Kevin Curren and Flushing Meadows

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

The defeat of Kevin Curren by Boris Becker at the 1985 Wimbledon tennis tournament, and the controversy surrounding the new home of the US tennis championship at Flushing Meadows.

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Fri 30 Aug 198521:00

BBC Radio 4

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