Word: naranndera
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...shanty settlements at the edge of inland and outback towns. Still, there was no denying Evonne. She began training with the Barellan tennis club when she was six. Four years later the club president, a retired local farmer named Bill Kurtzmann, entered her in a tournament in nearby Naranndera. It turned out that there was no youth division, so the ten-year-old girl proceeded directly to win the women's singles. A few more like that and she caught the eye of Vic Edwards, one of Australia's ranking tennis coaches. Her father, a sheep-shearer, could...
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