The Sport Thread

At last - Bottom left for the score box by the BBC!

It's not unusual for variations of the ATP house style graphics by various host broadcasters, doing the coverage instead of ATP World Tour productions. The usual giveaway is where the graphics are in the 'house ATP' style, but the animations are different, or in a slightly different font.

Guess in a couple of weeks, at Wimbledon, the score graphic top bar will change from BBC Sport yellow, to Wimbledon green or purple.

The score bar is always bottom left for Queens, then moves up for Wimbledon. Must say those BBC Sport graphics get uglier by the day.

Seems Inverdale is about to make his commentary debut on the red button. Already given it extra gravitas - found the commentary very flat today.

John Inverdale doing his ITV4 anchor job on the red button. Perhaps that's where we'll hear him at Wimbledon too.

Oh you might be right. Thought it was strange hearing his voice.

Right, they are the standard silver ATP graphics on the world feed. I've just seen a screen shot.

Wish Inverdale would shut up.

Inverdale definately treating this as a presenter rather than a commentator, but also proving why the BBC are stupid to relegate him from any presenter role within their Wimbledon coverage.

I do wonder if anyone at the BBC has told Inverdale he is commentating on this. The way he is covering it is if he's expecting the real commentator to come back any minute and take over.

Hopefully Inverdale will have been promoted to lead tennis commentator by the time the Wimbledon has come round.

I really hope not. There are many more competent commentators.

So you'd rather have Andrew Castle in the role?

Was really missing the likes of Nick Mullens and Jim Courier today.