Sport: Father & Son

In his tennis-playing days, Sidney Wood Jr. was a wiry scrapper who made up for his lack of strength with a ferocious will that led him to the 1931 Wimbledon championship and a place as one of the game's international stars. When his son, Sidney Wood III, was eight years old, the old campaigner set out to teach him the game of tennis the only way he knew how. "I don't believe in halfway measures." the father says. "I was never satisfied if anything was even slightly wrong with Sid's gameĀ—even if the fault might not be noticed by other people."...

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