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Sally Jones is a British journalist, television news and sports presenter. She is three-times a
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at real tennis; once in the singles and twice in the doubles.


Education

Sally Jones was born in
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, Warwickshire, and educated at
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, Birmingham and St Hugh's College, Oxford where she read English and won five blues and half blues for different sports including
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,
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,
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,
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and modern pentathlon. In 1976, she was Oxford University rock n'roll champion (Oxford Rock Soc) and began tap-dancing with the Oxcentrics jazz band as well as gaining notoriety via a student prank, successfully dressing up as a man to stand for membership of the all-male
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.


Sport

She was
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county and British schoolgirls tennis champion (
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) and a finalist in the British Under 21 doubles championship (LTA). She played county tennis, squash (Warwickshire, Devon and South Wales squash associations), and netball (Birmingham Schools and Midlands First teams), captaining the Warwickshire senior tennis team for ten years, leading them to the County Championship in July 1997. She won the Sunday Telegraph Travel Writing Prize for an account of a tennis tour of Ireland and two Catherine Pakenham awards for women journalists.


Broadcasting and writing career

During her career, she has been a
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news trainee, a TV reporter at
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, and a TV presenter/reporter for HTV (Wales) where she also made several documentaries, and Central TV in Birmingham where she co-presented '' Central News'' and reported on the politics show Central Lobby. She has also reported for ITN and
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and has written columns for the'' Daily Telegraph'', ''
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'' and ''
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'' newspapers. In 1986, she became the BBC's first woman sports presenter on '' BBC Breakfast News'' and presented for
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during the
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summer Olympic Games in 1988 and for
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during the
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. She has presented other TV and radio programmes, including several series of ''On the Line'', the daytime show ''The Garden Party'', real tennis documentaries for
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, coverage of women's British Open golf, international tennis, women's rugby and NBA
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(BBC TV), ''
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'' (Channel 4) and international gymnastics (ITV). She regularly presented ''
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'' from Birmingham (
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) and was a member of the
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Wimbledon tennis commentary team during the 1990s. In 2010, she set up Sally Jones Features Ltd, a media consultancy.


Real tennis

In 1986, she took up real tennis and won the world championship at
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in 1993 (Ladies Real Tennis Association), as well as two British Open and two US Open championships. She won the world doubles championships with Alex Garside in 1989 and 1991 and was British Open doubles finalist with Jo Iddles in 2008.


Personal life

She married civil engineer John Grant in 1989 and has two children, management consultant Roland Grant and Daily Telegraph columnist Madeline Grant. She has written four books on West-country legends and several on sport, including the ''Ladybird Book of Riding''. In 2006, she co-wrote and edited a prize-winning local history book on Georgian Warwickshire. She works for several charities including
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and
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She is a board member of Modern Pentathlon GB and a trustee of the Oxford and Cambridge Rowing Foundation. A quiz enthusiast, she won ''
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'' aged 18 and has since appeared on celebrity editions of ''
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'' and ''
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''. She has appeared five times on ''
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'' and reached the semi-finals in 2008.


References

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