03/07/2017 Newsround


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Morning guys, Ricky here with your Monday Newsround.

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And we are at Wimbledon to serve up some tennis treats.

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Yes, guys, it's one of the world's biggest tennis tournaments and it's

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This morning we're going Wimbledon-tastic, and Ayshah

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How you said that volcano name, I have no idea! We are here at

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Wimbledon, it is the first day. You might be able to hear the lawn mower

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was giving behind me, the grass getting cut for the last time before

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the players, to the court, otherwise it is a bit quiet, there are not

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many people but there are thousands of tennis fans just waiting and

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lining up to come on in and see some great tennis. That is one fact about

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Wimbledon but here are plenty more with quickly.

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So this year at Wimbledon there will be 674 matches played.

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And if one match was played a day, it would last for over two years.

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Over 54,000 tennis balls will be used during the tournament.

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The longest ever match at Wimbledon was in 2010.

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It lasted 11 hours and five minutes, over three days.

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And as a treat the players were given mashed potatoes

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The fastest-ever serve was by Taylor Dent in 2010

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That's double the speed limit for a motorway so,

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as you can imagine, that's really fast.

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At Wimbledon, it's tradition to eat strawberries and cream, and over

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the two-week period over 28,000kg will be eaten.

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That's the same weight as nearly three elephants.

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Wimbledon has its very own hawk called Rufus,

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who flies for one hour every morning of the Championships

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Mr Popular even has his own Twitter account.

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Well, we've got a great line up of British stars playing today.

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Kicking everything off is Andy Murray on Centre Court as the

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defending champion. He did have a bit of a problem, hip injury, but he

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said he should be OK. In happier news committee also said he is

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expecting a second baby with his wife, Kim, so congratulations for

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that! Also in action today, Heather Watson and Johanna Konta, loads of

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British stars taking to the courts today. But we want to know who could

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possibly win this thing? We spoke to the BBC's tennis expert Russell

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Fuller. Andy Murray is the obvious name

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to start with as the defending champion, the world number one,

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but he's had a very poor 2017 by his standards so far and has had

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problems with his hip heading But he is a two-time

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Wimbledon champion, he's The world number one

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is Angelique Kerber. Her year has been a bit

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like Andy Murray's year. She hasn't had a great deal

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of success since becoming the world number one but she was in the final

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in 2016 here at Wimbledon and she definitely has

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the game to become champion Roger Federer is another

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name that lots of people He's won the Wimbledon

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title seven times. He's had a bit of a break recently

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but that did him no harm He'd not been on court

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for six months before that and he won the Australian Open

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at the age of 35. There are high hopes

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of Britain's Johanna Konta. She's performed very,

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very well in the big tournaments in the last couple of years

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and will be the sixth She did have a nasty

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fall at Eastbourne. Seemed to hit her head and her back

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very, very hard on the grass but, as we saw with the way she played

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there, beating the world number one and the reigning French Open

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champion on the same day, Rafa Nadal is the

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French Open champion. He won the title in Paris

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just three weeks ago. He has won Wimbledon twice

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in the past but historically has suffered knee problems

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here at Wimbledon. The ball bounces lower and therefore

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Nadal's knees have to bend more to get down to the ball and that's

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caused him problems. She's a five-time Wimbledon

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champion, but she has been playing wonderfully

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well over the past couple of years and her chances are not to be

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entirely written off at all. That is all from me from a very

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sunny Wimbledon, I'm hoping the sun stays out, it will be a lovely day.

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Back to you, Ricky. A bit of other sport now,

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and it was bad news for British cyclist Chris Froome at the latest

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stage of the Tour de France. He took a tumble after a massive

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pile-up in wet weather. Don't worry - he got back

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on his bike, but did say later that he'd lost of bit of skin

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from his bottom. As you may know, Popocatepetl

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is a big volcano far away in Mexico, The ash cloud blew up 2000

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metres above the crater. That's all from me,

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Newsround's back at 4.20pm. Hey! I hope you're ready for school

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cos it's Monday morning. That's right, welcome to CBBC HQ,

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with Karim and Rhys.

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