Ep. 517 - Roger Taylor
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Roger Taylor is the former British No.1 tennis star who rose to prominence in the 1960s and 70s. A three-time Wimbledon semi-finalist and a key player in Britain’s Davis Cup team, he was known for his powerful left-handed serve and graceful style on court. Taylor also made history by winning US Open men’s doubles titles back to back in 71 and 72. Beyond his playing career, he’s been a respected coach and ambassador for British tennis. His autobiography, written in collaboration with TV and radio sports broadcaster Marcus Buckland, is available now. It’s called The Man Who Saved Wimbledon and is the untold story of a British tennis number one who fell out with his contemporaries while coming tantalisingly close to winning Wimbledon.
Roger Taylor is our guest in episode 517 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
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| 1:28.6 | Hello. Hello and welcome to my time capsule. I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is the podcast where people tell me five things from their life they wish they had in a time capsule. They pick four things that they cherish and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. And my guest in this episode is the former British number one |
| 1:33.7 | tennis player, Roger Taylor, MBE. For anyone not old enough to remember, Roger is from the exciting |
| 1:40.6 | era of tennis when it changed from being an amateur sport to the professional |
| 1:44.5 | sport it is today. During his very eventful career, Roger achieved success at several grand slam |
| 1:51.0 | tournaments, reaching the quarterfinals of the French Open in 1973, the semi-finals of |
| 1:56.9 | Wimbledon in 1967 and 1973, and 1970, where he achieved a big upset win over defending champion |
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