Matteo Berrettini and Lorenzo Sonego, Wimbledon haunted: postponement again

Incredible but true, the game is suspended again.

Matteo Berrettini and Lorenzo Sonego have not yet concluded their all-Italian challenge valid for the first round of Wimbledon. The match, initially scheduled for Tuesday and already suspended due to rain, was interrupted again on Wednesday. There were two causes: the surface, in any case, too slippery after the rainfall of the previous hours, and the too late hour. In fact, it was almost 8:30 p.m. in London and there was still at least one almost full set to go before the winner was known.

It would then resume with the scores of 6-7(5), 6-3, 7-6(7), with Berrettini thus leading by one set and the fourth stopped at 1-1. All after an effective 2 hours and 49 minutes of play. The Wimbledon decision had come after the two blues had both slipped, Sonego’s stumble being particularly dangerous. Both had signaled the risks they would face playing on such treacherous grass, until the decision was made to postpone the outcome of the all-Italian challenge again.

Novak Djokovic is the active tennis player with the most number of Wimbledon men’s singles tournaments won: seven, one less than Switzerland’s Roger Federer, who recently retired after a career full of accomplishments. The Serbian ace triumphed on London’s grass in the 2011, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022 editions: in last year’s final he got the better of Nick Kyrgios, who forfeited and did not participate in the tournament in 2023, in four sets.