Wimbledon – Alexander Zverev criticizes tournament organizer after being defeated by Matteo Berrettini: “Ridiculously dark”

Shortly before 7:30 p.m. local time, the encounter between Alexander Zverev and Matteo Berrettini was interrupted. At this point, the man from Hamburg was 3:6, 4:4 behind.

After the roof was closed and the lights adjusted accordingly, the conditions were much better.

Before that, Zverev criticized, it was “ridiculously dark”.

He and Berrettini therefore “agreed that we would close the roof when it started to drizzle. But they wanted to let us play outside until 8:30 p.m. because they said it was an open-air tournament. It was but already so dark that I don’t know how they would have wanted to pull it off,” Zverev wondered about the tournament organizers’ approach.

Berrettini and Zverev irritated

But even after the game was restarted, there were irritations among the players. With gestures, Berrettini made it more than clear that the surface seemed too slippery and damp. “It was a bit slippery at the beginning. Then it got better,” said Zverev.