| 100% | NADAL | 5 | 11-time French Open winner who's nicknamed the "King of Clay" |
| 53% | CLAY | 4 | The King of ___ (nickname for Rafael Nadal, who won his thirteenth French Open in October, 2020) |
| 43% | LENDL | 5 | Back-to-back French Open winner of the 1980s |
| 43% | RODLAVER | 8 | Three-time Australian Open winner who wrote the memoir "The Education of a Tennis Player" (2 wds.) |
| 42% | DUSTINJOHNSON | 13 | 2016 U.S. Open winner who was the PGA Tour leading money winner of 2016 (2 wds.) |
| 41% | NADAL | 5 | Tennis star nicknamed "The King of Clay" |
| 41% | ASH | 3 | Nickname of 2019 French Open winner Barty |
| 41% | NADAL | 5 | 11-time French Open winner Rafael |
| 40% | LIZ | 3 | Nickname of Oscar winner Taylor who married eight times |
| 40% | RAFA | 4 | The King of Clay, familiarly |
| 39% | THIEM | 5 | Dominic ___, Austrian tennis player who was the winner of Men's singles at the 2020 US Open |
| 39% | NAOMI | 5 | ___ Osaka, Japanese tennis player who was the winner of Women's singles at the 2020 US Open |
| 39% | BILLIEJEANKING | 14 | Winner of four US Open Women's Singles championships, for whom the USTA National Tennis Center is named (3 wds.) |
| 39% | NADAL | 5 | 14-time winner of the French Open |
| 39% | RAFA | 4 | Nickname for "The King of Clay" |
| 39% | WAS | 3 | Word seen 11 times in the opening line of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 38% | IGA | 3 | Polish tennis player Swiatek who's won the French Open three times |
| 38% | SIMONAHALEP | 11 | 2019 Wimbledon and 2018 French Open Women's Singles winner who is the Women's Singles top seed for the 2020 Australian Open (2 wds.) |
| 38% | TITO | 4 | Puente nicknamed the King of Latin Music |
| 38% | BENNY | 5 | Bandleader Goodman nicknamed the King of Swing |
| 38% | NADAL | 5 | Tennis star Rafael, a.k.a. the King of Clay |
| 37% | NADAL | 5 | Winner of the most French Open singles titles |
| 37% | ZIDANE | 6 | French soccer legend Zinedine who is considered one of the greatest players of all time |
| 37% | CLAY | 4 | The King of ___ (Rafael Nadal nickname) |
| 37% | ODYSSEUS | 8 | King of Ithaca who was the hero of Homer's tale |
| 37% | ARNOLDPALMER | 12 | Golfer nicknamed "the King" who won both the US Open and the US Senior Open: 2 wds. |
| 37% | BRAID | 5 | James —, Scottish golfer, five-times winner of The Open Championship, who died in 1950 |
| 37% | STAN | 4 | Tennis's Wawrinka, winner of the 2015 French Open |
| 36% | NADAL | 5 | Rafael who won the French Open 14 times |
| 36% | FORESTWHITAKER | 14 | "The Last King of Scotland" Best Actor Oscar winner who plays Zuri in the MCU (2 wds.) |