TENNIS PLAYER

Dennis Ralston

1942 - 2020

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Richard Dennis Ralston (July 27, 1942 – December 6, 2020) was an American professional tennis player whose active career spanned the 1960s and 1970s. As a young player, he was coached by tennis pro Pancho Gonzales. He attended the University of Southern California (USC) and won NCAA championships under its coach George Toley. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dennis Ralston has received more than 120,776 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Dennis Ralston is the 402nd most popular tennis player (down from 283rd in 2019), the 10,138th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,964th in 2019) and the 86th most popular American Tennis Player.

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  • 120k

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  • 43.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Dennis Ralston ranks 402 out of 1,569Before him are Janko Tipsarević, Clarence Clark, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Geraldine Beamish, Kimiko Date, and Max Mirnyi. After him are Charles Sands, Peng Shuai, Mikael Pernfors, Marion Bartoli, Jarkko Nieminen, and Ons Jabeur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Dennis Ralston ranks 624Before him are Munyoro Nyamau, Bob Hayes, Reinhold Durnthaler, Gerhard Roth, Rubén Marcos, and Guy Saint-Vil. After him are Giancarlo Ferrari, Ann Packer, Barry Diller, Tom Mankiewicz, Héctor Pulido, and Shirley Stobs. Among people deceased in 2020, Dennis Ralston ranks 640Before him are Noël Vandernotte, Saroj Khan, Luciano Federici, Leonid Potapov, Ernesto Canto, and Yawovi Agboyibo. After him are Bob Gibson, Gilberto Penayo, Folke Alnevik, Péter Marót, Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini, and Constand Viljoen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dennis Ralston ranks 10,138 out of 20,380Before him are Adele Astaire (1896), Ronnie Hawkins (1935), C. I. Lewis (1883), Leon Rippy (1949), Phyllis Haver (1899), and Jack Lew (1955). After him are Michael Coats (1946), A.J. Styles (1977), Perry McGillivray (1893), Dorothy Comingore (1913), Shirley Mason (1901), and Marceline Day (1908).

Among TENNIS PLAYERS In United States

Among tennis players born in United States, Dennis Ralston ranks 86Before him are Gardnar Mulloy (1913), George Lott (1906), Pam Shriver (1962), Patricia Canning Todd (1922), Chuck McKinley (1941), and Clarence Clark (1859). After him are Charles Sands (1865), Bertha Townsend (1869), John Isner (1985), Alphonzo Bell (1875), Marion Zinderstein (1896), and Bob Bryan (1978).