Wimbledon

The Wimbledon Championships, commonly known simply arsenic Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tourney successful the satellite and is wide regarded arsenic the astir prestigious.

It has been held astatine the All England Club successful Wimbledon, London, since 1877 and is played connected outdoor writer courts, with retractable roofs implicit the 2 main courts since 2019.

Wimbledon is 1 of the 4 Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the others being the Australian Open, the French Open, and the US Open. Wimbledon is the lone large inactive played connected grass, the accepted tennis playing surface. Also, it is the lone Grand Slam that does not behaviour nighttime matches, imposing a nighttime curfew instead.

The tourney traditionally takes spot implicit 2 weeks successful precocious June and aboriginal July, starting connected the past Monday successful June and culminating with the Ladies' and Gentlemen's Singles Finals, scheduled for the Saturday and Sunday astatine the extremity of the 2nd week. Five large events are held each year, with further inferior and invitational competitions besides taking place. In 2009, Wimbledon's Centre Court was fitted with a retractable extortion to lessen the nonaccomplishment of playing clip owed to rain. A extortion was operational implicit No. 1 Court from 2019, erstwhile a fig of different improvements were made, including adding cushioned seating, a array and 10 independently operable cameras per tribunal to seizure the games.

Wimbledon traditions see a strict all-white formal codification for competitors, and royal patronage. Strawberries and pick are traditionally consumed astatine the tournament. Unlike different tournaments, advertizing is minimal and debased cardinal from authoritative suppliers specified arsenic Slazenger and Rolex.

2020 Wimbledon was cancelled, the archetypal cancellation of the tourney since World War II. The rescheduled 134th variation was staged from 28 June 2021 to 11 July 2021, pursuing from the 2020 cancellation. The 135th variation was played betwixt 27 June 2022 and 10 July 2022, and regularly scheduled play occurred connected the mediate Sunday for the archetypal time. It marks the centenary of the inaugural championships staged astatine the Centre Court. The ATP, ITF, and WTA did not grant ranking points for the 2022 tournament, owed to contention implicit the tourney banning players representing Russia and Belarus.

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