Ken Rosewall
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Kenneth Robert Rosewall is an Australian former world top-ranking professional tennis player. Rosewall won 147 singles titles, including a record 15 Pro Majors and 8 Grand Slam titles for a total 23 titles at pro and amateur majors. He also won 15 Pro Majors in doubles and 9 Grand Slam doubles titles. Rosewall achieved a Pro Slam in singles in 1963 by winning the three Pro Majors in one year and he completed the Career Grand Slam in doubles.
Rosewall, as a 12-year-old at White City, Sydney (1946)
Rosewall (front) and Lew Hoad in the 1954 final of the Eastern Grass Court Championships in South Orange, N.J., USA.
Rosewall (right) and Hoad playing doubles at the Wimbledon Championships in the mid-1950s
History of tennis
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The racket sport traditionally named lawn tennis, invented in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, now commonly known simply as tennis, is the direct descendant of what is now denoted real tennis or royal tennis, which continues to be played today as a separate sport with more complex rules. The first Lawn Tennis Club and tournament was held in Royal Leamington Spa on 1 August 1882.
Players on Wimbledon's Centre Court in 2008, a year before the installation of a retractable roof
Real tennis racquets and balls. Cahusac at the Falkland Palace Royal Tennis Club.
Drawing of a Lawn Tennis court as originally designed by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield in 1874
Cover of the first edition of the book about Lawn Tennis by Walter Clopton Wingfield, published in February 1874