Wimbledon ready after rain delay, COVID

Wimbledon will resume after being cancelled last year due to COVID-19. Djokovic and Williams are both slated to play.

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June 28, 2021 - 9:17 AM

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Wimbledon is back and ready to start after being canceled in 2020 because of the pandemic.

Novak Djokovic and Venus Williams are among those scheduled to play Monday.

The sky is gray and rain is in the forecast.

Spectators are allowed at 50% capacity around the All England Club. That will go up to 100% for the singles finals on July 10 and 11.

While those are signs of a return to normalcy, a reminder that the coronavirus is still an issue came on the eve of the grass-court Grand Slam tournament. The only seeded woman from…

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