I too have seen the gentleman in the Stetson hat sitting there for at least 20 years of Wimbledon. I would imagine he is there to usher in the players guests, but WHO is he ?!!!
Can anyone tell me how to contact the TV team? Look it up on the BBC website and it is for Australian Open 2009 !!
I particularly want to comment on the commentators – particularly now, the Roddick/Hannescu match Wed evening. I would like John Lloyd in particular, along with Chris Bradnam I think it is, to PLEASE SHUT THE BLAZES UP !! It is non-stop verbal diahorroea from Lloyd. He always makes negative
comments constantly, and constantly saying ‘why doesn’t he…..?’. ‘I don’t understand why he doesn’t…….’. Constantly teaching, teaching, instead of giving a proper commentary, with some silences ! Particularly during the beginning of serve. Lloyd is a pain in the neck, and Bradnam too.

I wish just one of the players would say Thank you to the ball boy/girl when they grab the towel after every point.I am sure the greats like Agassi, McEnroe and Connors never had this silly habit.

A decade or two ago or was it three an American atomic submarine made an historic journey under the North Pole ice cap. Anticipating horrendous mental sickness with the crews, the authorities employed three psychiatrists to handle the expected malaise. They were not disappointed. Every morning a queue of sailors stood in the corridor outside of the medics surgeries. A state of desperation existed within the crew to unload their mental turmoils.
The second and repeated voyage was achieved without any problems whatsoever. They left the shrinks on the shore which told the crew there was nothing to be concerned about.
I just wonder if Wimbledon did not have a posse of trainers on hand we would not have to tolerate these never ending delays due to these mysterious injuries.

A long preamble Alexander, but you get there in the end and I do so agree. How is the players are almost screaming in agony – and then continue they match ?!!
And Jean, I do so agree with what you say. I too wish we could see more joy and glee as you put it. The aggression of course was started by Jimbo, and followed by Mac. The 2 very worst ones today with aggressive screaming out punching the air, are Murray and Djokovic.
Djokovkic looks as if he is carrying on the war which was in his country – yet he is full of FUN if you watch him on YouTube. But Murray is a lost cause – his ghastly letterbox wide open mouth as he shrieks (and Djokovic and Hewitt are the same open mouthed yelling when they win a point). Murray’s ranting and raving to his team, and himself, his monotonous one tone of voice when he gives an interview, just whining all the time. A most unpleasant public person, and it
doesn’t bother me if he never wins Wimbledon.
The LTA ask the women to stop shrieking and grunting ?!! It’ll never happen. Nor will it make any difference that Wimbledon’s Ian Ritchie has said it’s not on. Any of the official bodies make no difference whatsoever. The coaches encourage it as do parents. Look at the 9 year old Portuguese girl-wonder on YouTube! She is a disgrace with her shrieking, at HER early age.
As for Schiovone with her DOUBLE shriek…..
The LTA should BAN it completely. But all these bodies have been asked to demand it over many years. They won’t.
The same as the BBC – they won’t stop their commentators from their verbal diahorroea neither will Eurosport for the French and US and Australian Open – the BBC being too mean to show these events. Thank heavens for ‘free’ Eurosport in my Sky package as I don’t have Sky Sports as I don’t like sport AT ALL, except for my wonderful tennis.
So all we can do is rant and rave on this and any other ‘Comments’ site. No one except ourselves ever reads them. Not Ian Ritchie ( I would be delighted to be corrected!! IF IF he did dome thing about the shrieking women. Not the LTA – Tim Henman has now turned into a grey-suit unfortunately – and certainly not the BBC. And certainly not the coaches, nor the players themselves. So we rant and rave to relieve our feelings. It won’t do any good tho – it won’t alter any situation !

Where are the answers to these questions to be found? (late starter) The stetson guy has got me wondering too. Spooky.

The stetson & blazer gentleman who sits in the players box is David Spearing. He is the longest serving honary steward at Wimbledon.
You can look him up on Google.

Many thanks indeed for telling us the man in the Stetson is the longest serving steward at Wimbles! I’m not surprised he is, as I have been watching for 40 yrs next yr and he’s always there.
I wonder what he looked like in 1972!!
I shall now go and read about him via google !

Please bbc commentators stop referring to Henman Hill as Murray Mount and making suggestions the name should be changed. How could we insult Tim Henman in this way he carried the flag for so many years and with dignity and a perfect roll model for our youngsters. Never used bad language on a regular basis on court and unlike Murray played Davis Cup for his country on a regular basis. No one could wish for a British Champion more than me preferrably by someone who is proud to be British. How could we think of renaming Henman Hill you cannot honour someone by naming the hill after him and then take it away to give it to the first person to come along with potential. Henman Hill should always be Henman Hill.

I totally agree David about Today at Wimbledon, not only very late instead of ridiculously early at 8pm, but it was only 27 mins long tonight ! AND played down the fantastic match between Nadal and del Potro ! And their injuries.

Bring back Des and Gerry when, I seem to remember, Today was regularly on at 10pm but that was when the news was st 9pm.

But definitely they need to have Today on after 9pm or 9.30pm when all the matches have finished !
And I agree with Marjorie too – never ever change the name of Henman Hill !!!!!

Can’t they stop the shrieking, screaming and shouts for each shot? The viewers love the game and it’s being spoilt by unsporting vocal intrusions. I am watching the Ladies final where one player is screaming at each shot – it’s to painful to listen to! luckily I can turn down the sound – it’s the only way I can put up with such unnecessary unsporting screaming. I think players should be penalised for over use of this blight on the wonderful sport of Tennis.

I was actually at Wimbledon yesterday to seethe Ladies Semi Finals.
‘Ladies’ they are not. Azarenka with her prolonged double scream is far worse than Sharapova. Fortunately they were not playing each other and kept hoping that BOTH of them would not win their matches, otherwise they would have been playing each other in the Final today. So very glad Kvitova won against Azarenka yesterday, and had hoped Sharapova would be beaten. Azarenka has told the press I believe, that when young she was weak and was told to shriek out like that to put more force into the ball. She added she is used tomplsying like that and will never stop it. She also walks onto Centre Court chewing gum, ear plugs in her ears moving her head in time to the no doubt rubbish pop music she is listening to, and never looks around her surroundings. She obviously has no respect for Centre Court and Wimbledon, is arrogant, and thinks she knows everything and no one is going to tell her what to do. If coaches and parents let them get away with such behaviour, saying ‘It relaxes her’ what hope have we, the paying public, to make them change ? Especially when even Ian Ritchie, Wimbledon’s new chairman or something, and the LTA won’t FORCE them to stop by fining them heavily for each grunt and shriek. It ruins the tennis ever since Monica Seles appeared on the scene shrieking like a banshee. A huge fine, and/or docking a point for every shriek, is the only thing which will stop them. Wimbledon and the LTA haven’t the guts to do this as it would cost them money one way or another. If there are any typing errors here, it is because this small box won’t allow me to scroll back up to the top to check.

You’re not thinking of Sue Barker are you?!!!! as she does FAR more than intro for world coverage. In fact I didn’t know there is a special link for world coverage and a lady who talks during the warm up. Never having seen Wimbledon from abroad, I see only BBC coverage here in England !

Oh I see. I don’t know, I’ve never heard her as I see Wimbledon in England only.