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Tennis legend Pat Rafter shares childhood memories of growing up in Queensland mining city Mount Isa

Pat Rafter got his start in tennis and life in the Queensland mining town of Mount Isa. (ABC Sporting Nation)

It's a scorching hot day at the tail-end of the 1970s in a Queensland mining town.

A skinny young Pat Rafter hurtles barefoot along the molten asphalt without even a wince.

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