Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for... the standing ovation! | Hannah Jane Parkinson

We have been denied crowd and audience participation for so long, and absence makes the heart grow fonder I'm not usually good at things that could be considered slightly cringeworthy. There are certain displays of collective emotion, jubilation or despair that I find too earnest to bear. But the first day of this year's Wimbledon - my enjoyment of which I wrote about recently - reminded me of how much I can get down with a standing ovation. As a pre-match announcement was made that Dame Sarah G...