| DIMITROV | Grigor, Bulgarian tennis player who defeated Andy Murray at the 2023 U.S. Open (8) |
| GAUFF | Coco, tennis player who won her first Grand Slam singles title at the 2023 U.S. Open (5) |
| ROBERTO | ____ Bautista Agut, tennis player who beat Andy Murray at the 2023 Australian Open (7) |
| GRIGORDIMITROV | The only male Bulgarian tennis player to have been ranked in the ATP singles top ten |
| MARTINDELPOTRO | Juan ---, Argentinian beaten to gold by Andy Murray at the 2016 Olympics |
| MARTINEZ | Spanish tennis player who defeated Martina Navaratilova for the Wimbledon title in 1994, Conchita .. |
| BACKHAND | What's common between the playing styles of Roger Federer, Grigor Dimitrov, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Richard Gasquet? (8) |
| BULGARIA | Tennis player Grigor Dimitrov is from here (8) |
| ALLISEN | ... Corpuz, winner of the 2023 U.S. Women's Open at Pebble Beach. (7) |
| MICHELLE | ____ Yeoh, Malaysian actress who won the Best Actress award at the 2023 Oscars (8) |
| LOSER | Daniil Medvedev vis-a-vis Novak Djokovic in the 2023 U.S. Open final, e.g. |
| COCOGAUFF | Teenage winner of the 2023 U.S. Open |
| TIAFOE | Frances, U.S. tennis player who defeated Rafa Nadal in the 2022 U.S. Open (6) |
| GLORILLA | F.N.F (Let's Go) rapper and first-time nominee at the 2023 Grammy Awards |
| OSAKA | Tennis player who defeated Jennifer Brady to win the Women's singles title at the 2021 Australian Open (5,5) |
| MARAINEY | Late blues singer given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2023 Grammys (2,6) |
| BOULTER | Katie, English tennis player who defeated the No 6 women's seed at Wimbledon in 2022 (7) |
| SHAPOVALOV | Denis, Israeli-born Canadian tennis player who knocked out Andy Murray at Wimbledon in 2021 (10) |
| EDBERG | Stefan -; tennis player who defeated Boris Becker to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon in 1988 and again in 1990 (6) |
| BARTY | Ashleigh, Australian tennis player who defeated Karolina Pliskova in the 2021 Wimbledon women's singles final (5) |
