WIMBLEDON marks the 100th anniversary of its famed Centre Court at this year's tournament which gets underway at the All England Club on Monday.
Australia's Gerald Patterson and France's Suzanne Lenglen were the first champions to lift the trophies on the world's most famous lawn in 1922.
Here AFP Sport looks at 10 memorable Centre Court moments:
2019: Longest final
— After four hours and 55 minutes, Novak Djokovic captured his fifth Wimbledon title with a 7-6 (7/5), 1-6, 7-6 (7/4), 4-6, 13-12 (7/3) victory over eight-time champion Roger Federer. The great Swiss had two championship points at 8-7 in the fifth set that lasted two hours and two minutes.
"It's quite unreal," said Djokovic while Federer admitted: "Man, that was crazy."
2013: Murray ends Britain's agony
— Andy Murray became Britain's first Wimbledon men's champion since Fred Perry in 1936 with a 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 win over Novak Djokovic in the final.
Murray won on a fourth match point, sinking to his knees in triumph with victory coming one year after a tearful loss to Roger Federer.
2009: Roof cover-up
— Centre Court showed off its new £80 million retractable roof in 2009 with Dinara Safina and Amelie Mauresmo having the honour of being the first competitors to experience playing under it as the rain fell outside. Court One also boasted a roof by 2019.
2008: Nadal v Federer, the greatest final?
— In the last year before the roof was installed, Centre Court witnessed what many have described as its greatest ever final.
Rafael Nadal downed Roger Federer 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (5/7), 6-7 (8/10), 9-7 in a match which stretched over almost seven hours due to rain delays and ended in near darkness.
"To me, it was the greatest match I'd ever watched, the greatest match ever played anywhere," said US legend John McEnroe.
1996: Naked truth
— Melissa Johnson never won Wimbledon but she hogged the headlines at the start of the men's final between Richard Krajicek and Malivai Washington when she streaked across Centre Court, wearing just a pinny.
"My employers were very po-faced," waitress Johnson said. "They wanted my pinny back."
1993: Novotna's royal tears
— Jana Novotna was tantalisingly close to the title in 1993 when she led Steffi Graf 4-1 in the final set and was a point from 5-1 when she was broken on a double fault.
The Czech went on to lose five games in a row and such was her distress that she cried into the shoulder of Britain's Duchess of Kent.
Novotna was to lose the 1997 final to Martina Hingis before finally winning the title in 1998 with victory over Nathalie Tauziat.
Novotna died in November 2017 at the age of 49
