After a substantially uneventful opening day in terms of weather, the weather has finally arrived today Wimbledon 2024’s first real rain interruption. Fortunately the forecast is quite encouraging and there shouldn’t be any problems in this regard this afternoon, but at the moment all the fields have been covered with tarpaulins thus interrupting the game.
As often happens at the Championships, it should be a quite a rapid downpour of water which however forced the organizers to temporarily suspend the program. In any case The match will not resume before 2pm Italian time (1.00 pm local time), also to re-establish minimum safety conditions on the now damp grass of the All England Club.
The rain could prove to be a lifesaver especially for two Italians who were struggling a lot and were behind in the score, Luke Nardi and especially Lorenzo MusettiThe young player from Pesaro lost the first set 6-1 and is trailing 5-3 against the Argentine Tomas Martin Etcheverry, while the Tuscan has to come back from a set down (6-4) and a break (at 3-2 15-15 in response) against the Frenchman Constant Lestienne.
Different story for Luciano Darderi, ahead 7-5 2-1 without a break on the British wild card Jan Choinski. Later it will be Mattia Bellucci’s turn, in the continuation of the match against Ben Shelton interrupted yesterday evening due to darkness with the Italian ahead two sets to one, in addition to Flavio Cobolli (with the Australian Hijikata) and Lucia Bronzetti (with the Canadian Fernandez).
