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The All England Lawn and Tennis Club is responsible for hosting the Championships at its home at Wimbledon. It is now one of the four major tennis tournaments in the world, and for two weeks of every year across the end of June and the beginning of July, enthrals the British public with a game most of them rarely, if ever, play, and at other times of the year have very little interest in.
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Haynes, R. (2016). Wimbledon, Colour and The Open Era. In: BBC Sport in Black and White. Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45501-7_14
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