Shoghi Effendi on the Tennis Court
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Although Shoghi Effendi was extremely busy during this vacation and barely spent time in Oxford, yet spring was the season he would begin to play tennis, a game he loved and in which he excelled. He played tennis with many students during this season as well as in the summer. One of his tennis partners, J. C. Hill, gives a picture of Shoghi Effendi’s speed in hitting the ball and his enjoyment of the game:
I used to play tennis with him in the Master’s Field [a Balliol College playing field], and marvellously active he was… He was ambidextrous and switched his racket from one hand to the other for a volley or the net with lightning speed—but not in a grimly earnest manner. On the contrary he was laughing … most of the time…
Source: Riaz Khadem, Shoghi Effendi in Oxford, p. 102 (letter from J. C. Hill to the author, 29 May 1969).
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