1968 Revisited: The First US Open
Continuing our series on 1968: The Year That Changed Tennis, Martin Keady, our resident tennis historian, looks back at the…
Martin is a scriptwriter of plays and screenplays, including a biopic of Shakespeare, www.theshakespeareplays.com. He is an experienced journalist, writing on cinema for The Script Lab as well as on sport for LastWordSports.com/tennis and LastWordOnSports.com/Football.com. A poet, having written a collection of short poems, entitled Shards, extracts from which have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Martin is married with three children and lives in London, UK.
Continuing our series on 1968: The Year That Changed Tennis, Martin Keady, our resident tennis historian, looks back at the…
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