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Stan Wawrinka
Stan Wawrinka, known as Stan the Man, is a Swiss tennis player who won the 2014 Australian Open, 2015 French Open, and 2016 US Open.
Stefan Edberg
Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player (born 1966, Vastervik), six-time Grand Slam singles champion (Australian 1985/87, Wimbledon 1988/90, US Open 1991/92), world No. 1 in singles and doubles, famed serve-and-volleyer, later coached Roger Federer.
Stefanos Tsitsipas (Στέφανος Τσιτσιπάς)
Stefanos Tsitsipas (Στέφανος Τσιτσιπάς), Greek tennis player born 1998, former world No. 3, 2019 ATP Finals champion, three-time Monte-Carlo Masters winner with 13 titles; known for forehand-led attack and a vulnerable one-handed backhand.
Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf (Stefanie Graf) is a German former tennis player, born 1969, who won 22 Grand Slam singles titles and a record 377 weeks at world No. 1.
Stephen Ames
Stephen Ames (born 1964, San Fernando, Trinidad) is a Canadian professional golfer, four-time PGA Tour winner including the 2006 Players Championship, and nine-time PGA Tour Champions winner.
Steve Johnson (tennis)
Steve Johnson (born 1989, Orange, CA), nicknamed Stevie, American tennis player; four straight NCAA team titles and 2011-12 NCAA singles titles at USC with a 72-match win streak; ATP career-high No. 21, four ATP 250 titles, 2016 Rio doubles bronze with Sock; retired 2024 at 197-204.
Steve Stricker
Steve Stricker, American golfer born 1967 in Edgerton, Wisconsin, 12-time PGA Tour winner and 18-time PGA Tour Champions winner with seven senior majors; 2021 U.S. Ryder Cup captain winning 19-9 at Whistling Straits.
Stewart Cink
Stewart Cink, American golfer (born 1973), 2009 Open champion at Turnberry, beating Tom Watson in a playoff; eight PGA Tour wins, five Ryder Cups; on PGA Tour Champions he won the 2025 Charles Schwab Cup and five 2026 titles including the Senior PGA.
Stimpmeter
Stimpmeter: USGA device, based on Edward Stimpson's 1930s design, that measures putting green speed as the average distance in feet a ball rolls after release; 8 slow, 12 fast.
Strike (bowling)
Strike (bowling): knocking down all ten pins on the first delivery of a tenpin frame, marked X. Scores 10 plus the next two balls; twelve straight strikes give a perfect 300. Ideal delivery hits the headpin about 6.5 cm off-center at a 4–6° entry angle.
Stroke play
Stroke play, also called medal play, is golf's total-stroke scoring format: every shot over one or more rounds counts, the lowest total wins, and holing out on every hole is required in the individual form.
Sudirman Cup
Sudirman Cup, the BWF World Mixed Team Championships, biennial badminton national-team event since 1989 named after Dick Sudirman; five-discipline ties, 16-team finals, China leads with 13 titles.
Sue Barker
Sue Barker (Susan Barker, born 1956, Paignton, Devon) is an English TV presenter and former tennis player, 1976 French Open champion and former world No. 3, who presented BBC Wimbledon coverage from 1993 to 2022 and hosted A Question of Sport.
Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj
Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj (Suhas LY), Indian IAS officer (2007 batch, UP cadre) and SL4 para-badminton player; Paralympic silver at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, first IAS officer to win a Paralympic medal, Arjuna Award 2021.
Sumit Nagal
Sumit Nagal, Indian professional tennis player (born 1997, Jhajjar district, Haryana). 2015 Wimbledon boys' doubles champion with Ly Hoang Nam; career-high ATP No. 68 in July 2024; beat seeded Bublik at 2024 Australian Open; Davis Cup since 2018.
Sun Xinran
Sun Xinran (孙心然), born 2010 in Shenzhen, is a Chinese tennis player, 2026 US Open girls' singles champion, junior world No. 1, and WTA-ranked 418 after her 2026 China Open debut.
Sun Yingsha
Sun Yingsha (孙颖莎), born 2000 in Shijiazhuang, is a Chinese table tennis player, world no. 1, with 3 Olympic golds and 2 silvers (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024) and three consecutive Women's World Cup titles.
Suzanne Lenglen
Suzanne Lenglen (La Divine), 1899–1938, French tennis champion; six Wimbledon and six French singles titles, 341–7 record, beat Helen Wills in the 1926 Match of the Century, and became tennis's first professional woman player.
Svetlana Kuznetsova (Светлана Александровна Кузнецова)
Svetlana Kuznetsova (Светлана Александровна Кузнецова), Russian tennis player born 1985 in St. Petersburg; two-time Grand Slam champion (2004 US Open, 2009 Roland Garros), career-high No. 2, 18 singles titles.
Table tennis
Table tennis (ping pong): racket sport from 1880s England, governed by the ITTF (founded 1926, Berlin), Olympic since Seoul 1988, 40 mm ball, 11-point games, dominated by China, Para debut Rome 1960.
Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Table tennis at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics: five events, 24 July–6 August 2021, Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium; mixed doubles debuted, won by Japan's Mizutani/Ito over China 4–3; China took four golds.
Table tennis at the 2026 Asian Games
Table tennis at the 2026 Asian Games (Aichi-Nagoya), held 20-28 September 2026 at SKY HALL TOYOTA, Toyota City. China won five golds; Japan took men's team gold, Lin Shidong and Wang Manyu the singles.
Table tennis at the Asian Games
Table tennis has been an Asian Games sport since the third edition in 1958, absent only in 1970, with China the leading nation from 1974 through 2014.
Table tennis at the Commonwealth Games
Table tennis has featured at the Commonwealth Games since Manchester 2002, becoming a compulsory core sport in 2022, with India its leading nation, before being dropped for Glasgow 2026.
Table tennis racket
Table tennis racket: the ITTF-regulated bat of a wooden blade plus rubber coverings; pimpled rubber max 2.0 mm, sandwich rubber max 4.0 mm, blade 85% wood, LARC-authorised rubbers.
Table Tennis World Cup
Table Tennis World Cup (ITTF Men's & Women's World Cup): annual ITTF singles world titles, first held Hong Kong 1980 (men) and 1996 (women); 48-player draws in Macao since 2024; Evans and Hammarlund Cups; Calderano first non-Asian/European winner, 2025.
Tai Tzu-ying (戴资颖)
Tai Tzu-ying (戴资颖; 戴資穎), born 1994 in Kaohsiung, is a retired Taiwanese badminton player: Tokyo 2020 Olympic silver medalist, 2018 Asian Games champion, and world No. 1 for a record 214 weeks; she retired in November 2025.
Tam O'Shaughnessy
Tam O'Shaughnessy, educator, author, and former pro tennis player (1971-1974, U.S. Open and Wimbledon), cofounder and executive director of Sally Ride Science, and Sally Ride's partner of 27 years, disclosed in Ride's 2012 obituary.
Tanvi Sharma
Tanvi Sharma, Indian women's singles badminton player from Hoshiarpur, Punjab. World Junior Championships 2025 silver medalist, US Open 2025 finalist, and youngest-ever Taipei Open Super 300 champion (2026), trained under Park Tae-sang in Guwahati.
Taro Daniel
Taro Daniel (ダニエル太郎), Japanese tennis pro born 1993 in New York; career-high ATP No. 58 (2024), 2018 Istanbul clay title, and qualifier wins over Djokovic, Murray, and Ruud.