Wimbledon refuses to accredit influencers after what happened at the US Open

The Wimbledon tournament will not accredit ‘influencers’ and in this way it will distance itself from the controversies that arose in the current US Open, where nearly a hundred ‘content creators’ were accredited by the organization and caused problems during the dispute of the matches.

The New York tournament gave double the number of accreditations to ‘influencers’ for this edition with the aim of attracting a larger audience, but their practices have caused criticism from tennis players and problems during matches.

According to British media, The Wimbledon organization does not have among its plans to accredit ‘influencers’ or content creatorsas has been the usual norm until now. In addition, the rules of the All England Club itself, the venue where the tournament is held, prevent access to the matches with objects such as light rings.

Accredited Wimbledon staff also have Recording video is prohibited in most areas of the club.

During the US Open dispute, in one of the four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka’s matches, a group of ‘influencers’ used one of these rings of light, distracting the playersin addition to the fact that the chair umpire had to call the public’s attention on several occasions.

The Japanese criticized this attitude, while Coco Gauff encouraged the sport’s etiquette rules to be followed.

Unrelated to this, this year Aryna Sabalenka, the world number one, stopped a match because someone was supposedly smoking marijuana in the stands.