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Clare Balding

A former leading amateur flat jockey and champion lady rider, Clare's speciality is horse racing but she also covers a wide variety of other sports and assignments.

She began her ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ career with ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 5 live in 1993 presenting the racing bulletin on Danny Baker's Morning Edition. Clare was appointed as ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Sport's TV racing presenter in December 1997.

She first presented Wimbledon with Simon Mayo on 5 Live in 2003 and will also be on commentary duties this year.

Pat Cash

Pat was a popular winner of the Men's Singles title at Wimbledon in 1987, famously climbing through the seats on Centre Court to embrace his family after beating Ivan Lendl in straight sets. Earlier that year, he lost a tough five-setter to Stefan Edberg in the final of the Australian Open.

Born in Melbourne in May 1965, he turned pro in 1982 and reached his highest ranking of World No.4 in 1988. In 1984, he became the youngest player to compete in the Davis Cup Final, helping Australia to defeat Sweden 3-2.

Annabel Croft

After taking up tennis at the age of nine, Annabel became, at 15, the youngest Briton to play at Wimbledon for nearly 100 years. In 1984 she became junior Wimbledon Champion and a year later picked up her first senior tournament trophy in San Diego.

Annabel retired from the international circuit at 21, having established herself as British No.1, ranked in the world's top 25.

She has since carved a career in television, most recently filming Famous Rich And Homeless – a ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ One documentary in which the subjects swap their lifestyle to live rough on the streets.

Annabel also works as a tennis anchor for Eurosport and as summariser and commentator ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 5 Live. In addition to her TV and radio work, she undertakes celebrity tennis coaching clinics and exhibitions throughout the country and has recently set up The Annabel Croft Tennis Academy which coaches over 100 schoolchildren in after-school clinics. Annabel married former America's Cup yachtsman Mel Coleman in 1993, and the couple have three children.

Dom Joly

Dom Joly is an award-winning television comedian and journalist. He came to prominence as the star of the hidden camera show Tigger Happy TV on Channel 4, and has since gone on to make comedy programmes for the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳, Five and Sky.

He is also a published writer and has contributed to a number of national newspapers, including a regular sports column for The Independent, The Independent On Sunday and travel writing for the Sunday Times.

Dom presented Dom And Danny Do Christmas with Danny Wallace on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 5 Live in December as well as sitting in for Gabby Logan's Sunday morning programme; he also contributed to 5 Live's Beijing Olympics coverage in 2008.

Frew McMillan

Famous for his trademark white cap, Frew McMillan won the Wimbledon men's doubles title with Bob Hewitt in 1967, 1972 and 1978. The 5 Live summariser also won the mixed doubles title with Betty Stove in 1978 and 1981. From December 1966, Hewitt and McMillan were unbeaten for more than 50 matches – at Wimbledon in 1967. Frew never lost a service game and the pair never dropped a set.

Frew played Davis Cup tennis for South Africa between 1965 and 1978, and had a 22-5 doubles record in the competition.

Simon Mayo

Simon Mayo is one of radio's best known names and recently won a Sony Gold Speech Award for his weekly film review with Mark Kermode following his Gold Award for Speech Broadcaster of the Year in 2008.

He has a weekday show on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 5 Live and first presented Wimbledon on 5 Live in 2003 with Clare Balding and has done so every year since.

Simon joined the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ in May 1986 with a Saturday evening show on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 1. At the beginning of 1987 he took over the weekday evening show and progressed to the Breakfast Show later in 1988.

Simon joined Radio 5 live in May 2001 and his show broadcasts 1.00-4.00pm, Mondays to Fridays.

Judy Murray

Judy Murray is perhaps best known as the mother of young British No.1 Andy Murray and his brother Jamie, Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Champion in 2007.

Judy was the former Scottish No.1 and won 64 national titles during her playing career. She is also the former Great British hard courts ladies' doubles champion and represented Great Britain at the World Student Games. She has been a Scottish National coach for eight years.

Jana Novotna

Jana Novotna won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and endeared herself to the public in 1993 when she cried on the shoulder of the Duchess of Kent after losing the Wimbledon singles final.

Jana is from the Czech Republic and in her 14-year career she won 100 titles, 24 in singles and 76 in doubles, including 12 Grand Slam women's doubles titles and four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles.

Jana retired from the professional tour in 1999 and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2005.

Jonathan Overend

Jonathan Overend is ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 5 Live's tennis correspondent. He joined ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Essex in 1989, while still studying for his A levels, later becoming sports producer and then presenter of the Drivetime show.

In 1997 he joined ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio Sport to work on Radio 5 Live as a reporter and presenter and took over as the main tennis reporter in 2003 and correspondent a year later.

Jonathan has commentated on Roger Federer's Grand Slam titles and has also closely followed Andy Murray's career out of the junior ranks and into the world top 3.

Mark Pougatch

Mark Pougatch presents ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 5 Live's flagship programme 5 Live Sport every Friday (7.00-10.00pm) and Saturday (12noon-6.00pm).

Mark started out in the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ at GLR, the former ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ station for London, and then worked at ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Essex in 1992 where he became a regular football reporter.

He took up his first 5 Live presenting role in 1998 when he became the anchor of 5 Live Sport on Sundays. In August 2000 he moved to present the Saturday edition of the show and took on the Friday night slot in August 2005.

Mark has worked on many of 5 Live's main events, including World Cup football, the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games.

Mark has presented on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Television's Match Of The Day and Football Focus.

Michael Stich

Michael Stich won the Men's Singles at Wimbledon in 1991, seeing him beat Jmm Courier, defending Wimbledon champion Stefan Edberg and three-time winner Boris Becker in consecutive rounds for the title. He has also won the men's doubles at Wimbledon and the Olympics.

Michael began playing tennis aged six and won the German national junior singles title in 1986. That year he posted a 13-match winning streak which included reaching the quarter finals at the US Open and winning titles in Stuttgart, Schenectady and Vienna. He also played the most singles and doubles on the Tour – 149 matches. Other career highlights include leading his country to the Davis Cup title against Australia in 1993, for the first time since 1989, and finishing as German No.1 for the first time.

Michael served on the ATP Tour Player Council in 1991 and has an overall playing record of 35-11 (21-9 in singles). He began the Michael Stich Foundation in November 1994 to help HIV-positive children in Germany.

Michael is a seasoned ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ broadcaster across ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 5 live and ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ TV, and hosts his own Radio 5 live show weeknight evenings with key interviews throughout the Tournament.

Jeff Tarango

One of tennis's most flamboyant characters, Jeff Tarango is a former US professional tennis player who won 16 singles and doubles titles during his career. He gained notoriety at Wimbledon in 1995 for defaulting a match by leaving the court after a dispute over a serve ruling.

Jeff retired from the professional tour in 2002 and now devotes his time to coaching and broadcasting, joining Radio 5 Live in 2007.

Todd Woodbridge

Todd Woodbridge was arguably one of the top doubles players in the world for most of the Nineties and into the early 2000s.

With fellow Australian, Mark Woodforde, he won a record 61 ATP doubles titles, including 11 Grand Slam events. After Woodforde retired from the tour in 2000, Todd established a partnership with Jonas Bjorkman that resulted in five Grand Slam event titles in four years. He also partnered Mahesh Bhupathi for a year before retiring in 2005 with a total 83 ATP tournament wins in doubles to his name, an all-time record.

Todd commentates on the Australian Open for the Seven Network in Australia and joined the Radio 5 Live commentary team in 2007.