TENNIS : declared in Revered Wimbledon is to tennis what the Masters is to golf

It's like the Masters for golf. LONDON (AP) — When Masters champion Sergio Garcia sat in the Royal Box at Wimbledon last week, he showed up in his green jacket from Augusta National. The aura of Wimbledon has probably always been the strongest of any ... tournament," three-time champion Novak Djokovic said. Wimbledon wouldn't be Wimbledon," Desmond said. The tennis and golf tournaments seem to be each other's counterparts in many ways, starting with the reverence in which they're held — and the steps the private clubs that run them take to cultivate the events' images.

Wimbledon 2017: tennis in infrared - in pictures

Knowing Wimbledon was a sea of different greens, from the grass to the clubhouse covered in ivy, I though it might be interesting to see what might happen. 'I had seen images taken by some landscape photographers with infrared and had seen how it rendered colours, especially greens, in a unique fashion. Tom Jenkins, Guardian sports photographer, explains how he took his extraordinary shots of players at Wimbledon. I also wanted to show a place that is so familiar to all of us, in a very different, almost surreal way.'


These 42 acres of Wimbledon—the first and last bastion of the sport I've loved since my boyhood—contain all that I have ever loved and loathed about tennis. The Queue is part of the mythology that makes the Wimbledon experience an experience at all; it goes hand in hand with the strawberries and cream and the all-white attire. When I was growing up in the Midwest, tennis ranked somewhere between archery and curling in terms of popularity. But there is one part of the Wimbledon Experience that is missing; there is, as Blind Melon once said, "no rain." In fact, there is an aggressive sun that would rival the sun of Kolkata in July. So, this year I submit my name for the national lottery for tickets, but never hear anything back.


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