(WSJ) Wimbledon—The Day Half the Field Goes Home

Posted by Kendall Harmon

...of all Wimbledon's more-iconic quirks and traditions—the tennis whites, strawberries and umbrellas—there's one that receives slightly less recognition but deserves a lot more: Second Monday, the most gluttonously glorious day in tennis.

After a day of rest on middle Sunday (another Wimbledon eccentricity), all 32 men and women remaining in the singles draws clamber back to the lawns, anxious and refreshed, to fight for a spot in the quarterfinals. No other major tournament trots out everyone at once.

Read it all but before you do, guess the answer to this question--in what year did this tradition start?.


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