Wyman, aka Gagy4Gaby, has compiled his list of the Top 10 tennis hotties -- 5 men, 5 women. It's a fun read and we would love for you to post your faves on this thread or rip Wyman for his taste.

I agree with most of Outsports picks for Top 10 Tennis Hotties...

BUT...

I will say this... the picture of #3 Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia is HORRIBLE! haha He is MUCH HOTTER than that picture shows. The picture is roughly 3 years old.

Much better pictures can be found on his website...

Janko Tipsarevic

Enjoy!

And "Tipsy" finished the year ranked #52. Cheer him on in 2008!

BHAMACE

Pete Sampras and Roger Federer trying on their new tennis outfits in Korea

I hope you didn't take too much time on it, Gaby...it was a much more interesting year in tennis than this little spoof demonstrates and your insight is always much appreciated and on target. But we all need our cotton candy, I guess, even us tennis diehards. Will we get an end of the year round up from you???

None of the ones on that site are much better. He's not my idea of hot so pick one and post the link.

Fine observations, as always, Wyman!!

How funny is it that I first heard about this story from a different message board? If anyone wants to see the discussion from a mainstream tennis site with an obviously "mixed" crowd, pop on over to Talk About Tennis.

My top ten is alarmingly similar, aside from the stunning absence of Marat Safin.

Jim, for a better look at Janko try here, here, or here. Or even here.

Man, is Janko hot!! I wanna live in my own delusion and believe no guy with that many piercings and tattoos can be totally straight

Thanks, Curt, I used one. He just isn't that hot.

Sorry Jim, you're wrong. Anyone who has watched Janko play has fallen for him. Tune into the Australian Open, he's bound to get a high seed in the first couple of rounds (most of his losses this year were to Top 20 players) and some TV time, then you'll understand.

I say Blake and Ginepri should be up for immediate induction into the tennis hottie HOF. I mean COME ON! The best things to come out of American tennis (hottie wise) probably ever (interestingly, each has a foreign parent). Safin is a likely HOFer as well.

I'm not as sold on Ivanovic as everyone else. Something's a little off about her. Chakvetadze is much cuter, to me. I also would put Daniilidou above Golovin, but I tend to like 'em butch. Vaidisova - meh.

And I put Djokovic out of the Top 100. Nadal I'll give a free pass to because he's slowly growing into his formerly scary looks.

But honestly, as much as I love tennis, I'm really not that into pro tennis players. But Tipsarevic? Oh yes.

He's not your definition of hot,James.

I assumed the "I" was implied.

Thanks for the Oli Rochus love. He's a cutie.

The ATP lists his height at 5'5" but having seen him in person, he's really closer to 5'3".

I still prefer Andy in tennis. Andy is not afraid to show a little skin for his gay fans.

Fact: Any list of hot tennis players without James Blake strains the boundaries of belief.

I totally co-sign on that.

All in favor say: "I". It looks like James Blake, one of the finest guys and I am not going to mention that incredible ass, has been added to the list.

Agreement from the U.K.!

James Blake MUST be Number One! The man is "Sex on Tennis Legs!"

Also, in the knowledge that Pete Sampras is back again playing exhibition matches against Federer, couldn't we perhaps include him once more? That hairy chest and stomach were pure bliss!

Cheers!

Superman U.K.

My top 1o in a minute. First I love Pete Sampras. But since he started going bald, I sort of got looksist on him. BUT he seems to be regrowing his dome. Anyone know what he is using?
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1. Gabriela Sabatini
2. Amelie Mauresmo
3. Ana Ivanovic
4. Martina Navratilova
5. Gigi Fernandez
6. Smantha Stosur
7. Evonne Goolagong
8. Viginia Wade
9. Monica Seles
10. Chanda Rubin
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The other direction

Steffi Graf
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SD10S, This is a very interesting list for many reasons. No tanned blondes from Russia, and, as Mauresmo, Navratilova, Wade, Stosur and Fernandez are lesbians your balance is fair.


I am still just trying to wrap my head around Virginia Wade being described as "hot" but that is my problem and I am working on it.


G4G, will be creaming himself you put Sabatini at No.1

Great line, G4G, and a great top 10. I'm presuming that you left out Hall of Famers like James Blake and Marat Safin because putting those two in any tennis hottie list is almost redundant. I know about 99% of gay fans will vehemently disagree with me, but I just don't find James Blake to be sexy. Don't get me wrong -- he's beautiful, no doubt the prettiest player in the game right now, probably ever -- but he just doesn't spark that animal instinct in me. Sometimes there are guys who are incredibly handsome, but you don't particularly have dirty thoughts about them whereas some other guys who aren't all that, maybe even kinda ugly, can make you wild with lust. For me, James is one of the former, and Marat is very much the latter. Marat was never my type, and with that long, outta control hair, even less so. But after a couple of minutes of stalking watching the guy, my pulse rate and blood pressure double, amongst other physical reactions.

I never thought of Andy Roddick as good-looking. His eyes are just too close together, and they don't work with the nose. On the other hand, he probably has the most delicious body in the game (the just-right muscle definition, the golden tan, the blondish body fuzz), and he seems incapable of practicing with a shirt on. Thanks for pointing out Oli Rochus. Wow, what a little hottie! I'll definitely be on the lookout for him in 2008. Plus, you gotta give major props to any 5'3" player in the top 50. Rafa? eek!! Sorry, but to me, that's a face only a mother could love. Fantastic bod, though. Finally, the two Serbs. Are the ATP rankings factored into the hottie rankings? Because I would definitely put dirty-hot Tipsarevic over Djokovic. Novak does have a shameless exhibitionist streak, though, that you just gotta love.

In contributing to these lists of "hot" players, I have in the past, like others, nominated the usual suspects Haas, Robredo, Philipoussis, Ginepri et al but my list now is of other men,some already on lists, whom I saw in Australia early in the year, then later, in Europe in the summer. They are worth having a look at:

1.Janko Tipsarevic
2.Simone Bolelli
3.Frank Dancevic ) If only because thes two guys have
4.Stanislas Wawrinka ) the best 6-packs in the mens game
5.Marc Gicquel
6.David Ferrer
7.Andreas Seppi
8.Richard Gasquet
9.Thomas Berdych
10.Mariano Zabaleta


I am not sure how to do a mixed list so for the moment my Top 10 are men only.

I think I was attracted to Virginia Wade because she was a very intelligent, butchish Brit. And back when she played there weren't that many gay women playing....except Rosie Casals and BJK. But the way they talked sort of turned me off. They didn't sound literate. Call me a librarian.

Sorry "San Diego" but you are SO wrong!

Since Pete "The Man" Sampras has started losing his hair, he has become even more sexy and attractive!

He remains hirsute in every one of the right departments..................legs, chest, stomach..........nothing more is needed!

Long may he reign!

Superman U.K.

I so agree with Pete Sampras being included. His sweaty chest alone deserves the honor.

Is that Sampras?

must of been clipping a bit.

I love Janko Tipsarevic, though I don't really see him as "dirty hot". Despite the tattooes and piercings, he strikes me more as adorable-hot like Rochus. There aren't a lot of tennis players who are sexy in a rough-looking way--maybe Mikhail Youzhny, who has kind of military look to me? I recognize Djokovic and Roddick (and Blake) as being good looking but not in a way that really turns me on. And much as I love Rafa...not really.

I'd cosign on Tipsarevic and Rochus, but replace the other three with Nicolas Kiefer, Fernando Gonzalez and David Ferrer.

Hello everyone!

Sorry I was away when this article was first posted. I am back from a faboo vacation and was happy to read everyone's responses to the list. A few things:

1. Marat Safin and James Blake were both in the original hottie list from two years ago, which was really based quite heavily on looks alone. This year, I didn't want to repeat too many players. What's the point of doing a second list if it's going to be the same? So, although hotness was still an overriding factor in selecting players, it did seem to me that being a non-factor in the game was decidedly un-hot. And James and Marat didn't make much of an impression this year. Sharapova didn't make the list for the same reasons, although her year wasn't quite so bad as Blake's or Safin's. I didn't want the list to be so hum-drum predictable, as BoSoxRudy surmised. Remember the previous list's #1 was Feliciano Lopez. ha ha ha. Gotta keep you girls talking!

2. Being the writer of the article, obviously my opinion weighs quite heavily on who is chosen. However, I omitted Rafa from the last list and Jim immediately took me to task. Rafa is not my taste, but I have to admit that's a nice ass, so between Rafa's backside and his advocates in high places on this board ... he made the list. After all, Jim is co-founder of Outsports. Nadal had that factor on his side, let's face it, power is always hot.

3. Retired players are not considered for the list. Otherwise, Gabriela Sabatini would be number one for eternity. It's just not fair. Pete Sampras, not so much.

4. This year's list was about looks and also about leaving an impression on the game. I think Golovin is pretty, but she made the list so that I could write about her red panties. Bethany Mattek, eat your heart out.

5. As far as this article versus the real results in tennis from the year, yes, it's fluff. It's just something silly, rather than a serious year-end review. Gaby was chosen among People magazine's original group of the 50 most beautiful people in the world way back in 1991. I remember her being asked if it bothered her that people paid so much attention to her looks and she said, no, that it was a compliment and nice because it was something personal. Something outside of tennis. That's all this is. A compliment to the hotties and a little fun at the end of a long, hard year. So to speak.

6. I never understood the love for Tipsarevic until I practically bumped into him at the US Open this year. Oh my God, he's so hot you wouldn't believe it. No picture can do him justice.

G4G, that was a PERFECT response.

xxoo

Thanks, CJ! You're too kind.

Also thanks for the link to the other message board. I loved reading what people who don't "know" me had to say about the list.

Tipsy is the closest to how I would define my type if I had a type.

I pay him my highest compliment: He's delicious.

My hot list would include Tursunov and Youzhny. Tursunov is the closest to an ideal body, think Michaelangelo's David. Youzhny has a great rear end, buns of steel, the candidate for rough trade. Also appreciate grace on the court, which adds Berdych and even Federer--think dancers.

I think all the United States Davis Cup players are plenty handsome enough to be included in any list. U.S. team members, from left, captain Patrick McEnroe, Mike Bryan, Bob Bryan, James Blake and Andy Roddick hold their Davis Cup trophies following the team's win over the Russian team at the Davis Cup tennis finals, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007, in Portland, Ore.