Willy Chang shares his passion for tennis

IT was 1963 and Willy Chang, then a clerk at the Ministry of Defence, had just submitted his application to be a member of the Port Dickson Yacht Club. When the membership was approved, Chang was overjoyed. Finally, he could pursue his life-long dream to play tennis.

The second child in a family of eight children, Chang had grown up in Port Dickson during the pre-war years. He was only nine when he started work as a bat boy for a Japanese officer, polishing boots and bringing the morning tea. Chang remembers vividly the deep notches on the handle of his employer’s samurai sword.