BREAKING: Wimbledon has been cancelled this year due to the coronavirus outbreak.
In a move that had been signaled strongly over the last week,citing the"likely trajectory" of the coronavirus outbreak in the United Kingdom and the logistical impossibility of setting up the event at a point later in the summer.
It will be the first time Wimbledon hasn't crowned a champion since the tournament paused between 1940 and 1945 due to World War II. The French tennis federation moved the French Open from May to Sept. 20, but it wasn't possible for Wimbledon to move to the fall because of the particular nature of the grass surface.
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