to have been annoyed by last night's wimbledon commentary? Kimiko Date-Krumm.

[nevergoogle]

I thought the commentary was utterly sexist and ageist.

I swear they said, "So it seems you can teach an old dog new tricks"

"She'll maybe be getting that early night"

"There are all sorts of new gadgets for her to deal with like hawkeye".

I'm paraphrasing as I can't actually remember but still, this woman is 42 and appears to be in her prime. She's older than the others but perhaps that's due to a lack of funding for women over 30 in sport.

I expected better of the bbc.

Am also ill with a horrible cold so possibly overly sensitive, so very possible being unreasonable also. Am I alone on this one?

[specialsubject]

Date-Krumm is interesting because she took 12 years out of the sport - so there will be lots of changes since her comeback.

I don't think she was ever going to be strong enough or fast enough to beat Serena Williams, but that goes for many other people. Date-Krumm is also disadvantaged by being a lot shorter.

at least neither of them do the stupid noises which make women's tennis such a joke!

[whatsthatcomingoverthehill]

AF, yes I can. Tennis, and cricket, golf etc, often have jokey sort of commentary which can end up being inappropriate.

[AnyFucker]

I haven't noticed it to the same extent for male players.

I agree though that some commentary is in general, pretty shit

[nevergoogle]

ha, this afternoon the commentators had a stunted conversation about how forward thinking womens tennis is. a bit forced.

[Jestrin]

Sam Smith might need a few lessons in decent commentary anyway. I watched some of a match yesterday and she said of Carla Suarez Navarro 'someone needs to march her down to the opticians!'