"renowned player" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in any context when you are describing an accomplished athlete or performer. For example, "Michael Jordan is a renowned player who revolutionized the game of basketball."
Portugal's most renowned player, Eusebio (originally from Mozambique), was one of the most prolific goal scorers in European football in the 1960s.
Lee, a 24-year-old South Korean qualifier who just one week ago was playing in the tennis equivalent of Class AAA baseball, will continue his dizzying New York journey, which began when he bought his own bus ticket in Binghamton, N.Y. Lee knows it can all end tomorrow at the United States Open against the world's most renowned player.
But golf's most renowned player will be missing.
But behind every renowned player are years of blood, sweat and tears in training.
That's how Sammy Sosa got away from the Rangers and became a renowned player elsewhere.
In the film Catherine (Marcelle Charles), a renowned player, is losing when she makes an unexpected move.
The Twins' renowned player-development pipeline is just as respected within baseball for developing coaches, too.
Last year, renowned players fell like leaves on an autumn day, but today the majority of top-seeded players advanced.
To that end, his life's full circle had turned from playing the game as a coal miner's son to managing world renowned players in England, the Netherlands, Portugal, Canada, Spain.
In England, too, there have been fines and suspensions for the world renowned players Luis Suárez and John Terry — punishments that appear cursory in the face of racial insults traded in the theater of the sport, the stadiums.
Internationally renowned players include Jorge ("El Mágico") González, who is considered one of the most accomplished footballers in the history of the Central American game, and Jaime ("La Chelona") Rodríguez, who, with González, led the national team's memorable run in the 1982 World Cup.
