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Wimbledon
2002 from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Sport
The Wimbledon Championships will be brought to people the world
over through ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ SPORT's live and exclusive award-winning tri-media
coverage.
Once again, 160 hours of tennis will be showed in the UK.
Last year the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ won three Royal Television Society (RTS) awards
for its Wimbledon coverage, including one for Live Outside Broadcast
Coverage of the Year.
RTS
Sports Presenter award winner Sue Barker will host live coverage
throughout the day, while John Inverdale presents the nightly
highlights programme Today at Wimbledon.
John McEnroe has brought a new dimension to the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s commentary
and analysis team.
With his fresh and forthright style, he has proved very popular
among the viewing audience at home and won last year's RTS award
for Sports Pundit.
New signings for television this season are Chris Evert and
Boris Becker. Both very popular Wimbledon winners, they
bring a particular insight and knowledge of the championships and
current players to viewers, as well as some experience of commentating.
Martina Navratilova will once again join the team, as will
Pat Cash and Virginia Wade.
Five-times Wimbledon doubles champion Pam Shriver and 1969
Wimbledon women’s and mixed doubles champion Ann Jones join
mixed doubles champions John Lloyd and Jo Durie, along
with Annabel Croft, Andrew Castle and Sam Smith,
to bring their Wimbledon experience and tennis insight to the team.
Leading all-round commentators Barry Davies, David Mercer
and Tony Gubba will share their commentary skills with
viewers.
Barry travels back from the football World Cup especially to be
at Wimbledon.
Bill Threlfall, Simon Reed, John Alexander,
Matt Chilton and Mark Petchey, who will commentate
for both radio and television, complete the team.
Last year’s big success story, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½i once again offers both digital
viewers and web users a virtual courtside seat at SW19, with greater
choice and more comprehensive coverage of the Championships than
ever before.
For the Wimbledon Championships 2002, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½i is inviting not just
digital satellite, but digital cable and digital terrestrial viewers
the chance to switch from one tennis match to another, all at the
push of the red button.
On the web, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½i ensures that users are across every serve, every
volley and every line call, from the first puff of chalk dust to
the eruption of crowd euphoria.
Information will be available on results, player profiles and draws,
and users can get involved in ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½i’s sports talk section, as well
as checking out all the latest audio and video coming out of SW19.
Radio Five Live’s coverage generally begins daily at 12.30pm with
Clare Balding leading the expert team which includes Iain Carter,
Tony Adamson and former coach to Andre Agassi and top flight
player, Brad Gilbert.
Five Live’s output is available on the usual frequencies of 909
and 693 AM.
Hazel Irvine will report for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News, and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Breakfast
News will present live from Wimbledon between 8.30am and 9,00am
each day.
Gaby Roslin will reveal another side to the championships
by interviewing celebrity guests, reporting who was spotted at the
championships the day before, and reviewing the day's fashions with
help from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ fashion gurus Susannah Constantine and Trinny
Woodall.
Notes to Editors
The Wimbledon 2002 press pack is available in . You may require Adobe Acrobat Software to read PDF files
which can be obtained .
Introduction (353
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Team biographies (470
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Interviews
with the team (188 KB)
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