WIMBLEDON – Up on Henman Hill, where British hopes had gone to die for more than two decades, the security guards were giving up on their calls for crowd control. They’d yelled for everyone to sit ...

It was on the same day plans emerged for a Sir Andy Murray statue at Wimbledon that Britain’s greatest tennis champion since Fred Perry revealed he had no intention of attending this year’s tournament ...

Sir Andy Murray has hit out at the All England Club’s roof policy, questioning why the later stages of Jannik Sinner’s match against Grigor Dimitrov could not have been played in the open air. As it ...

Simon Briggs writes about tennis, cricket and a variety of other sports. Having begun his Telegraph career in 1996 as a music critic, he joined the sports desk four years later. He is the author of ...