Tony Roche, a left-hander with a fine backhand volley who was twice ranked No 2 in the world, was born the son of a Tarcutta butcher in 1945. In the 1960s he teamed up with Newcombe to form a doubles team that would win them five Wimbledon titles between 1965 and 1974, as well as four Australian and two French championships plus the American and Italian titles once each. In 1993, Roche was appointed coach and his partner, Newcombe, captain of the Davis Cup team. A bad shoulder injury plagued Roche most of his career though it didn't stop him winning tennis championships.
Ivan Lendl (born March 7, 1960 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech tennis player. He was #1 ranked player in ATP rankings for 270 weeks from 1983 to 1990. Ivan Lendl reached finals in 18 Grand Slam tournaments, including eight straight finals in the US Open from 1982 to 1989. He won US Open three times (1985, 1986 and 1987), French Open three times (1984, 1986 and 1987) and Australian Open twice (1989 and 1990). One reason for his success was the hardcourt surface used at Flushing Meadows. The workers that each year laid the surface, went directly to Lendl's house in Long Island. This way Lendl could get an exact copy at his own lawn. Despite his great success, Lendl never managed to win the Tournament of Wimbledon, and therefore, he never managed to complete the career Grand Slam.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001
© Estate of Joe Greenberg
Joe Greenberg (age 63 in 1986)
Tony Roche (age 41 in 1986)
Ivan Lendl (age 26 in 1986)
Joe Greenberg (37 portraits)
On one level The Companion talks about the most famous and frontline Australians, but on another it tells us about ourselves.
A collection of thirty-seven caricatures by the artist Joe Greenberg capture the heroes and villians of Australian business in the 1980s.
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