Tennis

2022 - 7 - 10

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Wimbledon provides encouragement for future of British tennis (Messenger Newspapers)

After Murray and Raducanu went out in the second round, there were still four players left, with Norrie, Heather Watson, Katie Boulter and Liam Broady all ...

“The most exciting thing now is that we have this plethora of talent coming through. “It’s an extreme example but, when (Bjorn) Borg came along, you had 50 Swedish players all of a sudden. “The brilliant thing, which maybe I didn’t really experience when I was 18 or 19, is the younger guys get to play with everyone. We’re getting more upsets over the grass than I’ve experienced in my time within British tennis. The culture there has changed for me. Things have changed in the last four, five years.

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Wimbledon provides encouragement for future of British tennis (The Independent)

Cameron Norrie's run to the semi-finals was not the only British success story of the fortnight.

“The most exciting thing now is that we have this plethora of talent coming through. “It’s an extreme example but, when (Bjorn) Borg came along, you had 50 Swedish players all of a sudden. And, when some players start to do well, you obviously get a knock-on effect. “The brilliant thing, which maybe I didn’t really experience when I was 18 or 19, is the younger guys get to play with everyone. The culture there has changed for me. Things have changed in the last four, five years.

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Country diary 1972: goldfinches spotted during Wimbledon tennis final (The Guardian)

12 July 1972: As I watched the women's final on television, a pair of goldfinches kept shuttling to and fro across my line of vision beyond the screen.

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