What’s better than the smell of fresh cut grass? Oh yeah, the smell of fresh cut grass and fierce competition. That’s Wimbledon, baby!
One of the tennis grand slam championships, Wimbledon is one of the most important and prominent events in tennis history.
It all started with the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London, the club was founded in 1868.
The club was first founded under the name the All England Croquet Club, but after a name change in 1877 the club was renamed, and then the first Lawn Tennis Championship was instituted.
By 1882, croquet was dropped from the name entirely and the club was exclusively for lawn tennis. Although, the name was restored back to the original for sentimental reasons in 1892.
Wimbledon is one of those events that no matter how you watch it you feel like you have been transported back into a time of ladies and gentlemen just enjoying some good old fashioned English sport.
However, the club is maintained and kept up with the needs of its members and of those spectators who flock every year to centre court to watch the best in tennis play.
Throughout the years Wimbledon is still one of the premier tennis tournaments in the entire world. It is the only professional tournament to be played on a grass court surface and is seen as a specialty surface much like the clay of Roland Garros stadium and The French Open.
The facility now has a retractable roof and places to house broadcast cameras, and even after all of these years and all of the location changes it is still one of the premier places to hit a tennis ball in the entire span of the globe. Once you go grass, you may just never go back! 