At the Championships at Wimbledon this year, Venus Williams played the veteran Japanese tennis player Kimiko Date-Krumm in the second round. The match was won by Williams and turned out to be a minor classic; the tense encounter ended 6-7, 6-3, 8-6 for the American.
In some sections of the media, the match was, rather uncharitably, dubbed the "Zimmer frame special". What is a Zimmer frame and why was it applied to this match?
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A "Zimmer Frame" is a type of a walker, the device used by disabled or elderly people who use its support to walk. In Britain, Zimmer is the best known maker of such products and is almost synonymous with it. Williams is 31 and Date-Krumm is 40, hence the billing. Perhaps that spurred both of them on.
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