Just Stop Oil protesters disrupted play on day 3 at Wimbledon
Environmental protesters from the Just Stop Oil group disrupted play on Court 18 on a dramatic day three at Wimbledon.
The protesters ran onto the court during a match between Grigor Dimitrov and Sho Shimabukuro and threw orange-coloured confetti and a jigsaw onto the grass, before one activist sat down on the court. In a statement, Just Stop Oil said: “We can’t leave it to the next generation to pick up the pieces.”
Deborah Wilde, 68, a retired teacher from London, who was one of the protesters who ran on the court shortly after 2.10pm, said: “I’m just an ordinary grandmother in resistance to this government’s policy of serving us new oil and gas licences. In normal circumstances this sort of disruption would be entirely unacceptable, but these aren’t normal circumstances. We’ve just had the hottest June on record, breaking the previous record by nearly a whole degree! We don’t need Hawk-eye to see that our government issuing over 100 new fossil fuel licences is a very bad line-call.”
On the court, Novak Djokovic produced more brilliance to dispatch a spirited Jordan Thompson, with the record-equalling eighth title at SW19 still on course. Italian Jannik Sinner faces Diego Schwartzman. Meanwhile, women’s No 1 seed Iga Swiatek eased past Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo.
Relive day three at the Championships, plus scores and results below:
