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The roof closed in Saturday's finish part match Djokovic-Nadal caused the TTW a wave of criticism. In this comment I try to explain the context and circumstances that led to the closed roof and vindicate this decision.
1) Let's get back to the beginning - why was the match finished on Saturday afternoon when its original part was held on Friday night at the Center Court equipped with artificial lighting? In all other tournaments, such a match would be held without interruption, usually the matches are interrupted due to the lack of light (and the lack of artificial lighting on the courts). The curfew is valid from 11:00 PM. The residents of the Wimbledon district forced them through their elected representatives. Wimbledon's promoters could not, rather than tolerate this constraint, move around one of the most famous tennis tournaments in the world. The program did not bother this restriction until Friday, 13th July.
If this limit did not exist, the Djokovic-Nadal match would continue without interruption - under a closed roof. The Saturday's finish part of the match was to compensate for the unrealized part of the match after 11:00 PM with everything - the closed roof.
2) We are reaching the second point - a confusion of terms. As a closed roof defense it was stated that the same conditions would be maintained. And that was a mistake. Conditions are clear, cloudy, light, dark, windy, windless, etc. This is an unstable factor that changes over time. People complained that, while maintaining the same conditions, the Saturday end of the duel began at 8:00 PM as the original Friday part match.
However, the organizers had an open / closed roof. What they wanted to preserve were not the conditions, but the environment in which the original part of the game took place. The environment is a stable element - in tennis we have either an outdoor or indoor environment. Holt, bad words can make a mess.
3) Why is it so important to keep the original environment when, due to the rainy weather, the match can change from outdoor to indoor? This question partly corresponds to the first point - the need to fully compensate for the unfulfilled part of the match due to the curfew. This need is underlined by the rule of completing the match under the roof. It usual outdoor match to finish outdoors - and indoor match in indoors. An exception is when the roofs were installed at different stadiums - avoiding program delays. At that time, the outdoor matches changes on indoor matches, but the opposite is not the case here.
4) Why does an outdoor tournament hold an indoor match? You know, today's many outdoor tournaments such as Wimbledon, AO, USO and others are outdoor tournaments with the option of indoor matches. The fact that the semi-final match of Djokovic-Nadal is no exception, we could see this January in the AO Federer-Cilic final.
5) Djokovic contributed to the decision to leave the roof closed. Djokovic's explanation at the press conference was gritty, but he finally said the organizers had said their opinion and that he wanted to continue under the closed roof. He had the right and to criticize him for being hypocritical. In his place, most of us would do the same.
In conclusion - that Saturday's final part of the Djokovic-Nadal match under the closed roof has my understanding. And I believe I'm not alone on TTW.
1) Let's get back to the beginning - why was the match finished on Saturday afternoon when its original part was held on Friday night at the Center Court equipped with artificial lighting? In all other tournaments, such a match would be held without interruption, usually the matches are interrupted due to the lack of light (and the lack of artificial lighting on the courts). The curfew is valid from 11:00 PM. The residents of the Wimbledon district forced them through their elected representatives. Wimbledon's promoters could not, rather than tolerate this constraint, move around one of the most famous tennis tournaments in the world. The program did not bother this restriction until Friday, 13th July.
If this limit did not exist, the Djokovic-Nadal match would continue without interruption - under a closed roof. The Saturday's finish part of the match was to compensate for the unrealized part of the match after 11:00 PM with everything - the closed roof.
2) We are reaching the second point - a confusion of terms. As a closed roof defense it was stated that the same conditions would be maintained. And that was a mistake. Conditions are clear, cloudy, light, dark, windy, windless, etc. This is an unstable factor that changes over time. People complained that, while maintaining the same conditions, the Saturday end of the duel began at 8:00 PM as the original Friday part match.
However, the organizers had an open / closed roof. What they wanted to preserve were not the conditions, but the environment in which the original part of the game took place. The environment is a stable element - in tennis we have either an outdoor or indoor environment. Holt, bad words can make a mess.
3) Why is it so important to keep the original environment when, due to the rainy weather, the match can change from outdoor to indoor? This question partly corresponds to the first point - the need to fully compensate for the unfulfilled part of the match due to the curfew. This need is underlined by the rule of completing the match under the roof. It usual outdoor match to finish outdoors - and indoor match in indoors. An exception is when the roofs were installed at different stadiums - avoiding program delays. At that time, the outdoor matches changes on indoor matches, but the opposite is not the case here.
4) Why does an outdoor tournament hold an indoor match? You know, today's many outdoor tournaments such as Wimbledon, AO, USO and others are outdoor tournaments with the option of indoor matches. The fact that the semi-final match of Djokovic-Nadal is no exception, we could see this January in the AO Federer-Cilic final.
5) Djokovic contributed to the decision to leave the roof closed. Djokovic's explanation at the press conference was gritty, but he finally said the organizers had said their opinion and that he wanted to continue under the closed roof. He had the right and to criticize him for being hypocritical. In his place, most of us would do the same.
In conclusion - that Saturday's final part of the Djokovic-Nadal match under the closed roof has my understanding. And I believe I'm not alone on TTW.
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