Wimbledon To See Its First Woman Umpire In Men's Single Final Event

In a first, Wimbledon sees its first woman umpire, Marija Cicak, at the men's singles final event between five-time champion Novak Djokovic and Matteo Barrettini.

Wimbledon First Woman Umpire Marija Cicak

Previously, Cicak, 43-year-old, umpired at the 2014 Wimbledon women's final between Petra Kvitova and Eugenie Bouchard and the women's doubles final in the year 2017.

Cicak, who is a native of Zagreb, a city in Croatia, has worked in the Olympics in Athens, London, and Rio in the year 2016 apart from working in 15 successive Wimbledon. In the Rio event, she umpired for the women's singles final.

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India ended its challenge at the grass-court Grand Slam on July 7 which comes as a result of the defeat of Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna in the stop-start mixed doubles round.

According to reports, Mirza’s serve was consistently put under pressure which might be a result of her constant struggle to get her to serve right as she has not played much competitive tennis post her comeback.

Mirza earlier said that she is preparing for the fourth Olympics of her career, being the first Indian woman to do so. Taking a dig at people assumptions which claimed that her career will see a fall post-pregnancy, Mirza said, "I am in my 30s and I’m still here."

While her recent victory in the Hobart International WTA event proved, yet again, that a woman can have both- career and family, fans are awaiting a better performance from her at the upcoming Tokyo Games which might speak for her unfortunate defeat at Wimbledon.