With the 2025 Wimbledon Championships presently underway, Robin Roberts is wanting again at her private connection to the famed tennis event.
“Making it to @wimbledon had all the time been a dream of mine,” Roberts captioned previous and current photographs of herself on the U.Okay. sporting occasion by way of Instagram on Monday, June 30. “However as an alternative of a tennis racket I had a microphone in my arms! In honor of @wimbledon starting at this time, having a look again at some #memorablemoments overlaying the event.”
Robert’s Instagram slideshow included pics of herself overlaying the event with “my producer David” throughout her time working for ESPN within the ‘90s. “Our cameras weren’t even allowed contained in the All-England Membership so we camped out throughout the road,” she recalled. “Now that @espn has the television rights…it was fairly totally different after I returned couple of years in the past for @goodmorningamerica!!”
ESPN acquired unique broadcasting rights for Wimbledon in 2011. Roberts has continued her event protection on GMA through the years, as ABC and ESPN are each owned by Disney.
Although Roberts seemingly skipped final 12 months’s competitors, she beforehand traveled throughout the pond together with her fellow GMA host Lara Spencer to cowl the occasion in 2023. Sharing her favourite Wimbledon reminiscence, Roberts recalled watching Martina Navratilova hit the tennis courtroom again in 1994.
“It was one of many uncommon occasions that I turned in my press move. I introduced a ticket as a result of I wished to take a seat within the stands, to have the ability to cheer,” she shared on the ABC morning present on the time. “As a result of you recognize within the press, you possibly can’t present favoritism. You may’t cheer. However I do do not forget that in 1994.”
For Spencer, her favourite Wimbledon reminiscence was interviewing Serena Williams on GMA on the event again in 2016. “It was her twenty second Grand Slam,” Spencer said. “I believe she was [as] in awe as we have been of that second. It was superb.”
Earlier than turning into considered one of morning TV’s most recognizable faces, Roberts grew up dreaming of turning into a professional athlete. “On that sizzling and steamy tennis courtroom in Mississippi, I might dream of being at Wimbledon… Effectively, you recognize what? I did get to Wimbledon,” she advised Essence in October 2020. “I didn’t have a tennis racket in my arms, I had an ESPN microphone. It nonetheless was each bit as gratifying.”
She continued, “I wish to be knowledgeable athlete … [but] there’s this little factor referred to as means and I didn’t fairly have it. Everybody all the time says, ‘Comply with your ardour.’ Effectively, I’m captivated with sports activities. I had an curiosity in journalism and I assumed I’d marry the 2. Rapidly it modified, although, to being captivated with journalism and storytelling and that sports activities was simply considered one of my many pursuits.”
The 2025 Wimbledon Championships commenced on Monday and can conclude on Sunday, July 13.