TENNIS PLAYERS from Canada

Top 10

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Canadian Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous Canadian Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Canadian Tennis Players.

1. Mary Pierce (b. 1975)

With an HPI of 56.78, Mary Pierce is the most famous Canadian Tennis Player.  Her biography has been translated into 46 different languages on wikipedia.

Mary Caroline Pierce (born 15 January 1975) is a French former professional tennis player. She was ranked world No. 3 in singles and in doubles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Pierce won 18 singles titles on the WTA Tour, including two majors at the 1995 Australian Open and the 2000 French Open, and five Tier I singles events. Pierce was a finalist at a further four singles majors, and twice at the Tour Finals. In doubles, Pierce won 10 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including two major titles at the 2000 French Open in women's doubles partnering Martina Hingis, and at the 2005 Wimbledon Championships in mixed doubles partnering Mahesh Bhupathi. She was also a runner-up in women's doubles at the 2000 Australian Open, partnering Hingis. Pierce was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2019. She is the most recent Frenchwoman to win the French Open singles title.

2. Emma Raducanu (b. 2002)

With an HPI of 56.62, Emma Raducanu is the 2nd most famous Canadian Tennis Player.  Her biography has been translated into 50 different languages.

Emma Raducanu ( RAD-ə-KAH-noo, Romanian: [rədu'kanu]; born 13 November 2002) is a British professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 10 by the WTA, and is the current British No. 1. Raducanu was the 2021 US Open champion, and the first British woman to win a singles major since Virginia Wade at the 1977 Wimbledon Championships. With a wildcard entry at 2021 Wimbledon, ranked outside the world's top 300, she reached the fourth round at her first major tournament. At the 2021 US Open, she became the first qualifier in the Open Era to win a Grand Slam singles title, beating Leylah Fernandez in the final and without dropping a set during the tournament. It was the second major tournament of her career, and she holds the Open Era record for the fewest majors played before winning a title.

3. Félix Auger-Aliassime (b. 2000)

With an HPI of 49.12, Félix Auger-Aliassime is the 3rd most famous Canadian Tennis Player.  His biography has been translated into 30 different languages.

Felix Auger-Aliassime (French pronunciation: [feliks oʒe aljasim]; born August 8, 2000) is a Canadian professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of No. 6, which he achieved on November 7, 2022, making him the second-highest-ranked Canadian man in ATP rankings history and the fourth-highest-ranked Canadian player in history. He has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 60, attained on November 1, 2021. He has won seven singles titles and one doubles title on the ATP Tour, and was selected as the 2022 Canadian Press athlete of the year. Auger-Aliassime was also part of Canada's winning squad in the 2022 ATP Cup as well as the 2022 Davis Cup Finals. He won the bronze in Mixed Doubles with Gabriela Dabrowski at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Auger-Aliassime began competing on the professional tour at a young age. On the second-tier ATP Challenger Tour, he is the youngest player to win a main draw match at 14 years and 11 months old, and is one of seven players to win a Challenger title by the age of 16. He is the second-youngest to win multiple Challenger titles at 17 years and one month, and the youngest player to defend a Challenger title at 17 years and ten months. Auger-Aliassime had a successful junior career, reaching No. 2 in the world and winning the 2016 US Open boys' singles title. He also won the previous year's boys' doubles title at the 2015 US Open with compatriot Denis Shapovalov. On the ATP Tour, Auger-Aliassime made his top 100 and top 25 debuts at age 18 in a year highlighted by his first ATP final in February 2019 at the Rio Open, an ATP 500 event. He reached three ATP finals in 2019, another three in 2020, and two finals in 2021, a total of eight consecutive runner-ups out of eight ATP finals as well as the semifinals at the 2021 US Open. He is the one of only three players (alongside Novak Djokovic and John Isner) to force Rafael Nadal into a five-set match at the French Open.

4. Leylah Fernandez (b. 2002)

With an HPI of 48.70, Leylah Fernandez is the 4th most famous Canadian Tennis Player.  Her biography has been translated into 35 different languages.

Leylah Annie Fernandez (born 6 September 2002) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as No. 13 by the WTA on 8 August 2022. Her best doubles ranking is world No. 17, achieved on 23 October 2023. Fernandez won her first WTA Tour title at the 2021 Monterrey Open. As a 19-year-old, she finished runner-up at the 2021 US Open to fellow teenager Emma Raducanu, defeating three top-5 players en route to the final, including defending champion Naomi Osaka. Fernandez played a pivotal role in Canada's first-ever Billie Jean King Cup win in 2023, defeating Jasmine Paolini in the final.

5. Sébastien Lareau (b. 1973)

With an HPI of 45.62, Sébastien Lareau is the 5th most famous Canadian Tennis Player.  His biography has been translated into 21 different languages.

Sébastien Lareau (French pronunciation: [sebastjɛ̃ laʁo]; born April 27, 1973) is a former professional tennis player. He became the first Canadian to win a Grand Slam title by winning the 1999 US Open men's doubles with his American partner Alex O'Brien.

6. Eugenie Bouchard (b. 1994)

With an HPI of 45.32, Eugenie Bouchard is the 6th most famous Canadian Tennis Player.  Her biography has been translated into 46 different languages.

Eugenie "Genie" Bouchard (; French: Eugénie Bouchard, pronounced [øʒeni buʃaʁ]; born February 25, 1994) is a Canadian professional tennis and pickleball player. At the 2014 Wimbledon Championships, she became the first Canadian-born player representing Canada to reach the final of a major singles tournament, finishing runner-up to Petra Kvitová. Bouchard also reached the semifinals of the 2014 Australian Open and 2014 French Open. Having won the 2012 Wimbledon girls' title as a junior, she was named WTA Newcomer of the Year at the end of the 2013 WTA Tour. She received the WTA Most Improved Player award for the 2014 season and reached a career-high ranking of world No. 5, becoming the first Canadian tennis player to be ranked in the top 5 in singles. Bouchard has stated she plans to remain active on the tennis and pickleball professional tours. In 2017 and 2018, Bouchard was ranked No. 10 and No. 9 in Forbes’ World's Highest-Paid Female Athletes list, earning $6.2 million in 2017 and $7.1 million in 2018.

7. Jill Hetherington (b. 1964)

With an HPI of 45.26, Jill Hetherington is the 7th most famous Canadian Tennis Player.  Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Jill Hetherington-Hultquist (born October 27, 1964) is a Canadian former professional tennis player. She played college tennis for the University of Florida, and was women's tennis head coach at the University of Washington until May 2014.

8. Greg Rusedski (b. 1973)

With an HPI of 45.09, Greg Rusedski is the 8th most famous Canadian Tennis Player.  His biography has been translated into 26 different languages.

Gregory Rusedski (born 6 September 1973) is a British former professional tennis player. He was the British No. 1 in 1997, 1999 and 2006, and reached the ATP ranking of world No. 4 for periods from 6 October 1997 to 12 October 1997 and from 25 May 1998 to 21 June 1998. In 1997, he was the US Open finalist, which led to him receiving the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award and the ITV Sports Champion of the Year Award. Also, he scored 30 wins and 13 losses with the Great Britain Davis Cup team. Along with erstwhile rival and teammate Tim Henman, Rusedski was credited with beginning a renaissance in British men's singles tennis from the doldrums of the eighties and nineties, reaching a grand slam final and returning Great Britain to relevance in the Davis Cup, progress that would eventually be brought to fruition by Andy Murray.

9. Bianca Andreescu (b. 2000)

With an HPI of 44.72, Bianca Andreescu is the 9th most famous Canadian Tennis Player.  Her biography has been translated into 43 different languages.

Bianca Vanessa Andreescu (Romanian pronunciation: [andreˈesku]; born June 16, 2000) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She has been ranked world No. 4 in women's singles by the WTA. Andreescu has won three singles titles on the WTA Tour, the 2019 Indian Wells Open, the 2019 Canadian Open, and a major title at the 2019 US Open. She is the first Canadian, male or female, to win a major singles title, and the first to win the Canadian Open in 50 years. Andreescu began playing tennis in her parents' home country of Romania before returning to Canada, the country of her birth. She had success as a junior, winning the Orange Bowl and two major doubles titles with compatriot Carson Branstine en route to reaching a career-best junior ranking of No. 3 in the world. After not playing any matches at the WTA Tour level in 2018, Andreescu had a breakout year in 2019. She rose to prominence by winning the Indian Wells Open, a Premier Mandatory tournament, and later swept the Canadian Open and US Open events, defeating Serena Williams in both finals. Although she missed several months due to injury, Andreescu qualified for the WTA Finals at the end of the season and finished the year ranked No. 5. Andreescu's style of play combines power with variety and has been widely regarded as "fun to watch" by tennis commentators and journalists. She has strong support from both Canadian and Romanian fanbases.

10. Grant Connell (b. 1965)

With an HPI of 42.79, Grant Connell is the 10th most famous Canadian Tennis Player.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Grant Connell (Pronounced: KAHN-nell) (born November 17, 1965) is a former professional tennis player from Canada, who retired in 1997 and in 1999 started working as a real estate agent in Vancouver. He specializes in West Vancouver North Vancouver and Downtown properties real estate transactions. He is considered one of the world's top doubles player from the early to late -1990s, reaching the world No. 1 doubles ranking in November 1993. Connell won 22 doubles titles during his eleven seasons on the ATP Tour (1986 to 1997). He won his first four with fellow Canadian Glenn Michibata. Upon Michibata's retirement from the tour, Connell joined Patrick Galbraith. The Connell-Galbraith tandem won 12 titles together, including the 1995 season ending Doubles Championships tournament. Connell's next main partner became Byron Black with whom he won four more titles. He also won a title each with Todd Martin and Scott Davis. He was a three-time Wimbledon Championships doubles finalist, twice with Galbraith and once with Black. A left-hander, Connell best singles ranking was world No. 67, which he reached in June 1991. His best tour singles results were reaching the semifinals of the 1991 Chicago, 1991 Singapore, and 1992 Auckland Grand Prix events. Connell's best Grand Slam singles results were reaching the third round of the 1991 Australian Open and 1994 Wimbledon. A solid grass-court player, Connell had Andre Agassi on the ropes in their first round encounter at Wimbledon in 1991. In that match, Connell served a gutsy second serve ace to win the third set tie-breaker and go up two sets to one. Agassi however won the final two sets 7–5, 6–3, to take the match. (The following year at Wimbledon saw Agassi win his first Grand Slam event.) As well, Connell reached five mixed semifinals at Wimbledon. The majority of those with his highly ranked partner Lindsay Davenport. Reporters have noted that neither one of them seemed too concerned about winning any title but had a lot of fun losing. Connell played Davis Cup for Canada on numerous occasions posting a career 15–6 win–loss record in doubles and an equally impressive 8–3 record in singles. He was a member of Canada's 1991 and 1992 Davis Cup teams winning all three needed matches in each of those wins to put Canada in to the World Group for its first two times in canadian tennis history. Awards: Winner of the “Spirit of Sport” national award for the athlete who gives back the most to charity and their sport; Member of the Canadian Tennis Hall of Fame, Canadian Open Hall of Fame, BC Sports Hall of Fame, Texas A&M University Hall of Fame, and B.C. Summer Swimming Hall of Fame.