Player Nicknames

• "A-Rod" = Andy Roddick
• "Baron von Slam" = Boris Becker
• "The Barcelona Bumblebee" = Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
• "Le basque bondissant" (French for "The Leaping Basque") = Jean Borotra
• "Big Bill" = William Tilden, Jr.
• "Big Pancho" = Pancho Gonzales
• "Boom Boom" = Boris Becker
• "Butch" = Earl Buchholz
• "Can't-miss-Swiss" = Martina Hingis
• "Chino" (Spanish word for "Chinese") = Marcelo Ríos
• "The Crocodile" = René Lacoste
• "DelPo" = Juan Martin Del Potro
• "Djoker" = Novak Djokovic
• "Dominator" = Dominic Thiem
• "Dreddy" = Dustin Brown
• "El gato" = Miloslav Mecir
• "Fat Dave" = David Nalbandian
• "FedEx" = Roger Federer
• "The Four Musketeers" =
  • Jean Borotra
  • Jacques Brugnon
  • Henri Cochet
  • René Lacoste
• "Fräulein Forehand" = Steffi Graf
• "Gorgeous Gussie" = Gertrude Moran
• "Guga" = Gustavo Kuerten
• "Ivan the Terrible" = Ivan Lendl
• "Indian Express" = Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes (Doubles)
• "Handsome Eight" =
  • Pierre Barthes
  • Butch Buchholz
  • Cliff Drysdale
  • John Newcombe
  • Nikola Pilić
  • Dennis Ralston
  • Tony Roche
  • Roger Taylor
• "Ice Borg" or "Ice Man" = Björn Borg
• "Ice Maiden" = Chris Evert
• "Juju" = Justine Henin
• "The King of Clay" = Rafael Nadal
• "The Las Vegas Kid" = Andre Agassi
• "The Lithuanian Lion" = Vitas Gerulaitis
• "Little Bill" = William Johnston
• "Little Miss Poker Face" = Helen Wills Moody
• "Little Mo" = Maureen Connolly
• "Little Pancho" = Pancho Segura
• "Mosquito" = Juan Carlos Ferrero
• "Muhammad Ali of Tennis" = Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
• "Le Mozart Noir" (French for "The Black Mozart") = Yannick Noah
• "Muscles" = Ken Rosewall
• "Musterminator" = Thomas Muster
• "Muzza" = Andy Murray
• "Nasty" = Ilie Năstase
• "Nole" = Novak Djokovic
• "No1e" = Novak Djokovic
• "Original 9" =
  • Billie Jean King
  • Rosemary Casals
  • Nancy Richey
  • Peaches Bartkowicz
  • Kristy Pigeon
  • Valerie Ziegenfuss
  • Julie Heldman
  • Kerry Reid
  • Judy Tegart
• "Peanut" = Maureen Louie-Harper
• "Peachy" = Fern Kellmeyer
• "Pico" = Juan Mónaco
• "Pistol Pete" = Pete Sampras
• "Prime Time" = Grigor Dimitrov
• "The Punisher" = Andre Agassi
• "Rocket Man" = Andy Roddick
• "Rusty" = Lleyton Hewitt
• "Serbinator" = Novak Djokovic
• "Scud" = Mark Philippoussis
• "Sliderman" = Gaël Monfils
• "Smokin' Jo Willy" = Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
• "Special Kei" = Kei Nishikori
• "Spice Girls" =
  • Anna Kournikova
  • Martina Hingis
• "Stan the Man" = Stanislas Wawrinka
• "Stanimal" = Stanislas Wawrinka
• "Superbrat" = John McEnroe
• "The (Swiss) Maestro" = Roger Federer
• "The Magician" = Fabrice Santoro
• "Tabasco" = Fernando Verdasco
• "The Terminator" = Ivan Lendl
• "Tiger Tim" = Tim Henman
• "Ted" = Cuthbert Tinling
• "Timbo" = Tim Henman
• "Tin Man" = Tim Henman
• "Tomic the Tank Engine" = Bernard Tomic
• "Tsunami" = Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
• "The Woodies" = Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde
• "Uncle Toni" = Antonio Nadal (coach)
• "Wild Thing" = Nick Kyrgios
• "The Wizard" = Norman Brookes
• "X-man" = Xavier Malisse
• "The Bulldozer" = David Ferrer

Nicknames courtesy of WIKI