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Wimbledon 2015i

Wimbledon is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, and widely considered the most prestigious tennis championship. Held in London at the All England Club in Wimbledon since 1877, it is one only of four Grand Slam tennis tournaments along with the Australian, French and US Open events. Wimbledon is the only tennis tournament still played on grass, the game's original surface. The 2015 edition will take place from 29 June to 12 July 2015. Novak Djokovic and Petra Kvitova are the reigning champions

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Defending champion Novak Djokovic won a third Wimbledon title and a ninth grand slam crown, ruthlessly shattering Roger Federer's bid for a record eighth All England Club triumph.

Wimbledon champion Serena Williams insists she can cope with the pressure of going for a historic calendar grand slam on home turf at the US Open.

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Serena Williams won a sixth Wimbledon title on Saturday as the world number one became the oldest woman to win a grand slam crown with a 6-4, 6-4 victory against Garbine Muguruza in the final.

A year after Andy Murray’s reign as Wimbledon champion ended lamely at the hands of a man dubbed the new Roger Federer, he got a stark reminder on Friday that the original is the real threat to his grand slam ambitions

Roger Federer’s three-set demolition of Andy Murray at Wimbledon on Friday gave a succinct answer to those who question why the Swiss continues to play deep into his thirties when he has already won everything the game has to offer

Defending champion Novak Djokovic emphatically booked his place in a fourth Wimbledon final with a clinical 7-6 (7-2), 6-4, 6-4 defeat of gallant Frenchman Richard Gasquet yesterday.

Serena Williams insists she doesn’t care about making history even though the world number one can add more lustre to her legacy with victory over Garbine Muguruza in Saturday’s Wimbledon final

Garbine Muguruza became the first Spanish woman to reach the Wimbledon final since 1996 as Agnieszka Radwanska was left rueing a botched Hawk-Eye challenge in the last game of her 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 loss on Centre Court yesterday.

Richard Gasquet summed up his shock appearance in the Wimbledon semi-finals alongside Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Andy Murray by admitting: “I’m the worst”

Defending champion Novak Djokovic says his extra experience of Wimbledon’s showpiece occasions should prove decisive when he faces Richard Gasquet in the semi-finals

Andy Murray set up a Wimbledon semi-final showdown with Roger Federer as the world number three eased to a 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 win against unseeded Canadian Vasek Pospisil on Wednesday.

Serena Williams reached her ninth Wimbledon semi-final after subduing inspired former world number one Victoria Azarenka in the best women’s match of the tournament so far on Tuesday

Victoria Azarenka claimed that women players are unfairly pilloried for their on-court shrieking and grunting and blasted boozy Wimbledon fans for mocking her as well as rivals Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova

Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka can justify their status as Wimbledon's big four by making the semi-finals today.

Nick Kyrgios has accused Olympic great Dawn Fraser of being a “blatant racist” after the former champion swimmer said tennis players should “go back to where their parents came from” if they didn’t set a better example to Australian youth

Nick Kyrgios furiously denied giving up trying as he crashed out of Wimbledon and slammed his image as the bad boy of tennis in terse exchanges with reporters

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Roger Federer and Andy Murray reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals Monday but defending champion Novak Djokovic’s attempt to join them was thwarted by bad light after fighting back from two sets down to level with Kevin Anderson

Serena Williams stands three wins away from hoisting her fourth successive grand slam title after trumping elder sister Venus 6-4, 6-3 to reach the quarter-finals of Wimbledon yesterday.

Serena and Venus Williams will clash at Wimbledon for the first time in six years on Monday, but the sisters' ferocious appetite for success suggests it might be premature to bill it as an emotional final fling.

Petra Kvitova’s reign as Wimbledon women’s champion came to a shock end on Saturday as Jelena Jankovic of Serbia staged a superb fightback to claim a 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 third-round victory.

Seven-time champion Roger Federer swept aside big-serving Australian Sam Groth to reach the Wimbledon last 16 on Saturday while Dustin Brown, the conqueror of Rafael Nadal returned to earth with a bump.

Twice, Serena Williams stood merely two points from a loss at Wimbledon against a British opponent buoyed by a roaring, flag-waving Centre Court crowd. Twice, Williams was oh-so-close to the end of her bid for a fourth consecutive major title – and for the third leg of a calendar-year grand slam.

Bernard Tomic launched a blistering tirade against Tennis Australia and head of performance Pat Rafter after his third round exit at Wimbledon. The attack came after former world number one Rafter said he would end funding for players in their 20s and that Tomic’s sister, Sara, would also have her funding cut off because of the uncooperative attitude of their father, John.

Australia's controversial Nick Kyrgios and Frenchman Richard Gasquet set up a Wimbledon last-16 clash after knocking out last year's semi-finalists Milos Raonic and Grigor Dimitrov on Friday.

Rafael Nadal’s career tailspin accelerated on Thursday when dreadlocked German Dustin Brown condemned him to a fourth successive Wimbledon humiliation. Nadal, the 2008 and 2010 champion, slumped to a 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 second-round defeat against the world number 102, who produced an almost flawless display of serve and volley tennis.