Jannik Sinner’s task was already difficult enough: to defeat the rival Carlos Alcaraz in Wimbledon’s male final on Sunday. Then he had to deal with champagne’s corks.
Up 2-1 on the second set after dropping the first, the Italian was about to serve to have the opportunity to win the game. But a bottle of the crowd of the crowd resulted in a cork landing on the court. Sinner stopped bouncing on the tennis ball and took a few steps back. Alcaraz, on the other side of the network, raised his hands with frustration.
Sinner picked up the cork and handed it to a ball girl, who ran with the 2 -inch interruption.
“Ladies and gentlemen,” said the referee on the speaker, “as courtesy for both players, please do not exploit champagne corks just like the players are about to serve.”
Sinner would defeat Alcaraz in four sets to claim his first Wimbledon trophy. With Sunday’s victory, Sinner has now won every Grand Slam, except France’s open.
He was asked after the game about “having to avoid a champagne cork that reached the court.”
Sinner said it only happened in Wimbledon.
“But that is exactly why we love playing here,” he joked. “It is a very expensive tournament.”
Sunday’s champagne incident was not the first time it happened in Wimbledon this year. In the quarterfinals of the female singles last Tuesday, a fan unfortunate a bottle just when Anastasia Potapova served Mirra Andreeva.
Previously in the tournament, the American star Amanda Anisimova faced Dalma Galfi Hungarian. Moments before throwing the ball for a service, a cork appeared in the crowd, which makes it visibly annoyed and express its disgust.
The referee reminded the crowd the rules of the label, which led to a station to say that it was “the most Wimbledon warning you have heard.”
Anisimova, who went on to make the final of the female singles before falling into straight sets to Iga Swiatek, spoke after the game about the constant burst of cork.
“I mean, I kept happening,” he told Reuters. “At some point I thought: ‘Can everyone do it in change?'”
Wimbledon is the most prestigious tournament in tennis, an event that has taken place since 1877. Unlike other Grand Slams, there is a clothing code for all competitors: all white. All England Club fans must also follow strict rules, one is the outbreak of bottles in the stands.
Upon entering the land, it is stated that “all cork bottles, including the bottles of champagne and sparkling wine, must be opened before being taken to the stands of any court.”
Some fans may have lost that.
