I started watching it when i was like 9, but at the time, I was more into footie, and I usually only watched the AO, Wimby, RG, and some of the Davis cup, and didn't care about the rest.

I only really started to follow since last summer :unsure:

I only follow the grand slams.

I started watching Wimbledon in (reaches for walking stick :yikes: ) 1979

I expect your mother plonked you in front of the TV to watch the ball going backwards and forwards. You'll have been about 1½, so you can't be more than 28 now, Big Al :P

Now MY first Wimbledon goes so far back that I can't remember when it was (moves wheel chair).

I have watched since about 1976 I think. As a kid I recall the Mac and Borg final and after that I was hooked . Then in 1977 Wade won for Brtain in the Jubilee year. It was so fitting, all the street parties and the bonus of actually seeing a Brit win a slam live, and it has nto bene doen since (in singles).

Thign is back then everyone watched the big matches at wimbers, we had a TV at shcool for the Wade v Stove match. It was the Golden Era and this made it mor epopular due to the personailties. It's too serious now, I doubt we will ever get that back.

I'm pretty new to the game actually, I've only been watching avidly since 2004...

I've been an avid fan (and supporter of Lindsay!) since Wimbledon 2000

Used to watch bits and bobs, the odd Bates match etc and then avidly from 1992 when I had a MASSIVE crush on Andre :wub: Was the long hair thing.....

ive watched avidly since the Russian revolution

Really only since last years French before that I only watcehd the slams...

Well, before last summer, whenever I catched Juju, Kim, Olli or Xav(which was quite often), I'd simply watch...

YOu're THAT old? roflmao

For a moment, I thought that you watched tennis since 1905 :yikes:

I first started watching during Wimbledon 2004 when i was on study leave from school / doing GCSE's.
The first match i watched was Amelie, cant remember who she was playing.
Then i didnt really start following tennis till Wimbledon 2005, then i joined the Beeb not long after, and thats that.

28 ? I wish . ;)
Im still a bit younger than Jonny Mac though Ive a few grey hairs ...

I became anavid fan after watching Borg-Connors in hte Wimby semifinal.
Borg brought a lot of people to the game . He just had an almost superhuman aura about him .

Yeah me too! I have a few appearing but they are totaly white so I'm making out it is highlights! roflmao

Yes that was a classic. I am huge fan of Borg and Jimmy too. Isn't it great to see Jimmy and Mac at Wimbers? If only Borg would come. I hope Agassi does soem work for the BBc, he'd be a great asset. :D

Yes Borg had an aura that has onyl really been replicated by Federer IMO. He was so cool, do you recall when they calle dhim the IceBorg? roflmao

yeah when he finally lost to mcenroe the papers said 'Iceborg melts at last' :bow:

Oh yes, i forgot about that.

Since 1969 when Anne Jones won Wimbledon. The Open era had started the year before that. Since then watched Wimbledon every year. Then with the advent of modern technology have followed all the mens tournaments throughout the course of the year. Go to Wimbledon most years and as many Davis cup ties as possible

Well you have followed it a long time then. I do recall tennis being on in the late 60s and early 70s but I was only 3 in 1969 so I did nto apprecaite the matches. But I do recall Anne Jones, and I recall my mum beign a huge fan of Billie Jean King and she won wimbers about 1970 didn't she?

Yes times ahev changed I think. The whole family woudl watch wimbledon back in the 1970s for the characters. Everyone's mum loved Borg didn't they and hated Mac! My mum used to say he was a foul mouthed disgrace, but my dad liked him so I guess I became a fan as a rebel really! :D When you look back though at the old clips, arent; Borg's shorts SHORT? roflmao No wonder the mums loved him. :D

Only properly since just before last wimbledon, before then i was only a casual follower....even now its 3rd on my fave sports list :blush: :blush: :blush:

I started to become an avid fan in 1998, when wimbledon was on. It was the year of ' the Venus tantrum ' where she was absolutely irate roflmao She ended up losing to Jana Novotna, who really appealed to me with her emotional triumph in the singles.

wasn't she wonderful in that final?

I started following the circuit in about 1995, after watching Sampras beat becker in the wimby final.

I've followed it pretty closely since the turn of the millenium mind though! :D

So you were 48 when you started following;)

Making out? :whistle: :whistle: :whistle:

January is tennis month in Aus, it also happens to be school holidays, so I used to watch coz it was too hot to do much outside, access to the internet in the last few years has allowed me to follow year round

as in pretending ....