After heavy rain outside during the first two days of the tournament, the matches still took place on Centre Court at Wimbledon. The so-called Cathedral of tennis witnesses a showcase of top stars which occurs before thousands of fans again since 2019. Wimbledon tournament is a great opportunity to win with your favorites. If you haven’t placed your bets yet, sign up with the best betting service and get the best odds for Wimbledon from top European bookmakers.

Despite the rain not falling inside Centre Court, some players were having a hard time to stay up.

In the best-case scenario, low-bouncing grass courts inspirit engaging, all-court tennis that rewards risk and punishes passivity. In the worst-case scenario, the courts’ slick surfaces allow flat-soled tennis shoes to slip and we will see players on the ground and in pain, for sure.

The harmed

Last Tuesday June 29^th, the above-mentioned slippery conditions caused injuries in consecutive matches, affecting the fate of two of the tennis’ most acclaimed stars. In the first place, Roger Federer moved forward after Adrian Mannarino, his opponent in turn, slipped and ended up with a knee injury while he was leading two sets to one.

In the following match, the seven-time Wimbledon champion Serena Williams slipped and came under a hamstring injury; this forced her to end her first-round match against Aliaksandra Sasnovich after only six games. We saw Williams abandon with such injury; this match was what many considered one of her last best chances to win an elusive 24^th major title.

Williams’s opponent in turn, Sasnovich, expressed that the court was that slippery that she decided not to run in order to retrieve wide-angled shots as she normally would have done. Andy Murray, Williams’s one-time mixed doubles partner who played on the same court the day before, mentioned that the surface prevented him to move around with ease.

The popular grass courts, which became the predominant surface during Victorian times for tennis matches, are now a particularity exclusive for Wimbledon and a few other small tournaments part of the calendar. Since a few decades ago, the Australian Open and the U.S. Open switched to hard courts; both of them used to be held on grass.

However, while grass-court tennis is considered the tradition, it a novelty for Wimbledon to offer indoor-grass tennis courts. What’s more, Wimbledon installed its retractable roof to Centre Court back in 2009 – some may consider this as pretty recent – and a roof to the secondary No. 1 Court only two years ago. Alongside the roof, an extensive ventilation system was installed, but this doesn’t prevent the grass to remain dewy.

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