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Leonard Roscoe Tanner (born October 15, 1951) is a retired American tennis player, who turned professional in 1972 and reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 on July 30, 1979. Tanner was famous for his big left-handed serve, which was reportedly clocked at 153 miles per hour (246 km/h) at the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California on February 19, 1978 during the 1978 American Airlines Tennis Games singles final against Raúl Ramírez . [2] [3] [4] He is also known for winning the men's singles title at the first of two Australian Open tournaments held in 1977. Tanner won the tournament held in January, Vitas Gerulaitis won the December tournament. Tanner reached the Wimbledon final in 1979 , losing to Björn Borg in five sets.After his retirement, Tanner received media attention in the 2000s for legal problems that included stretches of imprisonment, arrests for missing child support payments, allegations of financial misdeeds, and bankruptcy.In this interview, we chat about how he has taken control back of his life, by owning the mistakes that he has made! This is an episode you dint want to miss…

I had a fascinating talk with tennis legend Roscoe Tanner. Everything about this man is iconic. He played in an iconic time, the 70s, when the ATP was formed, Battle of the Sexes and so much more. It's when I grew up and fell in love with tennis. His doubles partner was certainly iconic, Arthur Ashe the first top black player. He used the PDP racket which was virtually unknown. And he had the biggest clocked serve in tennis history for 30 years. We spoke for an hour and a half which is why I split this episode in two parts. Enjoy! I certainly did.