Obscure Tennis Players.

[RedmanWasHere]

Inspired by a thread on the Cricket board, thought I'd go with a Tennis version.

I'm starting off with Spaniard Oscar Hernandez.
Defeated Lleyton Hewitt in 2007 and then never heard of again.

 

[pepsi]

Andrew ilie

 

[the universal]

Robin Vik. Czech who took Hewitt to 5 sets in the first round of the 2006 Australian Open. Another player that came to mind was Daniel Kollerer, probably not that obscure as he was notoriously bad behaved and got banned for life for match fixing, but never broke into the top 50.

 

[genericusername]

Nick Lindhal. Won a wildcard playoff 6 years ago, looked to be the next big thing, then pissed off to Sweden and did nothing with his career. Honourable mention to Jason Kubler, although I think his main issue was injuries.

In terms of Australian women, you've got to go with Sophie Ferguson, Isabella Holland and Jessica Moore.

 

[Dannnnnnnnnn]

Honourable mention to Jason Kubler, although I think his main issue was injuries.

He's still around actually. His problem is that his knees can't handle hard courts; he plays mostly Challenger-level clay court events. He played Wimbledon qualies last year.

 

[Aussie_boy]

Aravane Rezai- got as high 15 in the world and she seemingly disappeared

 

[Hamingja]

Martin Verkerk. Spindly Dutchman that made the French Open final in 2003.

 

[Gibbsy]

Rainer Schuettler, Karol Kucera

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

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

 

[GreekLunatic]

Miloslav mecir

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Miloslav mecir

Senior or junior?

 

[GreekLunatic]

I think the one that nick name was the cat

 

[the universal]

Vladimir Voltchkov. Made the semi final of Wimbledon as a qualifier in 2000 as a 22 year old before losing to Sampras. Couldn't make it past the 2nd at the other slams and never really reached any heights aside from a DC SF in 2004.

Rainer Schuettler, Karol Kucera

Miloslav mecir

All former top 10 players, not sure if that really fits into 'obscure'?

 

[GreekLunatic]

Mikael penfors

 

[Yoda_]

Todd Reid

 

[Gibbsy]

Vladimir Voltchkov. Made the semi final of Wimbledon as a qualifier in 2000 as a 22 year old before losing to Sampras. Couldn't make it past the 2nd at the other slams and never really reached any heights aside from a DC SF in 2004.




All former top 10 players, not sure if that really fits into 'obscure'?

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

 

[Gibbsy]

Todd Reid

Carsten Ball similar

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Raemon Sluiter.

 

[iluvparis]

Todd Reid

Good one - was just thinking of the name of that player who went the vom in Hisense Arena in a 5 set first round match - it was him.

 

[iluvparis]

Who was the African American girl that beat Jelana Dokic in a wimby QF or SF and then didn't do much else?

Stevens or something like that?

 

[krisholio14]

Slobodan Zivojinovic

 

[krisholio14]

Who was the African American girl that beat Jelana Dokic in a wimby QF or SF and then didn't do much else?

Stevens or something like that?

Alexandra Stevenson

 

[Yoda_]

Good one - was just thinking of the name of that player who went the vom in Hisense Arena in a 5 set first round match - it was him.

That's the same reason I remember Todd. Won in 5 iirc

 

[vast]

MaliVai Washington

 

[genericusername]

Joseph Sirianni
Agnes Szavay