Clare’s £25,000 move

BBC SPORT are finally switching Clare Balding’s woeful evening highlights show to Centre Court after the avalanche of criticism of the previous set at the corporate hospitality Gatsby Club across the road.

This will mean licence- fee payers being lumbered with an estimated £25,000 bill for the now redundant Gatsby premises, which were booked for the full two weeks. A spokeswoman called it a ‘minimal amount’.

Meanwhile, how much longer can the BBC continue to use Tim Henman as a lead pundit when the only tournaments he works on are Wimbledon and the World Tour Finals?

The four-time Wimbledon semi-finalist isn’t known for doing much research, and where will he be during the davis Cup? On duty as a golf ambassador for HSBC at The Open.

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YU, owner of Chinese restaurant Bayee Village in Wimbledon, has some wealthy regulars. They include the Chinese consortium in the process of buying West Bromwich Albion from Jeremy Peace in a reported £150m deal that could be concluded by the end of the month. Yu said: ‘I am only a small potato helping out with translation and other things. I’ve helped facilitate football deals in the past and the guys eat in my restaurant when they’re in London.’ TEnnIS chief executives Michael downey (LTA) and Richard Lewis (All England Club) — chided by Sports Agenda for not being visible enough during the tournament — spent around 45 minutes chatting with journalists in the media centre yesterday.

And both were very complimentary about each other, which hasn’t been so with previous regimes.