4 days to go
Wimbledon reverted to type today with more rain than tennis.
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| An angry crowd of American tourists had to be dispersed from a refreshments tent at Wimbledon today after discovering that cheesecake was not available with their strawberries. |
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The first game on at 13:00 today was Henman v Grosjean, and they were still playing 6 hours later at the close of play, after numerous rain interruptions. The game will finish tomorrow, weather permitting.
I saw Alan Mills, longstanding Wimbledon tournament referee, being interviewed on TV this evening. I've always thought of him as a likeable chap, bearing up manfully under the pressures of the tennis world and the British weather - stiff upper lip and all that. This evening was the first time I can remember hearing him speak, and his likeable chap tag vanished instantly - "tally ho chaps, get those covers on sharpish"
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| Battle of the sexes |
So, the women's semi-finalists are the top 4 seeds, while in the men's competition none of the 8 quarter-finalists has ever won Wimbledon before. And yet surprisingly I heard on the radio that a survey in America showed that over 80% of respondents preferred the women's game. No doubt the survey was made up of a representative sample of men leaving a strip club.
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Heimlich Manoeuvre |
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| Wimbledon referee Alan Mills had to receive emergency first-aid treatment today when a plum stone became lodged in his throat. |
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So if the women's game is really the most popular, surely they do deserve at least equal pay with the men. Perhaps this is another cause which the Duke of Kent can take up. After all his thoroughly modern family has put a woman at its head.
9:47:49 PM 
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