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As has become customary in recent years, Martin Keady, our resident tennis historian, looks back at 2020, beginning with the unfortunate and regrettable events of the year. COVID Embed from Getty Images There are absolutely no prizes for guessing what is No.1 on this list. Indeed, it might have been easier simply to write a […] READ MORE
Since 2002, the Gentlemen’s Singles event at Wimbledon has used a different way of calculating the competitors’ seeding. It was designed to favor grass-court specialists and let them avoid tougher matches in the early stages of the tournament. How did it work? A player’s ranking points were the basis of the seeding formula. To this […] READ MORE
Wimbledon 2020 is no more, the illustrious tennis championships cancelled for the first time since 1945, with Great Britain and the rest of the world enduring the most disruptive period since World War 2 due to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. The decision was not unexpected, with tennis facing perhaps the most pressure of any sport […] READ MORE
Britain’s Daily Mail is reporting that Wimbledon is set to be cancelled for 2020 on Wednesday by the AELTC due to the ongoing coronavirus COVID-19 global pandemic that is severely impacting Great Britain and the rest of the world. The 2020 Wimbledon Championships were originally scheduled for June 29-July 12th, and at one point the […] READ MORE
