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hatever happens next, Henry Searle has to enjoy this. When I won the girls’ Wimbledon title in 1984, my focus was on the seniors and so I was relaxed about the juniors, but it has become one of my proudest accomplishments. Every time I visit the All England Club and I take guests around to show them the senior trophies, the juniors are right next to them. Henry will be in that cabinet for ever.
There have been many great champions who won the juniors: Roger Federer, Iga Swiatek, Ashleigh Barty. There have also been winners such as 2012’s Filip Peliwo, born in Canada and now representing Poland as the men’s world No 339, who are not big names, because the transition on to the
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