"A DAY OF SUSTAINED DRAMA AND SUSPENSE"

Five seeded players slain in a day: Roy Emerson by Nikki Pilic, Cliff Drysdale by Roger Taylor, Maria Bueno by Rosie Casals, Nancy Richey by Mary Eisel, and Annette van Zyl byJudy Tegart

S A T U R D A Y,  1  J U L Y

After lunch changed into Scallywags dress. Didn't know what shoes to wear as it was so hot but finally decided on flip-flops. At quarter past one the Holloways arrived and drove Chump and me to Wimbledon!!!

Bought cushions and found our Centre Court seats, absolutely fab seats, right up in the front. And of course we got all the sun, though at times it was a bit too hot. We arrived in the middle of the Taylor/Drysdale match and Taylor playing staggeringly - I have never seen such marvellous serves in all my life. He won in the end, and he deserved to. It's so good that he's English.

Chump and me had such fun; it was hilarious as we kept taking off Jack Kraemer and Dan Maskell (we could see them up by the BBC camera in their rabbit hutches). In JK's sing-song American accent we said things like, "well Dan, it looks as if these new balls are having an effect on Cliff Drysdale!" People must have heard us, we kept up a running commentary the whole match. At quarter to 4 we left to have tea. We were terribly lucky, we managed to get a table and there wasn't any queue. Had tomato and cucumber sandwiches, eclairs, orange squash, and, of course, strawberries and cream (3/6d a bowl). We wandered around a bit, it was lovely in the sunshine.

“In our row, five seats along, was this chap I couldn’t stop looking at. ”

He was about 24, with Jacques Dutronc features, a Gary Brooker expression and the most beautiful moustache I’ve ever seen. He also smoked a long clay pipe! I haven't seen such a nice person since Mr Finkelstein. We bought lollies both times the ices man came up but the poor chap was in a flap: 20 people were bombarding him from all sides and they all had the wrong change. Then we saw Maria Bueno against Rosemary Casals and Miss Casals won!!!  She’s 18 and the amount of energy she has in her - she’s bound to win Wimbledon one day!

Not only were Drysdale and Maria Bueno beaten today but two other seeds and EMERSON!!! I could hardly believe it when I got home.

"The Ascot of tennis": fabulous 1960 footage