Leela Row Dayal, the first Indian woman to win at Wimbledon

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Leela Row Dayal, the first Indian woman to win at Wimbledon

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Wonderful article on the first Indian lady to have won at the Wimbledon.

Article: https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/hL3EjZ ... Dayal.html
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Very interesting story that I hadn't heard before. In fact, there has been very little written about her previously in the Indian media (including in "histories of Indians at Wimbledon", which rarely begin before the 1940s).
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