Wimbledon against the passage of time

Last week I was lucky enough to be able to visit the site again Wimbledon. It’s been more than a decade since he stomped on the oldest Grand Slam tournament. Carlos Costa, Rafael Nadal’s manager, gave me the tickets in the standsI must publicly thank you for the details.

The oldest tournament on the ATP circuit and the most prestigious of the Grand Slams is simply different, because the English want to be in almost everything they do.

Perhaps it is this sense of a lonely world that makes them feel so They are the continent and the rest of the world has islands around them, many of which were colonies. Right-hand drive, weighing in pounds or measuring distances and speeds in miles continues to change the world when you arrive in the UK. Brexit defines them very well.

At Wimbledon, he wears tennis and plays in whiteWell, this year they made an exception for the first time for women, since they’ll be able to wear dark underwear if they’re having their period during the tournament. Just to avoid the stress of players who have modified the Rule of 1875, which hardened at the end of the last century.

On the journey on the county line to the tournament, the subway was filled with tennis fans, wearing different clothes and different styles. From sports tourists, tennis grand slam hunters, to English fans who will watch tennis with camping fridges from a hill, with a ‘floor walkway’ entrance, which allows them to sit on the grass and watch matches from a large screen attached to the outside of the first track, nothing more. They could do the same thing in Hyde Park, but they do it there, imitation.

This track is the largest and most modern of all, but the final will be played at the old center field. This is where everything is against the passage of time and everything remains the same. This is a clue to the word “legacy” (Inheritance) is the main rule that protects everything in the tournament so that almost nothing changes and everything remains.

private main entranceAll England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club” Three Army soldiers (one from the land, one from the Navy, and one from the air) guard it to prevent anyone other than one of the 375 exclusive members from trying to pass through its door. At the entrances to the slopes, it is also the bodies of the British Empire that control the vomit. matter of state.

Grass, without a doubt, is not the most logical surface to prove who is the best tennis player, but it is the grass that the British used as a natural surface, with geographical and climatic logic, when they invented sports (football, rugby, cricket or croquet), and they will not rethink it, nor They intend to change it now.

But if you get out of this logic, The combination of elegance and cool with a classic point, makes it the best tournament on the circuit without a doubt.