Pro Tennis Players’ Houses — Roddick, Evert, McEnroe, Agassi, Graf, Wilander, Nagelsen McCormack, Seles

Date:September 4, 2008 | Author:Diane Tuman | Category:Celebrity Real Estate

If you’re a tennis fan, you relish the thwack-thwack sound of the ball as it is pulverized across the net as one of tennis’ Grand Slams, the U.S. Open, plays its final rounds this weekend. As a salute to some of tennis’ greatest stars, we’d like to serve up (pun intended) a few homes you might enjoy.

Andy Roddick’s house
4104 Shimmering Cove, Austin, TX 78731
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Tennis beefcake Andy Roddick, who was born in Nebraska, but lived in Austin, TX, up to age 11, has a few homes to his name, including this one in a gated community of Austin. He purchased this 5,558 sq ft home in November of 2003 for $1,463,000. Perhaps he plans to split his time here with his fiance, Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Brooklyn Decker. [Sources: Big Time Listings, Real Estalker, ARS LLC Company]

Chris Evert’s house
8563 Horseshoe Ln, Boca Raton, FL
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Retired tennis star Chris Evert, always the princess of the court, has had a tabloid year after divorcing her dashing downhill skier husband Andy Mill in 2006 and this year marrying golf great Greg Norman amid headlines of “he stole my wife!” Evert and Mill bought this home together in 2003 for $2.8 million. [Sources: TopSynergy.com, bnet.com]

Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf’s house
110 Gilmartin Dr, Tiburon, CA
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Tennis’ supreme power couple, Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf lost money on their Tiburon estate when they bought it in 2001 for $23 million and then sold it in 2006 for $20 million to California hedge fund investor Stuart Peterson. Valleywag dubs it the “House YouTube Bought”.

Steffi Graf’s house
81 N Hibiscus Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33130
For sale: $3,050,000
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Just before marrying Andre, Steffi Graf purchased this 3,010 sq ft Mediterranean-style home on Hibiscus Island, a small, gated community of exclusive homes on Biscayne Bay. [Source: Big Time Listings]

John McEnroe’s house
296 Tennis Court Rd, Oyster Bay, NY
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What a perfect address for tennis great John McEnroe, a four-time U.S. Open singles champion (1979, ’80, ’81, ’84). According to Newsday’s blog Real LI, McEnroe lived there with his ex-wife, Tatum O’Neal. Evidently, McEnroe’s parents once owned the property and John and Tatum lived in the renovated carriage house for awhile. This sprawling, 20,000-square-foot “palatial Beverly Hills compound” includes four bedrooms in the main house (including a spa, a gym and a wine room), a pool house, a guest house, a carriage house with a ballroom, and a garage with apartment space. McEnroe sold the property in December of 2007 to record producer Ric Wake for an undisclosed amount (it was listed for $6.5 million).

Mats Wilander’s house
18 Richmond Hill Rd, Greenwich, CT 06831
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According to public records, Wilander bought this home in 1987 for $800,000 and then sold it in 2000 for $2.3 million. [Source: Big Time Listings]

Betsy Nagelsen McCormack’s house
9600 McCormick Pl, Windermere, FL 34786
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Retired tennis player Betsy Nagelsen McCormack sold this gorgeous 16,000+ sq ft home, located in the exclusive Isleworth community, in July, 2007 for nearly $13 million. This came after the untimely 2003 death of her husband, Mark McCormack, who was founder and chairman of International Management Group (IMG), a powerful management company for sports pros and celebrities such as Tiger Woods, Derek Jeter, Elizabeth Hurley, and Itzhak Perlman. The home was purchased by NBA star Grant Hill. [Source: Big Time Listings]