Five all-time hottest women players in tennis

New Delhi: The four Grand Slam tournaments over the decades have produced legends, both in men as well as in women categories.Some of these legends have become icons in their lifetime itself. The connoisseurs of tennis have not only enjoyed the beauty of these star but also witnessed some of the all time hottest women players.Maria Yuryevna Sharapova born April 19, 1987, is a Russian professional tennis player who made her professional breakthrough in 2004 at the age of 17, when she defeated two-time defending champion and top seed Serena Williams in the 2004 Wimbledon final for her first Grand Slam singles title. Sharapova became the world no. 1 for the first time on August 22, 2005. She has been in eight Grand Slam finals with a record of 4–4.Sharapova has been featured in a number of modeling assignments and featured in many advertisements, including for Nike, Prince, and Canon.Sania Mirza, born 15 November 1986, in Bombay is a professional Indian tennis player, well known for her powerful forehand ground strokes. She holds the record for being the highest ranked player from India for over a decade.Mirza is the highest ranked female tennis player ever from India, with a career high ranking of 27 in singles and 7 in doubles. She is the first Indian female player to surpass US$1m in career earnings; first Indian to win a WTA Toor title of any kind; and, by winning the 2009 Australian Open – Mixed Doubles Event, became the third Indian, male or female, to win a Grand Slam title.Mirza has also won the 2012 French Open – Mixed Doubles Event (her second Grand Slam title).In March 2010, The Economic Times named Mirza in the list of the "33 women who made India proud"Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini ,born 16 May 1970 in Buenos Aires, (Argentina), is a former professional Argentine tennis player. She was one of the leading players on the women's circuit in the late-1980s and early-1990s. She won the women's singles title at the US Open in 1990, the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1988, two Year-End Championships in 1988 and 1994, and a silver medal at the 1988 Olympic Games.Sabatini also won most of the highest level regular events on the women's tour, including Miami and Rome (four times), and she scored a total 10 wins over every reigning number one player she faced during her career.Stefanie Maria "Steffi" Graf (born 14 June 1969) is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24.Her 22 singles titles mark the record for most Grand Slam wins by a tennis player (male or female) since the introduction of the Open Era in 1968.In 1988, she became the first and only tennis player (male or female) to achieve the Calendar Year Golden Slam by winning all four Grand Slam singles titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same calendar year.Graf is regarded by some to be the greatest female tennis player of all time. Graf retired in 1999 while she was ranked World No. 3. She married former World No. 1 men's tennis player Andre Agassi in October 2001. Graf was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame in 2004.Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American professional tennis player who is currently ranked No. 1 in women's singles tennis.She became the World No. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002, and regained this ranking for the sixth time on February 18, 2013, becoming the oldest world no. 1 player in WTA's history.She is the only female player to have won over $40 million in prize money. Williams is the reigning French Open, US Open, WTA Tour Championships and Olympic ladies singles champion.Williams has won four Olympic gold medals, one in women's singles and three in women's doubles, an all-time record shared with her sister Venus.