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Tennis Birthdays This Week! (June 3-9)

By Nick Georgandis

June 4: Serbian doubles star Nenad Zimonjic turns 36. Zimonjic has three men's doubles Grand Slam crowns (WImbledon 2008-2009 and French Open 2010) and is currently ranked No. 3 in the world, having reached the No. 1 spot in 2008. He also has four mixed doubles Grand Slam wins.

June 4: Former American world No. 2 Andrea Jaeger turns 47. She reached at least the semifinals of all four Grand Slam singles events, losing in the finals of the French Open in 1982 and Wimbledon in 1983. Her lone Grand Slam crown came in the mixed doubles at Roland Garros in 1981.

June 6: In the conversation for the greatest male player ever, Sweden's Bjorn Borg turns 56. Borg won the French Open a record six times and took the title at WImbledon five times in a row.  In 1979, he became the first player to earn more than $1 million in prize money in a season and tallied 64 official ATP titles in his career. Despite a failed comeback in 1991, he was voted the greatest athlete in Sweden's history in 1999.

June 7: One half of the legendary Indian doubles team, Mahesh Bhuapthi turns 38. Bhupathi has four Grand Slam doubles titles and seven Grand Slam mixed doubles crowns. He has 50 career doubles titles, and in 1999, he and Leander Paes combined to reach the finals of all four men's doubles Grand Slams, the only time this has been accomplished in the Open Era.

June 7: Arguably the most recognizable body, if not game, in women's tennis, former pro Anna Kournikova turns 31.  She reached No. 8 in singles in 2000 despite never winning a WTA title.  She did win 16 doubles titles, including the 1999 Australian Open, and was ranked No. 1 in doubles for a time. She is more famous for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition as well as Maxim magazine, and her longtime relationship with pop singer Enrique Iglesias.

June 8: Former world No. 3 Nadia Petrova turns 30. Currently ranked No. 29 in the world, Petrova is a two-time French Open semifinalist  and played in the women's doubles final at the US Open in 2010.

June 8: Multi-Grand Slam winner Kim Clijsters of Belgium turns 29. Due to retire at the end of 2012, Clijsters has been ranked No. 1 in both singles and doubles in her impressive career, and brought home four singles Grand Slam titles - three at the US Open. After returning from an early retirement, she became the first mother to win a Grand Slam title in 30 years when she took the crown at the 2009 US Open.

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