| TSITSIPAS | Greek tennis player whose name is a tongue-twister. (9) |
| TOYBOAT | Plaything whose name is a tongue twister |
| ROKU | Digital media player whose name is the Japanese word for "six" |
| DODDIEWEIR | Former rugby union player whose name is given to the annual cup contest between Scotland and Wales (6,4) |
| TRANSLATES | Is a tongue twister (10) |
| IVANLENDL | Czech-born tennis player whose wins include three consecutive US Opens (4,5) |
| GRANDADDY | Old man, Greek tennis champ, holding supplement (9) |
| WOODCHUCK | Rodent in a tongue twister |
| YOGI | ---- Berra (b 1925), US baseball player whose name inspired a cartoon character (4) |
| ANAIVANOVIC | Retired Serbian tennis player whose first name is spelled the same forward and backward: 2 wds. |
| LACOSTE | Rene ---, tennis player whose clothing business uses a crocodile motif |
| AGASSI | Andre ___, former tennis player whose second wife is Steffi Graf |
| PAM | ___ Shriver former tennis player whose birthday is on Independence Day |
| FILS | Arthur ___, ATP Tour tennis player whose last name means "son" in French |
| STEFANOS | The highest-ranked Greek tennis player in history, _ Tsitsipas (8) |
| MARIA | Greek tennis player who won the 2019 Morocco Open, _ Sakkari (5) |
| MCENROE | Ex-tennis player whose autobiographies are entitled Serious and But Seriously (7) |
| NOVOTNA | Jana ---, tennis player whose 1998 Wimbledon win followed two previous final defeats |
| IANBOTHAM | Retired British cricket player whose nickname is Beefy (3,6) |
| DECLARERS | In bridge, the players whose bid determines the suit of the contract (9) |
