Wimbledon Chief Looks to Push Back Tournament

Richard Lewis, healing the Wimbledon chief executive, viagra 40mg is in negotiations with “major stakeholders” about moving the tournament back a week.

The aim is to create a longer grass-court season and increase the time lag between the end of the French Open which signals the conclusion of the clay-court section of the year and the switch of surfaces.

“It will give us an extra week of grass?court tennis and that will enable the players to prepare for the Championships,” Lewis said. “Any change would not happen before 2014 at the earliest.”

Discussions will be held with television companies and sponsors although due to contracts with them a switch cannot happen until 2014.

The move would also bypass a potential clash with the Formula One British Grand Prix which this year is on the same day as the Men’s Final, July 8.

If Wimbledon started a week later, the Grand Prix would happen on the tournament’s middle Sunday, a rest day at the tennis.