FILE PHOTO: Tennis - Australian Open - Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia, January 26, 2017. Former Australian tennis player Rod Laver looks on after he was presented with the Companion of the Order of Australia by Australia's Governor-General Peter Cosgrove. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo
LONDON (Reuters) - Few subjects animate tennis aficionados quite like the "greatest of all time" debate, but there is a consensus that Rod Laver's 1969 calendar year grand slam remains a yardstick for the modern game.
But for a quiet revolution that took place on the Wimbledon turf two years previously, however, Laver's feat would be absent from the record books and tennis may never have flourished into the global spectacle it is today.
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