Wimbledon, England — Marine Cilic was not blissful together with his schedule at Wimbledon on Monday after shedding to Flavio Koboli in his fourth match, organized at 11am native time.
Cilic, 36, stated the Wimbledon clinic court docket was not open till 9:30am and the second court docket the place his match was held was fairly tender even after the rain in a single day in order that they have to be saved heat indoors.
Taking part in at Wimbledon outdoors courts is scheduled to start at 11am all through the 2 weeks, however matches at Centre Court docket and No. 1 courtrooms will start at the very least two hours later.
Nonetheless, Cilic questioned whether or not match organizers ought to play all singles matches later that day within the fourth spherical.
“I do not like to speak about situations. Okay, I’ve misplaced it. I’ve to just accept it,” Cilic stated. “However why do I really feel bitter about taking part in at 11 o’clock?”
Cobolli-Cilic Assembly was solely one of many eight singles matches held on Monday that had such an early begin time.
Liudmila Samsonova’s match in opposition to Jessica Bouzas Maneiro adopted Cobolli and Cilic within the second court docket, with six different matches being held within the Centre Court docket and No. 1 court docket.
“It was raining in a single day and the court docket was very tender,” Cilic stated. “It was actually exhausting to play. Simply push the ball into the center of the court docket and the ball simply stays very low. It was only a wrestle.”
He misplaced 6-4, 6-4, 6-7(4), 7-6(3). Nonetheless, it was a comparatively profitable Wimbledon for Cilic, the 2014 US Open champion who completed runner-up on the All-England Membership in 2017.
Cilic returns to top-level tennis after present process two knee surgical procedure and performs this 12 months at lower-level Challenger Tour occasions to advertise his rankings. He needed to do the qualifying spherical simply to get into the brackets of the French Open, which he misplaced within the first spherical.
“There’s nice encouragement, happiness, constructive perspective, constructive outcomes from the match,” he stated. “I discovered some nice shapes and performed some nice tennis, and it was nonetheless fairly shut right this moment.”
