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Angela Buxton: Tennis player who smashed prejudice and became a grand-slam doubles champion
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msn.comsaid: “I made a point of going back to win their bloody tournament – twice, just to rub their noses in it – and they never gave me a cup of tea.
Not even that.”)Antisemitism was not an unfamiliar evil to the family. Buxton was born on 16 August 1934 to a Jewish couple named Harry and Violet.
Her Russian grandparents had escaped from the violent pogroms in the early 20th century. She later explained that her grandparents had anglicised their surname from “something like Bakstansky” to Buxton.Her father was a successful owner of a chain of cinemas, but when the Second World War broke out, her parents didn’t hesitate; they took Buxton and her brother to South Africa.
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