I love the smell of fresh-cut grass in the morning, but I hate seeing my favorite professional tennis players slipping and falling-down on the grass courts at Wimbledon. When did Championships ...

Wimbledon is one of them. The Championships, Wimbledon – to give it its full name – was founded in 1877 and is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of four Grand Slam tournaments ...

BBC Bitesize serves up all you need to know. The first ever Wimbledon took place in 1877, but it was an event very different to the one we know today. There were 22 entrants - all male ...

There will be a female chair umpire for the Wimbledon men's singles final for the first time in the history of a tournament first played in 1877. Marija Cicak, a 43-year-old from Croatia ...

It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, south-west London since 1877. It is the only one of the four Grand Slam events to be played on grass. In BBC Wimbledon Update Lee James will ...

No British summer is complete without scores of tennis fans funneling into Wimbledon venues. The scene has remained largely ...

Wimbledon is the oldest grand slam event, founded in 1877, followed by the US Open four years later, the French Open in 1891, and the Australian Open in 1905. Novak Djokovic and Margaret Court ...