AIBU to be annoyed that the BBC among others keep saying no Briton has won at Wimbledon for 76 years?

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According to Wikipedia, Virginia Wade won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon on 1 July 1977.

Or doesn't that count?

I presume they mean mens singles, so why not say so.

It started with mens singles and now it is turned to this if they had just said mens singles and not wimbledon It would have been great

She did, I remember, it was the year of the Silver Jubilee. Good to have had a Briton win for the Diamond Jubilee (the men's doubles, I mean).

Um - what about Jamie Murray? He won in 2007 - we don't even have to go back to the 70s for that title

I saw Virgina Wade in the crowd yesterday at the womens finals i do feel sorry for her, I only realy watch bits and pieces but the hoooha about A M being the only Brit to have won since time began is starting to tick me off too,

yes exactly. It really peeves me off. Like you can't really win Wimbledon if you don't have a penis.

I'd forgotten that was the Silver Jubilee. We were at work listening on extension phones to someone's radio on the other end. I remember squealing so loudly at the end I got wrestled to the floor for deafening everybody

So did we have a good chance at winning in Golden Jubilee year ? Was Henman around then?

YADNBU.

Jonathan Marray won yesterday along with his doubles partner Frederik Nielsen.

Well I think if it´s clear that it is the men´s singles that is being discussed...

Didn't John Lloyd win a mixed doubles back in the 70s or 80s?

Jeremy Bates won the mixed doubles with a British partner.

Ann Jones won the ladies' singles in '69.

Jezza Bates and Jo Durie won the mixed doubles at Wimbers in '87 by the way. And in 91 they won the Aussie Open mixed.

So apart from Bates, Durie, Marrey, Jones and Other Murray and the aqueduct ......yes, Andy Murray could be the first Briton to win Wimbledon since 1938 .

Just looked it up. John Lloyd won mixed doubles with Wendy Turnbull two years running in 83 and 84. So another Brit winner.

So apart from Bates, Durie, Lloyd, Jones, Wade, Marrey and Other Murray.... Andy is the first Briton to get to a Wimbledon final for ages, yes?

Marray's win was yesterday.

Not one mention of Jamie Murray, there never is. I feel really sorry for him.

When you put it like that Ariel, I can't see what all the fuss is about...

Nah, me neither :)