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Rod Laver is an Australian male tennis player who competed professionally from 1963 to 1979. Born in Rockhampton on 1938-08-09, he is left-handed and represented Australia in the Davis Cup. His professional career included a singles record of 576–146 and a doubles record of 238–77. He won the 1969 Wimbledon Championships – men's singles and received several honors, including the Member of the Order of the British Empire, the Australian Sports Medal, the BBC World Sport Star of the Year, and induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Laver has resided in San Diego, Carlsbad, and Rockhampton. He is also an author with works including *Golden Era*, *How to Play Championship Tennis*, and *The education of a tennis player*.
Synthesized by Vinony from 45 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Thesportsdb, VIAF, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Golden Era
- How to Play Championship Tennis
- How to play championship tennis
- Rod Laver
- The education of a tennis player
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,359
- Total plays
- 14,887
Tags
.rod laver was a Christian rapcore group from originating from Los Angeles. Their sound was similar to that of Korn, Limp Bizkit, or Kid Rock, but as the personnel lineup changed the group wavered from a rock-grounded sound to one based in hip hop, then back again. Their name has no spiritual meaning, but was derived from an incident in which the entire band was wearing Rod Laver branded shoes from Adidas. .Rod Laver was active between 1999 to 2005* <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/.rod+lav
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- <scp>genalex</scp> 6: genetic analysis in Excel. Population genetic software for teaching and research
· 2005 · cited 12,102x
- GenAlEx 6.5: genetic analysis in Excel. Population genetic software for teaching and research—an update
· 2012 · cited 9,766x
- A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests
· 2010 · cited 6,455x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,477x
- A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems
· 2008 · cited 5,380x
via Crossref · CC0
Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- b. 1938
- Nationality
- AU
- Role / Field
- Tennis players, Tenisists, 스포츠sports, Teniss, Sports
- Language
- eng
- Gender
- Male
Recorded by 13 libraries
via VIAF · OCLC
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Team
- _Retired Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- Australia
via TheSportsDB
~28 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Rodney George Laver (born 9 August 1938) is an Australian former professional tennis player. Laver was ranked as the world number 1 professional player indisputably for five years from 1965 to 1969, and by some sources also in 1964 and 1970. He was also ranked as the number 1 amateur in 1961 and 1962. Laver won 200 singles titles across his amateur and professional careers, the most won by any tennis player.
Laver won 11 Grand Slam tournament singles titles and 8 Pro major titles. He completed the Grand Slam (winning all four majors in a calendar year) in singles twice, in 1962 and 1969; the latter remains the only time a man has done so in the Open Era. He also completed the Pro Slam (winning all three pro majors in one year) in 1967. Laver won titles on all court surfaces of his time (grass, clay, hard, carpet, wood), and he contributed to five Davis Cup titles for Australia during a time when the Davis Cup was deemed as significant as the four majors. The Rod Laver Arena (the main show court of the Australian Open) and the Laver Cup tournament are named after him.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rod Laver” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.