Wimbledon women's doubles final postponed
Taiwan's Hsieh Su-Wei (R) and Czech Republic's Barbora Strycova celebrates after winning a point against Belgium's Elise Mertens and Belarus's Aryna Sabalenka during their women's doubles quarter-final match on day nine of the 2019 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon on July 10, 2019. Credit: AFP/Getty Images/GLYN KIRK
WIMBLEDON, England — The Wimbledon women's doubles final has been postponed because the men's doubles final has stretched to a fifth set.
The women's match pitting Hsieh Su-wei and Barbora Strycova against Gabriela Dabrowski and Xu Yifan will be played Sunday instead.
That was scheduled to follow the men's doubles final on Centre Court. But that match — Juan-Sebastian Caval and Robert Farah against Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin — was already past the 4-hour mark when it headed to a fifth set after four tiebreakers.
Darkness was approaching, so the retractable roof at Centre Court was closed, further delaying things.
