Frederick John Perry born in Stockport, Cheshire. was an English tennis player and three-time Wimbledon champion. He was the World No. 1 player for 5 years, four of them consecutive, 1934 through 1938, the first three years as an amateur. He was the last Englishman to win Wimbledon. Wikipedia
It was the technique of one particular stroke that was the making of Fred Perry as a world champion--and as a tennis player considered the best Great Britain has produced. www.tennisfame.com/famer.aspx?pgID=867&hof_id=237
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Fred Perry. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Perry
Look closely at the statue of Fred Perry just inside the Church Road gates next time you go to Wimbledon and see if you share my opinion that there seems to be a ghost of a smile on the great man's lips. www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/about/history/fred_perry.html
