BBC viewers rage minutes into Wimbledon coverage as they make same complaint

A whole host of familiar faces have returned to present this year's coverage of Wimbledon. Hundreds of thousands of fans have descended on South West London to watch the best players battle in the third Grand Slam of the year. Tennis fans were in for a treat as reigning Champion Carlos Alcaraz returned to Wimbledon with British hopefuls Jack Draper and Emma Raducanu hoping to make their mark in front of a home crowd but there will be stiff competition.

Clare Balding hosted the coverage during Tuesday's eventful offering on the BBC where viewers got a chance to see nine British players take to the Wimbledon courts on as the second day of the tournament gets under way. Other players included Novak Djokovic's campaign against Alexandre Muller of France, followed by French Open champion Coco Gauff against Dayana Yastremska. In addition, Draper took on Argentina's Sebastian Baez. But viewers quickly shared their disappointment minutes into the coverage.

While some at home branded the coverage "boring" others said they were fed up having to switch between BBC channels.

One fumed: "This chopping and changing of the channels for the #bbc #wimbledon coverage is driving me mad. There must be a better scheduling solution. Enough already of Clare Balding telling us to switch over. #Tennis #wimbeldon2025 And not everyone has the red button or Iplayer."

Another tweeted: "Please BBC - just leave one match on the same channel and stop faffing around switching channels. #bbcsport #wimbledon."

A third complained: "I swear to god the sooner the BBC get stripped of #Wimbledon coverage the better. The channel swap at 6pm left us without the Draper game on any channel for a few minutes, and Clare Balding's droning has just ensured we missed Baez's retirement when we swapped channels again."

Another raged: "The BBC coverage of #Wimbledon this year is shocking, just stick to one damn match! Keep chopping & changing every 5 mins, ridiculous!"

A fifth argued: "Just keep switching matches, why don't you #Wimbledon #BBC."

Another moaned: "@bbcsport #iplayer says i can choose from all 18 courts. Ace, so I watched Rybakina on #14 with no commentary, just SFX mics - perfect. BBC therefore clearly has the capacity to offer eg the @DjokerNole match with that option, so why not do it?"

Others praised the BBC coverage as a commentator gushed: "Loving Wimbledon @BBC."

Wimbledon will be shown live on the BBC in the UK, with full coverage of the tournament available to watch on BBC One, BBC Two and across BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website.