Great moments of the royal championship

Roland Garros has given new waves in tennis and now  tennis lovers looking for major upsets on the grass surface of wimbldeon. Wimbledon is a championship of dreams. Every tennis player this dream  this but get it very few. This royal championship has a great moments of its history. Here it is a great moments from this championship’s history book.

Earlier history

It seems far removed from Wimbledon's enduring ethereal beauty, but the fact that the greatest tennis tournament owes its origin to a malfunctioning roller only adds to its romanticism. The tournament was organized in 1877 to raise money to fix the roller, with 22 participants in the men's singles event. W. Spencer Gore, 27 years old then, besides being given his space in history, was rewarded with 12 guineas.

Great champions

Pete Sampras (seven titles): His Wimbledon success started off as a delayed fulfilling of promise and took on the form of a ritual. The 1996 Championship was an anomaly, but from 1993 to 2000, one lost count of the great man's big serves and the near offensive half-volleys.
Roger Federer (five titles): Top seeded swis hero all began when he beat Sampras in 2001. Now He stands  with Bjorn Borg in this chmapionship’s history book. This year he is readyu to break the record.

Bjorn Borg (five titles): His five-on-the-trot, mammoth as it is, is further historically elevated by the greatest match in Wimbledon history involving him and John McEnroe. Borg's success with a style perceived not suited to grass set the precedent for the likes of Andre Agassi and Lleyton Hewitt.
Boris Becker: Boris Becker served, dived and summoned the reserves and concentration to become the youngest male Wimbledon singles champion, aged 17 years 227 days.

Queens of this royal championship

Martina Navratilova (nine titles): With nine titles including six in a row from 1982 to 87, she more than made up for not having sighted a grass court before her maiden appearance in 1973.
Steffi Graf (seven titles): `Fraulein Forehand' could make good use of a weapon that was immensely rewarding on grass. It was fitting that her last match was at Wimbledon, notwithstanding that she lost to Lindsay Davenport in the final.
Billie Jean King (six titles): With a record 20 titles overall, and six singles crowns, King's days, before taking upon the cause of women's tennis, were well spent on the Wimbledon grass.

Martina Hingis: Martina Hingis was 15 years and 282 days old when she decided to team up with Helena Sukova of Czech Republic, in 1996, becoming the youngest Wimbledon champion.

Great matches : great moments

Borg vs McEnroe, 1980 final: Borg won 1-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-7 (16-18), 8-6. The fourth set tie-break was a classic, with every point shifting its importance from being match-point for Borg and set-point for McEnroe. Borg's stamina saw him through the final set, with the overwhelming effect of the tie-break spilling over to the fifth for McEnroe.

Goran Ivanisevic vs Pat Rafter, 2001 final: Ivanisevic won 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 2-6, 9-7. This one makes for the drama. The underdog and wildcard denied a win in three attempts in the final, the serve-and-volleyer looking to claim his first, and a tense fifth set. Ivanisevic rode on his faith in destiny, and the belief that he deserved to win. A few nervous match points later, his faith was rewarded. It might not have had too much for the connoisseurs, but the final had just about everything else.

Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor : Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor manfully fought the elements that work against long matches. It was grass and it was men's doubles, but the quarterfinal stretched on for six hours and seven minutes. Todd Perry and Simon Aspelin protracted the climax when they failed to convert six match points, and eventually watched their opponents win 5-7, 6-3, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3, 23-21.