EAGLE-EYED Wimbledon fans were left baffled by a BBC scoreboard ‘glitch’.
The All England Club made a subtle change to the broadcast feed for the 2025 Championships.
For the first time, TV viewers can now see the scorelines in the previous sets – rather than just the score in sets.
For example, if a men’s match is in the fifth set, rather than simply showing 2-2, it would show who won each set and by what score.
There is also the players’ seeds where applicable on the scoreboard plus a border around the new-look style.
However, fans spotted a strange quirk – and a lack of consistency.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova faced Naomi Osaka in round three and her full, 14-letter surname was squeezed into the box in the top corner of the screen.
However, they pointed out that when Polina Kudermetova faced Iga Swiatek in the first round, her name was cut short.
Admittedly there are two Kudermetovas in the women’s draw with her sister Veronika as well.
But instead of the 11 letters of her surname following the P initial and a space, a total of 13 characters, Wimbledon cut it short.
So it read “P. Kudermeto” – leaving off the “va” at the end.
One keen fan wrote: “I don’t get it, they can fit Pavlyuchenkova on the scoreboard but not Kudermetova???”
Another replied: “Pavlyuchenkova is 14 letters. P. Kudermetova is 12 letters, add the period and space and it is 14.”
A third added: “Yes was wondering the same.”
A fourth pointed out: “Shapovalov it’s only 10 and they shorten it to Shapovalo.”
A fifth commented: “The worst one so far is BASILASHVIL where they just left out an “I” for absolutely no reason (plenty of space available).”
And tennis reporter Ben Rothenberg joked: “One could write a sociolinguistics dissertation about the way Wimbledon haphazardly shortens surnames on the scoreboard.”
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