{"id":22973,"date":"2018-10-19T16:35:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T15:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=22973"},"modified":"2018-10-19T16:35:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T15:35:43","slug":"tie-breaks-will-be-played-at-12-12-at-wimbledon-from-next-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/tie-breaks-will-be-played-at-12-12-at-wimbledon-from-next-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tie-breaks will be played at 12-12 at Wimbledon from next summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>The All England Lawn Tennis Club announced the news, saying \u201cthe time had come\u201d for changes to be made after John Isner\u2019s semi-final with Kevin Anderson lasted just under three hours. Saying \u201cthe time had come\u201d for changes to be made.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The American was involved in the longest match ever when he beat Nicolas Mahut, with the final set reaching 70-68.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AELTC chairman, Phillip Brook said: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While we know the instances of matches extending deep into the final set are rare, we feel that a tie-break at 12-12 strikes an equitable balance between allowing players ample opportunity to complete the match to advantage, while also providing certainty that the match will reach a conclusion in an acceptable time frame.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The changes will apply to all Wimbledon events \u2013 qualifying, men\u2019s, women\u2019s, mixed and junior singles and doubles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Words: Sam Carter | Subbing: Kristiyan Stefanov<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All England Lawn Tennis Club announced the news, saying \u201cthe time had come\u201d for changes to be made after John Isner\u2019s semi-final with Kevin Anderson lasted just under three hours. Saying \u201cthe time had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":22980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,124],"tags":[5818,6130],"class_list":["post-22973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","category-tennis","tag-sport","tag-tennis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}