Tennis Wimbledon champions

November 12, 2014
Wimbledon Tennis

Kim and Andy Murray have launched a charity raffle to win a tennis ball finalized by Murray together with late playing tennis legend Fred Perry.

The exceptional prize could be the just known bit of playing tennis memorabilia signed by these two great Brit Wimbledon champions, and auctioneers have now been incapable of put a worth on it.

The white tennis-ball is regarded as some three which was gifted to 2013 Wimbledon champion Andy Murray by tennis lover Gail Sargent. Gail had been a lifelong playing tennis player along with fulfilled Perry on their trip to Maresfield Tennis Club in 1994.

Only over ten years later on by coincidence she after that saw a new Andy Murray practising at yet another tennis club. Captivated by his possible, Gail chose to pass the signed balls onto Andy, permitting him related to all of them while he saw fit. Unbeknown to Andy, Gail was fighting ovarian cancer tumors, a battle she sadly destroyed in 2010 while becoming looked after in the St Peter & St James Hospice in Wivelsfield, Sussex.

Source: www.wimbledon.com

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