| PENGSHUAI | The first Chinese tennis player to rise to world No. 1 in singles or doubles. (4,5) |
| LINA | First Chinese tennis player to win Grand Slam singles title (2, 2) |
| SABALENKA | Aryna _, Belarusian tennis player and the current world No. 1 in singles (9) |
| ROGERFEDERER | Tennis player ranked world No 1 in singles for a record 237 consecutive weeks |
| TENNIS | Table -; game for singles or doubles, also called whiff-whaff and Ping-Pong (6) |
| BASEHITS | Singles or doubles |
| HITS | Singles or doubles at Fenway |
| SCHEFELER | Who has been ranked world No. 1 in the official golf rankings for more than 100 weeks? He also recently won the prestigious Hero World Challenge held in December 2024. (9) |
| SCHEFFLER | World No. 1 in golf, Scottie ... (9) |
| SUEBARKER | Only British tennis champion in singles at Roland Garros during the open era |
| OVERSLEEP | Fail to rise to the occasion when one should? |
| DOCTORWHO | TV character to offer health to World Health Organisation (6,3) |
| SUNSHADES | First Chinese president's hell might be parasols (9) |
| LLEYTONHEWITT | Australian tennis player who, at 20, was the youngest man to be ranked #1 in singles: 2 wds. |
| BACHELORS | Composer plays roles in singles (9) |
| ALFIE | English wheelchair tennis player; the current world No. 1 in both singles and doubles, _ Hewett (5) |
| DREAMLAND | Newly armed, come down to world of fantasy (9) |
| OSAKA | First Asian tennis player to be ranked #1 in singles |
| GAO | Novelist ___ Xingjian, the first Chinese to receive the Nobel Prize in literature |
| NADAL | Known as the "King of Clay", the world no. 1 in men's singles tennis (5) |
