Rod Laver is considered by many to be the greatest male tennis player in history. His achievements across the amateur and ...

Serving at 3-4 in the fifth, Roche felt—and almost certainly still feels today—that a Laver shot had landed wide ... “the points just rolled in.” But even Rod Laver couldn't stay on ...

Rod Laver had just ... or more than Laver did for claiming seven matches and the trophy he displays proudly in his Carlsbad, Calif. residence. “It’s amazing,’’ Laver, 81, said.