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Have tennis players always been expected to give interviews?

5 June 2021

9:00 AM

5 June 2021

9:00 AM

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Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka withdrew from the French Open after being fined $15,000 for failing to appear for a post-match press conference. Have players always been expected to give interviews?

— Wimbledon was first televised live in 1937, the year of Fred Perry’s third and final victory against Gottfried von Cramm.

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