10/07/2017

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:00:00. > :00:09.Afternoon all - Ricky here with your daily dose of Newsround.

:00:10. > :00:25.And O to the A to the P - the granny that raps

:00:26. > :00:27.But it's straight to Wimbledon on what's known as Manic Monday.

:00:28. > :00:31.It's one of the busiest days of the competition with the last 16

:00:32. > :00:32.men and women playing on the same day.

:00:33. > :00:41.Great news for British women's number one Joanna Konta,

:00:42. > :00:44.who is safety through to the quarter finals!

:00:45. > :00:53.She beat Caroline Garcia from France in three sets.

:00:54. > :00:55.And two times champion Andy Murray is playing Frenchman Benoit Paire

:00:56. > :00:59.He's currently in the lead, after winning the tie-break

:01:00. > :01:02.Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Roger Federer all play later on.

:01:03. > :01:04.Wimbledon is famous for a few things; tennis,

:01:05. > :01:06.strawberries and cream and err, something else.

:01:07. > :01:23.Grass, grasslands... More grass. There are 40 courts, 18 used in

:01:24. > :01:29.matches, and 22 used in practice. Every day, a special team mows the

:01:30. > :01:35.grass and repaint the lines on every court. You look after all the grass

:01:36. > :01:39.- it's a pretty tough job. You have the world's best athletes running

:01:40. > :01:43.around on it for about nine hours a day, so it takes a lot of

:01:44. > :01:50.punishment. It is a lot for the court to take. Why is the roof

:01:51. > :01:54.closing? We will keep Centre Court in the shade. We have had extremely

:01:55. > :01:59.hot weather in the last few days, and the courts aren't used to it, so

:02:00. > :02:03.it just a precaution to make sure the grass doesn't get too stressed

:02:04. > :02:08.out. Nobody plays on this court other than the two weeks of the

:02:09. > :02:13.championships. I love that, because it keeps it special and it is an

:02:14. > :02:19.honour to play on Centre Court. What happens to the grass after Wimbledon

:02:20. > :02:26.finishes? It is a tennis club, so they will play on the outer courts.

:02:27. > :02:31.On centre court, we shave off every blade of grass and we regrow the

:02:32. > :02:40.court. We do that on every court. What is your garden like Adam? Not

:02:41. > :02:43.as good, but pretty good. Now I have top tips for my own garden, and a

:02:44. > :02:45.deep respect for the Wimbledon grass.

:02:46. > :02:48.Next, good news for a fan of US tennis player Jack Sock.

:02:49. > :02:50.Last week 14-year-old Peter asked for Jack's towel

:02:51. > :02:52.after a match at Wimbledon, but it was pinched

:02:53. > :02:56.Loads of people, including Andy Murray's mum Judy,

:02:57. > :03:03.But now Peter been given a replacement towel.

:03:04. > :03:14.He's heading back to his old club - Everton -

:03:15. > :03:18.But the record goalscorer has a confession for United fans.

:03:19. > :03:25.I've kept it quiet, to be honest. For the last 13 years. I have been

:03:26. > :03:29.wearing Everton pyjamas at home with my kids. I had to keep that a bit

:03:30. > :03:29.quiet. We asked kids in Liverpool

:03:30. > :03:44.at Wayne's old school! He used to play for them as a

:03:45. > :03:54.teenager and then he went to Manchester United. I don't think

:03:55. > :04:10.he's too old, he's just not as good as he used to be. I think it is good

:04:11. > :04:17.he came to our school. He can really shine for us now.

:04:18. > :04:18.It's somewhere you might have visited on holiday,

:04:19. > :04:21.now the Lake District, in the north of England has been

:04:22. > :04:26.It's the 31st place in the UK to be given this title, and joins

:04:27. > :04:29.the likes of the Grand Canyon in the US, Taj Mahal in India

:04:30. > :04:32.and the Great Wall of China, in getting one of the highest

:04:33. > :04:36.But what does it take for a place to get this very special title?

:04:37. > :04:39.Head to Newsround online for our guide.

:04:40. > :04:41.Next, to the rapping granny who's gone viral!

:04:42. > :04:44.Maryam raps with her grandson about what its like to be

:04:45. > :04:46.old and what she spends her pension on.

:04:47. > :04:48.She lives in Kazakhstan but the video has been getting

:04:49. > :05:03.Newsround's back tomorrow morning at 7.40 with Jenny.

:05:04. > :05:08.and my favourite TV programme on CBBC is So Awkward.

:05:09. > :05:11.And my favourite character is Lily