New Delhi, June 28 -- First impressions of places we have often day-dreamed about can have the hallucinatory effect of a fairy tale. As a teenager just graduating from high school in 1961, the teenaged Billie Jean Moffitt was taken to Centre Court at Wimbledon by a British journalist before the tournament started. As they ascended the final steps to the court, he asked her to close her eyes. A few seconds later, this is what she saw: "Down below was the most beautiful tennis court ever created. I was struck by the perfect symmetry of the place. The grass was perfectly groomed and a rich shade of green.The tiered stands at Centre Court held more than fourteen thousand people and yet, once we were inside, the space felt intimate." These lin...
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