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Rafael Nadal
·
On July 6,
2008 Rafael
Nadal, 22,
ended
five-year
reign of
Roger
Federer as
king of
Wimbledon
with a 6-4,
6-4, 6-7,
6-7, 9-7
victory at
All England
Club.
·
Nadal became
the first
Spaniard to
win the
grasscourt
grand slam
since Manuel
Santana in
1966.
·
Rafael Nadal
became the
first man
since Bjorn
Borg in 1980
to win the
French Open
and
Wimbledon in
the same
year.
Mission
IAS’2009
·
The
Championships
were first
played under
the control
of the All
England Lawn
Tennis and
Croquet Club
in 1877 at a
ground near
Worple Road,
Wimbledon;
the only
event held
was
Gentlemen's
Singles.
·
In 1884, the
All England
Club added
Ladies'
Singles and
Gentlemen's
Doubles.
Ladies'
Doubles and
Mixed
Doubles were
added in
1913.
·
The
Championships
moved to
their
present
location, at
a ground
near Church
Road, in
1922.
·
As with the
other three
Grand Slam
events,
Wimbledon
was
contested by
top-ranked
amateur
players
until the
advent of
the open era
in tennis in
1968.
·
Britons are
very proud
of the
tournament
but it is a
source of
national
anguish and
humour — no
British man
has won the
singles
event at
Wimbledon
since Fred
Perry in
1936, and no
British
woman since
Virginia
Wade in
1977.
·
Tennis in
its present
form was
conceived in
England in
the 1870s.
·
In
the 1880s
the British
Army and
Civilian
Officers
brought the
game to
India.
·
Soon
after,
regular
tournaments
like 'Punjab
Lawn tennis
Championship'
at Lahore
(Now in
Pakistan)
(1885);
'Bengal Lawn
Tennis
Championship'
at Calcutta
(1887) and
the All
India Tennis
Championships
at Allahabad
in (1910)
were
organised.
·
Initially
the
Britishers
like TD
Berrington
and LC
Ogbourne won
these
championships,
however
Slowly
Indians
started
picking up
the game.
·
Mohd.
Saleem of
Lahore won
the Punjab
Championship
in 1915 and
thereafter
consecutively
from 1919 to
1926. In
1917 NS Iyer
lifted the
Bengal
Championship.
·
In
1919 Nagu
picked up
the
prestigious
singles
crown at the
All India
Tennis
Championship
at City's
Gymkhana
Club at
Allahabad.
Henceforth
the Indians
started
playing the
game with
greater
distinction. |
