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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)

 
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Dashiel Lawrence

Dashiel Lawrence

Dr Dashiel Lawrence is the Executive Director of The Jewish Independent. A graduate of the Jewish Studies program at the University of Melbourne, he has been writing about Australia's Jewish diaspora for nearly two decades. 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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