Built for the greatest grass-court player the game has seen, the holder of 107 wins at Wimbledon. Three hundred and fifty seats rise steeply on all four sides of a single lawn, with no roof above them and no advertising anywhere in the bowl. Both singles finals are played here at two in the afternoon.
Every seat in the bowl is sold individually. Seats stay available until somebody buys them, and a sold seat greys out for everyone straight away. Finals sessions are priced at twice the standard rate.
The west entrance opens not on to the lawn but on to a long marble atrium planted in strict botanical order, from the humble dandelion to the oxeye daisy that gives the tournament its emblem. It is, by tradition, the last thing a champion walks past before going out to lift the trophy.