{"id":7696,"date":"2018-07-26T15:45:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T22:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=7696"},"modified":"2018-09-22T16:45:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T23:45:17","slug":"wimbledon-a-terrific-tip-top-tennis-tour-for-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wimbledon-a-terrific-tip-top-tennis-tour-for-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon \u2014 A Terrific Tip Top Tennis Tour  for Tourists!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"bdaia-blockquotes\"><em><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u201cNew Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out on the Court. Spill your guts\u00a0<\/span><\/em><em>at Wimbledon, and they make you stop and clean it up.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em>\u2013 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/quotes\/j\/jimmyconno125116.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jimmy Connors<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love the quote above, not only as it comes from one of the most colorful, brilliant and even outrageous American tennis players ever, but also because it captures how clean Wimbledon is.\u00a0 Even though this classic tennis tournament has come to an end, you can still visit Wimbledon up close and personal.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7694\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7694\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7694\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-3.jpg\" alt=\"tennis match at Wimbledon\" width=\"850\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-3.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-3-600x234.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-3-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-3-768x299.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy: Wimbledon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Even if, like me, you\u2019re NOT a tennis buff, a tour around this internationally famous series of buildings and grass tennis courts, is intriguing. Just take the grass, as an example. I mean c\u2019mon on now, how boring is thinking about Wimbledon\u2019s grass! And yet it is a critical part of how balls bounce, where they go, and how they are \u201cplayed\u201d by tennis super stars.<\/p>\n<p>There are 19 courts plus 22 for practice (!) since 1991 and according to the Head Groundsman, all Wimbledon courts are sown with 100% perennial ryegrass, as it improves durability. The grass has been cut and maintained at a height of 8mm since 1995, and all are rolled, covered and constantly tested for their firmness and yes, would you believe, their speed. I found it fascinating to learn that if the grass is too damp, it will cut up, become unstable and cause the ball to bounce irregularly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7692\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-1.jpg\" alt=\"Wimbledon\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-1.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another area of interest on our tour was the press room \u2013 which looks like a scene from some 1940s movie about a large big city newspaper where lots of harried reporters dash off to get their stories filed, as the room has a seemingly endless series of special booths for the sports media. I was stunned to hear our guide say that the tennis stars are \u201crequired\u201d to submit to interviews \u2013 it\u2019s even written into their contracts that if requested, they MUST do the interview, but I was saddened that he declined to share the name of one star who actually refused to do any interviews \u2013 and was heavily fined.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7693\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7693\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7693\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-2.jpg\" alt=\"Spanish player Lili de Alvarez at Wimbledon, 1928\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-2.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-2-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-2-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy: CNN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In October 1940 the Nazi Luftwaffe dropped five 500 lb bombs on the Centre Court \u2013 which makes me ask, were they actually aiming for that?! In 2009 a retractable roof (costing 80 million British pounds) was installed on the Centre Court, so play would always continue in the event that the rains came. In 2003 the Duke of Kent ordered that the long standing tradition of curtseying to the Royal Box be abolished because, he said, &#8220;It is an anachronism in modern times.\u201d Now get THIS bit of tennis trivia, until 2006 women were paid LESS than men who appeared at Wimbledon, but the chairman of the Committee who managed the site at the time, Mr. Timothy Dewe Phillips, CBE, said it was not \u201cright or correct,\u201d so from 2007 onwards men and women earned equal prize money \u2013 a decision that overturned a century of inequality.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7691\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7691\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-Museum.jpg\" alt=\"Wimbledon Tennis Museum\" width=\"850\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-Museum.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-Museum-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-Museum-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-Museum-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Wimbledon Tennis Museum.<\/span> Photo courtesy: Wimbledon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7695\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-4.jpg 491w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Wimbledon-4-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/>Tennis buffs will love the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/en_GB\/museum_and_tours\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennis Museum<\/a> that\u2019s filled with tennis memorabilia dating back to 1555 from all over the world \u2013 plus a marvelous holographic display with John McEnroe in one of the Dressing Rooms. There\u2019s also many world famous trophies, and more tennis trivia, artifacts and \u201cstuff,\u201d than you ever knew existed \u2013 It\u2019s said that one always saves the best until last. If that\u2019s true, then the Centre Court is magnificent. When our tour group trooped in to this amazing piece of real estate, there was an eerie stillness that seemed unreal, and made me think it was a sort of sacrosanct religious site.<\/p>\n<p>When one of our media group asked if they could touch this piece of what I was now convinced really was hallowed ground \u2013 the guide seemed appalled at the idea that someone would even ASK to do that, saying \u2013 in a very somber voice \u2013 in all his years at Wimbledon, HE had never been allowed to touch it, or walk on it. \u201dIn fact,\u201d he said in a whisper, \u201cit\u2019s in my contract not to walk on it.\u201d It all seemed so unreal, because when I first arrived, I saw the 3,601 empty seats.\u00a0 I was struck by how small it seemed from the TV images \u2013 where it looks gigantic. Then, when I looked at the small entrance where the tennis stars entered the court, it reminded me of the gladiators coming out into the arena in the days of the old Roman Coliseum.<\/p>\n<p>Get more information about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wimbledon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if, like me, you\u2019re NOT a tennis buff, a tour around this internationally famous series of buildings and grass tennis courts, is intriguing. Just take the grass, as an example. I mean c\u2019mon on now, how boring is thinking about Wimbledon\u2019s grass! 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