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Kenny Fletcher, a lonely only child with an irrepressible spirit, used to bang a tennis ball against the board in his back garden, day and night. Using a racquet far too big for him, gifted by a passing French tennis star who couldn€t know what he€d started, he perfected a stunning forehand. Even so, Annerley Junction was more than a bit surprised when young Ken was seeded Number 3 at Wimbledon and won a Grand Slam, using the stroke that Harry Hopman called 'the best forehand in the world' to devastating effect, and then went on to lead a life of dazzling glamour. In The Great Fletch, Hugh Lunn explores whether great talent and misfortune make a pair, and shows us a more innocent time in Australian sporting history. This wonderful memoir is written with feeling, humour and insight in the trademark style of one of our best writers, about one of the last great larrikins. |
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