Rod Laver exclusive: 'Federer could be a movie star. Kyrgios? He needs to apply himself'

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There is still one figure in sport by whom even Roger Federer is starstruck. At 84, Rod Laver inhabits the most rarefied realm, his status as the only player ever to achieve a calendar grand slam twice establishing him within tennis as “Rod the God”. A sense of his eminence is evident at the very moment of meeting him. Here at Greenwich’s Intercontinental Hotel, as Stefanos Tsitsipas poses for selfies in the lobby and Bjorn Borg grabs a late breakfast with his wife Patricia, a setting has been l

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