“Tinky Winky!”; He Says, Sotto Voce

When Goran Ivaniševi? won Wimbledon as a wildcard in 2001, one of the Croatian tennis star’s superstitions was to watch the Teletubbies every morning during the two-week campaign. In an interview with The Independent in 2004, he said: “My coach one day said: ‘You have to watch this, this is so funny’. And I won my match that day. So then I couldn’t stop. My favourite was the purple one, Tinky Winky.”