Wimbledon: Apartheid policy denied junior star shot at tennis showpiece
Hoosen Bobat still has more questions than answers about what happened 52 years ago.
As a man of colour Bobat pointed out that he was not allowed to play against the number and that, when he came to the UK, he had joined a tennis club in north London and had competed in many tournaments. The story of Bobat's exclusion from Wimbledon in 1971 may never have reached a wider audience but for Saleem Badat, a professor of history who served as the first black vice-chancellor of Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa.
"She replied that she was too busy to meet and that the historian was looking into the entry process in 1971," said Bobat.
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