Tennis

7/10/2025 |  Wimbledon Set to Deliver Strong Finals Matchup for ESPN (Front Office Sports) After an upset-filled opening week in Wimbledon, the Grand Slam final will feature massive storylines on the men’s and women’s singles brackets—which could become a major for U.S. broadcast partner ESPN.
The women’s final will feature U.S. star Amanda Anisimova, the first American to make a Wimbledon final since Serena Williams in 2019. It’s a welcome sight for the U.S. after top-ranked Americans Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula were both knocked out in the first round.

7/10/2025 |  Andy Roddick Slams Billionaire Bill Ackman’s Pro Tennis Gambit (Front Office Sports) In his latest weekly podcast, called “Quick Serve,” Andy Roddick unloaded on Bill Ackman’s match at the Hall of Fame Open.
The former US Open men’s singles champion teed off on billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman’s recent pro tennis debut in Newport, R.I., calling the match “a disaster” and “beneath the Hall of Fame.” 

7/9/2025 |  Wimbledon now displays match outfits of Coco Gauff, Andy Murray and Emma Raducanu at No. 1 Court (Associated Press (AP)) LONDON (AP) — When Jannik Sinner and Ben Shelton — who were scheduled to meet in the quarterfinals Wednesday — walk toward the wood-and-glass doors leading to the grass at Wimbledon’s second-biggest stadium, known as No. 1 Court, they and other players pass through a hallway renovated this year to display memorabilia and photos from the arena’s history.

7/7/2025 |  Wimbledon’s expansion plan heads to court while facing opposition from local residents (Associated Press (AP)) LONDON (AP) — Novak Djokovic calls it a “win-win.” Carlos Alcaraz says it’s a “great idea.”
Wimbledon’s major expansion plan includes adding an 8,000-seat stadium with a retractable roof and 38 other grass courts at a former golf course across the street that would allow the All England Club to move its qualifying event and hold it on-site — as the other Grand Slam tournaments do — to boost attendance and revenue.

7/7/2025 |  Why is Wimbledon blaming human error for a mistake by its new electronic line-calling system? (Associated Press (AP)) LONDON (AP) — The All England Club, somewhat ironically, is blaming “human error” for a glaring mistake by the electronic system that replaced human line judges this year at Wimbledon.
The CEO of the club, Sally Bolton, said Monday that the ball-tracking technology was “inadvertently deactivated” by someone for three points at Centre Court during Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova’s three-set victory over Sonay Kartal a day earlier in the fourth round. On one point, a shot by Kartal clearly landed past the baseline but wasn’t called out by the automated setup — called Hawk-Eye — because it had been shut off.