The year 1877 was ran, when the London club so far of Croquet, built a few years earlier on four acres of Prato in Wimblendon in World Road, took on the name of All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club. It was at that moment that with the interaction to organize a tennis tournament next to that of Croquet that was already the hand to the tennis regulation, Of uncertain rules: printed, they stole in a few days assumes Gianni Clerici, in that secular Bible also for format which is the 500 years of tennis. In short, in Wimbledon tennis has become the abstruse and magical sport we know.
The neighbor’s grass and the garden of the king
The first tournament was announced for June 9, 1977 open to all amateurs, entrance fee a pound and a shilling, the winner a first gold prize, in silver to the second place. When it is said that Wimbledon is the cot of tennis as we know it, it is not only for reasons of suggestion or prestige, but because on this grass field, full of symbols and tradition, the rules of tennis were born as we know them including astrusity. Still Wimbledon, London’s suburb, is considered the most prestigious circuit tennis tournament, the most suggestive of the four Grand Slam tournaments and the most difficult. In fact, since Australia is not played in the grass, tennis on grass is a rarity for all the players of the circuit, it has to adapt to an irregular field, which causes bislacchi rebounds, and makes the ball splash at the speed of a soap. It benefits those who have powerful services and play well on the fly and require everyone to deal with the impact of the weather: the rain often stops the tournament and the sun and the passages of the players consume the grass of the field as the tournament advances and the difficulties increase.
Green and purple
The official colors of the tournament are green and purple, but they are not such since the beginning: only in 1909 have they sentenced the previous ones: blue, yellow, red and green, too similar to those of the Royal Marines. No official document contains the explanation of the colors, but it is assumed that they find explanation in the green herb that characterizes the unique club in the world, while the viola occurs in the thousands of plants of Petunia Calibrachoa, which embellish the circle.
Farewell line judges
Since 2025, instead, after 147 years of honorable service, the line judges with their Retro blue shirt in Righine, purple tie, blue bass, pants or white skirts, white socks, white socks have been retired. The electronic verification system (ELC) replaces them which allows the OUT also during the exchange of game and not only on the joke. Hawk-Eye, a hawk eye, already rescued on the joke, from 2025 will replace the line judges on all 18 fields including the central, it is a piece of history that leaves.
Rufus, a real hawk in the staff
Falco’s eye is the nickname of the technology that he will replace and so far he has helped the line judges on the service, it is so called to Wimbledon because here he also lives in a real hawk, his name is Rufus, it is in 2007 and has a regular pass like the rest of the staff with the qualification of Bird Scarer, in the letter “scarecrow” and its task is to keep the pussies who threaten the seeds that threaten the seeds Fresh grass at the fields. Enter service every morning at 6 and has very popular social profiles.
Where the tennis gestures are really white
Instead, the rules on the game uniforms that still justify, unique in the world, the metaphor “white gestures” to mean tennis: in Wimbledon the regulation imposes that it takes in the field all dressed in white, “competitors must dressed in suitable tennis attract that is on the entithery white and this applies from the point at whicch the player agent the play. Court Surround », reads: the competitors must be dressed with adequate tennis clothing that is almost entirely white and this applies from the moment the player enters the perimeter of the field ‘. Bianco means white, niedre cream, no white-scarl, almost only implies the recent exception of a profile of a maximum of a colored centimeter of finishing in the neckline or sleeves and only in 2023 did women get to be able to wear dark or medium dark linen under the skirt or shorts. White is the tribute to the tennis of the origins, when in the British circles ladies and ladies took the field in elegant candid holds, with long skirts and trousers.
Tears to the dress code
If the white has never seen exceptions, over time they have been external in the Foggia time: a sensation of the dangers made for its lezing clothes and its lace between the 1950s and sixties. But it was inside the regulation. In 1985, on the other hand, Anne White took the field with a tight white suit, of a well -known sports brand, was invited to present himself the next day with a “clothing suitable for the eyes of the All England Club”, his opponent of that day, Pam Shrivers reagged by subsequently choosing a white skirt to the ancient long under the knee. This is the rule to which Pope Leone XIV, the first Pope, has an alluding Pope. Election, when meeting Jannik Sinner, looking at the white darkest, smiled: “So but Wimbledon would let me play”.
The abolished bow but not if there is the king
In the case, it will be possible to understand how we will put it with the bow: it was expected for all players and players leaving the field in the direction of the Tribune of honor that hosts the members of the British royal family. The generalized tradition of the incine to the royal tribune lasted in 2003, unless the prince of Wales or the king of England, as well as head of the Anglican Church, are not present in the stands. And then, casomai Pope Leone should be admitted, as he jokingly hoped, some ecumenical alternative to tradition should be invented.
Where do the balls go
Until 1986 the balls were also white, when Wimbledon also converted to fluorescent yellow already widespread for reasons of better visibility on the circuit since 1972. The balls used in the tournament, replaced every seven game as required by the ATP rules, are partly resold through official channels, partly donated to tennis schools and partly recycled because the vulcated rubber can be reused.
Panne and strawberries but not in our own way
At least before the fans of Jannik Sinner invaded they brought to the stands of carrots in all the sauces, the fruit of the earth most common to Wimbledon were the strawberries to be accompanied by the cream: however not mounted as it would be natural thinking of a dessert but liquidates according to tradition.
Roger and Martina the most successful
The absolute records of successes of Wimbledon in singular are by Roger Federer, 8 titles, touched the ninth with great regrets and two match points in favor, and Martina Navratilova, 9 titles. Not by chance two of the most successful tennis players of the Open era and two symbols in the history of tennis, as well as the longest -lived tennis players.
A camping tail
Unlike most tournaments, Wimbledon allows the purchase of tickets even on site in the days of the tournament, but it is a conquest for which it is necessary to arm yourself with holy patience and face the legendary question which is nothing more than a kilometer tail, so the curtains are planted.
