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Wimbledon's Centre legal could have been always allow Novak Djokovic and Kevin Anderson complete their fourth round match. Photo: Julian Finney/Getty Images

Djokovic dropped two units behind against big-serving South African Kevin Anderson but had levelled the fourth-round match when fading light introduced play to a halt on legal One.

Anderson had taken the first two sets on tie-breaks, starting the alternative of a significant annoyed, before a dogged Djokovic fought to result in the scoreline 6-7 (6-8), 6-7 (6-8), 6-1, 6-4, 0-0.

Tournament officials ruled-out the prospect of going the match to finish on Centre legal, where lighting beneath the roof enables matches to carry on until an 11pm curfew, deciding rather it might resume at 1pm on Tuesday on Court One.

a statement on Twitter from Wimbledon said: “Regarding Djokovic/Anderson not-being relocated to Centre: If at all possible, event scheduling aims to complete a match from the judge it began. With no immediate need to finish the match tonight, both Djokovic and Anderson were very happy to resume at 1pm on No.1 Legal the next day.”

The match between Gilles Simon and Gaël Monfils ended up being moved to finish regarding the main tv show court on Saturday-night, but an event spokesperson stated that has been considering Sunday’s remainder day, in addition to urgency to prevent the match becoming held over more than twenty four hours to Monday.

But there were numerous playing tennis fans baffled by the reason why Wimbledon did not look to complete the match between Djokovic and Anderson under lights.

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Fan Nadine Erskine (@NadineErskine) had written on Twitter: “the reason why stop play due 2 darkness when there’s CC w/ lights & roof? *sighs* #wimbledon Every1 else gets daily down! Perhaps Not reasonable on Novak or Kevin!”

Emma Langan (@emzielangan) said: “It’s Wimbledon they should have flooding lights on all of the primary process of law! I’m therefore furious right now!”

Another astonished fan, @stephenkmonty, had written: “Hi @Wimbledon, you've got a roof with lights integrated. Simply helping you discover for the next occasion in order to finish the match. #Wimbledon”

Tracey Davies (@miss_traceydav) added: “Why was Djokovic match maybe not moved to centre judge under roof?!

“So @Wimbledon have actually a roof they could at under but choose suspend play? Unbelievable, what's the point associated with the roofing?!