Andreeva, the French Open champion who ended up losing 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, seemed confused as she shook her head ruefully when the first cheers broke out between points at 2-1, although perhaps that was because her opponent had just saved a break point.<\/p>\n
“Was there a football match?” Andreeva said after.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t know that.”<\/p>\n
The All England Club has a policy of not showing any soccer games on the screens inside the Wimbledon grounds during major tournaments like the World Cup or European Championship. That was the case even when England played in the final of the last two Euros, in 2021 and 2024.<\/p>\n
But there are no rules against fans watching the games on their own devices during matches.<\/p>\n
“If people have got their phones, then we’re not going to prevent people from watching the football,” Sally Bolton, the chief executive of the All England Club, said before the tournament started.<\/p>\n
On Henman Hill, where fans gather to watch the Centre Court match on a big screen, there were plenty of fans with their phones out, watching the England game and the tennis at the same time.<\/p>\n
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People in the Wimbledon queue watch the World Cup on a laptop. (Getty Images: Ben Whitley)<\/p>\n
Andreeva showed plenty of frustration during that third set and threw her racket in anger after losing but said she was not annoyed by the crowd paying attention to the soccer game.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t feel like they were super loud,” she said.<\/p>\n
“They [cheered] when she was still going to the baseline to return, so it didn’t bother me at all.”<\/p>\n
Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 also didn’t realise that the cheers weren’t related to the tennis match.<\/p>\n
“I thought it was for us,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I wasn’t really thinking that there is obviously a football game. I didn’t really pay any attention to that \u2026 I was just focusing on serving, returning, playing my game.”<\/p>\n
Coco Gauff had already wrapped up a three-set victory on number one court before England’s comeback, but she couldn’t escape noticing the cheers reverberating through the grounds before going to her post-match news conference.<\/p>\n
“I think England scored,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I heard that.”<\/p>\n
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