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Sunday, 17th May 2009 |
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The new roof over Wimbledon's Centre Court was used for the first time at a special event on 17 May called A Centre Court Celebration.
The event was designed to test the new roof and air management system with live tennis in front of a capacity crowd of 15,000.
Four legends, Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf, Tim Henman and Kim Clijsters played on the day, while singing stars Katherine Jenkins, Faryl Smith and Blake also performed at the event.
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Centre Court Celebration: As it happened (17 May 2009)
Re-live the Centre Court Celebration with our live blog.
Roof a re-sound-ing success, say players (17 May 2009)
On a day which can only be described as a huge success for the All England Club, the new Centre Court roof received a huge vote of confidence from Tim Henman, Kim Clijsters, Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf after their exhibition matches.
Rain doesn’t stop play on Centre Court’s big day (17 May 2009)
First, strangely, the good news: it rained. When could such an event at Wimbledon ever be said to be good news? Answer: on the day the new Centre Court roof was unveiled in front of a capacity crowd and a worldwide television audience.
Clijsters shows she’s ready for full-time return (17 May 2009)
It may have been billed as a fun event to mark the start of a new chapter for the All England Club, but one of today’s participants says that the Centre Court Celebration could just be the moment that changes her life.
Kisses not misses during Graf and Agassi’s love game (17 May 2009)
It is not recorded whose masterstroke it was to invite Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf to be two of the four players chosen to play the exhibition Centre Court Celebration event under the new roof, but – whoever it was – give that person a gold star.
Classy day of sport and song celebrates Centre Court’s new roof (17 May 2009)
The baptising of the Centre Court roof had the lot. Star names to baptise the grass ahead of the 2009 Championships, a full house of 15,000 who had scrambled to pay £35 a head for the tickets (which had all gone five minutes after they went on sale) and even some predictable input from the weather.
Agassi big draw for Centre Court fans (16 May 2009)
As the clock ticked one minute past midday, eager tennis fans began flocking into the grounds of SW19 for the Centre Court Celebration and there was one name on everybody’s lips – Andre Agassi.
Agassi, Henman and Clijsters looking forward to Centre Court Celebration (16 May 2009)
Andre Agassi is excited to be partnering wife Steffi for Sunday’s Centre Court Celebration.
The 1992 Wimbledon champion revealed how he and his spouse jumped at the chance to play in the one-off event when they received the call last autumn.
Centre Court calls Kim out of retirement (16 May 2009)
Former world No. 1 Kim Clijsters has thanked Wimbledon for reigniting her passion to play and enticing her out of retirement.
The Belgian, who retired in May 2007, said it was the call from the All England Club to play in Sunday’s Centre Court Celebration that stoked her competitive spirit.
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