Wimbledon
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- Last summer, I had the opportunity to attend the Wimbledon tennis championships and watch my favorite players compete on grass courts.
- tennis at Wimbledon
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Watch on YouTubeYou know, do you want the Wimbledon trophy?
- You know, do you want the Wimbledon trophy?
- So we decide, we go eat lunch and we're just said we're going to watch Wimbledon because we're huge tennis fans.
- Yes, I so I'm old enough to remember her in her prime winning Wimbledon.
- Nets, yes, but Knicks, I mean, but tennis, yes, I'll watch like the Wimbledon final.
- I'm at the restaurant in Wimbledon and she runs to me with a big smile and she says, guess what?
- So Arthur Ashe, for those who are younger than us, maybe the, you know, he's a great tennis player and I believe the only black male to win Wimbledon.
- It followed her to school one day, work one day, Wimbledon one day.
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In 1995, Pete Sampras won the U.S. Open and Wimbledon.
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Every loss seemed like a step backward until that Wimbledon final.
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So, do you, like, play at Wimbledon or the US Open or what?
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Or maybe it was the kid who won Wimbledon for the second time.
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You know, do you want the Wimbledon trophy?
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So we decide, we go eat lunch and we're just said we're going to watch Wimbledon because we're huge tennis fans.
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I'm at the restaurant in Wimbledon and she runs to me with a big smile and she says, guess what?
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This is the racket I won Wimbledon with, and you could have bought it.
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The crowd at Wimbledon gasps.
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The Williams sisters' dominance of Wimbledon since 2000 is staggering.
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Etymology
Wimbledon comes from an old English name 'Wim' plus the ending -ton meaning 'town' or the ending -don meaning 'hill', so it once meant 'Wim's town' or 'Wim's hill'. That's why Wimbledon is the name of a London suburb and the famous grass-court tennis championships held there each summer.