Centre Court, strawberries and cream. Wimbledon is famed for tradition but one is now missing – the use of ‘Miss’ and ‘Mrs’ at the end of games.

Marital status prefixes for female players have largely been scrapped by tournament organizers to bring parity with the men’s game. That means no more “Game, Miss …” or “Game, set and match, Mrs…”

“We’ve got to move with the times,” said Alexandra Willis, a spokesperson for the All England Club.”Hopefully we surprise people with the way we do that.

Britain’s Heather Watson was among those to welcome the change, saying: “Equality is always good.”

Yet, as with the passing of all traditions, not everybody was completely won over.

Men’s world number one Novak Djokovic said he supported the move, but added: “I thought that tradition was very unique and very special. I thought it was nice.

“It’s definitely not easy to alter or change any traditions here that have been present for many years. It’s quite surprising that they’ve done that.”