LONDON (AP) — Actor Dustin Hoffman and Super Bowl winner Patrick Mahomes were among the celebrities watching Carlos Alcaraz play Frances Tiafoe on Friday in the third round on Centre Court at Wimbledon.
The 86-year-old Hoffman was sitting in the Royal Box, an area reserved for special guests invited by the All England Club, while Mahomes and his wife, Brittany, were in the stands.
The presence of Hoffman — who won an Oscar for his role in “Rain Man” — was perhaps fitting on a day when showers disrupted play at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament both in the morning and afternoon.
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Madeleine Gurdon in the royal box for the third round matches on Centre Court at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, Friday, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
FILE – Melinda French Gates, center, sits in the Royal Box on Centre Court to watch Serbia’s Novak Djokovic and Britain’s Cameron Norrie in a men’s singles semifinal on day 12 of the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, Friday, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
The match between Alcaraz and Tiafoe was played under a retractable roof, keeping everyone dry.
Hoffman is no stranger to Wimbledon. In 2012, he was in Serena Williams’ player box to watch the American’s fourth-round match.
Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback who won his third Super Bowl title this year, had also attended a Morgan Wallen concert in Hyde Park in central London on Thursday.
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