Name: John Isner
Country: USA
Sport: Tennis
Age: 27
Why He’s a Gold Medal Hottie: In 2010, he defeated Nicholas Mahut in the longest professional tennis match in history—11 hours and 5 minutes over the span of three days. Earlier this year, he stunned the World’s top ranked player and Wimbledon champion Roger Federer in the Davis Cup: 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2. With all that, plus the fact that up until the 9th grade, he wanted to be a professional basketball player, it seems like Isner’s motto should be “expect the unexpected.” But now that he knows his capabilities, there is no “unexpected”: “I thought, if I can beat a guy like that (Federer) in front of his home country and 10,000 fans who didn’t want me to win, then I can give a lot of people a run for their money,” he says. We’re betting that come game time, he’ll be telling the naysayers, “You got served!”