Just prior to entering Wimbledon’s Centre Court players pass beneath 2 lines of poetry written by whom?

Rudyard Kipling is a great poet of English literature. His poetry is fantastic really. If titled poem is so inspiring. He is immortal for ever in the world of English literature.

It’s a pity some tennis players don’t follow Kipling’s precept. The lack of good sportsmanship in tennis these days is deplorable.

Those 2 lines alone don''t make a great deal of sense, unless you know the rest of the poem. And that has fallen out of favour, because of the "sexist" ending ( "and what's more you'll be a Man, my son"). Somehow " you'll be a human my son-or-daughter" doesn't fit.

my favourite author as a child and still a big fan.

Player Teresa611, Yeah but I used to love McEnroes meltdowns

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Didn't know the answer so I guessed Tennyson 😆

Also wrote " The Whitemen's Burden"