Obscure Tennis Players.

[krisholio14]

Kelly Evernden

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Rui Machado and Ricardo Hocevar.

 

[bato]

Slobodan Zivojinovic

Hahahaha what a legend. Got pissed at a Serbian event before a quarter final match against McEnroe back in 1985. Came out the next day and beat him in five sets.

 

[the universal]

Joseph Sirianni
Agnes Szavay

Genuinely believe she'd still be around the top 20 if it weren't for the injury problems.

 

[krisholio14]

Sargis Sargisian

 

[Broar]

Who was the Aussie girl who was big as a junior but vanished as a senior?

Jade Hooper?

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

Jade Hooper?

Might be Ashleigh Barty.

Surprised that she's only 19 so I'm being completely unfair.

Play on.

 

[Dannnnnnnnnn]

Might be Ashleigh Barty.

Surprised that she's only 19 so I'm being completely unfair.

Play on.

She plays cricket now, so saying she's vanished is fair.

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

She plays cricket now, so saying she's vanished is fair.

Wish I'd thought to read the first line of text on her Wiki. : facepalm :

Cheers.

 

[JackNah_8]

Andrew ilie

i am kinda of glad he disappeared

 

[JackNah_8]

Patty Schnyder, dont know what happened to her.


jan michael gambill, the guy with the two handed forehand and backhand...

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Jeff Tarango.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Stefan Koubek
Hicham Arazi

 

[JackNah_8]

Jeff Tarango.

lol! he was crazy

 

[Dannnnnnnnnn]

Lukas Dlouhy's one that I just saw pop up on the doubles scoreboard for the Aus Open. Won two doubles slams but doesn't appear to have played for two years.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Lukas Dlouhy's one that I just saw pop up on the doubles scoreboard for the Aus Open. Won two doubles slams but doesn't appear to have played for two years.

Looks like it as well. Has a serious gut.

Remebered a few more:

Irakli Labadze
Kristian Pless
Martin Verkerk
Sjeng Schalken

 

[the universal]

Jeff Tarango.

 

[Roobs321]

Kucera made the second week of a grand slam 4 times from 41 attempts. Hardly a superstar either. Schuettler I just remember being so quickly flung into the spotlight during his AO '03 run eventually falling to Agassi, and then back into relative obscurity until he somehow made the last 4 at Wimby a few years later

Kucera was a notable player in the late 90s, hardly obscure. Schuettler was also one of Germany's leading players for the better part of a decade, I don't think he falls into the obscure column.

When I think of obscure, Arnaud Di Pasquale is always the first to come to mind. All I know of him is that he is French and won the bronze at Sydney, but so obscure beyond that. Perfect trivia question.

The modern obscure is those essentially unremarkable acronym Spanish and French deep cuts that may have hovered around the top 100 for a little while, maybe have a peak ranking around 35-60, never really featured as one of their country's top 5, don't look all that unique and never ruffled a feather. Guys like Daniel Gimeno-Traver, Albert Ramos, ERV, etc.

 

[Roobs321]

Schalken is a weird one, particularly from an Australian standpoint. Probably one of the best players ever to never crack the top 10, he was a perennial 10-20 ranked player for a while, reliable R4 honourable loss type. But he could easily walk down a street without being recognised.

 

[Brad Goodman]

Filip Dewulf
Xavier Dufresne

Not as obscure, but my favourite ever tennis player - Stefan Koubek.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Eduardo Schwank, Werner Eschauer, Flavio Saretta, Stefano Galvani, Hyung-Taik Lee and 2 more, while they're nowhere near obscure enough, Fernando Meligeni and Andreas Vinciguerra.

 

[the universal]

Takao Suzuki. The player Federer hit that famous forehand from around the net post against (at the 2005 AO).

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Jean-Rene Lisnard.

 

[Roobs321]

Takao Suzuki. The player Federer hit that famous forehand from around the net post against (at the 2005 AO).

He was also the guy that had an entertaining and dramatic five set epic with Corretja in R1 of the 1999 AO. It wasn't until a year ago that I connected the two players together in my mind.

 

[Bonz]

Oliver Rochus.

Think he may of been the only male on the tour at the time that was shorter than myself.