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I have dim memories of this. My mum used to watch Wimbledon religiously every year, from beginning to end, and my abiding memory was of our black and white TV (it wasn't all that long ago, we just only had a B&W one for years) being on in the corner, with half the curtains shut as I came home from school. This was unheard of, as it used to spend most of its life turned off. My Mum was invariably ironing standing in front of the sofa, and used to tease me about being a bit smitten with Chris Evert (-Lloyd, as she was then) as I was torn between watching the TV, and the little bits of dust caught in the sunlight as they went across the window from my mum flapping the clothes about. I seem to recall paying enough attention at an early enough age to have been upset that she had got married, but that would have been 1979, according to Wikipedia, which seems a little early for perving at Tennis players, even for me. I'd have been 7 years old, then. I'm sure short skirts weren't calling my attention at 6 when she was still single and so notice the change in relationship status. Unless the marriage was after Wimbledon, and it was 1980 when it came to my attention? It's possible. That or I discovered she was married late on in the crush, and just sulked about it.

Now that's possible.

I can't find a decent contemporary picture of her, so this one will do. She still, even at 52 pretty much has it. I even found a picture of her with Maria Sharapova. Now don't get me started on her. Gor blimey. Maria...

Lordy.

/fans self