Feminist outrage misses target

Contrasting fortunes for the new Wimbledon champions. Andy Murray breezed through his final eliminator to qualify for a tilt at the ultimate prize — a knighthood.

Feminist outrage misses target

But Marion Bartoli (pictured), it turns out, wasn’t even in the running to claim the most coveted reward of them all — a night with BBC’s John Inverdale.

“Never going to be a Sharapova,” was the Inverdale verdict, during Bartoli’s win over Sabine Lisicki. You will get no analysis of oil paintings here, but if you can’t place Invers (he was obliged to acquire the nickname when he became mixed up in rugby), think John Bishop with the smugness cranked up — yes, further — and the neck removed, literally if not figuratively.

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