![]() ![]() After one of the wettest weeks in recent tournament history, matches will extend to a third week for the 14th time since 1919. Navratilova and Jonathan Stark lost Sunday in the mixed-doubles quarterfinals to Lindsay Davenport and Grant Connell. Enter 23-year-old blonde London student Melissa Johnson, taking a break. MARTINA NAVRATILOVA failed in her bid to equal Billie Jean King’s record of 20 Wimbledon titles. No one had dared to try it on Wimbledon's Centre Court, but prior to the 1996. Washington lifted his shirt to bare his chest and got a large ovation. The players and most of the 14,000 spectators broke into laughter. She quickly was escorted off the court by police. Johnson, a catering assistant at Wimbledon during her summer holidays, was topless and wore only a tiny maid’s apron, which she lifted up. The woman, identified as 23-year-old London student Melissa Johnson, climbed over a barrier at one end of the court and dashed the length of its periphery – passing in front of finalists Richard Krajicek and MaliVai Washington as they posed near the net for photographs. “She’s even said her mother streaked once.A young female streaker, wearing a big smile and little else, pranced across Centre Court moments before Sunday’s men’s Wimbledon final. If she’d come back, I might have had more luck.”Ī pal said Melissa is a “complete nutter – a complete fruitcake, so anything was possible. She lifted it up and she was still smiling at me. Washington said: “I saw these things wobbling around and, Jeez, she smiled at me. While Richard Krajicek and Malivai Washington were warming up on Centre Court ahead of the. “I hope I have brightened up a few people’s day,” she said, “I certainly have no regrets. WAITRESS Melissa Johnson stole the show at Wimbledon as she caught the men's finalists' attention. The duke was laughing like mad.” Seconds later Melissa was arrested and spent the rest of the final at a police station before being freed before without charge. Peter Goord, 57, of Plymouth, said: “She showed it all. Melissa headed for the Royal Box and, grinning at the bigwigs, lifted up her pinny. “I was going to wear a dress but decided to wear my pinny instead.”Īs she ran, Mal Washington even pulled up his shirt to reveal his chest. “When the players came out I thought, ‘It’s now or never’, so I just did it. ![]() “I knew it had never been done before – and it had to be done, really, didn’t it? I am a bit of a naughty girl and I definitely have a wild streak in me. “I did it for a bit of a laugh, although I was encouraged by all the others. “It was my suggestion entirely,” she said. Melissa – nicknamed Missie – of Wandsworth, London, was in high spirits after gaining a design degree at Manchester Polytechnic. I suppose that means I have got the sack.” Johnson resides in Hilliard with her husband, two boys and her boxer. ![]() “They demanded my pinny back immediately. Melissa Johnson is the vice president of Cameron Mitchell Premier Events and Community Relations at Cameron Mitchell Restaurants (CMR), where she is also an operating partner. Security is tight on Centre Court but 23-year-old Melissa Johnson evaded it in 1996 ahead of the men’s singles final between Richard Krajicek and MaliVai Washington. RM 2JDBBMB File photo dated 07-07-1996 of Police escort streaker Melissa Johnson off of Centre Court. “But my employers were very po-faced,” said Melissa. RM G9EJP0 Streaker interrupts play on Wimbledons Centre Court. ![]()
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