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Bec and Lleyton: Part one

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Pat Rafta - The Last Aussie Gentleman to Play Great Tennis

Layton played his first Australian Open in 1997 when he was just 15 years old. Within four years of that debut, he won his first Grand Slam in 2001 at the US Open. He finished that year, 2001, as the world number one, and he stayed there for 75 weeks. In 2015, the Australian Women's Weekly wrote a piece titled, was Pat Rafta the last Aussie gentleman to play great tennis? We were too young.

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