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Tom Okker

1944 - Today

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Thomas Samuel Okker (nicknamed "the Flying Dutchman"; born 22 February 1944) is a Dutch former tennis player who was active from the mid-1960s until 1980. He won the 1973 French Open Doubles, the 1976 US Open Doubles, and two gold medals at the 1965 Maccabiah Games in Israel. He was ranked among the world's top-ten singles players for seven consecutive years, 1968–74, reaching a career high of world No. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tom Okker has received more than 180,399 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Tom Okker is the 57th most popular tennis player (up from 65th in 2019), the 349th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 420th in 2019) and the most popular Dutch Tennis Player.

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  • 180k

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  • 55.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Tom Okker ranks 57 out of 1,569. Before him are Ken Rosewall, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Pancho Gonzales, Maria Bueno, Rosie Reyes, and Vitas Gerulaitis. After him are Adriano Panatta, Goran Ivanišević, Kea Bouman, William Renshaw, Bobby Riggs, and Margaret Scriven.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Tom Okker ranks 211. Before him are Thongsing Thammavong, Christian de Portzamparc, Patrick Sercu, Nelson Freire, Taylor Hackford, and Ronald Lauder. After him are Brian Weiss, Ram Chandra Poudel, Peter Lindbergh, David Trimble, Masanobu Izumi, and Hugo Gatti.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Tom Okker ranks 349 out of 1,646. Before him are Olivier van Noort (1558), Wander Johannes de Haas (1878), Karel Doorman (1889), Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau (1743), Gemma Frisius (1508), and Titus Brandsma (1881). After him are Isaac Israëls (1865), Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands (1969), Hercules Seghers (1589), Leonaert Bramer (1596), Dirk Kuyt (1980), and John de Mol Jr. (1955).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Netherlands

Among tennis players born in Netherlands, Tom Okker ranks 1. After him are Kea Bouman (1903), Richard Krajicek (1971), Betty Stöve (1945), Paul Haarhuis (1966), Hendrik Timmer (1904), Kiki Bertens (1991), Jacco Eltingh (1970), Martin Verkerk (1978), Manon Bollegraf (1964), Arantxa Rus (1990), and Miriam Oremans (1972).

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