Bath toy named after former champion helps tournament officials keep watch on the weather
There is no bigger frustration at Wimbledon than rain delaying matches. But the All England Club has revealed that it has deployed a secret weapon to assess the weather – a water-filled plastic bucket guarded by a rubber duck mascot named John QuackEnroe.
The club has an on-site weather station and millions of pounds worth of radar kit which can accurately predict the weather, minute-by-minute, on each court.
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