Tennis: Wimbledon
Wimbledon is finally here and the the tennis patrons have been blessed with some fine weather and an exciting line-up for day one of the competition.
Novak Djokovic opens up his Wimbledon 2015 account at 1pm against Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber, with Maria Sharapova and Stan Wawrinka both also in action on centre court.
The Wimbledon winners this this year will get €2,650,820.96 each. Being equal opportunity employers, the prize money awarded to the men’s and women’s champions is the same.
During last week's women's warm-up event last week it wasn't Serena Willliams or Maria Sharapova who caught the eye. An 18-year-old Belinda Bencic, emerged from Eatbourne as the surprise winner and she says she's been getting advice from Martina Hingis.
GAA: Championship
It was all hotting up this weekend in the football championship, of course we had our usual landslide victory for the Dubs in Leinster, but Wexford on Saturday beat Down and on Sunday Westmeath staged a remarkable comeback to defeat near-neighbours Meath for the very first time.
Meath manager Mick O'Dowd though was shocked at the criticism that's been pointed at his team; "Average age is 23. We are developing a new team. When we were nine or 10 points up, if you had more maturity around the team I think we would have killed that game. We didn't. I'm not a negative person so I would think there is more to come from this Meath team in the years ahead."
Meanwhile after Kildare were put to the sword by Dublin their manager Jason Ryan was deeply disappointed by his team's inability to turn chances into scores while the game did remain competitive.
“In the first half we had more attacks inside the Dublin 45 than they had in ours but they made their scoring chances count. We unfortunately didn’t execute the way we needed to, to give us the real belief to drive on.
“There was insufficient contact. That’s a fact. We didn’t get enough contact on Dublin runners and we didn’t get as many blocks down on Dublin players getting shots off.
Boxing: Baku
Irish boxing coach Billy Walsh has been explaining the preparation that went into what turned out another extremely successful competition at the European Games last week in Baku.
“We wanted to be here to acclimatise, firstly, and we wanted to be in with the Azerbaijanis, because we knew they were the best team here. And it worked out exactly that way. We got to spar with a lot of their fighters during those two weeks and that was definitely the difference in winning a few medals.”
Golf: Travelers Championship
Bubba Watson went some way to securing his career target of 10 wins, with victory number eight on the PGA Tour when he won his second Travelers Championship the same way as the first, at the second extra hole.
Watson beat Englishman Paul Casey in a playoff late last night in Connecticut.
What to watch out for:
You can see all the action from Wimbledon’s opening day on BBC 1 and 2.
BBC 2, 11.30am-9.30pm
BBC 1, 1.45pm-6pm
Watch back on all the weekend’s GAA highlights on TG4, where they actually do tend to give some attention to the teams who were not already televised.
TG4 from 8.30pm-9.30pm
