(BEIJING, June 23) -- The 2008 All-England Wimbledon tennis championships, the third Grand Slam tournament of the tennis season, and the major one on grass, starts on Monday, June 23.
Rafael Nadal (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)Nadal has proved in recent tournaments that he is ready to replace Federer as World No 1 -- but knows he needs to repeat that form on grass.Even though Federer is on a 40 year record of 59 consecutive victories on grass and has won the title at Wimbledon Championships for the past five years, many people think the title this year will be belong to Nadal.The 22-year-old Spaniard has lost the last two Wimbledon finals in 2006 and 2007 to Federer but swept him aside to win the French Open two weeks ago, and also beat Serbian No 3 seed Novak Djobovic at the Queen's Club last week
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