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1.The dirty weather caused the cancellation of a whole day’s play at Wimbledon.
2.Playing in his fourteenth Wimbledon, the American lost in straight sets to Rafael Nadal.
4.There are 4 major tennis tournaments. Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open.
5.The last home-grown winner of Wimbledon was Fred Perry in the late 1930s.
6.The main tournament is the annual Wimbledon fortnight, one of the 4 tennis “Grand Slam” tournaments.
7.The old lady complained that that the Association of Professional Tennis players had kicked the public in the teeth by refusing to play at Wimbledon.
8.American tennis player who in1938 was the first to win the Grand Slam(Wimbledon, French, U.S., and Australian titles).
9.International sports became big during the 1920s, mainly because of Wimbledon and the French Open in tennis, the British and French Opens in golf, and major cycling events in Europe.
10.After injuries kept her off the courts for much of 1998, Steffi returned triumphantly to paris to become the 1999 French Open champion and to Wimbledon where only Lindsay Davenport could stop her from winning her eighth Wimbledon title.
