{"id":415680,"date":"2025-11-30T19:23:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/415680\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T19:23:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:23:42","slug":"andy-murray-pressured-wimbledon-chiefs-after-djokovic-was-ordered-to-leave-court-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/415680\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Murray pressured Wimbledon chiefs after Djokovic was ordered to leave court | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Murray<\/a> once heaped pressure on Wimbledon<\/a> bosses to revise scheduling at the All England Club after Novak Djokovic<\/a> clashed with the evening curfew. Two years ago, the Serb had established a commanding two-set advantage over Hubert Hurkacz in their fourth-round encounter on Centre Court when the umpire was forced to halt proceedings due to SW19’s stringent regulations.<\/p>\n

It mirrored Andy Murray<\/a>‘s predicament against Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/a> during the same tournament, occurring just as the Scot had secured a slender one-set lead over his Greek rival. The interruption saw Murray surrender the momentum he had built throughout the evening before ultimately succumbing to Tsitsipas in a five-set thriller the following day.<\/p>\n

Murray went on to suggest that he favoured modifications to the scheduling arrangements to address problems created by the 11pm curfew.<\/p>\n

Taking to social media, he shared a Times article advocating for Wimbledon<\/a> officials to abandon 1.30pm starts by pushing everything back by at least an hour, which would assist in completing matches before the nightly deadline.<\/p>\n

His brother Jamie also endorsed the proposal by making light of Djokovic’s suspended match in a direct response to the original post. He simply posted: “Another night. Confirmed.”<\/p>\n

The Wimbledon curfew, in place since 2009 when Centre Court’s roof was first unveiled, was a condition set by Merton Council for planning permission.<\/p>\n

The rule has been steadfast, with only a slight extension in 2012 when Andy Murray triumphed over Marcos Baghdatis at 11.02pm.<\/p>\n

Back in 2023, Murray was left disgruntled when his match against Tsitsipas was abruptly halted by the umpire with 20 minutes to spare before the official cut-off time.<\/p>\n

The announcement was met with boos from the Centre Court crowd, and Murray himself appeared dissatisfied, questioning tournament referee Gerry Armstrong: “Why?”<\/p>\n

However, he later conceded that it was the correct decision to halt the match after three sets due to the lack of time to finish a potentially decisive fourth set before the 11pm curfew.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t necessarily think it was appropriate to keep going, because it was highly unlikely we’d finish the match unless someone was to win the set,” Murray explained.<\/p>\n

“Sorry, it was unlikely someone was going to win that set in 20 minutes or 19 minutes, whatever we had left to play. It seemed like a reasonable time to stop.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Murray once heaped pressure on Wimbledon bosses to revise scheduling at the All England Club after Novak…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":415681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[37279,9125,62,1464,4555,81659,10119,17057,178532,67,132,68,2071,194950,194949],"class_list":{"0":"post-415680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-andy-murray","9":"tag-novak-djokovic","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-tennis-section","13":"tag-tennis-latest","14":"tag-tennis-news","15":"tag-tennis-scores","16":"tag-tennis-today","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-wimbledon","21":"tag-wimbledon-2026","22":"tag-wimbledon-curfew"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115640284358804516","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}