Wimbledon

Embed from Getty Images At the age of 29, Ivan Lendl won his seventh Grand Slam title at the 1989 Australian Open. This was the tail-end of the prime of one of the brightest careers in the history of men's tennis. The Czechoslovakian star would go on to win the same tournament the next season to bring his career total to eight Slam trophies.…

Every once in a while an athlete appears on the scene of his or her selected sport in some way that brings all fans around the world to listen intently to every word spoken by or about the particular noise-making athlete through any medium available. The kind that go from a nobody to Led Zeppelin status in 25 hours or less. We converse and argue…