Wimbledon

sassy reply to her admirer who shouted, “Steffi, will you marry me?” in the middle of her Wimbledon semi-finals match. And, who can forget the marriage proposal for Indian cricket captain, Virat Kohli by a Pakistani police officer. There have also been times when fans have gone overboard in professing…

Heroes are people who stand up for what they believe in. A hero is someone who makes a significant impact in history. Most heroes believe that the world can always be changed for the better. Billie Jean King was considered a hero who proved to the world that women could compete just as well as men. The life of Billie Jean King was that of an ordinary American until one day it changed. Billie was born November 22, 1943 in Long Beach California. She was born into an athletic family. Her dad was…

England Club Croquet decided to hold the first Wimbledon tennis tournament in 1877; the organizing committee decided to ditch Wingfield’s odd-shaped court and chose to use a rectangular court instead, and the modern rules today were introduced then. The event was initially held to fundraise to fix a broken roller at the private club, but soon evolved into one of the most prestigious tennis events in the entire world. During the first year of the Wimbledon Championships, only men’s singles…

different emotions; surprise, anger, and triumph. In watching sports the Englishmen do something very peculiar, they cheer for the underdog even if it’s their nationality or not. Fox gave an example of Wimbledon in 2002 when Hewitt was playing someone from Argentina, who had never played in Wimbledon before. The Englishmen were cheering for the Argentine who you could tell was the underdog, and then all of a sudden they would be cheering for Hewitt who wasn’t the underdog. Why? They wanted to…

athlete; he could do it from home. Nadal’s father was right and under the training of his uncle, Rafa turned pro when he was fifteen. At the age of seventeen he beat Roger Federer to become the youngest player to ever reach the third round of Wimbledon, which is one of the four grand slams. Then two years later he played in the French Open, another grand slam, for the first time and won the tournament. He won the same tournament every year for the next three years and at the end of his run,…

The Declaration of Independence says that “all men are created equal,” but where does this apply to women? Women are considered inferior to the male race; it has always been that way. Not only do they receive fewer opportunities than a man, but even their payroll has been affected because of this. In 1963 John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963. This act requires that both male and female employees must be given equal pay for work or you are breaking the law. Sadly, this hasn’t stopped…

Three years later in 1956 she won The French open and became the first African American to win a tennis championship. In the following years, she became a member of the national tennis team and would go on to win the women’s single and double in Wimbledon (Lewis 2014). She retired from tennis 1958. Though her many achievements, she was limited because of her gender and race. Thought the time of her career, she was still confined by segregation. She had to over come the stereotypic outlook of…

resist. In July 2014, Neil Harman - the former chief tennis correspondent for The Times - was accused of plagiarizing the material for the official Wimbledon yearbook, which he had written since 2004. According to The Guardian (2014, July 25), “Harman had resigned from the International Tennis Writers' Association. It followed his being fired by the Wimbledon authorities after they were informed about plagiarism in three annuals written under Harman's name”. This case shows us that if you don’t…

was Spencer Gore. This tournament was to later be known as Wimbledon (History of Tennis). After this tennis tournament, many others quickly sprung about. In 1881 the first US Open was held, which was followed 10 years later by the French Open, and then tennis in the Olympics in 1896. Interestingly enough, women were allowed to play in tennis tournaments pretty early off. The first major tournament they were allowed to play in was Wimbledon in 1884 (History of Tennis, The). One reason behind…

Throughout time people are observed becoming offended by the same types of images, for the same reasons. Although societal convention and practices might change throughout time and between locations, there are clear trends in what the populous finds to be offensive. Madame X was a painting by John Singer painted in 1884. This painting features and attractive woman in a long, sultry, dress. She is posed looking away, but also stepping forward. This portrait was considered one of the most…