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#2 Jan Kodes
Czech Jan Kodes reached a career-high ATP ranking of World Number 5 and won the prestigious Wimbledon Championships in 1973.
During the course of his 15-year professional tennis career, Kodes won 8 top level singles titles, which include 3 Grand Slam singles titles and 17 doubles titles. His record at the US Open is pretty impressive even though he never won at New York. In 1971, Kodes beat both the top seed John Newcombe and the third seed and sentimental favourite Arthur Ashe before losing to another American Stan Smith in the final.
A very talented clay court player, Kodes won back-to-back French Open titles in 1970 and 1971, beating Zeljko Franulovic and Ilie Nastase in the final matches respectively.
A thorough gentleman, Kodes was also an economics graduate. After retirement from the sport in 1983, Kodes was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1993.
