Famous tennis player: Michael Chang

America has given many wonderful players to a sport like tennis. Like other fields of life, Americans have proved their worth in tennis too. Let’s discuss one of the wonderful and youngest tennis players of America. Michael Chang is one of the best tennis players of America. He is an American Tennis star, Chang is also the luckiest youngest player in the history of tennis to win a Grand Slam title. He has been among the top ten players of the world for many years. However, Chang never hit the World No.1 as his best ever was World No.2. At the age of 16, Michael Chang won his first major title in 1988 at San Francisco. A year later, Chang won the French Open by defeating Stefan Edberg. Another reason behind his popularity was the fact that no one had ever won a French Open since 1995. Chang was lucky enough that he was listed in top five players in the world, which was a record for being so young. Unfortunately, Michael Chang could not continue his career on the high as he showed in the beginning of his career. Luckily, he reached French Open final in 1995 but lost in the final. Although Chang had beaten tough opponents in previous matches but his performance in the final match was criticized heavily by the public. In 1966 Chang also reached finals of Australian Open and Us Open but luck was not with him. Unfortunately he lost to Boris Becker in Australian and in US Open he was defeated by Pete Sampras. Had Chang won any of these Grand Slams he would have achieved World No.1rank but it was not to be. In 2003 he got retired after failing to win anything major for three years.

Important tennis tournaments: ABN AMRO World Tennis, Heineken Open Tennis and South Asian Tennis Open Tennis Tournament

ABN AMRO World Tennis, Heineken Open Tennis and South Asian Tennis Open Tennis Tournament are some of the most important tennis tournaments. Let’s discuss them briefly. One of the biggest events of Netherland is ABN AMRO. ABN AMRO falls in ATP World 500 series. The tournament remained a part of Grand Prix tennis circuit till 1989. The tournament is also known as WCT and it is played on hard surface. When ABN AMRO first started in 1974, it was covered by media giant AVRO. From then, the tournament is broadcasted in 170 countries. It also receives active coverage in many international magazines of sports. The prize money for tournament is 310,000 Euro. Heineken Open is one of the largest events of tennis. It is help in Auckland. The tournament started when Auckland Tennis started developing permanent courts of tennis in 1920. Local funds helped a lot in establishing new courts. Local tennis enjoyed these courts as local matches were played throughout these years. Both men and women were given chance to play by the local tennis tournaments. Later, the international series started in the courts in 1998 and remained that way till the year 2008.The prize money of the tournament if $436,000. South Asian Tennis Open is considered as a hard court tournament that is played in the outdoors. Initially the South Asian Tennis Open started as part of Grand Prix circuit but later it became a part of 250 tennis series event. Every year the tournament is held in Johannesburg. The prize money of the tournament is $443,500. The total finances for the South Asian Tennis Open are of $500,000. South Asian Tennis Open has issues with ATP tour but it returned to its status after thirteen years. The court can accommodate almost 6000 fans during a match

Popular Tennis Player Rod Laver

History of the world is full of sports and entertainment. People play games not only to keep them physically fit but to reduce their tensions. Tennis is one of the most popular sports of all times. People play, watch and admire this game. The history of tennis is saturated with big names. There are some tennis players who played better than other and Rod laver is one of those big names. He played and played very well. 

Best player of his time, Rod Laver was born in Australia. He remained number one rank for seven consecutive years, which is still a record that has broken by no one. As an amateur player he won all the four Grand Slam titles and when he played as a professional player he won all the titles again. He is the only title in the whole history of tennis who has done this.

Power game was not Rod Laver’s thing as he was not a huge player. However Laver developed a perfect serve and an amazing volley to cover for that. The topspin of Laver was considered deadliest. His lobs and wrist work with topspins was among his most dangerous weapons. Technically, he was perfect as he had developed a great variety of serve and attaching topspin lobs. Laver was astonishing at controlling the slice.

When the Open Era started, he was the first one to win Wimbledon by beating Tony Roche. Out of 32 he won 18 singles tournaments that he participated in year 1969. Laver win loss record at that time was 106-6, which is wonderful no matter how people see it. When he became 30 years old, he continued winning at an impressive eight percent win record. He has a career win percentage of 80 which is simply wonderful considering ATP only list twenty titles. Laver won another 180 before the Open Era.