Roy Emerson

Roy Emerson is an Australian former tennis player, born on 3 November 1936, whose total of twenty-eight Grand Slam titles, twelve in singles and sixteen in doubles, is the all-time record for a male player. All of his singles major wins and fourteen of his doubles wins came before the Open era began in 1968, because he chose to stay an amateur rather than turn professional. He is the only man to have completed the career Grand Slam in both singles and doubles. He won six Australian Open singles titles, five of them in a row from 1963 to 1967, and he was a member of a record eight Davis Cup winning teams between 1959 and 1967. He was ranked world number one amateur in 1961, 1964 and 1965.