Andy and Jamie Murray pressure Wimbledon chiefs after Novak Djokovic told to leave court

Andy and Jamie Murray have piled the pressure on Wimbledon chiefs to alter the timings at the All England Club after Novak Djokovic fell foul of the evening curfew on Sunday night. The Serb moved into a two-set lead over Hubert Hurkacz in their fourth-round meeting on Centre Court but the umpire was forced to stop play before 11pm due to the strict rules in place at SW19.

It came after Andy Murray found himself in a similar situation against Stefanos Tsitsipas earlier in the tournament just after the Scot had taken a narrow one-set lead over his Greek opponent. The stoppage resulted in Murray losing the momentum he had gained over the course of the evening before eventually losing to Tsitsipas in five sets the next day.

Murray has since hinted that he would like to see changes made to the timings of play with the aim of solving the issues posed by the existing 11pm curfew. He retweeted an article by The Times on Sunday night calling for Wimbledon chiefs to scrap 1.30pm starts by moving everything back at least an hour, which would help to get matches done before the nightly cut-off point.

Jamie Murray also threw his support behind the suggestion by poking fun at Djokovic’s match being suspended in a direct reply to the original tweet. He simply wrote: “Another night. Confirmed.”