Page "Ken Rosewall" Paragraph 49

Having won at age 35 almost all the great events except for Wimbledon, this tournament became Rosewall's priority in the seventies.

The obvious reason it had eluded him was that for ten years ( 1957 – 1966 ) he had been unable, due to the rules that had excluded him because of his professional status, to enter the competition at a time when he was at his best — and particularly between 1961 and 1965 ( except 1964 ) when he was probably the best grasscourt player in the world.

( In 1967, a pro tournament was held, Laver beating Rosewall in the final: if the 1967 pro tournament is taken into account Laver and Rosewall are then respectively five times winner and five times finalist of the Wimbledon tournament.