Roger Alton Roger Alton

Wimbledon’s ultimate one-up man

Plus: the sporting life of top Tory women, and the joylessness of the England football team

issue 09 July 2016

What a well-behaved Wimbledon. Apart from a bit of racket-smashing (most of the ladies), low-level swearing (Nick Kyrgios), tantrums (Kyrgios), and egregious non-trying (Kyrgios again, of course) it has all gone pretty-smoothly. So whatever happened to top-class gamesmanship? The master of this, you may be surprised to learn, was the greatest British player of all, the three-times Wimbledon champion Fred Perry.

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