{"id":199513,"date":"2025-06-20T09:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T09:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199513\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T09:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T09:32:10","slug":"bbc-announces-coverage-plans-and-presenting-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199513\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC ANNOUNCES COVERAGE PLANS AND PRESENTING LINE-UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"_04qQG jtShe wGvE1 UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-aeqbo14509\">Starting on 30th June, audiences can tune into comprehensive live match coverage of Wimbledon 2025 exclusively on BBC TV and BBC iPlayer, as well as listen to the very latest from the pristine courts in SW19 across BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra and BBC Sounds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/d56877_7da9a804b6fc4c21987b3291d4751709~mv2.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%;max-width:100%\" data-pin-url=\"https:\/\/www.tvzoneuk.com\/post\/wimbledon-bbccoverage2025-ann1\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/d56877_7da9a804b6fc4c21987b3291d4751709~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_3322,h_2250,al_c,q_90\/d56877_7da9a804b6fc4c21987b3291d4751709~mv2.jpg\" draggable=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04qQG jtShe wGvE1 UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-kx68h14521\">The BBC Sport website, app and social media channels provide comprehensive coverage and behind the scenes access where tennis fans can follow the twists and turns of the tournament via player interviews, in-play video clips, daily live text commentaries and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_04qQG jtShe wGvE1 UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-i3qqd14314\">Presenting live from the iconic All England Lawn Tennis Club,\u00a0BBC Sport\u2019s TV coverage is led by Clare Balding and Isa Guha. Isa Guha welcomes viewers each day at 10:30am on BBC Two before Clare takes over mid-afternoon with play scheduled later into the evening on BBC One.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_04qQG jtShe wGvE1 UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-xgxss15292\">Also on the presenting line-up are Tim Henman, Gigi Salmon, Qasa Alom, Andy Stevenson and Andrew Castle. TV news teams also report across the highly anticipated tournament with coverage on the latest news every day at One, Six and Ten on BBC One, and Radio 4 at 6pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_04qQG jtShe wGvE1 UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-zea4u16032\">On Monday 30th June, there&#8217;s live coverage from the opening day of the 2025 championships at Wimbledon, with the 128 players in the men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles draws dreaming of glory at the All England Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_04qQG jtShe wGvE1 UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-ugc5n16244\">Among them are Spain\u2019s Carlos Alcaraz, who is aiming to win the title for the third year in a row, and who arrives in south west London in top form after retaining his French Open title by beating world number one Jannik Sinner in an unforgettable final in Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_04qQG jtShe wGvE1 UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-zm44316294\">Clare Balding presents continuing live coverage from Wimbledon, where the 2025 Championships are in full swing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_04qQG jtShe wGvE1 UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-p6r3916296\">Eighth-ranked Zheng Qinwen was the highest seed to lose on the first day in 2024. However, the Chinese player bounced back to win the Olympic title the following month and is back this year, hoping for better luck on the grass at the All England Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_04qQG jtShe wGvE1 UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-rc4b215605\">WImbledon begins Monday 30th June across the BBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starting on 30th June, audiences can tune into comprehensive live match coverage of Wimbledon 2025 exclusively on BBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-199513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114715003948914974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}