USA/ENGLAND: AUSTRALIAN TENNIS LEGEND ROD LAVER SUFFER A STROKE WHILE RECORDING A TELEVISION INTERVIEW

Record ID: 996760

  • Title: USA/ENGLAND: AUSTRALIAN TENNIS LEGEND ROD LAVER SUFFER A STROKE WHILE RECORDING A TELEVISION INTERVIEW
  • Date: 29th July 1998
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA/FILE (JULY 28, 1998/FILE) (FILE) (UNKNOWN LOCATION) (NETWORK 7 NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA) 1. ROD LAVER PRACTICING ON COURT (MONOCHROME) WIMBLEDON, LONDON, UK (AUGUST 1, 1988) (ACCESS ALL) 2. ROD LAVER SPEAKING ABOUT WIMBLEDON BEING HIS FAVOURITE TOURNAMENT TO PLAY (ENGLISH) LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (JULY 28, 1998) (RTV -- ACCESS ALL) 3. UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES (UCLA) MEDICAL CENTER, WHERE ROD LAVER WAS HOSPITALISED AND REMAINS AFTER SUFFERING A STROKE 4. CLOSE-UP OF MEDICAL CENTRE SIGN 5. DR. NEIL MARTIN, LAVER'S NEUROSURGEON AND CO-DIRECTOR OF THE UCLA STROKE CENTRE SAYING "YESTERDAY AFTERNOON ROD LAVER HAD A STROKE - IT WAS A MODERATE STROKE AND IT OCCURRED IN THE COURSE OF AN INTERVIEW AND IT CAME ON WITH A SUDDEN HEADACHE THEN DEVELOPED DIFFICULTY AND SOME WEAKNESS ON HIS RIGHT SIDE. FORTUNATELY HE WAS JUST MINUTES FROM UCLA AND HE WAS BROUGHT IMMEDIATELY INTO THE EMERGENCY UNIT HERE WHERE HE WAS EVALUATED BY UCLA MEDICAL TEAM. HE UNDERWENT A BRAIN SCAN WHICH SHOWED THE CAUSE OF THE STROKE - THERE WAS A SMALL HAEMORRHAGE, MODERATE SIZED HAEMORRHAGE IN THE BRAIN, LEFT SIDE OF THE BRAIN WHICH CAUSED SOME DIFFICULTY WITH HIS SPEECH AND SOME WEAKNESS ON HIS RIGHT SIDE" (ENGLISH) (FILE - LONDON, UK 1969)(SCHEDULED NEWS ONLY) 6. ROD LAVER PLAYING JOHN NEWCOMBE IN MEN'S FINAL (HAS LAVER SPEAKING IN COMMENTARY OVER IT) LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (JULY 28, 1998) (RTV -- ACCESS ALL) 7. REPORTERS AT NEW CONFERENCE BY DOCTOR MARTIN 8. DR. MARTIN SAYING "THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH STROKES - THEY CAN HAPPEN OUT OF THE BLUE TO PEOPLE EVEN IN THE PEAK OF CONDITION AND ITS A TREMENDOUS SHOCK AND A TREMENDOUS SURPRISE BUT FORTUNATELY IT WAS RECOGNISED AS SUCH - AS A STROKE AND HE GOT IN AND GOT IMMEDIATE EVALUATION - 9. TENNIS PRO ANDRE AGASSI AND HIS COACH PRACTICING ON COURT 10. MICHAEL TEBBUTT, AUSTRALIAN TENNIS PROFESSIONAL, SAYING " HE'S ONE OF THE TOP PLAYERS - AND ALONG WITH SAMPRAS DONT KNOW WHO ELSE YOU COULD PUT IN THAT CATEGORY YOU KNOW HE'S ONE OF THE TOP PLAYERS EVER - I THINK ITS A SHOCK TO EVERBODY HERE THIS MORNING" (ENGLISH) 11. ANDRE AGASSI'S COACH BRAD GILBERT SAYING "PAT RAFTER TOLD ME LAST NIGHT AND I WAS JUST REALLY SADDENED BY IT AND MY PRAYERS AND MY THOUGHTS ARE WITH HIS FAMILY - AND JUST HOPEFULLY HE'LL BE OK" (ENGLISH) (FILE LONDON, UK 1968)(SCHEDULED NEWS ONLY - MONOCHROME) 12. ROD LAVER WINNING WIMBLEDON AGAINST TONY ROCHE Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES/ UNKNOWN LOCATION/ WIMBLEDON, LONDON, UUNITED KINGDOM
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  • Country: USA
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