first tournament

THE FIRST TOURNAMENT

Wimbledon is very popular as the first Tennis tournament in the world. Yet according to research, there is a tennis tournament held in Nahant, Massachusetts, United States, in August 1876, one year before Wimbledon was held in 1877.

In 1870, the original court of All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club located at Worple Road, next to the main street of London-Portsmouth railway. In 1875, the club agreed to increase the number of games with lawn tennis and badminton. Two years later, on July 10, they held a meeting, which was then followed by a tennis match.

The first tennis championship was reserved particularly for the men's singles. Women's singles and men's doubles just competed in 1884. Then, the women's doubles championship and mixed doubles was held in 1913. In 1922, then All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club occupy an area of which now known as Wimbledon tennis area, located between Church Road and Somerset Road.

Today, Wimbledon grass court is the best tennis court in the world. In 1977, in commemorating a century of Wimbledon, Wimbledon Museum inaugurated the first tennis-museum-and library in Erpa Keneth Ritchie. Currently, Wimbledon bring into the 12 numbers for 13 days with 668 matches.

The participants that play in Wimbledon are those who enter the world ranking list of singles and doubles of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) or Women's Tennis Association (WTA) plus a wild card player as well as qualifications player. For the junior levels are taken base on world ranking of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) or state representative

Like it or not, Wimbledon is the most prestigious tournament. Playing at Wimbledon was different by following a similar series of grand slam tournaments. All players play insistently. Maybe this why  Ivand Lendl, who throughout her tennis career, until the late 1980s was rampant in the U.S. Open, French Open, and Australian Open but never won  the Wimbledon championship.

So did with Ken Rosewell, one of the legendary tennis player-1960s. Even though he became a champion at the U.S. Open, French Open and Australian Open, but till he retired he continued to fail at the Wimbledon Center Court. In his last match, he was defeated by Jimmy Connors in 1974.

It is not an exaggeration if some people say that winning at Wimbledon is as much the same with winning an Oscar in the film world. Indeed by winning Wimbledon certainly is a guarantee of increased promotional contract. The champion of Wimbledon will be everlastingly recorded in the history of tennis