Andy Murray unhappy with Wimbledon's new mixed doubles schedule

Former World . 1 Andy Murray took to his official Twitter handle on Thursday to express his thoughts on latest schedule released by Wimbledon for its 2022 tournament. Murray expressed displeasure over All England Club’s decision of moving Wimbledon mixed doubles final to an earlier date, which according to Murray would lead to a decrease in top doubles players signing up for event. As per new schedule, mixed doubles event will be reduced to a 32-team draw, and final, which earlier used to be last match of tournament, will w move to Thursday.

In series of tweets, while explaining his thoughts on shifting mixed doubles final to an earlier date, Murray said that even though he agreed with changes made to mixed doubles event in order to make it a smaller draw, he disagreed with decision of moving final to an earlier date. Citing smaller draw, Murray added that if sign-in for mixed doubles was done on Friday afteron and finished on Saturday or Sunday, n it would have encourd more top-class players to play in event. He furr explained in a second tweet that singles players who have lost earlier would be more inclined to play in mixed doubles in that scenario.

Murray also said that looking at current schedule, he thinks only top singles players who have lost ir first-round matches might decide to play mixed-doubles. In his last tweet, Murray said, “If you change that to Friday/Saturday sign in you increase that pool of players significantly. More top doubles players would play in this scenario too I think?”

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As per 2022 schedule released by Wimbledon, Men’s and Women’s First round would begin on June 27, 2022. mixed doubles final would be held on July 7, Thursday, whereas Women’s and Men’s singles final would be held on July 9 and July 10 respectively. Meanwhile, Men's doubles final would be held on July 9, and Women's doubles final is scheduled to take place on July 10.

(Im: AP)