Wimbledon boasts some impressive statistics. Most gentlemen’s singles titles won: Pete Sampras and William Renshaw (seven apiece); for the ladies, Martina Navratilova holds a seemingly unbeatable nine. Fastest serve ever at the Championships: a racquet-thumping 148 miles per hour from Taylor Dent in 2010. Number of tennis balls used per tournament: 54,200. Percentage of the UK population who watched the Championships on TV in 2010: 51. On the all-important food and drink front, tennis fans nibble their way through 28,000 kilos of strawberries and sip their way through 300,000 cups of tea at the grounds every year. (more…)
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Up Close and Personal on Court 19
Wimbledon has all the ingredients that we English traditionally love: cut grass, strawberries, Pimm’s, a bit of tennis (though not much of it by English players), the opportunity to talk endlessly about the weather with total strangers, queues … . (more…)
Gooster on the Loose 