- CoCo Gauff’s match against Belinda Bencic was decided by the disqualification.
- She was disqualified for arriving late to the court at 11:00pm: the match was scheduled to start at 10:58pm, but Bencic was not ready.
- 11:00pm — the umpire, having already announced the match start time, informed the players that the match at Centre Court would begin at 2009; Merton Council said this was due to a plan for the ball boys’ working hours and the size of the open space, and also that the schedule transport was unclear.
CoCo Gauff Belinda Bencic and won the match against Belinda Bencic at Wimbledon. The match ended 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, and Gauff was disqualified after a few minutes had passed from the moment the match was supposed to start.
It was reported that Gauff delayed the start for almost two hours, and the remaining time was spent on the court, which was not allowed. In the end, it was said that the match would be postponed until 10:58pm.
There may have been a delay in the match start at 11:00pm due to Wimbledon’s “warm-up plan” being delayed, which was in place at Centre Court in 2009. Merton Council said this was due to the fact that the ball boys’ working hours and the scale of the open space were the same, but also due to the unclear timing of transport.
The report says that Gauff, who is the youngest Grand Slam champion, was 15 years old in 2019, but she had already been disqualified for arriving late by more than 16 minutes. The report says that Gauff was disqualified for being late to the match by more than 16 minutes.