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Our little world in 1969: TC Campo Marzio. Tennis is not only Roland Garros, Wimbledon, etc., Pancho Gonzales, Rod Laver, Stefan Edberg, Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal. The huge mass of tennis players are club players who also play with passion and have their own little world. One such little world was Tennis Club Campo Marzio, in Lugano, Switzerland, in the late 1960’s. The tennis pro was Lee Born, who was the founder of one of Lugano’s first tennis clubs in 1931. Born was a Swiss German who grew up in London and worked as a tennis teacher in Wimbledon. What a character he was! He was full of (fictional?) anecdotes about tennis. I remember he once watched me hit a double fault, and “tsked, tsked” me. He told me later that when he was in England at the Wimbledon Tennis Club, it was considered disrespectful to the opponent to double fault, and, anyone doing so, would be suspended for a month! That was Lee alright, but I am getting ahead of my story. Come along with me in a time machine, and I’ll introduce you to Born and my old friends…. Lee Born: our pro. Lee Born’s tennis club is…