Wimbledon to remove ‘Miss’ and ‘Mrs’ from honours boards

Wimbledon will drop the titles “Miss” and “Mrs” before the names of female champs on its honour roll to match the men’s boards up trying to modernize the competition, The Times reported.

The All England Lawn Tennis Club has generally utilized the titles only for women – Ash Barty, last year’s champion, was refereed to as “Miss A. Barty” while men’s victor Novak Djokovic went on the board as “N. Djokovic”.

In 2019, organisers did away with the use of honorifics when announcing scores in women’s matches however the events keep on being alluded to as “respectable men’s singles” and “women’s singles”.

The change will also put an end to married women being identified by both the initials and surnames of their husbands.

The grasscourt major, which has been deprived of ranking points by the ATP and WTA over its choice to boycott Russian and Belarusian players because of Moscow’s attack of Ukraine, starts off on June 27.