Ok, am I the only one who hates tennis?

I do not hate tennis, anymore than I hate football, cricket, rugby or any other sports. I am just profoundly uninterested in them.

DP were very good tennis players and won local tournaments regularly. My father was also a very fine cricketer. I think it was the interminable afternoons hanging around tennis and cricket clubs while my parents played and socialised that bred my total disinterest in any kind of spectator sports.

Do it, or do something else. The inertia of watching is stupifying

I'm not really into sports or watching them but I find most cricket the most tedious. I don't understand Rugby even though my firstborn son played it but I loved the Field Hockey the second born son played. My eldest son also took up boxing for a while and I just couldn't face watching that, I think it is a vicious, unnecessary sport.

groan when I hear Wimbledon is on. Not a fan at all, rather watch a fly crawling up a wall
Alioop You should come to Australia then. They'll make your day(s)!
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No I agree with you I can’t stand it either I think it seems such a selfish sport . Although my dear Mum absolutely loved it .

I find tennis boring.
I do like football and cricket and golf on TV.

I don't dislike sports - they just hold no appeal or interest for me.

Fortunately, I am married to a man who feels exactly the same about tennis, football, cricket, the Olympics, Tour de France, Vuelta de Espana and all the rest of it.

Unless you are living in a very small flat or only have one television set, I must admit I don't really understand why you worry about it.

It was different when we were children and Daddy decided with no consideration for the rest of the family what he wanted to watch on Saturdays and every evening of the week.

Can't you just do something else, somewhere else, nowadays, when we can watch practically anything over the computer?

Monica “ Do it, or do something else. The inertia of watching is stupifying”
I do both !

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No you are not alone! I find tennis so tedious to watch, but it must be exciting to play. I couldn't imagine sitting there for hours in the hot sun, watching a ball ping back and forth - there are a thousand things I would rather do.

I’m bored by tennis too, and I loathe the photos of Andy Murray with that awful aggressive expression and clenched fist glaring at me from the back of my newspaper the last few days.
At least Roger Federer is a gentleman so don’t mind watching him for a few minutes.
I do love the big rugby games, and yes the cricket though not test cricket, that does drag on.
My love in sport is equestrian but we don’t get that any more.

I don't hate it but having tennis on BBC1 and BBC2 and football on ITV at peak viewing times is a bit off. Thankfully catch up and Netflix is available but not to everyone.

I’m with you hate it! Never watch it! Enough said lol

I think it’s great. It was cancelled last year so I’m pleased it’s back. Not every player grunts or screams, just the odd one or two. It’s 2 weeks and the other 50 weeks, , I have to put up with boring soaps, quizzes, daft reality shows, cookery etc in which I have no interest. Now if you like those that’s fine with me, but as soon as we get wimbledon the complaints start. I hardly watch any tv in the evening, it’s all such rubbish. Not everyone can afford Sky Sports where a lot of the BBC sport has gone so I will go and watch now and enjoy. I hope the olympics go ahead as well.

Tennis on both BBC channels at the same time, it's about time the BBC got a dedicated sorts channel so that those of us who aren't glued to every event can have their normal programming.
Summer of sport??? Not for me, thank goodness for digital channels and the radio.

I always watch Wimbledon, I do not appreciate the grunters and screamers they should be disqualified or fined.

Nor me, I find tennis incomprehensible and mind blowingly boring. I also can’t stand rugby as it seems they get so hurt. I don’t understand football either but a match with really good teams is fast and exciting. Like the England/Germany match, and we won!

I love it! much preferable to the endless boring football which l loathe!

Not really interested in tennis. It took Andy Murray 4 hours to beat his opponent yesterday. I have too low a boredom threshold for that sort of thing. Never really liked Cliff Richard either and the photos of that poor female scientist involved in the Covid vaccination work that was there to watch tennis, not be subjected to a standing ovation. She looked really put out. The journalist Matthew Syed said "Pigeons are the tennis players of the bird world." I get his point.

No interest here at all. In fact most sport bores me to death. To each his own. DH loves it all so we watch separate TVs and no arguments over who controls the remote.

It’s the only game where I know the rules, so I suppose that’s why I find it rather less boring than other sports. We were forced to play tennis at school.

Tennis is seriously boring and takes up far too much time with people seemingly endlessly droning on about it. Fortunately no one in our house is interested in it.

Me too can't stand it all those celebrities who go just to get their pictures in the media the players who act like divas no thanks I'd rather watch paint dry

I find it boring, but apart from Rugby I find all sport boring!

Lucca - Yvonne Goolagong ... she WAS a tennis player wasn't she?!!! Sorry, I too don't take much interest whereas my 87yr old DM loves it and would be playing herself, even now, if she was able!! Each to their own I suppose!

I was a mad tennis player & fan until I was 30. Gave up playing tennis (children came along) and just stopped watching it on TV. Why BBC think its acceptable to put it on BBC1 & 2 is beyond me. Still, its better than football.