FANS blasted the BBC for their alleged “biased” coverage of the Wimbledon’s Women’s Final.
Marketa Vondrousova piled on more Centre Court heartache for Ons Jabeur on Saturday.
The 24-year-old became the first unseeded winner of the Wimbledon women’s singles championship.
The Prague-born ace joined an illustrious yet small list of Czech Republic left-handers to lift the Venus Rosewater Dish following a 6-4 6-4 victory over the Tunisian trailblazer.
This time twelve months ago, the world No.42 was not even involved in the Wimbledon main draw and had to watch the action off a TV set.
Now Vondrousova has become the sport’s first unseeded Grand Slam singles champion since Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open.
For Jabeur, this was a horrible Centre Court Reality Czech, the second successive year she had been handed the runners-up trophy by the Princess of Wales.
It is also the third time in five consecutive majors that she had been beaten in the final, having tried but failed to become Africa’s first female tennis champion.
And fans were delighted to see the fairytale story unfold – although they were raging at the alleged favouritism being shown on BBC’s coverage towards her rival.
One fan blasted: “BBC1 going out of their way to point out all of the bad times Ons has been through this year!! Classic BBC Sports always having a clear favourite.”
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Another tweet said: “Anyone else watching #WimbledonFinal on BBC thought they commentary team sounded flat when Vondrousova won?”
That sentiment was echoed by many more, as a fellow viewer wrote: “Wimbledon is a period drama for the BBC with the script already written but Vandrousova tore it up, it seems.”
“BBC obsession with Jabeur is such bulls***. Vondrousova was by far the better player and deserved the win,” claimed another.
“BBC comms reluctant to say Jabeur chokes in the finals,” read a similar tweet while another added: “Biased commentating today from the #BBC.”
That trend continued, with more adding: “Am watching the @BBC buildup to the Ladies Final and it looks like there’s only 1 contestant. All about Jabeur.”
Another begged: “Can #ChrisEvert shut up about Jabuer? Is she her press agent? Evert is so biased.”
And even those in attendance on Centre Court came in for it also, with another tweet saying: “So glad Vondrousova won that final just to sicken the Wimbledon crowd. No harm to Jabeur, I like her, but the crowd and BBC bias in favour of Jabeur has been unbearable.”
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