Tennis - Wimbledon - London, Britain - July 10, 2017 Venus Williams of the U.S. celebrates winning the fourth round match against Croatia’s Ana Konjuh REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
LONDON (Reuters) - Tournament officials have defended their decision to put four men's matches and only two women's on Wimbledon biggest courts on Monday, saying that star player appeal over-rides any idea of equal allocation by gender.
Venus Williams and home favourite Johanna Konta were the only two leading women to have their matches on Centre Court or Court One on "Manic Monday", when all 16 fourth-round matches are played. Andy Murray, Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic all got top billing.
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