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Today, four men face off in two matches, each with different views | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
of the past, but the same vision of the future. For the Canadian Milos | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
Raonic there is limited experience to call on. Beaten out of sight by | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
Federer in the semifinals here, he's never reached a Grand Slam final but | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
his ambition is clear. Check Tomas Berdych has been here before, six | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
years ago he beat Novak Djokovic to reach the final, only to find Rafa | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
Nadal Toogood. -- Czech. Andy Murray has a very clear idea of what this | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
is all about. Wimbledon champion in 2013 and committed to his call. The | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
man who has the most familiar feel is Roger Federer. Ten times he has | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
reached this stage from he's never lost a Wimbledon semifinal. Seven | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
times he has lifted the trophy, eight could be the all-time record. | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
They have the same dream, the same vision, but now it's time for | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
reality to take over. Hello and good evening, welcome to | :01:46. | :01:54. | |
today at Wimbledon. Earlier we had an overcast, dull day for men's | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
semifinals. But they promised to brighten the day and indeed they | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
did, the sun came out at about 5:30pm and its most gorgeous | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
evening. Later we see how Andy Murray fared in his heaven semifinal | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
against Tomas Berdych, runner-up in 2010. And joined by MM tweet man who | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
had six Wimbledon finals between them. John McEnroe and Boris Becker. | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
You are being teased about number of finals reached. He got me there. | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
There is something we should brag about, we should only talk about the | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
ones that we won. The only reason we have read here is that your man went | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
nearly a week ago, Novak Djokovic went home. I should be in the locker | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
room trying to find strategies about the final making sure the recovery | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
is good, but things happened and obviously he lost to Sam Querrey, he | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
was the better player on those two days. Novak had a chance to come | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
back on the Saturday after a poor first two sets, played a good third | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
set, fought his way through, then the fourth set 5-4, lost his way and | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
at the tie-break didn't do it. He's OK? We wondered if there might be | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
something wrong physically or mentally. He is superhuman | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
sometimes. He's also human once in a while. He's just a man out of flesh | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
and blood, is not always 110%. He's fine, resting in Monte Carlo, with | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
his family, he's fine. John has joined the rags of the super | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
coaches, having seen your success, he's in the camp of Milos Raonic who | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
was against Roger Federer, who came into Wimbledon unsure of form and | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
fitness. He's never been more uncertain than when he came in this | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
year, he had his meniscus tear, forced to miss the French Open. He | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
missed four consecutive majors to get ready for this one because he | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
knows his best shot is at Wimbledon. Here he was at an 11 semifinal at | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
Wimbledon which equals the record set by Jimmy Connors. Paddy Geary | :03:57. | :03:57. | |
can set this one up. On Centre Court, the meeting of a | :03:58. | :04:06. | |
master craftsman and heavy industry. Milos Raonic is the Canadian | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
catapults. This Wimbledon he has averaged nearly a set worth of H | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
aces per match. He's going to 7-4 aces in a game. With John McEnroe | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
coaching him on, Raonic is adding grace to the grunt and grit. The | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
first time in his career he recovered from two sets down to | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
triumph. Now Raonic must overthrow Wimbledon aristocracy. Vintage | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
Federer, how many times do we say it? That was extraordinary. Just as | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
it seemed Roger Federer's body might betray him, he's been invigorated. | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
Marin Cilic to him towards the exit when it two sets and three match | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
points over him, Lee found panache, not panic. Remarkable, he continues | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
to add chapters to this legacy that he has given this sport. The inner | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
calm hilt on the memory of the seven Wimbledon titles. Can he keep the | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
light from fading? Centre Court welcome to the players | :05:06. | :05:13. | |
out. The Canadian coming first. After a gap, the firm fan favourite, | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
the seven times Wimbledon champion. It was the Canadian who settled into | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
his groove early on, a double fault from Federer handing Raonic the | :05:25. | :05:25. | |
early break. There were flashes of brilliance | :05:26. | :05:34. | |
from Federer. But Raonic held firm and went on to take the first set | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
with his glorious shots down the line. | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
At 5-4 in the second set, Federer had 0-40 on the Raonic served at the | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
Canadian saved all three set points and another for good measure. He | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
would finally level up at 5-5 games and eventually the second set went | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
to a tie-break. The trusted Raonic serve wobbled. The six double fault | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
of the match and think Federer the mini-break at 4-3. Federer went on | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
to take the tie-break 7-3. At the end of the set both players went off | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
for a bathroom break and Raonic took a full six minutes, leaving Federer | :06:19. | :06:19. | |
hanging. We're going to join in the third set | :06:20. | :06:32. | |
at 1-1. Three games all. Raonic about reserve, commentary from John | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
McEnroe alongside Andrew Cotter. Unlucky for Raonic, it clips the | :06:36. | :07:01. | |
tape, gave Federer the time he needed. Took a good position to win | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
that first point. Into the net well, finished off | :07:06. | :07:30. | |
beautifully. Extremely difficult to lob from that position, to allow | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
Raonic to close it, closer to the net. | :07:36. | :08:33. | |
Massive stroke again from Federer. It's a risky move. To go to | :08:34. | :08:45. | |
Federer's forehand. Paid a stiff price for that. In the last that he | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
was able to save four break points, Raonic. Looks to do so again here. | :08:53. | :09:36. | |
Federer scores first in this first that. He has the break. STUDIO: | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
Federer login prompt, and with good reason, you finish the set on serve | :09:44. | :09:52. | |
with an ace. COMMENTATOR: He leaves on Centre Court in the semifinal | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
from one set down to 2-1 sets. STUDIO: Everybody tends to the | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
momentum was with Federer, but at this point Raonic was pulling out | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
all the stops. -- everybody sensed the momentum was with Federer. | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
Raonic unleashed somebody serves, kept Federer in the backhand corner. | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
We're going to join with Federer serving 5-6 down, so going with that | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
in this fourth set he has deserved to take it to the tie-break. -- he | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
has two serve. He hit it 30-30 the previous service | :10:27. | :10:43. | |
game. Easier to hit that when you are 40-0 down. 30-30 would have | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
given him a set point. Only number three in the double | :10:47. | :11:02. | |
fault stakes, Federer. Superb, superb from Raonic, what | :11:03. | :12:08. | |
touch! And he takes himself now to the break. Advantage Raonic. Just a | :12:09. | :12:20. | |
few moments ago it scarcely seemed possible, Federer in control of this | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
game. That point Raonic. -- but set point Raonic. That is how to see it | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
off. Wow, the best rally he said the | :12:34. | :12:57. | |
entire match, and the best return right there. Get the speed gun on | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
that one. Set point once more. Just devoured that second serve, | :13:02. | :13:17. | |
Raonic. It's wide. Another chance for | :13:18. | :14:51. | |
Raonic. Advantage Raonic. ANDREW COTTER: He has it! Into a | :14:52. | :15:22. | |
fifth set we go. Milos Raonic stuns Federer and most of the Centre Court | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
crowd. We go on. CLARE BALDING: Credit to Raonic for | :15:26. | :15:36. | |
taking the chance when handed it. Federer had only served two double | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
faults in the Championship before this match. Raonic took it to a | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
fifth set and this an unusual sight, Federer getting treatment on court. | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
So, into the deciding set. We will join it with Federer serving 1-2 | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
down. JOHN MCENROE: Before the last match, | :15:52. | :16:25. | |
Federer hadn't played a five-setter in almost a year. At the US Open he | :16:26. | :16:34. | |
came from two sets to love down against Monfils. It cost him the | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
next match against Cilic. You wonder if it will happen today. | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
He's trying to pump himself up. Raonic has done a good job of taking | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
the crowd out of it, at least temporarily. | :16:54. | :17:22. | |
It might have been going wide. I think it was going in either way. | :17:23. | :18:19. | |
Not so long ago Federer had a rhythm on his serve. Not now. | :18:20. | :18:45. | |
It's good! Federer is down. Raonic has the break-point to come. It's | :18:46. | :19:04. | |
not often you see Roger Federer on the floor on Centre Court. Not sure | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
I have ever seen that. Except when he's won the tournament. That was an | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
amazing point. He's calling the trainer right now. There was nothing | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
there in that replay. There was no slip. Something gave way. The crowd | :19:21. | :19:30. | |
are chuckling, but this is not good at all. | :19:31. | :19:41. | |
Let's see if we can see anything... He tripped. He caught his toe. | :19:42. | :19:55. | |
You can put direct strain on the knee. He is coming out. He says he | :19:56. | :20:05. | |
is OK. This is break-point for Raonic. What moments in this match | :20:06. | :20:14. | |
now. We talked about Federer being in his comfort zone... Far from it | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
now. UMPIRE: Advantage, Raonic. | :20:17. | :20:28. | |
Raonic still fighting, believing that a break can be his. He has to | :20:29. | :21:54. | |
believe it more than he has ever believed that he's got a shot of | :21:55. | :21:55. | |
getting to the finals here. The double fault plagues him again. | :21:56. | :22:35. | |
Another opportunity for Milos Raonic. | :22:36. | :22:55. | |
It's extraordinary from Milos Raonic! He has the break! He has the | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
edge in the deciding set! What a point! | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
CLARE BALDING: Some brilliant movement from Raonic. As we re-join | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
it, it's a question of whether the Canadian can hold his nerve and | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
serve to take him through to his first Wimbledon final. | :23:18. | :24:06. | |
ANDREW COTTER: When the pressure has come down, when the moment has been | :24:07. | :24:16. | |
here, Milos Raonic has shown no signs of nerves. Three match-points. | :24:17. | :24:31. | |
It's wide. He has it! Raonic to his first final. And Federer fails - | :24:32. | :24:49. | |
knocked out by Milos Raonic. REPORTER: Many congratulations, you | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
are through to the final. Describe your emotions. You have beaten a | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
great champion today? It is an incredible comeback for me. I was | :24:57. | :24:58. | |
struggling through the third and fourth set. He was playing some | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
really good tennis. Just found a little opening. I managed to finish | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
it off in a great match. You have added to your coaching team. John | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
McEnroe has joined you. What sort of influence has he had with you? He | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
told me to leave it all out there today. I showed a lot of emotion. | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
Always positive. That is what got me through. Mentally, I had one of my | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
best matches in my history, in my career. And I think that is what | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
made the biggest difference. I was looking at Centre Court, thank you | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
for the crowd, thank you for a great feeling that you gave me throughout | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
the Championships. I was fortunate enough yet again to play all my | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
matches on Centre Court. I don't take that for granted. For me, it's | :25:46. | :25:54. | |
respect towards Milos, I chose to wait for him, he walked off | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
together, thanked the crowd, and then leave the stage for Milos at | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
the end. That was what I was going through, not thinking about this | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
might be my last Wimbledon. Federer making it clear he is not on the | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
verge of retirement. He also said the chances he missed, he was almost | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
tearful, John, because there were turning points. It did look like it | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
was going Federer's way? He has been tearful before. This wouldn't have | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
been the first time. What Milos needed to do was fight fire with | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
fire in terms of effort and will. Here is a guy who has won it seven | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
times and wants it so bad. Certainly, at 4-4 in the fourth set, | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
things were looking really bleak for Milos, he is down two or three | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
break-points, he hit a huge forehand, the forehand of his life. | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
That was the most positive intense match I have ever seen him play. He | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
needed to do that against Federer. It was fantastic. He is a good kid. | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
Well deserved. Everybody watching attend of that fourth set would have | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
thought this is going to a tie-break. Then Federer goes off? | :26:58. | :27:06. | |
The fourth set went... Roger was the better player. Milos was getting | :27:07. | :27:16. | |
rattled. Everybody thought it is going to be Federer in four. Then | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
something unusual happened. Roger served two double faults. One of the | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
most consistent servers in the game. He got a bit nervous, a bit tight. | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
Didn't go for the balls. He let Milos do the playing and he was | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
defending. All of a sudden, you go to the fifth set, you wonder, is he | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
tired? He is older than Milos by ten years. You can still bring out great | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
matches, it is just the recovery time, it takes you longer to get | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
back into shape. At the beginning of the fifth he had that slip. It was | :27:55. | :28:03. | |
the left knee. Against Milos, that is not good enough. John, I want to | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
talk about the tactics that you helped Milos employ. The body serve | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
seemed particularly brutal today and effective? Carlos Moya noticed in a | :28:14. | :28:20. | |
previous match with Sam Querrey, his miles per hour was down by 10 or | :28:21. | :28:27. | |
15mph. Sam wasn't do a lot on the return, so we needed to bring his | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
A-game. One of the key serves is into the body. You have to go after | :28:34. | :28:39. | |
him, not give him any time. He was hitting serves in the 140s, that was | :28:40. | :28:45. | |
some major power tennis. That is what he needed to do. Federer, he | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
blocks a lot of balls. You know what you are going to get. He likes to | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
hit the slice low cross-court. If you give him a look on the forehand, | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
he will go for that. That was a monumental serving day. He tried to | :28:58. | :29:04. | |
pin Federer into that backhand corner, similar to Cilic. It is no | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
secret that Roger's forehands is one of the greatest shots in the history | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
of tennis. If you are going to go after Roger Federer, you have a | :29:14. | :29:16. | |
better chance to try to get him where you want him, wait for your | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
opportunity, which Milos did a real good job. He knows the chip is | :29:21. | :29:30. | |
coming. He has time to run around. I thought Milos volleyed as well as I | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
have ever seen him. Why is that so? I wonder why! Also, thank you, | :29:36. | :29:45. | |
Boris! Milos is someone who is extremely intelligent, his father is | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
an engineer, he is very analytical, so if you talk to him in a | :29:50. | :29:55. | |
mathematical way, use the court as a geometry equation, he is good at | :29:56. | :30:03. | |
solving the problem. He is getting it, when to move forward. Hopefully | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
I did a bit. That paid off at the end of this match. Roger played like | :30:08. | :30:09. | |
a five-setter. Let's talk about Roger and what that | :30:10. | :30:18. | |
five set match might have taken out of him. And his lack of match | :30:19. | :30:22. | |
fitness to this point. You can play yourself into form, but you can also | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
play until you are tired. There is a fine line of playing enough and too | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
much, it obviously has nothing to do with age, whether you're 25, 35, you | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
have to have enough love matches, four and five setters to get match | :30:37. | :30:42. | |
fit. You can't get it in practice, it's not the same intensity. It was | :30:43. | :30:49. | |
a good thing for Roger to have that five setter against Cilic, maybe it | :30:50. | :30:53. | |
was a bit long, it was pretty hot on Wednesday, he played at 1pm, he | :30:54. | :30:57. | |
played three and a half hours and he came back from three point four. | :30:58. | :31:01. | |
Maybe it was set too much. He hasn't had any five setters in one year. | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
This was definitely one set too much, he said it in the press | :31:07. | :31:09. | |
conference, he should have gone to a tie-break and seen what was what. | :31:10. | :31:15. | |
But in the fifth, we see the slip, you'd already have treatment at the | :31:16. | :31:17. | |
beginning of the fifth. He loses his footing here. It looks painful. It's | :31:18. | :31:24. | |
unheard of to see him do some thing like that for starters, we were | :31:25. | :31:31. | |
worried it was an injury. I've never seen a guy move so beautiful, and | :31:32. | :31:35. | |
with seemingly less effort. The fact he was labouring. That's what we | :31:36. | :31:41. | |
told Milos Raonic. The guy played a great match to come from so far | :31:42. | :31:47. | |
down, but he's 34, almost 35, you don't recover as quickly with age. I | :31:48. | :31:51. | |
don't care who you are. You saw that in the fifth set. He's not sure how | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
bad that injury is, it could be something that last 24 hours, a | :31:56. | :31:59. | |
week, or it could be longer term, he doesn't know. What Milos Raonic did | :32:00. | :32:04. | |
which is so impressive, to hold his nerve at the end, the way he served | :32:05. | :32:08. | |
out for the match without seemingly having that frees moment of them oh | :32:09. | :32:12. | |
my word, I'm on the verge of the Wimbledon final. He almost had a | :32:13. | :32:16. | |
chance for the double break, Roger forcing the serve... You got the | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
sense and maybe Cilic felt the same late in the fourth set, Roger seems | :32:23. | :32:28. | |
like he didn't have the energy required to do it and if you weren't | :32:29. | :32:33. | |
going to blink, the way Cilic did, let's face it, the difference with | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
Cilic is he wasn't serving. Those match points were on Roger's serve, | :32:39. | :32:42. | |
it's a big difference. Milos Raonic round his second gear. That year he | :32:43. | :32:48. | |
never thought wasn't sure he had. Late in the fourth set. He had this | :32:49. | :32:53. | |
combination of real energy, but nervous energy, that he was trying | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
to figure out how to deal with. In the fifth set he's Federer had | :32:58. | :33:01. | |
slowed down and he was playing well, hitting the ball cleanly, it made | :33:02. | :33:05. | |
him a little more relaxed. He's never been in a Grand Slam final. | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
Trust me, his heart rate was in the 200 probably. Always nice to get the | :33:11. | :33:15. | |
first couple of points. To affect performance, he becomes the first | :33:16. | :33:21. | |
Canadian man ever into a singles Grand Slam final. Would it be the | :33:22. | :33:26. | |
top seed left in the tournament, Andy Murray, or Tomas Berdych. They | :33:27. | :33:30. | |
were meeting for the 15th time, but the first time on grass. Andy Murray | :33:31. | :33:34. | |
and Tomas Berdych have known each other since their teens and there | :33:35. | :33:39. | |
has been the odd choice word along the way. They are back on good | :33:40. | :33:45. | |
terms. In their 14 meetings, Murray has won eight. They've never met | :33:46. | :33:48. | |
here at Wimbledon. The six foot five champ is ranked ninth in the world. | :33:49. | :33:55. | |
-- six foot five Czech is ranked ninth in the world. A tour de force | :33:56. | :33:59. | |
from Andy Murray. Tremendous tennis from Tomas Berdych. Wonderful tennis | :34:00. | :34:06. | |
rally, Murray coming out on top. Verdict had a late night against you | :34:07. | :34:09. | |
regrettably in the fourth round but a straightforward quarterfinal win | :34:10. | :34:15. | |
has put him in fine condition. Tomas Berdych back in the Wimbledon | :34:16. | :34:19. | |
semifinals. As for Murray, he went the distance against the bouncing, | :34:20. | :34:23. | |
booming Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, and his determination to win was there for | :34:24. | :34:25. | |
all to see. He beat if he beat Berdych, Murray makes his | :34:26. | :34:33. | |
third Wimbledon final and 11 Grand Slam final, which would take him | :34:34. | :34:38. | |
past the British record held by Fred Perry, another milestone for Murray | :34:39. | :34:41. | |
will the other day when Andy Murray came | :34:42. | :34:49. | |
out on court it was half full after Federer's five set epic. There, | :34:50. | :34:52. | |
having gone out, a lot of people taking a chance to have a break. | :34:53. | :34:56. | |
They were into it pretty quickly and it was Murray who came out of the | :34:57. | :34:59. | |
blocks fastest, breaking Berdych in the second game. The Czech bounced | :35:00. | :35:04. | |
back straightaway in the following game. | :35:05. | :35:08. | |
Plenty of fist pumping going on, plenty of determination. The British | :35:09. | :35:14. | |
number one seized his chance again in the eighth game. | :35:15. | :35:21. | |
Are and the first set was promptly wrapped up. With an ace. Murray had | :35:22. | :35:36. | |
the bit between his teeth. He's always been a fast move on court, | :35:37. | :35:40. | |
but he was really chasing balls down. We're going to join it, Murray | :35:41. | :35:49. | |
having taken the first set 6-3. 3-3 in the second. Commentary from | :35:50. | :35:51. | |
Andrew Castle, Tim Henman and Lleyton Hewitt. | :35:52. | :36:10. | |
He makes that passing shot looks so easy, every time he gets pushed out | :36:11. | :36:16. | |
there, but believe me it's one of the hardest shots, take a south of | :36:17. | :36:19. | |
the ball, did it down. Great wrist action. | :36:20. | :36:54. | |
It's just relentless from Murray, he did so well to hold onto his own | :36:55. | :37:01. | |
service game. Fully engaged in the next. Try to get this important | :37:02. | :37:04. | |
break. It's really amazing with the quality | :37:05. | :38:31. | |
of Murray's shots in that rally why he didn't come forward just to knock | :38:32. | :38:34. | |
off an easy volley. But he got there in the end. He just kept taking the | :38:35. | :38:41. | |
body blows there, Tomas Berdych. Side to side. The big fella moving. | :38:42. | :38:44. | |
Now he faces two break point will Gets the first break of serve in | :38:45. | :39:25. | |
this second set. Second break-up. STUDIO: Murray fully concentrated. | :39:26. | :39:32. | |
Boris was saying the sun can get very low, it can really bother you | :39:33. | :39:37. | |
at the far end. Berdych surfing. Murray with a beautiful shot down | :39:38. | :39:41. | |
the line takes the second break and that second set 6-3. Let's rejoin | :39:42. | :39:45. | |
the action early in the served tweet -- early in the third set with | :39:46. | :39:53. | |
Berdych surfing. That's the shot he's got be worried | :39:54. | :40:08. | |
about at the moment, it's the forehand that is breaking down. The | :40:09. | :40:13. | |
previous game he got a short one on game points to Murray and he went | :40:14. | :40:17. | |
for the drop shot because he had lost confidence in that short | :40:18. | :40:18. | |
forehand. Imposing his game on the opposition. | :40:19. | :40:35. | |
Driving that backhand as soon as he got Lednl back on board. Day one at | :40:36. | :40:42. | |
Queen's Club against Nicolas Mahut, first round, he was stepping up and | :40:43. | :40:47. | |
driving it. But a similar feel as well, come through a tough service | :40:48. | :40:50. | |
game, you'll looked to put the pressure on Berdych. -- he'll look | :40:51. | :40:54. | |
to put the pressure on Berdych. Tomas Berdych actually asked Ivan | :40:55. | :41:11. | |
Lendl to coach him and he said, no, I don't want to come back to tears. | :41:12. | :41:16. | |
But Andy calls and suddenly he does. -- come back to tennis. | :41:17. | :41:40. | |
It's amazing how many times we've seen Berdych come into the net, be | :41:41. | :41:46. | |
in the dominant position, and then Murray used that dexterity, the hand | :41:47. | :41:51. | |
skills, to push the ball back into an awkward position. | :41:52. | :42:25. | |
The crowd enjoying it, Lednl impassive as always. But Murray is | :42:26. | :42:37. | |
very much in the flow. That incredible log ban on the line. | :42:38. | :42:54. | |
He does it out. Each, makes it look so easy as well. Murray 5-3 in the | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
third set serving for a place in the final for the third time. | :43:01. | :43:56. | |
Murray has served down the T exceptionally well, but you might | :43:57. | :44:00. | |
have thought Berdych would move over a little bit to say about time you | :44:01. | :44:03. | |
hit a few out wide here. Murray wants that same ball back, | :44:04. | :44:22. | |
thank you very much, I like that one. | :44:23. | :46:04. | |
ANDREW CASTLE: Murray in straight sets. A demolition job, really. In | :46:05. | :46:10. | |
less than two hours! CLARE BALDING: A fantastic response | :46:11. | :46:30. | |
from the crowd, to a clinical performance. Murray made nine | :46:31. | :46:34. | |
unforced errors and this was his response afterwards. | :46:35. | :46:39. | |
The older you get, you never know how many chances you are going to | :46:40. | :46:42. | |
get to play in Grand Slam finals so you want to make the most of your | :46:43. | :46:47. | |
opportunities and I'm glad I managed to get through to today and, yeah, I | :46:48. | :46:55. | |
guess the older you get, you are more experienced, which helps. | :46:56. | :47:01. | |
Having had those experiences in the past have helped me a lot, playing | :47:02. | :47:05. | |
against some of the best players of all time, so I know what I have to | :47:06. | :47:11. | |
do to get to the latter stages of these events. I need to play a great | :47:12. | :47:15. | |
match on Sunday if I want to win. There were a couple of | :47:16. | :47:19. | |
opportunities. In those moments, I was a bit short on that. I wasn't | :47:20. | :47:26. | |
able to execute them in the second set when I was 3-2 up and had a | :47:27. | :47:31. | |
couple of break-points on his serve. There was a good chance as well. | :47:32. | :47:38. | |
Overall, it was a good run. I think it's a good two weeks, which | :47:39. | :47:42. | |
definitely show me that that is the way to do it. That's the way to go. | :47:43. | :47:48. | |
That's positive signs for my second half of the year. To be fair, | :47:49. | :47:52. | |
another good performance from Tomas Berdych here at Wimbledon. John, | :47:53. | :47:57. | |
Murray had his number. He was impressive? He was great. Berdych, | :47:58. | :48:04. | |
too me, he took him out of the match, for a guy that is now 30, and | :48:05. | :48:10. | |
he doesn't dig deep enough, he is happy with the situation he's in. It | :48:11. | :48:16. | |
is too bad that he wasn't able to... The truth is, he is not as good as | :48:17. | :48:20. | |
Murray. He doesn't have as much variety as Murray. That is a big | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
problem. It seemed like he gave in mentally. You hate to see that in a | :48:25. | :48:29. | |
match of that magnitude. How much of a difference will it make, Boris, | :48:30. | :48:32. | |
for Andy going into this final without... He had a five-setter | :48:33. | :48:36. | |
against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. At the French, when Novak played him, he | :48:37. | :48:40. | |
had a really hard start to that Grand Slam. He's had an easier time | :48:41. | :48:47. | |
here? I think it can make a big difference, especially if the final | :48:48. | :48:50. | |
is a long match. At the French, he had five hours more tennis than | :48:51. | :48:56. | |
Novak. We knew Andy was going to get tired. Here, he has had a | :48:57. | :49:02. | |
straightforward tournament until Wednesday, and that is something you | :49:03. | :49:06. | |
need to do in Grand Slams because you want to be pushed before you | :49:07. | :49:09. | |
reach the final. Physically, he should be fine. Mentally, he should | :49:10. | :49:14. | |
be sky-high, being back in the Wimbledon final. His favourite | :49:15. | :49:19. | |
tournament in the world. Facing an unusual opponent. He expected Roger | :49:20. | :49:24. | |
to win, all fairness to Milos. The preparations will be a bit different | :49:25. | :49:30. | |
than they might have been. Raonic is going to come in... When Berdych | :49:31. | :49:35. | |
came in, Murray picked him off? I think Raonic is more comfortable | :49:36. | :49:40. | |
moving forward. I think his confidence is higher on grass than | :49:41. | :49:47. | |
Berdych's is. The truth is, Murray, from the beginning of the event, has | :49:48. | :49:51. | |
been playing better than anyone. When this guy's protege, his man, | :49:52. | :49:59. | |
lost, a lot of guys' eyes lit up. Except for yours! Raonic, the | :50:00. | :50:03. | |
opportunity for him, Federer and Murray, he doesn't have to play | :50:04. | :50:07. | |
Djokovic, he is playing Raonic. Ask him if he would take that before the | :50:08. | :50:10. | |
tournament started. He would say yes! Fantastic pace around the | :50:11. | :50:15. | |
court. We saw it there again. When he gets there, he's got such skill. | :50:16. | :50:19. | |
The lob is his favourite shot now over the drop shot. He just is | :50:20. | :50:25. | |
phenomenal from anywhere. As you said, the variety, what he can do. | :50:26. | :50:32. | |
He is a multiple Grand Slam winner. He has been long time number two in | :50:33. | :50:36. | |
the world, knocking at the door various times to number one. He's | :50:37. | :50:42. | |
very complete. With age, he seems to be getting better because he really | :50:43. | :50:49. | |
works on all cylinders, calling Lendl up a couple of weeks ago was | :50:50. | :50:59. | |
brave. He wants to win the major and that's, he's got this deep fire | :51:00. | :51:03. | |
burning inside. You said Tomas Berdych is lacking it a bit. Most | :51:04. | :51:06. | |
other players are lacking it. Andy has that. He won't be happy with the | :51:07. | :51:12. | |
final. Probably tonight, he's thinking, OK, it could have been | :51:13. | :51:16. | |
Roger. Tomorrow, Federer will be back in Switzerland and Andy Murray | :51:17. | :51:20. | |
will be thinking about Milos Raonic. It's a rematch of the Queen's final. | :51:21. | :51:29. | |
Let's round up a few of the other things that have been going on | :51:30. | :51:34. | |
today. Whatever triumph and sadness they | :51:35. | :51:38. | |
experience on their own, the Williams sisters find time to come | :51:39. | :51:42. | |
together. They have won five Wimbledon doubles titles but none in | :51:43. | :51:45. | |
four years. They gave notice they are very much a force. Facing one | :51:46. | :51:50. | |
sister is tough enough, facing both when they are on form proved too | :51:51. | :51:54. | |
much for Julia Goerges and Karolina Pliskova. The eighth seeds never | :51:55. | :51:59. | |
gave up, but another Wimbledon final will feature the name Williams and | :52:00. | :52:07. | |
Serena has a busy weekend ahead! Next opponents Yaroslava Shvedova | :52:08. | :52:10. | |
and Timea Babos won't be daunted. They knocked out the top seeds in | :52:11. | :52:15. | |
the quarterfinals and made short work of Raquel Atawo and Abigail | :52:16. | :52:18. | |
Spears. The fifth seeds have experience, too. They have played in | :52:19. | :52:22. | |
three doubles finals here. The Heather Watson that appeared on | :52:23. | :52:25. | |
Court 1 today looks a different woman to the one who trudged off | :52:26. | :52:32. | |
Court 12 last week. Playing mixed doubles with Henri Kontinen has | :52:33. | :52:35. | |
brought out the best in her. Having eliminated the holders yesterday, | :52:36. | :52:41. | |
they got Alla Kudryavtseva and Scott Lipsky needing snookers, then | :52:42. | :52:45. | |
started the trick shots. This wasn't an exhibition match, but a | :52:46. | :52:49. | |
quarterfinal. These two are into the semi-finals and loving it. | :52:50. | :52:53. | |
Yesterday, Gordon Reid met royalty. Today it was Joachim Gerard. At | :52:54. | :53:02. | |
stake, a place in the first Wimbledon wheelchair final. Gordon | :53:03. | :53:06. | |
Reid won in straight sets against a man regarded as the favourite. | :53:07. | :53:09. | |
Elation had to give way to preparation as Reid was soon in | :53:10. | :53:14. | |
action against Gerard again as part of opposing doubles teams. Twice the | :53:15. | :53:25. | |
players, but same result. Reid and Hewitt won in two sets. Reid is not | :53:26. | :53:38. | |
having a bad few days. Jordanne Whiley couldn't get through | :53:39. | :53:44. | |
her semifinal against Aniek Van Koot. Whiley tweeted she was gutted, | :53:45. | :53:51. | |
that she needed to forget it. This evening it is a semi in the doubles. | :53:52. | :53:58. | |
She is the reigning champion. CLARE BALDING: She did return later | :53:59. | :54:06. | |
to book a place in the final. Boris, John, we have you both here. Let's | :54:07. | :54:10. | |
talk about the men's final on Sunday. If it was Novak, up against | :54:11. | :54:14. | |
Andy Murray, what would you be saying to him, Boris? I don't think | :54:15. | :54:19. | |
I will say that on BBC Television! Is it rude? Let me be a little bit | :54:20. | :54:27. | |
more diplomatic. You already were! Woah, more specific, I meant. | :54:28. | :54:31. | |
Obviously, you are not going to win a Wimbledon final by waiting for the | :54:32. | :54:36. | |
other guy to lose it. That's very important. You have to go for your | :54:37. | :54:39. | |
shots, you have to be aggressive, you have to do a bit more than the | :54:40. | :54:47. | |
other guy. He also wants to win badly, so you have to make sure you | :54:48. | :54:51. | |
want it a bit more. There are ways to play Andy Murray, that Novak | :54:52. | :54:54. | |
does. He is able to because his baseline game is good, he is | :54:55. | :54:59. | |
physically as strong as Andy, maybe a bit stronger, so there are | :55:00. | :55:04. | |
different ways to play Andy. Milos has a total different game, he has a | :55:05. | :55:09. | |
big serve, he comes into the net, a bit more than he's done today, | :55:10. | :55:13. | |
hopefully, he has a big second serve, hopefully more than today. | :55:14. | :55:17. | |
John will tell him the right things. Raonic played brilliantly well in | :55:18. | :55:20. | |
the Queen's final, he was a set and a break up. He had it there. He very | :55:21. | :55:25. | |
politely let Murray back in. How much, John... I feel I should leave | :55:26. | :55:31. | |
now! Here is my question. How much do you talk to Raonic about playing | :55:32. | :55:35. | |
Murray and how much do you talk to him about playing the occasion? | :55:36. | :55:41. | |
Obviously, there is a combination. Murray's playing the best... Boris | :55:42. | :55:47. | |
is accurate. Murray is playing better than he ever has. Adding | :55:48. | :55:54. | |
Lendl has added more belief. Milos has waited for this opportunity for | :55:55. | :55:58. | |
a long time, there's a lot of expectations. He's one of the few | :55:59. | :56:01. | |
guys that's admitted, I want to be the best in the world, I want to win | :56:02. | :56:05. | |
majors. Guess what, that puts more pressure on yourself. Here he is and | :56:06. | :56:15. | |
he's got the type of game, as we saw today, he can take the racquet out | :56:16. | :56:21. | |
of everyone's hands. He missed a volley by this much. He got a little | :56:22. | :56:28. | |
bit tight. Novak and Murray are the greatest returners in the history of | :56:29. | :56:33. | |
tennis. This is not a big secret that Milos will have to go for it. | :56:34. | :56:37. | |
Also the part about the mental part, that is the really the key. What you | :56:38. | :56:41. | |
saw from Milos that you haven't seen much of before, is how badly he | :56:42. | :56:46. | |
wanted it and how deep he was willing to go here and that energy | :56:47. | :56:51. | |
was positive and I think it really helped him in this match. He has to | :56:52. | :56:55. | |
do that. It helped Murray against Tsonga. Things are getting more | :56:56. | :56:59. | |
exciting. The players are figuring this out. And starting to do it | :57:00. | :57:03. | |
more. It will be hugely exciting on Sunday afternoon. You have a full | :57:04. | :57:08. | |
day to work with him. Tomorrow, we will be fully focussed on the final | :57:09. | :57:14. | |
of the women's. So cool under pressure. That's | :57:15. | :57:24. | |
brilliant. She got it! An exhibition performance from Serena Williams. | :57:25. | :57:31. | |
Wow! At the age of 28, she's reinvented herself. They are not | :57:32. | :57:37. | |
hanging around. Another super performance. The | :57:38. | :57:42. | |
winner in Melbourne and now a Wimbledon final for Angelique | :57:43. | :57:50. | |
Kerber. All the build-up will start at 1.00pm on BBC One. Before that, | :57:51. | :57:55. | |
we have coverage of the wheelchair finals from 11.00am on BBC Two. | :57:56. | :57:59. | |
Serena Williams, she gets the chance again to get to the number that she | :58:00. | :58:04. | |
refuses to talk about. Is she going to do it? I admire the fact she | :58:05. | :58:08. | |
keeps putting herself in this position. You saw Novak feel the | :58:09. | :58:13. | |
pressure here. Going for the Slam, Serena going for it last year. Her | :58:14. | :58:18. | |
game is more impactful, the serve bigger on grass, but Kerber likes it | :58:19. | :58:23. | |
lower, the ball, which helps her. For me, this match-up for Serena is | :58:24. | :58:27. | |
best on this surface. I like her chances best here and I would be | :58:28. | :58:31. | |
surprised, even though I was surprised Kerber beat her in | :58:32. | :58:34. | |
Australia, so she's elevated her game to a whole new level. She moves | :58:35. | :58:40. | |
great. It is going to be close. In a word, Boris, your winner? Give me | :58:41. | :58:47. | |
two words... My fellow German beat her in Melbourne and she certainly | :58:48. | :58:51. | |
has a chance to beat her tomorrow. But if I would be a money guy, and | :58:52. | :58:56. | |
bet on it, I would pick Serena. Thank you both very much for your | :58:57. | :59:00. | |
company and thank you also to Milos Raonic and to Andy Murray for | :59:01. | :59:03. | |
stellar performances today. They will face each other in the final on | :59:04. | :59:05. | |
Sunday. | :59:06. | :59:07. |