There will probably be a feminine chair umpire for the Wimbledon males’s singles closing for the primary time within the historical past of a event first performed in 1877.
Marija Cicak, a 43-year-old from Croatia, will officiate Sunday when Novak Djokovic faces Matteo Berrettini for the championship on the All England Club.
The membership introduced Cicak’s choice on Saturday.
She is a gold badge chair umpire and a member of the WTA Elite Team since 2012.
Cicak was the chair umpire for the 2014 Wimbledon girls’s closing and the ladies’s doubles closing three years later. She additionally officiated the ladies’s singles gold medal match on the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.