Campaigners Rally in Drive to Keep Tennis Centre in the Game ; Tennis Battle: As the Council Decides to Close the Site, Supporters Swing Into Action to Find a Way to Keep It Open Campaigners Giving Their All to Save Their Beloved Swansea Tennis Centre After This Week's Closure Decision by the Council Have Been Boosted by a Big- Hitter in Virginia Wade. They Told Chris Peregrine About Their Plans for the New Few Vital Weeks.

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IT would be pushing it somewhat to describe the moment as one of her fondest memories of a lifetime in the game.

The darling of the centre court at Wimbledon consummated her relationship with the Great British sporting public with the Ladies singles crown on a momentous July day in 1977 after years of toil at SW19.

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Campaigners Rally in Drive to Keep Tennis Centre in the Game ; Tennis Battle: As the Council Decides to Close the Site, Supporters Swing Into Action to Find a Way to Keep It Open Campaigners Giving Their All to Save Their Beloved Swansea Tennis Centre After This Week's Closure Decision by the Council Have Been Boosted by a Big- Hitter in Virginia Wade. They Told Chris Peregrine About Their Plans for the New Few Vital Weeks.

So an invitation, accepted, to open Swansea Tennis centre 11 years later would hardly be up there for a woman who later moved into the television commentary box for the BBC and Eurosport and is also a Barclays' ambassador.

But last Monday's council decision to close it to make savings in its underpressure budget got her s...

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