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Wimbledon: date, place, mode, history - all information about the tennis tournament

2022-05-25T10:05:46.181Z


Wimbledon: date, place, mode, history - all information about the tennis tournament Created: 05/25/2022, 11:53 am Wimbledon is one of four Grand Slam tennis tournaments. © IMAGO Wimbledon is the only major tournament in the world to be played on grass. Record winners are Roger Federer and Martina Navrátilová. Munich – The 2020 tournament was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 134th edi


Wimbledon: date, place, mode, history - all information about the tennis tournament

Created: 05/25/2022, 11:53 am

Wimbledon is one of four Grand Slam tennis tournaments.

© IMAGO

Wimbledon is the only major tournament in the world to be played on grass.

Record winners are Roger Federer and Martina Navrátilová.

Munich – The 2020 tournament was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 134th edition took place from June 28 to July 11, 2021.

This year, the third Grand Slam tournament of the season will take place from June 27th to July 10th, 2022.

Sunday, July 3rd, will not only be a regular fixture on the tournament schedule for the first time this year, but will also be the focus of Center Court's 100th anniversary celebrations, with a special moment planned between the second and third games. 

It will also be a day for the local community - with tickets being distributed to residents, schools, charities and community groups.

For the first time in the long history of the most famous tennis tournament in the world, Russian and Belarusian players will be excluded from the tournament this year due to the Ukraine war.

Wimbledon Stats & Facts

  • Edition: 135th Wimbledon Championships

  • Date: June 27th – July 10th

  • Venue: Church Rd, London SW19 5AG, United Kingdom

  • All England Club Chairman: Ian Hewitt

  • Surface: lawn

  • Defending Champion (Men's Singles): Novak Djokovic (SRB)

  • Defending Champion (Women's Singles): Ashleigh Barty (AUS)

  • Defending champions (men's doubles): Nikola Mektić (CRO) / Mate Mate Pavić (CRO)

  • Defending champions (women's doubles): Hsieh Su-wei (TPE) / Elise Martens (BEL)

  • Defending Champion (Mixed): Neal Skupski (GBR) / Desirae Krawczyk (USA)

  • Website: www.wimbledon.com

Wimbledon – the 2022 schedule

  • 06/27/2022 - 06/28/2022: 1st round men's and women's singles

  • 06/29/2022 - 06/30/2022: 2nd round men's and women's singles

  • 07/01/2022 - 07/02/2022: 3rd round men's and women's singles

  • 07/03/2022 - 07/04/2022: Round of 16 men's and women's singles

  • 07/05/2022 - 07/06/2022: Quarter finals men's and women's singles

  • July 7th, 2022: Women's singles semi-finals

  • 08.07.2022: Men's singles semi-finals

  • July 9th, 2022: Women's singles final

  • 07/09/2022: Final men's and women's doubles

  • 07/10/2022: Final Mixed

  • July 10, 2022: Men's singles final

This (planned) schedule may change at short notice.

Wimbledon – the mode

128 athletes compete in the first main round of the Wimbledon individual competitions.

In doubles there are 64 teams competing for the trophies.

"Best of five" is played, i.e. three winning sets.

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A change in the game mode of all Grand Slam tournaments will be used for the first time at this year's French Open: The organizers of the Australian Open in Melbourne, Roland Garros in Paris, Wimbledon in London and the US Open in New York have agreed on a uniform tiebreak rule agreed.

For some time now, a different rule has applied to all events in the deciding set.

From now on, the tie-break will be played to ten points, with a difference of two points.

This innovation applies to all single and double competitions as well as junior and wheelchair competitions.

Wimbledon - the story of the third Grand Slam tournament of the year

For many tennis fans, the Church Road tournament is the most traditional and famous tennis tournament in the world.

The first Lawn Tennis Championships began on July 9, 1877 at a ground on Worple Road in Wimbledon and were hosted by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.

From today's perspective, the reason for this was rather strange: 10 pounds had to be financed for a lawn roller that had to be replaced.

So the idea was born to hold a tournament and charge the spectators for an entrance fee.

What followed after that fills numerous pages of history books:

  • In the beginning, Wimbledon was purely for men, and it was not until 1884 that the competitions for women's singles and men's doubles were introduced.

  • Women's doubles and mixed doubles were included in the tournament program in 1913.

  • In 1922 a new tennis complex was inaugurated on Church Road and the 15,000-seat stadium became the 'Mecca of tennis'.

  • In 1937 the championships were televised for the first time.

  • For the first time since the Second World War, a tennis tournament was canceled in 2020 as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic.

  • The 'playing attire predominantly white' rule was introduced in 1963, before the 'almost all white' rule was introduced in 1995.

  • Another tradition is that the audience traditionally eats strawberries with cream.

  • However, it is also a tradition that the first Sunday of the tournament is free of games, i.e. a rest day.

  • The opening match takes place on Center Court and is reserved for the defending men's singles champion.

  • George V was the first member of the British royal family to visit Wimbledon in 1907.

    So in 1922 a 74-seat royal box was established, reserved for members of the royal family, politicians, athletes and other invited celebrities.

  • The Duke of Kent 

    had headed the All England Tennis Club since 1969 

    - in 2021 Queen Elizabeth II's cousin resigned after the Championships on Church Road. 

  • Until a rule change in 2003, players were expected to show polite respect to members of the royal family at the awards ceremony with a curtsy (women) or a bow (men).

Wimbledon – multiple winners in men's singles

  • Roger Federer (SUI), 8 titles: 2003–2007, 2009, 2012, 2017

  • Pete Sampras (US), 7 titles: 1993–1995, 1997–2000

  • Novak Djokovic (SRB), 6 titles: 2011, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021

  • Bjorn Borg (SWE), 5 titles: 1976–1980

  • Boris Becker (GER), 3 titles: 1985, 1986, 1989

  • John McEnroe (USA), 3 titles: 1981, 1983, 1984

  • Jimmy Connors (USA), 2 titles: 1974, 1982

  • Stefan Edberg (SWE), 2 titles: 1988, 1990

  • Rod Laver (AUS), 2 titles: 1968, 1969

  • Andy Murray (GBR), 2 titles: 2013, 2016

  • Rafael Nadal (ESP), 2 titles: 2008, 2010

  • John Newcombe (AUS), 2 titles: 1970, 1971

Wimbledon – multiple winners in women's singles

  • Martina Navrátilová (USA), 9 titles: 1978, 1979, 1982–1987, 1990

  • Steffi Graf (GER), 7 titles: 1988, 1989, 1991–1993, 1995, 1996

  • Serena Williams (USA), 7 titles: 2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016

  • Venus Williams (USA), 5 titles: 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008

  • Billie Jean King (USA), 4 titles: 1968, 1972, 1973, 1975

  • Chris Evert (USA), 3 titles: 1974, 1976, 1981

  • Evonne Goolagong Cawley (AUS), 2 titles: 1971, 1980

  • Petra Kvitová (CZE), 2 titles: 2011, 2014

Wimbledon - the trophy in the men's singles competition

The photographers insist on this year after year: Because the kiss of the winner on one of the most famous trophies in tennis history is already legendary.

The silver handle cup has been awarded to the male winners in singles since 1877 at the original venue of the oldest tennis competition on the grass court.

In its current form, the trophy is 47 centimeters high and has a diameter of 19 centimetres. The two large handles are decorated at the bottom with heads wearing winged helmets as a symbol of victory.

The trophy is engraved with the words "The All England Lawn Tennis Club Single Handed Champion of the World".

For reasons of space, the winners' names have been engraved on the base since 2009.

After William Renshaw won Wimbledon for the sixth time in a row in 1886, he was allowed to keep the current trophy, which was then called the Field Cup and Challenge Cup, for the second time.

So the All England Club had to find a replacement and decided that in the future the trophy would stay with the club even if a player won the title three times.

Why a pineapple is emblazoned on the lid of the Wimbledon Trophy as a special feature has never really been explained: one theory says that the pineapple used to be a precious rarity and a sign of high social status.

Another theory is that it has to do with a tradition of British naval captains sticking a pineapple on their goalposts,

Wimbledon - the trophy in the women's singles competition

The women's winning dish, a sterling silver tray with a diameter of 48 centimeters, bears the name "Venus Rosewater Dish" and was made in 1864 by a silversmith in Birmingham - for 50 guineas (today the equivalent of 6325 euros).

A rosewater dish is a shallow dish used by high society to wash their hands with rosewater after eating.

The trophy, based on a pewter plate from the Louvre in Paris, was first presented to a Wimbledon champion in 1886.

The bowl is decorated with figures from mythology.

In the center is the Roman goddess Venus.

The names of the winners from 1884 to 1957 are engraved on the inside of the bowl.

The names of Wimbledon champions since 1958 are on the outside.

Wimbledon - what not everyone knows

  • The Pole Roman Zoltowski was responsible for the engraving of all Wimbledon trophies for 35 years. He drove 18 hours from his hometown Poznań to London because he wasn't allowed to take his tools on the plane.

    Engraving the new winning names will take approximately 18 minutes.

  • After the Englishman Fred Perry, who emerged victorious from the men's competition in 1934, 1935 and 1936, it took 77 years until a British player, Scotland's Andy Murray, was able to win the men's singles at Wimbledon again in 2013.

  • In a normal year there are around 1000 applicants in total who want to work as ball boys and girls at The Championships.

    Approximately 170 will be selected from approximately 750 applicants from grades 9 and 10 and approximately 80 will be selected from approximately 250 ball boys/girls from previous grades.

  • John Isner (214) had the most aces of any player in 2018. For women, it was Serena Williams in 2012 with 102. In



    2010, John Isner and Nicolas Mahut played the longest tennis match in history: the game lasted eleven hours and five minutes - Spread over three days. 



    An overview of the amount of food and beverages served at The Championships: 18,061 servings of fish and chips, 6,147 servings of pasta for competitors, 4,242 servings of sushi for competitors, 276,291 glasses of Pimm's, 64,703 servings/sticks of ice cream, 191,930 servings of strawberries, 234,416 meals served during the championships

  • At 9am during the tournament, a hawk named Rufus flies over the pitches for over an hour before the gates are opened to ward off the pigeons that could distract players.



    The Wimbledon stadium including Center Court was built in the 1930s for 14,000 spectators.

    In 2008 it was renovated and since then has a capacity of 15,000 spectators.

    There has also been a closable roof since 2009.

    More games will be played on Court No.

    1, which can seat around 11,000 spectators.

    The court no.

    3 is also called "The Graveyard" due to many defeats by favorites.

Source: merkur

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