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.

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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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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.

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Congrats again Novak!

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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.

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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.

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