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A hand signed ROD LAVER memorabilia white card Signed in black pen on white card Size of white card 15×10 cm Item comes with a COA Rodney George Laver AC MBE (born 9 August 1938) is an Australian former tennis player. Laver was the world number 1 ranked professional in some sources in 1964, in all sources from 1965 to 1969 and in some sources in 1970, spanning four years before and three years after the start of the Open Era in 1968. He was also ranked the world number 1 amateur in 1961 by Lance Tingay and 1962 by Tingay and Ned Potter. Laver’s 200 singles titles are the most in tennis history.[3] This included his all-time men’s record of 10 or more titles per year for seven consecutive years (1964–1970). He excelled on all of the court surfaces of his time: grass, clay, hard, carpet, wood. Laver won 11 Grand Slam singles titles, though he was banned from playing those tournaments for the five years prior to the Open Era. Laver is the only player, male or female, to win the Grand Slam (winning all four major titles in the same calendar year) twice in singles, in 1962 and 1969; the latter remains the only time a man has done so in the Open Era. He is the first male player out of two to be winner and runner up at all four grand slams, followed by Roger Federer. He is the second of four male players to win each major title twice (preceded by Roy Emerson and followed by Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal). Laver also won 8 Pro Slam titles, including the “pro Grand Slam”[5][6] in 1967, and he contributed to five Davis Cup titles for Australia during an age when the Davis Cup was deemed as significant as the four majors.[7]The Laver Cup tournament and the Rod Laver Arena are named after him.[8] Personal life Rodney George Laver was born in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, on 9 August 1938.[9][10] He was the third of four children of Roy Laver, a cattleman and butcher, and his wife Melba Roffey.[11] Relatives include the cricketers Frank Laver and Jack Laver.[12] In 1966, Laver, aged 27, married Mary Benson in San Rafael, California. Born Mary Shelby Peterson in Illinois, she was a divorcee with three children.[13][14] After their wedding ceremony, a group of well-known tennis players in attendance, including Lew Hoad, Ken Rosewall, Roy Emerson, Mal Anderson and Barry MacKay, stood outside the church with raised tennis rackets that formed an archway for the newlyweds to walk under.[14][15] Laver and Mary had a son and the family lived at various locations in California including Rancho Mirage, Corona del Mar, a ranch near Santa Barbara and Carlsbad.[14] Mary Laver died in November 2012 at the age of 84 at their home in Carlsbad.[14] CareerAmateur (1956–62) Laver was a teenager when he left school to pursue a tennis career that lasted 24 years. He was coached in Queensland by Charlie Hollis and later by the Australian Davis Cup team captain Harry Hopman, who gave Laver the nickname “Rocket”. Laver was both Australian and US Junior champion in 1957. He had his breakthrough on the world stage in 1959, when he reached all three finals at Wimbledon, winning the mixed doubles title with Darlene Hard. As an unseeded player, he lost the singles final to Peruvian Alex Olmedo after surviving an 87-game semifinal against American Barry MacKay. His first major singles title was the Australian Championships in 1960, where he defeated fellow Australian Neale Fraser in a five-set final after coming back from two sets down and saving a Fraser championship point in the fourth set. Laver captured his first Wimbledon singles crown in 1961 beating Chuck McKinley in straight sets in the final, which lasted just 53 minutes (one of the shortest men’s singles Wimbledon finals on record).[16] Laver was ranked the world No. 1 amateur in 1961 by Lance Tingay.[4] Rod Laver signing autographs at the Dutch Championships in July 1962 In 1962, Laver became the first male player since Don Budge in 1938 to win all four Grand Slam singles titles in the same year. He won an additional 18 titles, for a season total of 22.[17] Among those titles were the Italian Championships and the German Championships, giving Laver the “clay court triple” of Paris, Rome, and Hamburg that had been achieved previously only by Lew Hoad in 1956. At the Australian championships, Laver beat Roy Emerson in the final.[18] The biggest hurdle to Laver’s winning the Grand Slam was the French Championships on slow clay, where Laver won three consecutive five-setters beginning with the quarterfinals. In his quarterfinal with Martin Mulligan, Laver saved a matchpoint in the fourth set with a backhand volley after coming to the net behind a second serve. In the final, Laver lost the first two sets and was down 0–3 in the fourth set before coming back to defeat Emerson. At Wimbledon, his progress was much easier. Laver lost only one set the whole tournament, to Manuel Santana in a quarterfinal, who held a set point for a two set lead. In the final, Laver beat Mulligan in 52 minutes (a minute shorter than the previous year’s final).[19] At the US Championships, Laver lost only two sets during the tournament and defeated Emerson again in the final. Laver was ranked world number one amateur for 1962 by Tingay,[20] by Ned Potter[21] and by an Ulrich Kaiser panel of 13 experts.[22] In February 1963, he appeared on the panel game show To Tell the Truth, where all four panelists identified him based on his knowledge of the history of tennis.[23] ProfessionalBefore the Open Era (1963–68) In December 1962 Laver turned professional after winning the Davis Cup with the Australian team. After an initial period of adjustment he quickly established himself among the leading professional players such as Ken Rosewall, Lew Hoad and Andrés Gimeno, and also Pancho Gonzales when Gonzales returned to a full-time schedule in 1964. During the next seven years, Laver won the U.S. Pro Tennis Championships five times, including four in a row beginning in 1966. In the beginning of 1963, Laver was beaten consistently by both Rosewall and Hoad on an Australasian tour. Hoad won the first eight matches against Laver, and Rosewall won 11 out of 13. However, Laver won the best-of-five set matches against Rosewall at Kooyong Stadium and at Adelaide’s Memorial Stadium.[24] By the end of the year, with six tournament titles, Laver had become the No. 2 professional player behind Rosewall.[25][26][27] In the first phase of the World Series tour, Laver finished second, with a 25–16 record. The top two players Rosewall and Laver then played a series of matches against each other to determine the champion. Rosewall won 14–4. Laver’s gross earnings for 1963 were first among the pro players.[28] In 1964, Laver and Rosewall both won seven important titles (in minor tournaments Laver won four and Rosewall won three), but Laver won 17 of 24 matches against Rosewall and captured the two most prestigious titles, the US Pro Championships over Gonzales and the Wembley Championships over Rosewall. In Tennis Week, Raymond Lee described the Wembley match, where Laver came from 5–3 down in the fifth set to win 8–6, as possibly their best ever and one that changed tennis history. Lee regards this win as the one that began and established Laver’s long reign as world number one. The other prestige title, the French pro, was won by Rosewall. Rosewall finished top of the official points table in 1964 and after winning at Wembley, Laver said “I’ve still plenty of ambitions left and would like to be the world’s No. 1. Despite this win, I am not there yet – Ken is.”[29] Rod Laver at Noordwijk in 1964 In 1965, Laver was clearly the No. 1 professional player,[30] winning 17 titles[31] and 13 of 18 matches against Rosewall. In ten finals, Laver won eight against the still dangerous Gonzales. Laver won the Wembley Pro, beating Gimeno in the final.[32] In 1966, Laver won 16 events,[31] including the US Pro Championships (beating Rosewall in a five-set final),[33] the Wembley Pro Championship (beating Rosewall easily in the final),[34] and eight other important tournaments. In 1967, Laver won 19 titles,[31] including the Wimbledon Pro (beating Rosewall in straight sets in the final),[35] the US Pro Championships (beating Gimeno in the final),[36] the Wembley Pro Championships (beating Rosewall in the final),[37] and the French Pro Championship (beating Gimeno in the final),[38] which gave him a clean sweep of the four most important professional titles, a professional Grand Slam. The Wimbledon Pro tournament in 1967 was the only professional event ever staged on Wimbledon’s Centre Court before the Open Era began. During the Open Era (1968–76) With the dawn of the Open Era in 1968, professional players were once again allowed to compete in Grand Slam events. Laver became Wimbledon’s first Open Era champion in 1968, beating the best amateur, American Arthur Ashe, in a semifinal and fellow-Australian Tony Roche in the final, both in straight sets.[39][40] Laver was also the runner-up to Ken Rosewall in the first French Open. In this first “open” year, there were only eight open events besides Wimbledon and the French Open, where professionals, registered players, and amateurs could compete against each other. The professionals mainly played their own circuit, with two groups – National Tennis League (NTL) and World Championships Tennis (WCT) – operating. Laver was ranked No. 1 universally, winning the US Professional Championships on grass and the French Pro Championship on clay (both over John Newcombe).[41] Laver also won the last big open event of the year, the Pacific Southwest in Los Angeles on hard courts.[42] Ashe regarded Laver’s 4–6, 6–0, 6–0 final win over Ken Rosewall as one of his finest performances.[43] Laver’s post-match comment was, “This is the kind of match you always dream about. The kind you play at night in your sleep.” Laver ranked No. 1 for 1968 by the panel of journalists for the ‘Martini and Rossi’ Award,[44] by an Ulrich Kaiser panel of 18 experts,[45] by Seagrams (a panel of 15 journalists),[46] by World Tennis,[47] by Lance Tingay,[48] by Rino Tommasi,[49] by Bud Collins[50] and by The Times.[51] In 1969, Laver won all four Grand Slam tournaments in the same calendar year for the second time, sealing the achievement with a four-set win over Roche in the US Open final. He won 18 of the 32 singles tournaments he entered (still the Open Era titles record) and compiled a 106–16 win–loss record. In beating Newcombe in four sets in the Wimbledon final, he captured the title at the All England Club for the fourth consecutive time that he had entered the tournament (and reached the final for the sixth consecutive time as he had been runner-up in 1959 and 1960). He set a record of 31 consecutive match victories at Wimbledon between 1961 and 1970, which lasted until 1980 when it was eclipsed by Björn Borg. Unlike his first Grand Slam year in 1962, Laver in 1969 played in events open to all the best professional and amateur players of the world. In the year’s Grand Slam tournaments, Laver had five five-set-matches, twice coming back from two sets down in early rounds. In the four finals, however, he lost a total of only two sets. His hardest match was a marathon 90-game semifinal against Roche at the Australian Open under tropical hot conditions. Other opponents at the Australian Open included Roy Emerson, Fred Stolle, and Andrés Gimeno. At the French Open, Laver beat Gimeno, Tom Okker, and Rosewall. At Wimbledon, Laver overcame strong challenges from Stan Smith, Cliff Drysdale, Ashe, and Newcombe. At the US Open on slippery grass courts, he defeated Dennis Ralston, Emerson, Ashe, and Roche. Laver proved his versatility by winning the Grand Slam tournaments on grass and clay, plus the two most important hard court titles (South African Open at Ellis Park, Johannesburg and the US Professional Championships at Boston) and the leading indoor tournaments (Philadelphia US Pro Indoor and Wembley British Indoor). Laver ranked No. 1 for 1969 by the panel of 13 international journalists for the ‘Martini and Rossi’ Award,[52] by Tingay,[48] by Collins,[50] by Tommasi,[49] by Frank Rostron[53] and by World Tennis.[54] In the early 1970s, Laver lost his grip on the major tournaments. He played only five Grand Slam tournaments from 1970 through 1972. This was partly because of his contracts with NTL and WCT. But on the WCT tours, he remained the leading player and by far the leading prize money winner. Laver during the Top Tennis Tournament in Amsterdam in May 1969 Rod Laver at the 1976 ABN World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam In 1970, Laver won 15 titles[31] and US$201,453 in prize money, including the rich “Tennis Champions Classic” and five other big events (Sydney Dunlop Open, Philadelphia, Wembley, Los Angeles, South African Open). Those were the equivalent of the modern day ATP Masters Series and most had 8 or more of the world’s top ranked players participating. With only two majors played by all the best players (Wimbledon and the US Open), there was no clear-cut World No. 1 in 1970. Wimbledon champion Newcombe, US champion Rosewall, and Laver (who won the most titles and had a 3–0 win–loss record against Newcombe and a 5–0 record against Rosewall) were ranked the highest by different journalists and expert panels. The panel of 10 international journalists who voted for the ‘Martini and Rossi’ Award, ranked Rosewall No. 1 with 97 points over Laver (89 pts) and Newcombe (81 pts).[55] The panel of 12 journalists which made the WCT draw for 1971 ranked Laver 1st, Rosewall 2nd and Newcombe 3rd.[56] Rex Bellamy ranked Laver No. 1, with Rosewall No. 2.[57] Judith Elian of L’Equipe Magazine (Paris) and Rino Tommasi[49] placed Rosewall No. 1, while Robert Geist co-ranked Rosewall, Laver and Newcombe No. 1.[58] Newcombe later wrote in his autobiography “Newk-Life On and Off the Court” (2002) that the top honour for 1970 belonged to Laver.[59] Lance Tingay,[48] John McCauley[60] and Bud Collins.[50] ranked Newcombe ahead of Rosewall and Laver. In 1971 Laver won seven titles,[31] including the Italian Open in Rome on clay over Jan Kodeš, the reigning French Open champion. Laver successfully defended his title at the “Tennis Champions Classic”, winning 13 consecutive winner-take-all matches against top opponents and US$160,000. For the year, Laver won a then-record US$292,717 in tournament prize money and became the first tennis player to surpass US$1 million in career prize money. In 1971 and 1972, Laver finished as the points leader of the WCT tournament series but lost the playoff finals at Dallas to Rosewall. The last match is rated as one of the best of all time and drew a TV audience of over 20 million. In 1972, Laver cut back his tournament schedule, partly because of back and knee injuries and his tennis camp businesses, but he still won five titles[31] that year. In 1973, Laver won seven titles[31] and successfully participated in the semifinals and final of the Davis Cup, where he won all six of his rubbers for Australia. In 1974 Laver won six titles[31] from 13 tournaments and ended the year as World No. 4 based on the ATP point system. At 36, he was the oldest player during the Open Era to have been included in the year-ending top five. In 1975, Laver set a record for WCT tournaments by winning four titles and 23 consecutive matches but in 1976, he semi-retired from the main tour, playing only a few selected events. He also signed with World Team Tennis, where he became “Rookie of the Year” at the age of 38 but won five titles[61] overall that season. Overall, despite turning 30 just months after the Open Era began, Laver had tremendous success, winning 74 singles titles, which remains seventh most of the era. Plus, like most players of his day, he regularly played doubles, winning 37 titles. Laver’s career earnings were approximately $1,540,000.[62]

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