The Wimbledon Open Lawn Tennis Championships
The opening day of the world's greatest tennis tournament reported for you direct from the All England Club by BBC outside broadcast cameras
Harry Carpenter introduces Wimbledon 1970 which features the best of the matches on the Centre Court and No 1 Court in The First Round of the Men's Singles
Rod Laver as an amateur and as a professional has dominated the Wimbledon scene. Winner of the first two 'Open' Wimbledons, he begins the defence of his title in today's first match on the Centre Court, and so poses the questions -can he at the age of 31 complete a fantastic hat-trick of 'Open' victories?
- will the younger stars challenge the supremacy of the established circuit pros?
The regular Wimbledon commentary team of Dan Maskell, Jack Kramer and Bill Knight together with Emlyn Jones will provide some of the answers in what promises to be a fascinating Championship.

and Cricket: First test Match: England v The Rest of the World
for the Guinness Trophy
Fourth day
Further coverage of today's play at Lord's