Rod Laver helped shape the modern tennis landscape and is still the only man in 50 years to win a Grand Slam but he won't be drawn on his place in the tennis pantheon.
“I feel like sometimes you improve overnight," says Rod Laver. Andrew Kelly
The blood drains down my spine as I clock the clanger I’ve just dropped; one of the dumbest blunders of my reporting career.
Rod Laver is explaining how he stays in shape: “My best tennis was at 150 pounds (68 kilos), but now I’m about 160, 162. That’s when I go to the gym.”
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