371:, his predecessor as Wimbledon's Voice of Tennis for BBC Television. His monument to the game "100 Wimbledons – a Celebration" was first published in 1986 and re-published in 2001 as "Wimbledon – the Official History of The Championships". A third revised and expanded edition, "Wimbledon the Official History", brought the story up to date when it was published in May 2013. In June 2014 an updated fourth edition appeared to include the historic events of 2013 when Andy Murray became the first British men's champion for 77 years.
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has often been shown again on TV). Barrett commentated on
Wimbledon men's singles finals until 1998. David Mercer took over from Barrett for the 1999 and 2000 men's singles finals, but Barrett commentated on the 2001 and 2002 finals. From 2003, Andrew Castle commentated on Wimbledon men's singles finals instead of Barrett. Barrett announced his retirement from the BBC commentary box at Wimbledon in 2006.
283:, North West London, the son of Alfred Edward Barrett, a leaf tobacco merchant, and Margaret Helen Barrett (née Walker). He had one sister, Irene Margaret Leppington (1925–2009), a research chemist. His father had the rare distinction of having played both for Leicester Tigers RFC as a wing three-quarter and for Leicester Fosse FC (the former Leicester City) as a wing half.
304:(1951–1954), where he gained an honours degree in history. He represented Cambridge in three winning years against Oxford, captaining the team in his last year, and twice represented Oxford and Cambridge in the biennial match against Harvard and Yale for the Prentice Cup, winning in 1952 and losing in 1954.
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since 1955 and currently a vice-president, he served for twelve years on the Club
Committee and the Committee of Management of The Championships, during which time he started to compile a complete database of every result that has ever occurred at Wimbledon, in all events. This mammoth task took some
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He went on to compete at
Wimbledon for eighteen years from 1951, reaching the third round of the singles on four occasions and the quarter-finals of the mixed doubles three times. At his peak he was ranked as his country's fifth best singles player. His five career singles tiles wins from ten finals
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Barrett's broadcasting career with BBC Television began in 1971. Barrett began commentating on
Wimbledon men's singles finals for BBC Television at the end of the 1970s. Barrett's voice was heard on the BBC broadcast of the epic fourth set tiebreak between Borg and McEnroe in the 1980 final (this
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To mark the start of open tennis in 1968 he launched the BP International Tennis
Fellowship in association with the oil company. This was a junior development programme open to all young boys and girls who had won an age-group singles title at any junior tournament on the LTA's official list of
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In 1955 he had joined
Slazengers Ltd., the sports equipment firm, as a trainee executive and remained with them for 39 years rising to become the International Promotions Director for tennis and a member of the board of directors until his retirement in 1994. During his time with the company he
331:. In 1956 he became a Davis Cup player and was appointed captain of the British Davis Cup team for the years 1959–1962. Three years later he established and ran the LTA Training Squad, known as "The Barrett Boys" which set new standards of fitness in British tennis between 1965 and 1968.
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Barrett also commentated for
Channel 9, Australia (1980–1986) and for Channel Seven, Australia (1987–2007) and at various times for BSB and Sky in the UK; HBO, ESPN and the USA Networks in America; CTV in Canada and ATV and TVB in Hong Kong. In 2007 he was awarded the
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Hampstead, he was a prominent British junior tennis player and won the National Schoolboy title in 1948. He also played three years of junior country rugby for Middlesex, captaining an unbeaten team in his last year. He was twice the
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and he edited and contributed to it for the next 32 years. From 1981 to 2001, when the last issue was published, this bible of the game was also the official yearbook of the
International Tennis Federation (ITF).
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Services to Sports Broadcasting. For fourteen years (1997–2011) he served as President of The Dan Maskell Trust, a charitable organisation established in 1997 to help people with disabilities to play tennis.
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in 1963, a post he filled as a freelance contributor until 2006. In 1986 he joined the team that compiles the daily crossword for the pink paper and still compiles a themed crossword for each year's Wimbledon.
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Centre Court: The Jewel in Wimbledon's Crown (with Ian Hewitt)
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player, television commentator and author. He was born in
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were at the North of England Hard Court Championships at
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Wimbledon – the Official History of the Championships
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673:. University of Cambridge. Archived from
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275:(born 17 April 1931) is a former
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527:100 Wimbledons – a celebration
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446:Selected bibliography
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43:Country (sports)
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2017:Lesley Turner Bowrey
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677:on 24 September 2015
226:Australian Open
144:Australian Open
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410:Awards and honours
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122:Career record
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