Wimbledon La 3D s'invite au All England Club

Qui a dit que Wimbledon n'était pas moderne ? Les organisateurs du tournoi britannique du Grand Chelem ont en effet décidé d'accorder la diffusion des demi-finales du tableau masculin ainsi que des deux finales en 3D. Un partenariat d'un an a été passé avec Sony, reconductible si l'opération s'avère être un succès. Le directeur du tournoi, Ian Ritchie, a ainsi déclaré sur le site officiel du tournoi que "Wimbledon est reconnu pour son héritage et son sens de la tradition. Dans le même temps, nous sommes toujours à la recherche d'amélioration pour le tournoi, en mélangeant avec succès cette tradition et l'innovation". Pour mémoire, la quinzaine sur le gazon londonien aura lieu du 20 juin au 3 juillet prochain.

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Wimbledon Increases Prize Money

by Press Release | 19.04.2011

The Wimbledon singles champions will each receive a record £1.1million at the 2011 Championships. The All England Club have increased the winners' pot by £100,000 on last year, with the total prize fund up by 6.4% to £14.6million.

Philip Brook, chairman of the All England Club and the The Championships, said: "Leading international sports events such as Wimbledon are all about the quality of the players on show. In the competitive world of top-level sport, it is important we offer prize money which suitably rewards the players for the box-office appeal they bring to the event and for their supreme performances on court."

Wimbledon will unveil the new number three and number four courts this year, which will increase the overall capacity by 1,000 to 38,500.

Court Three, which will have capacity for 2,000 spectators, will become the fourth court on the complex to be equipped with Hawkeye technology.

To celebrate the 125th championships, Wimbledon have arranged for the Antiques Roadshow to record an episode at the All England Club in August.

Blue Peter will also record a special to be broadcast on the second Monday of the championships, and the All England Club have commissioned four 30-minute documentaries charting the history of Wimbledon.

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Wild cards announced for The Championships, 2011

Tuesday, 7 June 2011

The following players have been awarded wild cards into The Championships, Wimbledon 2011.
Those remaining will be released in due course.

Gentlemen's Singles
1. Arnaud Clement (FRA)
2. Daniel Cox (GBR)
3. Daniel Evans (GBR)
4. Alejandro Falla (COL)
5. James Ward (GBR)
6. TBA
7. TBA
8. TBA

Ladies' Singles
1. Naomi Broady (GBR)
2. Katie O'Brien (GBR)
3. Laura Robson (GBR)
4. Heather Watson (GBR)
5. Emily Webley-Smith (GBR)
6. TBA
7. TBA
8. TBA

Gentleman's Doubles
1. Jamie Delgado and Jonathan Marray (GBR)
2. Chris Eaton and Joshua Goodall (GBR)
3. Colin Fleming and Ross Hutchins (GBR)
4. TBA
5. TBA

Ladies' Doubles
1. Sarah Borwell and Melanie South (GBR)
2. Anne Keothavong and Laura Robson (GBR)
3. Jocelyn Rae and Heather Watson (GBR)
4. TBA
5. TBA

Mixed Doubles
To be announced

Wheelchair Gentlemen's Doubles
1. Tom Egberink (NED) and Shingo Kenieda (JPN)

Wheelchair Ladies' Doubles
1. Marjolein Buis (NED) and Annick Sevenans (BEL)

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Dulko forfait

Gisela Dulko a annoncé mardi sur son compte twitter qu'elle était contrainte de renoncer à participer à Wimbledon. La déchirure à une cuisse subie en huitièmes de finale de Roland-Garros face à Marion Bartolie nécessite une plus longue période de repos.

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Serra et Parmentier en seront

Le 09/06/2011 à 14:09 | Mis à jour le 09/06/2011 à 14:13

A la faveur des forfaits officiels du Lituanien Richard Berankis et de la Russe Dinara Safina, les Français Florent Serra et Pauline Parmentier prendront part à Wimbledon (20 juin-3 juillet). L'Américain James Blake, 106e à l'ATP, participera également au tournoi londonien, en remplacement de Paul-Henri Mathieu, opéré du genou en mars. Chez les femmes, Vesna Dolonts, Anastasiya Yakimova, Olga Govortsvova, Patricia Mayr-Achleitner et Kateryna Bondarenko prennent respectivement la place de Timea Baczinszky, Patty Schnyder, Gisela Dulko, Agnez Szavay et Alisa Kleybanova, toutes forfait.

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Ward, Smethurst, Murray & Stephenson win wild cards

Last updated: 11/06/2011



Alex Ward, Dan Smethurst, Samantha Murray and Francesca Stephenson have won through the LTA Wimbledon wild card playoffs.

The four of them will now line up in Wimbledon qualifying which takes place at the Bank of England sports ground, Roehampton, next week.

Alex Ward beat David Rice 7-6(2), 6-2 in his final match, whilst Dan Smethurst defeated Morgan Phillips 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

In the women’s event Sam Murray defeated 16 year old Katy Dunne in straight sets, 7-6(1), 6-3, whilst Fran Stephenson upset second seed Jade Windley, also in two sets, winning 6-2, 6-2.

The four players will receive wild cards into Wimbledon qualifying to join the other players who have made it into the qualifying draw based on their ranking.

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Seeds fall on opening day of men’s qualifying

Monday, 13 June 2011



No.1 seed Lukas Rosol was one of a host of seeds to fall as qualifying for The Championships got under way at the Bank of England Club in Roehampton on Monday.

Rosol lost 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 to Belgium's David Goffin, opening up his section of the draw to six players ranked outside the top 150 in the world. The Czech world no.89 lost his focus after going a set up on Goffin, and unlike on his favoured clay, the match can turn quickly on grass and Rosol was out the tournament before it had barely begun. Goffin meanwhile possesses more of an all-court game than the Czech, to whom he conceded over a foot in height. At 5'4", he is the smallest player on the ATP tour but he managed to dismantle his lofty opponent by keeping his unforced errors to a minimum.

Dustin Brown (pictured), complete with fluorescent orange and yellow laces to his shoes, also went out. The no.7 seed was tormented all afternoon by Grega Zemlja, who qualified for the Australian Open earlier in the year and pushed the flamboyant Marcos Baghdatis to five sets once in the main draw. After dropping the first set, Germany's Brown rallied back to take the second and had three break points early in the third and again at 3-4. Slovenian Davis Cup player Zemlja focused on Brown's backhand however and served big at the right times. He then began making inroads into the German's service game with precise, aggressive counter-attacks, picking Brown off when he came in to the net. With the benefit of serving first and always holding, he made the pressure tell on Brown, who lost the final set in the 14th game to give Zemlja a well-earned 6-4, 3-6, 8-6 victory.

On a day when world no.4 Andy Murray took the title at Queen's, the Britons in the qualifying draw also fared well. Oliver Golding beat Josh Milton, routing his fellow countryman 6-3, 6-2, while Liam Broady won a titanic struggle 12-10 in the third over Italy's Alessio Di Mauro, ranked no fewer than 692 places above him at no.153 in the world. "The key was my serve and return today, both those shots worked for me," said the 2010 boys' doubles champion.

Jamie Baker defeated George Morgan in another British derby, but Alex Ward and Alex Bogdanovic came up short, the former falling in three tight sets to up-and-coming American Ryan Harrison and latter losing to Germany's Bastian Knittel.

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Tennis/Wimbledon : une wild-card pour Muller

14/06/2011 09:09:00

Avoir remporté le tournoi de Nottingham, la semaine passée, était une très bonne idée pour le n°1 luxembourgeois.

Grâce à ce beau succès, Gilles Muller a convaincu les organisateurs du tournoi de Wimbledon de lui octroyer une wild-card pour le tableau final. Le 93e mondial va donc pouvoir éviter les fastidieuses qualifications. Une très bonne nouvelle!

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Shark Bites: Wimbledon Preview

by Greg Sharko | 13.06.2011

ATP stats and information guru Greg Sharko looks at the numbers behind the stories of the ATP World Tour.

WIMBLEDON ROYALTY – Here's a breakdown comparing two leading men at Wimbledon, Pete Sampras and Roger Federer:

	Sampras	Federer
First 12 Appearances:	59-5 (7 titles)	55-6 (6 titles)
Won First Wimbledon Title In:	Fifth appearance (1993)	Fifth appearance (1993)
Longest Win Streak	31 matches	40 matches
Five-Set Record	5-2	5-2
Record Against Top 10 Opponents	10-1	10-1

TOUGH TO MAINTAIN GRASS COURT FORM -- In the Open Era, only seven players (12 times) have won Wimbledon after entering the event with a lead-up title. But since 2002, six eventual Wimbledon champions came into the tournament having won a grass court tournament. The chart below lists the players who have accomplished this feat.

Year	Wimbledon Champion	Lead-Up Tournament Title
1981	John McEnroe	London/Queen's Club
1982	Jimmy Connors	London/Queen's Club
1984	John McEnroe	London/Queen's Club
1985	Boris Becker	London/Queen's Club
1995	Pete Sampras	London/Queen's Club
1999	Pete Sampras	London/Queen's Club
2002	Lleyton Hewitt	London/Queen's Club
2003	Roger Federer	Halle
2004	Roger Federer	Halle
2005	Roger Federer	Halle
2006	Roger Federer	Halle
2008	Rafael Nadal	London/Queen's Club

TRUE TO SEEDING -- After Goran Ivanisevic's magical run at Wimbledon in 2001, the tournament hasn't seen a player seeded outside the Top 4 claim the title. In fact, only six players not seeded between 1-4 have won the event in the Open Era. Those players are listed in the chart below.

Year	Player	Seed
1975	Arthur Ashe	6
1985	Boris Becker	Unseeded
1987	Pat Cash	11
1991	Michael Stich	6
1996	Richard Krajicek	17
2001	Goran Ivanisevic	Unseeded / WC

*In comparison to the other Grand Slam events, Wimbledon has seen the fewest number of players seeded outside 1-4 triumph.

Australian Open	7
Roland Garros	17
US Open	8

MAJOR BREAKTHROUGHS -- Nine players won their maiden Grand Slam title at Wimbledon during the Open Era, the fewest of any of the majors (Roland Garros-21; US Open-11; Australian Open-10), with Roger Federer being the last to break through in 2003. See who preceeded Federer in the chart below.

Year	Player
1968	Rod Laver
1970	John Newcombe
1985	Boris Becker
1987	Pat Cash
1991	Michael Stich
1992	Andre Agassi
1996	Richard Krajicek
2001	Goran Ivanisevic
2003	Roger Federer

*Lone Grand Slam singles title



NO LEAD UP REQUIRED -- In the Open Era, a player has won Wimbledon without playing a lead-up event on grass on 11 occassions. Bjorn Borg won all five of his Wimbledon titles having never played a grass court tournament prior to taking the courts at the All England Club. See which other six players have pulled off this rare achievement.

Player	Year(s)
Stan Smith	1972
Jan Kodes	1973
Bjorn Borg	1976-80
Boris Becker	1989
Andre Agassi	1992
Roger Federer	2007, 2009

DOUBLES DREAMERS -- Similarly to the singles outcomes at Wimbledon, doubles hasn't seen many bracket busters take home the title. Last year, Jurgen Melzer and Philipp Petzschner became just the fifth unseeded men's doubles team to hoist the Wimbledon trophy in the Open Era.

Year	Doubles Team
1971	Roy Emerson / Rod Laver
1975	Vitas Gerulaitis / Sandy Mayer
1992	John McEnroe / Michael Stich
2005	Stephen Huss / Wesley Moodie
2010	Jurgen Melzer / Philipp Petzschner

- With assistance from Matt Fitzgerald

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British ladies struggle on opening day

Tuesday, 14 June 2011



Melanie South (pictured) flew the flag for Great Britain with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Liana Ungur, but her five compatriots in the ladies' singles draw all fell at the first hurdle on the second day of qualifying.

Wild card South, who lives a stone's throw away from the Bank of England Sports Centre in New Malden, Surrey, looked at home on the grass from the start and was not in the least troubled by her opponent who, at No.168 in the world, sits 125 spots above her in the rankings. It was perhaps not surprising. Just five years ago, the Kingston-born Brit defeated Italian Francesca Schiavone at Wimbledon and once again she displayed her magic, albeit on different lawns.

The match attracted the crowds and was a tightly-contested affair until South broke for a 4-3 lead, at which point Ungur receiving treatment and emerged with industrial-strength strapping taped around her entire left thigh. The interruption did little to dent South's concentration as she promptly held serve, took the set two games later and repeated the 6-4 score-line in the second.

Her five fellow countrywomen fared less well however. Samantha Murray, Tara Moore, Francesca Stephenson, Anna Fitzpatrick, and Jade Windley all went out of the tournament in straight sets, winning a mere 16 games between them.

The biggest upset of the day came when No.2 seed Chan Yung-Jan crashed out of the tournament to Marina Erakovic. The former world No.50 had no answer to the New Zealander's game and was demolished 6-2, 6-1. No.21 seed Urszula Radwanska, the less-heralded sister of Agnieszka, fell 4-6, 3-6 at the hands of Aleksandra Wozniak, who stood at no.21 in the world this time two years ago. Iryna Bremond, Czech Renata Voracova (No.11) and Mandy Minella (No.22) were all dealt first round blows.

It was a different story for top seed Nuria Llagostera Vives, who saw off Germany's Tatjana Malek 6-3, 6-3. Third seed Arantxa Rus, who made a name for herself at the French Open where she ousted No.2 seed Kim Clijsters in the second round, looked in devastating form as she found her feet on the turf to defeat France's Olivia Sanchez 6-4, 6-4.

Caroline Garcia, another player to generate headlines in Paris when she pushed Maria Sharapova to three sets on the Roland Garros clay, also demonstrated great form during her 6-0, 7-6(6) victory over Sally Peers leaving spectators in no doubt that she is definitely one to watch in the future.

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Tough matches as men's qualifiers continue

Tuesday, 14 June 2011



Once the ladies matches had been completed for the day, the men returned to action, treating the spectators at the Bank of England Sports Centre in Roehampton to some ferocious high-stakes tennis as they vied for one of the 32 spots in the third and final round of qualifiers for The Championships, 2011.

Among the stand-out performers today were Italy's Simone Bolelli, who looked a class act during his 6-3, 6-1 defeat of Germany's Simon Stadler, and young American Ryan Harrison, who scored a convincing 6-3, 6-3 victory over Laurent Rochette.

A late start for Bernard Tomic on Court 14 did not hamper the ebullient Australian youngster as he raced to victory against Robert Farah 6-1, 6-4 in what was probably the best all-round performance today by an unseeded player. Tomic effortlessly dismantled his opponent's game on a day that Farah will try to quickly forget.

Tomas Schoorel from The Netherlands went out in a battle of the giants to another Aussie, Chris Guccione, falling 7-6(5), 6-2 after his game came apart when the umpire over-ruled a call in the first set tie-break, taking the score to 5-2 in the Australian's favour rather than 4-3. Schoorel lost his cool and the tie-break, and an early break in the second set which was enough to derail the fourth seed and send him home earlier than expected.

Oliver Golding (pictured) was outmuscled by Jerzy Janowicz 7-6(3), 6-1, who made life a misery for the British teenager all afternoon as he grew in confidence after a tough first set. Spain's Roberto Bautista-Agut meanwhile brought an end to Liam Broady's hopes, conceding just three games in the process.

Ireland's Conor Niland produced one of the fight-backs of the day against Australian Greg Jones, winning 4-6, 7-5, 6-2, and will look forward to his day of rest tomorrow as he recovers from six sets (and 63 games to be precise) of competitive tennis over the past two days. The same applied to Ruben Bemelmans, who came out on top 3-6, 6-4, 16-14 against Japan's Yuichi Sugita.

The full list of the 32 men in the final round can be viewed in the draws section. All matches will be decided in five sets and will be contested on Thursday.

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