“There were these women in tuxedos and I thought, ‘what am I doing here!?’” By the end of the evening he was, long before the ubiquitous brand tie-ins we see today, in partnership with Adidas. “Horst was famous for having meetings late at night,” Smith recalls.
The first meeting with Horst Dassler took place at 11pm in a Parisian nightclub during the 1972 French Open. “I had to realign my goals a bit after that,” Smith says with the flicker of a smile. The following year he would go all the way at SW19, stepping out in front of 15,000 people on Centre Court and dispatching the early master of what they now call ‘shithousery’, the infamous Romanian, Ilie Năstase in the final. “I’d love to show you the original shoe.” He likes classic white but is also fond of black leather and blue suede.īy the time he was approached by Adidas in 1972, Smith was a four-time Davis Cup winner as well as the number one singles player in the world, having lost the final of Wimbledon in 1971, but winning that year’s US Open. “I wish I’d kept the first ones,” he says, somewhat mournfully. At the last count he owns 70 to 80 different pairs. On his feet are a lightly-worn pair of the trainers that bear his name, in black with three Velcro straps in place of laces, his face peering up from the tongue. The distant memory of a centre parting frames a kind face, deeply tanned from years spent chasing a ball around a court beneath a baking sun.Īt 72, the moustache, a long-standing signature, is grey-flecked-with-brown, as neatly kept as the courts across the road at the All England Club. He is tall, six-foot-four, regal in a mellow, California kind of way, with a Roman nose and still blue eyes the colour of a swimming pool before the day’s first splash. The American tennis legend is wearing an immaculate navy blazer and an expensive-looking pale blue shirt. A stream of 747s groan above and then beyond us, their strange song echoing faintly across the Heathrow flight path. The air is sweet with the smell of hydrangeas and expensively-cut grass.
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