judy murray confirmed he is thinking about his long-term fitness. from playing best of five and you wouldn't want to put yourself in a situation where you couldn't com plete situation where you couldn't complete the match or maybe want your first match and couldn't com plete your first match and couldn't complete the second, and because he has been out of the game for ii months, you don't know how your body will react, not just months, you don't know how your body will react, notjust during the match but the day after, so after playing into events and then practising for a number of days, he felt he wasn't ready for five sets yet. sam, andy murray not being here isa yet. sam, andy murray not being here is a huge loss to the tournament but fa ns is a huge loss to the tournament but fans seem to be understanding because we saw this coming. we had them back for a couple of weeks at queens and eastbourne, he has been through a lot to get back here but the staff we don't see, are as in the staff we don't see, are as in the gym, ours on the physio coach,

i interviewed his mother, judy murray, the charity and she was saying he'd been off for 342 days.back operation, then a hip operation. it obviously hasn't totally worked. on the back of the daily express, and the back of the daily express, and the agony, i can't win, so why bother taking part?|j the agony, i can't win, so why bother taking part? i think it's better for his career. when you think our other long—standing tennis players take care of themselves, not putting themselves at risk. it's like the sporting events of the summer, nothing happening the way we thought. the world cup, it isn't unfolding as expected. though, with russia booting out spain today. —— no. so many people have gone to wimbledon hoping to see him. let's hope his brother, jamie, does well. because this is where we are incredibly good, we are the engine room of doubles playing talent in this country. very, very 9°°d doubles tennis. yes. it never gets the attention, it's never going to, the attention, it's never going to, the attention, it's never going to, the attention that the singles get. what's interes

really saw a low on the list of what is needed in schools i should say that the mother and the marie judy murray. group previously the trouble of a scottish independence bias allegedly which is sort of changed his mum saying that promised free courts failing to materialize in deprived areas do you think that charity is perceived as the way forward rather than government spending on these areas of social exclusion i think regarding charity i think this is this is one of the problems that we have all over the u.k. at the moment is that we think that charity a philanthropist can replace public services so the idea that david cameron's of idea of the big society with alarms for pay and charity can and should replace social services and public services is a nonsense really because what we're doing is. rather than people getting treated fairly as human beings and individuals you know for their needs what is happening is we're getting in people that have no connection to working class people deciding what they need or what they should be able to have access to and things like sports drama the arts you

i mention this a moment ago, judy murray in the guardian giving a significant interview to them —— moreding young players in the game, particularly women and girls, and in this paper she talks about how sometimes on the circuit you can tell when players aren't happy and why they might not be happy. she is asked in the paper about whether she would coach her grandchildren and interestingly she says definitely not, never again. talks about some of the abuse she has had over the years and the mean things people have said. one style we will be seeing here, serena williams, she is coming back to play at wimbledon after having had her baby, alexis, and she is saying she is totally focused on playing here, she always wanted to play here. we've seen her in england over the last few days and we saw her with meghan markle, the duchess of sussex, who is a good friend of hers. she's aiming to return after having her baby and to prove she is ready. 0ne having her baby and to prove she is ready. one thing i will say, though, i don't know if you've noticed, there's a bit of a change this year. if you

yes, judy murray has said as much. in the meantime, thanks for joining murray has said as much.world's most prestigious tennis tournament, the wimbledon championships. nearly half a million people come here, globally 1 billion see it on tv. but to make this grass tournament the best takes attention to every detail. we have a team of guys that go out and do thousands of measurement for hardness readings, chlorophyll plants, they will count grass blades to see how quickly they are wearing out. they count grass blades? yes, they count the baselines, to see how many plants are there and how quickly it's deteriorating. how many grass plants have you got here? for perennial rye grass, 700 seeds to a gram, we sow 80 grams per square metre. centre court is 900 square metres. that equation of the top of your head is obviously... 5 million! 54 million. it was close! this used to be court 19, now a restaurant, part of a two—week operation serving strawberries and 29,000 bottles of champagne, and of course for the ball boys and girls. day one is important for us because we have a lot of peo