... Starting with the 60, as before is not easy to obtain the data and was also in this era when tennis became a global sport the birth of the professional circuit, we find the reference of Australian player Rod Laver.
For many, Laver is the best ever, and from our point of view may come closer to reality. Laver, left-hander, exquisite technique, much of the Federer style, managed to win twice in his career the 4 Grand Slam tournaments in a season (which is called actually win the Grand Slam, something that Rafa has been close to achieving this year.) It is true that no Australian player has the largest number of tournaments Federer, not even Sampras, but tennis fans know that that fact had much to do with the data previously discussed, in the early 60's, best players (except from maybe Manolo Santana) broke the rules of the International Tennis Federation to mount a professional circuit. That led
forbidden to participate in the Grand Slam tournaments (which were then amateur) which no doubt greatly distorted relationship between the winners of those tournaments and consideration of best players, the best really were not involved. Why we can venture to say that Laver was the best of the good? Because their records in direct confrontations with rivals are considered ruthless. He played 20 times against Ken Rosewall (which caused him more trouble) defeating 13 of them. But in 8 games against Stolle lost just one in 14 games against Arthur Ashe (U.S. color, with a legendary career) yielded only 2 times, and against John Newcombe, another first racket unanimously recognized only let out 3 games of his 12 appearances.
Anecdotally we can say that Manolo Santana was able to defeat him in the first time they were measured in an exhibition match at the Tennis Club in the early ChamartÃn 70 (both were two thirtysomethings) ... but the public apparently came to this strange feeling that the Australian had landed in Madrid for business, rather than to display the reason for his tennis against the local hero.
Finally to illustrate the figure of Laver, tennis player of the 60 without discussion, and serious candidate for the 'best of the best', you must add to his record winning the Davis Cup on several occasions. While it is true that the tournament was played then in a very tight format, as the previous year's champion expected to compete in next year's final, in this corner we believe that this challenge as differential in tennis, a tournament for teams from countries within an individual sport, has the maximum prestige to necessarily have to be incorporated into the analysis is always subjective about 'the best tennis player of all time. "
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