WHEN it comes to hosting post-tournament tennis programming, it helps if you have the right name.
Mats Wilander is a case in point, presenting Game, Set and Mats on Eurosport during the recent French Open.
So the only reason the BBC must have employed the woeful Jeff Tarango is that his name goes well with Pat Cash – Tarango and Cash, geddit?
Tarango is best-known for making John McEnroe, another Auntie employee, looked mild-mannered.
He famously stropped off court at Wimbledon 14 years ago, conceding the match and accusing the umpire of corruption. His wife then slapped the stunned official in the face.
His performances on Five Live this week have been almost as bizarre, Diary wonders what Mark Byford, Auntie’s deputy director general, makes of it? He was a guest in the Royal box yesterday, alongside Sir Michael Parkinson, who knows a thing or too about broadcasting.
GREG Rusedski has proved himself a much more natural television performer than Tim Henman, his old British rival.
But will that be enough to earn him a spot on the BBC commentary team alongside Andrew Castle for tomorrow’s big match.
Or will Henman prevail and finally get to the final?
WHEN you marry one of the world’s top swimsuit models, you don’t want to sleep on the floor.
However, Brooklyn Decker has revealed new hubby Andy Roddick has been doing just that during Wimbledon.
But he’s not in the doghouse for leaving his towel on the floor. It seems Roddick likes a firm mattress and the one in his rented house is too soft.
GEORGE Morgan and Lewis Burton were left fuming after a match point winner was ruled out in the boys’ doubles.
After a four-hour tussle with Spain’s Carlos Boluda- Purkiss and Venezuala’s David Souto, which ended 7-6, 5-7, 17-15, they had every right to feel aggrieved.
“I saw the chalk fly up and my coach said it was definitely in,” moaned Morgan.
“We lost some concentration after that, which is something we have to work on, but we were very upset.”
It wasn’t the longest final set in boys’ doubles history.
A first-round match in 1983 ended 20-18.
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