Wimbledon broke the rule taboo with the most applauded change

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Wimbledon It boasts of being the tournament that maintains the most traditions in the world of tennis. This is the ‘Cathedral’, the nerve center of this sport. Grass became a hallmark, although it wasn’t until modern times that the US Open and Australian Open decided to abandon grass for the easier-to-maintain synthetic surface, which took over the circuit over the years. It also surpassed the number of tournaments held on the ground by a landslide.

However, the select all england club it had to adapt to the new era of professional tennis, becoming increasingly competitive and with money as the main engine. It agreed to build retractable roofs at two of its stadiums, as multimillion-dollar television rights required it.

It has improved its entire facility, benefiting all levels of the sport. He even gave and respected the ATP and WTA world rankings, in the past he made the seeding list as he wanted. It was a hit-and-run event.

In order not to be left behind with respect to other Grand Slams, without losing its privileged place in the world of sport, Wimbledon continues to make its regulations more flexible. For example, it is now played every tournament Sunday. First it was accepted to include the Sunday of the final, recently the Sunday break of the first week was removed.

Also in 2023 it released a relevant novelty. There have been years of pressure from women’s tennis, there have also been public demonstrations at the club during the last edition demanding change.

In November 2022 came the official announcement from Wimbledon: “The Committee has decided to update the rule following discussions with WTA (governing the women’s professional circuit), clothing manufacturers and medical teams on how best to support women and girls competing.”

Clean white from top to bottom is finished. “We hope this rule adjustment will help players focus solely on their performance by alleviating a potential source of anxiety,” he said. Sally Boltonchief executive of the All England Club.

Women can wear dark colored underwear or shorts from this Wimbledon 2023. “It will be a great relief, it is stressful,” said the American Coco Gauff remembering the complications of dealing with menstruation having to wear clean white.

Olympic champion Monica Puig he raised his voice years ago underlining that “stressful” factor of living with the rule and the target imposed by Wimbledon.

The defending champion Elena Rybakina or the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, world number 2, is already wearing two black and green shorts, respectively, in the central office. For anything, they are free to do so, which is the condition that racket professionals pursue. And by the way, a subject is being put on the table that is sometimes still taboo in high competition sport.

There is no exception for men. In 2014 marc lopez the chair umpire warned him to change his underwear because it was too dark and could be seen against the white of his pants. He has to play in his doubles match Marcel Granollers without having to go back to the locker room, in exchange for not repeating the mistake. He was not so lucky, for example, the Hungarian Zsombor Piros, that he had to get another underwear. He was not the only one. Because white is dominant is not touched, in the competition.

Source: La Verdad

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