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Lo consiglio agli amanti di ogni sport perch racconta la vita di chi ha capito a fondo cosa significhi essere un vero sportivo Rod Laver davvero un grande della storia Sports I really enjoyed reading this from a historical perspective of the game of tennis from amateur to professionals in the sixties as well as learning so much about Rod Laver himself Sports I love this guy Now that I have translated his entire book I WANT TO MEET HIM So humble through 400 pages of absolute success Hats off Sports Do you want to read 388 pages of tennis statistics Then this book is for you I kept hoping that there would be something No such luck He talked about what a great guy Charlton Heston was to loan his home in New York during a tennis tournament Did we ever learn how he met Heston Of course not We learned that he nearly missed his wedding because he was playing in a tournament There was maybe a paragraph about how he met his wife In searching for this book I was shocked to see that he wrote a memoir in addition to an autobiography I have no desire to read any of his other books Sports If Roger Federer considers Rod Laver to be the greatest ever men s tennis player that s good enough for me. For Roger is a fine student of the game.

Loved this book what a legend Long live Rod Sports AKA Rodney George LaverRod Laver: A MemoirGrande libro grandissimo personaggio di un umilt unica a dispetto dei suoi impareggiabili successi Il mio consiglio tutt altro che spassionato di leggersi il testo in lingua originale La traduzione mi d l impressione di essere stata brutalmente rovinata in fase di revisione Io prima di ridurmi a scrivere Il pi grande campione del nostro sport che HO conosciuto e metterlo anche in copertina preferirei cambiare mestiere Ed solo uno degli innumerevoli errori non solo grammaticali ma anche di interpretazione che compaiono tra le pagine e in copertina Detto questo se potete leggerlo in inglese au fait with tennis history and traditions When Federer triumphed on the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne to win the 2006 Australian Open he was visibly emotional as the great man handed him the winner s trophy To Australians in the 1950s and sixties Rod Laver the Rockhampton Rocket was a great hero Mind you he had a lot of mates Australia dominated men s tennis during that time it was often a matter of which Australian was going to win This memoir has the feel of Rod talking unaffectedly as a result of Laver spending time with author Larry Writer who was armed with lots of tapes The book was published shortly after the death of Laver s American wife Mary who at the end of her life suffered long and debilitating illnesses Their marriage raised eyebrows in 1966 because Mary Benson was ten years Laver s senior and already had three children Australian National Hero to Wed Corona Del Mar Divorcee p177 Their devotion to each other is clear however Mary looked after Laver s lengthy rehabilitation following a severe stroke in 1998 later when the situation was reversed Laver became Mary s primary carer. Laver won eleven grand slam singles titles including two calendar Grand Slams in 1962 immediately before he turned professional and in 1969 at the commencement of the open era This has only ever been done one other time by Donald Budge the American in 1938 although Federer Novak Djokovic and Raphael Nadal have had their chances in recent times My first tennis racket was an ancient Donald Budge autograph number belonging to my father who was careful with his money nothing wrong with a twenty year old racket he said So I knew who Donald Budge was There s a lovely photo of Laver with the venerable American one of the first to congratulate Laver on his 1962 feat. In his introduction Federer refers to the 21 Grand Slam events Laver missed during the period 1963 to 1968 inclusive while Laver was on the professional circuit He wonders how many Laver would have won It s academic because Laver struggled initially as a professional against the likes of Pancho Gonzales and Lew Hoad but steadily rose to the top What remains certain is that Laver was strong and fit benefitting from a sunny country childhood in North Queensland his talent honed by coaches Charlie Hollis and Harry Hopman creating an all round game with few if any weaknesses He also had the incredible ability to play his best tennis under extreme pressure something which the three modern masters Federer Djokovic and Nadal share. Since the death of his wife and his own recovery Laver has been outgoing and public My most recent memory is his enthusiastic yet judicious support for Ash Barty on her rise to greatness some time before she won her first of three Grand Slam titles Laver predicted she would do just that Add good judgement to his tenacity skill and modesty Sports

Rod Laver: A Memoir By Rod Laver
1742612970
9781742612973
English
416
Hardcover
The 1960s and 70s was an era of Australian tennis giants Roy Emerson Fred Stolle Neale Fraser Lew Hoad John Newcombe Ken Rosewall but Rod Laver stood head and shoulders above them all A diminutive left handed red headed country boy from Rockhampton Rod Laver is one of Australia s greatest ever sporting champions and arguably the best tennis player the world has ever seen He is the only male player to have won the Grand Slam all four major titles in the same calendar year in the Open era and he is the only player to have won two Grand Slams He was the dominant force in world tennis for almost two decades playing and defeating some of the greatest players of the 20th century Rod Laver writes vividly of his life from the early days growing up in a Queensland country town playing on makeshift backyard courts to breaking into the amateur circuit and eventually the professional realm He also writes movingly about the stroke he suffered in 1998 and of his beloved wife of than 40 years Mary who died last year after a long illness Rod Laver s memoir is a wonderfully nostalgic journey into Australia s sporting past filled with anecdotes about the great players and great matches set against the backdrop of a tennis world changing from rigid amateurism to the professional game we recognise today Rod Laver A Memoir.