Encounters with genius: Maureen ‘Little Mo’ Connolly

For a short while one summer day out of nowhere in my life she flashed like a comet across my sky.

My first competitive game of tennis was played in the Trinidad and Tobago Junior Championships when I was 12 – and my last at the age of 52 when Roy Dookun and I, more than a hundred years old, won the Guyana National Doubles title for the last time. I hugely enjoyed my forty-year career in tennis – the excitement and honey-sweet of victory and the gall of disappointment in defeat,