May 20, 2026 · 34 min · 17 segments
Mark Kuhn grew up in Iowa in a family of corn farmers. When he was 10 years old, he heard a BBC broadcast of the Wimbledon finals. He couldn’t stop thinking about it — he would daydream about tennis…
Phoebe JudgeHostMark KuhnGuestThe microphone at Center Court Wimbledon, s- the ball sounds like an explosion every time they hit it.
They talked in the, in the way that there was such dead silence between the points.
My mother, uh, bought me a racket with S&H Green Stamps, and that's it right up there in the middle.
You used to, you'd get the Green Stamps when you'd purchase things, and then you'd lick them and put them in these little books, and then you could redeem them for things.
His mother would drive him to towns nearby so he could play matches with other kids.
His mother saved a newspaper clipping about the tournament and stuck it on the bottom of the trophy.
The microphone at Center Court Wimbledon, s- the ball sounds like an explosion every time they hit it.
They talked in the, in the way that there was such dead silence between the points.
My mother, uh, bought me a racket with S&H Green Stamps, and that's it right up there in the middle.
You used to, you'd get the Green Stamps when you'd purchase things, and then you'd lick them and put them in these little books, and then you could redeem them for things.
His mother would drive him to towns nearby so he could play matches with other kids.
His mother saved a newspaper clipping about the tournament and stuck it on the bottom of the trophy.
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