This is a list of verified common nicknames that notable professional tennis players were personally addressed by. Some are group names collectively referring to more than one player.

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*Ace Queen = Karolína Plíšková *The Arm, The Aussie Amazon, Mighty Maggie = Margaret Court *A-Rod, Rocket Man = Andy Roddick

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*Boom Boom Boris, The Lion of Leimen, Baron von Slam =

Boris Becker Boris Franz Becker (, ; born 22 November 1967) is a German former world No. 1 tennis player. Becker was successful from the start of his career, winning the Wimbledon Championships at the age of 17. He ultimately won six Grand Slam singles tit ...

*The Barcelona Bumblebee = Arantxa Sánchez Vicario *"''Le basque bondissant''" (French for "The Leaping Basque") = Jean Borotra *Bee = Barbora Strycova *Big, Bad Betty = Betty Stöve *The Big Cat = Miloslav Mečíř *Big Bill = William Tilden Jr. *Big Foe = Frances Tiafoe *Big Pancho = Pancho Gonzales *Broadway Vitas = Vitas Gerulaitis *The Bulldozer = David Ferrer *Butch =

Earl Buchholz Earl Henry "Butch" Buchholz, Jr. (born September 16, 1940) is a former professional tennis player from the United States who was one of the game's top players in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Tennis career Juniors Buchholz was an outstanding ...

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*California Comet = Maurice McLoughlin *Can't-miss-Swiss = Martina Hingis *El Chino (Spanish for "The Chinese") = Marcelo Ríos *Chucky = Martina Hingis *Clown Prince of Tennis =

Frank Kovacs Frank Kovacs (December 4, 1919 – February 1990) was an American amateur and professional tennis player in the mid-20th century. He won the U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships singles title in 1941. He won the World Professional Champion ...

*The Crocodile = René Lacoste

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*Danimal = Danielle Collins *DelPo = Juan Martín del Potro *The Demon = Alex de Minaur *(The) Djoker, Nole, Serbinator = Novak Djokovic *Dominator, The Prince of Clay = Dominic Thiem *Dreddy = Dustin Brown *''La divine'' (French for "The Goddess"), The Maid Marvel =

Suzanne Lenglen Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen (; 24 May 1899 – 4 July 1938) was a French tennis player. She was the inaugural world No. 1 from 1921 to 1926, winning eight Grand Slam titles in singles and twenty-one in total. She was also a four-time World ...

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*Emmo = Roy Emerson *El Peque =

Diego Schwartzman Diego Sebastián Schwartzman (, ; born 16 August 1992) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has won four ATP singles titles and reached his career-high singles ranking of world 8 in October 2020. As a clay court specialist, his be ...

*El Pelon= Rafael Osuna *Evonne Sing-A-Long, Sunshine Super Girl = Evonne Goolagong Cawley

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*Fat Dave, El Rey David = David Nalbandian *FedEx(press), King Roger, The (Swiss) Maestro, God of tennis = Roger Federer *Fiery or Fiery Fred = Fred Stolle *The Flying Dutchman = Tom Okker * The Four Musketeers = ** Jean Borotra ** Jacques Brugnon ** Henri Cochet ** René Lacoste *Fräulein Forehand =

Steffi Graf Stefanie Maria Graf ( , ; born 14 June 1969) is a German former professional tennis player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, she was ranked world No. 1 for a record 377 weeks and won 22 major singles titles, ...

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*Gentleman Jack = Jack Crawford *Gorgeous Gussie = Gertrude Moran *The Great Dane = Caroline Wozniacki *Guga, Clay Surfer = Gustavo Kuerten *The Generator = Jennifer Capriati *Gonzo = Fernando González

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* Handsome Eight = ** Pierre Barthès ** Butch Buchholz ** Cliff Drysdale **

John Newcombe John David Newcombe AO OBE (born 23 May 1944) is an Australian former professional tennis player. He is one of the few men to have attained a world No. 1 ranking in both singles and doubles. At the majors, he won seven singles titles, a fo ...

Nikola Pilić Nikola "Niki" Pilić (born 27 August 1939) is a Croatian former professional tennis player who competed for SFR Yugoslavia. He was one of the Handsome Eight. Pilić was ranked world No. 6 in January 1968 and world No. 7 for 1967 by Lance Tingay ...

** Dennis Ralston ** Tony Roche ** Roger Taylor

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*Ivan the Terrible, The Terminator = Ivan Lendl *Indian Express = ** Mahesh Bhupathi ** Leander Paes *Ice Borg or Ice Man =

Björn Borg Björn Rune Borg (; born 6 June 1956) is a Swedish former world No. 1 tennis player. Between 1974 and 1981, he became the first man in the Open Era to win 11 Grand Slam singles titles with six at the French Open and five consecutively at Wimb ...

*Ice Maiden, Ice Princess =

Chris Evert Christine Marie Evert (born December 21, 1954), known as Chris Evert Lloyd from 1979 to 1987, is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. Evert won 18 major singles titles, including a record seven French Open titles and a joint-record ...

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* Jimbo =

Jimmy Connors James Scott Connors (born September 2, 1952) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. He held the top Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ranking for a then-record 160 consecutive weeks from 1974 to 1977 and a career total of 268 ...

* Juju = Justine Henin

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*The King of Clay, ''El Matador'' (Spanish for "The Killer"), Raging Bull = Rafael Nadal

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*The Las Vegas Kid, The Punisher = Andre Agassi *The Leaning Tower of Pasadena = Stan Smith *The Lithuanian Lion = Vitas Gerulaitis *Little Bill = William Johnston *Little Miss Poker Face = Helen Wills Moody *Little Mo = Maureen Connolly *Little Pancho = Pancho Segura

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* Madison Avenue = Madison Keys *Masha, the (Siberian) Siren = Maria Sharapova * The Magician = Fabrice Santoro * Marvelous Molla = Molla Bjurstedt Mallory *Mosquito = Juan Carlos Ferrero *''Le Mozart Noir'' (French for "The Black Mozart") = Yannick Noah * Muscles = Ken Rosewall * Musterminator = Thomas Muster * Muhammad Ali, Smokin' Jo Willy, Tsunami = Jo-Wilfried Tsonga * Muzza =

Andy Murray Sir Andrew Barron Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a British professional tennis player from Scotland. He was ranked world No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 41 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 in 2016. Murray h ...

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*Naochi = Naomi Osaka *Nasty = Ilie Năstase *Newk =

*Navrat the Brat =

Martina Navratilova Martina Navratilova ( cs, Martina Navrátilová ; ; born October 18, 1956) is a Czech–American, former professional tennis player. Widely considered among the greatest tennis players of all time, Navratilova won 18 major singles titles, 31 maj ...

*Ninja = Agnieszka Radwańska

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* Original 9 = **

Billie Jean King Billie Jean King (née Moffitt; born November 22, 1943) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. King won 39 major titles: 12 in singles, 16 in women's doubles, and 11 in mixed doubles. King was a member of the victorious United States ...

** Rosemary Casals ** Nancy Richey **

Peaches Bartkowicz Jane Bartkowicz (born April 16, 1949), known during her career as Peaches Bartkowicz, is a former top tennis player from the United States in the 1960s. Bartkowicz was a protégé of Jean Hoxie, Jean and Jerry Hoxie. Among her many titles, Bart ...

Kristy Pigeon Kristy Pigeon (born August 12, 1950) is an American retired tennis player who was active at the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s. Career Pigeon won the Junior Wimbledon title in July 1968, defeating Australian Lesley Hunt in two sets ...

** Valerie Ziegenfuss **

Julie Heldman Julie Heldman (born December 8, 1945) is an American tennis player who won 22 singles titles. In 1969 and 1974, she was ranked as the world No. 5. In 1968 and 1969, she was ranked No. 2 in the U.S. She was Canadian National 18 and Under Singles ...

** Kerry Reid ** Judy Tegart

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*The Paignton Peach =

Sue Barker Sue or SUE may refer to: Music * Sue Records, an American record label * ''Sue'' (album), an album by Frazier Chorus * "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)", a song by David Bowie Places * Sue Islet (Queensland), one of the Torres Straits island ...

*Peanut = Mareen Louie-Harper *Peachy = Fern Kellmeyer *Pico = Juan Mónaco *Pistol Pete =

Pete Sampras Petros "Pete" Sampras ( el, Πέτρος Σάμπρας; born August 12, 1971) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. His professional career began in 1988 and ended at the 2002 US Open, which he won, defeating longtime rival Andre ...

*The Pocket Rocket = Dominika Cibulková *Prime Time = Grigor Dimitrov * Psychedelic Strokeswoman = Françoise Dürr

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* Q = Wang Qiang *Queen Vee = Venus Williams

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*The Rocket =

Rod Laver Rodney George Laver (born 9 August 1938) is an Australian former tennis player. Laver was the world number 1 ranked professional in some sources in 1964, in all sources from 1965 to 1969 and in some sources in 1970, spanning four years befor ...

*Rusty = Lleyton Hewitt *Rabbit = Wendy Turnbull

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*The São Paulo Swallow, the Tennis Ballerina = Maria Bueno *Senorita Topspin = Conchita Martínez *Scud = Mark Philippoussis *Sliderman = Gaël Monfils *Special Kei = Kei Nishikori *Spice Girls = ** Anna Kournikova ** Martina Hingis *Stanimal, Stan the Man = Stanislas Wawrinka *Superbrat = John McEnroe *Super Simo = Simona Halep *Swiss Miss = Martina Hingis *SW19, Meka = Serena Williams

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*Tabasco = Fernando Verdasco *Tappy =

Art Larsen Arthur David "Art" or "Tappy" Larsen (April 17, 1925 – December 7, 2012) was an American No. 1 male tennis player best remembered for his victory at the U.S. Championships in 1950 and for his eccentricities. He won the "Times" national sport ...

*The Tennis Baron = Gottfried von Cramm *Tiger Tim, Timbo, Tin Man = Tim Henman *Ted = Cuthbert Tinling *Tomic the Tank Engine = Bernard Tomic * The Tower of Tandil = Juan Martín del Potro

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*Wild Thing =

Nick Kyrgios Nicholas Hilmy Kyrgios ( ; born 27 April 1995) is an Australian professional tennis player. In singles, Kyrgios' career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 13 was achieved on 24 October 2016. He has won seven ATP Tour singles titles, includin ...

*Willie = Guillermo Vilas *The Wizard = Norman Brookes * The Woodies = ** Todd Woodbridge ** Mark Woodforde

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*X-Man = Xavier Malisse

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