Rod Laver vs Tony Roche USO F 1969 (3 of 4)

Rod strikes back with fury in the second and third set of this classic match. Even though the quality of the image here leaves much to be desired -- I have heightened contrast and actually made it much clearer than the mostly washed out original copy -- where its practically impossible almost to see what's going down...

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• Rod Laver
• Tony Roche
• Tennis

[Folkstone57]

@Aaronthegreatest Not only was Laver the only man since Budge, but this was Laver's second Grand Slam.

[Aaronthegreatest]

@Ariamaluum you know, that's a really good point...this was like history being made since it was only the second guy to do so (besides Don Budge) so I'm sure it was a big deal back then, and no man has managed to do it since. And all we have to remember it by is this grainy vid ._.

No offence to Borgforever, I'm glad for the upload :)

[Ariamaluum]

You hope with modern tech, they would improve the original copy. Last man to win a grand slam should be incentive enough to perserve this video. C'mon on CBS archives.