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Marcos Baghdatis
Marcos Baghdatis (Μάρκος Παγδατής), Cypriot tennis player, 2006 Australian Open finalist and Wimbledon semifinalist, career-high No. 8, four ATP titles, retired 2019, later coached Svitolina and Zheng Qinwen.
Mardy Fish
Mardy Fish (born 1981), American former tennis pro, career-high No. 7 in 2011, six ATP singles titles, 2004 Olympic singles silver medalist, retired 2015 US Open, later U.S. Davis Cup captain.
Margaret Abbott
Margaret Ives Abbott, American golfer, won the 1900 Paris Olympic women's golf event with 47 strokes, first American woman Olympic champion; she never knew it, receiving a porcelain bowl, rediscovered by historian Paula Welch.
Margaret Court
Margaret Court (née Smith), Australian tennis champion born 1942, holds the all-time records of 24 Grand Slam singles titles and 64 total majors, won the 1970 calendar Grand Slam, and later became a Pentecostal minister.
Margaret Morton
Margaret Morton (born 1968), Scottish curler from Mauchline, Ayrshire; alternate on Rhona Martin's British rink that won the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic women's curling gold, beating Switzerland 4-3; later Scottish senior and mixed champion and coach.
Maria Kirilenko (Мария Юрьевна Кириленко)
Maria Kirilenko (Мария Юрьевна Кириленко, born 1987, Moscow), Russian tennis player, career-high No. 10 singles and No. 5 doubles, 12 WTA doubles titles, 2012 Olympic doubles bronze with Petrova; distinct from basketball player Andrei Kirilenko.
Maria Sakkari (Μαρία Σάκκαρη)
Maria Sakkari (Μαρία Σάκκαρη) is a Greek professional tennis player who peaked at No. 3 in 2022, finished two straight years in the WTA top 10, and reached the 2026 Athens final.
Maria Sharapova (Мария Юрьевна Шарапова)
Maria Sharapova (Мария Юрьевна Шарапова), Russian tennis champion born 1987 in Nyagan; five Grand Slam titles, career Grand Slam, 2004 Wimbledon win at 17, 15-month meldonium ban, retired 2020, Hall of Fame 2025.
Marin Čilić
Marin Čilić, Croatian tennis player born 1988 in Medjugorje, 2014 US Open champion, runner-up at Wimbledon 2017 and Australian Open 2018, career-high No. 3 in January 2018, 21 ATP titles, Davis Cup winner 2018.
Mario Tennis
Mario Tennis: Camelot-developed arcade tennis series starring Mario characters, from Mario's Tennis (Virtual Boy, 1995) through Mario Tennis Aces (2018) to Mario Tennis Fever (2026), known for two-button shot control, Power Shots, and Zone Shot racket-breakage mechanics.
Mario Tennis Aces
Mario Tennis Aces (Mario Tennis Aces) is a 2018 Camelot-developed Nintendo Switch arcade tennis game, the eighth Mario Tennis entry, known for Zone Shots, Zone Speed, Trick Shots, breakable rackets, and Adventure Mode; Metascore 75.
Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli, French tennis player, 2013 Wimbledon singles champion and former world No. 7, known for her rare two-handed forehand and backhand; retired 2013, later coach of Jelena Ostapenko and broadcaster.
Mark Knowles
Mark Knowles, born 1971 in Nassau, Bahamas, is a former ATP doubles world No. 1 who won 55 doubles titles, three men's doubles Grand Slams with Daniel Nestor, and the 2009 Wimbledon mixed doubles, later coaching Jessica Pegula.
Mark Nichols
Mark Nichols (born 1980, Labrador City) is a Canadian curler, longtime third for Brad Gushue; Olympic gold 2006 and bronze 2022 in men's curling, four Brier titles, 2017 world champion, joined Team Dunstone in 2026.
Mark O'Meara
Mark Francis O'Meara, American golfer, 16 PGA Tour wins; won the 1998 Masters and 1998 Open at Royal Birkdale at 41, the oldest to take two majors in one year; World Golf Hall of Fame 2015.
Mark Philippoussis
Mark Philippoussis, "The Scud", Australian tennis player born 1976 in Melbourne; world No. 8, 11 ATP titles, 1998 US Open and 2003 Wimbledon finalist, two-time Davis Cup champion (1999, 2003), three-time Olympian.
Mark Woodforde
Mark Woodforde (born 1965, Adelaide) is an Australian left-handed tennis player, half of "The Woodies" with Todd Woodbridge; 11 Grand Slam doubles titles together, six Wimbledons, Olympic gold 1996 and silver 2000, later coach and ITF Davis Cup Committee chair.
Markéta Vondroušová
Markéta Vondroušová, Czech left-handed tennis player born 1999; 2023 Wimbledon champion as the first unseeded women's winner of the Open Era, 2019 French Open finalist, Tokyo 2020 Olympic silver medalist, later given a four-year ITIA doping suspension.
Marta Kostyuk (Марта Олегівна Костюк)
Marta Kostyuk (Марта Костюк), Ukrainian tennis player born 2002 in Kyiv; 2017 Australian Open junior champion, WTA titles at Austin, Rouen, and Madrid 2026, Grand Slam semifinalist at Roland Garros and Wimbledon 2026, career-high No. 10.
Martin Borgmeier
Martin Borgmeier (born 1991, Paderborn, Germany) is a German long drive professional, 2022 World Long Drive Champion who beat Bryson DeChambeau with a 426-yard final drive, 2018 European champion, with a 239.3 mph ball speed record.
Martin Kaymer
Martin Kaymer, German golfer, two-time major champion (2010 PGA Championship, 2014 U.S. Open), former world No. 1, holed the 2012 Ryder Cup-winning putt at Medinah; now captains LIV Golf's Cleeks GC.
Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis, the "Swiss Miss", Swiss tennis champion; youngest Grand Slam winner (1997 Australian Open, 16y 3m 26d) and youngest World No.1; 25 majors: 5 singles, 13 doubles, 7 mixed.
Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilova (born 1956, Prague), Czech-American tennis legend; defected 1975; record 167 singles and 177 doubles titles, 18 singles majors, 9 Wimbledon, 332 weeks No. 1, 86-1 in 1983.
Márton Fucsovics
Márton Fucsovics (Hungarian tennis player), 2010 Wimbledon boys' champion and former junior world No. 1; career-high ATP No. 31 (2019), three ATP titles (Geneva 2018, Bucharest 2024, Winston-Salem 2025), first Hungarian Open Era hard-court tour champion.
Mary Carillo
Mary Carillo (born 1957) is an American sportscaster and former WTA player, 1977 French Open mixed doubles champion with John McEnroe, first woman to regularly commentate tennis on TV, and a 17-time NBC/CBS Olympics broadcaster with six Emmys and three Peabodys.
Mary Joe Fernández
Mary Joe Fernández (Maria José Fernández, born 1971) is an American former tennis player, world No. 4 in singles and doubles, three-time Grand Slam singles finalist, two-time Olympic doubles gold medalist, and later U.S. Fed Cup captain and ESPN analyst.
Mary Pierce
Mary Pierce, French tennis player born in Montreal, 1995 Australian Open and 2000 Roland Garros champion, world No. 3, 18 WTA titles, International Tennis Hall of Fame 2019.
Mary Stoiana
Mary Stoiana (born 2003) is an American tennis player from Southbury, Connecticut; Texas A&M NCAA champion, SEC Player of the Year 2023-2024, career-high WTA singles No. 114 in 2026.
Mason Phelps
Mason Elliott Phelps (1885-1945), American amateur golfer from Chicago, 1904 Olympic gold medalist with the Western Golf Association team, =5 individually, Western Amateur champion 1908 and 1910, later president of Pheoll Manufacturing Co.; distinct from equestrian Mason Phelps, Jr.
Masters Tournament
Masters Tournament: annual men's major golf championship, first played 1934 as Augusta National Invitation Tournament, held each April at Augusta National Golf Club, Georgia. Invitation-only, same course yearly, green jacket, Nicklaus six titles, record 268 (Dustin Johnson 2020).