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Cliff Drysdale

Both on and off the, court, Cliff Drysdale is one of the most popular personalities in the international tennis community. The Legend played 45 Davis Cup matches for his former homeland, South Africa, over a six-year period. Drysdale was ranked several times in the world's top ten in singles, and he earned his way to being number one in the world on the senior tour in 1989.

The highlight of Drysdale's singles career was a finals showing in the 1965 U.S. Championships, now known as The Open. Throughout his celebrated career, he netted 35 singles and 24 doubles titles. Another title he proudly held, off the courts, was that of founder and first President of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Cliff Drysdale transitioned from making the shots – to calling them. He is the game's preeminent tennis announcer, the man behind the swank accent heard on tennis telecasts for over 30 years now on ESPN and ABC Sports. His insightful ramblings have become somewhat of a soundtrack for tennis enthusiasts.

Tom Gullikson

During his career as a player, Tom won 16 top-level doubles titles – ten of them partnering his now-deceased identical twin brother, Tim Gullikson. The brothers were runners-up in the men's doubles competition at Wimbledon in 1983. Tom also won the mixed doubles title at the US Open in 1984, partnering with Manuela Maleeva.

Tom won one top-level singles title (at Newport in 1985). His career-high rankings were World No. 34 in singles and World No. 9 in doubles (both in 1984). He retired from the professional tour in 1987.

After retiring as a player, Tom became one of the original members of the United States Tennis Association Player Development Program, coaching players such as Todd Martin, Jennifer Capriati and Andy Roddick. He served as Director of Coaching for the program from 1997 to 2001.

Tom was the United States Davis Cup Captain from 1994 to 1999. He captained the team that won the Davis Cup in 1995.

In 1996, Tom was coach of the US men's Olympic tennis team and guided Andre Agassi to winning the Olympic Gold Medal in Atlanta.

Mikael Pernfors

Mikael Pernfors was the only player in the history of NCAA tennis to win back-to-back singles championships. The titles came in 1984 and '85 and in that second year he led his University of Georgia squad to the team championship as well. He played a topspin-heavy baseline game with a two-handed backhand, and relied on a crowd-pleasing game full of variety, liberally employing the drop shot and the topspin lob.

In his ATP career, Pernfors was a finalist at the French Open in 1986, losing to Ivan Lendl. In 1986 Pernfors earned a career-high singles ranking of No. 10 in the world. In 1988, Pernfors won his first top-level singles title at Los Angeles, California, defeating Andre Agassi in the final. He played Davis Cup for his native Sweden in 1986, '87 and '89, helping his team reach the final in 1986. Despite injuries, he came back strongly in 1993 to win the most significant title of his career at the Canadian Open and earned the Comeback Player of the Year award.

Pernfors is one of the featured Legends of Grand Slam Sports Marketing and can be seen competing with other great Legends of the game on the Outback Champions Series Tour.

Murphy Jensen

Murphy Jensen, is one of the most charismatic personalities in the tennis world. He came onto his tennis fame in a flash in 1993, when he captured his first Grand Slam title at the French Open with his brother Luke. His on-court energy and off-court personality netted him a world of fan-fare and he was soon on his way to becoming part of one of the most popular doubles teams in the history of the game.

Jensen switched gears and focused on acting and entertainment following his tennis career. Bringing his guitars to Hollywood, he landed the role of Ivan Dragomir in "Wimbledon," starring Kirsten Dunst and Paul Bettany. Jensen's second movie, 2005's "Tennis Anyone…?" stars Paul Rudd and Stephen Dorff.

Currently, Jensen is the host of Tennis Channel's "Open Access," which goes behind the scenes at tournaments throughout the year. On "Open Access" Jensen is "Living the Dream," as he would say, taking the series around the globe and sharing intimate moments with the stars of tennis and entertainment, including former President George Bush, Shaquille O'Neal and Pete Sampras. Jensen is also the Hollywood reporter for DEUCE magazine, interviewing stars like Gavin Rossdale, the lead singer and songwriter for the band Bush. Jensen is also writing an original screenplay.

Somdev Devvarman

Somdev hit the headlines for being the only collegiate player to make three consecutive NCAA finals while at the University of Virginia. After reaching the 2006 final, Somdev defeated John Isner in the 2007 final and a year later defeated J.P. Smith to join fellow Madisen's Match Pro, Mikael Pernfors as well as just two other players to win back to back NCAA titles in the past 50 years. His 44-1 win-loss record in the 2008 championship is unprecedented and stands as one of the greatest feats in the history of the NCAA Men's Tennis Championships.

After turning pro in the summer of 2008, Somdev quickly won his first career title at the Futures tournament in Rochester, New York. He teamed up with his former university partner, Treat Huey, to win the doubles title as well. The two followed up the next week at another Futures match in Pittsburgh, Devvarman and Huey won the doubles title, and Devvarman won the singles.

Somdev's best performance at an ATP Masters 1000 event so far came at the 2011 BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells. Somdev reached the fourth round of the tournament. After making it through the qualification rounds, he defeated Adrianno Mannarino before pulling two huge upsets by defeating world no. 22 Marcos Baghdatis 7-5, 6-0 and then world no. 52 Xavier Malisse 6-1, 3-6, 7-6. He then lost to world no. 1 Rafael Nadal 5-7, 4-6 after a tough fight.

Somdev reached a career high ranking of world no. 62 on July 7, 2011 and finished the year with a ranking of world no. 84.