Tennis loses a brilliant entertainer

He used to describe himself as ‘‘just a scribbler and a babbler’’, but he was a fine journalist .

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still using typewriters.) ‘‘This is going to be a noisy fortnight,’’ he joked. The following day I bought his latest book, My Life With the Pros, in central London, and asked him to sign it when I got to Wimbledon. He was shocked – he hadn’t...

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