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In 1868 the first croquet all-comers ' meeting was held at Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire and in the same year the All England Croquet Club was formed at Wimbledon, London.
By the late 1870s, however, croquet had been eclipsed by another fashionable game, tennis, and many of the newly-created croquet clubs, including the All England club at Wimbledon, converted some or all of their lawns into tennis courts.
For the 1991 – 92 season and part of the 1992 – 93 season, the Addicks played at West Ham's Upton Park as Wimbledon had moved into Selhurst Park alongside Crystal Palace.
" The location of " Wibbandun ", which can be translated as " Wibba's Mount ", has not been identified definitely ; it was at one time thought to be Wimbledon, but this now is known to be incorrect.
Tramlink serves seven National Rail stations and has one interchange with the London Underground, at Wimbledon station for the District Line, and one with London Overground, at West Croydon for the East London Line ; one of the factors leading to its creation was that the area around Croydon has no Underground service.
The railway platforms have been demolished and rebuilt to Tramlink specifications, except at Elmers End and Wimbledon where the track level was raised to meet the higher main line platforms, to enable cross-platform interchange.
During the 1990s, the English football club Wimbledon, based in London, expressed interest in relocating to the city after being forced to leave their Plough Lane stadium and ground-share with Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park.
* 2010 – John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in professional tennis history.
* 2009 – Roger Federer wins a record 15th Grand Slam title in tennis, winning a five set match against Andy Roddick at Wimbledon.
* 1985 – Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17
He signed for Fulham as a schoolboy in 1950 and played loan spells at amateur sides Feltham ( in the Middlesex League ), Wimbledon ( Isthmian League ) and Woodford Town ( Delphian League ).
In 2000, Hewitt reached his first Grand Slam final at the Wimbledon mixed doubles partnering Belgian Kim Clijsters.
But at Wimbledon, as the defending champion, Hewitt lost in the first round to qualifier Ivo Karlović.
Lleyton Hewitt at Wimbledon, 2004
At Wimbledon, he was defeated in a quarterfinal by Federer, and at the US Open, he was defeated in the final by Federer, losing two out of the three sets at love.
The 2011 World Championship Final will be held at Londons Wimbledon Stadium on Sunday 23 October.
According to Honor Godfrey, museum curator at Wimbledon, Wingfield " popularized this game enormously.
Only in the final sets of matches at the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, the Olympic Games, Davis Cup, and Fed Cup are tie-breaks not played.
Grass is used at Wimbledon and until 1974 three of the four Grand Slams ( Australian Open, Wimbledon, US Open ) were played on grass.
For example, players at Wimbledon are required to wear predominantly white.

Wimbledon and All
* Wimbledon: Henry Cavendish Jones convinces the " All England Croquet Club " to replace a croquet court with a lawn tennis court.
* July 9 – The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club begins its first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon.
* WimbledonAll winners and runners-up.
By 1922, the popularity of tennis had grown to the extent that the club's small ground could no longer cope with the numbers of spectators and the renamed All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club moved to new grounds close to Wimbledon Park.
Each year The Championships, Wimbledon, better known as simply Wimbledon, one of the four tennis Grand Slam tournaments ( along with the US, French and Australian Opens ) is held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Church Road Wimbledon.
The course also includes an extensive guest speaker and field visit programme with visits to leading sports organisations such as the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ), FIFA, UEFA, All England Lawn Tennis Club Wimbledon, the Professional Footballers ' Association, Manchester United as well as others.
In beating Newcombe in four sets in the Wimbledon final, he captured the title at the All England Club for the fourth consecutive time that he had entered the tournament ( and reached the final for the sixth consecutive time as he had been runner-up in 1959 and 1960 ).
This stunning string, however, was broken in the third round at Wimbledon in 1983, when the All England Club refused Evert's request to delay her match with Kathy Jordan to recover from food poisoning.
* Inaugural Lawn Tennis Championship held at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, south London.
He is perhaps best known as President of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, presenting the trophies to the Wimbledon champion and runner-up.
His other interests include serving as the president of the Wimbledon All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, a position he succeeded from his late mother, Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent.
She was the longtime president of the Wimbledon All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.
* Wimbledon tennis trophies-although having no formal name, a cup is presented to the Wimbledon Men's ( Gentlemen's ) Singles Champion ( The All England Lawn Tennis Club Single Handed Champion of the World, as stated on the cup itself ).
All colonies of Australia were well established when the final versions of the rules of the game were codified by the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1875 and by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in 1877 when it held its first tournament at Wimbledon.
* Ian Edwards, a former Media Director at the All England Lawn Tennis Club at Wimbledon.
On the 12 April 2006, HRH The Duke of Kent declared the brand new Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum open to the public inside the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis Club.
The Wimbledon Museum is inside the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis Club.
All have won at least 5 Wimbledon singles championships ; Navratilova won 9, while Sampras, Graf, and Federer each won 7.

Wimbledon and England
** Wimbledon Stadium, a dog racing track located in Earlsfield in southwest London, England
The first EMI-Scanner was installed in Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, England, and the first patient brain-scan was done on 1 October 1971.
Wimbledon is a district in South West London, England, located south of Wandsworth, east of Kingston upon Thames and north of Sutton.
Wimbledon Village Stables is the oldest recorded riding stables in England.
Hunstanton attracts thousands of people, some from long distances away, during the week of the 17 August, for the ITA Hunstanton Lawn Tennis tournament ( the biggest in England after Wimbledon ) inaugurated in 1920.
Following what he alleged to be an assassination attempt in 1921 ( which supposedly failed because he took a different route home from school ), he left for England where he briefly attended King's College School, Wimbledon, on a foreign exchange.
Her family owned two notable properties in England: Hellens in Herefordshire, one of the oldest dwellings in the country, and Southside House, a 17th century mansion on Wimbledon Common in London.
Also, the doubles championship they won at Wimbledon in 2012 in England.
In 1989, at the age of 17, he moved to England to join Manchester United on a non-contract basis and made his debut for them in a First Division fixture against Wimbledon on 30 April 1990.

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