Luis Carlos Arias Schreiber in conversation with Juan Carlos Soto

In 1959, Alex Olmedo became the first Peruvian tennis player to win the prestigious Wimbledon tournament, a feat no other Peruvian has repeated since. That same year, he also won the Australian Open. The journalist Luis Carlos Arias Schreiber (Peru) has published Alejandro Olmedo, a biography that reconstructs the rise to glory of a young man from Arequipa with humble origins. It explores his years in the United States, his complex relationship with identity, nationality and competition, and how he became a coach to celebrities such as Katharine Hepburn, Kirk Douglas and John Wayne.