In Newport Beach over Memorial Weekend, one such smashing event welcomed 507 players on local courts for the inaugural Roy Emerson Tennis Classic benefiting SOY (Save Our Youth), a most worthy ...

During the 1960s, tennis saw an Australian invasion as the Aussies didn’t come to take part. They came to take over. And outside of Rod Laver, none was better than Roy Emerson.

Emerson won 28 Grand Slam titles (12 singles, 16 doubles,) ... The tennis player even inspired a line in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises, ...