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John Newcombe

Date of birth:	23 May 1944
Date of death:	Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin:	Australia
Profession:	Tennis Player
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	" A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult. "		John Newcombe

	" But if we can play at our pace in our age bracket we can play much better and have more fun with the crowd. I would like to play with Roche at Wimbledon again and the opportunities are running out. "		John Newcombe

	" By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit. "		John Newcombe

	" I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school. "		John Newcombe

	" I first went to Wimbledon in 1961 and have been every year since with the exception of 1975 when I had a cartilage out. "		John Newcombe

	" I had started my love affair with Wimbledon. "		John Newcombe

	" I realised that I had allowed the emotions of the Centre Court to envelop me. Matches like that are part of the reason why in 1970 I was able to realise what was happening to me against Rosewall and get out of it. "		John Newcombe

	" I tried out for the cricket team, then found out I had to play Saturday mornings... or Saturday afternoons and practice twice a week. "		John Newcombe

	" I was a pretty feisty young kid. "		John Newcombe

	" I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time. "		John Newcombe

	" I was not able to play in 1972 because I was under contract to World Championship Tennis and in 1973 there was the player boycott. "		John Newcombe

	" I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them. "		John Newcombe

	" I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people. "		John Newcombe

	" In the morning of course, I'd have to, John would have to go round and apologise to everyone for what Jack had done or said to them. "		John Newcombe

	" My first Grand Slam singles final was in 1966 at the US championships when I lost to Stolle and I had already won the doubles twice at Wimbledon in 1965 and 1966. But I had not made that breakthrough in singles until 1967. "		John Newcombe

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