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Ashe vs Connors: Wimbledon 1975: Tennis that went beyond Centre Court

Pages 141-143 | Published online: 07 Mar 2018
 

Notes

1. The Hunt-Lauda battle was made into the film Rush, while Borg McEnroe was released in September 2017. Howzat: Kerry Packer’s War was first broadcast on Channel 9 in Australia in August 2012. See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2311643/ (accessed 28 November 2017).

2. Hugh Hudson, Chariots of Fire (Enigma Productions, 1981). The quotation is taken from a famous scene in the film where its central character, Harold Abrahams, is questioned by two college masters on his use of a personal coach.

3. For an overview of the advent of professionalism in the two sports, see Rob Steen, Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), 307–14 and 331–8.

4. Tony Collins, The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby (London: Bloomsbury, 2016), 486.

5. For current match fixing inquiries, see, among others, Charlie Eccleshare, ‘Three Wimbledon matches part of latest tennis match-fixing probe’, The Telegraph, 19 July 2017, available at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2017/07/19/three-wimbledon-matches-part-latest-tennis-match-fixing-probe/

6. One example of the ongoing debate is the question of whether Davis Cup matches should be shortened from five to three sets. See, for example, ‘Davis Cup: Proposal to reduce matches to best-of-three sets rejected by ITF’, BBC Sport, 4 August 2017, available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/40823511

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