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ADVANTAGE, JOAN!

IT’S a scorching day in Durban but this doesn’t seem to be bothering the woman on the tennis court. Scooping up the ball with her racket, she bounces it a few times then up into the air it goes and she strikes it with the suppleness of a teenager.

Watching Joan Warren in action, delivering serve after serve, you’d never guess she’s just five years away from 100. But one thing you quickly realise is the plucky 95-year-old is something of a legend at the Windsor Tennis Club in Glenwood.

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