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JonH · Tennis legend

Technical issues accessing Board

JonH · Tennis legend

For now though all seems to be working fine with the current board - for now!

Hadley · Improver

First time I've felt I must post something after over 10 years of accessing the forum at least once a day. I'd feel at a loss without the current board. Facebook and e-mail chains sound awful.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Hadley wrote:
First time I've felt I must post something after over 10 years of accessing the forum at least once a day. I'd feel at a loss without the current board. Facebook and e-mail chains sound awful.

Hi Hadley biggrin

And I agree

JonH · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Hadley wrote:
First time I've felt I must post something after over 10 years of accessing the forum at least once a day. I'd feel at a loss without the current board. Facebook and e-mail chains sound awful.
Hi Hadley
And I agree

Agreed in every respect!!

Hopefully a) this board will keep working b) if it doesn't, we can work out where to find a new board * c) we wont need anything more than an email telling us where to find it!!

* if a new board ends up with a small cost to set one up, I would be happy to contribute the going rate (don't base it on usage/ numbers of posts as I would lose my life savings!!) biggrin

Blue_Belle · Pro player

I was part of an old style forum like this before and when it eventually, eventually was no longer, the Facebook group was no replacement for it - it just isn't the same sort of format, the posts get lost easily in the feeds and changes of FB, obviously some members never make the move, so you lose a lot.

Not a forum as such, but a blogging website was signalling its demise and had an email set up to anyone who signed up for it to go to a replacement blogging site. I don't see the issue with having emails, if people want to give them, if the board was taken down and a replacement made up (or hopefully on googling, we would find the new version).

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Hi, not a technical issue for this board, but with the Wimbledon website - how can I trick it into giving me the schedule like the mobile site (and like it used to be with the OOP listed going down, not across).
I'm on a laptop, help please!

Pierrot · Club Coach

Helen40 wrote:
Hi, not a technical issue for this board, but with the Wimbledon website - how can I trick it into giving me the schedule like the mobile site (and like it used to be with the OOP listed going down, not across).
I'm on a laptop, help please!

If you click on the pdf icon you should get a preview of the OOP listed vertically

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Thanks, but I'm after something that gives the updated scores too so I can keep an eye on it.

Canda · Lower Club Player

Helen40 wrote:
Thanks, but I'm after something that gives the updated scores too so I can keep an eye on it.

BBC Sport Tennis is probably best for that. Under Scores and Schedule it gives OOP and updated scores. Paddypower In Play is faster and the betting shows how the match is swinging, but only gives current matches, not results.

Christine · Strong Club Player

My wimbledon one is vertical!

christ · Challenger qualifying

The top result in a Google search for "Wimbledon Scores" seems to give pretty much what you are looking for (on the search results page).

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-- Edited by christ on Tuesday 30th of June 2026 12:29:01 PM

christ · Challenger qualifying

The more complicated way is by modifying your user agent.

Context: In the olden days, sites used to present different pages to mobile or computers (mobile site URLs began "m."). Nowadays they present one page, which is served differently dependent upon the user agent of the reader. One can - in some cases - modify the user agent that the server sees.

Method: In Safari on my mac (other browsers and other types of computer are available, and will have similar settings) I go to "Safari Settings" and on the "General" sheet, at the bottom, there is a checkbox for "Show features for web developers" - click this box so that it gets a tick in it: Screenshot 2026-06-30 at 13.39.21.png

Close Safari and open it again, then there should be a "Develop" Menu, from this menu one may choose "User Agent", and a sub-menu opens up, from which one may choose.

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Recovery is the reverse: go back to the "Develop" menu and select the Default User Agent, and then go back to Safari settings and deselect the "Show features for web developers" box. Close and reopen Safari to return to your normally scheduled programming.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Helen40 wrote:
Hi, not a technical issue for this board, but with the Wimbledon website - how can I trick it into giving me the schedule like the mobile site (and like it used to be with the OOP listed going down, not across).
I'm on a laptop, help please!

There's always Sofascore. The drawback with that is that it doesn't show court numbers unless you highlight a particular match & choose the "full page view" option, then you get all sorts of stats. That said, the site is anything but 100% reliable & can let you down when you least expect it!

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

christ wrote:
The top result in a Google search for "Wimbledon Scores" seems to give pretty much what you are looking for (on the search results page).

-- Edited by christ on Tuesday 30th of June 2026 12:29:01 PM

Yes, but this doesn't give the OOP per court which is what I want with some indication of how far the play has got that day on each court if I'm wanting to watch a later match.