This TV coverage is really bad....I don't know who is operating the cameras, the editing whatever, but there seems to be more interest in the spectators in the stands and sometimes the action is cut short on the court; the replays are not timed correctly and again the camera barely has time to capture the action us TV viewers are hoping to see. If I were the advertisers, I would be not be happy with this coverage. I plan to contact each of them with an email. And of course the way the score is posted is just plain stupid; you are living in the dark ages; no, let me correct that; you are simply not giving your viewers a fair shake for those who are tennis fans. That's right, crowd the screen with all this other crap like everything else in this overworked, over-saturated world we try to live in.

So glad me and my lady aren't alone in this! I was looking for some screecaps to do an analysis of why this sucks so bad. Anyone got a tuner in their computer?

I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't like the new scoreboard! I'm a HUGE tennis fan and I really love the ESPN Tennis commentating crew, but that scoreboard has got to go. That said, it would be easier for me to watch the re-runs on the Tennis Channel after work, but I tape the ESPN coverage because of the commentators. I especially love the 4-box topics at the beginning of the day.

Glad to see I'm not the only one. I also hate the awful "Guitar Idol" commercials.

here's a puzzler for you guys:

stepanek >youzhny 5-7 7-6 4-6 5-6 30-15

i'm presently watching the Stepanek-Youzhny match...it seemed to take me an extra 10 seconds to decipher the score..until i realized i had it wrong and the other guy was winning and then...'er, you get the point.

who is the genius at ESPN who decided to jazz things up this year??

that being said, i've enjoyed the ESPN coverage. cahill, gilbert, pat mcenroe...pretty good stuff. i'm not a huge chris fowler fan as it makes it feel like a college football guy is giving me tennis play-by-play. but, overall it's been alright.

but that freakin' scoreboard is drivin' me crazy!

Just add my amen to the chorus. How stupid

I couldn't agree more, it pissed my off as a broadcast and graphic designer that ESPN, normally a leader in design for this stuff would take the 'NFL Football' route with f*ing tennis.

It's so annoying and hope they dont make this mistake ever again, if I have to work at figuring out who's up, or even who has the AD after a deuce, I mean, WTH.

Yes, the scoring graphic is lame, but I am really grateful for ESPN 360 which allows free viewing anytime of full matches that either weren't on the telecast, or were on at a godawful hour (coverage starts at 4am here in LA). On the Wimbledon site itself, you have to pay a subscription to see webcasts. Go Marat, go!

Ok, so i get the following format:

Federer 4 5 4
*Roddick 6 7 5
30-15

I kinda get the next format too. My question though, what do the 1 & the 6 stand for next to their names & how do you know who is serving???

1 Federer >6 Roddick 15-30 4-6, 5-7, 4-5

I watch tennis sometimes just cuz it looks awesome in HD

Yes! Other people who love watching tennis on TV! I live in the Chicago suburbs, and I don't know ANYONE who watches tennis - it's crazy! So thank you for giving me a venue to share this love for tennis - and to vent about the awful new scoreboard. The worst part is figuring out whose score is whose. And a close second is that the numbers are so small, I often can't tell what the score is anyway. Is there somewhere we can email or petition so they might change it back? I've watched every tennis match for years, and I would never miss Wimbledon, but enduring this for another week and a half will do me in. Thanks.