Ken Rosewall

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Uploaded by on Sep 28, 2009

Australian tennis legend Ken Rosewall is a Sydney 2009 World Masters games ambassador.

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  • who disliked this?...oh yea a federer/nadal fan

  • saw Ken from 54-75 total class!!

  • I saw a televised match where K.R. was injured, perhaps against Newcombe. He played the match out using his racquet as a cane to support himself and still won.

    I was a kid then, and that match made me a major fan of his. Watching that and WCT made tennis my #1 sport.

  • @atele6. Likewise, he could do this off a volley in front of the service line behind the service box. No-man's land area! He was that strong. Why nobody could duplicate is because he is a natural lefty. His father switched him due to the social mores of the time. The key to his backhand is that swinging strong left arm and body that always put him in great position to hit which other righty backhands can't do. However, he had problems with serves and forehand when he was behind.

  • @Ariamaluum Yes, you`re right, it all looked the same from his backhand, including an offensive lob uncanningly laser guided that would land very deep to the baseline. What i can`t figure out is his secret of keeping the face of the racket open in the windup and placing it so as the strings lay flat facing the sky , and still come into the ball with such consistency and producing a hard flat-sliced shot, close to the net tape, in order to remain, offensively, in the court.

  • @atele6. He slice could go down the line, cross court to the service line or the service box in the same motion. No one has duplicated that.

  • This gentleman got me inspired to take tennis after watching him play on T.V. against Rod Laver in ^71 at the W.C.T. final in Dallas. He beat Laver, and all odds, and still probably does after all these years. I have enjoyed the game since then , and still have`nt seen the likes of his style and ease in every movement on court. One of a kind yet to come half close nowadays could be Federer, who could improve flattening his backhand a bit more like Rosewall, and make it more of a weapon.

  • The greatest I know since many years. I saw him first at CHANTILLY in 1967, and the following year in PARIS in 1968 first French Open, and after I became a tennis player. Now there are forty three years, i am a tennis playe, and i am not ready to stop.

  • what a great player

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