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Forgotten Players

David Nalbandian

Dominik Hrbaty: Former Slovakian won six ATP singles title was also known for tormenting Roger Federer with two three set wins over the Swiss maestro in Cincy and Paris Bercy before Fed finally won their last meeting at Wimbledon in Hrbaty’s final tournament in 2008.

Jiri Novak: The Czech baseliner won seven singles titles and over $7.6 million with a career singles record of 337-260. Best win was arguably the rout of Pete Sampras in the 2000 Davis Cup tie in LA, 76 63 62.

Irina Spirlea: Romanian former no. 7 in the world reached the SF of 97 US Open and won over $2.6 million in prize money. She won four WTA titles in singles and six in doubles.

Mal Washington: Wimbledon finalist in 1996 won four ATP singles titles and posted an impressive 254-184 W/L record.

David Nalbandian: The talented Argentine is rarely talked about today but the smooth artist performed some magical results in beating the likes of Federer, Nadal, Murray and Djokovic. Nalby won eleven singles titles including the Masters Cup 2005 in Shanghai ini five sets from two sets down to Federer.

Andrei Medvedev: Ukrainian was four in the world once and played in the Roland Garros final. He won eleven ATP singles titles.

Thomas Johansson: Swede won nine ATP singles titles and the Australian Open in 2002. Most recently he was coaching Greek WTA player Maria Sakkari at the US Open.

Nikolay Davydenko: The German-based Russian won 21 career titles and on his best day could manhandle the likes of Federer and Nadal. Won the Masters Cup in 2009 beating Del Potro in the final in 2009 in London 63 64.

Filip DeWulf: From a small village of Belgium, DeWulf won two ATP singles titles in Kitzbuhel and Vienna. He’s also one of four players in history to reach a Grand Slam semifinal as a qualifier.

Hicham Arazi: The Moroccan lefty won one title in 1997 in Casablanca but had a stylish, freeflowing play style that made for many memorable matches against the likes or Agassi, Rios, Rafter.

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  • Thomas Tung · September 20, 2017 at 1:42 am

    Genie Bouchard is currently coachless, as well (from what I read) — Thomas Hogstedt is going with another player.

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