On that Sunday afternoon, Laver took on his greatest rival, Ken Rosewall, in Dallas in the championship match of the WCT Finals, a season-ending, eight-man event that at the time was the ...
And that was the loser talking. Ken Rosewall’s 4-6, 6-0, 6-3, 6-7(3), 7-6 (5) win over Rod Laver in the WCT Finals in Dallas in May 1972 has been called the “match that made tennis in the ...