What is it about the first day of Wimbledon that gets us so excited?

People queue for 48 hours and rarely get rewarded but this year opening Monday was a day to remember Watching the unconstrained fervour of Indian cricket fans at Edgbaston on Sunday, as they turned the Champions Trophy final against England into a home game, it was hard not to feel strange, disloyal surges. We like cricket in this country, particularly an Ashes Test series, but the Indians really love it. It seemed to mean so much to them to win the match that it would have been churlish to depr...