Final

:00:36. > :00:38.Queen's Club on finals day. This is one of the oldest tournaments in the

:00:39. > :00:42.world and one of the most prestigious on grass. It is also a

:00:43. > :00:47.tournament with a rich history. Many of the game's all-time greats have

:00:48. > :00:53.won this magnificent trophy. Today we have a fitting finale, a match

:00:54. > :00:56.between two great talents, Grigor Dimitrov against Feliciano Lopez.

:00:57. > :00:58.Winning matches is important, but winning titles and trophies are what

:00:59. > :01:06.you are remembered for. Who are they? Who are those who

:01:07. > :01:22.dream but no those dreams can live? John McEnroe, a great player.

:01:23. > :01:32.Who are they? Those who can win when all seems lost? When the odds are

:01:33. > :01:38.long, and the strength feeds? -- fades?

:01:39. > :01:41.And the heartbeats faster and thoughts race, the body does not

:01:42. > :01:43.fail. They are those who can dance and

:01:44. > :01:45.slide. Quick mind, strong limbed, power and

:01:46. > :01:59.touch. And there we see the parents of

:02:00. > :02:03.Boris Becker going absolutely mad, and rightly, too.

:02:04. > :02:07.So come a toast to them, to their skill and their deeds, and their

:02:08. > :02:11.dreams. There are those who simply believe that it can and must be

:02:12. > :02:16.done, and they make us believe in them.

:02:17. > :02:19.And that is that. A brilliant week for Andy Murray, he is the champion

:02:20. > :02:24.of Queen's Club again. They are the entertainers and

:02:25. > :02:34.winners. They are the champions, the Kings of Queen's.

:02:35. > :02:37.And the new King of Queen's will be crowned today. There is always an

:02:38. > :02:44.air of excitement here on finals day at the Aegon Championships and

:02:45. > :02:47.expectation after the display of quality yesterday in the semifinals.

:02:48. > :02:54.Everyone is here to enjoy the day and some good hospitality, as well.

:02:55. > :02:59.A full house again and they are all here to watch Grigor Dimitrov

:03:00. > :03:04.against Feliciano Lopez in what should be a beautiful final.

:03:05. > :03:10.The two players were here earlier practising on adjacent courts,

:03:11. > :03:14.getting used to the grass again, different field today. It is much

:03:15. > :03:21.cooler, cloudier, a threat of rain, as well. Feliciano Lopez, prison on

:03:22. > :03:27.grass, finalist at Wimbledon, a winner at Eastbourne last week.

:03:28. > :03:32.Grigor Dimitrov beat world number three Stan Wawrinka in straight

:03:33. > :03:35.sets. This man has a beautiful grasscourt style, the big serve

:03:36. > :03:41.coming in, the slice backhand - we are in for a treat today.

:03:42. > :03:43.Peter and John are, it is a treat to have you in the studio.

:03:44. > :03:49.First of all, Grigor Dimitrov, there is a great shot maker, isn't he?

:03:50. > :03:54.Terrific. He has everything. The most spectacular asset he has is his

:03:55. > :03:58.ability to get around the court, grasscourt especially. I don't think

:03:59. > :04:01.there is another guy that moves as well on this surface.

:04:02. > :04:07.Every shot is beautiful. We have been talking about him with such a

:04:08. > :04:12.talented breakthrough in the last six years, and these are some of the

:04:13. > :04:15.points he delivered yesterday. It made Wawrinka, who is world three,

:04:16. > :04:19.looked pretty ordinary. He makes it look easy. There is no

:04:20. > :04:25.effort goes into his income everything a smooth flows, he has

:04:26. > :04:31.every shot in the book. His balance and movement around the court is

:04:32. > :04:36.spectacular. Look at the way he covered that ball. That control he

:04:37. > :04:41.has got. He has won a title on clay, on hard

:04:42. > :04:45.courts, and if he wins this one ritual is his versatility. If he can

:04:46. > :04:48.win on grass he can win on all surfaces. As we have been saying, it

:04:49. > :04:51.is only a matter of time before he wins a Grand Slam, no question in my

:04:52. > :04:55.mind. We have been saying that for a long

:04:56. > :04:59.time coming last six years he has improved his ranking every time.

:05:00. > :05:03.He came to prominence in 2008 when he won the Wimbledon junior boys and

:05:04. > :05:07.even then he showed immense talent, everyone talks about him being the

:05:08. > :05:10.next great thing. It is interesting that in that final

:05:11. > :05:19.he beat Henri Contin, who reached the highest ranking of 220. It just

:05:20. > :05:24.shows come even good juniors don't always go on to be great players,

:05:25. > :05:28.but Dimitrov has. There is a huge gap between the

:05:29. > :05:31.fingers and seniors and it has taken a while to come through. A lot of

:05:32. > :05:38.people were expecting to see more from him quicker, the weight Andy

:05:39. > :05:43.Murray and Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic burst onto the scene at 19.

:05:44. > :05:46.But he has come good. Yesterday, Feliciano Lopez, very

:05:47. > :05:53.entertaining tie-breaker which produced the rally of the

:05:54. > :05:59.tournament, when Lopez had Stepanek all over the court. Stepanek never

:06:00. > :06:03.gave up. I am glad he didn't. He got this great point we are seeing now

:06:04. > :06:12.and it was spectacular. You kept thinking, will this be the one? No.

:06:13. > :06:13.This one for sure, no. Now he is in trouble and you still think

:06:14. > :06:18.This one for sure, no. Now he is in trouble and you still think he has

:06:19. > :06:22.got it, but, no. I doubt whether we will see anything

:06:23. > :06:26.better than this at Wimbledon, top about at Queen's.

:06:27. > :06:30.And a great reaction from Stepanek, as well.

:06:31. > :06:32.He got the crowd going, Lopez got the crowd going, there was a

:06:33. > :06:36.carnival atmosphere in that semifinal yesterday.

:06:37. > :06:43.It was wonderful, because he did have a set point at 6-6 and he did

:06:44. > :06:46.well to come through that, Lopez. It was spectacular. I was watching

:06:47. > :06:50.it from the sideline, it looked a lot more difficult from the side.

:06:51. > :06:53.The camera behind makes it look pretty pedestrian like you could

:06:54. > :06:58.have done it, but these guys were moving unbelievably well. And Lopez,

:06:59. > :07:03.as you say, did very well, he could have gotten tight in that situation.

:07:04. > :07:08.Missed opportunities play on the brain when you are out there.

:07:09. > :07:13.Feliciano was lovely to watch, I talks about his grasscourt pedigree,

:07:14. > :07:17.but also he has just got this lovely classical grasscourt style, and

:07:18. > :07:20.there are not many around that do that any more.

:07:21. > :07:24.He is an old-style grasscourt player. The service just poetry in

:07:25. > :07:30.motion. When he throws the ball up no one has any idea where it is

:07:31. > :07:34.going other than him. He has this classical sliced backhand approach

:07:35. > :07:38.that goes solo, he just nudges that one, you can see the way he comes in

:07:39. > :07:44.behind it, he backs it up you to flee, and this is an underrated

:07:45. > :07:48.shot. It is so difficult on grass, and Dimitrov has the same shot. He

:07:49. > :07:53.has every shot. Is Lopez going to get enough time to play the slices?

:07:54. > :07:57.He will be on the back foot. Exactly right. That may be a change

:07:58. > :08:02.today in that Dimitrov will try to come forward more than a lot of the

:08:03. > :08:06.guys that Lopez has played this week. He will certainly put pressure

:08:07. > :08:09.on the Spaniard. I am pleased to see it as a little

:08:10. > :08:14.bit brighter than it was this morning and the court is getting

:08:15. > :08:19.ready for this much anticipated final a big crowd here again.

:08:20. > :08:23.Everyone always looks forward to this final, it is a special day, and

:08:24. > :08:28.we will be keeping an eye out for it is in the crowd, all sorts of

:08:29. > :08:32.celebrities might be here. It is a lovely tournament, popular with

:08:33. > :08:35.players and spectators alike. We talk about this final with beautiful

:08:36. > :08:39.tennis and there will be beautiful tennis being played, and it will be

:08:40. > :08:44.interesting to see the serve of Lopez. He has one of the best serves

:08:45. > :08:48.and he will need to have one of the best serves today.

:08:49. > :08:53.Dimitrov has done so well. Maria is getting ready.

:08:54. > :08:58.We were asked to come is Maria Boyd to come? He said, I don't know! She

:08:59. > :09:04.is preparing for a tournament as well, you know!

:09:05. > :09:07.It is great to see her break from practice at.

:09:08. > :09:13.-- is Maria owing to come. She did not enjoy the experience

:09:14. > :09:16.last year, the courts were very slippy and he felt inhibited in her

:09:17. > :09:20.movement and was not at her best. She will be hoping for something

:09:21. > :09:23.different this year. Of course, Serena will be back to her best

:09:24. > :09:29.after the loss of the French Open. She does not like taking losses, so

:09:30. > :09:32.she will be back as well. As far as Lopez with the serve come he just

:09:33. > :09:37.has to use it and get a high percentage of first serves in. Yes,

:09:38. > :09:41.but I think the problem for him today is that Dimitrov has shown all

:09:42. > :09:45.week long really great skill from just putting returns back into

:09:46. > :09:51.play, chipping backhands, bidding a lot of balls in to play a lot of

:09:52. > :09:56.balls into play underlying on his quickness around the court.

:09:57. > :10:00.-- putting a lot of balls into play and relying on his quickness.

:10:01. > :10:07.I think Lopez has to serve very well. He needs to somehow have some

:10:08. > :10:12.sort of an impact with his backhand. I agree totally. If you look at the

:10:13. > :10:17.statistics, they are almost neck and neck with everything, first serve

:10:18. > :10:27.percentage points, won on first serve percentage is. Dimitrov's one

:10:28. > :10:33.statistic in favour is the best return of a serve. He is the best to

:10:34. > :10:38.return service anyone Lopez has played this week. That to me could

:10:39. > :10:43.be the key. Return of serve, we see the top

:10:44. > :10:50.players today, like Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray, the return is

:10:51. > :10:56.becoming such a big shot now. Yes, so will we see Lopez serve and

:10:57. > :11:00.volley crash and Mark I think he has this week, he has mixed it up well.

:11:01. > :11:05.I think he will have to against a guy like Dimitrov. He is in the sort

:11:06. > :11:09.of Roger Federer vein, where he chips the return serve and sometimes

:11:10. > :11:15.he hits it deep, sometimes he will need to keep it much lower. Lopez

:11:16. > :11:22.needs to mix it up. Grigor talking to the mascot that

:11:23. > :11:26.will escort him onto court, her name is Patricia and she is from the

:11:27. > :11:29.Elena Baltacha Academy. He has history, he helped the ball

:11:30. > :11:34.girl when she was not well in Miami coming year has been a big hit with

:11:35. > :11:39.the ball girls every year he has played there.

:11:40. > :11:43.He does this, because he is a nice bloke. He just gets it committee is

:11:44. > :11:48.a very, very nice man. He likes everyone. That is the way he is, see

:11:49. > :11:53.has great nature. Patricia from the Elena Baltacha

:11:54. > :11:59.Academy will take part in a special charity match that will be played

:12:00. > :12:00.later. The Academy encourages young stars of the game. Here is another

:12:01. > :12:17.one from that Academy, Ellie Miller. The charity match is being played in

:12:18. > :12:21.memory of Elena Baltacha, who sadly lost her battle with liver cancer

:12:22. > :12:25.last month. They are going to keep the legacy alive, the Academy going,

:12:26. > :12:34.and her dreams of letting kids play alive. Ellie and Patricia,

:12:35. > :12:43.thoroughly enjoying their day out with the big stars. Feliciano, he

:12:44. > :12:48.has had two more matches than Grigor this week because Grigor had up by

:12:49. > :12:52.and a walk over, really. He is in good shape, it is amazing

:12:53. > :12:55.he was brought up on clay, because you would think he had a grasscourt

:12:56. > :13:02.in his backyard. He is perfect for this service, the way he plays.

:13:03. > :13:07.They are very old school. It could be Roger Taylor out there!

:13:08. > :13:12.Isn't that sweet? These are rising stars, kids who have shown some

:13:13. > :13:21.talent in tennis and at the academy they are encouraging them to play

:13:22. > :13:27.on. These boys are really making their day very, very special.

:13:28. > :13:31.We will just listening for the contours.

:13:32. > :13:34.After the toss you will face like this for one picture, and then the

:13:35. > :13:40.other side, and then the other side of a crash at OK, guys.

:13:41. > :13:41.Tie-break in onset, Hawk-eye, three plus one, and 25 seconds. Any

:13:42. > :13:54.questions? Heads. Tales for you, Grigor. You serve

:13:55. > :13:59.crash at yes. You take a picture like this, and

:14:00. > :14:05.then you face there. And a nice photo with the mascots

:14:06. > :14:09.and then we're ready for this final, really forward to this. When you

:14:10. > :14:13.lose so many of the big stars earlier in the week, you wonder how

:14:14. > :14:17.the semis and the finals are going to pan out, but yesterday we had two

:14:18. > :14:26.glorious matches on Centre Court and this one promises to be quite

:14:27. > :14:30.special, as well. Dimitrov against Lopez and just before the start of

:14:31. > :14:31.the warm up let's hear from both players, who have been talking to

:14:32. > :14:40.John Inverdale. When you are playing in a match as

:14:41. > :14:44.good as your semifinal was, I knew where -- are you aware that you are

:14:45. > :14:46.part of a fantastic game of tennis or do you not really look at it like

:14:47. > :14:53.that? Well, we have been playing very

:14:54. > :14:57.good, the quality of the tennis we played was very high for almost the

:14:58. > :15:03.whole match. When you see people clapping all the time and their

:15:04. > :15:06.excitement at their, you realise the entertainment is great and people

:15:07. > :15:11.are enjoying the match, it is true, but in another way I don't want to

:15:12. > :15:18.think about it too much in this way because I just need to focus on the

:15:19. > :15:21.game and to continue like this. Otherwise, you lose the

:15:22. > :15:27.concentration and start thinking about many other things. But it is

:15:28. > :15:31.true we played a great game. If you won this final, is that

:15:32. > :15:34.another noticeable run up the ladder for you?

:15:35. > :15:40.Yes, it is my first grasscourt final, so it is obviously something

:15:41. > :15:46.I am excited about. I always felt that this tournament in particular

:15:47. > :15:52.is like a whole new place for me. It is something that I always wanted to

:15:53. > :15:56.win, and coming out on that special Sunday it means a lot to me. As I

:15:57. > :16:03.said, my job is not over yet. I have a match to go.

:16:04. > :16:05.When you are in a final of a tournament like Queen's, you have to

:16:06. > :16:08.be very proud. This is a very special tournament

:16:09. > :16:16.where all the best players in history who played before, played

:16:17. > :16:20.before. This is not a regular tournament where you go every week,

:16:21. > :16:22.this is a very special tournament, so I have to be pleased to be in the

:16:23. > :16:26.final. The thought of playing in the final

:16:27. > :16:31.at Queen's - is that actually, when you think about it, excite you? Can

:16:32. > :16:34.you feel your heart going? Yes, I keep smiling when I come on

:16:35. > :16:39.Centre Court. I'll loose feel so welcome and I have been able to play

:16:40. > :16:45.good tennis to this point. That instantly puts me in a good space

:16:46. > :16:52.and a good mood. -- I always feel welcome. Still, I cannot forget what

:16:53. > :17:00.my job is coming onto the court. My game plan is what matters the most,

:17:01. > :17:04.especially come to -- coming to that final. It is a tricky opponent with

:17:05. > :17:08.a lot of experience behind him, so I have to be aware whoever I have to

:17:09. > :17:15.face. And there on Centre Court, this is a

:17:16. > :17:22.very moving tribute to Elena Baltacha, one minutes applause to

:17:23. > :17:26.celebrate her life. Tennis lost Elena Baltacha last month when she

:17:27. > :17:38.lost her battle with liver cancer and it will be the rally for bally

:17:39. > :17:40.that will take place after this final featuring Andy Murray and Ross

:17:41. > :17:44.Hutchins. There is a leaner's husband, the

:17:45. > :17:56.only got married in December last year and then got that awful news in

:17:57. > :18:00.January. -- Elena's husband. But we're back with this final, and

:18:01. > :18:03.poor old Dimitrov, key has been asked year after year about this big

:18:04. > :18:07.breakthrough, everyone has been tipping him for the top.

:18:08. > :18:12.We are guilty of that, as well. He has had so many nicknames and the

:18:13. > :18:26.one that is probably the hardest to live up to is the baby fed. He has

:18:27. > :18:33.not quite that much! -- the baby Federer.

:18:34. > :18:36.Yes, no years to live up to this! Look at how beautiful this

:18:37. > :18:41.backhander is. We decided we would compare it to the great Roger, and

:18:42. > :18:45.there we go. It is a thing of beauty. It is a beautiful shot and

:18:46. > :18:51.made to look so easy bibles of them. Well, they both play the same way

:18:52. > :18:56.and that way, effortless. The thing about it is, with players, there is

:18:57. > :18:59.no age where you can see if they have not made a breakthrough that is

:19:00. > :19:06.it, these days players are maturing later. Rafael Nadal was earlier and

:19:07. > :19:10.Andy Murray, but Roger Rashid, his coach yesterday said he is only 25%

:19:11. > :19:16.of his capability. I think that was exaggeration, it is at least 90%,

:19:17. > :19:21.surely, but he has some things to do, no question about it. Roger is

:19:22. > :19:24.making him stronger, physically and mentally, and there will be a

:19:25. > :19:28.breakthrough, it is just a question of when. I think it is round the

:19:29. > :19:31.corner. Maybe not this year, but certainly soon.

:19:32. > :19:40.It is interesting, Roger said he recorded something to listen back to

:19:41. > :19:46.it with Grigor, but could you fault what he did yesterday at all?

:19:47. > :19:49.No, he was spectacular. There was a murderer going around yesterday

:19:50. > :19:53.afternoon that he might have tweaked his hamstring. Let us hope that was

:19:54. > :19:56.not the case in one of those incredible slide student that might

:19:57. > :20:00.yesterday. We know how unforgiving this service

:20:01. > :20:05.can be and little tweaks are sort of part of a tennis player's life now.

:20:06. > :20:09.That would be a real shame if it will be a factor in the match.

:20:10. > :20:13.Feliciano Lopez is already planning to defend his title in Eastbourne so

:20:14. > :20:21.he will get plenty of matches on the grass. What can Feliciano do, what

:20:22. > :20:26.has he got to try to do to combat the power of Cavan?

:20:27. > :20:31.Peter has already touched on that, the serve, which has been

:20:32. > :20:40.immaculate. He has to keep it up in the 60% range. If he drops below

:20:41. > :20:46.that he is in trouble. -- to combat the power of Dimitrov. His slice

:20:47. > :20:48.backhand on the court, if he is not careful Dimitrov will come in behind

:20:49. > :20:52.that. The one aspect of his game that is

:20:53. > :20:55.not great is his passing shot when he has to come off the ball on the

:20:56. > :21:00.backhand. Grigor Dimitrov is so quick on that.

:21:01. > :21:02.I think he has to be first person into the net when they get into

:21:03. > :21:05.these rallies otherwise he will be in trouble.

:21:06. > :21:08.It is important for him to hold as many serves as he can, but how will

:21:09. > :21:12.he break? That is a good question and he has

:21:13. > :21:18.to put a lot of returns into play. That has not been a strength of this

:21:19. > :21:21.this week and perhaps -- a strength of his this week and perhaps he has

:21:22. > :21:27.to hope that Dimitrov will have a bad game, a couple of double faults,

:21:28. > :21:32.as he sometimes does. I think that Dimitrov is the favourite. If they

:21:33. > :21:38.both play their best the Bulgarian is likely to take his first

:21:39. > :21:41.grasscourt title. If he is down at 80% and Lopez serves well, he has a

:21:42. > :21:46.great shot. Everyone will be looking at this

:21:47. > :21:48.tournament thinking, I want to avoid these guys when Wimbledon comes

:21:49. > :21:52.along. Too right, none of the top seeds

:21:53. > :21:55.would like to play these fellows at any stage. They are dangerous on

:21:56. > :22:00.this surface and they are both moving beautifully.

:22:01. > :22:03.Lopez may be surprised himself being in the final, as he has got

:22:04. > :22:07.Eastbourne to defend. I don't know if he'll will want to play another

:22:08. > :22:10.six matches next week! He was asked about it in conference

:22:11. > :22:12.yesterday and said he will go down, it is all about ranking points, as

:22:13. > :22:16.well. There will be points coming up next

:22:17. > :22:20.week. OK, so thank you, guys, there is the

:22:21. > :22:49.final of the Aegon Championships. We are all looking forward to this

:22:50. > :22:55.and it promises to be quite special. John Lloyd is on his way and it is

:22:56. > :22:56.good afternoon first 200 cattle. COMMENTATOR: Thank you very much

:22:57. > :23:02.indeed. The beautiful game, Grigor Dimitrov,

:23:03. > :23:05.I am grateful to one or two women on social media for coming through to

:23:06. > :23:09.me this morning and allowing me to report what they said rather than me

:23:10. > :23:16.actually saying it. They said, this is one for the

:23:17. > :23:21.girls, Lopez versions Dimitrov. -- versus. They are two very marketable

:23:22. > :23:26.athletes. Grigor Dimitrov is one of the most marketable young athletes

:23:27. > :23:31.in all of sport. He is a wonderful player. Lopez, with his experience

:23:32. > :23:32.and know-how on a grasscourt, I wonder if he can counter this young

:23:33. > :24:46.man. Less than a minute for a first

:24:47. > :24:49.service game and he is carrying on where he left off against Stan

:24:50. > :24:57.Wawrinka. He dismissed him really come in the semifinal. Dimitrov,

:24:58. > :24:59.Italian GQ's most stylish player, the fifth most marketable athlete in

:25:00. > :25:06.the world according to one respected agency. It would not have happened

:25:07. > :25:16.and he could hit a tennis ball, and, boy, can be. Whether he can do

:25:17. > :25:55.anything with Lopez's left-handed serve, we will see.

:25:56. > :26:00.I don't go many people who would have done that. Lucky with the net

:26:01. > :26:05.Coll. To slap a volley through somebody can just about anyone else

:26:06. > :26:07.would have lifted this lob over his head. He made it look so easy, that

:26:08. > :26:52.was not easy to get the pace he got. End of serve. This is how he is

:26:53. > :26:53.going to resist bounce today. He wants to make the rallies and

:26:54. > :27:15.Statoil on his service game. I commend this week for Feliciano

:27:16. > :27:23.Lopez, ranked number 29 in the world, a high of 15 back in 2012.

:27:24. > :27:28.But to beat Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek, the Czech Davis Cup

:27:29. > :28:09.singles unit back-to-back, he is in great form.

:28:10. > :28:14.I thought that was going to dip in. It was a misfit, but it didn't quite

:28:15. > :29:35.make it. Just out. Well coming he has found his service

:29:36. > :29:46.rhythm, that is for sure. He has won all eight points so far when you

:29:47. > :29:49.have got his first serve in. Dimitrov has rhythm on the server

:29:50. > :29:52.already. It is one of the things players need on a grasscourt.

:29:53. > :29:58.Without that you are handcuffed indeed. I was looking at the ranking

:29:59. > :30:01.progression of Grigor Dimitrov. It has been quite a sort of gradual

:30:02. > :30:13.progression, rather than an explosion, hasn't it? The last five

:30:14. > :30:21.or six years, 482, 287, 106, 78, 48, 23... These are your rankings come a

:30:22. > :30:25.lovely looking graph, and now 13. He was 12 in the world last month. That

:30:26. > :30:28.is quick progression these days. There is Maria Sharapova, who is

:30:29. > :30:35.going out with three -- Grigor Dimitrov. It is a very good

:30:36. > :30:39.progression. It is steady, going up the right way, not as fast as some

:30:40. > :30:45.of the players we have talked about, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and so on.

:30:46. > :30:49.But everyone takes a different time, you cannot put a clock on it.

:30:50. > :30:57.And there are still a lot left to improve on, believe it or not.

:30:58. > :30:59.I think the physicality, as Roger Rasheed has said, he has to get

:31:00. > :31:03.harder and stronger. And also an understanding of how to

:31:04. > :31:06.manage his game, because if you have ten options on a single shot, it

:31:07. > :31:10.takes a long time to learn how to apply that talent and take on your

:31:11. > :31:15.opposition. That is the prospect of Dimitrov, he

:31:16. > :32:27.is already a star player. Lopez serving.

:32:28. > :32:32.Round about ?75,000 to the winner of the tournament. The runner-up about

:32:33. > :33:01.?42,000. Played once before here at Queen's

:33:02. > :33:04.when Dimitrov was a teenager. Lopez won that one. Not relevant to the

:33:05. > :33:25.outcome of this one, I feel. Don't see many of those, a Lopez

:33:26. > :33:36.serve. Pretty sting edgy with the double faults.

:33:37. > :34:02.-- pretty stingy with the double faults.

:34:03. > :34:17.Still a valuable skill and a great strategy to have to follow the serve

:34:18. > :34:21.with a volley behind your opponent so he has to change direction and

:34:22. > :34:27.he's handcuffed and can't go anywhere with it. Sometimes you will

:34:28. > :34:36.see a lob. Pat Cash was the master of that.

:34:37. > :34:43.Did that well. First forehand was handled very well there. A low,

:34:44. > :34:50.sliding back hand. He got up to it well and was able to accelerate the

:34:51. > :34:52.raquet in. He created a huge amount of power which gets him into the

:34:53. > :36:15.easy position. He goes for this one. Realises he

:36:16. > :36:20.can't, but I'm not so sure he would like that shot. He'd probably get

:36:21. > :36:27.away with that. At least you have a chance to win the point. The other

:36:28. > :36:31.one, it's about one in 20. Thousand. Thousand! I was being generous

:36:32. > :37:09.there. Start of the year at number 23 in

:37:10. > :37:12.the world. Made quarter-final in the Australian Open. It was very

:37:13. > :37:15.important to him, doing the big tournaments and doing well is what

:37:16. > :37:19.it's all about. You get ready for the slams and the big ones on the

:37:20. > :37:23.tour as well, but it's the slams and the David cup ultimately where you

:37:24. > :37:27.are defined. He played a cracker quarter-final at the Australian Open

:37:28. > :37:30.against Nadal. A couple of tough tie-breaks that he lost. It was the

:37:31. > :37:35.first time he'd been beyond the third round of the slam and he got a

:37:36. > :37:41.taste for it. This is what he's about, he was asked this week, could

:37:42. > :37:44.he win Wimbledon and he said "yes". That's not arrogance, it's just

:37:45. > :37:49.belief. He lost in the first round of the French Open to Karlovic which

:37:50. > :37:53.was an extraordinary result. He was so gutted. He said the first few

:37:54. > :38:00.matches he was dealing with the fall out mentally from that. It's not a

:38:01. > :38:05.nice draw playing Karlovic. It was the sort of result to lose three

:38:06. > :38:11.straight sets that again, that was a growing thing that a real top five

:38:12. > :38:15.player would have found a way to have certainly got into the match,

:38:16. > :38:19.to lose three straight was the poor result for him, even though I know

:38:20. > :38:23.Karlovic on that day served brilliantly. Still that was a bad

:38:24. > :38:27.result for him. But he's bounced back here. In this match, he's

:38:28. > :38:31.content enough to stay on the baseline and trade shots. I thought

:38:32. > :38:35.he'd come in and look more at the Lopez back hand but he feels

:38:36. > :38:39.confident that the ground strokes can be hit through. He has more

:38:40. > :38:59.variety at the moment, holding serve very comfortably.

:39:00. > :39:10.Oh, he's missed it. Got away that. Absolutely. Rerun from Dimitrov.

:39:11. > :39:14.He slid in yesterday and cut the forehand across the court. Just

:39:15. > :39:21.there. This time not enough. Lopez should have made it. The second game

:39:22. > :39:23.in a row he's faced this. Doesn't seem much but... Clear hit on

:39:24. > :40:02.return. He was given a lot of grooming

:40:03. > :40:03.products by Tess today who works in the Tournament office. Well done,

:40:04. > :40:25.Tess. Father's Day. Different sort of return. Dimitrov

:40:26. > :40:31.and Stepanek who played Lopez yesterday. Stepanek sorry chipped

:40:32. > :40:35.the ball back, bumped it back into play. Most of the time Dimitrov

:40:36. > :40:49.gives it a false swing of the ball, tries to do some damage.

:40:50. > :40:59.There it is. Took a swing at that one.

:41:00. > :41:28.He just thumped that away. Lopez had no time to react whatsoever.

:41:29. > :41:35.This is what it is to play Lopez. He's going to throw some heat out.

:41:36. > :42:06.He's going to make him feel like he's not in the point.

:42:07. > :42:12.Advantage Dimitrov. Showing already with stats how

:42:13. > :42:17.important it is for Lopez to get his first serve in. Only getting one

:42:18. > :42:22.from six at the moment so Dimitrov really getting into the Lopez second

:42:23. > :42:24.serve, so first serve looks like it's going to be absolutely critical

:42:25. > :42:45.for Lopez today. He's a bendy boy, isn't he? About as

:42:46. > :42:48.bendy as Djokovic. Incredible. Surprise head didn't spring up.

:42:49. > :43:44.Looks so painful! Unbelievable. That slice gets so low, you have to

:43:45. > :43:53.get down so low to hit the passing shot. It's all about leg strength

:43:54. > :45:04.and using the power on the legs. Beautifully struck.

:45:05. > :45:14.No choice. He has to go for it. The strength of the ground structure,

:45:15. > :45:18.Dimitrov from the angle, he's pulling Lopez off the court. He has

:45:19. > :45:20.no choice but to go for an outright winner from four or five feet off

:45:21. > :45:46.the baseline. I've been accused of being obsessive

:45:47. > :45:50.with Dimitrov. If you can't enjoy this, don't understand this, you are

:45:51. > :46:20.watching the wrong sport. He is special! What he brings to the court

:46:21. > :46:52.at times. Hasn't lost a point. Has delivered his first serve.

:46:53. > :46:58.He's going to be fun for the next few years, isn't he? Not to play

:46:59. > :47:23.against! No. Dimitrov leads. Talk about the rise

:47:24. > :47:27.of Dimitrov, but what about Lopez over the years. A sequence of

:47:28. > :47:35.numbers that represent his year of end rankings for ages and ages and

:47:36. > :47:44.ages, 28, 25, 34, 81, 35, 42, 37, 20, 40 and 28. That is absolutely

:47:45. > :47:47.remarkable and these gents have been watching sport here for some time.

:47:48. > :47:53.Will they be looking at Dimitrov's movement going "I don't believe it?

:47:54. > :47:58.! " What about Lopez and that consistency? That's remarkable.

:47:59. > :48:05.Pretty solid, isn't it? Such a solid player throughout the years and he

:48:06. > :48:22.throws in a lot of good things, had a good Wimbledon record as well.

:48:23. > :48:26.Great grass court game. When we said that yesterday, in his semi-final,

:48:27. > :48:42.he then hit two. Richard Wilson on the right and Sir

:48:43. > :48:44.Ian McKellen. I believe he's a companion of honour, Dame Maggie

:48:45. > :49:34.Smith was made such this week. Feliciano's coach yesterday, I said

:49:35. > :49:41.to him after the match, it was a great match yesterday and he said

:49:42. > :49:44.yes, remarkable, great tactics, tactics were perfect, he said. Pat

:49:45. > :50:50.on the back yesterday. Twice Dimitrov's made an effective

:50:51. > :50:53.return when he's been down. Plenty of belief in his game,

:50:54. > :52:33.Dimitrov. Number four and five from Dimitrov

:52:34. > :52:37.in that game. Serving at 78%, won 17 from 18 points after the first

:52:38. > :52:47.serve. It's a dominant performance, but such is the nature of the game

:52:48. > :52:51.on grass, Lopez is on an even keel. Even Stevens. Not far away from a

:52:52. > :52:56.tie-breaker. If he can hold two more serves he's at least many the

:52:57. > :53:09.tie-breaker, anything can happen in the tie-breaker. .

:53:10. > :53:25.The thing about Lopez. His back hand is weak. You keep throwing it out

:53:26. > :53:33.wide on a serve. Absolutely. Until he gets a rhythm on the chip. That

:53:34. > :53:44.was the shot yesterday. I replayed that. I was trying to work out how

:53:45. > :53:48.he's done it without immediately doing what happened yesterday to the

:53:49. > :53:57.England physio, dislocating an ankle. Yes! Such a shame. Such a

:53:58. > :54:01.good bloke. But he's extremely flexible. He rivals Djokovic in that

:54:02. > :54:05.department and in terms of longevity, that's what you need. And

:54:06. > :54:34.he's only 23. Just shows you their average first

:54:35. > :54:41.serve percentage for the tournament has been in the middle to low 60s,

:54:42. > :54:45.both of them. Lopez is at 76 and Dimitrov at 78. They have elevated

:54:46. > :54:54.their serves for the final which you have to love.

:54:55. > :55:01.Both players have gone up a level. That's what they have had to do and

:55:02. > :56:14.in a final, that's what you want to do. They are both doing it so far.

:56:15. > :56:26.Game Lopez. Bad miss there for Dimitrov. Got

:56:27. > :56:34.back in the game and Lopez wobbled a little bit. Lost his concentration

:56:35. > :56:39.for a few seconds. Was in a bit of trouble and just wild back handed

:56:40. > :56:53.him in the middle of that rally which was disappointing.

:56:54. > :56:59.Very difficult for Lopez at the moment. Tough enough getting the

:57:00. > :57:04.ball back, but if he doesn't direct it at the right position, he's then

:57:05. > :57:10.being made to run on the next shot with the accuracy of Dimitrov's

:57:11. > :57:19.shots. Gets a second serve like he has now, he as the to take advantage

:57:20. > :59:02.of it. Already He'd like a few more of those.

:59:03. > :59:07.Last weekend, she was at the French Open, winning that. It would be

:59:08. > :59:14.quite something if they were both to win Wimbledon. The glamorous nature

:59:15. > :59:17.of the couple sees them on the front of magazines and columns and the

:59:18. > :59:23.diary pieces and all the rest of it. And whether you like it or not,

:59:24. > :59:28.whether it's pure tennis or not, the fact is that they're crossover

:59:29. > :59:36.stars. She's the most marketable athlete in the world and her

:59:37. > :59:41.boyfriend is the fifth most Marxable on the men's side already. Based on

:59:42. > :59:47.potential, future ability? It's on who you are with, whether they can

:59:48. > :59:48.sell photos and that sort of stuff. He doesn't talk about it much

:59:49. > :00:12.though. No. He knows everyone knows. fills the papers, right, John?

:00:13. > :00:16.Personal insight on all that? Just a little.

:00:17. > :00:21.Did you feel any pressure when this was happening with you and Chrissy?

:00:22. > :00:27.It is a bit more difficult when you have got photographers outside your

:00:28. > :00:30.house, cameras going. You have to watch, you know, everything, where

:00:31. > :00:36.you are going and all that sort of stuff. It is a bit strange but I

:00:37. > :01:22.suppose you get used to it in some way.

:01:23. > :02:40.So far in this set, coming into this tie-break, it has been Dimitrov who

:02:41. > :02:47.has been threatening. He has had opportunities to break through, he

:02:48. > :02:55.has had 1515 -- and 15-15, if there are some chuffing as momentum,

:02:56. > :03:00.Dimitrov certainly has. -- if there is such a thing as momentum.

:03:01. > :03:07.It is a very high-quality match, but the problem is both players are

:03:08. > :03:11.serving so well it is difficult to get any rallies going, because the

:03:12. > :03:20.serving has been ridiculously good at the moment. What can you do?

:03:21. > :03:24.Neither players -- player can make any returns hardly. Lopez's

:03:25. > :03:29.variation is fantastic on his serve. He goes into the body, a wide, down

:03:30. > :03:32.the middle... Dimitrov has such quick hands but at

:03:33. > :03:43.the moment he can't really get anything back.

:03:44. > :03:47.What can you do? Ace number 64 Lopez, number 66 for

:03:48. > :03:52.the week. Both players have to remain in the

:03:53. > :03:55.zone. It can get a bit frustrating when you cannot even get your racket

:03:56. > :03:58.on the ball, but both players will know their chance will come if they

:03:59. > :04:02.keep positive. They have to keep holding their serve, they will get

:04:03. > :04:06.one chance, maybe make a quick reflex or running passing shot -

:04:07. > :04:10.anything like that can win the tie-breaker.

:04:11. > :04:25.Smart play from Lopez. As soon as he got the chance there he got in. Make

:04:26. > :04:27.his opponent pattern. -- pass him. Finally got racket back on the ball

:04:28. > :04:55.and a good return of serve. Well, he lost that point, but an

:04:56. > :05:01.excellent return. The way Lopez is serving, you would see normally this

:05:02. > :05:03.would be the end of the set. But still long way to go in this

:05:04. > :05:31.tie-breaker. Some people get sort of board with a

:05:32. > :05:35.lot of aces and all that stuff, but if you look at it another way it is

:05:36. > :05:40.just magnificent. The angle he creates and that serve. Dimitrov was

:05:41. > :05:44.one of the fastest players out there but he literally would have had to

:05:45. > :05:47.start two or three seconds earlier to get to that and have a chance of

:05:48. > :06:32.getting it back. That is how good and accurate that serve has been.

:06:33. > :06:35.He might miss a forehand volley occasionally at that height, but

:06:36. > :07:33.never a backhand. He should have had that one. That is

:07:34. > :07:37.a big point to miss. He would have asked a very big

:07:38. > :07:42.question of Dimitrov's passing shot if that had gone over the net.

:07:43. > :07:46.That is his best shot, next to the serve, that backhand slice approach.

:07:47. > :07:49.That was a bread and butter shot for him. Now he needs to win these two

:07:50. > :08:14.to win the set. What I great return of serve that

:08:15. > :08:18.was. That was a body serve that was phenomenal, improvised on this

:08:19. > :08:24.return of serve, dimmer troll. -- Dimitrov.

:08:25. > :08:29.Then made him play a volley on the right side, where he might get an

:08:30. > :08:32.error on the forehand play. I don't know whether that decision-making

:08:33. > :08:59.was conscious or not but it was the right place to make the pass.

:09:00. > :09:10.Just like his match with Stepanek yesterday, this tie-breaker is

:09:11. > :09:41.coming up with all the big break points.

:09:42. > :09:54.Taking their time, changing ends. Set point saved by Dimitrov. A

:09:55. > :09:59.high-quality Queen's Club final, isn't it? Three quarters of an hour

:10:00. > :10:26.played, the winner of this point will have set point.

:10:27. > :10:37.It is long! And the effect of Lopez chiselling away on his backhand side

:10:38. > :10:44.has been to produce an error from Dimitrov. A very important point.

:10:45. > :11:41.This is a different sort of set point. He has the serve.

:11:42. > :11:51.Point! What point! The Spaniard will be

:11:52. > :11:55.disappointed with himself. He followed him and this was his

:11:56. > :11:58.choice. Was it up, or does he go across court? Difficult, you don't

:11:59. > :12:01.have much time to make a decision there. Even that one was quite

:12:02. > :12:05.difficult. You don't see many of those, the

:12:06. > :12:09.drive backhand volley. Going backwards! To set point saved

:12:10. > :13:02.by Dimitrov. 7-7. He did well to make the return,

:13:03. > :13:03.years morning at himself and shouting -- he is moaning at

:13:04. > :13:07.himself. Maria looks a little bit nervous

:13:08. > :13:33.there. Yes! That is brilliant. That was the

:13:34. > :13:37.risk that Dimitrov took when he was going round, his forehand was so far

:13:38. > :13:44.out wide to the line, eventually there was a gap, and Lopez found

:13:45. > :13:51.that forehand and followed in immaculately to put that ball away.

:13:52. > :13:56.Backhand volley. He has probably missed half a dozen of those in ten

:13:57. > :13:57.years, he really is safe there. Another set point on his serve, he

:13:58. > :14:11.has already had one. Yes, he can convert about! It is a

:14:12. > :14:12.magnificent sort of tennis, I have to say. Lopez wins it by hanging

:14:13. > :14:26.tough. STUDIO: Two very interested

:14:27. > :14:29.observers on this tremendous game of tennis, Victoria Azarenka and Laura

:14:30. > :14:33.Robson, two wounded warriors, because having missed the French

:14:34. > :14:37.Open you are back this week? Yes, I am looking forward to being

:14:38. > :14:43.here, participating in such an amazing event. I am very honoured to

:14:44. > :14:51.be here and I hope we are going to have a great exhibition match. Yes,

:14:52. > :14:54.I am back on tour, I will be playing Eastbourne next week so I'm happy to

:14:55. > :14:58.be back. I much have you missed competition?

:14:59. > :15:03.A lot, but I have had some time, I was quite busy with the rehab and

:15:04. > :15:07.everything, so I didn't have a lot of free time.

:15:08. > :15:11.Laura, we can see the state of your injury, what is the diagnosis at the

:15:12. > :15:17.moment question mark I am jealous of Victoria, I have a while to go yet.

:15:18. > :15:22.Rehab has started so at least I'm keeping busy and I'm happy to be

:15:23. > :15:27.here today, like everyone else. We actually saw each other. Yes, in

:15:28. > :15:31.the rehab clinic in Germany, so we were rehab bodies for a while.

:15:32. > :15:38.You will also little necklace bodies at the rally for bally this

:15:39. > :15:44.afternoon. What is your recollection of Elena Baltacha as a person?

:15:45. > :15:49.There are so many stories, I first met her when I was eight. 12 years

:15:50. > :15:52.of memories, and I think it is amazing everyone has come together

:15:53. > :15:56.today to support such a great card and hopefully we will raise a lot of

:15:57. > :16:00.money and have a lot of fun. Have you ever played here?

:16:01. > :16:05.I played here when I was about ten and I used to come here when I was

:16:06. > :16:08.about ten after school and play on the indoor courts.

:16:09. > :16:13.It is a real rabbit warren underneath and whether Watson had

:16:14. > :16:17.never been to the Queen's Club in her life, wouldn't it be great if

:16:18. > :16:20.there was a women's tour here? That is what I said when I came here

:16:21. > :16:24.the first time, I was talking to one of the ladies in the locker room

:16:25. > :16:28.today and she was so sweet to me and I said, I would love to be a member

:16:29. > :16:32.and she said, I think I can talk to someone about that! I thought it was

:16:33. > :16:35.a joke, but we will see! It is not what you know, it is who

:16:36. > :16:41.you know, we look forward to seeing you on the court later on.

:16:42. > :16:46.COMMENTATOR: Good to have everyone you're supporting the rally for

:16:47. > :17:24.bally. First set to Lopez.

:17:25. > :17:28.Seb Coe having a watch of the tennis here. I'm not sure about his tennis,

:17:29. > :17:38.actually, whether he plays. That is the shot I thought we would

:17:39. > :17:43.see a little bit more of on this match from Dimitrov, sliding the

:17:44. > :17:48.backhand and coming into the Lopez backhand. He has done it hardly at

:17:49. > :18:00.all in the first set, but successful the macro. -- successful there.

:18:01. > :18:06.This is truly wicked serving from Feliciano Lopez.

:18:07. > :18:14.The pace, the direction, the speed - he is really fining on all Saunders.

:18:15. > :18:47.-- firing on all cylinders. Not much time for celebration after

:18:48. > :19:19.you when the first set, immediately, 30-30.

:19:20. > :19:27.He has such a way, doesn't he? On the court, such a distinctive style?

:19:28. > :19:32.Yes, he is athletic, but it is a different way. This is a performance

:19:33. > :19:37.of high quality from Lopez. This only comes after being on tour for a

:19:38. > :19:44.dozen years or more. It is a wonderful performance of discipline

:19:45. > :21:44.and control. Marginally outplayed in the first set, but won it.

:21:45. > :21:52.It just shows you, again, if the point is important. Even 40-0, he

:21:53. > :21:57.played a casual drop shot expecting no problems closing out of the

:21:58. > :22:00.game, now he is back to 40-30. He should still hold of the serve, but

:22:01. > :22:05.he just has to be careful, every point has to be vital. You cannot

:22:06. > :22:17.hate sloppy shots. That is an attitude from the Jimmy

:22:18. > :22:21.Connors school. Even if it is 40-0, don't let your opponent in. And on a

:22:22. > :22:25.grasscourt points are more important, if you like, each one,

:22:26. > :22:27.than on a clay court, where you can perhaps work your way back into a

:22:28. > :22:31.clay court, where you can perhaps work your way back into the match

:22:32. > :22:35.slightly easier. When you have serving of this quality, the chances

:22:36. > :22:41.are few and far between. You have to admire Lopez, because

:22:42. > :22:45.that first set, when he got into the tie-breaker that was when he played

:22:46. > :23:00.his best stuff. That is what it is all about.

:23:01. > :23:10.UMPIRE: Mr Dimitrov is challenging the call.

:23:11. > :23:12.Nobody had a better regarded than him.

:23:13. > :23:18.Two excellent lunging volley from Lopez.

:23:19. > :23:20.Very athletic. -- nobody better look at it than

:23:21. > :24:20.him. The second Lopez service game in a

:24:21. > :24:32.row where it has gone to 30-30. The second in a row were a big first

:24:33. > :24:44.serve has done the trick. Fleeting chances, frustration grows

:24:45. > :24:52.for Dimitrov as he tries to find a way into this service game.

:24:53. > :25:13.If you fancy seeing Feliciano Lopez in action next week down on the

:25:14. > :25:16.south coast in Eastbourne, at Devonshire park, it is a combined

:25:17. > :25:21.men's and women's event next week and it is a wonderful place to watch

:25:22. > :25:24.tennis. I just love the sound of the flagpoles flapping and the seagulls

:25:25. > :25:27.and everything else. It is a lovely place to be before the madness of

:25:28. > :25:35.Wimbledon. Richard Gasquet, Radek Stepanek,

:25:36. > :25:40.they will all be taking part. James Ward plays Donald Young in that one.

:25:41. > :25:47.Dan Evans plays against a qualifier, Kyle Edmund against Sam Querrey.

:25:48. > :25:51.And some excellent women's players down there, as well, so if you fancy

:25:52. > :26:14.it... As you can see, John, the effect of

:26:15. > :26:20.the matches that these guys have one will stand them in good stead for

:26:21. > :26:26.Wimbledon. That is right, it is done now, they

:26:27. > :26:31.have enough matches in the bank, Lopez is playing in next weekend

:26:32. > :26:34.Eastbourne, but he wants those points and gets his confidence with

:26:35. > :26:42.more matches. Dimitrov not playing next week. He will have played there

:26:43. > :26:45.might of matches he needs and keep probably wishes he was playing the

:26:46. > :26:48.tournament, because Roger Rasheed will probably make him work harder

:26:49. > :27:00.than if he was playing matches, unfortunately!

:27:01. > :27:13.Dimitrov is playing at hurling, a couple of matches down there. Not a

:27:14. > :27:16.tournament. -- Hurlingham. They take it seriously and set everything up

:27:17. > :29:50.like it is a tournament match. It looked good, this one, from where

:29:51. > :29:55.we are setting, but... It might have just missed. Dimitrov

:29:56. > :29:57.was already walking to the other side, I think he thought it was in,

:29:58. > :30:17.too. UMPIRE: Mr Lopez has two challenges

:30:18. > :30:44.remaining. Bottom edge through, control of the

:30:45. > :31:04.length of his shot important, as well as the power.

:31:05. > :31:12.Congratulations to Ivanovic, who's won her first grass court title at

:31:13. > :31:16.the Edgbaston club. She beat her opponent. Roger Federer's set up a

:31:17. > :31:38.tie-break. Everything is building up to

:31:39. > :31:43.Wimbledon which is on a week Monday. That is the start of the

:31:44. > :31:47.Championships. Andy Murray striding out on Centre Court as champion. No

:31:48. > :31:55.great joy for him this week particularly. It's the view amongst

:31:56. > :32:00.most that an early loss to Stepanek is no big deal. He Pope Francis

:32:01. > :32:05.preferred to have matches. In an ideal world but he's taken two or

:32:06. > :32:11.three days off, which in an ideal world he would have taken them off

:32:12. > :32:15.immediately after the French Open. It's tough, the Grand Slam, mentally

:32:16. > :32:20.and physically. It's a tough grind. With the commitment at Queen's,

:32:21. > :32:25.there's no time for that to recharge the batteries. He's played plenty of

:32:26. > :32:28.matches. Not so much on grass, but he's a magician on grass. He'll have

:32:29. > :32:48.no problem whatsoever. This is traditional grass court, old

:32:49. > :35:00.school, short rallies. APPLAUSE

:35:01. > :35:06.Did well sneaking that in. Just waits until his opponent is stretch,

:35:07. > :35:08.then he's on a blind spot, takes it early. Good footwork to get up quick

:35:09. > :35:34.to that volley. No-one knows more than Dimitrov's

:35:35. > :35:38.partner that this is really the heart of the match now. They have

:35:39. > :35:42.had 30-30 and Dimitrov sneak add volley off and this is a frustration

:35:43. > :35:48.for the Spaniard now. He must calm down and be ready to serve. Dimitrov

:35:49. > :35:50.has the ability to string winners together. He hasn't been able to do

:35:51. > :37:23.so so far on the Lopez serve. The back hand top spin is not one he

:37:24. > :37:27.can rely on, even when there's a target which he prefers. Dimitrov

:37:28. > :37:30.stops Lopez from doing that. This is a positive piece of match play. His

:37:31. > :37:59.coach will be delighted. 15-30. He's keeping the talent at bay from

:38:00. > :38:01.the other end. Trying to constrict Dimitrov, not allowing him to play

:38:02. > :39:21.well. Lopez leads.

:39:22. > :39:26.Fab house from Lopez, you know. Vast amount of experience, just trying to

:39:27. > :39:30.keep the genie in a bottle because if Dimitrov breaks free, you get the

:39:31. > :39:35.feeling he could start slapping the half volleys. Lopez is just not

:39:36. > :39:41.giving him a chance. He's not the most celebrated Spanish player by

:39:42. > :39:45.any means, with Nadal and Ferrer at the very top of their game and

:39:46. > :39:47.Veritas co, who sets up on Murray on grass at the quarter-final of

:39:48. > :39:52.Wimbledon last year on grass. This guy has been a part of numerous

:39:53. > :39:59.Davis Cup campaigns and relentlessly on the road as a part of the unit.

:40:00. > :40:03.They are so strong together. A great group of players they have got

:40:04. > :40:07.there. He's done so well in this match on his service games to

:40:08. > :40:12.totally put Dimitrov off balance with his placement, where he's

:40:13. > :40:16.going. I noticed in the last game on the back end side, Dimitrov on the

:40:17. > :40:22.first couple of serves, tried to move up closer because he was

:40:23. > :40:27.getting worried about the wide serve pulling himself too far wide. The

:40:28. > :40:32.gap meant he couldn't catch up to the annal. When he stood up, low Le

:40:33. > :40:36.went into the body and he didn't have enough time to hit the return.

:40:37. > :40:40.Lopez has tactically kept his opponent off balance all the time on

:40:41. > :40:44.the service gains. It's been a treat to watch how he's come up against

:40:45. > :40:48.this younger player and basically said, look, this is what's coming at

:40:49. > :41:01.you, if you can deal with it, good luck, and he's keeping his first

:41:02. > :41:40.serve at 70%, Lopez, which is tremendous.

:41:41. > :41:50.See how easy this game is. Same in the first set. I don't think there's

:41:51. > :41:55.any disrupt when we say he made the running then lost the break. It's

:41:56. > :41:57.Lopez, credit to him. An easy service game for Dimitrov looks

:41:58. > :42:16.like. That is what happens when you are a

:42:17. > :42:27.bit casual on a shot. You pay for it. He wouldn't have done this if it

:42:28. > :42:33.had been 30-30. Great to watch, glad he did it. Sue that superb bit of

:42:34. > :42:35.class there from Dimitrov. Keep feeling he's going to break at some

:42:36. > :42:47.stage. Very difficult to change your

:42:48. > :42:51.positioning, Dimitrov's tried that, but he's got so many different

:42:52. > :42:58.variations, you do one thing, then he changes it up and twos at you in

:42:59. > :43:02.a different way, Lopez. Every time he misses the first serve, this is

:43:03. > :43:37.where Dimitrov has to take advantage of the second serve.

:43:38. > :43:40.Good serve, but Stepanek yesterday was nudging them back and getting

:43:41. > :44:39.them back somehow. Game Lopez. Lopez made the

:44:40. > :44:45.quarter-finals of Wimbledon on three occasions. A horrible draw for

:44:46. > :44:51.anybody. 2005 was the first time he achieved the quarter-final. He meat

:44:52. > :45:09.Safin and Ancic who was handy on the surface.

:45:10. > :45:13.Hasn't had easy draws in the quarter-finals. Gone through a

:45:14. > :45:27.section of the draw which has opened up.

:45:28. > :45:34.The Del Ray are in Florida. In the French Open, he won a round, played

:45:35. > :45:35.doubles well too. Nothing spectacular by his standards. This

:45:36. > :45:55.is a big highlight for him. 7,000 people at Queen's Club. No

:45:56. > :45:58.breaks of serve. An hour and 22 minutes played and Dimitrov, who

:45:59. > :46:09.hasn't done much wrong, is serving to stay many the final.

:46:10. > :46:53.Bet back into that position to hit the forehand, gets back on the ball

:46:54. > :48:56.quickly, quicksteps, then ready for the forehand.

:48:57. > :49:57.Lost his balance there just for a second. Slip on the front leg. Seen

:49:58. > :50:02.him out of the corner of his eyes there, Dimitrov, but again, it's the

:50:03. > :50:05.first volley slip. His volley was so deep that even then, almost

:50:06. > :50:10.impossible for Dimitrov to hit the passing shot. The volley two or

:50:11. > :50:15.three feet from baseline. Very difficult to do anything about it.

:50:16. > :50:41.A fine display of volleying. Can't sneak in on me, young man,

:50:42. > :50:49.seen that play before thank you very much. Back in your box...

:50:50. > :50:54.Just changed direction on the back hand slice at the last moment and

:50:55. > :50:58.went across court. Just out the corner of he his eye, he would have

:50:59. > :51:04.seen Dimitrov having a sniff of the net. Lovely. Very, very clever.

:51:05. > :51:11.Smart playing. I was just thinking when you see them just in time

:51:12. > :51:16.there, just thinking if the way he's volleyed here, is there a better

:51:17. > :51:20.volleyer on the tour? I'm trying to think, because volleying, the level

:51:21. > :51:24.of it has dropped to what it used to be. There's a difference between the

:51:25. > :51:29.volleys that the players hit nowadays. So many of the volleys

:51:30. > :51:34.with played after fantastic approach shots. In the old days, you would

:51:35. > :51:40.slice your way in then have to make a volley to make something happen.

:51:41. > :51:44.He is the master of that. Getting taken out when he's not in control.

:51:45. > :51:49.Right, but the volleys he's hitting are not the ones where you come in

:51:50. > :51:53.on a blistering forehand and you have one over shoulder height or

:51:54. > :52:01.almost anybody can hit those. There you go, that's how he did it. Hit

:52:02. > :52:07.the slice, and that one now! I agree. He volleys low, you have to

:52:08. > :52:11.nudge it back deep and put the angle away. I'm trying to think of someone

:52:12. > :52:16.out there with that sort of feel and there's not many there. Stepanek was

:52:17. > :52:24.up there. And Lopez was good to watch, it was one of the matches of

:52:25. > :53:24.the week. Exactly. Could have a tie-break here.

:53:25. > :54:15.And he is utterly convinced that this ball was in and that the point

:54:16. > :54:22.was his and he's right. If it was in, the point was going to be his.

:54:23. > :54:30.But they'll have to replay. Was it in or was it two match points?

:54:31. > :54:37.The crowd are pleased because they are going to get to see some more

:54:38. > :54:43.tennis. But he can't believe that. If it was just it is now, he'd serve

:54:44. > :55:26.an ace here really. Doesn't always happen that way now though.

:55:27. > :55:36.Talk about holding your nerve! Yes. They may be relieved but so is

:55:37. > :55:42.the line judge who got the call wrong in the first place. A lit of

:55:43. > :55:45.bit of justice has been done there -- a little bit of justice has been

:55:46. > :56:04.done there. That's a wonderful slice from Lopez.

:56:05. > :56:08.May look like a mistake from Dimitrov, but the Spaniard's slice

:56:09. > :56:17.on the back hand shot through the core. After just over an

:56:18. > :56:38.hour-and-a-half, this is an intense game.

:56:39. > :57:08.Oh! That was so tight. Look at that!

:57:09. > :57:11.Right into his hitting zone too. Almost had too much time to think

:57:12. > :57:16.that he just sort of, there was a long spin on that serve, but

:57:17. > :57:50.Dimitrov, lucky to get away with that.

:57:51. > :57:56.Oh, fantastic! Oh, yes. This is the final we

:57:57. > :58:08.wanted. I thought he has no business being

:58:09. > :58:12.there, John. He was scampering back. It was a shot to nothing, he had to

:58:13. > :58:40.make it. That was for oldfully yard that

:58:41. > :58:44.there. Found his elbow turned into concrete there -- Feliciano. Got a

:58:45. > :59:06.bit stiff on that forehand. I think that might be the first one

:59:07. > :59:09.he's made all day, a clean winner off the back hand of a return. I

:59:10. > :59:11.don't think he's hit one off like that, I might be wrong, but very few

:59:12. > :00:40.anyway, but what a time to do it. now. That macro reading this serve.

:00:41. > :01:09.-- reading this serve. Well, he has the ability to string

:01:10. > :01:15.winners together, but this is an amazing amount of them. He has not

:01:16. > :01:20.really had a look in on the Lopez serve the whole match.

:01:21. > :01:24.A key moment, that second serve of the return.

:01:25. > :01:34.Changing ends at 6-0. This set is over.

:01:35. > :01:39.Going nuts at his box there, He is giving them abuse, but it is

:01:40. > :01:45.his frustration. The bottom line is he cannot do

:01:46. > :01:49.anything about it when he missed a forehand on second serve.

:01:50. > :01:54.There is a wheelchair access area right next door to the Spanish box,

:01:55. > :01:58.I think they are thoroughly enjoying the volume of Spanish that is coming

:01:59. > :02:03.over. Certainly his camp is not because it has been difficult. Final

:02:04. > :02:32.touches, perhaps, to this second set.

:02:33. > :02:39.He is having a good old chat, isn't he, Feliciano?

:02:40. > :02:50.And that is it. Dimitrov has turned this match around.

:02:51. > :02:55.We are going three sets in the final of Queen's Club. Fascinating stuff

:02:56. > :02:57.after one hour and 39 minutes, and actually a fascinating end to a

:02:58. > :03:48.fascinating week here in West London.

:03:49. > :03:56.That was very Queen's Club! You should see John Lloyd moving it and

:03:57. > :04:02.shaking it here in the commentary box!

:04:03. > :04:09.Right, the bits that work, anyway! It is thrilling tennis, John. I feel

:04:10. > :04:14.for Lopez now. He has a Dimitrov who is all fired up, bright eyed and

:04:15. > :04:22.bushy tailed, 23 and athletic. Lopez had that match point. Isn't it

:04:23. > :04:25.amazing how you can get these scoring shifts.

:04:26. > :04:30.One match point, a second serve that quite frankly Dimitrov was nervous

:04:31. > :04:35.on. He hit a spin on it and kicked it in

:04:36. > :04:41.their and completely mishit it. He looks over at the box and the whole

:04:42. > :04:45.game just changed. Suddenly, inspiration, we have talked about

:04:46. > :04:49.Dimitrov's ability to string winners together, mainly because Lopez has

:04:50. > :04:53.been so good, but when he got a sniff at a chance when we saw

:04:54. > :04:59.Dimitrov at his absolute best. It was magnificent.

:05:00. > :05:04.There was a match last year where I saw him, a crucial moment at his

:05:05. > :05:08.best, against Djokovic in Madrid. There was so much that was special

:05:09. > :05:13.about the performance, so much that was different. It is just very

:05:14. > :05:21.exciting to watch him play. He does things that not many others can.

:05:22. > :05:29.Which is why we give so much credit. It is so close now, who

:05:30. > :05:32.knows? With his experience, perhaps Lopez can regroup and relax into

:05:33. > :05:59.this third set. He is the youngest man in the top 20

:06:00. > :06:01.of the world rankings, at number 13. Up into the top 20 this year for the

:06:02. > :06:49.first time. Eight days away from the

:06:50. > :06:50.Championships. We will give them the ball back when we have finished with

:06:51. > :09:06.it here. A bit casual here, from 40-0 back to

:09:07. > :09:33.deuce now. This does not look like an easy game.

:09:34. > :09:45.That was a good call. UMPIRE: Mr Dimitrov is challenging the ball

:09:46. > :09:58.will stop it was called out. It was called out, I think it was a

:09:59. > :10:03.good call. Yes. UMPIRE: Advantage Lopez.

:10:04. > :10:17.Mr Dimitrov has two challenges remaining.

:10:18. > :10:29.How about that? Would never have picked it.

:10:30. > :10:34.I guarantee you, even if Dimitrov wins this match, his coach will say

:10:35. > :10:39.to them, that was not good, what you did in the first game. He relaxed at

:10:40. > :10:44.40-0. It is what we talked about earlier, however the point was

:10:45. > :10:51.vital. It looked like that game was a lot and now he is down one break.

:10:52. > :10:54.You cannot relax at any stage when you are playing against quality

:10:55. > :10:59.players like this. And to rub salt into the wind, the umpire,

:11:00. > :11:03.immediately after he had pulled the score says new bowls.

:11:04. > :11:09.Feliciano Lopez serving with new tennis balls with a break. -- says

:11:10. > :12:45.new balls. The racket has gone way up in the

:12:46. > :12:50.shooting macro. It didn't land on the playing surface. Mohamed El

:12:51. > :12:56.Jennati just letting him get some frustration and there. This was a

:12:57. > :13:01.good 30 or 40 feet in the air. He was so cross about that service

:13:02. > :13:11.game. I think he had won 14 out of 15 points. It is amazing how you

:13:12. > :13:16.talk about momentum switches, it flipped one way with Lopez losing

:13:17. > :13:20.that second set with the match point, and losing the tie-breaker.

:13:21. > :13:26.Then there was that huge swing and you thought, now there is going to

:13:27. > :13:31.be... It's good to be very difficult for Lopez. Dimitrov, 40-0 up,

:13:32. > :13:39.coasting, loses his focus and then the whole momentum has swung the

:13:40. > :13:42.other way again. Credit to the Spaniard, really, because he could

:13:43. > :13:48.have been so disappointed to lose that set.

:13:49. > :14:05.I mean, that is just gorgeous, what ever way you look at it. That is

:14:06. > :14:24.just worth the price of admission. I might be out a point or two, but

:14:25. > :14:27.14 out of 15 points to go 2-0 up from match point down. Killed him in

:14:28. > :14:32.the type break, and that was a double fault. That is called

:14:33. > :14:40.spilling the win, and you cannot do that and win the race. -- killed him

:14:41. > :14:46.in the tie-break. An interesting character, isn't he? Lopez just

:14:47. > :15:27.maintains this strong, professional play and moments of genius himself.

:15:28. > :15:37.Yes, that will get Roger Rasheed snarling heads South Australian

:15:38. > :16:01.snarl. It is quite a vicious one. -- his South Australian.

:16:02. > :16:04.Listen, mate, what are you doing catching the ball on your racket

:16:05. > :16:45.like that? Just win the game. Roger Federer has won his seventh

:16:46. > :16:54.title over a la jungle fire -- Alejandro Fowler.

:16:55. > :16:57.In the semifinal he won the match but he went back to the baseline all

:16:58. > :17:03.pumped up ready to play the next point, he didn't realise his

:17:04. > :17:08.opponent was waiting at the net to shake hands. Roger didn't realise he

:17:09. > :17:13.had won the match. Just going about his business. You are right, the

:17:14. > :17:18.difference between Grigor Dimitrov and I would see the top four is just

:17:19. > :17:25.probably two or three points worth of concentration over the course of

:17:26. > :17:35.the match. It is that value of every point, of never giving your opponent

:17:36. > :17:39.any moment to brief. You saw Frank Connors and that age, weight Intuit,

:17:40. > :17:43.all of the greats, they are down 40-0 and they don't consider they

:17:44. > :17:45.are still in any shape or form out of the game.

:17:46. > :17:50.Or if the 40-0 up, they are not safe.

:17:51. > :17:55.What that does your opponent, you feel if you are up 40-0 you can most

:17:56. > :17:59.relax a bit, and then look at you as if, you haven't completed the game

:18:00. > :18:06.yet. It is tiring, when someone for every one point. Every point is

:18:07. > :18:10.valuable, every single point, and it is a lesson, and if Dimitrov were to

:18:11. > :18:15.win or lose this match it will be a lesson to learn, that you cannot

:18:16. > :18:17.ever take your foot off the accelerator, at any stage, you just

:18:18. > :19:04.cannot. Not at this level. Held the racket, early preparation

:19:05. > :19:05.there, so he had enough time to hold that ball until Lopez made his move

:19:06. > :19:21.and then just put it crosscourt. Almost two hours of play, Dimitrov

:19:22. > :19:22.has not broken serve. He is going to have two, otherwise he is going to

:19:23. > :19:43.lose the match. I would say Lopez is a lot happier

:19:44. > :19:48.serving for it than hitting a forehand for it. I think that is

:19:49. > :22:30.true. It is one of the great deliveries.

:22:31. > :23:05.UMPIRE:, Mr Lopez is challenging the call, the ball was called out.

:23:06. > :23:17.Dimitrov is trying to break this Lopez serve. Coming into the match,

:23:18. > :23:22.Lopez had 163 of his -- had won 63 of his 65 service games. Quite a

:23:23. > :23:29.contest, this one. In the second set, Luciano Lowe says -- Feliciano

:23:30. > :23:33.Lopez had a tie-breaker match point. If things stay as they are there,

:23:34. > :23:38.they will serve their way to the final. We all know, the big push to

:23:39. > :23:43.the winning line is not an easy one. It is an excellent final here. Andy

:23:44. > :23:49.Murray was the winner last year, beating Marin Cilic in the final.

:23:50. > :23:54.Marin Cilic had won the year before that, but some truly great names on

:23:55. > :24:00.the roll of honour there. I suppose the most momentous victory, if there

:24:01. > :24:12.was one, 1985, Boris Becker, the young teenager came here. He said,

:24:13. > :24:14.Yohan Cabaye said, I can see this guy winning Wimbledon and everybody

:24:15. > :24:19.thought no chance. I don't know what his odds were going in that year,

:24:20. > :24:22.but you would have made some decent money on it if you could have bet on

:24:23. > :24:23.it. Did you play the tournament that

:24:24. > :24:32.year? I can't remember if I did.

:24:33. > :24:40.There is John Bercow, the speaker of the House of Commons. Next to the

:24:41. > :24:43.president of the IKEA. John Bercow, good player.

:24:44. > :24:57.-- the president of the ITF. Years just slightly better than

:24:58. > :25:02.David Cameron, and Nick Clegg. -- he is just slightly better.

:25:03. > :25:10.Not much you can do on that serve, it hits the line and it just checks.

:25:11. > :25:22.It doesn't come through the court. Totally misfit there. -- mis-hit.

:25:23. > :25:36.The crowd-pleasing shot was the last volley, but it was the first volley

:25:37. > :25:40.that set it up so deep. He just caresses it round the outside of the

:25:41. > :25:42.ball. And artistic merit at the end, here,

:25:43. > :25:58.Luke. Wonderful, wonderful volley.

:25:59. > :26:02.How good is that volley? He has impressed himself there.

:26:03. > :26:06.He is going to have to hold one of these poses at the end, isn't he? He

:26:07. > :26:13.is going to have to turn to the crowd. Always in control,

:26:14. > :26:19.physically, isn't he? Doesn't ever have any wild flailing.

:26:20. > :26:29.He has missed one. That was probably the easier of the

:26:30. > :26:52.two, the one he made was tougher shot that one.

:26:53. > :26:59.A couple of very good, clean winners in this service game from Dimitrov.

:27:00. > :27:02.We have not seen many of those today.

:27:03. > :28:32.Interesting improvisation, isn't it? No backswing at all.

:28:33. > :28:39.Just picked the wrong shot to come in on, Dimitrov. You don't want to

:28:40. > :28:44.be hitting half-volley is by the service box. You have to get close

:28:45. > :28:56.into the net than that if you are going to win points.

:28:57. > :29:20.Dimitrov is out acing his opponent today.

:29:21. > :29:39.The question is now whether Lopez can continue to serve at this high

:29:40. > :29:46.standard and whether or not a little bit of flashy inspiration may come

:29:47. > :29:52.into the Dimitrov game. But if Lopez serves well, there is nothing anyone

:29:53. > :29:55.can do. But if there is anything over the years that has made the

:29:56. > :30:00.difference between him being what he is, which is world-class, consistent

:30:01. > :30:04.and going up to the very highest level is just occasionally he is

:30:05. > :30:08.thought of as someone who may get a bit nervous. And we are talking tiny

:30:09. > :30:15.margins, because he has had a wonderful career.

:30:16. > :30:25.Dimitrov has possibly to Michael Moore chances to break. -- two more

:30:26. > :30:28.chances. The happy little glimpses here and there, when he went through

:30:29. > :30:33.that patch in the tie-breaker we seemed to get onto the return. The

:30:34. > :30:36.last service games the picked to clean winners and seemed to know

:30:37. > :30:39.where the ball was going, but basically it has been such a

:30:40. > :30:44.masterclass of variety from Lopez he has never been able to get into any

:30:45. > :30:48.rhythm. He has always seemed to be off-balance, the ball coming into

:30:49. > :30:55.his body, off why aid, he kicks it down the middle... -- off wide. 72%

:30:56. > :31:05.first serves. Seriously, that is fantastic serving.

:31:06. > :31:06.It is a ninth visit to this tournament for Feliciano Lopez,

:31:07. > :31:55.previously a semifinalist in 2010. Both players taking a bit of a break

:31:56. > :32:00.here. That was just sawsome from both, defensive play there from

:32:01. > :32:04.Lopez was superb. How's that for a full-length dive. That's a Boris

:32:05. > :32:09.Becker there. I think Boris will have rolled a few more times

:32:10. > :32:30.actually afterwards. Wouldn't have got up so quick!

:32:31. > :32:38.Oh! A bit fortunate there from Lopez and credit to him for even getting

:32:39. > :32:43.his raquet on that ferocious passing shot from Dimitrov. He was lucky the

:32:44. > :32:47.way it ended up as a drop volley which he didn't mean. Didn't he? !

:32:48. > :33:29.If he meant that one, that would be way too good!

:33:30. > :33:34.Maybe his biggest second serve of the match he went for there. 30-15.

:33:35. > :33:46.It's all calm. Second serve ace. That was a strange

:33:47. > :34:15.time to do that. Doesn't go for it this big this time, I bet.

:34:16. > :34:29.Yes. He was looking right up at Maria there. Because she was in the

:34:30. > :34:36.rally and you would fancy from the back of the court, seven out of ten

:34:37. > :34:39.Dimitrov to win those sortsrallies. Well done, the Spaniard, grinding it

:34:40. > :35:02.out. A nice game of lawn tennis on a

:35:03. > :35:06.Sunday afternoon. What about this? Fantastic quality! Draw for

:35:07. > :35:16.Wimbledon done on Wednesday. Nobody wants to Cee Lo low anywhere near

:35:17. > :35:22.them. -- wants to see Lopez anywhere near them.

:35:23. > :35:28.What a half volley that was from Lopez too. Ask the question from

:35:29. > :36:14.Dimitrov, he kept his nerve there, stayed down on the back hand pass.

:36:15. > :36:25.Smacking the second serve! It was 30-15 when Lopez served the double,

:36:26. > :36:30.wasn't it? Yes, sorry. 117mph, that ace down the middle. Very strange.

:36:31. > :36:35.Then a double on the same side to concede the game. Dimitrov played

:36:36. > :36:38.Itsu personally. It's a first break for Dimitrov in the match. Even

:36:39. > :37:13.Stevens, 4-4. Amazing the way Lopez takes the pace

:37:14. > :37:17.off the thunderous ground strokes with that sliced back hand and

:37:18. > :37:23.nudges it back either deep or at an acute angle with so much bite on the

:37:24. > :37:50.ball. He's fantastic defensively today.

:37:51. > :37:55.I think he was thinking about playing a drop shot there. It was

:37:56. > :38:33.available to him. Should have seen him during the

:38:34. > :39:09.hammering they got from the Dutch. He's certainly certainly annoyed

:39:10. > :39:12.himself. OK to think about it for two or three seconds and then you

:39:13. > :39:19.have to re-adjust, get back to business. It's a vital period this

:39:20. > :39:24.at changeover, so many thoughts can go through your mind and it has to

:39:25. > :39:33.be all positive thoughts. You cannot allow any negative thoughts, it's no

:39:34. > :39:37.good. That 's the work you do oaf the years, playing matches and

:39:38. > :39:42.getting tough in those situations. Yes. Forget drills, this situation

:39:43. > :39:48.is nothing about drills or practice, it's about apply case, doing what

:39:49. > :39:55.you know is right, trusting your technical ability and keeping it as

:39:56. > :39:57.simple as possible. Bob Brett will know all that. Forget drills and

:39:58. > :40:09.talking - do it, play it. Lopez was found wanting in the

:40:10. > :40:15.previous service game. Dismiss that now. He needs to, quickly. All he'll

:40:16. > :40:17.be thinking about, as he's walking up to serve, is visualising hitting

:40:18. > :40:31.this first serve. It would be right if this match went

:40:32. > :40:36.to a final set-breaker, wouldn't it? Certainly would.

:40:37. > :40:45.I think that's the first one of the day, isn't it? Look at that lovely,

:40:46. > :40:54.lazy lift here, don't electric the raquet head go too far. You can

:40:55. > :40:58.Keetch r teach it. -- you can teach it.

:40:59. > :41:11.You need somebody good though. He went the wrong way, Dimitrov.

:41:12. > :41:13.Don't tell me... Tendons at full stretch there,

:41:14. > :41:27.hamstring. I don't know if it was that one.

:41:28. > :41:35.Look at him, he's supposed to play upright.

:41:36. > :41:41.What a volley. That was a tremendous return of serve.

:41:42. > :41:47.Great stuff. There's not many players on the circuit these days

:41:48. > :41:50.that can volley like that. They just cannot. That's technique of the

:41:51. > :42:41.highest order. Quality. That was on the second point, wasn't

:42:42. > :43:40.it, that Scrabbling point? I think it was. .

:43:41. > :43:43.Talking to the box where the coach is, they call it, because you are

:43:44. > :44:18.not allowed to get coaching here. This is just another reason why not

:44:19. > :44:28.to have coaches at the changeovers. A lot of people want that thing

:44:29. > :44:46.where they have to figure it out themselves.

:44:47. > :45:03.That'll be his last service game as such. If Lopez holds in the next

:45:04. > :45:20.game, we are going to a tie-breaker to decide the Championship.

:45:21. > :45:27.At the end of the day, just to break each, dim Tim losing the serve in

:45:28. > :45:33.the first game, breaking back to make it 4-4, that's the encapsulated

:45:34. > :45:38.story, but it's so complex. This is grass court tennis. I mean, if you

:45:39. > :45:42.want to watch clay court where you have 15-20 shot rallies all the

:45:43. > :45:48.time, that's what the surface was made for. Grass is not like that.

:45:49. > :45:53.It's become a bit more like that so we get the long rallies in some

:45:54. > :45:57.matches, but this is what you would call a proper grass court match.

:45:58. > :46:03.This have been games where you don't see too many rallies but then the

:46:04. > :46:05.bursts of amazing athleticism in the court and the touch and the coming

:46:06. > :47:10.in with the chip. Looks like we are going to get the

:47:11. > :47:37.tie-break. That's what this final deserves, to be honest.

:47:38. > :47:49.Fish straight points and it 'll go to a deciding breaker.

:47:50. > :47:55.Third tiebreaker of the match. The first was won by Lopez the second

:47:56. > :48:44.1-, by Dimitrov, 7-1. Called it a fault and it wasn't a

:48:45. > :48:47.fault. Then there was a correction. So what's happened is, they are just

:48:48. > :48:51.going to have to play two because that was the end of it because they

:48:52. > :48:57.both stopped. There was a correction. He called it out, then

:48:58. > :48:59.correction but Dimitrov stopped. I couldn't hear where that came from.

:49:00. > :49:24.Getting a bit nervous. It may come down to one piece of

:49:25. > :51:44.brilliance by someone, this. Eight points and barely got a raquet

:51:45. > :52:00.on it. It's coming to a head. Something's going to happen.

:52:01. > :52:12.Doesn't miss many of them. No. Championship point in the second

:52:13. > :53:01.set. Relatively easy forehand. Only had the ball in play in one of

:53:02. > :53:24.these ten points. Tight again. Favourite shot. Two slices.

:53:25. > :53:53.He went for the good, safe and sound serve.

:53:54. > :54:26.Nice length on the Lopez return. Good strong, deep slice.

:54:27. > :54:54.Brings up match point two for Dimitrov.

:54:55. > :55:01.Really a wonderful final between two great sportsmen here.

:55:02. > :55:04.I'm so sorry that Lopez feels so upset by it. You can understand it.

:55:05. > :55:18.It's Dimitrov, the champion, of course.

:55:19. > :55:30.This is the place that's given him two wild cards. He's come back and

:55:31. > :55:56.won in style from a breakdown, from match point down. He's going to give

:55:57. > :56:04.his rack yet to someone. That is a lovely touch. I can assure you,

:56:05. > :56:10.Chris doesn't know how to use it! That's actually a very sweet moment.

:56:11. > :56:15.You remember who your mates are. He's got two. He's not giving

:56:16. > :56:29.another one away, is he? This is great. Oh, This Is Nice.

:56:30. > :56:37.Very generous of him. He's a genuine guy. He is, he's a good bloke. I

:56:38. > :56:40.feel for him. Well, what a tremendous tournament. He just

:56:41. > :56:48.blinked for half a second and that was the difference. One forehand.

:56:49. > :56:53.The margins are so small at this level. It was a brilliant display

:56:54. > :56:58.from both players. What a credit to this tournament, this final will be

:56:59. > :57:02.remembered for a long time. Remember the grief Chris got for giving this

:57:03. > :57:06.young man a wild card when he wasn't ranked very highly and he said it

:57:07. > :57:23.was an investment and people were saying, no, he's not. Well, he is!

:57:24. > :57:30.Maria Sharapova has been going out with Grigor for a while now. She

:57:31. > :57:34.looks as happy with this one as her own win. She was living and dying

:57:35. > :57:39.every point with him towards the end. Absolutely. That's the toughest

:57:40. > :57:43.thing to do, to watch. She'd rather be out there playing. She was

:57:44. > :57:56.suffering in that match. The mental strength he showed there,

:57:57. > :58:05.that's what Sharapova is so famous for.

:58:06. > :58:16.So we are ready for the presentation on court.

:58:17. > :58:24.Ladies and gentlemen, we'd now like to present the Aegon Presentation

:58:25. > :58:34.Trophy. The Director of The Championships joins us now.

:58:35. > :58:43.Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Adrian Brace, Chief Executive of

:58:44. > :58:48.Aegon UK. Jim Cockprofit and the President of

:58:49. > :58:52.the Lawn Tennis Association, the managing director of Aegon

:58:53. > :59:16.Championships. -- Jim Cockprofit. Please welcome, Feliciano Lopez.

:59:17. > :59:31.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. Fabulous. What a contribution. He's

:59:32. > :59:34.talking to Sue Barker now. First of all, can I say on behalf of everyone

:59:35. > :59:48.here, thank you for playing your part in what was a magnificent final

:59:49. > :59:50.today. Thank you. APPLAUSE

:59:51. > :59:57.I know that was a really hard match to lose, but it's just one or two

:59:58. > :00:00.points in it. Yeah. I was one point away off victory and it's very

:00:01. > :00:06.disappointed but this is tennis and we have to accept it. There'll be

:00:07. > :00:10.another chance next week and I have to congratulate Grigor because he

:00:11. > :00:16.was a great fighter and he didn't give up, even when he was a match

:00:17. > :00:18.point down. LAUGHTER

:00:19. > :00:23.So yes, there's not much to say when you lose like this, but thank you

:00:24. > :00:30.for your support, you guys were amazing the week, thank you. Brief

:00:31. > :00:35.preparation for Wimbledon as well. You have played some great matches

:00:36. > :00:39.here? Yes, it's definitely, great preparation for Wimbledon. I played

:00:40. > :00:42.five or six matches this week in this beautiful place and there's no

:00:43. > :00:47.better preparation to be honest. We look forward to seeing you.

:00:48. > :01:56.Congratulations, ladies and gentlemen Feliciano Lopez.

:01:57. > :02:10.Ross Hutchings will now present the magnum of champagne to our 2014

:02:11. > :02:13.runner-up, Feliciano Lopez! I think she'll say no, she's got a

:02:14. > :02:22.big tournament coming up. Congratulations. Fantastic match and

:02:23. > :02:30.a great fight, it was very tense at the end. Yes, it was amazing.

:02:31. > :02:32.Amazing he gave me hell out there today so thanks for that.

:02:33. > :02:36.Amazing he gave me hell out there today so thanks First of all, I want

:02:37. > :02:47.to say thanks to my coach, Roger. Roger, thank you.

:02:48. > :02:54.It's been amazing coming here every year and playing the tournament

:02:55. > :02:59.means a lot to me. I'm really happy to go through that match in such a

:03:00. > :03:03.way. Thank you all for supporting me and it's been a great week and

:03:04. > :03:07.everyone makes the tournament so easy for the players and Ross,

:03:08. > :03:20.you've done a great job so far, so thank you.

:03:21. > :03:25.APPLAUSE Thank you to the sponsors.

:03:26. > :03:28.Everything is made easier around the courts. Maria, thank you for coming

:03:29. > :03:44.and watching that, thank you. and watching that, thank

:03:45. > :03:47.So, yes, just good matches ahead for Wimbledon and really excited for the

:03:48. > :03:51.time ahead. It's been a great week for you. What were you telling

:03:52. > :03:54.yourself when you dropped serve in the final set? That he was going to

:03:55. > :04:03.come and bite me! I was thinking about that for a

:04:04. > :04:07.little bit, but I know it's not easy to break, especially in moments like

:04:08. > :04:13.that. He's been serving tremendous the whole week, so I knew I had to

:04:14. > :04:19.play a few extra balls here and there. In the end, I got lucky. It

:04:20. > :04:23.was a great fight. Absolutely was. You went to give a rack yet to Chris

:04:24. > :04:27.who gave you the wild card and started you off here. It's also

:04:28. > :04:29.father's Day and his wedding anniversary, so you have really made

:04:30. > :04:40.his day! What goes around comes around,

:04:41. > :04:47.right. This tournament has really meant the world to you, hassen it?

:04:48. > :04:52.Yes, indeed. What goes around comes around and he was the first person

:04:53. > :05:00.to give me that trust and the wild cards, so I owe that to him also and

:05:01. > :05:05.unfortunately he's not on court today but he's watching, so thanks

:05:06. > :05:15.mate. You talked about Roger, he was hard as a trainer, do you think he

:05:16. > :05:18.might give you a few days off now? I doubt that. I am sure years

:05:19. > :05:22.waiting for me to step out of the court and tell me what I did wrong

:05:23. > :05:27.in the match. That is typical Roger. But it is all right, it is all for a

:05:28. > :05:31.good cause, so it is fine. It has been wonderful to what you'd agree

:05:32. > :05:32.and all week, congratulations. The champion this year, Grigor

:05:33. > :05:44.Dimitrov! Well, that is everyone suitably

:05:45. > :05:48.thanked from the heart. His name will grace a roll of honour

:05:49. > :05:53.that has included the likes of Pete Sampras, Rafael Nadal and Andy

:05:54. > :05:58.Murray. One feels for Feliciano Lopez, who had that match point as

:05:59. > :06:05.Nicolas Mahut did all those years ago, 2007 against Andy Roddick. It

:06:06. > :06:07.was difficult for him to handle, but Lopez certainly had a wonderful week

:06:08. > :06:12.and a great contribution to the tournament. But the champion here is

:06:13. > :06:17.Grigor Dimitrov, despite losing that service game at the beginning of the

:06:18. > :06:21.third set. That is why he puts his name on one

:06:22. > :06:25.of the most famous trophies in our sport.

:06:26. > :06:28.It has been a great week here at Queen's, we look forward to

:06:29. > :06:29.Wimbledon, of course. Great memories once again from West

:06:30. > :07:27.London. his court, and this is the man,

:07:28. > :07:31.Roger Rasheed. How proud I do? Absolutely, extremely proud of

:07:32. > :07:36.Grigor. Just to play a final, is amazing, it means you have done a

:07:37. > :07:40.good job to get there, and to go out there and give everything to the

:07:41. > :07:43.contest and deal with challenges. For Grigor all of this is

:07:44. > :07:49.outstanding that he has been able to get it done in the final. In his

:07:50. > :07:53.four finals he has played with me, he has won all of them. I am proud

:07:54. > :07:57.of him because he is digging in and doing what you want to see from a

:07:58. > :08:01.young man with some talent. Is the digging in the key element?

:08:02. > :08:05.Because you can have all that out in the world and the most wonderful

:08:06. > :08:10.ground strokes, but at the key moments it is that dog that gets you

:08:11. > :08:15.through. Yes, he has not played 15 finals

:08:16. > :08:19.coming he has not been in a lot of them, but he is understanding the

:08:20. > :08:22.back end of a tennis tournament little bit more now. We saw him

:08:23. > :08:27.digging in the year, but it is more so what you do off the court to

:08:28. > :08:32.prepare yourself for that moment. Then we can actually engage and see

:08:33. > :08:35.what his mind is going to do, and so far I have seen some really good

:08:36. > :08:40.things. There were some moments in that match, but you have to praise

:08:41. > :08:43.his efforts, for sure. Do you think this might be a

:08:44. > :08:47.watershed moment in his career, you not want to talk in those terms?

:08:48. > :08:57.I think winning your first title can be a water Mark moment. There are

:08:58. > :09:01.certain moments, I think this is another stepping stone for them. It

:09:02. > :09:06.is great to get on the grass, his game can naturally polish up better

:09:07. > :09:12.on grass in the future. Queen's Club, this tournament, Pete Sampras,

:09:13. > :09:18.Boris Becker, name them all, I'll Lleyton Hewitt. All of those names,

:09:19. > :09:22.now he gets his chance to put himself out there. We were looking

:09:23. > :09:26.at the photos in the locker room and it was pretty cool, just giving him

:09:27. > :09:31.a bit of a heads up. That is a very rich Hall of Fame to

:09:32. > :09:35.be added to. Let me have a word with Chris Kermode who was the man who

:09:36. > :09:38.six years ago give him a wild card for the first time. I am sure a lot

:09:39. > :09:42.of people said, why are you giving this random bloke from Bob Geary a

:09:43. > :09:47.wildcard, but you knew something? The first time I saw him I think he

:09:48. > :09:50.justified it, where I got into trouble the following year was I

:09:51. > :09:54.gave him another wildcard and his ranking had gone down 200 places.

:09:55. > :09:59.That is where it got fickle. But, you know, you take a punt on certain

:10:00. > :10:03.players and he just has something special, I think, and hopefully

:10:04. > :10:07.demonstrated it today. How proud I do come in a sense, that

:10:08. > :10:10.he came over and the first thing he did after winning was to give you

:10:11. > :10:14.his racket? It is a wonderful thank you present.

:10:15. > :10:18.It is an incredible day, actually, I feel quite emotional about it in a

:10:19. > :10:24.bizarre way. We have built up such a rapport over the years and I always

:10:25. > :10:27.kicked his backside in table tennis. Now I have a racket to take him on

:10:28. > :10:31.in tennis. You actually beat him at table

:10:32. > :10:34.tennis? I thrash in, really. He might give you a different

:10:35. > :10:39.answer, but of course I do. Roger, you are the boss of the -- I

:10:40. > :10:47.last you a question, you are the boss of the ADP, you have starts

:10:48. > :10:52.stellar figures, with Roger and Rafael Nadal, do you see Grigor

:10:53. > :10:56.Dimitrov someone as food -- as someone who can take the game to a

:10:57. > :10:59.wider public mission might I do, but ultimately you have to win and you

:11:00. > :11:02.look at the calibre of players you have Doctor right and what they have

:11:03. > :11:05.achieved, the potential is there, the talent is there, but he has to

:11:06. > :11:10.keep winning. I think he will. But you can never

:11:11. > :11:14.really tell. It is tough to make that transition from being the

:11:15. > :11:17.newcomer to actually winning loads of Grand Slams. Good to talk to you

:11:18. > :11:22.again. What a fantastic final.

:11:23. > :11:26.And what a story and what a future for this young man. 23 years old but

:11:27. > :11:31.he has improved his ranking every year in the past six years and the

:11:32. > :11:34.only way is up. Everyone will be quaking when they see his name in

:11:35. > :11:38.the draw for Wimbledon because he has proved he can win on grass.

:11:39. > :11:42.John and Peter are with me, how impressive was that? He almost let

:11:43. > :11:46.it slip away in the third set. Exactly, but he came back and one

:11:47. > :11:50.that after dumping his serve early in the third and showed great

:11:51. > :11:54.fighting instincts. We know he has talent, and a bit of steel, too.

:11:55. > :12:02.Feliciano Lopez, you have to feel for him, match point.

:12:03. > :12:07.He was absolutely brilliant for today. His return of serve was great

:12:08. > :12:11.and he just choked on that forehand on match point. It can happen, it

:12:12. > :12:15.was such a pity, but he will be devastated by this loss. That will

:12:16. > :12:20.not be an easy match to come back from. Obviously, Peter, winning

:12:21. > :12:25.titles is important as you grow in confidence and this will give them a

:12:26. > :12:30.massive boost, want it? Who knows? Maybe it is a springboard

:12:31. > :12:33.for him into greater things. It feels good. There is only one guy

:12:34. > :12:38.who goes home feeling good at the end of the week and he is it.

:12:39. > :12:42.It is only his fourth title, he only won his first in November and now he

:12:43. > :12:47.has four. This year he has won on clay, hard court and grass.

:12:48. > :12:51.It shows he is a complete player. Have you ever seen a reaction like

:12:52. > :12:55.that? I have not, he will be a threat at Wimbledon.

:12:56. > :13:00.Thank you very much, that is Queen's finished, but Eastbourne looms next

:13:01. > :13:03.week from the 17th live from Eastbourne all the way through to

:13:04. > :13:08.Saturday on BBC Two. Plenty of football coming up, Switzerland

:13:09. > :13:14.start their campaign against Ecuador, that is live now on Radio 5

:13:15. > :13:19.Live, and then France against Honduras, that is BBC One 8pm

:13:20. > :13:27.tonight. And Argentina and Lionel Messi also live on BBC One versus

:13:28. > :13:30.Bosnia-Herzegovina. All that is still to come, but here at the

:13:31. > :13:34.Queen's Club what a story we have had, and we have the BBC Red Button

:13:35. > :13:41.coming up with the Rally for Bally, a tribute to Elena Baltacha.

:13:42. > :13:43.For now, from wings club, goodbye. -- from Queen's Club, goodbye.