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Although the action has continued under the
roofs on Centre Court and Court One, several first-round mixed
doubles matches have not been finished due to wet weather on the
opening eight days at the grasscourt Grand Slam.
The mixed doubles final will follow the men's singles final on
Sunday, while the men's and women's doubles finals will take
place after the women's singles final on Saturday.
"This gives us the maximum flexibility to complete the
Championships on time and to play all of the respective finals
on Centre Court," tournament director Jamie Baker said.
The attendance in the first week of the tournament also dipped
from 293,681 last year to 282,955 visitors, down by 3.7% and
chief executive Sally Bolton blamed the rain.
"The weather has been so terrible that perseverance in the queue
has been even greater this year than it ordinarily is," Bolton
told reporters on Monday.
"We're never about maximizing our attendances, we're all about
protecting the queue and making sure that we have still got that
accessibility, accepting that as a result of that was some
variability on the numbers that we will end up achieving.
"This year the weather has been so variable and so bad at times,
that at the moment our assessment is it's almost certainly the
weather that's impacting it."
(Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar, editing by Ed Osmond) [© 2024 Thomson Reuters. All rights
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