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Sporting birthdays for July 10

Sunil Gavaskar, the first man to score 10,000 Test runs, is 59 today


Virginia Wade (tennis) - 1977 Wimbledon women's champion, born 1945.

Sunil Gavaskar (cricket) - Prolific former Indian opener, the first man to score 10,000 Test runs, born 1949.

Richard Guest (horse racing) - Rode Red Marauder to victory in the 2001 Grand National, born 1965.

Ludovic Giuly (soccer) - Roma and France midfielder, born 1976

Giacobe (or Jake) La Motta (boxing) - former world middleweight champion nicknamed 'Raging Bull' - later the title of a film starring Robert De Niro about the New Yorker's life, born 1921.

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