Tributes to keen tennis player from Surbiton who collapsed during game at St George's Hill, Weybridge.
A passionate and active tennis player from Surbiton died while playing a match at a Weybridge tennis club on Sunday. Philip Hanna, 61, originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, had been a member of the Coombe Wood Lawn Tennis Club since last spring, after he moved to the UK to be with his daughter, who had recently given birth. Mr Hanna had been playing a tennis match at St George’s Hill Lawn Tennis Club on Sunday as part of the Surrey league.
He had been playing for a couple of hours and was about to serve when he “keeled over” and banged his head.
Ian Stewart, captain of the men’s fifth team, was at the match on Sunday and said Mr Hanna was in a bad way. Mr Stewart said Mr Hanna’s daughter had been a member of the same tennis club some years earlier.
Mr Hanna was a member of the veterans’ team and the men’s fifth team. St George’s Hill Lawn Tennis Club did not release a statement in relation with the incident.
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