Brisbane Tennis Trail's video: Ken Fletcher and Chuck Feeney A long standing tennis relationship really pays dividends Ross Rolfe

Part of the recording from the Queensland State Library Background on the special relationship between Chuck Feeney and Ken Fletcher Which was so important to the Smart State drive by Peter Beattie. So good for the State of Queensland. Ken Fletcher’s greatest career achievement was capturing the mixed doubles Grand Slam in 1963, with Margaret Smith Court. The pair amassed a total of 10 major mixed doubles titles in the 1960s. Fletcher also enjoyed success in men’s doubles, winning the 1964 French title with Roy Emerson and the 1966 Wimbledon crown with John Newcombe. Despite not winning a major singles title (he was runner-up to Emerson in the 1963 Australian Championships), Fletcher collected 37 career titles. He held match points in the 1966 Wimbledon semifinals before falling to eventual champion Manolo Santana. A popular player and “larrikin” by nature, Fletcher coached at the All England Club and in Hong Kong during the 1970s. After losing a battle with cancer in 2006, Fletcher was posthumously inducted into the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame. Charles Francis Feeney (born April 23, 1931)[1] is an Irish-American businessman and philanthropist who made his fortune as a co-founder of the Hong Kong based Duty Free Shoppers Group. He is the founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies, one of the largest private charitable foundations in the world. Feeney gave away his fortune in secret for many years, until a business dispute resulted in his identity being revealed in 1997.[2] Feeney has given away more than $8 billion.[3]