On Saturday afternoon in Melbourne, news broke of the death of Alan Mills – the long-serving Wimbledon referee who patrolled the grounds between 1983 and 2005. Only a tiny subset of today’s players ...
Alan Mills, who has died aged 88, was the public face of the Wimbledon tennis championships as its referee from 1983 to 2005. Mills’s appearance on court, walkie-talkie in hand, usually signified one ...
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) From 1983 to 2003, the world's top two players never met each other in the Wimbledon men's final. It's about to happen for the seventh time in eight years - with a couple of ...