Roger Federer is the first man to reach 100 wins at the All England Club.The 37-year-old shook off a nervy start to beat Kei Nishikori in the quarter-final on Centre Court.
He won his first match at SW19 as a 19-year-old in 2001, beating Belgian Christophe Rochus, and never expected to bring his ton up. “It’s special,” he admitted. “It’s been a lot of years I’ve been coming here, you know. That’s given me the opportunity to win a lot naturally.
“It’s nice, because if I look back at the 100 that have happened, some were so incredibly cool. A hundred wins here at Wimbledon. Who would have thought? I didn’t, for sure.”
A massive mechanical elephant marched the streets of London for four days. It was part of a parade created by visual artist Helen Marriage, whose goal was to transform a city into a playground of the imagination. It took seven years for her to make this dream a reality. Millions of people showed up to witness the amazing spectacle. “It was our first show, and it changed the nature of the appreciation of culture, not in a gallery, not in a theater, not in an opera house, but live and on the streets, transforming public space for the broadest possible audience, people who would never buy a ticket to see anything,” Helen says. “[Imagination] can transform our physical surroundings, but in doing so, we can change forever how we feel and how we feel about the people that we share the planet with.”
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