The Wimbledon Championship

Roger Federer
His comprehensive tennis skills, strong will, and the extraordinarily psychological quality at the moment of dealing with the key balls contribute to his own 5 serial champions during 2003——2007.
The Content of the TraditionⅡ
• Advertisement boards are forbidden in the court • Insist using natural daylight in the process of the match. • Use hand-operated billboard to record the immediate score
The Lords
• In their days, they almost dominated or even dominating the Wimbledon’s champion on the realms they own.
Martina Navratilova
Singles Champion: 1978, 1979, 1982——1987, 1990 Doubles Champion: 1976, 1979, 1981——1984, 1986 Mixed Doubles Champion: 1985, 1993, 1995, 2003 Navratilova won a record number of nine singles titles, spanning three decades and involving some of the fiercest rivalries in women’s tennis history. Generation-hopping with such success is difficult to achieve.
The content of the TraditionⅢ
• The Falcon In the process of one fierce match, some birds such as pigeons may fly into the court and seriously disturb the athletes. The falcon’s mission is dispelling these uninvited guests.
The Wimbledon Championship
• • • • • • The biginning Tradition Change Compromise The Lords The victory of the minginning
• The All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club once called The all England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, is a private Club founded in 1868. In the spring of 1877, the Club was re-titled and signalled it change of name by instituting the first Lawn Tennis Championship. Now, Wimbledon is acknowledged to be the premier tennis tournament in the world
CompromiseⅡ
In order to avoid the judgment in dispute, the center court and the 1st court had been equipped with “the Eagle Eye” (The instant replay system) to precisely locate every placements. Each players owns at least 2 chances per set in one match.
CompromiseⅠ
• Under the enormous pressure from the radical feminists and the ITF (International Tennis Federation), Wimbledon’s committee made a decision that gentlemen and ladies could obtain the equal prize.
ChangeⅠ
The current grass-seed scattered in the courts definitely different from the past. The black wheat grass had been used to substitute for the Saint grass. This act obviously slow down the pace of the match. Moreover, it appealed to the athletes who are specialised in the baseline strategy.
Bjorn Borg
His highlight is the paramount record he created: five successive victories between 1976 and 1980. All the records he made had become the extreme goal somewhat and been chased by his successors . Hitherto, his five-successive record still remains and just been replicated by…
The Victory of the Minority
As the latest grow-up power, Chinese players impose an influence that can’t be underestimated on the tennis field in the worldwide scale. In 2006, Li Na defeat the temporal top5 players and reached ladies’ singles quarter final. In addition,Zheng Jie and her partner Yan Zi won the doubles champion. In 2008 Zheng Jie stepped into the ladies’ singles semifinal.
Tradition
• The British hold an obstinate attitude towards their honorable tradition.
The Content of the TraditionⅠ
• Athletes shall wear white-based clothes when they step into the court. • When the member of the British Royal Family come to the court in person,the athletes should drop a courtesy towards their box. • No match during the Day7.
The Williams Sisters
Over the last ten years, they won ladies’ singles champion 8 times. Especially in 2002,2003,2008,2009, the ladies’ singles final somewhat became their “family affairs”. The sisters also joined and got excellent scores on the doubles match incidentally.
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ChangeⅡ
No one achieves in shaking the rule concerning the white-based clothes. Yet the style of clothes, especially the ladies’ have experienced radically reform.