History UsefulNotes / Wimbledon

** Decreasingly relevant in these days of digital-only UsefulNotes/RedButtonInteractive functionality. Though the main 'terrestrial' channels are still used for quarters and up.

* ''All-White Dress Code'': The club itself has an "all-white" dress code, which extends to the Championships themselves. This is in contrast to the other Grand Slams, which have few, if any clothing restrictions at all. The all-white dress creates problems for TV viewers trying to differentiate between players. For instance, 2009's final was "the guy in the baseball cap" (Andy Roddick) versus "the guy in the sweat band" (Roger Federer). This was of course suspended for the 2012 Summer UsefulNotes/OlympicGames tennis tournament to allow players to wear their usual national-colours outfits. Starting in 2023, female competitors will be allowed to wear coloured undershorts, thereby making it less obvious to spectators that players are having their periods.

** After another match in 2018 (a semifinal between Kevin Anderson and John Isner... yes, him again!) finally ended 26-24 in the final set, and left Anderson so knackered that he was unable to give all in the final against [[UsefulNotes/NovakDjokovic Djokovic]], the organisers finally brought in a tie breaker for the final set in 2019.

* ''John "You cannot be serious!" [=McEnroe=]'': A ''very'' famous American tennis player, now retired, who does regular commentary. He's actually a trope of his own (he was a ''bad'' boy in his playing days) and has played himself on TV a few times, such as in ''Series/{{CSINY}}'', where he did a variation on his oft-parodied line.

* ''Strawberries and cream'': Not much explanation here. It's just a very delicious and traditional thing to eat at Wimbledon. And sold at ridiculously high prices as a result.

* ''All-White Dress Code'': The club itself has an "all-white" dress code, which extends to the Championships themselves. This is in contrast to the other Grand Slams, which have few, if any clothing restrictions at all. The all-white dress creates problems for TV viewers trying to differentiate between players. For instance, 2009's final was "the guy in the baseball cap" (Andy Roddick) versus "the guy in the sweat band" (Roger Federer). This was of course suspended for the 2012 Summer UsefulNotes/OlympicGames tennis tournament to allow players to wear their usual national-colours outfits. Starting in 2023, female competitors will be allowed to wear coloured undershorts, thereby making it less obvious when competitors are having their periods.

* ''All-White Dress Code'': The club itself has an "all-white" dress code, which extends to the Championships themselves. This is in contrast to the other Grand Slams, which have few, if any clothing restrictions at all. The all-white dress creates problems for TV viewers trying to differentiate between players. For instance, 2009's final was "the guy in the baseball cap" (Andy Roddick) versus "the guy in the sweat band" (Roger Federer). This was of course suspended for the 2012 Summer UsefulNotes/OlympicGames tennis tournament to allow players to wear their usual national-colours outfits.

* ''"Mrs." and "Miss"'': When announcing scores during matches, Wimbledon umpires long persisted in prefixing women's family names with "Mrs." or "Miss", depending on their current marital statuses. The French Open did the same, using the French ''Madame'' and ''Mademoiselle''. By contrast, neither the Australian nor US Opens followed this practice; umpires used only the players' family names, regardless of sex. The French Open and Wimbledon finally dropped the prefixes... in ''2019''. And even then, the All England Club's honor board of women's singles champions listed them with "Mrs." and "Miss", along with the husband's initials for married women, until ''2022''.[[note]]For example, the board had listed the 1981 champion, Chris Evert, as "Mrs. J.M. Lloyd" (for then-husband John Lloyd). She's now listed as "C.M. Evert Lloyd". Her two previous titles were before that marriage and have always been listed as "C.M. Evert", though preceded by "Miss" until 2022.[[/note]]

** After another match in 2018 (a semi final between Kevin Anderson and John Isner (Yes, him again!)) finally ended 26-24 in the final set, and left Anderson so knackered that he was unable to give all in the final against [[UsefulNotes/NovakDjokovic Djokovic]], the organisers finally brought in a tie breaker for the final set in 2019.
** Which came in useful for the 2019 men’s final when after 4 sets and at 12 games all in the final set, [[UsefulNotes/NovakDjokovic Djokovic ]] finally beat [[UsefulNotes/RogerFederer Federer]] in that tie breaker. Not only was it the first time the Wimbledon title was won in that way, it was also the longest final, and it manage to finish just in time for the English nation to then do a [[Creator/Channel4 mass channel hop]] to get the conclusion of [[UsefulNotes/{{Cricket}} another sporting event that was happening at the same time.....]]

* ''Film/SevenDaysInHell''. A {{Mockumentary}} about a the longest Wimbledon finale in history.

** Expect temper tantrums and tv sets being thrown out the window, especially back in the days of WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons being broadcast on [=BBC2=] and then cancelled because of an ongoing match.
** If an exciting match goes on long enough, other programmes will be moved to the BBC.

* ''"Mrs." and "Miss"'': When announcing scores during matches, Wimbledon umpires long persisted in prefixing women's family names with "Mrs." or "Miss", depending on their current marital statuses. The French Open did the same, using the French ''Madame'' and ''Mademoiselle''. By contrast, neither the Australian nor US Opens followed this practice; umpires used only the players' family names, regardless of sex. The French Open and Wimbledon finally dropped the prefixes... in ''2019''. And even then, the All England Club's honor board of women's singles champions listed them with "Mrs." and "Miss", along with the husband's initials for married women, until ''2022''.[[note]]For example, the board had listed the 1981 champion, Chris Evert, as "Mrs. J.M. Lloyd" (for then-husband John Lloyd). She's now listed as "C.M. Evert Lloyd". Her two previous titles were before that marriage and have always been listed as "C.M. Evert".[[/note]]

* ''"Mrs." and "Miss"'': When announcing scores during matches, Wimbledon umpires long persisted in prefixing women's family names with "Mrs." or "Miss", depending on their current marital statuses. The French Open did the same, using the French ''Madame'' and ''Mademoiselle''. By contrast, neither the Australian nor US Opens followed this practice; umpires used only the players' family names, regardless of sex. The French Open and Wimbledon finally dropped the prefixes... in ''2019''. And even then, the All England Club's honor board of women's singles champions listed them with "Mrs." and "Miss", along with the husband's initials for married women, until ''2022''.[[note]]For example, the board had listed the 1981 champion, Chris Evert, as "Mrs. J.M. Lloyd" (for then-husband John Lloyd). She's now listed as "C.M. Evert Lloyd". Her two previous titles were before that marriage and are now listed as "C.M. Evert".[[/note]]

* ''"Mrs." and "Miss"'': When announcing scores during matches, Wimbledon umpires long persisted in prefixing women's family names with "Mrs." or "Miss", depending on their current marital statuses. The French Open did the same, using the French ''Madame'' and ''Mademoiselle''. By contrast, neither the Australian nor US Opens followed this practice; umpires used only the players' family names, regardless of sex. The French Open and Wimbledon finally dropped the prefixes... in ''2019''.

* ''Middle Sunday'': The first Sunday is a rest day with no matches scheduled except in extreme circumstances such as rain delays.

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* The London arc of ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' comes to revolve around the Women's Finals: [[spoiler: One of the players, Minerva Glass, is a friend of Conan/Shinichi... and her mother has been kidnapped. For worse, her kidnapper is a MadBomber aka the BigBad of the arc itself...]]

* ''Special seeding'': While all other tournaments and other slams follow the same seeding rules, Wimbledon has its own seeding formula for the men's side which puts more emphasis on players' latest grass court achievements. That means a player may be seeded higher than they would at another tournament if they've had good results in their last couple of grass tournaments, or a higher-ranked player may be seeded lower (or miss out on seeding altogether) if their latest grass results aren't stellar. This special seeding is notorious for puzzling everyone every year, including players -- [[https://twitter.com/FortyDeuceTwits/status/1011943804067295232 the women's side downright rejected it when it was first offered to them]], though discussions of them eventually adopting the seeding often pops up.

** Which came in useful for the 2019 men’s final when after 4 sets and at 12 games all in the final set, [[UsefulNotes/NovakDjokovic Djokovic ]] finally beat [[UsefulNotes/RogerFederer Federer]] in that tie breaker. Not only was it the first time the Wimbledon title was won in that way, it was also the longest final, and it manage to finish just in time for the English nation to then do a [[Creator/Channel4 mass channel hop]] to get the conclusion of another [[UsefulNotes/{{Cricket}}sporting event that was happening at the same time.....]]

** Which came in useful for the 2019 men’s final when after 4 sets and at 12 games all in the final set, [[UsefulNotes/NovakDjokovic Djokovic ]] finally beat [[UsefulNotes/RogerFederer Federer]] in that tie breaker. Not only was it the first time the Wimbledon title was won in that way, it was also the longest final, and it manage to finish just in time for the English nation to then do a [[Creator/Channel4 mass channel hop]] to get the conclusion of another UsefulNotes/Cricket sporting event that was happening at the same time.....