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...Rocket. With that kind of money at stake, it is no wonder that the competition is fierce. Current king of the pros is redheaded Rod ("Rocket") Laver, 28, the Australian left-hander who five years ago became the only player since Don Budge in 1938 to achieve a grand slam of amateur tennis' four top tournaments-the Australian, French, Wimbledon and U.S. championships. Laver turned pro in 1963 and learned quickly how much tougher it was to play for pay: he lost 19 out of his first 21 pro matches. Last year Laver was the tour...
Married. Rod Laver, 27, Australian tennis star, the second amateur ever to win the Australian, Wimbledon, French and U.S. titles in one year (1962), now top moneymaker on the pro circuit; and Mary Bensen, 35, California accountant; she for the second time; in San Rafael, Calif...
Dill openly allowed as how he was. So did the 6,000 spectators, who were treated to a dazzling display of ground-stroke techniques in the prolonged rallies encouraged by the longer, slower serves. And so did the rest of the pros, particularly redheaded Rod ("Rocket") Laver, who beat Fellow Australian Ken Rosewall, 31-29, to take home top money of $6,321-"the biggest check I ever won." The Laver-Rosewall match was a triumph for VASSS: a furious, cliffhanging battle between the two most accomplished shotmakers in tennis today. Best of all, it lasted exactly...
Romping around on this modern surface at the Garden was an equally advanced set of tennis players. There was California's rangy Pancho Gonzales, trying for a comeback at the ripe age of 37, and the current Wunderkind of the pro circuit, Australia's Rod ("Rocket") Laver, 27, biggest money winner ($65,495) in 1965. Finally, there was slight (5 ft. 7 in.), polite Ken Rosewall, also an Australian and evidently a has-been at 31, since Laver had pushed him off the top of the heap last year. In the quarterfinals, Gonzales gave Rosewall something to think...
That made the finals a case of the missile v. the computer, the Rocket's violent volleys against the subtle shotmaking of Rosewall. Pinking the sideline markers with precision, forcing Laver to weave back and forth across the green like a wayward Agena, Rosewall pulled off an upset, winding up with a straight set victory of 6-3, 6-3. "Just a shot here and there," he said in gentlemanly fashion. "Besides, Laver missed more than he usually does...