For the duration of the world's greatest tennis tournament – this year from 24th June to the 7th July – CLOSE OF PLAY will bring you a Wimbledon fact of the day. (The London Nightly Photoblog will return on the 8th July…weather permitting!)Royal Wimbledon… In his role as President, the Duke of Kent (the Queen’s cousin) made a change in etiquette at the famously traditional tennis tournament. From 2003 it has no longer been a requirement for the players to bow or curtsey to the Royal Box unless the occupants of said box are HM The Queen or HRH the Prince of Wales.
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