Tennis: 5 great players who never won Wimbledon

#4 Ivan Lendl

Ivan Lendl

Czech-American Ivan Lendl in one of a select group of legends who have enjoyed considerable success as a professional player and a coach. Lendl's hard-hitting forehand topped with heavy topspin greatly influenced the popularity of heavy power-hitting from the baseline which has become the norm today.

Lendl is the only male tennis athlete to have aggregated a win percentage of 90% or above for 5 different years. He won 94 Singles Titles including 8 Grand Slam titles. He was coach of Andy Murray when Murray ascended to the top of the ATP rankings. Lendl is presently coach of Alexander Zverev.

Lendl, who won all 3 Grand Slams multiple times barring Wimbledon, will count himself to be extremely unlucky to have not completed a Career Slam. Twice, he finished as a runner-up at Wimbledon in 1986 and 1987 losing to Boris Becker and Pat Cash in the finals.

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#3 Justine Henin

Justine Henin

Although Justine Henin's record at Wimbledon is far from being considered bad - she won 27 of the 34 singles matches she played at the All England Club - it is the Grand Slam at which she had the worst winning percentage.

Justine Henin had arguably the best single-handed backhand that the women's game has ever seen. A dominant clay court player, Henin won 4 French Open titles, Australian Open once, and the US Open twice in addition to 2 victories in the WTA Finals and an Olympic Gold Medal.

Henin came agonizingly close to winning Wimbledon in 2001 and 2006 losing in the finals in 3 sets on each occasion to Venus Willams and Amelie Mauresmo respectively. She also made the semi-finals at Wimbledon on 3 different occasions.