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The motorcycle that took him to the longest possible route

The motorcycle that took him to the longest possible route

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A tennis champion with four Wimbledon titles writes a letter from a dugout in France. He describes an operation that will likely blow him to hell.

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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