Rod Laver: A Memoir

Rod Laver: A Memoir

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781742612973
Author: Rod Laver
Additional Authors: Larry Writer
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2013
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 416 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and at spine. Minor mark on tail foredge.

Rod Laver's memoir is the inspiring story of how a diminutive, left-handed, red-headed country boy from Rockhampton became one of Australia's greatest-ever sporting champions.

Rod was a dominant force in world tennis for almost two decades, playing and defeating some of the greatest players of the twentieth century. In 1962, Rod became the second man to win the Grand Slam - that is, winning the Australian, French, Wimbledon and US titles in a single calendar year. In 1969 he won it again, becoming the first male player to win the Grand Slam twice.

His book is a wonderfully nostalgic journey into Australia's sporting past, from the early days of growing up in a Queensland country town in the 1950s, to breaking into the amateur circuit, to the extraordinary highs of Grand Slam victories.

Away from on-court triumphs, Rod also movingly writes about the life-changing stroke he suffered in 1998, and of his beloved wife of more than 40 years, Mary, who died in 2012 after a long illness.

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 recognize today, Rod's book is a warm, insightful and fascinating account of a great sportsman and a great Australian.

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