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■ IN HIS tribute to Martin Amis,

who died last week aged 73, Boris Johnson said: ‘If you want cheering up, re-read the tennis match in Money’. But the novelist wasn’t always so fun to play against. ‘He could display the Mcenroe-esque burst of bad temper,’ says writer Robert Low, a member of the same West London tennis club. On one occasion, Amis ‘lost his cool’ and, ‘with a furious swish of his racquet’, whacked one of Low’s balls out of court. ‘It was irretrievable,’ Low says. ‘I was a bit miffed that he didn’t offer to replace it.’

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