The motorcycle that took him to the longest possible route
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The motorcycle that took him to the longest possible route
This episode explores the life of Anthony Wilding, a tennis prodigy who achieved unprecedented success in the sport. It questions why a man with every reason to stay chose a path that would lead to his destruction.
Person: Anthony Wilding
Date: May 8, 1915
Location: Northern France
Sport: Tennis
Record: 23 singles championships in a single season
- Anthony Wilding was born in 1883 in Christchurch, New Zealand, into a family that built two tennis courts on their property.
- At six years old, he received his first racket directly from manufacturer Ralph Slazenger.
- He failed his matriculation examination in 1900 but passed the following year and enrolled at Trinity College Cambridge to study law.
- By 1906, the year he was called to the Bar, he had won 23 singles titles in a single season, a record that remains unbroken.
- In 1910, he rode his motorcycle 560 kilometers from Évian to Paris in a single day.
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