Rod Laver
Rodney George Laver is an Australian former tennis player. Laver was ranked the world number 1 professional player indisputably for five years from 1965 to 1969 and by some sources also in 1964 and 1970. He was also ranked as the number 1 amateur in 1961 and 1962. Laver won 198 singles titles which is the most won by a player in history.
9 August 1938
Born on the same birth date (9 August 1938): Leonid Kuchma • Otto Rehhagel
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