Sam Smith, tennis commentator, needs to stop mumbling immediately or be fired!

A quick note from a very disgruntled viewer - me. Sam Smith is a former No 1 British tennis player and she commentates at professional tennis matches for the BBC. She is working at the 2026 Wimbledon Championships. 

She is abysmal at her job. She clearly lacks confidence and always quietly, mumbles and stumbles when she starts speaking so all the early words are unintelligible. The middle of the delivery is a little better but still crap and sometimes the end is just about acceptable. 

But overall, as I said, she is abysmal and she should not be in the job. I believe the problem she has with her delivery is anxiety and a lack of confidence in what she is saying. She does not believe in what she is saying and therefore says in in an unintelligible way. Bizarre yes, but that's my theory.

She needs to deliver her words cleanly and clearly. Just say what she wants to say and leave it at that. Make in concise and solid. No ums and arrs. I hate, literally hate her delivery.

I often turn over to avoid her or turn the sound off! She ruins it for me.

Okay that's my rant for the day. Message to the BBC: get rid of Sam Smith, please. She is effing hopeless as a commentator.

Sam Smith. Image: Wikipedia. Credit: By Andrew Campbell - Sam Smith, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41119550

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