Richardson, Len,

Anthony Wilding : a sporting life / Len and Shelley Richardson. - 451 pages, 56 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Anthony Wilding won the Wimbledon men's lawn tennis title in 1910 and remains the only New Zealander to have done so. In the years that remained before the Great War, he dominated the international tennis world by defending his Wimbledon title at three successive championships. In 1913 he won world titles on clay, grass and wood, and was thought invincible. Anthony Wilding sits alongside the 1905 All Blacks and Olympic champion Jack Lovelock as one of the most important sporting icons of New Zealand's twentieth-century history.

187725701X 9781877257018


Wilding, Anthony F., 1883-1915


Tennis players--New Zealand--Biography

GV994 / .W5R52 2005

796.342092