Raised in the UK, Felice Hardy had no idea that as an adult on a fact-finding mission she'd learn that her grandmother, Liesl Herbst, a tennis star, had to leave behind her family and escape the Nazis before she could find happiness and success across the ocean
A tennis star in her native Austria, Liesl had arrived in England just four months before, as a Jewish refugee. On a cold morning in March, she d knocked on the door of the Queen s Tennis Club.