Sir, – Further to recent entertaining letters on the subject of modern day tennis players’ behaviour (Letters, July 11th and 12th), surely your Wimbledon tennis observers can’t be serious?
For as long as I can remember, going back to those wonderful Wimbledon summers in the 1970s, there has always been screaming, shouting, grunting and fist clenching as Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe and Billie Jean King will attest.
The only men’s player of that era who displayed a modicum of quiet perfection was Björn Borg.
His winning pose was to drop silently to his knees with his hands and racket raised to the heavens. – Yours, etc,
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AIDAN RODDY,
Cabinteely,
Dublin 18.