That, then, is us. We’ll be back tomorrow at midday to bring you the first four quarter-finals, two men’s and two women’s – among them Jannik Sinner v Daniil Medvedev. See you then – but until then, peace out.
“Djokovic is absolutely right,” says Robert Speed. “People think they’re being clever by saying Rune’s name as an excuse to boo Djokovic. Do Rune chants ring out in his other matches? Doubt it. It’s happened before exactly like this, and good for Djokovic to call it out.”
I don’t know. I don’t think it matters if it’s happened in Rune’s previous matches, he’s playing the greatest of all-time, on Centre Court, that’s a different thing to most of what he’s done before. There are inescapable phonic similarities between the relevant sounds and I can see it’s possible people might relish that, but it’s still Rune’s name and based on other sporting chants – “Ruuuuuud” and “Roooooot”, a defence I find not unpersuasive.
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