TENNIS PLAYERS from Uzbekistan

Top 4

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

1. Iroda Tulyaganova (b. 1982)

With an HPI of 35.68, Iroda Tulyaganova is the most famous Uzbekistani Tennis Player.  Her biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Iroda Tulyaganova (Uzbek: Ирода Тўлаганов, romanized: Iroda To'laganova; born 7 January 1982) is a former professional tennis player from Uzbekistan. Tulyaganova has career-high WTA rankings of 16 in singles (reached in June 2002) and 28 in doubles (September 2002). She won three singles titles and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Tulyaganova retired from professional tennis in 2010.

2. Akgul Amanmuradova (b. 1984)

With an HPI of 34.62, Akgul Amanmuradova is the 2nd most famous Uzbekistani Tennis Player.  Her biography has been translated into 26 different languages.

Akgul Charievna Amanmuradova (Uzbek: Oqgul Omonmurodova; born June 23, 1984) is an inactive professional tennis player from Uzbekistan. At 1.90 metres in height, she is one of the tallest female tennis players in history. Amanmuradova has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as ten singles and 16 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 26 May 2008, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 50. On 18 January 2010, she peaked at No. 36 in the WTA doubles rankings. Amanmuradova has twice reached the final of the Tashkent Open in her native Uzbekistan, losing in 2005 to Michaëlla Krajicek and in 2009 to Shahar Pe'er. She has also reached the final of the 2011 President's Cup in Nur-Sultan.

3. Varvara Lepchenko (b. 1986)

With an HPI of 32.49, Varvara Lepchenko is the 3rd most famous Uzbekistani Tennis Player.  Her biography has been translated into 28 different languages.

Varvara Petrivna Lepchenko (born May 21, 1986) is an Uzbekistani-born American tennis player. She is of Ukrainian descent, and she formerly played for Uzbekistan. In her career, Lepchenko has won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, with 13 singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Women's Circuit. She won all her 14 ITF titles in the United States. Lepchenko has a career-high WTA singles ranking of 19, achieved October 2012. She was provisionally suspended from the WTA Tour in 2016 after testing positive for the heart medication meldonium, although she was found to "bear no fault or negligence" by the International Tennis Federation. In 2022, Lepchenko was suspended from tennis for four years (backdated to August 2021), after testing positive for the stimulant adrafinil, and its metabolite, modafinil. In February 2023, her suspension was reduced to 21 months, and she started playing again in May of that year.

4. Marsel İlhan (b. 1987)

With an HPI of 32.08, Marsel İlhan is the 4th most famous Uzbekistani Tennis Player.  His biography has been translated into 20 different languages.

Marsel İlhan (Uzbek: Marsel Qahhorovich Hamdamov; born 11 June 1987) is a Turkish professional tennis player, who was ranked No. 1 in Turkey and with a career-high singles ranking of world No. 77 in March 2015. He is the first ever Turkish player to reach the second round in a Grand Slam tournament, as well as the first Turkish player to win a Challenger Tournament and also the first to enter the top 100 in the world rankings (first ranked at No. 96 in September 2010).