The Wimbledon Tennis Tournament
\nis underway in England. It is arguably the most exquisite
\ncompetition of the entire professional schedule, mainly due to its history. The
\nlawn-only tournament is actually the world’s oldest such event. The maiden
\nedition was held in 1877. It was a gentlemen-only event: back then the winner
\nwas Spencer Gore. Attending the final were roughly 200 fans who paid one
\nshilling each to be there. In the course of the 130 years that have passed since
\nthe tournament’s inaugural edition, the event has seen a thoroughgoing change,
\nyet many elements part of the initial regulations system are still in place.
\nToday the prize money is somewhere to the tune of one million Euro all told. However,
\nthe strict dress code is still in place, with the competitors having to dress in
\nwhite, almost completely. <\/p>\n
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Of all Romanian tennis
\nplayers, it is only Simona Halep who saw her name on the list of winners at
\nWimbledon. Halep won the lawn final in 2019. Back then Halep grabbed a 6-2, 6-2
\nwin against the greatest tennis player of the early 21stst century, Serena Williams. Halep succeeded an uncompromising straight-set win. In her blazing trail at
\nWimbledon, Simona Halep outperformed Alyeksandra
\nSasnovich, Mihaela Buz\u0103rnescu, Victoria Azarenka, Cori Gauff, Shuai Zhang and Elina
\nSvitolina. As part of the 2019 edition of the Wimbledon tournament, Halep lost only
\none set, in the fixture against her fellow Romanian, Mihaela Buz\u0103rnescu.<\/p>\n
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In the men’s version of the Wimbledon tournament,
\nthe Romanians made history five decades ago. We recall Ilie Nastase twice reached
\nthe final: in 1972, when Stan Smith succeeded a hard-fought win against the Romanian,
\nin five sets, and in 1976, when Nastase conceded defeat to Sweden’s Bj\u00f6rn Borg.
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In 2023, Romania is
\nrepresented in the main draw only in the women’s version of the tournament. The
\nfirst tennis plyer to have entered the competition, WTA 57th-placed Ana
\nBogdan, provided the first pleasant surprise, grabbing a 7-6, 7-6 win against WTA
\n15th-placed and 15th-seeded at Wimbledon, Russia’s
\nLyudmila Samsonova. <\/p>\n
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