LONDON, June 26 (UPI) -- Opening day at Wimbledon was almost a complete wash-out Monday as women's play started but rain kept the 32 scheduled matches from being completed.
Fans witnessed less than one hour of play Monday.
Second-seeded U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters was leading Russian Vera Zvonareva 5-4, while 12th-seeded former Wimbledon winner Martina Hingis was ahead of the Ukraine's Olga Savchuk 6-2 when play was stopped for the day.
Five-time Grand Slam champion Hingis captured Wimbledon in 1997 and is making her first appearance here since 2001. The former world No. 1 retired from for three years at the end of the 2002 season and returned this year.
Several other seeds had opening matches pushed back to Tuesday, as third-seeded Justine Henin-Hardenne will battle Chinese Meng Yuan and fifth-seeded Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova, the 2004 U.S. Open champ and 2006 French Open runner-up, will play Italian Romina Oprandi.
