This week everyone's a tennis expert [Edition 2]

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SPORTING events turn us all into instant experts. Cometh the World Cup, cometh our intimate knowledge of "catenaccio" and Cameroonian goalkeepers. Then, when the jamboree folds up, so does our dossier of facile judgments.

It's often said that for the British, tennis is not a sport but merely a fortnight. And, as someone who follows tennis all the year round (and plays it -- very badly), I'm always narked when for the two weeks of Wimbledon everyone I meet seems transformed into a loquacious version of Hawkeye, magisterial about the ins and outs of the game.

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This week everyone's a tennis expert [Edition 2]

This year's big talking point is the retractable roof which, we've been eagerly told, is a hydraulically operated conc...

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