Gentleman Amateur

Mourning the days when tennis players had urbanity and looked like professors, Howard Jacobson, first time Wimbledon-watcher turns to the past for solace: “Bored with it, I take a turn around the museum and spend a long time admiring a sepia photograph of New Zealander Anthony Wilding (champion 1910-1913), dressed in flannels and what looks like an on-court smoking jacket.”