The pair will have to resume on day three of The Championships to complete their first round match. It's the second time this year they've gone to a fifth set , having also gone the distance in Melbourne in Feburary, with Kyrgios victorious on that occasion.
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But a second game of three aces and an unreturnable serve suggested Kyrgios meant business in the fourth. Clearly keen to get the job done on the night, he rattled through the set with an astonishing display of power, getting 95 per cent of his first serves in and winning every one of his second serves.
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Tennis does not, so corporate entertainment must create its own time. The All England Club might say they won't schedule night sessions, but by putting Murray on Centre under the lights at 7. A precedent has also been set that spectators now expect to see maintained. On Monday, with the roof on, the day's play was curtailed at 8pm despite Murray's match being unfinished, several other big ones yet to start and both conditions and crowd perfectly set for tennis.
Nadal hinted heavily after his defeat to Rosol that the minute delay to close the roof after he won the fourth set had cost him precious momentum. Murray went further, and said that Wimbledon's decision to have the roof shut all day on Friday was something "they might have made a mistake on".
The roof allowed Murray to get his match finished on Saturday where others were delayed, giving him precious extra rest. I'm sure he would have rather I was having to play three sets on Monday before playing him. Neither does the court behave in quite the same way. The Wimbledon surface has got noticeably slower over the past five years; under the roof and lights, that trend is even more noticeable.
We may have to get used to it. The weather for the rest of this week is forecast to stay wet and grey. British summers are increasingly reliably unreliable. And Lewis, intriguingly, may have controversial ideas about how to cope with them. Sign in or register to comment. This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules.
Complain about this comment Comment number 1. Ever get the feeling that the tournament is organised more for the people who organise it than for the players or fans? Roof and night matches will make it much more of a spectacle. Also, no start until 1pm - because people can't get there! Ridiculous reasoning! Who can't get the for a daytime event by 1pm - the 8am train from Glasgow will get you there for that! How many people are coming further than that?! Uncle Fred from Aberdeen?
Complain about this comment Comment number 2. Ah, no tennis in this evening even with a roof. No tennis after 11pm with a roof. Making Murray wait until tomorrow to play, even though he started before Djkovic? All a very poor show indeed. Complain about this comment Comment number 3. One way to reduce need for this is to make players hurry up between points. Play has slowed down enormously in the past 30 years.
Nowadays 3 hours may just be three sets. If you cut the time between points and enforced the rule, I bet you would reduce match times. Just as if you reduced changeover times to 60 seconds from 90 seconds.
If you were really nasty, you could say that players could only bounce the ball six times before serving. That'd hurry a few up significantly, wouldn't it?? Thing is, that's only in the remit of the world governing bodies, not individual tournaments. The only way you could really get a daily 'night match' to work would be to start on centre at 12 noon and play 2 matches up to 6pm.
Then have a break for supper for the corporates before starting the night session with the roof closed and lights on at 7. There might be the odd day where you could slot in an extra match in the afternoon if the first two were double quick.
But if it were one men's and one women's, it'd usually come in at 4 - 5 hrs. If you had a 15 - 20 minute break between the two, everyone could go off to the facilities, stretch their legs etc. I'm not sure how much people would enjoy a session spanning lunchtime though. Complain about this comment Comment number 4. They should also ban the towel between points. I don't see why spanning lunch is a problem, they span dinner so what's the difference. Complain about this comment Comment number 5.
Complain about this comment Comment number 6. You get enough outdoor, 'light-time' tennis in i. The atmosphere seems to come through the telly, one can only imagine what its like to be there. And the usual, aforementioned time-wasting mid-game, between games etc. While undoubtedly the final should be in the daytime, preferably non-roof, having night-time, roof-on tennis is an excellent, complimentary option. Complain about this comment Comment number 7.
Agree with 4 - some players are incredible in their between-points routines, you could tighten that up considerably. As for the question of night play, I'd prefer to keep it to day-time tennis myself unless you had more court options 'under the lights'.
Or do you plan it so the top seeds on that day's play always play the night match, and keep it to one scheduled match on Centre Court? During other times, I would only use the roof when it actually rains or close it prior to the start of the match in the case of inclement weather as it does subtly change the playing field.
Complain about this comment Comment number 8. Let's face it, if you have a ticket for centre court and you are travelling by train, then common sense suggests that it is imperative that you must catch the last train - then you leave with sufficient time to get said train. There is no realistic reason not to have night sessions. And why wasn't Murray's match switched to centre after Djokovic finished?
Complain about this comment Comment number 9. The organisors are so dumb why not make the roofs in roof 1 and 2 and if they do it in the near future than they will look dumb for doing it when they could have done it before. Complain about this comment Comment number Of course all these night sessions are showing up Today At Wimbledon for the sheer incorrectly-scheduled awkwardness of it all. The Centre Court roof is the greatest innovation in the history of Wimbledon and essential to the paying public, the corporate entertainment world, and most importantly the broadcasters and millions watching at home.
It is already an absolutely core part of the experience, and that's coming from me just watching on TV. No-one's seriously suggesting we go back to the bad old days of BBC1 rerunning the Borg-McEnroe tiebreak for the th time.
But yes, I get Nadal's and others' sentiment about consistency. Do it like this; the tournament director decides an hour before play begins whether the roof should be open or closed, and stay that way. Still close the roof if necessary when it starts raining. Schedule the roof to close, if open, before the beginning of a late game, say one which starts after 6 or 7pm, which is likely to be interrupted by bad light otherwise.
Don't allow a set to start after 10pm; this way, the game can be halted at a reasonable point between sets and still let everyone get a train home and not miss the action. Be consistent with it and you preserve no play and sporting integrity all in one fell swoop. The Djokovic match finished at around pretty much 8. Murray was already a set and a break up. To be honest, I feel the most sorry for the winner of Gasquet-Mayer.
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