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The Dying Popularity Of Grass And Its Wimbledon Champion

Wim­ble­don, the his­toric tour­na­ment at the All Eng­land Club, is already upon us and in full swing. The world’s favorite player and the one player whom every­one wants to see win one last time with­drew from the tour­na­ment a week ago — Andre Agassi is still recov­er­ing from the back pains that caused him to lose in the first round of last month’s French Open. This is the sec­ond year in a row that Agassi has with­drawn from Wimbledon.