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Roger Taylor<br />
Helen Wills Moody<br />
1950s, had her playing days cut cruelly short after<br />
a horse-riding accident. She then threw all her<br />
energies into a second career as a sportswriter, TV<br />
commentator, entrepreneur and coach.<br />
Althea Gibson<br />
(champion 1956, 1957, 1958)<br />
Gibson’s first <strong>Surbiton</strong> title came just days after<br />
this American player won at Roland Garros,<br />
thereby becoming the first black person to win a<br />
Grand Slam in tennis. Venus Williams once wrote<br />
in tribute to her: “I am honoured to have followed<br />
in such great footsteps. Her accomplishments set<br />
the stage for my success, and through players like<br />
myself and Serena and many others to come, her<br />
legacy will live on.”<br />
Roger Taylor<br />
(champion 1963, 1967)<br />
Yorkshireman Taylor was a key British player in<br />
the 1960s and 1970s. It was fairly early in his career<br />
when he won his first <strong>Surbiton</strong> title, a grass-<br />
www.LTA.org.uk/aegonsurbitontrophy @<strong>Surbiton</strong><strong>Trophy</strong> 7
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