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<\/p>\n ATP Tour
\n Federer, Del Potro among 2026 nominees for International Tennis Hall of Fame<\/p>\n
Former WTA star Kuznetsova also nominated in Player Category<\/p>\n
October 01, 2025<\/p>\n
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Peter Staples\/ATP Tour<\/p>\n
Roger Federer, pictured here at the 2018 Nitto ATP Finals, won 103 tour-level singles titles.
\n By International Tennis Hall of Fame Staff<\/p>\n
The former No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings Roger Federer<\/a> headlines the International Tennis Hall of Fame\u2019s Class of 2026 nominees, joined by 2009 US Open<\/a> champion Juan Martin<\/a> del Potro and four-time major champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in the ballot\u2019s Player Category. <\/p>\n The Player Category recognizes ATP and WTA players who have achieved a distinguished record of competitive achievement at the highest international level: <\/p>\n Federer is one of only eight men in tennis history to achieve a Career Grand Slam in singles. He captured his first major title at age 21 at Wimbledon<\/a> in 2003, going on to become the first male player in tennis history to win 20 major singles titles. Federer then ascended to World No. 1 for a record 237 consecutive weeks, ultimately holding that spot for 310 total weeks through his career. <\/p>\n He finished his career with 103 singles titles, second most in the Open Era, and was voted to receive the ATP\u2019s Stefan Edberg<\/a> Sportsmanship Award 13 times. Additionally, Federer was the ATP Fan Favorite for a record 19 consecutive years, from 2003 to 2021. <\/p>\n Representing Switzerland, Federer led his country to the Davis Cup title in 2014 and captured Olympic gold in doubles alongside Stan Wawrinka<\/a> at the 2008 Beijing Games. As part of Team Europe, Federer captured three-straight Laver Cup<\/a> titles from 2017 through 2019. <\/p>\n You May Also Like: Federer On No. 1: ‘I Decided I Would Like To Stay There’<\/a><\/p>\n Del Potro of Argentina is the 2009 US Open<\/a> men\u2019s singles champion, one of 22 titles captured over the course of his career. In 2008, while still a teenager, del Potro earned four ATP singles titles, along the way compiling a 23-match winning streak.<\/p>\n In 2009, del Potro reached his first Grand Slam final, and secured a five-set victory against Federer at the US Open<\/a>. He finished the year as the youngest player in the Top 10. In 2016, del Potro led Argentina to its first Davis Cup title and also earned a silver medal in the Olympic singles competition. <\/p>\n Kuznetsova is a four-time major champion, with two apiece in singles and doubles. She won singles titles at the 2004 US Open<\/a> and 2009 Roland Garros<\/a>, and doubles titles at the Australian Open<\/a> in 2005 and 2012. She reached an additional two major finals in both disciplines. During her 15-year career, she won 18 WTA singles titles and 16 in doubles and reached career high rankings of No. 2 in singles and No. 3 in doubles. <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATP Tour Federer, Del Potro among 2026 nominees for International Tennis Hall of Fame Former WTA star Kuznetsova…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-182494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"It](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759321211_766_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/)
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