Wimbledon 2025: The All England Club introduced a 10 -minute cooling brake, with Mercury growing on a 147 -year high day 1. Tennis news
The All England Club on Sunday issued a statement to deal with the heatwave in this year’s Wimbledon, which is set to watch the hottest opening day in 147 years.Heatwave is estimated to reach the peak at 36 degrees Celsius on Monday. The previous record temperature for the start of the Grand Slam event was set in 2001 in 29 ° C.A club statement said: “Our plan is an important idea for adverse weather championships, and we are ready for warm weather, with comprehensive plans for guests, players, employees and BBG.”The rules will apply after the second set for all the best-three set matches, and after the third set for all best-five set matches, players were allowed to leave the court during the break, but not to get coaching or medical treatment.“Heat Rules Championship will apply to all single programs in qualifying and main draws for the Championship 2025. These are single, ladies singles, boys singles, girls singles, wheelchairs singles of Gentleman, Gentleman’s wheelchails, ladies wheelchales singles and quad wheelchairs.”
“This allows a 10 -minute brake when the wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT) is at 30.1 ° C. It applies to all matches in which it has already started. Only one of the players participating in the match requires require to apply the rules to implement the rule.“The rules will apply after the second set for all the best-three sets, and all the best sets for the third set for matches. Players can leave the court during the break, but they cannot get coaching or medical treatment.“Heat rules will not apply to matches played under the roofs. Also, if a match is taken by the next day when the heat rule is in place, it will not apply to any best-three set match which has completed a set, or two sets in any best set match are completed.”
