I was focused on becoming the first Aboriginal tennis champion. Then one remark changed something in me

As a teenager in Sydney, the would-be Wimbledon champion was working towards a singular goal when an act of racism shattered her naivetyIt was a regular match. Until it wasnt. 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 - to pursue my tennis dreams in the big smoke.The year before, I had finished high school at Willoughby ...