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Kim Clijsters
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Kim Clijsters, 33, of Belgium, was the world No. 1 player for 19 weeks and was ranked within the world top-5 for 250 weeks during her career. She is one of six women to have been ranked No. 1 in the world for both singles and doubles.
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Andy Roddick
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Andy Roddick, 34, of the United States, is a former world No. 1 and US Open champion. Roddick held the world No. 1 ranking for 13 weeks, and he was year-end No. 1 in 2003. Roddick finished the season in the top-10 of the ATP Rankings for nine straight years (2002 – 2010). He held rankings inside the world top-5 for 187 weeks during the course of his career.
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Monique Kalkman
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A passionate athlete from a very young age, Kalkman was involved in many sports and had dreams of becoming a top athlete and sports teacher. She was diagnosed with cancer at age 14 and, as a result, was left paralyzed from the waist down. As she recovered, Kalkman revised her dreams to be fitting of her life as a wheelchair user.
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Vic Braden
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Vic Braden was a tennis instructor, a transformative educator of tennis teachers, and lifelong student of the game himself. Braden was a pioneer in the scientific studies of the physics of tennis, and he dedicated his tennis career to bringing rational, research-based instruction to tennis in a way that made the instruction clear and enjoyable.
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Steve Flink
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Steve Flink, of New York, is one of tennis’ preeminent historians and journalists. A lifelong tennis enthusiast, Flink began his career in tennis in the early 1970s when Hall of Famer Bud Collins hired him to help with research at Wimbledon and the US Open. By 1974, he was on staff at World Tennis magazine, where he was a writer and editor until 1991, eloquently sharing the stories of tennis tournaments around the world to readers at home. From 1992 to 2007, he was senior writer for Tennis Week. For the past eight years, he has been lead columnist for tennischannel.com.