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This is exactly 60 years since Bethlehem (née Gerson) won the ladies’ singles All England plate at Wimbledon.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“We’ll be launching it during Wimbledon and will be serving strawberries and cream at the event,” says Bethlehem with a smile. But the book isn’t just about her time on the tennis court, it also explores her more than five decades of dedicated service to the South African Jewish community.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“If not now, then when?” says Bethlehem, about the decision to write her memoir. “I felt I had an unusual story. I played at Wimbledon four times. I’ve served the community for 55 years. Through my positions at the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) and other roles, I’ve interacted with interesting people. I have a chapter titled ‘The Mandela years’ – I met him often. I was with him when he toured Israel. And I was able to engage with many local communities when I was appointed to the government Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Culture, Religion, and Language. It was fantastic. I travelled all over South Africa. It was a real learning process.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThen, it was “a huge surprise when I was elected president of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, which trains future Jewish leadership in 55 countries. If I never did anything else, training young Jewish leaders was very special. So I felt I had a story worth telling. I also wanted it for my six grandchildren, but then I thought it might be of interest to others. It’s taken three years.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“At first, my husband, Brian, helped with the editing. He’s an anaesthetist, but he also writes funny poems – he just wrote one about [Roger] Federer! My daughter, who lives in Israel, couldn’t get involved in the book, but she said one thing: I had to use the word ‘serve’ in the title.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“My other daughter, who lives in Johannesburg, offered to edit it for me. Then, Staging Post, which is part of Jacana Media, offered to print it and helped edit it. I learned a lot – for example, the difference between an autobiography and a memoir. Karen Lazar played a vital role as conceptual editor.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBethlehem is also celebrating her 82nd birthday on 21 June. Looking back on her early years, she says, “I had quite an unhappy childhood. My parents got divorced when I was 11, and I was sent off to a convent boarding school in Boksburg. My little brother wasn’t even seven, and he was sent off to another boarding school. 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Two years later, she was accepted at Wimbledon. “I had always dreamed of visiting it, so to be accepted on my first try was the realisation of a dream.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTwo years later, she teamed up with an Australian tennis player whom she met at the Maccabi Games, and they became the first Jewish doubles team to reach the Wimbledon quarter finals.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBethlehem returned to Wimbledon four years in a row. “In the last year [1962], I was playing an Australian woman and the umpire made a mistake. She called ‘new ball’ at the wrong time, and the young ball boy jumped up and his head hit me in the face. There was no such thing as asking for help then. My nose was bleeding and unsurprisingly, I lost that match.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt took a long time for her to come to terms with what could have been if that hadn’t happened. “I just had to carry on and do my best. I couldn’t have played better than I played that week.” She was still able to enter the plate event. She won all five rounds in straight sets, including the final against Margaret Hellyer. “That match will always stand out. Sometimes I pinch myself that I was there. Also, I knew I was coming home to get engaged!”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShe and Brian got married and had two daughters and a son. She was a professional coach from 1964 to 1985 and in 1974, was the official coach to the first-ever black South African women’s tennis team.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThen she discovered a new passion in community work. “My mother was very involved in the Jewish Benevolent Society (JBS). My cousin learned to sew there. My mother and I felt that we wanted to give back to it. Then, the late Gerald Leissner invited me to be part of the SAJBD. When I stood for chairperson, he ran my election campaign. All of my community work began because he heard me speaking at the JBS. He’s my communal hero.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“I was the first woman to be SAJBD chairperson in 94 years. I wasn’t the first woman able to chair. The men around me saw that women shouldn’t only be in the kitchen. I was very often in the right place at the right time. If there were opportunities, I took them. 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