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 ...

For the first time this year, more than half of the team-based tennis tournament's corporate partners will not be endemic to ...

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 ...

“It’s a massive tennis community,” he said. “I believe they’ll be very excited about this.” The tournament was started by Federer, who met Rod Laver at various tennis events and grew ...