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Wimbledon is one of the biggest tournaments in the tennis world. This tournament is one of 4 tournaments that are known as Grand Slams. These Grand Slam Tournaments are highly anticipated as players from all over the world make sure to try and enter this tournament to put their talents on display. At Wimbledon there were several different events. These events included the men’s singles tournament, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles, mixed doubles, boys’ singles and girls’ singles. The men’s singles tournament is the most anticipated of all of the tournaments. The men were known for their superior strength and athleticism at this time and put on very exciting shows. The men’s singles tournament was won by a player named John Newcombe. Newcombe was a player that had won a Wimbledon title before, but this was his first title in the Open Era. This was the 3rd Grand Slam title of his career. The women’s singles tournament was taken by the famous Margaret Court. This title was played against Billie Jean King, an equally impressive player. These two battled it out in games of 14-12 and 11-9. This would be Court’s 19th career Grand Slam title. It would also be her 3rd title at Wimbledon. While the men were slightly stronger and faster, these women did a lot to make women’s tennis become what it is today. Men’s doubles was taken again by John Newcombe and his partner Tony Roche. Newcombe should just how good he was at Wimbledon by taken both of the men’s tournaments. These two players defeated Ken Rosewall and Fred Stolle in straight sets to take the victory. While Billie Jean King was unable to win the women’s singles tournament, she did come out on top for the women’s doubles tournament. King paired up with Rosemary Casals and dominated Francoise Durr and Virginia Wade 6-2, 6-3 to take the match. Rosemary Casals was not done after winning the women’s doubles tournament. She paired up with Ilie Nastase to take the mixed doubles title. They played Olga Morozova and Alex Metreveli in a tough match. The game was decided by a score of 6-3, 4-6, 9-7. Casals proved that she was a fantastic doubles player at Wimbledon this year in winning both of those titles. The Juniors section was broken down into boys’ singles and girls’ singles. The boys’ singles tournament went down to Byron Betram and Frank Gebert. Gebert gave all he could, but he was unable to get anything going against Bertram. Bertram took the first set 6-0 and then finished things off with a 6-3 victory in the second set. Sharon Walsh and Marnia Kroshina battled it out for the girls’ singles. This was a tough match for both players as they took the first set to 8-6 as Sharon Walsh was able to take the long first set. The second set was another tough one, but once again Walsh came out on top with a 6-4 victory. Bertram and Walsh both looked like they had promising careers ahead of them after these victories. AUTHOR:- Sariah Eville writes reviews on various sporting events including the online sportsbook websites. In this piece of write up he highlights the one of the popular sports pro tennis and tennis betting odds. The author also takes the readers opinion on how to do tennis betting online.
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