Tuesday 30 June 2009

Last nights match

I wonder if in future years Wimbledon will schedule a match every evening to start at aroung 8pm and then to play it under the roof? It was patently obvious that the television people (one point not mentioned is that it would have gone out in early prime time on the east coast of the US ) and the crowds there absolutely adored the spectacle - although I gather that Murray found the humidity high.

The BBC basically dumped BBC1 for the evening - in the full knowledge that the match will be completed rather than being paused until the next day - and, given the fact it was Murray playing, I suspect that the audience was very high.

Methinks that the pressure upon Wimbledon to play a late evening match under the roof and lights as a regular fixture will become very high indeed.

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