The Championships, Wimbledon, or merely Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is usually considered the most important. It has been held at the All England Club in the London community of Wimbledon since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis contests, and the only one still played on the game's unique surface, grass, which gave the game of lawn tennis its name.
New Options to Wimbledon Championships 2009:
Wimbledon's Centre Court was fitted with a retractable roof to assure against the chance of rain stoppage breaking off Centre Court matches throughout the tournament. There'll finally be an end to 'rain stops play' at Wimbledon... thanks to a Sheffield company.
The long-awaited retractable roof for Wimbledon's Centre Court was formally revealed to the public in June 2009. It was designed and built by a Sheffield company called SCX. The Wincobank-based company was first approached in around 2004 with the request for a retractable roof for Wimbledon.
Their managing director Simon Eastwood came into BBC Radio Sheffield to talk to Toby Foster about the roof. As Toby said, Simon is the man who stopped Cliff Richard from singing at Wimbledon!
Venus 'loving' first week success: After setting up a fourth-round clash with Ana Ivanovic by dispatching Carla Suarez Navarro, a confident Venus Williams says she's really enjoying Wimbledon 2009.
Wimbledon 2009 Facts and Figures:
Attendance: The total attendance figure for the 13 days of The Championships was
- 511,043 a record high, beating the previous high of 475,812 set in 2008 by 35,231.
9 day records were set: Wednesday 24 June was the highest day attendance in history - 46,826.
- 160,600 people queued for tickets and ground passes
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