After Ash Barty fulfilled her Wimbledon destiny in 2021 and Nick Kyrgios made the 2022 final, the absence of Australians in the second week this year is stark
The night before Australia’s charge at Wimbledon withered on Saturday, a key figure from the nation’s golden generation declared he too would be bowing out due to the difficulty of travel. Neale Fraser, the 1960 Wimbledon champion who later became a successful Davis Cup captain, told a gathering at the annual “Aussie barbecue” that his 60th visit to the All England Club would also be his last.
“It is like a second home. It is 70 years since I played my first match at Wimbledon,” said Fraser, who turns 90 in October. “I remember coming for the first time in 1954 and cameras were in vogue then and I photographed everything around Wimbledon in case I would never get back here again. Little did I know that I would get back here 60 more times.”