Life in Beckworth » Santiago Giraldo http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth Bringing you the (almost) everyday comings and goings of the residents of Beckworth, a typical English market town. Informing you about their lives through the mediums of words, images, an interactive map and stereophonic sound recordings Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:56:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Local Lad On Centre Court Today http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/christine-batley/local-lad-on-centre-court-today/ http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/christine-batley/local-lad-on-centre-court-today/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2015 08:00:45 +0000 a resident of Beckworth http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/?p=5205 Continue reading →]]> Sports news… Don’t forget to watch Wimbledon on telly today as our (only) local tennis pro Lionel “Corky” Deptford is playing on Centre Court. He is playing young Columbian hopeful Santiago Giraldo and after Corky’s amazing trouncing of Andy Murray last year it promises to be a riveting match. Although he is almost-completely blind, 91 year old Lionel is the second oldest ranked tennis player in the world (ranked 631) and plays by sense of smell only. He only took up the game upon retirement and when interviewed last year modest Mr Deptford put his extraordinary win over Mr Murray down to the wonder of drugs like viagra, a red meat diet, having a lot of sex and the fact that due to some injury or other Mr Andy was “absolutely useless” on the day. Fingers crossed Corky has similar luck again and annihilates Giraldo today, it would be wonderful to see him in the final. Stranger things have happened! Christine Batley. Chief Tennis From Wimbledon Reporter. Beckworth Guardian

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(Above) Corky warming up at Wimbledon earlier today’

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