Serena Williams expressed a 'shocked' reaction over Wimbledon 2020 gets cancelled

Wimbledon 2020 on Wednesday became the first major sporting event to get cancelled as the world continues to battle against the novel coronavirus. The members of the AELTC held a two-day emergency meeting amid the 21-day lockdown in Britain before scrapping the 134th edition of the tournament. This will be the first time



since 1945, the second World War, that the Wimbledon will not be played in a calendar year. Overall, it has been cancelled in 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918 and then in 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, and 1944. 

Serena, a seven-time Wimbledon winner, wrote, "shocked" as she shared the official statement of the AELTC.