{"id":259384,"date":"2026-06-08T17:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259384\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:03:17","slug":"queens-tennis-tournament-in-chaos-as-bbc-pulls-broadcast-minutes-after-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259384\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen’s tennis tournament in chaos as BBC pulls broadcast minutes after start"},"content":{"rendered":"

Play got under way at Queen’s but was soon called to a halt with the BBC forced to act<\/p>\n

16:31, 08 Jun 2026Updated 16:31, 08 Jun 2026<\/p>\n

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The groundsmen put down the WTA net as rain starts to fall at Queen’s(Image: Ella Ling\/ Shutterstock Editorial)<\/p>\n

The first day of the Queen’s tennis tournament has been ruined by severe weather<\/a> delays as London was hit by heavy rain on Monday.<\/p>\n

Play had been due to get under way at 12.45pm but was delayed until later in the afternoon. The three opening first round matches did eventually start a couple of hours later but were brought to a halt after just one game as rain returned.<\/p>\n

Olympic champion Qinwen Zheng had only contested eight points against her first-round opponent, Jaqueline Cristian, before the umpire stepped in to call the players off.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere Karolina Pliskova was 1-0 up against McCartney Kessler before being told to stop, while British wildcard Harriet Dart only managed to play one point.<\/p>\n

Queen’s have just announced that there will be no play until at least 5pm today due to the weather, with the news greeted by groans inside the Andy Murray Arena.<\/p>\n

The BBC<\/a> began their broadcast of Queen’s only when play was certain to get underway. But they announced that until play could get going again, a re-run of Venus Williams against Serena Williams at Wimbledon would be shown instead before broadcasting switched to other programmes.<\/p>\n

British star Katie Boulter is due to face eighth seed Leylah Fernandez at some point today, with Emma Raducanu due on court tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Further rain is expected is west London over the next three days. Unlike Wimbledon, there are no covered courts at the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Play got under way at Queen’s but was soon called to a halt with the BBC forced to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123,15547],"class_list":["post-259384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}