On 26/06/2013 14:08, Dick wrote:
On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 1:07:47 PM UTC+1, Brian Lawrence wrote:
Carol K on today's BBC Breakfast stated that in 135 years of Wimbledon

there have only been 32 days without play and in five years there

was no rain recorded during the fortnight.



Note: There have actually been 126 tournaments in 136 years with four

years missed during WW1 (1915-18) & six during WW2 (1940-45).



Wikipedia gives the dates for each tournament, but it is not known

(by me) if play was held on each day within the 'fortnight' - we

know that traditionally there is no play on the middle Sunday.



Including ALL Sundays, the dates from Wiki add up to 1578 days, so

32 lost to rain is about 2%.



Also worth noting that from 1877-89 and 1893-96 the tournament took

place wholly in July.



So, which were the five completely dry years and when were the 32 days

washed out?



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Brian W Lawrence

Wantage

Oxfordshire

According to Liam Dutton's blog on Channel 4, there have been 6 completely dry years, i.e. 1931, 1976, 1977, 1993, 1995 and 2010.

Don't know about all the wet days, but I suspect at least one must have been in the very wet year of 1922 when the tournament had to be extended to three weeks. A more recent one, I think, was in 1988 when the last Sunday was washed out.

Dick Lovett

Potentially there may have been washouts in 1882, 83, 88, 90, 95, 1912,
19, 22, 88 & 2001, when the Mens final was played on a Monday.

The first Wednesday in 2004 was washed out (23 June).

Some of the recent years have day-by-day accounts in Wikipedia, I'll
browse through them when I can.




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Brian W Lawrence
Wantage
Oxfordshire