TENNIS PLAYER

Jack Kramer

1921 - 2009

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John Albert Kramer (August 1, 1921 – September 12, 2009) was an American tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s, and a pioneer promoter who helped drive the sport towards professionalism at the elite level. Kramer also ushered in the serve-and-volley era in tennis, a playing style with which he won three Grand Slam tournaments (the U.S. Championships in 1946 and 1947, Wimbledon in 1947). He also led the U.S. Davis Cup tennis team to victory in the 1946 and 1947 Davis Cup finals. Kramer won the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Kramer has received more than 478,359 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Jack Kramer is the 125th most popular tennis player (down from 90th in 2019), the 5,249th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,983rd in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Tennis Player.

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  • 480k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Jack Kramer ranks 125 out of 1,569. Before him are Gaël Monfils, Roscoe Tanner, Arthur Gore, Sergi Bruguera, Carlos Moyá, and Michael Stich. After him are Louis Raymond, Edith Hannam, Rafael Osuna, Guy de la Chapelle, Holcombe Ward, and Helen Jacobs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Jack Kramer ranks 240. Before him are Alexander Kemurdzhian, Ida Fink, Rinaldo Martino, Elizabeth Wilson, Ernst Haas, and Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński. After him are Tore Sjöstrand, Mustafa Ben Halim, Rodney Dangerfield, Jamie Uys, Ken Adam, and Maria Gorokhovskaya. Among people deceased in 2009, Jack Kramer ranks 195. Before him are Shi Pei Pu, Charlie Mariano, Peter Shirayanagi, Paul Naschy, Otto Graf Lambsdorff, and Lino Aldani. After him are Knut Haugland, Stéphanos II Ghattas, Gangubai Hangal, Glenn Davis, Giacomo Bulgarelli, and Helen Suzman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jack Kramer ranks 5,249 out of 20,380. Before him are Melissa Mathison (1950), Stand Watie (1806), Lloyd Alexander (1924), Louis Jordan (1908), Wes Unseld (1946), and Rosalind E. Krauss (1941). After him are Mark Rolston (1956), Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879), Ann Dowd (1956), Gordon Douglas (1907), Pat McCormick (1930), and Syd Field (1935).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In United States

Among tennis players born in United States, Jack Kramer ranks 28. Before him are Michael Chang (1972), Richard Sears (1861), Louise Brough (1923), Jim Courier (1970), Edgar Leonard (1881), and Roscoe Tanner (1951). After him are Holcombe Ward (1878), Helen Jacobs (1908), Francis Hunter (1894), Fred Alexander (1880), Jennifer Capriati (1976), and Mary Browne (1891).

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