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Jon Henderson | Jon Henderson started as a journalist with the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph, before leaving to report on the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City for Reuters. He spent the next 20 years at Reuters and reported on sports events around the world, including five Olympic Games, two football World Cups and five England cricket tours. He covered Wimbledon for the first time in 1969, the year after the start of the Open era, and has returned to report on the championships ever since. In 1991 he joined The Observer, and for the past twelve years has been their tennis correspondent. He is now also that paper’s deputy sports editor. In addition to his journalism, he is a regular contributor to Wisden and Encyclopaedia Britannica, assisted J.A. Cuddon in producing the Dictionary of Sport and Games (Macmillan, 1981), and has worked as a broadcaster. Jon is currently writing The Last Champion: The Life of Fred Perry for Yellow Jersey Press, Random House, the first biography of this sporting and fashion icon. His Best of British: Hendo's Sporting Heroes (Yellow Jersey, October 2007) is a celebration on the nation's 100 greatest sporting heroes. Titles by Jon Henderson |
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