Milan, 30 June (LaPresse) – The Wimbledon tournament, the third Grand Slam event of the season, kicked off this morning, with the first day likely to see record heat. Shortly before the scheduled start of the first matches at 11:00 a.m. local time on Monday, the temperature was 28 degrees Celsius. It had not yet reached 29.3 degrees Celsius, measured on the first day of the two-week tournament in 2001, but it was very close. The average daytime temperature in London in June is 21.5 degrees. ‘I'll spend the whole day moving from one shady spot to another,’ said Sally Bolton, chief executive of the All England Club. ‘Obviously, it's a very hot day. The first obvious thing to say is that athletes compete in temperatures like this all year round on the tour,’ Bolton said. ‘For us Brits here at the Championships, it's very hot,’ she added.
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