A Q&A with Dick Savitt, the self-taught tennis player who won the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 1951.

If you played with a guy who was a better volleyer than you, you knew you needed to work on your volley. I remember helping Ashe with his backhand. We would play at Columbia or in the park. Once in a while we got a few beers afterward.

↩︎ The New York Times

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