The rise and rise of Nicol David


PETALING JAYA: It was 30 years ago when a little girl from Malaysia went to Britain with big dreams.

It was 1996, she was just 12 and very few people had heard about her. And she was taking on the older girls in the British Open Under-14 tournament.

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