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    Tennis legend Margaret Court in Sabah

    October 19th, 2009

    Tennis living legend Rev Dr Margaret Court, 67 was in Kota Kinabalu last weekend playing tennis for 30 minutes at the Sutera Harbour Resort covered tennis court.

    She is the most successful tennis player who ever lived, with 62 Grand Slam titles, the first of which was the Australian Open in 1963 when she was 17, becoming the first Australian to win a Grand Slam, and the last of which was the US Open women’s doubles in 1975 with Virginia Wade, when they defeated Rosie Casals and Billie Jean King:

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    She won 24 Grand Slam singles titles, a record still unrivalled: 11 Australian Opens, 5 French Opens, 3 Wimbledons and 5 US Opens.

    An interesting observation: she plays righthanded…

    yet writes with her left hand:

    Don’t you dare say she looks more like a Ladybug steam cleaners saleswoman than the greatest tennis player who ever walked the earth. The person who took the photos said she could still easily defeat men more than half her age.

    Sources (photos and news)

    Bebek
    New Sabah Times, 18th October 2009

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    Comment by bebek
    2009-10-19 19:54:59

    well world class tennis or badminton players are left handed – just like margaret court, rafael nadal, lin dan, dato lee chong wei and others…

    but i dont know about table tennis and squash!!!! Nicole Ann David is a left handed or right handed player???

    Comment by bengodomon
    2009-10-20 09:52:55

    If you check on youtube, Nicol’s definitely right handed

     
     
    Comment by bebek
    2009-10-21 15:03:08

    well last but not least…. can The Great Sabud ever lift a tennis Grand Slam singles title???

    Comment by ben
    2009-10-21 22:17:52

    He does not even know the meaning of the word!

     
     
    Comment by bebek
    2009-10-23 17:30:44

    LADY BUG STEAM CLEANERS SALESWOMAN???? Heyy… even Roger Federer cannot beat Court’s 24 Grand Slam singles titles!!!!! Federer has only 15 Grand Slam singles titles!!!!!

     
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