The magic of Wimbledon: it’s a winning mixture of the best tennis players in the world battling it out for grand slam glory, and sexy grunting girls in short skirts getting hot and sweaty. Marvellous stuff.
But of course, not all of the girls are hot. For every Maria Sharapova, there’s a Marion Bartoli – as BBC commentator John Inverdale mentioned to his cost at last year’s tournament.
For those who’ve forgotten, Inverdale unadvisedly spoke of how Bartoli wasn’t exactly blessed in the looks department. “Do you think Bartoli’s dad told her when she was little ‘You’re never going to be a looker?’” he said. “You’ll never be a Sharapova, so you have to be scrappy and fight.’”
Backlash ensued, Inverdale apologised, and Bartoli moved on.
So what better way to reopen old wounds than by bringing it all up again on the eve of this year’s tournament, which starts at the end of this month, and making an even more mealy-mouthed excuse than last time.
“I was feeling so ill that day, I had terrible hay fever and all I could think of was that I wanted to go home to bed,” whined Inverdale.
“I had Andy Murray in the final the next day, I knew I had to be on form. Your mind is going all over the place, we’re on air from 12 noon ‘til 7pm with not a single word written and you’ve got to fill the time.”
Seeing as that’s basically his job description, we don’t feel too sympathetic. We’re just surprised he didn’t say, “the dog ate it”, too – although, to be fair, that could also be a reference to the pug-ugly Bartoli. We just hope this year he says Martina Navratilova has a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp.
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