He'll take you there!: Bogart Takes you to Wimbledon

Wimbledon is one of the four Grand Slam events in tennis. Wimbledon Tennis Champsionships (or the more politically correct term -The Championships, Wimbledon) is held every year for two weeks on the last week of June and frst week of July. Held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London, this is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and considered the most prestigious. This is the only Grand slam event that is held on grass. I read from one of the posters while waiting at the queue that each grass is cut evenly at exactly 3mm long.

To go there, take the District line subway to Southfields and follow the POOL of people that are all there to watch the event. If you are not able to buy tickets ahead of time (like me) you will have to go to the WIMBLEDON QUEUE. Some people even camp out all night to be able to get in the following day. I went there twice and I had two hours waiting time (considerably shorter than camping out) for both days. Outside, there was a small walk-through of all the Caricatures of their past Champions showing the year they won and the legacy that they left.

The ticket to get inside the courts costs 20£ (approx 1750 php). Inside there are "free courts" where lesser important, I mean lower ranked players play. Dinara Safina used to play at these courts but look at her now! She's the current world number one (who knows how long though!)

There are two Main show courts inside - Court No. 1 and the Centre Court. I went to Court no. 1 twice and the First day was kind of bummer because Federer's game ended early and I wasn't able to see him play live. Good thing there was a big screen that shows what is happening inside the Centre Court. But I was lucky enough to watch on the second visit the Former World number one Ana Ivanovic (watch her crushed by her opponent J. Zheng). The game was followed by former US open and Australian open Champion Marat Safin (probably one of the most erratic tennis player in the league) against an Italian - Andreas Seppi

Be sure to enjoy the most popular food here at the Tournament - Strawberries and Cream. One small cup is priced £2.25 (190php) It will be the most expensive, ORDINARY tasting strawberries you will ever eat. But tradition is tradition!

In these Wimbledon event (2008) was played arguably the MOST EPIC tennis match of all time. The Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer Wimbledon Finals. With both men trying to write history - Nadal to win French and Wimbledon back to back, Federer to win Wimbledon for six straight years. It was almost 5 hours of near perfect tennis between the two and no one was willing to give up what's on the line. In the end, the man with the smaller nose, I mean, stronger determination won!

VAMOS RAFA!