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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Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods

Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods was born on December 30, 1975 is an American professional golfer and is among the foremost winning golfers of all time. He's  World No. 1 golfer and one of the highest-paid athletes in the world for many years.

Woods turned master of golf in 1996, and by April 1997 he won his initial title in highest performance, winning the tournament by twelve strokes and pocketing $486,000. He was first to reach the 1st position in the world rankings in 1997. Through the 2000s, Woods was the dominant force in golf, giving 264 weeks from August 1999 to Sept 2004 and 281 weeks from 2005 to Oct 2010 as world ideal. From december 2009 to early April 2010, Woods took leave from sport to concentrate on his wedding. His many extra-marital affairs were discovered by many worldwide media sources. This was followed by a loss of form, his ranking gradually fell to a low of No. 58 in November 2011. He completed a career-long unsuccessful streak of 107 weeks when he captured the Chevron World Challenge in december 2011. After winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational on March, 2013, he ascended to the No.1 ranking over again, holding the highest spot until May 2014.

Woods has broken varied golf records. He has been world ideal for the foremost consecutive weeks and for the best total vary of weeks of the opposite player. He has been awarded PGA Player of the Year a record eleven times, the Sixth Baron Sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale of Rochdale Horatio Nelson Award for lowest adjusted analysis average a record eight times the Byron Nelson Award for lowest adjusted scoring average a record eight times, and has the record of leading the cash list in ten completely different seasons. He has won fourteen good major golf championships, the second highest of any player and seventy nine PGA Tour events, second all time. He has additional career major wins and career PGA Tour wins than the opposite active player. He's the youngest player to appreciate the career slam, and conjointly the youngest and quickest to win fifty tournaments travel. to boot, Woods is barely the second player, once Jack William Jack Nicklaus, to have achieved a career slam 3 times. Woods has won eighteen World Golf Championships, and won a minimum of one all told those events in every of the first eleven years once they began in 1999. Woods is that the sole player to win every The trophy and conjointly the prize at The Open Championship.

Major championships

Year	Championship	54 holes	Winning score	Margin	Runner(s)-up
1997	Masters Tournament	9 shot lead	−18 (70-66-65-69=270)	12 strokes	Tom Kite
1999	PGA Championship	Tied for lead	−11 (70-67-68-72=277)	1 stroke	Sergio García
2000	U.S. Open	10 shot lead	−12 (65-69-71-67=272)	15 strokes	Ernie Els,  Miguel Ángel Jiménez
2000	The Open Championship	6 shot lead	−19 (67-66-67-69=269)	8 strokes	Thomas Bjørn,  Ernie Els
2000	PGA Championship (2)	1 shot lead	−18 (66-67-70-67=270)	Playoff	Bob May
2001	Masters Tournament (2)	1 shot lead	−16 (70-66-68-68=272)	2 strokes	David Duval
2002	Masters Tournament (3)	Tied for lead	−12 (70-69-66-71=276)	3 strokes	Retief Goosen
2002	U.S. Open (2)	4 shot lead	−3 (67-68-70-72=277)	3 strokes	Phil Mickelson
2005	Masters Tournament (4)	3 shot lead	−12 (74-66-65-71=276)	Playoff	Chris DiMarco
2005	The Open Championship(2)	2 shot lead	−14 (66-67-71-70=274)	5 strokes	Colin Montgomerie
2006	The Open Championship(3)	1 shot lead	−18 (67-65-71-67=270)	2 strokes	Chris DiMarco
2006	PGA Championship (3)	Tied for lead	−18 (69-68-65-68=270)	5 strokes	Shaun Micheel
2007	PGA Championship (4)	3 shot lead	−8 (71-63-69-69=272)	2 strokes	Woody Austin
2008	U.S. Open (3)	1 shot lead	−1 (72-68-70-73=283)	Playoff	Rocco Mediate

Results timeline

Tournament	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
Masters Tournament	T41LA	CUT	1	T8	T18	5	1	1	T15	T22	1	T3	T2	2	T6	T4	T4	T40	T4	DNP
U.S. Open	WD	T82	T19	T18	T3	1	T12	1	T20	T17	2	CUT	T2	1	T6	T4	DNP	T21	T32	DNP
The Open Championship	T68	T22LA	T24	3	T7	1	T25	T28	T4	T9	1	1	T12	DNP	CUT	T23	DNP	T3	T6
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	T29	T10	1	1	T29	2	T39	T24	T4	1	1	DNP	2	T28	CUT	T11	T40

LA = Low amateur
DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

Summary

Tournament	Wins	2nd	3rd	Top-5	Top-10	Top-25	Events	Cuts made
Masters Tournament	4	2	1	11	13	16	19	18
U.S. Open	3	2	1	7	8	14	18	16
The Open Championship	3	0	2	6	9	14	17	16
PGA Championship	4	2	0	7	8	10	16	15
Totals	14	6	4	31	38	54	70	65

• Most consecutive cuts made – 39 (1996 U.S. Open – 2006 Masters)
• Longest streak of top-10s – 8 (1999 U.S. Open – 2001 Masters)

World Golf Championships

Wins (18)

Year	Championship	54 holes	Winning score	Margin	Runner(s)-up
1999	WGC-NEC Invitational	5 shot lead	−10 (66-71-62-71=270)	1 stroke	Phil Mickelson
1999	WGC-American Express Championship	1 shot deficit	–6 (71-69-70-68=278)	Playoff 1	Miguel Ángel Jiménez
2000	WGC-NEC Invitational (2)	9 shot lead	−21 (64-61-67-67=259)	11 strokes	Justin Leonard,  Phillip Price
2001	WGC-NEC Invitational (3)	2 shot deficit	−12 (66-67-66-69=268)	Playoff 2	Jim Furyk
2002	WGC-American Express Championship (2)	5 shot lead	−25 (65-65-67-66=263)	1 stroke	Retief Goosen
2003	WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship	n/a	2 & 1	n/a	David Toms
2003	WGC-American Express Championship (3)	2 shot lead	−6 (67-66-69-72=274)	2 strokes	Stuart Appleby,  Tim Herron, Vijay Singh
2004	WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship (2)	n/a	3 & 2	n/a	Davis Love III
2005	WGC-NEC Invitational (4)	Tied for lead	−6 (66-70-67-71=274)	1 stroke	Chris DiMarco
2005	WGC-American Express Championship (4)	2 shot deficit	−10 (67-68-68-67=270)	Playoff 3	John Daly
2006	WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (5)	1 shot deficit	−10 (67-64-71-68=270)	Playoff 4	Stewart Cink
2006	WGC-American Express Championship (5)	6 shot lead	−23 (63-64-67-67=261)	8 strokes	Ian Poulter,  Adam Scott
2007	WGC-CA Championship (6)	4 shot lead	−10 (71-66-68-73=278)	2 strokes	Brett Wetterich
2007	WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (6)	1 shot deficit	−8 (68-70-69-65=272)	8 strokes	Justin Rose,  Rory Sabbatini
2008	WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship (3)	n/a	8 & 7	n/a	Stewart Cink
2009	WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (7)	3 shot deficit	−12 (68-70-65-65=268)	4 strokes	Robert Allenby,  Pádraig Harrington
2013	WGC-Cadillac Championship (7)	4 shot lead	−19 (66-65-67-71=269)	2 strokes	Steve Stricker
2013	WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (8)	7 shot lead	−15 (66-61-68-70=265)	7 strokes	Keegan Bradley,  Henrik Stenson

¹ Won on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff
² Won on the seventh hole of a sudden-death playoff
³ Won on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff
⁴ Won on the fourth hole of a sudden-death playoff

Results timeline

Tournament	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
Accenture Match Play Championship	QF	2	DNP	R64	1	1	R32	R16	R16	1	R32	DNP	R64	R32	R64	DNP
Cadillac Championship	1	T5	NT1	1	1	9	1	1	1	5	T9	DNP	T10	WD	1	T25
Bridgestone Invitational	1	1	1	4	T4	T2	1	1	1	DNP	1	T78	T37	T8	1
HSBC Champions											T6	T6	DNP	DNP	DNP

¹Cancelled due to 9/11
DNP = did not play
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
WD = withdrew
NT = No tournament
"T" = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

PGA Tour career summary

Year	Wins (Majors)	Earnings ($)	Money list rank
1996	2	790,594	24
1997	4 (1)	2,066,833	1
1998	1	1,841,117	4
1999	8 (1)	6,616,585	1
2000	9 (3)	9,188,321	1
2001	5 (1)	6,687,777	1
2002	5 (2)	6,912,625	1
2003	5	6,673,413	2
2004	1	5,365,472	4
2005	6 (2)	10,628,024	1
2006	8 (2)	9,941,563	1
2007	7 (1)	10,867,052	1
2008	4 (1)	5,775,000	2
2009	6	10,508,163	1
2010	0	1,294,765	68
2011	0	660,238	128
2012	3	6,133,158	2
2013	5	8,553,439	1
2014*	0	86,919	198
Career*	79 (14)	109,591,058	1

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