LONDON (Reuters) - It cost him five years of grand slam silverware, but Australian great Rod Laver says the decision to turn professional made him twice the player he was as an amateur. When Laver ...

Long before the European trio of Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal dominated tennis, the sport was ruled by Australian legends such as Rod Laver, Tony Roche, Roy Emerson, Ken Rosewall, ...

Pro tennis has been good to Amateur Rod (“The Rocket”) Laver: it has lured away everyone who might make the nimble Australian redhead work up a sweat on the courts. For years. Lefthander Laver, 23, ...