Former world number one professional tennis player Ivan Lendl, a holder of eight Grand Slam singles titles, is considered one of the most outstanding tennis players of all times. He played 19 Grand Slam singles finals, which was later surpassed by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in 2009 and 2014 respectively. During the 1980s, he was counted among the most dominant players in tennis and in the early 1990s he remained one of the top notch competitors of the game. On February 28, 1983, he achieved the world’s numero uno position in tennis and the following year he reinforced his position by beating John McEnroe in the 1984 ‘French Open’ final. He was in the top spot for 270 weeks encompassing four years from 1985 to 1987 and then in 1989. By birth he is a Czechoslovakian who later took up US citizenship. He shares a record with Pete Sampras of competing in at least one Grand Slam final consecutively for a period of eleven years. Prior to establishment of ‘Association of Tennis Professionals’ (‘ATP’) he attained a record 12 year-end championships which was equalled by another ace player John McEnroe. He bagged five ‘Masters Grand Prix’ titles, two ‘WCT Finals’ titles and set a record of winning 22 ‘Grand Prix Super Series’ titles. He won over 1000 singles matches - a record shared by Jimmy Connors and Roger Federer and won 94 singles titles. He was included in the ‘International Tennis Hall of Fame’ in 2001. He became coach of Andy Murray in 2012.