IS IT TRUE that Wimbledon hasn’t seen this much rain since, when, the year 1982? That’s 25 years ago. Unbelievable flooding. But true. That’s why everyone should watch Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” to realize that the world climate is in havoc. Isn’t it funny: the most revered tennis tournament in the world is asked by Mother Nature to pause, start, stop, re-start, pause, stop, start… again and again these past two weeks? Thank God the British are finishing, by 2009, a retractable roof on Centre Court. Just like the Australian Open, it will be open-air–until the rains pour then the roof closes. Good! This way we can continue watching uninterrupted live TV coverage. Read this Wimbledon rain Q & A by one of my favorite tennis scribes, Jon Wertheim (Sports Illustrated).
Hey John! Yea this is one major problem that the officials seem to overlook year after year, decade after decade. I know these guys can get money to make a glass roof or something. Well at least theres gonna be a retractable roof by 2009, better late than never.
The roof is long-overdue. For such a major sporting event to succumb to the trappings of the rain each time, it’s not good. So we’re all looking to a rain-free 2009 Wimbledon! Hehehe