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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5184/B.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Wet Wimbledon Grass Causes Falls, Disappointment' data-article-id='5727'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='9979'>The Wimbledon tennis championship in London has been marked by wet weather and slippery conditions.</span> <span data-start-time='9979' data-end-time='18917'>The famous tennis competition, one of four major championships in the sport, started Monday.</span> <span data-start-time='18917' data-end-time='29479'>Early in the week, top-ranked player Novak Djokovic fell and landed on his backside two times.</span> <span data-start-time='29479' data-end-time='31604'>He was not injured.</span> <span data-start-time='31604' data-end-time='41833'>But on Day 2, Roger Federer’s opponent, Adrian Mannarino, lost his footing, too. </span> <span data-start-time='41833' data-end-time='44875'>He was not so lucky. </span> <span data-start-time='44875' data-end-time='56167'>The Frenchman’s 33rd birthday ended with a knee injury and a loss because he was too hurt to continue.</span> <span data-start-time='56167' data-end-time='63104'>That also happened to tennis star Serena Williams on Tuesday. </span> <span data-start-time='63104' data-end-time='72729'>It was her latest attempt to tie the record for major tennis championship wins with 24. </span> <span data-start-time='72729' data-end-time='78958'>But the game left her crying after just 30 minutes. </span> <span data-start-time='78958' data-end-time='90604'>She injured her right leg when her left shoe lost footing in almost the same place that Mannarino had. </span> <span data-start-time='90604' data-end-time='98354'>She told the press that she was heartbroken to have to leave the competition.</span> <span data-start-time='98354' data-end-time='107521'>All those games were played with the stadium’s movable roof closed because of rain. </span> <span data-start-time='107521' data-end-time='116104'>And that is what the All England Club blames for how slippery the grass has been. </span> <span data-start-time='116104' data-end-time='129396'>The All England Club is a sports membership group that has supervised Wimbledon since the competition began in the 19th century. </span> <span data-start-time='129396' data-end-time='140188'>The club said the two opening days this year have been the wettest ones of Wimbledon in almost 10 years.</span> <span data-start-time='140188' data-end-time='150542'>Keeping the roof closed for a long period leads to wetter grass, the club said in a statement. </span> <span data-start-time='150542' data-end-time='159833'>It was released after Williams and Mannarino got hurt and left the competition.</span> <span data-start-time='159833' data-end-time='170042'>Federer told the Associated Press that the courts do seem a little more slippery under the roof.</span> <span data-start-time='170042' data-end-time='175104'>“You do have to move very, very carefully out there.” </span> <span data-start-time='175104' data-end-time='181333'>If you push too hard at the wrong times, “you do go down,” he said.</span> <span data-start-time='181333' data-end-time='186271'>Federer is an eight-time Wimbledon champion. </span> <span data-start-time='186271' data-end-time='190375'>“I do feel it’s drier during the day. </span> <span data-start-time='190375' data-end-time='196500'>With the wind and all that stuff, it takes the (wetness) out of the grass.”</span> <span data-start-time='196500' data-end-time='207542'>The club’s statement added that the 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