How Wimbledon and apartheid South Africa blocked a teen’s tennis dream

When a telegram arrived from the All England Lawn Tennis Club inviting Hoosen Bobat to play in the 1971 Wimbledon junior tournament, he read it more than a dozen times to be certain it was addressed to him. The accomplishment was surreal for the then 18-year-old, hailing from a segregated Durban suburb where life was […] The post How Wimbledon and apartheid South Africa blocked a teen’s tennis dream appeared first on Times of Spanish.
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