{"id":62273,"date":"2022-07-04T12:31:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T12:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/wimbledon-defends-start-times-after-novak-djokovic-criticised-late-finishes"},"modified":"2022-07-04T12:31:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T12:31:34","slug":"wimbledon-defends-start-times-after-novak-djokovic-criticised-late-finishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/wimbledon-defends-start-times-after-novak-djokovic-criticised-late-finishes","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon defends start times after Novak Djokovic criticised late finishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wimbledon&#8217;s chief executive has defended the schedule after Novak Djokovic was critical about matches finishing late on the show courts.The defending champion&#8217;s fourth-round match against Tim van Rijthoven on Sunday did not start until 8pm after the day&#8217;s start of play was pushed back due to Centre Court&#8217;s centenary celebrations at 1.30pm.The top seed wrapped up a four-set victory over the Dutch wild card with just 21 minutes to spare before Wimbledon&#8217;s 11pm curfew.Novak Djokovic was unhappy about his late-night finish (Adam Davy\/PA) (PA Wire)Afterwards, the 35-year-old claimed those who play the late matches are playing an &#8220;indoor tournament&#8221; with contests regularly finishing under the roof, and &#8220;most of the players would probably agree that we would all want the start of the match on Centre Court pushed earlier&#8221;.Addressing the comments on Monday, the All England Club&#8217;s chief executive Sally Bolton defended Wimbledon&#8217;s scheduling.&#8220;The reality of running a tennis event is that once you start the day, you have no<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wimbledon&#8217;s chief executive has defended the schedule after Novak Djokovic was critical about matches finishing late on the show courts. The defending champion&#8217;s fourth-round match against Tim van Rijthoven on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,70],"tags":[58,71],"class_list":["post-62273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}