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Eva Duldig: From teacher at Mount Scopus to player at Wimbledon

Dashiel Lawrence
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Published: 12 July 2018

Last updated: 4 March 2024

LISTEN: In the first of our new, original podcasts, Jewish tennis player Eva Duldig talks about life on the grass before the game went professional.

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NEXT WEEK, The Jewish Independent will post another podcast to coincide with the Sydney launch of People of the Boot: The Triumphs & Tragedy of Australian Jews in Sport, edited by Ashley Browne and Dashiel Lawrence

Main photo: Eva Duldig (right) with her former doubles partner Marlene Gershon, from South Africa, at Kooyong in Melbourne (AJN)

 

About the author

Dashiel Lawrence

Dashiel Lawrence

Dr Dashiel Lawrence is the Executive Director of TJI. A graduate of the Jewish Studies program at the University of Melbourne, he has been writing about Australia's Jewish diaspora for 15 years. His books include Australia and Israel: A Diasporic, Political and Cultural Relationship (2015) and People of the Boot: The Triumphs and Tragedy of Australian Jews in Sport (2018).

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