg has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, one WTA 125 doubles title, and 14 singles titles and 20 doubles titles on ITF tournaments. Playing for Paraguay Fed Cup team, Cepede Royg has a win–loss record of 61–26. She participated in the 2012 London Olympics, losing in the opening round to American Varvara Lepchenko in three sets, as well as the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Her best performance at a Grand Slam championship was reaching the fourth round of the 2017 French Open.