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32 | OUT AND ABOUT COSTA BLANCA GAME, SET & MATCH ANYONE FOR TENNIS? Another great Wimbledon!!. The 2022 Wimbledon Championships is a Grand Slam tennis tournament that takes place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club Worple Road (1877–1921) Church Road (since 1922 in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom). The 135th edition started 27 June 2022 and finished 10 July 2022, with regularly scheduled play on the middle Sunday for the first time. Looking beyond 2022, the AELTC also announced a significant development to enhance The Championships, and open up tennis, for the future. From 2022, to coincide with the centenary of Centre Court, Middle Sunday will become a permanent part of the tournament schedule. Thanks to improved grass court technology and maintenance over the past five years or so and other measures, thus they are comfortable to be able to look after the courts, most particularly Centre Court, without a full day of rest. The Championships was a 14-day event. The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, also known as the All England Club,https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_England_Lawn_ Tennis_and_Croquet_Club - cite_note-2 based at Church Road, Wimbledon, London, England, is a private members’ club. It is best known as the venue for the Wimbledon Championships, the only Grand Slam tennis event still held on grass. Initially an amateur event that occupied club members and their friends for a few days each summer, the championships have become far more prominent than the club itself. However, it still operates as a members’ tennis club. The club has 375 full members, about 100 temporary playing members, and a number of honorary members, including past Wimbledon singles champions and people who have rendered distinguished service to the game. The Club was founded by six gentlemenhttps:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_England_Lawn_ Tennis_and_Croquet_Club - cite_note-aecc-6 at the offices of The Field on 23 July 1868 at the height of a croquet craze as the All England Croquet Club, and held its first croquet competition in 1870. Its original ground was situated off Worple Road, Wimbledon. Croquet was very popular there until the then-infant sport of lawn tennis (a game introduced by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield a year or so prior, was introduced in 1875 when one lawn was set aside for this purpose.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_ England_Lawn_Tennis_and_Croquet_Club - cite_ note-9 The first tennis Gentlemen’s Championship in Singles was held in July 1877, when the Club changed its name to The All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club. That year at Wimbledon service was underarm. The champion, Spencer Gore, opined that Lawn tennis will never rank among our great games.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ All_England_Lawn_Tennis_and_Croquet_Club - cite_note-10 In 1878 the height of the net was altered to 4 feet 9 inches (1.45 m) at the posts and 3 feet (0.91 m) at the centre.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ All_England_Lawn_Tennis_and_Croquet_Club - cite_note-11 In 1882, croquet was dropped from the name, as tennis had become the main activity of the Club. But in 1899 it was restored to the Club’s name for sentimental reasons, and the Club’s name became The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. In 1884, the Club added Ladies’ Singles and Gentlemen’s Doubles, and then in 1913 Ladies’ Doubles and Mixed Doubles.https://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/All_England_Lawn_Tennis_and_ Croquet_Club - cite_note-12 For the 1908 Summer Olympics, the venue hosted the Grass Courts tennis events.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ All_England_Lawn_Tennis_and_Croquet_Club - cite_note-13 The early Club colours were found to be almost identical to those of the Royal Marines, so they were changed in 1909 to the present Club colours of dark green and purple.https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_England_Lawn_ Tennis_and_Croquet_Club - cite_note-14 The Club moved to larger grounds at its present site in Church Road, Wimbledon, in 1922,https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_England_Lawn_ Tennis_and_Croquet_Club - cite_note-15 where it’s first Championship was “plagued by rain each day”.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_England_ Lawn_Tennis_and_Croquet_Club - cite_note-16 The current Centre Court dates from that year. It has been improved and extended on several occasions. Most recently a sliding roof was added in time for the 2009 Championships. In 1924 the old No.1 Court opened on the west side of Centre Court. During World War II The Championships were suspended but the Club remained open with a much smaller staff, and was used for fire and ambulance services, British Home Guard, and a
decontamination unit, and troops stationed nearby drilled on the main concourse. At 5:20 p.m. on 11 October 1940, five 500 pound German bombs struck the grounds, demolishing 1,200 seats in Centre Court. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_England_ Lawn_Tennis_and_Croquet_Club - cite_note-17 The old No.1 Court was replaced with the current No.1 Court in 1997, and the Broadcast Centre was built at the same time. Shortly afterwards, the Millennium Building, which houses facilities for players, press, officials and members, was built on the site of the old No.1 Court. The Church Road site initially extended only as far north as Centre Court. In 1967 the All England Club purchased 11 acres (4.5 ha) to the north. This was leased to the New Zealand Sports and Social Club and became known as Aorangi Park. It is most commonly known as ‘Henman Hill’ because of the popularity of former British tennis player Tim Henman. Initially the only use that the All England Club itself made of this new land was for car parking during The Championships, but in 1981 the New Zealanders’ lease was terminated, and the Club has developed most of the area for its own purposes. The Club currently has 18 tournament grass courts, eight American clay courts, two acrylic courts and five indoor courts. There are also 22 Aorangi Park grass courts, which serve as competitors’ practice courts before and during The Championships. The grass courts can be used from May until September. The grass has been cut to 8 mm since 1995, and 100% perennial ryegrass has been used for its strength since 2001. The courts are renovated in September, using nine tons of grass seed annually.https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_England_Lawn_Tennis_ and_Croquet_Club - cite_note-24 The largest court is the Centre Court, which hosts the finals of the main singles and doubles events at The Championships. The quotation above the players’ entrance to Centre Court is an extract from the poem “If—”, by Rudyard Kipling, which reads: “If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same.” This court also served as the main venue for the tennis events at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Initially, the courts were arranged in such a way that the principal court was situated in the middle with the others arranged around it; hence the title “Centre Court”. The present Centre Court, built in 1922 upon the move of the Club, was not actually in the centre at the time it was built, but as new courts were added in later years it became a more accurate description. It currently seats 15,000 – expanded from 14,000 following redevelopment in 2007–08 (spatially, the expansion is greater than those numbers imply, as seats have been widened), and (as of 2009) is the fourth-largest tennis stadium in the world.https:// JULY 2022 | 33 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_England_Lawn_Tennis_ and_Croquet_Club - cite_note-26 The Club installed a retractable roof on Centre Court which was completed in May 2009. It is a ‘folding concertina’ made of 5,200 square metres of a translucent waterproof fabric that allows natural light to reach the grass, and opens or closes in under 10 minutes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_England_ Lawn_Tennis_and_Croquet_Club - cite_note-27 Redevelopment work commenced in 2006 and Centre Court had no roof at all in place for the duration of the 2007 Championships. The other ‘show court’ is No.1 Court, built in 1997, which holds around 11,500 people and occasionally plays host to Davis Cup matches (Centre Court usually being reserved for the Wimbledon Championships). This is to be fitted with a retractable roof similar to Centre Court in time for the 2019 Championships.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ All_England_Lawn_Tennis_and_Croquet_Club - cite_note-BBC-C1Roof-28 A new No.2 Court with 4,000 seats was first used at the 2009 Championships. The old No.2 Court was renamed No.3 Court in 2009, and was rebuilt after the 2009 Championships. The grounds are set to undergo major renovation in the coming years as part of the Wimbledon Master Plan.https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/All_England_Lawn_Tennis_and_Croquet_ Club - cite_note-29 In December 2018 the club agreed to buy the adjacent Wimbledon Park Golf Club for £65 million in order to expand. The Club also houses the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum. Among the features that differentiate The Championships from the other Grand Slams are that they are played on grass courts, they require the players to wear white, and they schedule a day off on the middle Sunday of the tournament (though sometimes — such as in 2004 and 2016 — poor weather has meant play has needed to take place). The winner of the Gentlemen’s singles at The Championships receives a gold trophy inscribed with the words: “The All England Lawn Tennis Club Single Handed Champion of the World”.https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_England_Lawn_Tennis_ and_Croquet_Club - cite_note-31 The Championships attract attendance of around 450,000 people. Ninety per cent of the financial surplus that the Club generates from running The Championships is used to develop tennis in Great Britain; between 1998–2016 the surplus ranged from £25–40 million per year.https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/All_England_Lawn_Tennis_and_Croquet_ Club - cite_note-32 The Championships are run by a Committee of Management that consists of 12 club members and seven nominees of The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA).
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