By Nick McCarvel, Associate Editor

For the future of its coverage at Wimbledon, ESPN is digging into tennis' past: Hall-of-famer Chris Evert will join Brad Gilbert and others in the broadcast booth. Her last stint was with NBC in 2003. It's the first time she'll call matches for ESPN.

"I'm going back because I want to," said Evert, who won 18 major titles. "I have my own tennis academy. I've been involved in coaching now. I have a different perspective of the game."

Evert and Gilbert, speaking on a media conference call, predicted who might leave SW19 as champions.

"Rafa's played tremendous, Fed's got a track record, Djokovic has been on fire this year, and Murray just won Queens.  So I think one of those four," Gilbert said, unable to pick any single player as a heavy favorite.

"I agree with Brad. I cannot even give anybody the edge," Evert chimed in.

But while neither commentator could slice one man away from the competition, there was a single pair of women who dominated the ladies' discussion: Venus and Serena Williams.

"It would be monumental in my mind if Serena pulled off a win.  You can never, ever count her out," the 56-year-old Evert said. "I don't know how it's humanly possible for someone to take a year off like that and have gone through what she's been through physically with her ailments and really hasn't had a tremendous amount of practice."

Evert believes she'll bring a champion's eye to the commentator's booth.

"I think that the players like [me that were] in the heat of battle like Brad (Gilbert) and like John McEnroe and Mary Joe [Fernandez], I think that's what we pick up maybe a little bit better than analysts or commentators that really didn't feel that intense pressure," Evert said about sniffing out the big points in big matches.

ESPN's broadcast team rounds out with Chris Fowler, Hannah Storm, Fernandez,