Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/21

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Subject: [Leica] Hello!
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 10:44:59 +0530
References: <17AFAB9E-5882-4E6B-9338-DDF7FF5CE804@gmail.com> <39582710-D98F-4E6F-9130-8B4F243A67FA@frozenlight.eu> <72159853.1070947.1395445943567.open-xchange@bosoxweb05.eigbox.net> <361804CA-F9AF-4906-8089-D244884ED2EE@gmail.com> <1117377022.1072277.1395447139196.open-xchange@bosoxweb05.eigbox.net> <374AB4FD-895C-48B6-8625-4DF1096D1EBA@gmail.com> <CAE3QcF4Re2ZA_e5K-0KCSO_ZyZz3StGeFkEYyuBuGzm-UUzHeQ@mail.gmail.com> <985468801.1082774.1395460771568.open-xchange@bosoxweb05.eigbox.net> <CAH1UNJ1Un5BHJQDa=5a-MhnuUknGhy74UBjPYs6uH4i37DcPeQ@mail.gmail.com> <1503314936.1084916.1395464433015.open-xchange@bosoxweb05.eigbox.net>

I've seen some film footage of him playing - he struck me as having a
precise and quite wonderful return of serve - and a serve that was
just sufficient to get the ball in play! No one else has got into a
Wimbledon final in his teens and at 39 (lost both, unfortunately, to
Drobny and Connors if memory serves me right), 20 years apart...great
longevity indeed...(-:
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 10:30 AM, afirkin <afirkin at afirkin.com> wrote:
> yes, typing too quickly ;-) Muscles to his friends. I once travelled on a 
> plane
> with him. His right forearm was twice the size of his left. Amazing player.
> Probably the best Australia has had (though he never won Wimbledon, he 
> almost
> certainly would have if the open era had arrived 10 years earlier and he 
> was
> still competing in finals into his 40's. Hoad was more explosive and Laver
> perhaps had an edge, but none of them went into a match up with Ken 
> thinking it
> would be easy. Best backhand and volley I've ever seen (for single 
> hand/wooden
> racquets)
>
> Cheers
>
>> On March 21, 2014 at 11:07 PM Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Isn't it Rosewall?
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand


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