Where and when to pop your Champagne is such a Wimbledon problem.
. When she tossed the ball in the air a cork popped and she sent the serve long. She then lost the point on her second serve, and the umpire's warning followed.
“Usually, actually, we buy it here, but it’s quite nice that you can actually bring your own in, which I didn’t realize until my husband looked it up this morning,” said Sarah-Jane Watson, a lawyer from Surrey.They watched matches at No. 2 Court, where a security guard asked that they not open the bottle inside.
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