Malaya's Prewar Tennis Greats

Writer Abhishek Mehrotra serves up a history of Malaya’s prewar tennis scene, focusing on two tennis greats: Khoo Hooi Hye and Lim Bong Soo, who won 9 Malaya Cups and 12 Singapore Championships between them.Abhishek is a researcher and writer whose interests include media and society in colonial Singapore, urban toponymy and post-independence India. He is working on his first book – a biography of T.N. Seshan, one of India’s most prominent bureaucrats. The book, commissioned by HarperCollins, is slated for release in 2024. Abhishek is a former Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow (2021–2022).Transcript and ResourcesRead the transcript: https://biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/all-sections/podcast-tennis/the original BiblioAsia article: https://biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/all-sections/vol-19-issue-1-apr-jun-2023-tennis-history-singapore/This episode of BiblioAsia Podcast was hosted by Jimmy Yap and produced by Soh Gek Han. Sound engineering was done by Gibson Analytics. The background music "Di Tanjong Katong" was composed by Ahmad Patek and performed by Chords Haven. Special thanks to Abhishek for coming on the show.The BiblioAsia Podcast by the National Library Singapore tells stories about Singapore history.