Question: Which person has closer ties to South Africa, Bob Hewitt or John Fitzgerald?

Context articles: Carlos Fernandes (tennis)
Bob Hewitt
Culture of Yemen
Frew McMillan
Sudan Studies Association
John Horgan (Irish politician)
Hilton Young Commission
John Fitzgerald (tennis)
1969 British Hard Court Championships
1979 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles

Carlos Fernandes (1936-) is a retired Brazilian tennis player.
 He had a good all-round game with excellent passing shots and moved fast around the court.
 Fernandes had a reputation for being a charismatic ladies man.
 He later became a coach.
 He made his Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon 1957, losing in the opening round to Jorgen Ulrich.
 At Roland Garros in 1958, Fernandes lost in round one to Pierre Darmon.
 At Wimbledon he lost in round one to Butch Buchholz.
 At 1959 French Open, Fernandes lost in round three to Jacques Brichant.At Wimbledon he lost in round two to Neale Fraser.
 At French Open 1960, Fernandes lost in round three to Bobby Wilson and at Wimbledon lost in round two to Wolfgang Stuck.
 At 1961 French Open, Fernandes achieved his best Grand Slam singles result by beating Pierre Darmon and Bob Hewitt before losing to Jan-Erik Lundquist in the quarter finals.
 He lost in round two of Wimbledon to Wilson.
 At Roland Garros 1962, Fernandes lost to Lundquist in round two.
 At Wimbledon he lost in round one to Neale Fraser's brother John.
 At 1963 French Open he lost in round one to Christian Duxin.
 In round one of Wimbledon he led a young Arthur Ashe by two sets to 0, but lost in five sets.
 At Wimbledon 1964 he lost in round two to Gene Scott.
 An ankle injury in 1964 took its' toll and Fernandes played less after that.
 As Open tennis arrived, Fernandes was reaching the end of his career.
 He lost in round one of 1968 French Open to Bernard Montrenaud.
 At Wimbledon he lost in round one to Mike Sangster.
Robert Anthony John Hewitt (born 12 January 1940) is a former professional tennis player from Australia.
 In 1967, after marrying a South African, he became a South African citizen.
 He has won 15 major titles and a career Grand Slam in both men's and mixed doubles.
The culture of Yemen has an ancient history, influenced by Islam.
 Due to its unique geographic location, Yemen has acquired a very distinctive culture from its neighbors; historically and culturally, the people of Yemen have closer ties with the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Ethiopia) than they do with the rest of Arabia and the Middle East.
Frew Donald McMillan (born 20 May 1942) is a former professional male tennis player from South Africa who won five major doubles championships including three Wimbledons with Bob Hewitt.
 Altogether, he won 63 doubles titles, surpassed only by the Bryan brothers, Todd Woodbridge, John McEnroe and Tom Okker.
 He was also ranked No.1 in Doubles on the ATP Computer for a significant period from 1977 to 1979 when he was aged 37.
The Sudan Studies Association (SSA) (Arabic: جمعية الدراسات السودانية) is the US-based professional association for scholars of Sudan and South Sudan, with members from the United States, Canada, Sudan, South Sudan, and elsewhere.
 The SSA was founded in 1981 to pursue knowledge about all aspects of life in Sudan (and now South Sudan) and to "foster closer ties among scholars in the Sudan, North America, Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere."
 The association seeks to promote research about the dynamics that shape Sudan and South Sudan and their relationships with neighboring countries.
 Conferences are held annually in North America.
 In addition, international conferences have in recent years been convened in collaboration with the Society for the Study of the Sudans UK (SSSUK) in Durham, England (2000), Washington DC (2003), Bergen, Norway (2006), Pretoria (2009) and Bonn (2012).
John Horgan (born 1876 – 27 June 1955) was an Irish politician from Cork who had a very brief career as a parliamentary representative in the Irish Free State.
 He served for three months as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the National League Party, a short-lived party which advocated closer ties with the United Kingdom.
 He was a member of the Cork Corporation, served a term as Lord Mayor of Cork.
The Hilton Young Commission was a Commission of Inquiry appointed in 1926 to look into the possible closer union of the British territories in East and Central Africa.
 These territories were individually economically underdeveloped, and it was suggested that some form of association would result both in cost savings and their more rapid development.
 The Commission recommended an administrative union of the East African mainland territories, possibly to be joined later by the Central African ones.
 It also proposed that the legislatures of each territory should continue and saw any form of self-government as being a long-term aspiration.
 It did however reject the possibility of the European minorities in Kenya or Northern Rhodesia establishing political control in those territories, and rejected the claim of Kenyan Asians for the same voting rights as Europeans.
 Although the Commission's recommendations on an administrative union were not followed immediately, closer ties in East Africa were established in the 1940s.
 However, in Central Africa, its report had the effect of encouraging European setters to seek closer association with Southern Rhodesia, in what became in 1953 the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
John Basil Fitzgerald OAM (born 28 December 1960) is a former professional tennis player from Australia who played right-handed with a single-handed backhand.
The 1969 British Hard Court Championships was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at The West Hants Club in Bournemouth in England.
 It was the 40th edition of the tournament and the second edition in the Open Era of tennis.
 The tournament was held from 28 April through 3 May 1969.
 John Newcombe, seeded first, and Margaret Court won the first open singles titles while the men's team of Bob Hewitt and Frew McMillan and the women's team of Margaret Court and Judy Tegart won the doubles titles.
 The poor state of the courts led to a protest by a number of players.
 The tournament made a financial loss due to higher expenses compared to the previous edition and poor weather during the final two days.
Bob Hewitt and Frew McMillan were the defending champions but lost in the semifinals to Peter Fleming and John McEnroe.