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Wimbledon Shoppe Talk

By Brian Phillips at

Note: Technically it's just "Wimbledon Shop," but technically Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson," either, and technically he never said it in a sweet checkered twill deerstalker cap that he picked up at the Wimbledon Shoppe for like £445 including VAT. This place just hauntingly cries out for the extra -pe, and I'm going with feel on this one. Here's some of the loot you can pillage at the 2012 Lawn Tennis Championships.

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Wimbledon's Golden Girl: Shvedova's Perfect Set

By Louisa Thomas at

Of all the strange events that took place during the first week of Wimbledon — right down to the theft of Rufus the hawk — the most unbelievable was Yaroslava Shvedova’s flawless set against Sara Errani, the French Open finalist, on Saturday. The so-called “golden set” was almost unheard of: Shvedova became the first woman, and only the second person, to achieve it during the Open Era.

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