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Djokovic, Federer, other players take on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

The ALS Ice Bucket challenge has taken over social media in the past few weeks, as celebrities, pro athletes and regular folks have dumped buckets of ice water

Courtney Nguyen

Djokovic, Federer, other players take on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
Djokovic, Federer, other players take on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge /

The ALS Ice Bucket challenge has taken over social media in the past few weeks, as celebrities, pro athletes and regular folks have dumped buckets of ice water on their heads in the name of ALS awareness (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease).

Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Caroline Wozniacki were just some of the many tennis players to get involved in the viral campaign, but the two most notable holdouts so far are Serena Williams (who was nominated by Kendrick Lamar, Caroline Wozniacki, Ana Ivanovic, among others) and Maria Sharapova, who got the nod from her boyfriend Grigor Dimitrov.

I asked Serena about the challenge last week in Cincinnati and she said she was waiting to complete the challenge because she needed "props." Oh boy.

Here's a collection of some of the best ALS Ice Bucket Challenge videos by tennis players. Djokovic's "Ice, Ice, Baby" routine and Laura Robson's look of abject horror take the cake. 

Roger Federer

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Rafael Nadal

Novak Djokovic

Grigor Dimitrov

Caroline Wozniacki

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Sloane Stephens

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Juan Martin del Potro

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Laura Robson

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John Isner

Victoria Azarenka

Andrea Petkovic

Ana Ivanovic:

Dustin Brown

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Connecticut Tournament Director Anne Worcester and Petra Kvitova, with some help from Caroline Wozniacki and Simona Halep

Sam Querrey

Ryan Harrison

Jack Sock

Michael Russell

Todd Martin

Sara Errani

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Agnieszka Radwanska

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Courtney Nguyen
COURTNEY NGUYEN

Contributor, SI.com Nguyen is a freelance writer for SI.com, providing full coverage of professional tennis both on and off the court. Her content has become a must-read for fans and insiders to stay up-to-date with a sport that rarely rests. She has appeared on radio and TV talk shows all over the world and is one of the co-hosts of No Challenges Remaining, a weekly podcast available on iTunes. Nguyen graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and received a law degree from the University of California, Davis in 2002. She lives in the Bay Area.

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