I mean.. can we just take this in.. 3 years ago the guy could hardly walk, double hip surgery, effectively announced retirement in tears before tournament in 2019. He’s just beaten a seed in 5 sets. In 2022!! Incredible!!!
Dan Evans had just turned 27 and made the top 50 for the first time when he tested positive for cocaine.
Many suspected a career, which had shown potential for more than a decade, would be instantly over.
Today, at 30, having rebuilt everything from zero, he does this. 👏
Good luck to John Inverdale, a master of making the complex sound simple, making strangers sound like friends, on
@bbc5live
for the final time, we're told, today from Cheltenham. Good luck Invers!
Good luck to distinguished colleague
@CorneliusRacing
on his final Cheltenham Gold Cup before leaving the BBC. He's been brilliant for racing, brilliant for the corporation.
Really hope
@Elise_Christie
realises how this story is engaging young girls.. how important that interview with the tears was, how important the smile on the bike was, how important her presence today is (win, lose or crash). Good luck and well done! Follow now on
@BBCSport
Conduct in the commons utterly pathetic. Constant heckling and cackling, wise cracks and smug asides just to be heard. And we watch on, incapable of seeing the hilarity, our childrens' futures in these people's hands. Pathetic.
Congratulations
@CorneliusRacing
for a magnificent 29 year contribution to the BBC, concluding today with a most dignified exit. Hope the day is acknowledged in the highest offices of the corporation. That would be classy. Good luck for the future.
In the past hour, my kids have learnt about tie breaks, super-overs, wides, forehands, run-outs... most importantly, the reason we train and work hard; for the tiny moments at the most important times. What a privilege to spend that hour in their company!
What a privilege, with
@bigdaddybunce
in our little studio for 16 days, to be live on-air with an incredible
@gbboxing
team for their six medals 🥇🥇🥈🥈🥉🥉, led by that guy up there
@BigFrazeBoxer
Thanks to everyone who has taken the trouble to send a message!
Feel for all the supporters and broadcasters in Australia who have cleared plans and late-night schedules for Ash Barty.
Disgraceful the women's final cannot start on time.
Tennis' loss.
The new
@atptour
rankings have
@DjokerNole
at
#1
for the 311th week, passing Federer's seemingly unassailable mark.
Another outstanding Djokovic achievement, in the era of giants.
Have loved collaborating with
@Petra_Kvitova
and her team on a special edition of
@Wimbledon
Official Podcast. And after our remote recordings, great to catch up on person this morning!
An honour and privilege to hand over to John Motson for his final BBC live commentary today. Good job, Sir, thanks for everything. Here's my favourite photo from a few years ago at Craven Cottage...
#ThanksMotty
#bbcfootball
Perhaps not the worst time to recommend the award winning "The Day We Won Wimbledon", first broadcast in 2013, from the
@5liveSport
team.
#AusOpen
#Murray
and RIP Sir John Hurt who, staggeringly, agreed to narrate it.
Such raw honesty comes as no surprise. He's an incredible man and how hard he's tried. But the pain from his hip appears matched by the pain of reality striking. Look after yourself and your family, Sir.
An honour to work with
#Motty
after being inspired by him. Always loved this photo while on air at Craven Cottage in 2017. Took me all morning to find but glad to share.
An honour spending 5 years at the helm of the Sunday edition of
@5liveSport
, and a privilege to end the run at such a spectacular occasion. Thanks to all production and technical colleagues for their under-appreciated efforts x
Hearing the redundancies have begun at
@SouthamptonFC
. Top people doing industry-leading work. A consequence of a small group of men not doing their jobs to the required level. That’s football, and it’s horrible.
BBC News at 1pm a must watch today as it’s the final day for the incomparable
@BBCSimonMcCoy
and director
@PaulRiseleyBBC
pairing. Double acts don’t get much finer!
Reflections on the past 48hrs in news, sport and radio;
@tonylivesey
is one of the very best. The value of knowledge and experience is only measured at times like these 👏
Wonderful observation from
@v_pendleton
as Beth Shriever, after crowdfunding her Olympic dream, places the Gold medal around her own neck. Appropriate to the story. Poignant. Amazing.
Data and analytics drove this appointment. Jones will never be allowed to forget his “one of the best in Europe” quote. Data embedded this view into his brain. When will human sensibility and common sense return to sport?!
I love radio. And at these stormy times, I love the importance of BBC local radio. Covering the brilliant
@andrewpeach
this week on one of the best breakfast shows in the country. Tune in via
@bbcsounds
from 7am Mon-Wed!
@BBCBerkshire
DAZN have named an absolutely top class broadcast team. Good luck to all, especially former colleague Mike Costello who joins after an extraordinary, 45-year BBC career.
In this must-listen programme,
@markpougatch
skilfully allows Jimmy Armfield to educate us all on so many aspects of the game he loved. A
@GaryFlintoff
production. Well done both for capturing the essence of the man.
From one of the most accomplished full-backs to pull on the England shirt, to a successful manager, to a widely respected summariser.
Listen again to Jimmy Armfield: A football gentleman.
Nadal phenomenal in the tie break as Spain make the
@DavisCup
Final.
But brilliant effort from
@jamie_murray
@nealskupski
and the rest of the British team to run them so close.
#Sportsweek
trending, entirely appropriately. It was often agenda setting, making Monday headlines on a regular basis. Proud to have presented it for the past 3 summers during Garry's holidays.
One can’t help but fear there are corridors of people detained in the Park Hotel whose lives would be completely changed with this level of legal support.
Sorry but a GS final normally starts with 20 minutes of funny business… nervous poking and pushing and errors and blah blah. THIS IS SENSATIONAL STANDARD!
Always remember his pride in hosting the whole BBC Radio team at one of his favourite restaurants in Glasgow during Comm Games ‘04. The next day we went together to the lawn bowls, in the rain, enthused as at an Old Firm Derby. All the best, Roddy.
This is why tennis is such shambles sometimes. Governing bodies fight with themselves, players protest about things they voted for, now we're meant to think officials shouldn't enforce the rules because it doesn't suit the occasion / offender / narrative
Suggest we all LISTEN to the chief scientific advisor and chief medical officer now on
@bbc5live
Turn off the bantz, forget what we think we know, and let's all get educated.
All these Aussie commentators sound the same. No shift in tone or timbre. Plus everyone appears keen to talk all over Isa Guha. It’s really quite rubbish.
Marathon not a sprint, they say. But this feels 26.2 with a sprint every mile. Fortunately
@bigdaddybunce
is the best running mate anyone could wish for! We go again Day 4.
As an overwhelmed parent, I know how important this is. Delighted to be switching to
@BBCSounds
and
@bbcbitesize
to present the new BBC Bitesize Planner Podcast ... it will *massively* help filter the best of the educational content coming from
@bbceducation
in the summer term.
Wonderful, heartfelt monologue from
@PhilWilliams
just now.
This is what radio is; a connection between broadcaster and listener. Radio so unique in that respect.
Ash Barty 👏 The best player for the past three years, the most rounded, appreciative person, the reigning Wimbledon and Australian Open champion. What a thing, to retire as
#1
. 👍
Think we should back our officials more! Oliver made split second judgement call on a 50-50 then stood up to aggressive complaints from a great pro who should know better. Well done ref.