Rod Laver was an exceptional player - the Rockhampton Rocket was short (that is true) but you are measured in the time you played. He so clearly dominated the game before he went professional - he was broke in a time when travelling from Australia all around the western world to play demanded a sponsor - instead he was from a humble rur…
Rod Laver was an exceptional player - the Rockhampton Rocket was short (that is true) but you are measured in the time you played. He so clearly dominated the game before he went professional - he was broke in a time when travelling from Australia all around the western world to play demanded a sponsor - instead he was from a humble rural Queensland (think of Alabama in the 1950s) lower middle class family- he had to go professional and thus concede an extraordinary number of championships - when he returned to the ‘metrics’ he cleaned up - in the end, Rod’s class is vindicated by modern day peers and none more so than Raph and the Fed
Rod Laver was an exceptional player - the Rockhampton Rocket was short (that is true) but you are measured in the time you played. He so clearly dominated the game before he went professional - he was broke in a time when travelling from Australia all around the western world to play demanded a sponsor - instead he was from a humble rural Queensland (think of Alabama in the 1950s) lower middle class family- he had to go professional and thus concede an extraordinary number of championships - when he returned to the ‘metrics’ he cleaned up - in the end, Rod’s class is vindicated by modern day peers and none more so than Raph and the Fed