Rod Laver

Rod Laver

Rodney George Laver was born  on 9 August 1938 in Rockhampton, Queensland is an Australian former professional tennis player who holds the record for most singles titles won in the history of tennis, with 200 career titles.

He was stratified World No. 1 for seven consecutive years, from 1964 to 1970 and also in 1961 and 1962 . He is the only player who won the Grand Slam two times in 1962 and 1969. He also won the  the Pro Grand Slam in 1967. He won a total of nineteen Major singles titles, as well as 11 Grand Slams and eight Pro Slams. Rodney George Laver is that the third player, behind  Roy Emerson and Margaret Court, to win each major singles title double in his career. He also won a total of nine major doubles titles as well as six Grand Slam doubles and  3 Grand Slam mixed doubles.

He holds the all-time male records of 22 singles titles in a season (1962) and 7 consecutive years (1964–70) winning at least ten singles titles per season. in addition to the present he won nine Championship Series titles (1970–75). He was the first player to win 5 Championship series titles in one season (1970) and to achieve six finals in a season (1970). The Championship series were precursors to this Masters one thousand. Laver won and excelled on all the surfaces of his time (hard, grass, clay and wood/parquet), and was stratified because the best professional player within the world during the five-year period he was excluded from the sweep tournaments. Laver is wide regarded as one among the greatest lawn tennis players of all time.

Full name                 :                  Rodney George Laver
Country                   :                  Australia
Residence                :                  Carlsbad, California, United States
Birth                        :                  9 August 1938
Birth Place              :                  Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Height                     :                 5 ft 8 in
Career                    :                 1963-1976

Singles
Career record 536–136
Career titles 200
Highest ranking No. 1 (1961, Lance Tingay)

Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open W (1960, 1962, 1969)
French Open W (1962, 1969)
Wimbledon W (1961, 1962, 1968, 1969)
US Open W (1962, 1969)

Other tournaments
Tour Finals RR – 2nd (1970)
WCT Finals F (1971, 1972)
Professional majors:
US Pro W (1964, 1966, 1967)
Wembley Pro W (1964, 1965, 1966, 1967)
French Pro W (1967)

Doubles
Career record 238–80
Career titles 28
Highest ranking No. 11

Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open W (1959, 1960, 1961, 1969)
French Open W (1961)
Wimbledon W (1970)
US Open F (1960, 1970, 1973)

Mixed Doubles
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
French Open W (1961)
Wimbledon W (1959, 1960)

Team competitions
Davis Cup W (1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1973)

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Diego Maradona

Diego Maradona

Diego Armando Maradona Franco was born on 30 October, 1960 is a retired Argentine footballer brought up by Diego Maradona 'Chitoro' and Dalma Salvadora Franco 'Doña Tota'.  He has also served as a manager and coach at other clubs as well as for the national team of Argentina. He is regarded as the best football player of all time.

A player operated in the classic range 10 position, Maradona is only player in football world to line the world record transfer fee twice. He first transferred to  Barcelona for £5m, and secondly  he transferred to  Napoli for £6.9m. He played for Argentinos Juniors, Boca Juniors, Barcelona, Napoli, Seville and Newell's Old Boys throughout his club career, and is most celebrated for his time at Napoli where he won varied accolades. In his international career, playing for Argentina, he attained ninety one caps and scored 34 goals.

Maradona played four FIFA World Cups, including the 1986 World Cup where he captained Argentina and led them to finish over European nation in the final, and won the Golden Ball award of the tournament's best player. In the 1986 World Cup match, he scored both goals in a 2–1 finish over European nation that entered football history, tho' for 2 completely different reasons. the first goal was unpenalized handling foul known as the "Hand of God", whereas the second goal followed a 60 m (66 yd) dribble past 5 European nation players, voted "The Goal of the Century" by FIFA.com voters in 2002.

Maradona is considered one among the sport's most disputable and interesting figures. He was suspended from football for 15 months in 1991 after failing a drug take a look at, for hard drug, in Italy, and he was sent home from the 1994 World Cup in the U.S. after testing positive for ephedrine. In 2005, he lost a considerable quantity of extra weight and overcame his cocaine addiction. His outspoken views have typically put him in conflict with journalists and sport executives. although he had little managerial expertise, he became head coach of the Argentina national team in november 2008, and control the work for eighteen months, till his contract terminated after the 2010 World Cup.

He coached city primarily based club Al Wasl in the UAE Arabian Gulf League for the 2011-2012 season. In August 2013, Maradona joined Argentine Primera D club Deportivo Riestra's employees as "spiritual coach".

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Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan

Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born on Feb seventeen, 1963, is former basketball player, enterprenuer and principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets. He compete fifteen seasons within the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards. His life on the NBA web site states, "By approval, archangel Jordan is that the greatest basketeer of all time." Jordan was one in every of the foremost effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was thought-about instrumental in popularizing the NBA round the world within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties.

After a three-season career at the University of North geographical area at town, wherever he was a member of the Tar Heels' national championship team in 1982, Jordan joined the NBA's Chicago Bulls in 1984. He quickly emerged as a league star, amusing crowds together with his prolific marking. His bounce ability, illustrated by playing slam dunks from the foul shot line in slam dunk contests, attained him the nicknames "Air Jordan" and "His Airness". He conjointly gained a name for being one in every of the simplest defensive players in basketball. In 1991, he won his initial NBA championship with the Bulls, and followed that action with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a "three-peat". though Jordan short retired from basketball before the start of the 1993–94 NBA season to pursue a career in baseball, he rejoined the Bulls in 1995 and LED them to a few further championships in 1996, 1997, and 1998, moreover as associate NBA-record seventy two regular-season wins within the 1995–96 NBA season. Jordan retired for a second time in 1999, however came back for 2 a lot of NBA seasons from 2001 to 2003 as a member of the Wizards.

Jordan's individual accolades and accomplishments embrace 5 most dear Player (MVP) Awards, 10 All-NBA team designations, 9 All-Defensive team honors, fourteen NBA All-Star Game appearances, 3 All-Star Game participant Awards, 10 marking titles, 3 steals titles, six NBA Finals participant Awards, and also the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award. Among his various accomplishments, Jordan holds the NBA records for highest career regular season marking average (30.12 points per game) and highest career competition marking average (33.45 points per game). In 1999, he was named the best North yankee jock of the twentieth century by ESPN, and was second to Sultan of Swat on the Associated Press's list of athletes of the century. he's a wander inductee into the Basketball Hall of Fame – in 2009 for his individual career, and in 2010 as a member of the 1992 u.  s. public lavatory Olympic squad ("The Dream Team").

Jordan is additionally well-known for his product endorsements. He fueled  the success of Nike's Air Jordan sneakers, that were introduced in 1985 and stay in style these days. Jordan conjointly marked within the 1996 motion-picture show house Jam as himself. In 2006, he became owner and head of basketball operations for the then-Charlotte Bobcats, shopping for interest in 2010.

Awards and Titles

• Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2009 (individual), Class of 2010 (member of the "Dream Team")

• 2 Olympic gold medals – 1984, 1992

• 6× NBA champion

• 6× NBA Finals MVP

• 5× NBA MVP

• 10 NBA scoring leader (1987–1993, 1996–1998)

• 3× steals leader (1988, 1990, 1993)

• 3× minutes leader

• 14 NBA All-Star selections

• 3× NBA All-Star Game MVP

• 11 All-NBA selections

• 9 All-Defensive First Team selections

• 2× NBA Slam Dunk Contest champion – 1987, 1988

• NBA Rookie of the Year – 1984–85

• NBA Defensive Player of the Year – 1987–88

• NCAA national championship – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 1981–82

• ACC Freshman of the Year – 1981–82

• 2× Consensus NCAA All-American First Team – 1982–83, 1983–84

• ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year – 1983–84

• USBWA College Player of the Year – 1983–84

• Naismith College Player of the Year – 1983–84

• John R. Wooden Award – 1983–84

• Adolph Rupp Trophy – 1983–84

• Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year – 1991.

• Named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996.

• Ranked No.1 by SLAM Magazine's Top 50 Players of All-Time.

• Ranked No.1 by ESPN SportsCentury's Top North American Athletes of the 20th century.

• Elected to North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame

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Donald Bradman

1. Donald Bradman
2. Sir Donald George Bradman, was an Australian cricketer, recognized as the greatest Test batsman of all time.  Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 is often cited as the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.
3. Birth                   :          August 27, 1908
   Birth Place      :         Cootamundra, Australia
4. Education        :          Bowral High School
5. Height               :          5 ft 7 in
6. Spouse              :          Jessie Martha Menzies (1932–1997)
7. Books                 :          The Art of Cricket
8. Died                   :          February 25, 2001, Kensington Park, Australia
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   Competition                   Tests                   F.C.
   Matches                                   52                         234
   Runs scored                       6,996                   28,067
   Batting average                99.94                      95.14
   100s/50s                          29/13                   117/69
   Top score                              334                        452*
   Balls bowled                          160                      2114
   Wickets                                      2                           36
   Bowling average               36.00                     37.97
   5 wickets in innings                 0                            0
   10 wickets in match                0                            0
   Best bowling                         1/8                      3/35
   Catches/stumpings             32/–                  131/1
   
   
   Batting
   Opposition    Matches     Runs     Average     High Score    100 / 50
   
   
   England                       37        5028           89.78                   334            19/12
   India                              5           715          178.75                  201              4/1
   South Africa                 5           806          201.50                 299*            4/0
   West Indies                  5           447             74.50                 223              2/0
   Overall                        52        6996             99.94                 334             29/13
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   2. First-class performance

   1. 	Innings	Not Out	Highest	Aggregate	Average	100s	100s/inns
      Ashes Tests	63	7	334	5,028	89.78	19	30.2%
      All Tests	80	10	334	6,996	99.94	29	36.3%
      Sheffield Shield	96	15	452*	8,926	110.19	36	37.5%
      All First Class	338	43	452*	28,067	95.14	117	34.6%
      Grade	93	17	303	6,598	86.80	28	30.1%
      All Second Class	331	64	320*	22,664	84.80	94	28.4%
      Grand Total	669	107	452*	50,731	90.27	211	31.5%

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Muhammad Ali

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2. Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali is a former American boxer, generally considered among the greatest heavyweights in the sport's history and crowned  "Sports Personality of the Century" by the BBC  and "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated.

1. Birth                  :        January 17, 1942
2. Age                    :       72
3. Birth Place       :        Louisville, Kentucky, United States
4. Height             :       6 ft 3 in
5. Full name         :        Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.
6. Spouse             :        Sonji Roi  (1964-1966)
7.                              Khalilah Ali (1968-1977)
8.                              Veronica  (1977-86)
9.                             Yolanda Williams (1986 till date)
10. Children           :        Laila Ali, Rasheda Ali, Hana Ali, Jamillah Ali, 
11.                              Asaad Amin, Maryum Ali, Khaliah Ali, Miya Ali,
12.                              Muhammad Ali Jr.
13. Movies             :        The Greatest, Freedom Road
14. Albums            :         The Adventures of Ali and His Gang vs. Mr. Tooth 
15.                              Decay

Boxing record

Total fights         :        61
Wins                  :        56
Wins by KO         :        37
Losses                :       05
Draws                 :        0
No contests         :        0

Achievements

1. WBA Heavyweight boxing champion : February 25, 1964 – June 19, 1964

2. WBC Heavyweight boxing champion : February 25, 1964 – March 11, 1969
3. WBA Heavyweight boxing champion : February 6, 1967 – April 28, 1967
4. NABF Heavyweight boxing champion : December 17, 1970–1971

5. NABF Heavyweight boxing champion : Ju1y 26, 1971 – March 31, 1973

6. NABF Heavyweight boxing champion : September 10, 1973–1974 

7. WBA Heavyweight boxing champion : October 30, 1974 – February 15, 1978
8. WBC Heavyweight boxing champion : October 30, 1974 – February 15, 1978

9. WBA Heavyweight boxing champion : September 15, 1978 – September 6, 1979

Awards

1. United Press International Athlete of the Year : 1974
2. Hickok Belt Winner : 1974
3. Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year : 1963
4. Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year : 1972

5. Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year : 1974, 1975
6. Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year : 1978
7. BWAA Fighter of the Year : 1965
8. BWAA Fighter of the Year : 1974, 1975

9. BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year : 1973, 1974, 1978

10. Final Summer Olympic Torchbearer : 1996

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