BBC Wimbledon presenter sparks fury as fans issue same complaint minutes in

Wimbledon returned to BBC One on Saturday evening, but were left complaining just minutes later. As fans know, the annual competition has been available to watch on both BBC One and BBC Two, with coverage of the matches switching between the channels. On Saturday (July 5) night, the battle between Novak Djokovic and Miomir Kecmanovi continued at 7:15pm on BBC One. The first sets of their game featured on BBC Two, with the duo well into the match before it moved over to BBC One.

But before things continued, presenter Clare Balding issued a round-up of the competition so far, including Jannik Sinner's successful week and the possibility of 18-year-old Mirra Andreeva becoming the new star of Wimbledon. Balding declared: "She has a Wimbledon champion in her camp. She's been coached by Conchita Martínez and she is loving her time here, through in straight sets against Hailey Baptiste."

The 54-year-old continued: "For Iga witek, a former world number one who has often looked really uncomfortable on grass - she is finding her feet. Her forehander was working well and she beat Danielle Collins in straight sets to make it through to the fourth round."

However, fans quickly fumed over Balding's extended commentary as it meant they were missing the match between Djokovic and Kecmanovi.

One fumed: "As soon as Clare Balding started speaking I just knew she was going to disrupt the match lol."

Another raged: "Grrrrr, why do BBC change the channel showing the live tennis, and then waffle before resuming the match we were happily watching?! Drives me crazy."

Hitting out, a third posted: "The BBC coverage of #wimbledon has been an absolute shambles so far this year ! Hours of daylight left and matches going on and instead of showing actual tennis they go to Clare Balding to talk absolute nonsense for half an hour and/ or they go off air?"

Another furious fan declared: "BBC #Wimbledon commentators and presenters (apart from Tim) are absolutely atrocious and incredibly irritating."

Djokovic secured his 100th win at Wimbledon by beating Kecmanovic 6-3 6-0 6-4. The 38-year-old needed just one hour and 47 minutes to beat his fellow Serbian on a packed-out Centre Court.