Mervyn Rose

In the pantheon of Australian players who graced the game across the 1950s, Mervyn Rose took his place assuredly and persuasively.
In that decade, the left-handed Rose got on the board twice at the majors, winning the Australian Championships in 1954, collecting the French Championship crown four years later. Rose turned professional in 1959.
But there was more. In doubles he won every major except for the French Championships.

Rose was ranked inside the world's Top 10 throughout much of his tennis career and represented Australia in the Davis Cup from 1951 to 1957. He was ranked World No. 3 in 1958 by Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph.

He has coached numerous female players, including Billie Jean King, Margaret Court, Brett Prentice, Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, Eleni Daniilidou, Nadia Petrova, Magdalena Grzybowska and Caroline Schnieder.

Rose was awarded the Australian Sports Medal in 2000, inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2001 and the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame in 2002.
He was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2006 for service to tennis, particularly as a competitor at national and international levels and as a coach and mentor to both amateur and professional players.