One More Chance
(Special Correspondent KJtPJL.)
LONDON.
The "golden girl” of British tennis, Miss G C. Truman, has begun the long haul back to top tennis after 11 months of illness, injury and worry.
At last year’s Wimbledon championships, she surprised even her most clamorous fans by reaching the semi-finals of the women’s singles. But soon after, she went into hospital for an operation on an Injured achilles tendon.
This week she begins play—with her sister, Nell—in the women’s doubles at Cheltenham, with the plea that she is
returning for therapy rather than results. “It must be an awful bore for people to keep hearing my troubles,*’ she says, “but the stage has been reached where I must find the confidence in myself that I can do these things. "I must completely forget my Injury.”
Miss Truman added: “Perhaps at Cheltenham if Nell and I get into a tight corner and there’s a vital point at stake I will forget about the tendon and just play tennis.
“I am afraid that is something 1 just can’t do in practice.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31076, 3 June 1966, Page 11
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