Just Stop Oil strike again at Wimbledon on same court as BBC cut feed

Wimbledon was struck by a second protest on Wednesday just hours after two people were arrested following a Just Stop Oil demonstration on Court 18. Katie Boulter and Daria Saville were contesting the first set tiebreak of their match when a man ran onto court throwing confetti from a puzzle box – the same protest that was seen earlier. The BBC then cut their coverage of the match.

Wimbledon has been hit by two protests in one day. Boulter and Saville were changing ends with the Australian leading 4-2 in the first set tiebreak and were about to return to the baseline when a man burst onto the court throwing orange confetti – mirroring the same protest staged by two other individuals during Grigor Dimitrov’s match against Sho Shimabukuro.

Saville could be seen looking shocked as the protestor took to the court and both players remained by their benches instead of resuming the match. Their clash was being shown on BBC Two but the channel cut to show scenes around the grounds as well as the London skyline.

Coverage resumed when the match resumed and Boulter was able to regroup, winning the next five points to take the set 7-6(4), Just Stop Oil had issued a statement following their earlier protest and added to it after the latest demonstration.

It read: “After the game between Sho Shimabukuro and Grigor Dimitrov had concluded, Just Stop Oil then disrupted the second match of the day. One Just Stop Oil supporter stormed Court 18 in yet another cloud of jigsaw and confetti pieces, this time halting play between Katie Boulter and Daria Saville.”

Wimbledon increased security measures for this year’s Championships out of fear they could be targeted. It led to mayhem in the queue on Monday as some fans complained of waiting for nearly 10 hours.

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Stringent bag searches were being made as delays were happening at the gates while people were also being searched. AELTC chief executive Sally Bolton appeared confident their measures were going to prevent an intrusion from Just Stop Oil.

She said: “Of course we’ve taken account of what we’ve seen elsewhere, so security has been uplifted in various places around the grounds.”

She added: “We are really confident in the measures that we’ve taken but I think, as we’ve seen at other sporting events, we can’t guarantee anything but we’re extremely confident that the measures we’ve got in place are the right measures and we are ready to deal with something if it happens.”

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