Wimbledon Is Finally Dry as Organizers Try to Catch up Following 3 Days of Rain

Britain's Andy Murray (L) returns the ball to Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas during their men's singles tennis match on the fourth day of the 2023 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on July 6, 2023. Glyn Kirk/AFP via Getty Images

WIMBLEDON, England—Let the record reflect that the rain-logged first round of Wimbledon 2023 finally concluded at 3:23 p.m. local time on Thursday, July 6, Day 4 of the tournament, 48 hours later than originally planned, when Alexander Zverev finished off his 6–4, 7–6 (4), 7–6 (5) victory over Dutch qualifier Gijs Brouwer.

Zverev was supposed to start and, naturally, finish, on Tuesday. Instead, he didn’t take the court to play his first point of the fortnight until about 17 1/2 hours after Novak Djokovic already had made his way into the third round.