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1930s to 1950s. 1937. 21 June – The BBC broadcasts television coverage of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships for the first time. Pre-war daily broadcasts were half an hour to an hour in duration. [ 1] 1946. From this year, BBC television broadcasts Wimbledon live from 2-3pm in the afternoon until approximately 7.30pm in the evening. [ 2]
TNT Sports (formerly BT Sport) is a group of pay television sports channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Now owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and BT Group, they first launched as BT Sport on 1 August 2013. The channels are based at Warner Bros. Discovery's complex in Chiswick Business Park, London, having been based at Here East, the ...
TNT Sports 4. TNT Sports 4 is a British sports television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery Sports and the BT Group. It is part of the TNT Sports group of channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and is predominantly focused on sports from North America . The channel was established by ESPN Inc. on August 3, 2009 as ESPN (or ESPN UK ...
11 April – BT Sport secures the rights to show live coverage of the Canadian Premier League. 1 August – BT Sport ESPN is renamed BT Sport 4. 2023. 28 May – BT Sport Score is broadcast for the final time. The rolling scores and results programme ends as part of a review into non-live sports programming ahead of BT Sport becoming TNT Sports.
18 June – Amazon Prime shows its first live sport in the UK when it broadcasts live coverage of the Queen's Club tennis tournament. August – Eleven Sports UK and Ireland launches following deals with European football leagues, including Serie A and La Liga. The platform is a streaming service rather than a television channel.
During the 1969 tournament, Sue Tuttbeat Marion Boundy 6–2, 6–0 in 20 minutes. [19] In the 1922 Wimbledon final Suzanne Lenglendefeated Molla Mallory, 6–2, 6–0, in 23 minutes. Some accounts state that the match was over in 20 minutes. [20] In the 1925 Wimbledon final Lenglen defeated Joan Fryin 25 minutes, 6–2, 6–0.
She reached a career-high ranking of No. 10 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) on 11 July 2022, and is a former British No. 1. Raducanu is the first British woman to win a Grand Slam singles title since Virginia Wade at the 1977 Wimbledon Championships. [ 3] She made her WTA Tour debut on 10 June 2021.
Rackets (sport) R. P. Keigwin (right) with AEJ Collins the college's rackets team at Clifton College c. 1902. Rackets or racquets is an indoor racket sport played in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. It is infrequently called "hard rackets" to distinguish it from the related sport of squash (also called "squash rackets").