WIMBLEDON, England—Let the record reflect that the rain-logged first round of Wimbledon 2023 finally concluded at 3:23 p.m. local time on Thursday, July 6, Day 4 of the tournament, 48 hours later than originally planned, when Alexander Zverev finished off his 6–4, 7–6 (4), 7–6 (5) victory over Dutch qualifier Gijs Brouwer.
Zverev was supposed to start and, naturally, finish, on Tuesday. Instead, he didn’t take the court to play his first point of the fortnight until about 17 1/2 hours after Novak Djokovic already had made his way into the third round.
“Took me three days,” Zverev joked, “but I’m here.”
For once this week, the sun was out at the All England Club, and the showers were nowhere to be found….