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Tennis coaching ace and EDP columnist Jean Harris dies aged 89

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It was there, on the outskirts of Norwich, that former British number one, Louise Latimer, received her first individual coaching.

Renowned tennis coach Jean Harris has died (Image: Newsquest) Cavell House (Image: Newsquest) And many others with ambitions followed in Latimer’s footsteps to success, including Tom Spinks, Nicola Woodhouse, Barry Fulcher, Tom Green and Richard Bloomfield.

But it also became the same court that would bring hours of joy to Jean and her husband, Joylon Harris, who shared a mutual love of tennis.

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Jean Harris as a child (Image: Courtesy of family) Born Jean Muir Menzies, she arrived in the world to Scottish parents on March 28, 1936, in the Gosforth area of Newcastle.

Jean spent most of her childhood in........

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