One of the biggest tennis tournaments in the world starts tomorrow. Along with France, the US and Australia, Wimbledon is one of the important prizes to win in tennis, and still one of the very few major tournaments played on grass courts. It used to be the case that rain stopped play at Wimbledon frequently, but with the new roof over the main court now, this is no longer a problem – so for the next 2 weeks (finals on Sunday 4th July) you can see some of the bets tennis in the world. There hasn’t been a British men winner since the 1930s and you will read plenty on this in the newspapers over the coming days. A British woman won the singles title in 1977 – but since then NOTHING! You can go and watch the games easily enough – just go along in the evening and queue up. There are a few tickets available for all the courts each day but you will have to spend days queuing up to stand a chance of getting a ticket. Besides the tennis, Wimbledon is famous for being one of the great British sporting traditions (along with Ascot, the cup final and so on) and this means for many people it’s a bit of a day out – dress up, eat strawberries and cream and drink champagne. Oh, and watch the tennis if you like! If you do want to go it’s easiest to go to Wimbledon station (on both the underground and main train lines) and from there you can catch a local bus – it is very well signposted. UIC will be organising a trip there – watch out for information at the school.
There seems to be general agreement that Roger Federer is the best tennis player ever – here’s a short movie showing some of his best moves!
The tennis will be on the TV every day, fighting for space with the world cup – a sporting dilemma if ever there was one – but even if England are knocked out of the World Cup there may still be a little interest in the only British player likely to do anything at all – Andy Murray.
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