Posted on 04/01/2020 11:16:04 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The Wimbledon Championships have been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the All England Club confirmed in a statement Wednesday.
It is the first time Wimbledon has been canceled since World War II in 1945. It is also the first time since the tournament began in 1877 that the event will not be played during peacetime.
Wimbledon had been scheduled to run from June 29 to July 12.
"Shocked," eight-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer said on Twitter.
In addition, the ATP and WTA made a joint announcement that all events at all levels of both professional tours have been canceled through July 13, covering the entire grass-court season. The same decision was made by the International Tennis Federation.
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OMG! What’s next, no golf on TV?
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cop out .... they could’ve played behind closed doors.
Smashing! Hope the Frog Open gets canceled as well.
Dangit. I always enjoyed watching the young ladies in their best white outfits.
I agree, just have limited staff to support the tournament itself. This is especially true with Wimbledon being almost 3.5 months out.
I really don’t get it. I assume the French Open is cancelled already?
I just wish the news idiots could pronounce it properly. It’s not Wimbleton, dammit.
Well, here at Wimbledon, it’s been a most extraordinary week’s tennis. The blancmanges have swept the board, winning match after match. Here are just a few of the results: Billie-Jean King eaten in straight sets, Laver smothered whole after winning the first set, and Poncho Gonzales, serving as well as I’ve never seen him, with some superb volleys and decisive return volleys off the back hand, was sucked through the net at match point and swallowed whole in just under two minutes. And so, here on the final day, there seems to be no players left to challenge the blancmanges. And this could be their undoing, Dan: as the rules of Wimbledon state quite clearly that there must be at least one human being concerned in the final. (we see a three-foot-high blancmange being shepherded onto a tennis court by a Scotsman) Well the blancmange is coming out onto the pitch now, and (suddenly exalted) there is a human with it. It’s Angus Podgorny! The plucky little Scottish tailor ... upon whom everything depends. And so it’s Podgorny versus blancmange in this first ever Intergalactic Wimbledon!
O no. Where can i watch spoiled millionaires whack little balls around and yell at line judges?
It’s been postponed until Fall....let’s hope this mess doesn’t last that long.
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