Australian tennis legend Neale Fraser dies at 91

Apart from the indestructible Shamil Tarpischev, captain of the Soviet (then Russian) Davis Cup team for… forty-three years, no one has held this position as long as Neale Fraser. The Australian, who has just passed away at the age of 91, was paradoxically much better known for this position, which he occupied continuously for twenty-four years (from 1970 to 1993) than for his past as a player. . After winning the event four times as a player during the Challenge Round era (particularly associated with Rod Laver and Roy Emerson from 1959 to 1962), he won it four more times as captain, with two different generations of players, such as John Newcombe, Rod Laver and Tony Roche (1973, 1977) or Pat Cash and John Fitzgerald (1983, 1986).