Wimbledon 2024, the third major Grand Slam tennis tournament of the year, begins on Monday July 1, from 7.30pm on 9Gem before moving to Channel 9 later in the evening.
Over the two-week tournament, grass-court glory awaits as the best of the best converge on the All England Lawn Tennis Club, with the winners taking home the Gentlemen’s Singles Trophy and the Rosewater Dish for the women.
Nine’s commentating team includes:
Todd Woodbridge
Woodbridge is amongst the most successful doubles players of all time, winning 16 Grand Slam men’s doubles titles, (nine Wimbledons, three US Opens, three Australian Opens and one French Open). He reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in 1992.
Jelena Dokic
Dokic’s highest ranking as a tennis player was world No. 4 in August 2002 and in 1999 at Wimbledon, a 16-year-old Dokic performed one of the biggest upsets in tennis history, beating Martina Hingis.
Sam Stosur
A former world No. 1 in doubles, Stosur held the ranking for 61 consecutive weeks. She also reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 in 2011, spending a total of 165 weeks ranked inside the top ten in the early 2010s.
Alicia Molik
Alicia Molik is a former Australian tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 6.
Nine’s Wide World of Sports commentary team for Wimbledon will also include Tony Jones and Brenton Speed, with Roz Kelly and Brett Phillips hosting.
After reaching the quarter-finals at Roland Garros earlier this year, Alex de Minaur is among the 11 Australian players confirmed for the singles at Wimbledon. Completing the male Aussie lineup are Thanasi Kokkinakis, Jordan Thompson, Alexei Popyrin, Chris O’Connell, Rinky Hijikata, Max Purcell, Aleksander Vukic and Adam Walton.
After missing Wimbledon in 2023 due to a knee injury, Aijla Tomjanovic will return to the grass. Daria Saville is the other Australian woman in the tournament.
Wimbledon 2024 begins Monday, 1 July at 7:30 pm on 9Gem and Nine.