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Video: Tennis on ice
As the UK experiences the last throes of winter (hopefully), we dip our toe into a particularly chilling episode from tennis history. Cast your mind back to 1938: Europe is teetering on the brink of cataclysmic war, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is blowing minds around the world, László Bíró has just patented his pen (finally giving people…
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Blast from the past: Fred Perry and Dorothy Round win Wimbledon
For our second “blast from the past”, we’ve delved through British Pathé‘s seemingly endless archive to bring you this gem from a golden year for British tennis: 1934. As the tight-lipped newsreader declares, it had been 25 years since an “Englishman” had won Wimbledon, a record that Fred Perry ended in a tough final against Australia’s…
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