George Morgan recently won the Wimbledon Boys Doubles Championships with Mate Pavic and he has sat down with the Mancunian Times to talk about the tournament and what we wants to achieve in the future.
George won the boys doubles against Oliver Golding and Jiri Vesely 3-6 6-4 7-5. The pair had previously beaten Stockport’s Liam Broady, last years winner in the same contest and his Slovakian partner Filip Horansky.
Wimbledon Girls Singles Champion, Ashleigh Barty, visits the Richmond Tigers AFL team. This all happened last week and her dad must be very jelous as he’s a Tigers supporter.
Only a month after Wimbledon we have finally found a video of the Junior Boys Singles final between Liam Brody (GB) and Luke Saville (AUS).
We recently found this video of 2011 Wimbledon Womens Singles Champion Petra Kvitova. The video was taken when Petra was only 4 and she is showing the world how she hits a forehand and backhand. Even great hand eye coordination at that age.
Tennis has many tournaments in each season or year, but there are only four tournaments that mean the most to players who desire praise. The four Grand Slam tournaments are the Australian Open, the French Open, the Championships Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open. Let me tell you a little bit about the history of each of these four glorious events of tennis. First up, the first Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open. It has been played in seven different locations since 1905, when it was first played on grass. In 1988, the surface changed to hard courts, and the location of the Grand Slam stayed permanently in Melbourne, Australia. And here is a twist: the Australian Open was not even a Grand Slam until 1924! Since this tournament is played in the summertime of the southern hemisphere, there is a extreme-heat policy, since the temperatures can reach dangerous levels that could harm players.
Next up is the French Open, also known as Roland Garros, which is played in the city of love: Paris, France. This event has been played in four different venues since it started in 1891, (1897 for the women), and it was not official a Grand Slam tournament until 1925, when it was known as the French Championships. The French Open played on clay, is usually played around the end of May, and carries on for two weeks, just like all of the other Grand Slam tournaments. There was talk in 2010 about the French Open venue, as it was thought as being too small, and there was talk that it would be played in a bigger venue, but the rumors were put to a halt when the French Tennis Federation decided to keep the venue and build bigger stadiums, as well as build a roof on the main stadium.
The third Grand Slam of the year is quite special, as it is played on grass that is mowed down to a length on 8 millimeters! This event is called The Championships Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon, and is played in Wimbledon, London, England. Here are some cool facts about this Grand Slam: it is sometimes called SW19, because that is the post code of the area where Wimbledon’s venue is, which is the All England Club; the event started all the back at 1877; and Wimbledon was not played twice in its history, due to the outbreak of Word War I and Word War II. Wimbledon has had a roof since 2009, when it was decided that at least one court, the main stadium, should have a roof due to the annual rain reports at the tournament.
The last Grand Slam of the year is the U.S. Open, which is held in the Big Apple: New York, USA. Some fun facts about it are that it was first held in 1881 the state of Rhode Island; the U.S. Open has been played on three different surfaces, grass, then clay, then hard, in its history; it is held every year for two weeks, with one week before the Labor Day weekend, and one week after; and the main stadium of the venue is Arthur Ashe Stadium, which is the largest outdoor tennis-only stadium in the world!
The Grand Slams have a great history behind them, and that is why the history of these great tournaments is well worth knowing!
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Milos Raonic is only 20 years of age and already the Canadian tennis star has had to undergo hip surgery. Milos suffered the injury during his second round at this years Wimbledon.
Raonic is currently ranked at 26, but this is going to quickly slip, because he is expected to be out of action for the next six weeks.
Get well soon Milos and we will hopefully see you at the US Open.
Head have put together a little video to celebrate the victory of Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon and to now be the number 1 player in the world.
Congrats again Novak!
The other day we reported that Rafael Nadal will be out for 6 weeks with a hairline fracture. However, it now turns out that reports were incorrect and that Rafa will be playing in the Montreal tournament in little over a month.
Nadal News posted this translation of an article from as.com, wherein Uncle Toni refutes the story:
Toni Nadal, uncle and coach Rafa Nadal, said the Spaniard tennis player does not suffer any fracture in his left foot, against which publishes the British newspaper The Times. Nadal will be in the tournament in Montreal, as planned, that is played in just over a month.
ESPN has been able to sign a very lucrative 12 year TV deal for the rights to Wimbledon. ESPN were already running coverage via the Tennis Channel of the event, but now they will be able to carry first and final weekend coverage.
NBC lost the bidding war, but they will keep control of the French Open coverage in the USA.
Novak Djokovic recently returned home to Serbia to an amazing welcome at a rock concert.
Really.. that whole crowd was there for him?
David Nalbandian has really had a tough run in recent times with injury. Nalbandian was previously out for over a year with a hernia and hamstring tear and it now seems as though he is going to be out of action for a lot longer. Nalbandian now has an adductor (groin) injury that bothered him in his Wimbledon match against Roger Federer. Additionally, the haematomia is very visible and associated with his abdominal hernia operation.
I hope this isnt the last we see of David Nalbandian on court!
Justin Gimelstob in the Royal Box with Bjorn Borg, his wife, my beautiful girlfriend, Cary, F1 champ Jenson Button and his girlfriend Jessica Michibata.
It seems like straight after the Wimbledon mens final its time for the Wimbledon Champions Dinner. Here are the photos of the Champions from the dinner.
I dont know how he does it, but Justin Gimelstob is everywhere! Here is a picture he just shared with Novak Djokovic just after winning Wimbledon and becoming the 25th world number 1 player.
Australian tennis had an amazing Wimbledon tournament. Australia picked up both the Boys and Girls Singles events at Wimbledon 2011.
Ashleigh Barty, 15, completed the double with a 7-5 7-6 (7-3) win over Russia’s 16-year-old Irina Khromacheva, the No.3 seed, on court one. In winning, Barty became the first indigenous Australian to win a title at Wimbledon since Evonne Goolagong-Cawley’s second triumph in 1980.
Barty’s parents cheered her on from their home in Springfield, Queensland.
“We were just so pleased and so proud for how she handled herself, the way she managed the situation,” father Robert Barty said.
“It’s amazing, it really is. You always hope that your children can achieve some really special things, and what she’s doing – even if she didn’t win – the fact that she’s the number-one ranked girl for her age is phenomenal.
“It just blows us away.”
The Championships Wimbledon was brought to the public for the first time, to nearly 200 theaters, in 3D; this was a very special event that occurred on Wimbledon’s 125th anniversary.
Maria Sharapova and Petra Kvitova filled the 3D screen for the ladies’ final of the third Grand Slam event of the year. Sharapova’s screams and the sounds of Kvitova pounding the ball were realistic, just as if the two women were actually playing the final in the theater room.
This was a breakthrough for technology, as the event was aired live, and in 3D, in theaters. Other sporting events have been aired in 3D, but this event was the most well-known, and the most successful, as it was aired in countries ranging from England to Uruguay.
The biggest stage at Wimbledon was set for Sunday and the men’s title was on the line between two of the greatest players in men’s tennis. Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal went out onto Centre Court this afternoon in London with immense calmness and ready to compete for the greatest title in tennis.
The first set was marked with great consistency from both players as well as some tight points that showed us that each player is not here to play around. The crucial point in the first set came at 4-5 with Nadal on serve, when Djokovic had a set point at 30-40 and he capitalized on it with an error from Nadal, who hit a ball wide.
The second set looked like Nadal just didn’t have the skill to keep up with Djokovic and so Novak finished off the second with a quick and simple score of 6-1. People probably thought that this would be the end of Nadal’s reign, but just as they started to doubt his chances, Nadal fired back with a confident third set score of 6-1. The match wasn’t over yet and Djokovic never under-estimated his opponent from the start. Novak then picked up his rhythm and Nadal kept up with him until 4-3 in the fourth, when Djokovic commandeered his way to 5-3 with himself on serve. 40-30…match point, and Djokovic took his time by bouncing the tennis ball many times before serving the ball in and working the ball into the court, Nadal then went for too much on a shot and missed it long. Bang… Djokovic has won it with a score of 6-4 6-1 1-6 6-3.
That was it, Djokovic had become the new Wimbledon champion and did it in the greatest fashion possible. His family all hugging each other in a huddle and smiling with joy, they couldn’t witness a more special moment in Novak’s career. At the trophy presentation, Novak couldn’t be more humble when he was presented the trophy and had his little speech. He stated that he always wanted to win Wimbledon since he was very little and that it was just a dream to hold the trophy up in victory since Wimbledon was the very first tennis tournament he saw on television and also his favorite. Nadal was also very polite and gave all credit to Novak. There was also a little trouble with the microphones, so the presenter had to use two of them at a time so folks at home and at the stadium could hear the players speak 
On Monday, Novak Djokovic will become the new world number one as well, and what better way to do it than to hold the title at Wimbledon and still holding his winning record of matches at 48-1 for 2011.
Novak, you are the player of the year so far, so enjoy your celebration!!!
Wimbledon has considered adding a retractable roof to Court No.1, the venue’s second biggest court after Center Court.
The first court to have a roof was Center Court, when the roof was finished and first used in the 2009 Wimbledon Championships.
Rain had hit Wimbledon this year more than it did last year. The roof was used often on Center Court in 2011, the only court that has a roof and could be played on during stormy days.
Some of the other Grand Slams have roofs over their main courts as well; there are two retractable roofs at the Australian Open, and Roland Garros says it will have a retractable roof on its main stadium by 2016. The U.S. Tennis Association says it does not plan to put a roof on Arthur Ashe Stadium, the top court for the U.S. Open.
Wimbledon spokesman Johnny Perkins said that “everything is up for discussion” and added that “a Court 1 roof can’t be ruled in, but couldn’t be ruled out.”
In the boys singles final it was a great three set match between Luke Saville of Australia and Liam Brody of the UK. Brody got off to a great start and seemed to be a lot less nervous than his opponent. Brody also secured and early break in the second set and it looked like he wasnt going to be challenged on the way to the title. However, Saville came back with some big hitting to secure the second set and then power his was to victory in the third set.
It has been a very strong Wimbledon for the young Australian male players. It will be very interesting to see if they can continue this great promise for years to come in the senior ranks.
Congrats to Luke Saville the Junior Boys Singles Wimbledon Champion.
The Bryan brothers have been able to tie the Woodies on Grand Slam doubles titles with a straight sets win in the final. Bob and Mike Bryan took out Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau 6-3 6-4 7-6.
The Bryan brothers were simply to fast and quick for their opponents today.
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