Tennis has an incredible history at BGS, with the annual school championship played every year since 1885 and Old Boys greats of the game including Roy Emerson. In May this year the new BGS Tennis Centre was officially opened. The opening honour went to BGS Old Boy Geoff Masters '67, a three-time grand slam doubles champion and renowned tennis commentator, who spoke fondly about his time playing tennis for the School. Masters played in BGS' top tennis team in the GPS competition from age 14 in 1964, establishing himself as a star of the competition for four years, and went on to win the Wimbledon doubles championship.
Early tennis Old Boys noted alongside the feature include: Gar Moon (the first Queenslander to represent Australia in a Davis Cup); Jack Radcliffe (School tennis champion in 1908, 1910 and 1911, a Rhodes Scholar, and winner of a Military Cross in WWI; the J N Radcliffe Memorial Trophy is presented each year to the GPS tennis premiers); Harold Wilson (School champion player five times from 1915 to 1919); and James Love (President of the Queensland Lawn Tennis Association for eight years, who donated a racquet for the School championship, the Russell Love Memorial Racquet, named after his son who was killed in WWI).
Source: Grammar News Winter 2017. Read the original edition