Bud's 2007 Wimbledon Diary - Day 14 - July 8, 2007
DYNAMITE FINAL, FEDERER'S FIFTH STRAIGHT, SAVES, ILLUMINATES WATERLOGGED WIMBLEDON

Like a ghost of championships past, the pale visage of Bjorn Borg floated above the tennis pasture that used to be his. Actually he was seated among the swells of Wimbledon's Royal Box, behind a baseline in Centre Court, waiting to be caught.

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Bud's 2007 Wimbledon Diary - Day 13 - July 7, 2007
IT'S ALL IN THE FAMILY: VENUS'S FOURTH WIMBLEDON TITLE WILLIAMS'S 14TH MAJOR

Who has the deed for the playground called Centre Court? Will it be re-named Williamsville for the family possessing 6 titles, or Federersburg for the guy who has been squatting there for four years and has no intention of leaving without a fight?

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Bud's 2007 Wimbledon Diary - Day 12 - July 6, 2007
VIVE LA FRANCE - GALLIC PAIR, BARTOLI AND GASQUET SHAKE UP BIG W WITH BIG, TRIUMPHS

You like long shots? Wimbledon is your tournament, and Marion Bartoli - Marion who? - is your lady. If you've heard of Marion Bartoli you're either a French sports writer or a genuine tennis junkie.

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Bud's 2007 Wimbledon Diary - Day 11 - July 5, 2007
LET IT RAIN, LET IT POUR, SAYS VENUS WHO FINDS CALM, CLARITY AND A GOLDEN TOUCH

It's not quite the Midas touch propelling Venus way beyond the bookmakers' expectations. After all, King Midas, the champion of ancient Phrygia, had trouble running in his solid gold sneakers.

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Bud's 2007 Wimbledon Diary - Day 10 - July 4, 2007
VENUS IN ROARING FORM SILENCES SCREAMER SHARAPOVA, BUT SERENA FALLS TO NO. HENIN

If Benjamin Franklin, one of the original Fourth of July guys, had been around, he would have said to Venus, "There's an electric quality to you, young lady.

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Bud's 2007 Wimbledon Diary - Day 9 - July 3, 2007
LIFE IN A TROPICAL RAIN FOREST AIN'T TENNIS-FRIENDLY BUT WE STAGGER ON

When Dr. Henry Jones decided that England, thus the world, should have something new called a tennis tournament, why in the name of Jupiter Pluvius did he select the only tropical rain forest in the Northern Hemisphere as the location?

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Bud's 2007 Wimbledon Diary - Day 8 - July 2, 2007
SERENA DOWN BUT NOT OUT, SAVED BY RAIN, VENUS COMEBACK ALSO CHEERS MOIST MONDAY

Wimbledon's handsome lawns need rain like the Sahara needs sand. So much has fallen during five of the seven tournament days that the place may double as an aquarium.

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Bud's 2007 Wimbledon Diary - Day 7 - July 1, 2007
PLAYERS GET A DAY OFF, AND I SCRAMBLE WITH MEMORIES OF 4 DECADES OF BIG W

How do you get an appointment with the Queen?

Simple. Win Wimbledon.

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Bud's 2007 Wimbledon Diary - Day 6 - June 30, 2007
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE: WIMBLEDON'S A LAKE WHERE MS. SWAN WANTS TO TAKE OVER

As moisture continues to descend on Wimbledon, you wonder if this is the Swan's lake. You wonder that, if the rain ever stops, will this be the Swan's tournament once again?

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Bud's 2007 Wimbledon Diary - Day 5 - June 29, 2007
BIG W HEATS UP IN THE COLD AS UNKNOWNS REMOVE FAVORITES, AND 4 AMERICANS STAY

And now another Serb is heard from. A Serbian guy whose favorite light reading is Dostoevsky, who yearned to be a blond and tried it for a while, dropped by Wimbledon yesterday, black-bearded, to make it a blacker day for the first of the notables to tumble.

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Bud's 2007 Wimbledon Diary - Day 4 - June 28, 2007
HENMAN OPEN CLOSES, BUT ENGLISH STILL HAVE ONE-HALF ROOTING INTEREST IN BLAKE

This tennis tournament called Wimbledon on the greensward of the All England Club is to get underway seriously now that the Henman Open has ended a four-day run.

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Bud's 2007 Wimbledon Diary - Day 3 - June 27, 2007
IT WASN'T MOTHER'S DAY BUT SYBILLE BAMMER'S "DREAM TEAM" IS HAVING A SPLENDID SEASON

Mom was having a tough day in a tennis yard called Court 5. But it beat milking cows in the Austrian barnyard of her youth.

She just couldn't squeeze out enough points to ward off a second round defeat at Wimbledon.

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Bud's 2007 Wimbledon Diary - Day 2 - June 26, 2007
NO MOTHBALLS YET FOR TIM HENMAN AS HE WONDROUSLY BELTS TENNIS BALLS FOR BRITS

Was this slim man in short pants the reincarnation of Sir Francis Drake, the combative 16th century Limey who sank the Spanish Armada? Well, no.

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Bud's 2007 Wimbledon Diary - Day 1 - June 25, 2007
SOMETHING'S LEAKING - AH, YES, THE MONTH OF JUNE IN ENGLAND

As we know, it never rains at Wimbledon. Unless there's some moisture in the neighborhood, in which case they call it "unsettled conditions."

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Bud's 2007 Wimbledon Diary - Intro - June 24, 2007
THE BIG W - WET BUT WONDERFUL -- CELEBRATES ITS 130TH BIRTHDAY

Australians in the crowd, peering at the sky, were envious. Water was descending. Their country is undergoing a seemingly eternal drought - something that never happens in the southwest corner of London where a tennis tournament called Wimbledon appears in the last week of June and the first week of July.

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