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Americans head home early, again

By Whit Sheppard
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, July 3, 2006

WIMBLEDON, England -- Shortly after The All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club picked up stakes 84 years ago and moved two miles north from Worple Road to its present site on Church Road, King George V and Queen Mary presided over the opening of play at Wimbledon on the 26th of June, 1922. Two British subjects, Leslie Godfree and Algernon Kingscote, had the honor of playing the first match in front of the sovereign couple. In a harbinger of things to come, the opening match was delayed by ra ...

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