Looking for today's match update on wimbledon...Below links helped me follow the games offline.
These victory photos says it all in brief.
http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/news/photos/galleries/index.html
Live! Match scorecard -from wimbledon
http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/scores/index.html
Wimbledon Tennis Courts
Center Court images -Ouside & Inside
Wimbledon in 1887
Tennis's most coveted lawns are back in the camera.. for Wimbledon 2005 has started challenging the greatest tennis stars. Marked no less than the No.1 competition in lawn tennis, tennis in wimbledon is 'The biggest' challenge for Tennis champs on earth.
But tennis is not the only or even the first sport that brought wimbledon national fame. Let's explore wimbledon from the history.
History Source: wikipedia
Wimbledon, best known for much of the 20th century as the home of the Wimbledon tennis championships, is a town in south-west London. It began life as a village at the edge of Wimbledon Common
Tennis was not the the first sport to bring Wimbledon national fame. The National Rifle Association's first competitions took place in 1860 on Wimbledon Common and were opened by Queen Victoria firing the first shot. In 1878 the competitions, now lasting two weeks, had grown to nearly 2,500 competitors.
Meanwhile, in the 1870s, at the bottom of the hill next to the railway line, the All-England Croquet Club had begun to hold its annual championships. But croquet was beginning to become less popular and after initially setting aside just one of its lawns for the new sport of lawn tennis, it decided to hold its first Lawn Tennis Championship in July 1877. Increasing popularity for tennis meant that the small grounds could not cope with the numbers of spectators and in 1922 the renamed All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club moved to new grounds near the village. Wimbledon historian Richard Milward recounts how King George V opened the new courts. "He gave three blows on a gong, the tarpaulins were removed, the first match started - and the rain came down..."
The club's old grounds continue to be used as the sports ground for Wimbledon High School.
Wimbledon has also been well known for another brief period of sporting fame. Wimbledon Football Club won the FA Cup in May 1988 prompting great celebrations in the streets of the town as the team appeared on the balcony of the Town Hall. But by 2000 the team was demoted from the top division of English football after just 14 years competing amongst the country's top teams.
In the world of literature, Wimbledon provides the principal setting for several comic novels by author Nigel Williams (including the best-selling The Wimbledon Poisoner) as well as for Elizabeth Beresford's series of children's stories about the Wombles. Also, Wimbledon was the site where the sixth Martian invasion ship landed in H.G. Wells' book The War of the Worlds.
Catch up with some ..more..wimbledon tennis facts here.
Wimbledon tennis courts -How to get there.. maps and links.. here
In my next blog.. i will get with some wimbledon tennis court images.
What is so interesting about politics? This is a common question that's up every teenagers mind, particularly when they see their elders glued to the News channels on a TV everyday when there's a lot more happ'nng stuff at music channels or movie channels or atleast Discovery/National geographic for god's sake.
Politics is an art of influencing things / people, (and very often an art of making-up things that were done wrong). People understand politics only when they start understanding Life, people, relationships, environment/society they live in, and importantly understanding to influence all these.
And that's time when people start watching news channels more than music or movie channels. There's a lot of happ'nngs here too, and these are real happening stuff.
One might ask... What's the big deal? Why should I bother about understanding politicians, governments they form, the rules they breach? What help is it going to make to my life?
Well, Firstly, politics is not just about governments and rulers. There's politics is in the office, in the college, in the school.. and everywhere. But in these places atleast in the college and school they are not very critical most of the times, and college or school politics are not done for any long term advantages...and that's why people who try taking advantage by influencing others in college or school are not to be considered politicians (or atleast not called so literally).
Secondly, politicians, governments, rules have indirect affects on our lives at every stage... its just that we ignore it at the early stages and take careful note of things in the later days.
How about having elected a bad Minister for education in the government, who in power absorbs a lot of money into his stuff decreasing practically the amount of grant your college receives than what it should have got, and this leads to your college paying less to staff and recruiting not so interesting lecturers... you end up with a boring session everyday, and still worse with bad grades and little knowledge about what was taught.
Politics gets interesting when you learn its effects, its motive, and sometimes when you get to influence somebody or some activity with your capacity as a person.
I had a long time trying to understand politics.. trying to churn some meaning from the newspapers everyday. but not of use. it never got into the head, because i was still not having the know-how about life, people, friends, love, enemity, and a lot of things. After a couple of years after my college and into my first job I started observing people, their lives, my lives, compared findings, and it started happening. the understanding came by, though very slowly.
And mind it, there's nothing called correct or wrong about understanding something.. its only a perception, so what politics you understand could be entirely different from what your friend does.. and still different from what your foe understands.
That's politics!
Its about researching on what happens everyday around us in our environment of people.
