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Inside the Wimbledon wormhole with Boris, Martina … and Arron Banks? | Marina Hyde

The verbal rallies have started at SW19 as Martina Navratilova came out on top in a joust with the Brexit financier while Boris Becker was left stumped by Sue Barker’s opening gambit“To everyone’s surprise,” reflects a character at the start of sci-fi satire District 9, “the [alien] ship didn’t come to a stop over Manhattan or Washington or Chicago, but instead coasted to a halt directly over the city of Johannesburg.”Some may have experienced similar feelings of bathos this week, as the tear in the news-sport continuum finally blew wide open – not in Moscow, where you might have expected it, but in SW19. The transdimensional gate was opened by Sue Barker, who kicked off this year’s BBC Wimbledon coverage...

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Eugenie Bouchard was icy – but the road to Wimbledon is slippery | Jacob Steinberg

The 2014 finalist was brusque last week at qualifying but she knows the path to a grand slam is littered with pitfallsThe longer the interview went on, the more it seemed that nothing was going to elicit an interesting answer from Eugenie Bouchard. The Canadian had walked off court with an important victory in the bag but it was difficult to tell from her icy demeanour as she responded to questions about her first‑round win at Wimbledon qualifying last Tuesday. There was no hint of joy, no attempt to engage. The interviewer could have revealed that the world was about to end and Bouchard still would have said: “Yeah, well, obviously I’ll just take each apocalypse as it comes,” in...

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