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Greg Rusedski
Montreal-born, Rusedski switched to British colours in 1995 and within two years rode a serve built for grass to a hard court final. Unseeded at the 1997 US Open, he beat defending Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek and outlasted Jonas Bjorkman in a five-set semifinal, the first British man in a Grand Slam final since Bunny Austin in 1938. Patrick Rafter beat him in four sets. The following March, at Indian Wells, he fired a serve clocked at 149 mph, a record that stood six years until Andy Roddick passed it.
That run carried him to a career-high No. 4 before the year was out, a rank he touched again in 1998. In January 2004, aged 30, he tested positive for nandrolone; a tribunal cleared him that March after evidence emerged that ATP trainers had handed out contaminated supplements. He played on for three more years and retired in April 2007 in a Davis Cup tie in Birmingham, closing out 15 career titles built on one of the biggest serves the tour had seen.