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Jamie Murray says Wimbledon date would be hard to change because of lack of daylight and other tournaments

SW19 chiefs announced on Wednesday night that they would hold a crisis meeting over whether The Championships could take place beginning June 29.

Jamie Murray thinks Wimbledon would find it hard to rearrange the tournament if it can’t go ahead in June

A host of other top sporting events have been postponed or cancelled with the Tokyo Olympics in July the latest to go.

In tennis, the entire European clay court season was wiped with with French Open chiefs rearranging their tournament for September 20.

And Murray says that other competitions taking place as well as a lack of daylight later in the year would make it hard for Wimbledon to rearrange.

He told BBC Scotland: “I don’t know how long they could push it back.

“They’re desperate to have their event on, it’s still over three months away and a lot can change in that time.

Wimbledon chiefs will hold an emergency meeting to decide the fate of the tournament

“For them, optics don’t necessarily look great, I guess, if there’s sporting events all over the world getting cancelled and they’re trying to crack on with things.

“There’s a lot of other stakeholders, a lot of other tournaments to consider. Even things like daylight for the tournament.

“Once the tournament gets put back, there’s less and less daylight. When you play at Wimbledon normally, you can play until 10 at night.”