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Roger Taylor (1941)
Tennis is an outdoor sport which can be played between two players or four players. Players utilize a stringed racquet to hit a rubber ball, hollow inside covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. In some places tennis is referred to as lawn tennis. This game started in England and was the most popular amongst the upper class of society. Presently tennis is an Olympic sport, as well as, it is played in various tournaments including the four Grand Slams in many countries, by people of all ages and classes.
There are three different court surfaces it is played on namely, clay court, grass court and hardcourt. Depending on the surface, each one provides a different movement of speed and bounce for the ball, which in turn affects the level of play of individual players.
Roger Taylor is a British tennis player. He was born on 14 October, 1941, in Sheffield, England. He never won a singles title during his career, but he was relatively successful at several Grand Slam tournaments, reaching the quarter final of the French Open in 1973 and the semi final of Wimbledon during the same year. He also enjoyed particular success in 1970, again reaching the semi final of Wimbledon and the semi final of the Australian Open.
Roger Taylor never progressed beyond the 4th round of the grand slam, and even then only ever reaching the 4th round at the US Open in 1969 and 1971. Other than his two semi final appearances at Wimbledon, he never progressed beyond the 2nd round. Taylor was the sole British member of the so-called Handsome Eight signed by Lamar Hunt to compete in his newly created WCT, World Championship Tennis tour in 1968. He retired from professional tennis in 1980, later becoming captain of the British Davis Cup team.
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