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Radio 4,30 Aug 1985,15 mins

Kevin Curren and Flushing Meadows

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

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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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