The Australian media has claimed that the most abusive thing legendary tennis player Rod Laver said to an umpire was 'Are you sure'.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, these sensational revelations emerge in Laver's autobiography, out this week, and he doesn't bag current players or assassinate the character of his successors.
Besides a passing touch-up for Gonzales and Jimmy Connors and an early-1970s outburst at Ilie Nastase, the sum total of Laver's trash talk wouldn't fill up half a wristband, the report said.
Laver's personal qualities of humility, grace and sportsmanship are not innately Australian, but still make people proud to carry the same passport, the report added.
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