Roger Taylor

Roger Taylor is a British former tennis player, born in Sheffield in 1941, who was active from 1958 to 1982. He reached the Wimbledon semi-finals in 1967, 1970 and 1973, the 1973 French Open quarter-finals and the 1970 Australian Open semi-finals, and won back to back US Open men's doubles titles in 1971 and 1972. He beat the defending Wimbledon champion Rod Laver in 1970 and, in 1973, offered to replay a disputed match point against the teenage Bjorn Borg, an act of sportsmanship that endeared him to the crowd. He won 31 career singles titles, was British number one in 1973 and 1974, and was the only British member of the Handsome Eight signed to World Championship Tennis in 1968. He later captained Great Britain in the Davis Cup and the Wightman Cup and received an MBE in 1977.