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At Wimbledon, Bunny's mixed doubles partners were Betty Nuthall and Joan Lycett, and, in , Dorothy Shepherd Barron, with whom he reached the finals a third set defeat. In the men's doubles he never played again after his second round defeat of , partnered by Charles Kingsley. In the singles, however, he reached the quarter-finals year after year, peaking in with a respectable four-set defeat by Donald Budge, one of the game's all-time greats. It would be the longest Wimbledon singles match Budge ever played.

That year, Austin was a semi-finalist in the French Championship and defeated Budge and Allison in the challenge round of the Davis Cup, which he and Perry were instrumental in retaining for Britain. Seeded seventh, Bunny reached the semi-finals once again in , going out to the German von Cramm, and the following year, now the British No 1, he repeated this result against the same opponent.

He also reached the finals of the French. In he met Budge again, this time in the Wimbledon final. He won only four games. It was an honour just to be on the same court. Seeded No 1, he went out to the American sixth seed Elwood Cooke in straight sets, after beating future champion and future Briton Jaroslav Drobny in round three. It was not the end of the story. Despite their celebrity and famous friends, Bunny and Phyllis had been drawn toward the Oxford Group and Moral Rearmament, and worked for this cause from the early s; during the war, they went to America to promote it.

I'd been a football player in school -- Repton and Cambridge -- and of course we wore shorts. Best thing for running. Why not for tennis? I got a lot of kidding, but the wisdom of it was apparent. The next year, I introduced them at Wimbledon.

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