Breakfast at Wimbledon
There is always a lot of exaggerated hope for British tennis players during the Wimbledon fortnight but somehow this year seems a bit different....or is that me just falling for the same old hype again.
I'm trying not to get to carried away but having a World Ranked number 3 player in Andy Murray - someone who has just won the Queens title - somehow makes this years excitement seems a touch more justified.
I know I will feel that I've let myself down when there's no British players left heading into finals weekend.
So to build up to one of British sport's Crown jewels we sent Nicky down to the All England Lawn and Tennis Club and as you'll hear we bumped into a few famous faces including Rolf Harris who'd been painting some of Wimbledon's greatest Champions...
You can click here to register your vote for the Greatest ever Wimbledon Champion that inspired Rolf's picture. The winners will be announced ahead of the relevant finals.
Nicky also presented the Phone in from the commentary booth on centre court where we discussed whether class still determined whether you could excel at sport, and we got the views of Wimbledon favourite Tim Henman.
But one section of the show in particular generated a lot of response from you....
We asked you for your new words to describe the noise and you didn't disappoint.
Chunting.A cross between cheating and grunting
Clearly the term for the grunting has to be "rolfing".
Shrunting (cross between shrieking & grunting) - believe it or not this was in my predictive text!) Ivan from bath
Continue to listen to the whole of the Wimbledon championship on 5 live and 5 live sports extra.


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