People from Rockhampton

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Frank Forde, Rod Laver, Vince Gair, Anna Meares, Duncan Hall, William Kidston, Arthur MacDonald, Kevin Johnson, Grant McLennan, Kerrod Walters, Duncan Armstrong, John Moore, Margaret Jones, Brad Cooper, William Knox D'Arcy, Gerard Brennan, Rhys Wesser, Anderson Dawson, De-Anne Kelly, Jamie Dwyer, Rod Reddy, Karl Stefanovic, Cyril Connell, Jr., Paul Hoffmann, James Edmond, Mark Conaghan, Leanne Benjamin, Glen Housman, Charles Hardie Buzacott, Ernestine Hill, Anthelme Thozet, Elena Birkbeck, Jordan Coulter, Scott Minto, Helen Donaldson, John Doyle, James Larcombe, Fergus McMaster, Mark Knowles, Kylie Cronk. Excerpt: Rodney George "Rod" Laver MBE (born 9 August 1938) is an Australian former tennis player who holds the record for titles won in career, and was the World No. 1 player for seven consecutive years, from 1964 to 1970 (from 1964 to 1967 in the professional circuit) . He is the only tennis player to have twice won the Grand Slam (all four major 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 and was the first player, male or female, to have won the Grand Slam during the open era. In 1988 Steffi Graf also achieved this feat. He won eleven Majors and eight Pro Slams. In 1967 he also won the Professional Grand Slam (only Ken Rosewall did the same in 1963). In addition he won nine Championship Series titles (1970-75) the precursors to the current Masters 1000. Laver won and excelled on all the surfaces of his time (grass, clay and wood/parquet), and was ranked as the best professional player in the world during the five-year period he was excluded from the Grand Slam tournaments. Rod Laver is the second and last male player to win each major title twice in his career. Only Roy Emerson and Margaret Court had won all four Grand Slam tourna...