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A strange spectre will linger over SW19 over the next fortnight. Not sports fans in the meaningful sense of the word, but Wimbledon Watchers. People who don’t follow tennis, who will be surprised to discover Roger Federer isn’t one of the two top seeds. People who aren’t sure who the number 1 woman is in [...]

I love tennis but hate Wimbledon. That’s not quite fair on Wimbledon. If it wasn’t for that tournament, I wouldn’t like tennis. Huddled over Radio 5 (before it was also ‘live’) in 1991 with a supplement from a Sunday newspaper, I followed the tournament avidly (though could not complete the whole draw without teletext or [...]