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Presenters

Sue Barker

Former World No.3 tennis player, French Open champion and Wimbledon semi-finalist, Sue started work as a sports broadcaster with Australia's Channel 7 in 1985. She then joined BSB in 1990 and later moved to Sky Sports.

She made her ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Sport TV debut co-presenting the evening highlights programme from Wimbledon 93 with Harry Carpenter. Since then she has gained a wealth of experience presenting world class competitions, including coverage of other major tennis tournaments, Summer and Winter Olympics, Commonwealth Games, the Grand National, the Derby and World and European Skating Championships.

In addition, Sue has also hosted Grandstand and Sunday Grandstand and has worked on the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ TV documentary Chalk Flew Up – a history of Wimbledon's Court No.1 which made its final appearance during Wimbledon 95.

Her credits also include hosting Sports Personality Of The Year and A Question Of Sport. Among her many accolades are the 1998 TRIC award for Sports Presenter/Reporter of the Year and the 2001 RTS sports presenter award.

John Inverdale

John began his broadcasting career with ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Lincolnshire in 1982. He joined ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Sport in 1985, working for Radio 4's Today programme and on Radio 2 sports output before joining Radio 5 in 1988 as presenter of its flagship sports programme, Sport On 5.

During the Championships, John presents ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ television's daily highlights programme Today At Wimbledon.

John is also ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Sport's rugby presenter and was part of the team covering the Beijing Olympics. He has also presented ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 5 Live's coverage of many major sports events including the Wimbledon Championships, Olympic Games and World Cups (football and rugby).

Commentators

Tracy Austin

Tracy Austin received her first tennis lesson at age two and appeared on the cover of World Tennis at four. After winning 25 national titles as a junior, Austin launched her professional career by winning the first tournament she entered (Filderstadt, Germany, 1978) as a pro.

Triumphs over Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova produced two US Open crowns for Austin. In 1978, she broke Navratilova's 37-match winning streak and, in the 1979 Italian Open, she broke Evert's 125-match clay court winning streak. Her incredibly consistent record earned her celebrity status and worldwide recognition. She became the youngest person to become No.1 in the world in 1980 at age 17. Tracy represented the USA on winning Federation Cup and Wightman Cup team.

When forced to the sidelines in the mid-Eighties, she translated her on-court experience into a successful broadcasting career.

Boris Becker

Wimbledon crowd favourite Boris Becker joined the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Sport commentary team for the 2002 Championships.

Born in 1967 in Leimen, Germany, Boris became the youngest man to win Wimbledon at 17 years 7 months when he defeated Kevin Curren in 1985. Over his career he won 49 ATP singles titles including six Grand Slam titles and became World No.1 for the first time after victory at the Australian Open in 1991.

Andrew Castle

A former British No.1 singles and doubles tennis champion, Andrew became a professional tennis player in 1986 after completing a marketing degree in America. He was a member of the UK's Olympic teams in Seoul in 1988 and Barcelona in 1992, and also part of the British teams for the Davis and European Cups.

Andrew Castle is a regular presenter on GMTV.

Mark Cox

Mark's finest hour as a player was as a member of the Great Britain team which reached the final of the 1978 Davis Cup against the USA. In the semi-final against Australia, he partnered David Lloyd to victory in the deciding doubles rubber.

Mark won 10 singles tournaments between 1970 and 1977, was twice a quarter-finalist in the Australian Open, reached the quarter-finals of the US Open in 1966, and was runner-up at Queen's in 1977.

Barry Davies

One of the most versatile commentators of his time, Barry joined ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio in 1963 after leaving the Army. He was part of ITV's commentary team for the 1966 World Cup Finals and reported for ITV on the 1968 Olympics.

Barry rejoined the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ in 1969 and has worked on a succession of football World Cups, Summer and Winter Olympics and Commonwealth Games, plus numerous Wimbledon Championships and Boat Races. Barry has also commentated on ice skating, ice hockey and badminton.

Peter Fleming

Peter teamed up with John McEnroe to form the most formidable doubles partnership in the men's game during the Eighties. The pair won the Wimbledon men's doubles title in 1979, 1981, 1983 and 1984 and took the US Open doubles crown in 1979, 1981 and 1983. In total, Fleming and McEnroe took 57 doubles titles.

Tim Henman

Tim Henman brings his experience of reaching four semi-finals and three quarter-finals at Wimbledon to the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's commentary team this year, following his retirement from professional tennis.

Tim was the number one ranked tennis player in Great Britain, was ranked number 4 in the world in 2002 and won 11 career titles. A member of the British Davis Cup team since 1994, Tim was awarded an OBE in 2004. He founded his own charity, Kids at Heart in 2000.

His interests include all sports, and golf in particular, now playing off a handicap of four.

John Lloyd

In reaching the final of the 1977 Australian Open, John Lloyd became the first Englishman to reach a singles final of a Grand Slam in the Open Era. In the following year he achieved his highest ranking when he finished at No.21. That year, John led an inspired British team to its most recent Davis Cup final where they were defeated by the US.

During his career he compiled three Grand Slam titles in mixed doubles, all with partner Wendy Turnbull, including back-to-back victories at Wimbledon in 1983 and 1984. He now continues to provide the mix of class and competitive fire that has made him one of the most popular players on the senior circuit.

John McEnroe

A winner of 77 singles titles and 78 doubles, John first made Grand Slam headlines in 1977 while still in his teens by capturing the French Open mixed doubles title and reaching the singles semi-finals at Wimbledon.

He asserted his mastery on the professional circuit soon after, with three successive US Open Championships, in 1979, 1980 and 1981. He ended Bjorn Borg's five-year reign at Wimbledon with a commanding victory in 1981 that promoted him to the men's top-ranked player (and the youngest to achieve it), a position he held for four years. He took another Wimbledon title in 1983, but John McEnroe's most memorable year was 1984 when he won both Wimbledon and US Open titles.

In addition to his singles achievements, John dominated the field as a doubles player. With longtime partner Peter Fleming, John earned four Wimbledon titles and three US Open titles as well as seven Masters titles, which they won consecutively from 1978-1984.

John represented the United States 12 times in Davis Cup competition, achieving five championship team wins and establishing the record for the most US Davis Cup wins (39 singles and 15 doubles).

More recently, John was a doubles winner of the SAP Open in San Jose ATP Tournament in February 2006 at 47 years of age.

David Mercer

Swansea-born David entered sports broadcasting as a freelance via ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Wales in 1979 and joined ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Sport in London on a full-time basis in 1984. He joined the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Television commentary team in 1992.

Tennis has been his main sport since then, but he has also commentated and reported on football, rugby union, rowing, skiing, skating, badminton, snooker, squash, ice hockey and American football.

David, a former solicitor, was Welsh Junior Doubles champion in 1968, captained the tennis team at Nottingham University in 1969 and umpired the Wimbledon Men's Singles Final in 1984.

Greg Rusedski

Greg Rusedski was born in Canada and began representing Great Britain in May 1995. He was recognised as the number 4 seed in the world and at one point had the fastest serve in the world, recorded at 149 mph.

He won the prestigious ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Sports Personality of the Year award in 1997 and the following year won the biggest tournament of his career at the ATP Masters Series in Paris, defeating the world number one Pete Sampras in what he calls the greatest match he ever played.

Since retiring from tennis professionally in 2007, Greg has become a television and radio sports commentator and presenter.

Simon Reed

Simon's career began with ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio in the late Sixties when he worked for ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Sport, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service and ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio London. From 1973, he was a presenter and reporter for Thames TV.

Simon's career as a tennis commentator began with Channel 4 in 1984, and he also freelanced for Sky and Eurosport. In 1995, he became Head of Commentators for Eurosport specialising in tennis.

In 2002, Simon commentated for ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ TV at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester. He has commentated on the last seven Wimbledon Championships for ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ TV.

Sam Smith

Sam was National Champion in 1997 and British No. 1 from 1996-99. She reached her highest world ranking – 55 – in February 1999 and represented Great Britain in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, as well as the Federation Cup and European Team Championships.

Sam now works as a freelance tennis commentator and columnist.

Virginia Wade

Virginia Wade's 1977 victory over Betty Stove to win the Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Final, during the Queen's Silver Jubilee, remains one of the tournament's most memorable triumphs. Notably, Virginia is currently the last Briton to have won Wimbledon.

Born in Bournemouth in July 1945, her career also included winning the US Open in 1968, the Australian and Italian Opens in 1972, and four Grand Slam doubles titles.

Awarded the OBE in 1986, Virginia has worked as a tennis commentator for the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ since 1981.