Tennis and Racquet Sports
- Jay Berger — tennis player; USTA boys 18s singles champion, highest world ranking # 7; & coach
- Audra Cohen – 2007 NCAA Women's Singles Champion
- Julia Cohen – USTA girls 12s & 18s singles champion
- Herbert Flam — 2-time USTA boys 18s singles champion, highest world ranking # 5
- Zack Fleishman — tennis player
- Brad Gilbert — tennis player; highest world ranking # 4, Olympic bronze (singles); & coach
- Justin Gimelstob — tennis player; USTA boys 16s & 18s singles champion, won 1998 Australian Open Mixed Doubles (w/Venus Williams) and 1998 French Open Mixed Doubles (w/Venus Williams)
- Paul Goldstein – tennis player; USTA boys 16s & 2-time 18s singles champion
- Brian Gottfried — tennis player; USTA boys 12s & 2-time 18s singles champion, won 1975 & 1977 French Open Men's Doubles (w/ Raúl Ramírez), and 1976 Wimbledon Men's Doubles (w/Ramirez), highest world ranking # 3
- Jim Grabb – doubles tennis player; won 1989 French Open Men's Doubles (w/Richey Reneberg) and 1992 US Open Men's Doubles (w/Patrick McEnroe), highest world doubles ranking # 1
- Julie Heldman, US girls 15s & 18s singles champion, highest world ranking # 5
- Marty Hogan — racquetball player
- Anita Kanter — US girls 18s singles champion
- Aaron Krickstein — tennis player; USTA boys 16s & 18s singles champion, highest world ranking # 6
- Steve Krulevitz – tennis player; Maccabbi Champion
- Jesse Levine – tennis player
- Victor Niederhoffer — squash player; won 1951 Wimbledon Men's Singles, highest world ranking # 2
- Wayne Odesnik
- Shahar Pe'er - tennis player; currently the #34 women's player in the world.
- Richard Savitt — tennis player
- Dudi Sela - tennis player on the ATP world tour, ranked #108 in the world for men.
- Julius Seligson – 2-time boys 18s singles champion
- Harold Solomon — tennis player; US boys 18s singles champion, highest world ranking # 5
- Brian Teacher — US boys 18s singles champion, won 1980 Australian Open Singles, highest world ranking # 7
- Eliot Teltscher — won 1983 French Open Mixed Doubles (w/ Barbara Jordan), highest world ranking # 6
Read more about this topic: List Of Jewish American Sportspeople
Famous quotes containing the words tennis and/or sports:
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)