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The circuitous journey of Cam Norrie to Centre Court stardom began with a shocking crime in South Africa.
His father David and mother Helen had settled in Johannesburg in their work as microbiologists before the plight of a neighbour led to them emigrating when the future British No 1 was a baby.
The family moved to Auckland before their son came to London at 16, prior to a spell attending university in Texas.
The journey of Cam Norrie to Centre Court began with a shocking crime in South Africa
‘We lived in a sort of complex with barbed wire electric fencing, there was an automated gate as you drove up,’ recalls David, originally from Glasgow, unmistakenly so with his accent.
‘One night our neighbour was the victim of a carjacking. He had a gun put to his head and there was a baby in the back of the car.
'We sort of decided at that point that this was not the place to bring up kids and started making plans to emigrate. We