Meet Jan Kodes - The Man Who Won The Weirdest Wimbledon
How a boycott threw the 1973 men's championships into disarray.
This piece originally appeared in The New European in 2018.
This year’s Wimbledon marks 50 years since the start of the Open Era, when the four grand slam tournaments finally agreed that professionals could compete with amateurs, so ending a split that had divided the sport since the 1800s.
We can expect much talk of how the game has changed in the last h…
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