The competition is named after Rod Laver, a man considered by some to be the greatest player in the history of the men's game and a pioneering figure in tennis and Australian sport. The Sporting ...

What is the most important element of a service return? Getting the ball back over the net. It is that easy – and part of the ...

Australia’s Rod Laver, remains to this day, the only male or female player in tennis history to win two calendar Grand Slams (1962-1969) in singles winning a record 200 tournaments and held the ...

The biggest grand slam of Rod Laver’s life had nothing to do with major tennis tournaments. He met Mary Shelby Peterson at the Jack Kramer Tennis Club. Then, in 1966, at a church in San Rafael ...

"We played in the old Madison Square Garden," recalls tennis Hall of Famer Rod Laver, "and ice was down because I guess the Rangers were in town. They stretched out a canvas court on top of the ice.

He likes what he sees. By Matthew Futterman MELBOURNE, Australia — In the middle of the 1960s, before tennis entered the modern era, Rod Laver and the other top tennis players in the world had ...

NEWTON — Rod Laver is beside himself. No, really. Laver is actually beside himself, posing and pointing at a picture from one of his many tennis victories at Longwood Cricket Club, channeling ...

But even Rod Laver couldn't stay on that kind of ... Wearing cleats was the best way to combat the soggy turf at the West Side Tennis Club; Laver put them on at the end of the first set, but ...

11-time Grand Slam champion Rod Laver is putting his money on Novak Djokovic to be at the top of the tennis world for the next few years. After winning both the U.S. Open and Wimbledon this year ...

NEW YORK—Among tennis players, Rod Laver’s trophy collection is second to none. The replicas from the four Grand Slams and the Davis Cup are only the tip of the Australian great’s iceberg of ...