Merseyside is well-known across the world for its sporting excellence in football.
But the region is known for so much more than the beautiful game - being home to athletes, gymnasts, boxers and other sportspeople who've done us proud down the decades.
And while we're not known as exactly a hotbed of tennis, the grass courts of Wimbledon have played host to plenty of Merseysiders looking to serve and volley their way to success. We've taken a look at some of those competitors from down the years, from multi-sport masters to the man who nearly derailed the great Pete Sampras.
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Max Woosnam
What does winning gold (and silver) in tennis at the 1920 Olympics, captaining Manchester City F.C, captaining the English football team, captaining the British team at the Davis Cup, making a 147 break in snooker, scoring a 'century' at the Lord's Cricket Ground, and, but not least, winning the Wimbledon doubles in 1921, have in common?
Short answer: Max Woosnam. Max was born in Liverpool in the late 1800s to clergyman Maxwell Woosnam and his wife Mary Seeley, though spent most of his childhood in Wales before becoming a master of all (sporting) trades.
Barry Cowan
In 2001 Barry Cowan met the world number one, Pete Sampras, on the grass of Wimbledon in the opening rounds, after being entered into the competition as a wildcard. He was ranked 265th in the world at the time.
Barry, spurred on by You'll Never Walk Alone, which he listened to in the breaks between games, took Sampras to five sets in what has been called since "one of the most sensational performances by a British tennis player that has ever been seen at Wimbledon".
At the time, the Irish Examiner quoted Sampras as saying after the match: "‘That’s the closest it has been for me in the opening rounds at Wimbledon, and given the way he was playing and that it was on grass anything could have happened."
Lottie Dod
Charlotte, or Lottie, Dod was only 15 when she played herself into tennis history by beating Blanche Bingley Hillyard at the Wimbledon women's singles in 1887. The year after she would win the same competition once more, again beating Blanche Bingley Hillyard.
Three years later she would begin a three year Wimbledon-winning streak, claiming the women's singles title in 1891, 1892 and 1893, beating the same opponent she had beaten twice before (and never by a small margin)… Blanche Bingley Hillyard.
When she reached the age of 21, in 1904, she also became the English women's golf champion then four years later won the silver medal for archery at the 1908 Olympics.
Ken and Neal Skupski
These two brothers from Liverpool regularly compete together as doubles partners, but this year will be taking on other partners as they both attempt to storm Wimbledon. At the end of this month Neal will be going for a second Wimbledon win after winning the mixed doubles competition last year with Desirae Krawczyk.
Mark Farrell
Mark died five years ago after a long battle with illness, yet in his prime the left-handed Liverpudlian held his own against the greats, and Bjorn Borg in 1973, the year before the Swedish number one won both the French and Australian open. Farrell reached the Wimbledon mixed doubles final in 1974 with fellow Englishman Lesley Charles, though the pair were beaten by American number one Billie Jean King, partnered with Australian Owen Davidson.
In his youth he trained at the Vagabonds Lawn Tennis Club on Queens's Drive in Stoneycroft. The club is still there today.
Jonathan Marray
Jonny Marray, born in Fazakerley, won the doubles at Wimbledon in 2012 with Danish partner Frederick Nielsen, beating Andy Murray to a grand slam win. Unfortunately, Andy would later eclipse Jonny in fame, fortune and number of grand slam titles won.
Honourable mentions:
Mark Roberts, serial streaker
In 2013, Mark Roberts announced he was giving up his beloved passion: streaking. The Liverpool-born father-of-three managed to streak over 500 times, including on daytime TV classic This Morning and, of course, the Wimbledon men's final in 2002.
Ben Saunders, Andy Murray's childhood tennis coach
Also in 2013, Ben Saunders watched as the man he coached as a child became the first British man to win Wimbledon men's singles in 77 years, since Fred Perry.
Fred Perry, once a child in Wallasey
Born in Stockport, the man considered England's greatest ever tennis player spent much of his childhood in Wallasey, attending Liscard Primary School. Years later he would be winning three Wimbledon's in a row from 1934 to 1936, which would be the last title claimed by a British player until Andy Murray.
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