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Wimbledon invents a time machine

Over the past fortnight, the All England Club has been live streaming via Wimbledon.com a retrospective of tennis matches dating back to its centenary in 1977

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Rahul Jacob
If there ever was a year that required a time machine, it is 2020. For years, it was a futuristic marker, the subject of much tedious waffling at Davos on when, say, Chindia would dominate the world. Now, who would not wish for a time machine to take us back to autumn 2019 so the world could take adequate precautions against a medieval pandemic? Or fast-forward past bankruptcies and deaths to the prospect of a widely available vaccine by July 2021?
 
No sporting event is as suited to escapist time travel as Wimbledon. The All England Club is both
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