People from Rockhampton, Queensland: Frank Forde, Rod Laver, Vince Gair, Anna Meares, William Kidston, Arthur MacDonald, Kevin Johnson

Chapters: Frank Forde, Rod Laver, Vince Gair, Anna Meares, William Kidston, Arthur Macdonald, Kevin Johnson, Kerrod Walters, John Moore, Grant Mclennan, Brad Cooper, Margaret Jones, Gerard Brennan, William Knox D'arcy, Duncan Armstrong, De-Anne Kelly, Anderson Dawson, Rhys Wesser, Jamie Dwyer, Rod Reddy, Cyril Connell, Jr., Karl Stefanovic, Charles Hardie Buzacott, James Edmond, Mark Conaghan, Leanne Benjamin, Glen Housman, Paul Hoffmann, Anthelme Thozet, Ernestine Hill, Andy Wear, Scott Minto, Mark Knowles, Helen Donaldson, Fergus Mcmaster, Elena Birkbeck, John Doyle, Kylie Cronk. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 146. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rodney George "Rod" Laver MBE (born 9 August 1938, in Rockhampton, Australia) is a former tennis player from Australia who was the World No. 1 player for seven consecutive years, from 1964 to 1970. He is the only tennis player to have twice won all four Grand Slam singles titles in the same year first as an amateur in 1962 and second as a professional in 1969. He is the only male player during the open era to have won a calendar year Grand Slam. Laver was ranked as the best professional player in the world during the five-year period he was excluded from the Slams. Rod Laver and Roy Emerson are the only male players to win each major title twice in their careers. Although of a slightly short and medium build (1.72 m), Laver developed a technically complete serve-and-volley game, with aggressive groundstrokes to back it up. As Dan Maskell put it, he was "technically faultless, from his richly varied serve to his feather-light touch on drop volleys plus a backhand drive carrying destructive topspin when needed or controlling slice when the situation demanded it." His left-handed serve was well disguised and wide swinging. His wristy gro...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=22142