You can follow this year's Wimbledon Championships at a new website set up by The Northern Echo.

Throughout the next fortnight, the site will provide regular news updates, results, polls and a chance for fans to have their say.

Web sports editor Lee Hall believes the site is a "refreshing alternative" to some of the more mainstream tennis websites.

"Our aim is to offer a plain and simple service which provides everything the tennis fan really needs to know," he said.

British fans will be pinning their hopes on Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski in the men's singles, and you can keep up to date with how they and the other hopefuls fare at thisisthenortheast.co.uk/sport/wimbledon.