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Blast from the past: Naas one! Boks edge Ireland in second Test
1949 — Eric Sturgess wins three crowns at the Dutch lawn tennis championships in Noordwijk, in the process downing world No 1 Richard Pancho Gonzales in the men's singles final. The American had match point in the second set — having won the first 6-2 and leading 5-4 40-30 in the second — but the South African rallied to win 2-6 7-5 6-4. He also won the men's doubles with countryman Eustace Fannin, beating Gonzales and Felicisimo Ampon, and the mixed doubles with Jacqueline Marcellin. 1981 — Eighth-seeded Tanya Harford and Rosalyn Fairbank win the French Open women's crown, beating Americans Candy Reynolds and Paula Smith, the No 3 seeds, 6-1 6-3 in the final. 1981 — Naas Botha lands three drops and a penalty to secure a 12-10 victory for the Springboks over Ireland in the second Test at King's Park in Durban. Ireland scored the only try of the match through fullback Kevin O'Brien. South Africa won the series 2-0. 1998 — Benni McCarthy scores as Bafana Bafana draw 1-1 with Iceland in their final World Cup warm-up match played near Stuttgart. 2009 — Thembinkosi Fanteni scores in the sixth minute to lead Bafana Bafana to a 1-0 win over Poland at Orlando Stadium in their last preparation match ahead of the Confederation Cup. 2013 — The Proteas are bowled out by India for 305 to lose their ICC Champions Trophy match in Cardiff by 26 runs. Opener Shikhar Dhawan scored 114 off 94 balls to lift India to 331/7. Captain AB de Villiers top-scored for South Africa with 70.
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3 days ago
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Blast from the past: Boks beat Canada in WC group match, huge scuffle steals the show
1951 — Eric Sturgess, who had rallied from 1-4 down in the fifth and final set to win his semifinal against Australian Ken McGregor, goes down to his Czech-born doubles partner Jaroslav Drobny of Egypt 3-6 3-6 3-6 in the final of the French championships in Paris. Drobny, who won an Olympic ice hockey silver playing for Czechoslovakia in 1948, retained the French championship the following year and went on to win a Wimbledon title, the only man with African citizenship to do so. For Sturgess, 31 at the time, it was his last singles final in a grand slam, having lost in Paris in 1947 and at the US Open in 1948. Sturgess, an accountant, was a Spitfire pilot in World War 2 and was captured after bailing out during a sortie. He spent the last seven months of the war in the Stalag Luft III camp made famous by the Steve McQueen movie The Great Escape...
