Whats more they somehow managed to get Bolettieri to commentate for the radio, and to be fair he knows his stuff, but then they put him alongside that female tennis superstar that is.. Mattek-Sands.

Apart from that idiot John Lloyd (how did he get this job?) and Virginia Wade, the coverage is good. Okay they amke mistakes but you can watch the match on red button.

John Lloyd reminds me of the type of person that would be in a pub while the England match is on, talking to the pub owner at the end of the bar about how he is unable to water his pot plants because of the hosepipe ban.

i loved mcanroe on commentary when he said to fellow commentator former player(dont remember who it was)

"...but you dont know this feeling as you never been in this situation"

Agree with johnyrant   'Mind you, the Beeb's archaic coverage suits the Wimbledon organisers and schedulers who are an archaic mob. They regularly ruin classic matches on Court 1 by insisting on starting at 1pm despite loads of rain being around, resulting in the last game being suspended at a key moment.
On 'People's Saturday' we are supposed to applaud roundly at all the showbiz glitterati/hangers on who get to see it for free and sachmooze in the Royal Box.'

It seemed to go on forever all these gravy trainers standing up and down like meerkats.
I'm surprised there was any room left for the general public.

as for the red button,they giveth and then take away,the other day showing five minutes of a ladies match then switching to a mens match,with no way to watch previous match on either channel or red button.

they also used to show more courts on red button.this is probably due to budget restrictions,having spent too much on muliple pundits/'experts' who are paid from our licence fee to drone on and on.

Why the british public still have to pay the bbc a licence fee for a vastly reduced service than previous generations
having lost most sports to cable/satelite broad-casters.

The time has arrived that the bbc should be pay per view then anyone who wants to watch poor sports coverage,depressing soap operas,old films,'talent' shows etc. can stump the money up or not.

..anyone know why they weren't showing it when even their own schedule said they were!?

Pafettic innit.

did they mention who the bird was sitting next to Scotty Pippen ?!

yes, I'd like to Google her.

Yep, Barker making excuses but it's been a bad performance from the start..

Un-effing-believable. There's only one match on court, and the Beeb leave it to show a replay of the Fed tiebreak.

I like Claire Balding's commentary, they should give her the tennis correspondent job.

I wouldnt blame her. She is probably their best sports commentator/presenter and could a lot more money elsewhere.

She could take over Eddie Hemmings job for a start..

I just wondered that. I went out and came back and had more money in my account so presumed Fed had won. I noticed the money was in my account and then she went and said that. I was nearly confused. Sue might catch up by the final.

Jonathan Overend..

Djokovic v Troicki

'Good shot across court there, and the Serb goes into the net'

If you couldn't see all this incompetence with your own eyes you couldn't possibly make it up in all honesty , piss up , brewery e.t.c   

Poor coverage is the same every year! Many other countries coverage of Wimbledon is better than ours as they have true multi screen and not some half arse effect as with the BBC.

That's one event. Other sat providers across Europe covers all Grand Slams in the way they should be covered, giving the viewer true multi screen court choice that doesn't flick from one court to another (as with the Beeps 'multi screen'). In the US ALL Grand Slams are covered for free, again full multi screen. In short, the UK't tennis coverage sucks.

In the US ALL Grand Slams are covered for free, again full multi screen

ESPN has rights to a lot of Grand Slam tennis, particularly the early rounds - This is not a free channel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_broadcasting_contracts_in_the_United_States#Tennis