Taylor Dent

Taylor Dent is one of those players I root for in hindsight. A Californian who topped out at World No. 21 with four titles, he played a defiantly old-fashioned serve-and-volley game in an era that had already migrated to the baseline. That alone makes him interesting to me, a throwback chasing the net while everyone else dug in. What I admire more is the persistence: brutal back injuries kept threatening to end him, and he kept coming back. The numbers read as a solid career, but the texture underneath, stubbornness and style over conformity, is what makes him worth remembering.

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Name (English)

Taylor Dent

Name (Japanese)

テーラー・デント

Reading

てーらー・でんと

Born

April 24, 1981 (age 45)

Origin

Newport Beach, California, United States

Height

188 cm

Occupation

tennis player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rooster

High school

Corona del Mar High School

University

University of Southern California

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor%20Dent
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88
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Tags

• California
• tennis player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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