Ferrero and Bruguera, aspiring to enter the Hall of Fame

The International Tennis Hall or Fame announced on Monday the list of candidates to enter the Tennis Hall of Fame in 2021 and in the category of players are the Spanish Juan Carlos Ferrero and Sergi Bruguera, along with Australian Lleyton Hewitt, American Lisa Raymond and Swedish Jonas Bjorkman.

Ferrero was number one in the world in 2003, the year in which he was proclaimed champion at Roland Garros. While Bruguera won the Parisian Grand Slam twice in a row (1993 and 1994) and was third in the ATP ranking. They will compete for votes with Hewitt, winner at Wimbledon and the US Open and also number one, Raymond, who reaped 11 Grand Slams in doubles, and Bjorkman, who treasured 11 titles in pairs in majors and was leader in the ranking of that discipline. In 2020, Conchita Martínez and Goran Ivanisevic were chosen to become new members of the Hall of Fame, although due to the coronavirus pandemic, his admission ceremony was postponed.

In addition, the ITHF nominated for the Taxpayers category, which recognizes people who have had a significant impact on the sport of racket, to the Original Nine (The Original 9), a group made up of Americans Peaches Bartkowicz, Rosie Casals, Julie Heldman, Billie Jean King, Kristy Pigeon, Nancy Richey and Valerie Ziegenfuss, and Australians Judy Tegart Dalton and Kerry Melville Reid, who fought for equal prizes and opportunities to play between men and women with the signing of one dollar contracts to form a women's tournament.

Your rival for induction in the Hall of Fame It will be Dennis van der Meer, legendary coach, called professor of teachers, who recognized the need and developed a universal method of teaching for the growth of tennis. Voting will be carried out among specialized journalists, historians and members of the Hall of Fame and their elections will be added those of the fans