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Why has Wimbledon dropped ‘Miss’ from its scoreboards?

June 30, 2009 at 11:07 pm · Filed under Magazine

For 132 years the scoreboards at Wimbledon have billed female tennis players as "Miss" or "Mrs", so why have the titles been dropped?

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