Rod Laver

This page provides a comprehensive overview of Rod Laver’s Grand Slam career. It combines key background information and career-level statistics with a complete, filterable list of his tournament results, showing how far he progressed in each Grand Slam event across his career.

Basics

Born	9 August 1938
Gender	Male
Nation	Australia
Era	Amateur Era and Open Era
Grand Slam careerCareer	1959-1962, 1968-1973, 1975, 1977
Strengths	Serve Net play Variety
Less strong	Unknown

Grand Slam statistics

Tournaments	28
Best results Open Era	5 x champion 1 x finalist 1 x quarterfinalist
Best results Amateur Era	6 x champion 5 x finalist 1 x semifinalist
W/L-record	147-17 (90% won)
Compared with other men	In the Open Era #15 of 2297 With overlapping career #1 of 457 From Australia #2 of 231 Born in 1938 #1 of 11

During the Amateur Era, only top results (quarterfinals or better) from 1945 onwards are listed on this site. Therefore, the list below may not include all Amateur Era results.

Rod Laver – Grand Slam results (year, tournament, result, age)
Year	Tournament	Era	Result	Age
1977	Wimbledon	Open Era	R64	38
1975	US Open	Open Era	R16	37
1973	US Open	Open Era	R32	35
1972	US Open	Open Era	R16	34
1971	Wimbledon	Open Era	Q	32
1971	Australian Open	Open Era	R16	32
1970	US Open	Open Era	R16	32
1970	Wimbledon	Open Era	R16	31
1969	US Open	Open Era	W	31
1969	Wimbledon	Open Era	W	30
1969	French Open	Open Era	W	30
1969	Australian Open	Open Era	W	30
1968	US Open	Open Era	R16	30
1968	Wimbledon	Open Era	W	29
1968	French Open	Open Era	F	29
1962	US Open	Amateur Era	W	24
1962	Wimbledon	Amateur Era	W	23
1962	French Open	Amateur Era	W	23
1962	Australian Open	Amateur Era	W	23
1961	US Open	Amateur Era	F	23
1961	Wimbledon	Amateur Era	W	22
1961	French Open	Amateur Era	S	22
1961	Australian Open	Amateur Era	F	22
1960	US Open	Amateur Era	F	22
1960	Wimbledon	Amateur Era	F	21
1960	Australian Open	Amateur Era	W	21
1959	US Open	Amateur Era	Q	21
1959	Wimbledon	Amateur Era	F	20