One of the refreshing things this year has been how much attention the BBC News Channel has been paying to it - still not as much as to the men, but a really significant amount of air time. I don't pay much attention to soccer, whoever's playing (strictly rugby union in my affiliations) but it pleased me.
It probably helps that England is among the favourites, but yeah. What a difference it makes no longer having to search for dodgy live feeds - Eurosport has everything, BBC is covering England, Dutch TV the Lionesses. So there's even a bit of choice there.
Yeah, the drought is either 76 years (the drought doesn't start the moment you win, it starts the moment you fail to defend the title), or never actually started (since a British man won last year, in the Men's Doubles).
References to Ginny Wade are a wonderful example of partial opening: the context was obviously the Men's Singles, but people insist on widening it out to include the Women's Singles, and then refusing to widen it any further. (Perhaps because the point they're trying to make evaporates.)
(So Laura Robson, who won the singles in 2008, isn't counted. Because she was in the Juniors. And George Morgan in 2011, 'cos he was in the Boys' Doubles. Or Jonathan Marray last year - Men's Doubles, so even being an adult doesn't help. Heck, Andy isn't even the first Wimbledon champion in his own family - his brother Jamie won in in the Mixed Doubles in 2007.)
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References to Ginny Wade are a wonderful example of partial opening: the context was obviously the Men's Singles, but people insist on widening it out to include the Women's Singles, and then refusing to widen it any further. (Perhaps because the point they're trying to make evaporates.)
(So Laura Robson, who won the singles in 2008, isn't counted. Because she was in the Juniors. And George Morgan in 2011, 'cos he was in the Boys' Doubles. Or Jonathan Marray last year - Men's Doubles, so even being an adult doesn't help. Heck, Andy isn't even the first Wimbledon champion in his own family - his brother Jamie won in in the Mixed Doubles in 2007.)
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