{
  "id": 10058606,
  "title": "I was focused on becoming the first Aboriginal tennis champion. Then one remark changed something in me",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/i-was-focused-on-becoming-the-first-aboriginal-tennis-champion-then",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-26T20:00:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian Australia",
    "slug": "the-guardian-australia",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/27/evonne-goolagong-cawley-aboriginal-tennis-champion-book-racism-ntwnfb"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "As a teenager in Sydney, the would-be Wimbledon champion was working towards a singular goal when an act of racism shattered her naivety It was a regular match. Until it wasn’t. In 1969, I was 17 and had been living in Sydney with my tennis coach, Vic Edwards, and his family for several years. I had left my home town of Barellan – on Wirajudjuri country in the Riverina region of New South Wales –…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}