The Best Tennis Players of All Time

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8 It was not just any victory With it The Rocket became the first player since 1938 to have won all four Grand Slam events in a single year Nobody knows how many others Laver could have won He turned professional in 1963 That made him ineligible to play in Grand Slam events But he was ready when the Open Era began in 1968 Grand Slam events became open to professional players that year And in 1969 he became the first player to win all four Grand Slam events in the same year twice Laver is regarded as the best player of his era His 200 career tournament titles rank number one in tennis history through 2014 Laver also won 11 Grand Slam singles crowns despite not being allowed to play in them from 1963 to 1967 And he even won five Davis Cups which is the top international team tournament in men’s tennis 2 The number of men with at least two championships in each of the four Grand Slam tournaments Rod Laver and Roy Emerson