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Mark Broom.

Mark Broom was born in Sydney, Australia on June 17th 1969. Broom then moved to England with his parents in which he lived for a few years before moving back to Australia. In that time Broom developed his love for tennis, he attended a few clubs and also volunteered at the tennis club to help disabled children. After this he competed in a variety of small tournaments around the Sydney area. At around 15 Broom was recognized and joined the local tennis club. Then competed in the Australian open at the age of just 21 in 1990. Broom then went on to win the Australian open three years running. Afterwards Broom represented his home country in a few minor competitions. In September 1994 Broom opened a charity to help disabled people to be able to interact with tennis and built a specialist center. In July 1995 they charity was successful with almost 300 specialist needs people attending the center daily. Throughout the late 1990's the charity received recognition and was later supported. In 1998 Broom retired at the age of 29 from international tennis.