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Come on Andy! Come on Andy! Come on Andy! Come on Andy! When you have a | :00:20. | :00:31. | |
guy like that, you follow him. And there will be more of that cry | :00:32. | :00:43. | |
on Sunday, because Andy Murray is through to the Wimbledon final once | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
again. This is how he clinched victory. In three sets. 6-3, 6-3, | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
6-3. Berdych had a chance in the second set, but Murray held firm, | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
and never let go. He got better and better as the match went on, and | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Berdych had no answer. Too much variety from Murray. Too much | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
strength and belief. He is a great competitor. No sign of nerves. Andy | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Murray through to the Wimbledon final once again. He won it back in | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
2013. He gave his family and friends so much to cheer about. We are so | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
used to the matches being tense. Let's hear what Andy had to say. He | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
spoke to Gary after the match. Many congratulations. Your emotion on | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
reaching another final? Obviously very happy. The middle part of the | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
second set was really key. I had a few chances to go up a break, and | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
then I broke the following game. Obviously, to make another of | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
Wimbledon final, that is a good achievement. Does the feeling get | :01:59. | :02:08. | |
better each time you get through? Yes, the older you get, you never | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
know how many more chances you are going to have to play in Grand Slam | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
finals, so you want to make the most of your opportunities, and I managed | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
to get through today, and I guess the older you get, the more | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
experience you have, which helps in these situations. That is what I was | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
wondering. Thus the pressure get less? You have played in ten Grand | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
Slam finals already. You learn from those matches, for sure, having had | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
those experiences in the past, they have helped me a lot, playing | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
against some of the best players of all time. I know what I have to do | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
to get to the latter stages of these events, and I need to play a great | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
match on Sunday if I want to win. That is against Milos Raonic, and | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
you beat him on grass. That was a very tough match. Three sets, I was | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
down a set and a break, and I managed to turn it around. He is | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
playing some of the best grass court tennis of his career. He played a | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
great game with Roger today. Very entertaining, tough match. I am | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
aware that I have to play very well. Do you have a Wimbledon final | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
routine? Are you six dishes in anyway clever -- superstition? | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
I have the same practice time, but I won't change too much. Lastly, you | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
will be for a couple of hours doing lots of interviews. When you go | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
home, what do you do? I remember a couple of years ago, you put the TV | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
on and watched Toye story. What will you do today? I will finish all of | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
my recovery staff, to the press, and then it is late by the time you get | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
back. I will be up for a bit, and hopefully get a good night's sleep, | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
rest day tomorrow, then hopefully come back firing on Sunday. Really | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
well done. He is playing the best tennis of his | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
career at the moment. He has Ivan Lendl bag in his corner. He is | :04:17. | :04:26. | |
driven now. He said he wanted to win it again, he said he wanted to be | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
Novak Djokovic, but he is not here. He is going to have to beat the man- | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
Melton from Canada. -- the man mountain. That is praise indeed from | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
Ivan Lendl. He will be planning the schedule and tactics for the final | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
on Sunday. Andy Murray through to the Wimbledon final once again. So, | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
what to get -- what a day it has been. Let's get the view from art | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
commentators. Lleyton Hewitt, I was talking about the sixth game in the | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
second set. He felt but that was the heart of the match. That could have | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
been the turning point for Tomas Berdych. | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
Sorry, I can't hear your microphone at the moment. We will try and sort | :05:14. | :05:22. | |
that out. Just give me a thumbs up if you thought it was a great match! | :05:23. | :05:33. | |
I again. The sixth game. No! I'm sorry, guys. We will try and get | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
back to you. It will be worth going back. But this is everyone leaving | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
now, Centre Court. What a day they have had. They had a five set | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
thriller with Roger Federer losing to Milos Raonic. Federer looked like | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
he could win that in four sets. He came so close to it, but Milos | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
Raonic came. Through Mr show you how Milos Raonic finished it off on | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
Centre Court today. Here he is at 40-0, and finishing it off with a | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
big serve. And then an error from Roger. Roger had to have the train | :06:11. | :06:20. | |
on Centre Court. He never really got into it. He is through, not only to | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
his first Wimbledon final, but also his first Grand Slam final. There | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
will be a big occasion for him. Let's hear what he has to say. Many | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
congratulations. You are through to the final. Describe your emotions. | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
You have beaten a great champion today. I was struggling there, | :06:40. | :06:49. | |
through the third and fourth set, he was struggling, and just a little | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
opening, I managed to finish off on a great match. What impact is this | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
going to have? You are the first Canadian man to reach the Grand Slam | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
final. It will be a big impact if I can win. I have to win first. | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
Hopefully it does have a great impact. You have your mum and dad | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
here. They are watching your matches, and on the seventh -- | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
semifinal, they look so calm. They're not! I am sure they will be | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
taking a little nap right now, just to ease off their motion. I'm sure I | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
will as well! But it is a great feeling to play in my first final. | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
You have a good coaching team around you. You have added to it with John | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
McEnroe. What sort of influence has he had with you? What he told me | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
today is leave it all out there. I showed a lot of emotion, I was | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
always positive, and that is what got me through. I had one of my best | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
matches in my history and my career, and that is what made the biggest | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
difference. And his experience on finals day, he will give you little | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
nuggets that will really help. I hope so. He gave me plenty of help | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
today. He has experienced winning slams and playing in these | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
semifinals. Between now and Sunday, how will you and all the occasions, | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
the emotions? -- candle. I will try and push it down. I am by no means | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
done. It gives me something to keep myself my sight line on. I want to | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
progress and win this thing. And Andy Murray in the final. If it is | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
him, it proves to be in intriguing match. We played in the finals at | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
Queen's. I said that I hope I have a rematch. I would sound like a genius | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
if it is him, but I have to prepare myself, and I would do the best I | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
can. Well done. It was interesting in the commentary | :08:50. | :08:59. | |
box. John McEnroe was saying, he is not moving his serve around enough, | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
he is not mixing it up and. He said needed in the fifth and final set. | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
Roger had his chances. It is the first time he has ever been beaten | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
in a Wimbledon semifinal, and he got so close to getting through at the | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
end of the fourth set. He was not able to take his chances, and Milos | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
Raonic took is. So, let's hear from Rod of -- Roger Federer who was | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
visibly upset in the press conference afterwards. Something | :09:28. | :09:37. | |
went wrong. A double fault, twice. Unexplainable for me. Very sad and | :09:38. | :09:46. | |
angry at myself, because never should I have allowed him to get out | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
of that set so easily. He deserved it. He owned it at the end, but I | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
helped him so much to get back into that game, and I thought I was the | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
better player for the set, and then, I know he is great in the breakers. | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
It was always going to be tough. But I would like to have seen him | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
scramble for. This clearly hurts, because I thought I could have had | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
it. So close. It was so close. I feel that I lost it and he won it. | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
When I played on top-of-the-line, he thought, like I did against Marin | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
Cilic. Sometimes, things don't go your way. If you blink at the wrong | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
time, and it happened so fast that you connect. Things change. We are | :10:37. | :10:45. | |
doing a different press conference, but credit to him for hanging in | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
there. Expanding what went wrong, but this is the site that all of the | :10:50. | :10:57. | |
Federer fans are sad to see. He will not win the eighth Wimbledon title. | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
A disappointing day for him. Very honest in press conference. Bitterly | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
disappointed, but he had his chances, and it is rare that you say | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
that about Roger Federer. But always a gentleman, saying goodbye to | :11:14. | :11:14. | |
everyone as he heads home. Sorry about the microphone disorder! | :11:15. | :11:32. | |
Well saved, Tim! He is a class act. Who, Tim(!) it must be hard for him | :11:33. | :11:44. | |
today. He could have easily won it in four sets. He was the better | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
player throughout the fourth set, but he could not get the chances | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
when he had the break points. He was up against a guy who had such a big | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
serve. You have to take chances when they are presented. We can show you | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
some of the fourth set. That is the chance Doi time that Roger had his | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
chances. If you are going to look for the reasons, the real lack of | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
match play, he has had the most challenging year of his career. The | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
injuries that he had after Australia, and being ill, and having | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
problems with his back, it is unusual for him to give up the | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
chances, especially on his own serve. It was his 40-0 game when he | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
is on those finishing off the service games. He also had a couple | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
of double faults. Milos Raonic did well to hang in there and placing | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
great tennis. He took the chances when they came, and it is an amazing | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
chance for him to be through to the first grand slam final. It is hard | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
to believe, but that is what pressure does. He let that one of | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
the book. If it went to the fourth set -- fourth set tie-break, he had | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
a chance to sneak out. He could have set up the final against Andy | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
Murray. Maybe he was just thinking about it, the trainer was on, he | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
needed a massage. It was like everything that he put out there, in | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
the five setter, it was all out there. Federer is so professional | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
with his preparation, and it has been difficult for him, but that is | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
a classic example of not really having the mileage on the match | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
court. He will have done so much on the practice court to get in the | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
best possible shape. Outfit was he going into this tournament? We can | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
debate that, -- outfit was he. He lost his legs early in the fifth, | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
and that is unusual to see. But he is the ultimate professional, and he | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
was clear in his praise for Milos Raonic that he was able to win that | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
match, but it will be a tough one for Federer to put behind him. That | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
will hurt for a long time. But Milos Raonic took his chance, and he raced | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
his game. He started so well in the fifth set. | :13:58. | :14:07. | |
I was really impressed with how his footwork -- footwork was. His | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
backhand pass held up under pressure. He had a great passing | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
shot. His movement has always been good. You don't often see Roger with | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
his movement falling over on the grass. At the time, I thought it was | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
a slip, but he checked his ankle, which twinge Disney. He had come | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
back out, and this was a strange point. Roger had a couple of chances | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
to finish it off, we couldn't do it, and Milos Raonic came off with a big | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
pass. He was just starting to tire. He had been on the court for close | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
to three hours, maybe just over three hours. It is that first step, | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
in and out of the corners, it makes a big difference. He was able to | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
gain the momentum early in the fifth. When you hit the corners at | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
140 Bath per hour, it is difficult to play against. John McEnroe was in | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
the commentary box. He said that he has got his fire back, he is moving | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
his feet better. He had been intimidated by Roger earlier. I was | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
very impressed with Roger's defensive skills. It is not | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
something we talk about. He dictates, but he really showed some | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
great deal on the stretch to stay in rallies and make sure that he hit | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
some tricky shots. As we saw in the final of Queen's, when he played | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
against Murray, he will fancy his chances. He must feel so good about | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
today, because trying to get to his first Grand Slam final, he proved | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
that he could beat the great Roger Federer and come out a winner. He | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
raced away to the last set. It is a huge mental hurdle to go out and do | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
it. He had a chance. He had beaten Roger in a smaller tournament in | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
Brisbane, but to go out in a Wimbledon semifinal, where Roger has | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
held his own persona many years, and go out and perform well, and played | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
some of his best tennis when he was down in the match. And Roger saying | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
don't ask me about retirement. Everyone was asking is that your | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
farewell?! He says he is going to be back. I think with the nature of | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
this year, he has not really been on his own terms, because he has been | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
battling to get back match fit, and to get the tournament under his | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
belt. Again, he is 34, he is in the latter days, it is longer than most | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
people play, but if he gets 100% fit and healthy, with the weight that | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
his game is, his technique, it does not take a lot of extra stress out | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
of his body. I definitely hope to see him back next year. If he is | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
going to get another slam, it is here. He has his best chance here. | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
But as Tim said, it has been such a tough year for him. He has started | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
to look like he was getting going, and then another little hiccup, and | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
in the back injuries, and then a bigger problem, and then he was not | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
getting his matches under the belt. His body in the end today, he senses | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
the frustration. Novak was out of the tournament. He had a great | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
chance to get to add grand slam final before. He did not take it | :17:21. | :17:29. | |
this time. As far as Milos Raonic is concerned, how difficult is this, | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
the day off tomorrow? Everyone wanting to talk to him. How was it? | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
He is a pretty level-headed guy. I think he will go through the same | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
preparation that he has done on every single off day that he has | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
had. I think it was good that he had that average game against David | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
Coffin, because he had to go through that, and he survived. Sometimes you | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
go and see guys win grand slam after they have a scare. Andy Murray had | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
it against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga the other night. My first was the US | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
Open final, either throw to be there. But you try and enjoy it as | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
much as possible, but very similar. I was the underdog going into that | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
one as well. It is interesting that in the final, it will be McEnroe and | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
Lendl. I hope McEnroe is working! They are not going to be far apart! | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
There was quite a bit of tension when they played in the Queen 's | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
final, and I think that this will be as Lendl has had a big impact on | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
Murray, not only McEnroe, we should mention Carlos Moya, who is grand | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
slam winner. He will be able to draw on those experiences of the day | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
after tomorrow, to prepare for his game plan. It is much more fun | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
comparing Lendl and McEnroe! John is going to be talking to him a lot. He | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
is the super coach along with Carlos Moya. He has been there, done that, | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
and he will have getting mentally right. After the battle is mental. | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
Being in the right frame of mind to be positive. But he has to install | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
into him as well, you have to believe in yourself. We have the | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
belief that you can win Wimbledon on Sunday afternoon. He is going to be | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
playing not only against Andy Murray but also a massive crowd. Let's move | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
on to Andy. As I was trying to say, the sixth game in the second set, if | :19:25. | :19:33. | |
that was the time, it was then. Those 1215 minutes were critical, | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
because Tomas Berdych at those opportunities and he could not take | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
them. -- those 12-15 minutes. The pressure was straight back on | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
Berdych, and he really menace to stamp his authority. When he was | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
playing so consistently, you just really struggle to see how Tomas | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
Berdych was able to get back in. He try to beat aggressive, he try to | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
dictate, he came forward, but he made life difficult for him. It was | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
tough though. Three, three and does not tell the story. It was tough. It | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
could have swayed either way at points. But Andy Murray is so good | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
at changing pace. It was a massive difference, because he did not give | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
Tomas Berdych the opportunity to have a go at his second serve. He | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
got a very high percentage of first serve. He took the power out of the | :20:29. | :20:36. | |
Tomas Berdych game. You talk about the variety, and he was toying with | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
him at times. He knew that Andy Murray's game plan was that if they | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
could get into neutral rallies from the back of the court, he could | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
exploit the weakness of Tomas Berdych's movement. Berdych had to | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
be aggressive, he is a big ball striker, but at the end of the | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
match, you looked up for terror accounts. Berdych was about 30, and | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
Murray was eight. Murray gave so few opportunities for Tomas Berdych to | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
build momentum. He is such a great fighter. He loves it when it gets | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
tight. He has the ability to raise his game. You can't teach it. | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
Mentally, he believes in himself. When he gets into the pressure | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
point, he knows he is going to come up with the goods. Only Novak | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
Djokovic has been able to do against him. This is the first time that he | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
is not ranked above him. When you look at Murray's grand slam losses, | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
he has only lost to Federer and Djokovic. This is a great | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
opportunity. There have been a physical tests on the court, off the | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
court, there is a lot going on. There has been a lot going on for | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
Murray in this tournament. First and foremost, the Djokovic loss. | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
Everyone was saying, this is your chance. But for Murray, in the | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
bottom half of the draw, even today, he will have been aware of what was | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
going on with the match before. Federer was expected to come through | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
into the final. It is a great opportunity for Berdych and Murray, | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
and he keeps coming over these challenges. I really do expect him | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
to do the same on Sunday, because the consistency of his performance, | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
the intensity of the last three months, has been absolutely amazing, | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
and he can go out and win another Wimbledon title. He is so fired up. | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
He really imposes himself on court. He plays his best tennis when he is | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
like that. He plays a much more positive game of tennis. You can see | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
on his backhand, trying to take a few more risks, and not just push | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
the ball in play. I love it when he is aggressive on that. You used to | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
love doing it. I'd use to do a few this pumps. It is one on one sport. | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
It is like a boxing ring, nowhere to hide. Does that presence of having | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
Ivan Lendl there, up to him, at times throughout the match, that has | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
given him an extra self-confidence. Finally, dare I say it, he likes | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
playing big servers. One of his great skills is the return of serve. | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
One of the elements of that is how he is able to block the serve back. | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
He had seen Raonic's serve plenty of times. Raonic was amazing at | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
Queen's, but he found a way to get the ball back. If he gets into the | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
rallies from the baseline, where the server is not part of the equation, | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
that is where I feel that Murray, he can exploit Raonic's lack of | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
movement. Well, we look forward to that. We would let you get some | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
dinner now! We do know that the final is now Andy Murray, in his | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
11th Grand Slam final, up against Milos Raonic. That is the number two | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
seed against the six seed. McEnroe against Lendl, we will build that | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
up! That is at 1pm, we will start our coverage. So, we still have | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
about 35 minutes or so here in the evening, and we will be previewing | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
the women's file before we go off the air. But we are going to take | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
you out to a match from earlier today on Court Number One. It is | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
Heather Watson. We can join this match, it was over on Court Number | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
One. This game has now lasted | :24:31. | :24:53. | |
over ten minutes. Maybe a slider to the | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
body might not be a Happier on the drive volley | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
than the old-fashioned That's the case with many | :25:03. | :26:41. | |
of the women these days. He has seen a lot of | :26:42. | :27:11. | |
the ball the last ten So much of doubles, it is just | :27:12. | :27:57. | |
about sensing the match. So Lipsky and Kudryavtseva stay | :27:58. | :28:27. | |
in touch, but still down a break. We are getting to know Henry now | :28:28. | :29:25. | |
and he is a cool customer, Yes, just checking that my hand | :29:26. | :29:28. | |
is nice and dry and I have all the time in the world | :29:29. | :29:43. | |
and I am going to crack it. Not too stressed, | :29:44. | :29:46. | |
is Does not look as if he would break | :29:47. | :29:47. | |
a sweat, does Henry. You described his partner | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
as cool yesterday. kept the whole ship together, | :29:52. | :30:02. | |
wonderful returns, such a solid well to make that low volley. Lipsky | :30:03. | :30:05. | |
really clobbered that return. He is a very good first serve first | :30:06. | :32:01. | |
volley merchant and that is usually one of the first things you are told | :32:02. | :32:03. | |
when you learn doubles. Little frustration here from | :32:04. | :32:39. | |
Kudryavtseva, got to the ball. Now, this is where Kontinen and Watson | :32:40. | :32:42. | |
really must seek the double break. Another serve off the Watson | :32:43. | :33:15. | |
forehand. Just really smart play from | :33:16. | :33:47. | |
Kontinen, as soon as he had a chance, he got the ball over to | :33:48. | :33:53. | |
Kudryavtseva. Always play the ball over when you can. | :33:54. | :34:27. | |
She served a double fault to drop her serve in the first set, now | :34:28. | :34:36. | |
Watson has missed two returns in a row, this one has to go win, because | :34:37. | :34:42. | |
at a set and 5-2 up, they should not lose. | :34:43. | :34:59. | |
In fairness, it was a very good serve. | :35:00. | :35:32. | |
Zero percentage shots there from Kontinen. If these two get to the | :35:33. | :36:03. | |
final, they will be very popular, without Heather even being on the | :36:04. | :36:12. | |
court! Still has not made a return in this game, Watson. They have | :36:13. | :36:22. | |
figured her out, haven't they? Just more confirmation of the work that | :36:23. | :36:29. | |
has to be done on that forehand. Still need to knuckle down here | :36:30. | :36:32. | |
because it is the Watson serve next. And putt the ball is called out. -- | :36:33. | :36:52. | |
UMPIRE:. They're not getting any better, are they. --?. | :36:53. | :37:13. | |
Advantage, Miss Watson. Lipsky and Kudryavtseva have two challenges | :37:14. | :37:23. | |
remaining. Third chance for the double break. | :37:24. | :37:35. | |
It is out and there is the double break! | :37:36. | :38:49. | |
They cannot afford to relax. I think we might be able to relax a little | :38:50. | :39:12. | |
bit now. I think we are OK but there is only one thing worth talking | :39:13. | :39:13. | |
about, take a look at this point. I think sums up for Henry, he is | :39:14. | :39:47. | |
only 26, in the top 40 in the world, he can be one of the best doubles | :39:48. | :39:53. | |
players out there. He and John got to the quarterfinals here. There he | :39:54. | :39:54. | |
is. They lost to the top seeds. John was a finalist last here with | :39:55. | :40:13. | |
Jamie Murray, new balls as Watson serves for a place in the | :40:14. | :40:14. | |
semi-finals. -- last year. The first double fault of the match. | :40:15. | :41:48. | |
Still much point, though. Advantage, Miss Watson. Uses those | :41:49. | :43:54. | |
angled volleys so effectively, it really works when you're two | :43:55. | :43:59. | |
opponents are on the baseline, match point for the third time. | :44:00. | :44:29. | |
Well, what an achievement! First ever tournament together and they | :44:30. | :45:07. | |
are in the semi-finals of Wimbledon. SUE BARKER: And they are through to | :45:08. | :45:17. | |
face Marach and Ostapenko who won their match. Heather Watson and | :45:18. | :45:23. | |
Kontinen will be facing them in the semifinal tomorrow. One semifinal | :45:24. | :45:29. | |
was completed and the players making it through to the final, were | :45:30. | :45:38. | |
Groenefeld and her partner. This was close. They are through to the | :45:39. | :45:50. | |
Wimbledon final. We will look forward to seeing Heather Watson in | :45:51. | :45:53. | |
her semifinal tomorrow but of course the main feature is on Centre Court, | :45:54. | :45:59. | |
the ladies final when all eyes will be on these two women. So cool under | :46:00. | :46:11. | |
pressure. An exhibition performance from Serena Williams. At the age of | :46:12. | :46:20. | |
28 she has reinvented herself. They are not hiking around. Super | :46:21. | :46:30. | |
performance. The winner and now a Wimbledon final for Angelique | :46:31. | :46:30. | |
Kerber. We have the defending champion | :46:31. | :46:41. | |
against the Australian Open champion and Tracy Austin joins me. A fitting | :46:42. | :46:45. | |
end to the tournament, two players who have been informed this year. | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
Absolutely and we have not seen two players play twice the final office | :46:51. | :46:57. | |
LAN since 2006. It is great to see Angelique Kerber back in the | :46:58. | :47:00. | |
Australian Open because she struggled after winning with all of | :47:01. | :47:05. | |
the expectations, even losing in the first round of Roland Garros. I do | :47:06. | :47:11. | |
not think Serena would say I have not been informed, but she still | :47:12. | :47:16. | |
made the finals, hasn't she of all three? We expect so much from | :47:17. | :47:21. | |
Serena. One thing to think about when she goes to Australia because | :47:22. | :47:24. | |
she lost in the semi-finals at the US Open and she was so disappointed, | :47:25. | :47:30. | |
she was two matches away, she took the rest of the falloff, did not | :47:31. | :47:34. | |
play another match until they are struggling up, she had a little | :47:35. | :47:37. | |
rust, I do not think she played her best tennis in the final, whereas | :47:38. | :47:43. | |
Kerber played the match of her life and then fast forward to Roland | :47:44. | :47:50. | |
Garros, Serena had problems. We expect so much from Serena. Saying | :47:51. | :47:55. | |
that, she has looked a little more relaxed, we talked about some of the | :47:56. | :47:59. | |
nerves she has had in late stages of the Grand Slam. I just do not see | :48:00. | :48:04. | |
that happening, because she has gotten better with each match, I go | :48:05. | :48:09. | |
back to that match worse she was down to love and her opponent missed | :48:10. | :48:15. | |
and that was all Serena needed to turn that around and since then she | :48:16. | :48:20. | |
has gotten better with each match she has played. I thought she played | :48:21. | :48:30. | |
fabulously in the semi-finals. 11 aces, 77% of her first serves in, | :48:31. | :48:33. | |
when she is serving like that, it put so much pressure on her opponent | :48:34. | :48:38. | |
and it is really her match to win. As far as Kerber is concerned, she | :48:39. | :48:44. | |
defeated Venus Williams, she is a good grass court player, one of the | :48:45. | :48:48. | |
best ever, but she was not at her best. I think she was feeling a | :48:49. | :48:56. | |
little bit fatigued. You take her at 36 years old, she has added doubles | :48:57. | :49:01. | |
to the tournament this year as well, Serena and Venus had not played | :49:02. | :49:05. | |
double since 2014 because they recognise that Venus with the energy | :49:06. | :49:11. | |
sapping virus, she was not playing her best when she was playing both. | :49:12. | :49:17. | |
I think Venus was half a step slow and you cannot do that against | :49:18. | :49:21. | |
Kerber because she has such tremendous angles, she widens the | :49:22. | :49:25. | |
court, she absorbs power well and can stay close to the baseline. Hit | :49:26. | :49:31. | |
the ball early. I think it is going to come down to the serves. If | :49:32. | :49:38. | |
Serena holds her nerve and plays as well or close to as well she can | :49:39. | :49:42. | |
play, even somewhat close to as well as she can play, I think she has got | :49:43. | :49:49. | |
too big of a game and at the graph as well, the experience that Serena | :49:50. | :49:54. | |
has, she has won here are six times but this service enhances her game | :49:55. | :49:59. | |
with so much power. That is the final, Serena against Angelique | :50:00. | :50:02. | |
Kerber. Let us hear from both finalists. You're into your ninth | :50:03. | :50:07. | |
final, how do you prepare differently from walking out there | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
on Saturday afternoon? I do not know, I talk to my coach about it, | :50:12. | :50:16. | |
obviously I have been in several finals and I have not won yet. | :50:17. | :50:20. | |
Hopefully we will come out with a different game plan. As it sank yet, | :50:21. | :50:27. | |
you are in a Wimbledon final? It sounds crazy. I'm in the Wimbledon | :50:28. | :50:31. | |
final for the first time and it was always a dream for me when I was a | :50:32. | :50:37. | |
little kid. Now I will try, of course, to win the final, but it | :50:38. | :50:42. | |
will not be easy. Are you superstitious? No, I do not. I do | :50:43. | :50:51. | |
the same thing. I really try to be not superstitious at all. I do not | :50:52. | :50:55. | |
like to get into routines and doing the same thing and having to have | :50:56. | :50:59. | |
certain things. I like to be able to brief and I have done that before | :51:00. | :51:04. | |
and it is too stressful. I have tried to be as easy as I can. She | :51:05. | :51:10. | |
will go out to beat me, but I will try to play my best tennis and I | :51:11. | :51:13. | |
will not be thinking too much about whether I am playing against Serena | :51:14. | :51:18. | |
and try not to think too much about the final, I will just try to focus | :51:19. | :51:23. | |
on my game, like I played the last few matches and try to go in for it. | :51:24. | :51:28. | |
It is interesting that Steffi Graf will feature a fair bit tomorrow, | :51:29. | :51:32. | |
because Angelique Kerber was saying that she was inspired by her. That | :51:33. | :51:40. | |
was her idol. Serena is trying to equal her record of 22 Grand Slam | :51:41. | :51:46. | |
's. It is a tough ask for Serena, she has had this on her shoulders | :51:47. | :51:51. | |
for 12 months. Absolutely, when Serena got her 21st major it was at | :51:52. | :51:56. | |
Wimbledon last year and that was the third leg of the calendar year Grand | :51:57. | :52:00. | |
Slam. Everyone was expecting not only for her to get that, but at | :52:01. | :52:04. | |
least have another one in hand by the time Wimbledon came around this | :52:05. | :52:10. | |
year. It has not worked out again, her expectations so high for Serena. | :52:11. | :52:16. | |
Obviously, I think she talks about 22, she says, I do not think about | :52:17. | :52:21. | |
that on court, I just want to win the tournament, whether it is the | :52:22. | :52:25. | |
Australian or Roland Garros are Wimbledon, but I would say now, is | :52:26. | :52:29. | |
she starting to let that enter her mind, because she has got one match | :52:30. | :52:34. | |
away, it is big to tie Steffi Graf. We know a lot about Serena but what | :52:35. | :52:40. | |
about Angelique Kerber. All the pressure is on her after the German | :52:41. | :52:44. | |
team went out. It has been 20 years since Steffi Graf won the title, so | :52:45. | :52:48. | |
let us find out more about Angelique Kerber from her press conference. | :52:49. | :52:53. | |
Obviously the German result did not go well, how does it feel having to | :52:54. | :52:58. | |
carry the hopes of a nation? I was watching the game yesterday. It was | :52:59. | :53:06. | |
not the day of the team, I think. They tried everything, but still | :53:07. | :53:12. | |
they played a good tournament there and of course now, I will try... I | :53:13. | :53:20. | |
am in the final and I will try to take the flag for Germany and the | :53:21. | :53:25. | |
hopes. I know you have been asked a few times about Steffi Graf, I am | :53:26. | :53:30. | |
wondering, your times in Las Vegas, have you sat down and talk to Andre | :53:31. | :53:35. | |
Mutch, has he been a help to you? Yes. I'll so played a little bit | :53:36. | :53:41. | |
with him, with both, and at the time, it was the year after, I spent | :53:42. | :53:47. | |
a few days in Las Vegas with both of them, and like I said a lot of | :53:48. | :53:52. | |
times, for me it was always great to go there and play with them, talking | :53:53. | :53:58. | |
with them. They are both great champions and also great people. I | :53:59. | :54:02. | |
expect a really difficult match and I know she will go out and try to | :54:03. | :54:06. | |
beat me, especially because she lost against being in Australia, but on | :54:07. | :54:12. | |
grass she is always dangerous and I think she won here so many times, | :54:13. | :54:17. | |
but she will go for it, I know that I have to play one of my best tennis | :54:18. | :54:22. | |
games tomorrow. I am excited and really looking forward to play | :54:23. | :54:28. | |
against them again. Even when she won the Australian, Steffi Graf was | :54:29. | :54:33. | |
taxing her, her luck and then she goes and plays with her. I think it | :54:34. | :54:37. | |
was special for her to go after Indian Wells, not just one champion, | :54:38. | :54:45. | |
but to champions, home -- Gasquet to deal with the pressure and the | :54:46. | :54:48. | |
expectations, that is so wonderful for her to have, to have Steffi Graf | :54:49. | :54:53. | |
backing her, I would think she is on speed dial. That is going to be | :54:54. | :54:58. | |
helpful now, it is a whole new kettle of fish. It just gives you a | :54:59. | :55:03. | |
few extra nerves, Angelique Kerber has talked about that and talked | :55:04. | :55:07. | |
about it well, she feels she has more experience because she has won | :55:08. | :55:12. | |
that major and she feels a little more relaxed going into the second | :55:13. | :55:17. | |
time around. She lived at home in the semifinal against Venus and she | :55:18. | :55:22. | |
is such a good move -- looked at home. It is unbelievable, the way | :55:23. | :55:28. | |
she comes up with passing shots from such angles. She is so speedy in the | :55:29. | :55:35. | |
legs. The ball seems to get behind but somehow creates these angles | :55:36. | :55:40. | |
from awkward positions again. Yes, I was impressed with the way that she | :55:41. | :55:44. | |
played in the semi-finals, holding her nerve. That is a big part, a big | :55:45. | :55:49. | |
occasion, big cod and playing Venus who is a big presence, she did well. | :55:50. | :55:55. | |
Five-time champion and Angelique Kerber lost serve six times against | :55:56. | :56:02. | |
Simona Halep. That is were she will have to show that up because it's | :56:03. | :56:06. | |
Serena continues to serve the way she does and it is difficult to | :56:07. | :56:10. | |
break Serena, then I think it is going to be a difficult day, it is | :56:11. | :56:14. | |
William poured in for Kerber to get a good start because Serena can move | :56:15. | :56:24. | |
ahead like a freight train -- it is important for curb to get a good | :56:25. | :56:32. | |
shot. -- Kerber. Will she have as much time against Serena? No. | :56:33. | :56:42. | |
Serena's serve is a lot bigger, a lot more consistent, 77% of her | :56:43. | :56:46. | |
first serves in, that will be tough when you're rarely seeing a second | :56:47. | :56:51. | |
serve and Serena gets off to a start and gets ahead in the point and | :56:52. | :56:56. | |
Angelique Kerber is fast, she defuses power, I truly think that it | :56:57. | :57:01. | |
is going to have to be a little bit of a nervous Serena and Angelique | :57:02. | :57:05. | |
Kerber are playing at the peak of her powers. Serena froze in her | :57:06. | :57:10. | |
first semifinal. Serena was allowed to play well. It will be a different | :57:11. | :57:16. | |
sort of match for her. Look at the serves. 11 aces and she was starting | :57:17. | :57:20. | |
to crank it up and when she does that and gets into a rhythm, it is | :57:21. | :57:26. | |
difficult and Serena again today she won in the semi-finals of the | :57:27. | :57:30. | |
doubles with Venus and got good practice, just long enough, and I | :57:31. | :57:35. | |
think she is really ready to go. She is looking better with each match | :57:36. | :57:40. | |
she has played, it is all about the serve and the nerves. Absolutely, | :57:41. | :57:44. | |
but the serve for me is the best it has ever been. It is the best shot | :57:45. | :57:49. | |
in the history of women's tennis. It is because of the power and because | :57:50. | :57:53. | |
of the different placements, she can hit to all four corners of the box, | :57:54. | :57:58. | |
also the body serve as well, she can use that effectively tomorrow. Also | :57:59. | :58:04. | |
the fact that Serena is able to elevate her serve on big points and | :58:05. | :58:08. | |
clutch moments and that is where we see Serena play at her best, so | :58:09. | :58:12. | |
often when her back is against the wall. We have run out of time, I | :58:13. | :58:17. | |
will see you tomorrow. It is the ladies final tomorrow, Angelique | :58:18. | :58:22. | |
Kerber against Serena Williams, Serena Williams looking for her 22nd | :58:23. | :58:27. | |
Grand Slam title, who were left that magnificent trophy? We will start | :58:28. | :58:33. | |
our build-up at one o'clock. Chris Everett and Martina Navratilova will | :58:34. | :58:36. | |
be with me. We have the Men's Doubles which are final, that is at | :58:37. | :58:42. | |
11 o'clock, Gordon Reid from Great Britain is in that. Stay tuned for | :58:43. | :58:49. | |
today at Wimbledon because Clare will be here with highlights from | :58:50. | :58:54. | |
two of the semi-finals. That is it from us, goodbye. | :58:55. | :58:57. |