Day 2 Part 1

:00:41. > :00:46.Hello, and welcome today to have a gone Championships. It almost feels

:00:47. > :00:50.like day one is only one match was greeted yesterday on Centre Court.

:00:51. > :00:54.Today, weather permitting, it's time to play catch-up and a busy schedule

:00:55. > :00:58.is planned. The stars are out in force come good the defending

:00:59. > :01:01.champion, this man, Andy Murray comedy world number two. No re-night

:01:02. > :01:07.with his coach. Their first target is this week and this title, there

:01:08. > :01:41.he aims to become the undisputed king of Queen's.

:01:42. > :01:47.He is aiming for history here again, with a fifth title but the final

:01:48. > :01:51.scenes long way away. We are in search of five minutes of tennis

:01:52. > :01:54.just now. The weather has been so bad, they were planning to start

:01:55. > :01:58.play at 1130, but more showers came through. As you can see, the covers

:01:59. > :02:04.are off and hopefully we'll get some play. But more showers are expected.

:02:05. > :02:08.What a line-up we have on all the courts today is the kind play this

:02:09. > :02:14.catch up. The former world number seven, Fernando Verdasco against

:02:15. > :02:22.standard Wawrinka -- Stan Wawrinka. Nicolas Mahut has won four titles,

:02:23. > :02:27.and all the long grass. Nick Kyrgios and Milos Raonic will be want to see

:02:28. > :02:35.and Kyle Edmund against Gilles Simon. It was a difficult day

:02:36. > :02:39.yesterday and it is proving another difficult day for spectators, just

:02:40. > :02:45.trying to stay dry and keep the brollies up. Trying to, well,

:02:46. > :02:50.fighting with the poncho. No, he is having more difficulty than most.

:02:51. > :02:55.Everyone is sitting under the brollies and there's not a lot of

:02:56. > :03:00.places where you can shelter here at the Queen's Club. Is still

:03:01. > :03:06.struggling. But when you are a steward you can leave your post and,

:03:07. > :03:21.everybody having problems. Someone please help him next door! He made

:03:22. > :03:26.it! Andrew and John are with me. This morning, it has been raining,

:03:27. > :03:29.it has been awful. Was that a poncho? Was that designed or was it

:03:30. > :03:34.just clingfilm? It look like clingfilm. You cannot cut the

:03:35. > :03:39.clingfilm of any diggers like the middle like one of those. It is

:03:40. > :03:41.quite right just now. Get them out there now! Difficult day for

:03:42. > :03:45.everyone and difficult for the players. Only Tuesday, already feels

:03:46. > :03:50.like Thursday but we will be all right. Hopefully we get some tennis

:03:51. > :03:54.today and hopefully they will be careful because it will be slippery

:03:55. > :03:57.for the bespoke by the stars in action, even on Court Number One

:03:58. > :04:03.really have former champions, Marin Cilic and Gregor Demetrios and Juan

:04:04. > :04:08.Martin Del Potro and Poland to mature, there are stars everywhere.

:04:09. > :04:12.This is a top event, they go to a year after year. Three years in a

:04:13. > :04:17.row. They love coming here and the draw reflects that. We lost Nadal

:04:18. > :04:20.and Jo Wilfried Tsonga but look down you can see grand slam champion is

:04:21. > :04:24.everywhere. It is a big deal when you lose star names but we have

:04:25. > :04:32.plenty of them. This first match, up against Sandra Rinker -- stand above

:04:33. > :04:38.Rinker, here's another one, as I hear they are approaching the court.

:04:39. > :04:43.That is good sign. I think so, it is interesting because Stan Wawrinka

:04:44. > :04:47.has never played great on grass, is a great striker of the ball and

:04:48. > :04:52.movement not as good perhaps an as flexible as of the top players on

:04:53. > :04:56.grass. Does not move as or defend as well but Richard Krajicek, that was

:04:57. > :05:00.a very good signing. Very shrewd. Yes, Stan himself said he hated

:05:01. > :05:05.grass as a kid but has grown to like it because it plays more like a hard

:05:06. > :05:08.court because the courts are getting firmer and he feels with his serve

:05:09. > :05:15.and backhand has the game to succeed. We always imagine in your

:05:16. > :05:18.mind you say Stan Wawrinka and you think big, sweeping ground strokes,

:05:19. > :05:22.particularly the backhand, his forehand is no slouch either. That

:05:23. > :05:29.can break anyone down. I think the big deal for him is the blog return.

:05:30. > :05:33.To get into the rally to begin with and from the back of the course will

:05:34. > :05:37.think of himself as 50-50 against anyone. How he uses the chip and

:05:38. > :05:44.block and slice is what I think Richard Krajicek can bring, it was

:05:45. > :05:49.that ability to knock it back into play that brought him the 1996

:05:50. > :05:53.Wimbledon title. On a grass court, great signing. He does not see and

:05:54. > :05:56.others Wimbledon champion, he likes to play himself down but twice a

:05:57. > :06:00.quarterfinalist, if you get into that position. Very nearly a

:06:01. > :06:04.semifinalist last year with that amazing match rate -- against

:06:05. > :06:08.Richard Gasquet. Stan was saying he was Richard Desmond Richard Deacon

:06:09. > :06:13.had come forward and make that first volley and make it count, how to

:06:14. > :06:16.finish point at the net that they've played so much from the back of the

:06:17. > :06:19.court that it is almost like they don't what to do. That is what

:06:20. > :06:24.everyone is trying to do now if they are to be the likes of Djokovic,

:06:25. > :06:28.come forward and attack. Exactly, the players now defence all well and

:06:29. > :06:32.when you're out why Deacon still on these angles make great passing

:06:33. > :06:36.shots but someone like writer will say, you can cut the angles off,

:06:37. > :06:39.take the ball in the air and move up because his instinct is not to do

:06:40. > :06:43.that. The other services it is not quite as imperative to do that, on

:06:44. > :06:50.grass you need to. What Andrew touched about is not click so well,

:06:51. > :06:58.I think it is the mental side. You have the game. All that cyclist.

:06:59. > :07:02.Will be important. I think that is why he has added and has already got

:07:03. > :07:06.a good team in place but has added quite a because he wants to learn

:07:07. > :07:10.how to win on the grass and believes he has the game to win on grass so

:07:11. > :07:14.that, half of it is the mental battle, the belief in yourself. At

:07:15. > :07:19.first volley when you are a baseliner, that is the key. He is

:07:20. > :07:25.not a greater volley, he has improved it. He has such good ground

:07:26. > :07:26.strokes, if he picks the right once some of the volleys he should be

:07:27. > :07:36.hitting so easily. There is a stand of Rinker. Current

:07:37. > :07:42.ranking of number five. Just dropped out of the top four after not

:07:43. > :07:46.defending his title at the French. He may find events of that title and

:07:47. > :07:50.making it all the weight any final, Andy Murray was too much there. I've

:07:51. > :07:54.got to be honest, Magnus Norman is the man who deserves the credit for

:07:55. > :08:00.taking Stan Wawrinka to these grand slam titles and making himself for,

:08:01. > :08:05.five, six rather than 14 to 16 because when he took him on in

:08:06. > :08:09.Portugal in clay back in 2013, he got him to handle his game properly

:08:10. > :08:12.and get the most out of it and one aspect of that was the chip and

:08:13. > :08:20.everything else. Whilst we focus on Krajicek, Magnus Norman, Magnus is

:08:21. > :08:23.still with him. Yes. Magnus is magnificent and he is quiet and goes

:08:24. > :08:29.about his business in a different way so the camera is on him this

:08:30. > :08:33.week but Magnus is superb. Yes, Stan is back here at the Queen's Club,

:08:34. > :08:36.had some success here but let's see what he has to say when he spoke

:08:37. > :08:44.when he arrived here couple of days ago. Good clay-court season, how is

:08:45. > :08:49.it to go from clay to grass? It is maybe the most difficult change for

:08:50. > :08:55.me, in the season because it is quite extreme for my game. You don't

:08:56. > :08:59.have so much time, but the last three years have I have been doing

:09:00. > :09:04.well, I've been quite happy with the way I was changing my game for the

:09:05. > :09:10.grass court and I always enjoy coming back here, staying in London,

:09:11. > :09:14.it is really nice. The weather is not so good this time, but welcome.

:09:15. > :09:21.It has been old, the French Open was heavy conditions as well. Yes, it

:09:22. > :09:27.has been a few weeks of rain. It wasn't easy therefore the players

:09:28. > :09:32.but you don't have many choices. Hopefully it will change here. Last

:09:33. > :09:36.year was amazing weather. What you enjoy about playing on grass?

:09:37. > :09:40.Quarterfinal Wimbledon last two years. Do you see yourself as a

:09:41. > :09:48.future Wimbledon champion? I don't see myself there. Why not? Because

:09:49. > :09:53.that is not the way I think. I improved a lot in the last three

:09:54. > :09:58.years. I have been playing well last year against Gasquet at the review

:09:59. > :10:02.before against Roger. I know the more I spent time, the better I

:10:03. > :10:08.start playing so hopefully this year I can go further. And in your camp

:10:09. > :10:13.you know you have a guy who knows how to play our grass court. Court

:10:14. > :10:18.Krajicek. Yes, he knows how to play. He has been playing quite well over

:10:19. > :10:27.their, his experience, his game, his vision on the grass courts, a game

:10:28. > :10:31.can help me I hope and we are happy with having him in the team. He

:10:32. > :10:35.always plays it down, even when he got his first Grand Slam come off

:10:36. > :10:38.quite affected by it because it is a big change in what happens in your

:10:39. > :10:44.life and endorsements and everybody wants a bit of you. It caught him

:10:45. > :10:48.off guard a little. He is admirable. He has been under the shadow of

:10:49. > :10:52.Roger Federer for so many years and I don't think anyone thought, him

:10:53. > :10:59.included, he was going to win a Grand Slam. He has no one to does

:11:00. > :11:02.McKee has now won two and now still doesn't walk around looking like a

:11:03. > :11:06.grand slam champion but I have a feeling of Richard Krajicek can get

:11:07. > :11:11.him and does well here at Queens, gets into the quarterfinal area at

:11:12. > :11:16.Wimbledon, maybe this time quite it will help him get the belief you can

:11:17. > :11:20.go on further because he has won two slams come he can do it. And a Davis

:11:21. > :11:24.Cup and Olympic old in the doubles with Roger Federer. He has the

:11:25. > :11:28.tools. Remember the match against Andy Murray plays, the first match

:11:29. > :11:35.under lights? I don't know what you're that was. The thousand nine?

:11:36. > :11:39.I think it was very four years ago? Clocking of that, what about his

:11:40. > :11:43.opponent, Verdasco. Do you remember the match against Murray in 2013

:11:44. > :11:47.when he was 2-0 up and Murray was on the ropes in the quarterfinal and it

:11:48. > :11:50.was a five set thriller and Murray came through it and went on to win

:11:51. > :11:54.the title? And easily managed to forget and his match against Nadal

:11:55. > :11:57.in the semifinal of the Australian Open one year was the finest tennis

:11:58. > :12:02.I've ever seen. This is the first round match we have at Queen's Club

:12:03. > :12:08.this year and he can see where he is with that shirt on. He has a natural

:12:09. > :12:12.disguise today. Person you cannot see. He is a tough player, might

:12:13. > :12:18.have dropped his rankings down to 53 but he was top ten for many years. A

:12:19. > :12:25.nasty first round, the entire Queens door is littered with Notts -- nasty

:12:26. > :12:29.first-round draws. He knows his way around the grass court another

:12:30. > :12:32.beautiful serve. Lefties are more effective or grass court. Yes, and

:12:33. > :12:36.we will speak again about how the weather was bad, the court will be

:12:37. > :12:41.so be on that server will slide in and I'm sure Stan Wawrinka will not

:12:42. > :12:44.like the conditions at the start. This is not an easy first-round

:12:45. > :12:49.match. We will see of Wawrinka will be changing any sort of tactics,

:12:50. > :12:52.speaking about coming forward and he spoke about, he wants Richard to

:12:53. > :12:57.tell him where to serve on grass and when and how to finish points.

:12:58. > :13:02.Krajicek and his generation at the service motion and probably still

:13:03. > :13:06.has one of the most studied service motions of all time and it is the

:13:07. > :13:10.easiest thing in the world, it is silk. There are people you want to

:13:11. > :13:13.copy and with the serve, Richard was one of them. San is there and he

:13:14. > :13:19.will get the job done. I'm looking for him to start shipping and

:13:20. > :13:23.getting into the rally. -- chipping. If he gets engaged it will get

:13:24. > :13:28.interesting. There are matches where he looks like he would rather be

:13:29. > :13:30.somewhere else, and we will see about his intensity today, hopefully

:13:31. > :13:35.they will have some great tennis ahead of them. This could go three

:13:36. > :13:41.sets. Yes, this could be a tight one. I think so as well. What Andy

:13:42. > :13:46.said with Stan, he sometimes wanders off. Again, his court presence. Is

:13:47. > :13:54.that rain on the camera? Another warm up. There we go, a familiar

:13:55. > :14:00.sight. They cannot change this one said if everyone agrees? They cannot

:14:01. > :14:05.lay a process, first to nine. We need to ask the tournament director,

:14:06. > :14:08.they've played two matches in a day, which is a big ask, from players,

:14:09. > :14:13.particularly if we have another day like this and tomorrow and there is

:14:14. > :14:17.another rain on Thursday. It could be two matches a day for three days

:14:18. > :14:21.in a row. I'm not sure players will want to do that, they can go on to

:14:22. > :14:26.next week before the sponsors and everyone with tickets that is not

:14:27. > :14:29.ideal. Cannot change the format,. They never have. I was thinking

:14:30. > :14:34.about that this morning, we are supposed to know the rules and I

:14:35. > :14:38.cannot remember. I don't think we've ever had such a bad opening, of

:14:39. > :14:44.course we've had rain, but to have four days potentially of getting

:14:45. > :14:47.possibly the first round through, it is unheard of. This is where you

:14:48. > :14:50.don't want to be first on the schedule because you have to be

:14:51. > :14:55.present. You certainly don't want to be last! But at least you know where

:14:56. > :14:58.to stand there and you can go all rather than stick around. You want

:14:59. > :15:09.to get played all year matches will back up. The sun has come out now.

:15:10. > :15:10.Well, they will start. Let's hang over -- handover to the

:15:11. > :15:20.commentators. I hope you get a lot of tennis!

:15:21. > :15:26.COMMENTATOR: Watching outdoor tennis has been a pretty miserable

:15:27. > :15:30.experience, at Roland Garros, Rome, Stuttgart. Verdasco won a tournament

:15:31. > :15:38.in the cadet -- in Bucharest earlier in media which lasted until Monday.

:15:39. > :17:08.We have tennis at 1:15pm on the Tuesday of Queen's.

:17:09. > :17:17.Well, the stars is -- not the stuff that Wawrinka wanted. Richard

:17:18. > :17:24.Gasquet, the number four seed and the only match to be completed so

:17:25. > :17:33.far... He went out. The tournament does not want to lose another of it

:17:34. > :17:37.big names early on. Not a disaster, because a guy like Verdasco has been

:17:38. > :17:48.there and do not. He also has quite a big name.

:17:49. > :17:58.That was an exhibition of the forehand for which she is renowned.

:17:59. > :18:05.-- which he is. Good afternoon, Peter, by the way. Our you? Thank

:18:06. > :18:10.you very much. Interesting hearing them talk about Wawrinka's demeanour

:18:11. > :18:14.in the building to the match, but he still does not strut in a way that

:18:15. > :18:21.you would expect grand slam champion is to do. -- in the build-up to the

:18:22. > :18:26.match. Would you expect that? That is not who he is. He will probably

:18:27. > :18:31.always be up and down. He is emotional. When he is playing well,

:18:32. > :18:38.here's all some. When he is not feeling it, here's less than

:18:39. > :18:54.awesome. -- when he is playing well, he is awesome.

:18:55. > :19:02.I think the real challenge for Stan is, especially on a slippery court

:19:03. > :19:07.like this, coming to grips with the surface, moving on the court, when

:19:08. > :19:11.will he slide, when will he stick? It takes quite a while to really get

:19:12. > :19:31.the feel of grass. And, of course, Stan has played here

:19:32. > :19:37.many times. But still, I think you almost have to have a mindset that

:19:38. > :19:42.is predisposed to, OK, I am good on grass. If you come into it thinking,

:19:43. > :19:48.I'm not really looking forward to it, it is harder. That there is

:19:49. > :19:52.grass and grass, of course. If we had had a month of blistering

:19:53. > :20:04.sunshine, this court would be very different. Absolutely. If we had had

:20:05. > :20:07.a month of blistering sunshine. If. There are a few more umbrellas going

:20:08. > :20:32.up. He said joyfully! A nice touch from the Spaniard. If

:20:33. > :20:36.you have just joined us, the most fantastic programme on court today.

:20:37. > :20:42.This match followed by Murray against Mahut, then Raonic against

:20:43. > :20:47.Kyrgios. Jeal seem on playing at the end. If ever you wanted good

:20:48. > :20:56.weather, this is it -- Gilles Simon playing at the end.

:20:57. > :21:01.You saw has slippery and greasy it is up the back of the court.

:21:02. > :21:26.Wawrinka lost his footing. You get the feeling that that serve

:21:27. > :21:37.will always be there for Verdasco. And Stan is clearly... He is

:21:38. > :21:44.obviously having a word, saying he is not happy with the service. Stan

:21:45. > :21:49.has unilaterally sat down. I am a double grand slam winner, I do not

:21:50. > :21:53.want to play, I will sit down. Verdasco obviously wants to carry

:21:54. > :22:01.on, he is all smiles. Where is the balance of power? If the players say

:22:02. > :22:05.no go, that is it? If they say it adamantly enough. If a guy like Stan

:22:06. > :22:13.says it adamantly enough then, yes, sir. Clean your weight as McGraw and

:22:14. > :22:18.shoes, so. UMPIRE: The court is getting more slippery. We will hold

:22:19. > :22:22.off for a little bit. Hopefully the rain stops and we can get back soon.

:22:23. > :22:29.COMMENTATOR: There was a stand-off which led to a row at the French

:22:30. > :22:36.Open. Halep and read one scope of got eliminated. -- and Agnieszka

:22:37. > :22:44.Radwanska. Two highly ranked players got knocked out in conditions that

:22:45. > :22:51.they said would simply not playable. More footballing than tennis

:22:52. > :22:55.conditions! Andy Murray hit with two of his sons the other afternoon. But

:22:56. > :23:01.they were saying that player safety is paramount, and they felt... They

:23:02. > :23:06.both lost, so they were not happy, but they both felt, as David Ferrer

:23:07. > :23:10.reiterated with Spanish radio later, that player safety was put at risk

:23:11. > :23:13.on the altar of television and providing entertainment for the

:23:14. > :23:18.public. It is interesting how it has come

:23:19. > :23:23.full circle. When I first started playing on the tour even before

:23:24. > :23:28.then, VJ arbitrageur played against Rob Lever at the U.S. Open. They

:23:29. > :23:34.played through a steady drizzle for an hour. It got so bad at one point

:23:35. > :23:39.that one player as for his bakes to be brought out, he changed into

:23:40. > :23:46.spikes, much like athletics bakes, chewing up the court. That is when

:23:47. > :23:53.he started to lose. They play, much as footballers do, right through the

:23:54. > :23:58.rain as long as it was a fine mist and not getting in your eyes when

:23:59. > :24:03.you serve. It was just, play on. It was that way for quite a long time.

:24:04. > :24:10.And now it seems that it simply spits on the court it is like, oh,

:24:11. > :24:14.it is too dangerous, we have to go off! -- that if somebody spits. It

:24:15. > :24:20.has to be perfect conditions before they allowed play to continue. To

:24:21. > :24:24.counterbalance that, the game is much more physical, energised and

:24:25. > :24:29.energetic now, with all due respect to Rob Lever, who was argued with

:24:30. > :24:37.the best player of all time. It was more genteel. -- with all due

:24:38. > :24:45.respect to Rod Laver. Discuss. I think you are doing massive

:24:46. > :24:49.disservice to players who were Amazons, amazing athletes. The

:24:50. > :24:52.points are much longer, no doubt. They would never have thought of

:24:53. > :24:57.playing 30 shot rallies on a grass court back then, one, because the

:24:58. > :25:01.courts were not good enough, you would never have gotten 30 good

:25:02. > :25:06.bouncers. And somebody would have gone to the net. He would have had

:25:07. > :25:10.to, because in those days it was almost like any good bounce is a

:25:11. > :25:19.bonus. That is why the strokes were different. Chopped ground strokes.

:25:20. > :25:25.The points were much shorter, but they were very athletic, these guys.

:25:26. > :25:31.To watch Rod Laver cover the net was impressive. So who makes the call,

:25:32. > :25:35.do you think? The umpire or the players coming out and saying, we

:25:36. > :25:44.have had a five-minute hiatus, we are happy to go again? It might be

:25:45. > :25:51.James, the umpire, or the tournament referee who basically says, you

:25:52. > :25:56.know, let's give it a shot, guys. There is kind of a mizzle in the

:25:57. > :26:00.air, if you like, but it is not really raining. As you get older,

:26:01. > :26:05.things are not you. People have their umbrellas up when it is not

:26:06. > :26:12.raining. Put them down, come on! I will let you know when I get older!

:26:13. > :26:15.The problem here is that it is Tuesday, the court has only had one

:26:16. > :26:23.much play done it, so the grass is still very moist and green. Any

:26:24. > :26:27.little drizzle makes it very slippery, as we saw with the way

:26:28. > :26:31.that Stan slipped. Not just on that last point. For the tournament

:26:32. > :26:36.organisers, with every hour that goes by, they are heading towards

:26:37. > :26:41.some moments where they are thinking, what are we going to have

:26:42. > :26:45.to do? What contingency plans can be implemented? They are getting too

:26:46. > :26:48.far behind the eight ball. I started that without knowing that we would

:26:49. > :26:52.straightaway here from the tournament director, he with Andrew

:26:53. > :26:56.Cotter. Here is the man with the answers. We

:26:57. > :26:59.have not reached the contingency plan stage, the weather is dry you

:27:00. > :27:04.shut the moment, you are hoping for the best for the rest of the day? --

:27:05. > :27:08.the weather is quite dry at the moment. We have looked at every

:27:09. > :27:12.weather gauge we can get our hands on, we think we have a clear

:27:13. > :27:16.34-macro hours this afternoon to get plenty of playing. We have play

:27:17. > :27:20.across six courts already, hopefully getting under way soon. Centre Court

:27:21. > :27:25.is pretty dry, it has been covered, very well protect it. We got play on

:27:26. > :27:31.pretty quickly and it has not taken on too much water with this shower.

:27:32. > :27:35.It can be frustrating for you when you have these narrow whether

:27:36. > :27:40.Windows, just get them playing quickly, sometimes it takes a while?

:27:41. > :27:44.By the time you know the court is dry enough to play, the net has gone

:27:45. > :27:47.up, the cupboards have come across, play and knock up and all those

:27:48. > :27:51.sorts of things, a gets quite frustrating. But we are endeavouring

:27:52. > :27:55.to get things under way as soon as we can, I think we have dinner

:27:56. > :27:59.reasonable job. Looking down on the court, it looks like the rain has

:28:00. > :28:03.stopped and we will be back and away soon. How far behind which you had

:28:04. > :28:09.to get before looking at taking some matches indoors? -- would you have

:28:10. > :28:13.to get? We are nowhere near that stage yet. We have plenty of days

:28:14. > :28:17.left in the week, the tournament lasts until Sunday, we have

:28:18. > :28:23.potentially eight match court, lots can take place at the same time, we

:28:24. > :28:27.are very confident. You have been escorting David Beckham around, how

:28:28. > :28:32.is he? A blood very excited to be here. Romeo is a big tennis fan, he

:28:33. > :28:38.is very excited to see Andy this afternoon.

:28:39. > :28:41.And finally, happy birthday, are you enjoying it? It has been

:28:42. > :28:46.interesting, but of course I am. It is the best place in the world. The

:28:47. > :28:52.tournament director is hoping with the rest of us, as the players come

:28:53. > :28:57.back out. COMMENTATOR: After a limited amount of play, Verdasco

:28:58. > :29:00.will serve a deuce in the second game having broken Wawrinka in the

:29:01. > :29:08.first. A break is never a break until you have handled yourself

:29:09. > :29:12.afterwards. That's break was 8.5, nine minutes or so. You expect it

:29:13. > :30:04.will not be the first of the day. Or the only one of the day.

:30:05. > :31:49.That is the perfect start for the Spaniard.

:31:50. > :32:00.And that is just what Stan wanted. He is not built like an awful lot of

:32:01. > :32:04.other top tennis players. He is a solid individual and the sound from

:32:05. > :32:12.his racket, especially on the serve, it carries weight in audio terms. He

:32:13. > :32:20.is one of the strongest players, for sure. It's the ball -- hits the ball

:32:21. > :32:25.with a huge amount of power. The question for Stan is, again, can he

:32:26. > :32:33.find his way into the proper state of mind. He seems to flip in and out

:32:34. > :32:39.of that from time to time. If you are in the psychiatrist's chair, he

:32:40. > :32:45.interesting guy. So many people on the tennis tour have parents who are

:32:46. > :32:50.tennis coaches or basketball stars or handball players or something.

:32:51. > :32:53.His parents have both worked with disabled and disadvantaged children,

:32:54. > :32:57.they run a home for kids with serious disabilities and he was

:32:58. > :33:00.brought up in that environment. Speaking to him he said that has

:33:01. > :33:04.given him a different approach to the game compared to lots of people.

:33:05. > :33:10.Despite that, he has ability to seize life in the round, he has had

:33:11. > :33:17.to live in Federer's shadow for so long, you wonder if that is an

:33:18. > :33:21.element in his psyche was back -- in his psyche.

:33:22. > :33:39.It has to have had some sort of impact. But that is, I'm not sure.

:33:40. > :33:48.The difficulty for Wawrinka on this surface is he knows when he's

:33:49. > :33:55.feeling right, there is no one that can play with him.

:33:56. > :34:07.Young Milosz taking in a bit of the environment. Taking out the weather.

:34:08. > :34:14.-- checking out. But on a slippery court like this one it is very

:34:15. > :34:25.difficult to feel you can play your best tennis. So Wawrinka is then

:34:26. > :34:32.forced to hit the ball around and play defence. That must be

:34:33. > :34:37.inhibiting. His finest hour in the French Open against Dokovic 15

:34:38. > :34:48.months ago, he hit the ball so hard with complete freedom. That was not

:34:49. > :34:52.bad from the back of the court. He will probably disappear through for

:34:53. > :34:57.a woman. On a scale of 1-10, how amazed we you that John McEnroe

:34:58. > :35:02.ended up coaching me Nutbrown which -- Meyler 's row which? Not at all.

:35:03. > :35:13.I think this book with each other. -- Raonic. In the court -- because

:35:14. > :35:25.John comes at the game with a different perspective, he will give

:35:26. > :35:33.there which -- give him nuggets he hasn't heard before. Can we loss

:35:34. > :35:40.open up his mind and take those on board? Might be a challenge.

:35:41. > :35:41.Fascinating to see. McEnroe in the coach's box this afternoon.

:35:42. > :36:28.Touching. That second serve from Verdasco was

:36:29. > :36:31.not great but none the less, almost lost his footing. You've got to have

:36:32. > :36:36.secure footing on the baseline to serve like these guys too.

:36:37. > :36:51.I didn't see that come almost lost his footing serving? His foot just

:36:52. > :37:06.slipped a couple of inches. That is good to see. I don't think

:37:07. > :37:24.it's been a great summer for bees. It has been a horrific decade for

:37:25. > :37:28.bees, we need as many as possible! Just not near my drink, please.

:37:29. > :37:39.In an idle moment, and there were lots of them, I have an outbreak of

:37:40. > :37:44.double faults, at the French Open we spoke about the phrase the bees

:37:45. > :37:52.knees, which is a ridiculous phrase because bees do not have knees.

:37:53. > :38:01.I think he will take that, even if it didn't quite land. And I will

:38:02. > :38:09.tell you, even if you don't want to know, that in the 1920s.

:38:10. > :38:17.There was a competition to find ridiculous phrases using animals,

:38:18. > :38:20.including phrases like the cat's whiskers and there were dozens of

:38:21. > :38:27.them, to what three have survived and the bees knees is one of them.

:38:28. > :38:48.Stunned into silence. I can die a happy man.

:38:49. > :38:58.Wawrinka dug himself out of a hole there. That forehand, Verdasco lined

:38:59. > :39:01.up and thought it would skip through the court and it didn't. It hung

:39:02. > :39:59.there and he was a way out in front. And Wawrinka hits his racket into

:40:00. > :40:06.the turf, that is two breaks of serve for the Spaniard.

:40:07. > :40:14.Verdasco certainly doing a better job of dealing with the

:40:15. > :40:19.circumstances just now. He is actually tiptoeing around the court

:40:20. > :40:32.and therefore has not slipped nearly as often as Wawrinka.

:40:33. > :40:42.Then he got the quarterfinal here in 2011, Wawrinka, Stan got the semis

:40:43. > :40:51.here when he lost to Grigor Dimitrov who ultimately went on to win it.

:40:52. > :40:58.What do you make of the cup with Wawrinka? Interesting. I guess Stan

:40:59. > :41:02.and Magnus Norman thought, let's get some grass court expertise. Magnus

:41:03. > :41:06.was always Constable on the clay court, as Stan has always been.

:41:07. > :41:11.Perhaps Stan thought he will give me a nugget or two that will put me

:41:12. > :41:16.over the top because if you can win on hard courts, you can win on clay,

:41:17. > :41:19.why not grass? Grass isn't, especially the dry variety, is not

:41:20. > :41:25.that much different from the other services these days ago as it is

:41:26. > :41:32.quite slow. It is not much quicker than a hard quarter clay court. If

:41:33. > :41:37.Richard can give him a nugget or two in his mental approach in how to

:41:38. > :42:05.deal with it, maybe that will make Stan a contender here as well.

:42:06. > :43:16.Sometimes you make those and occasionally you don't.

:43:17. > :43:26.The Chelsea goalkeeper, former Stoke city and Jose Mourinho was here last

:43:27. > :43:27.year speaking about how he watches more tennis on television and

:43:28. > :43:33.football. -- than football. As most sane

:43:34. > :44:05.people would. One thing Jose Mourinho did say last

:44:06. > :44:09.year, he said he had or tennis and problem is unlikely but, you never

:44:10. > :44:12.know how long the game will last. You cannot plan your life. -- is

:44:13. > :44:36.unlike football. The chance to get one of those

:44:37. > :44:42.bricks at -- breaks back. Before we began to predict this would be three

:44:43. > :44:48.sets. That can be around 20 or it can be two and a half. With the

:44:49. > :45:00.rain, it could finish on Friday. Very conservatively played for him,

:45:01. > :45:33.yet it skidded through the court, highly effective.

:45:34. > :45:45.Another opportunity for Wawrinka to break back. That was a lovely serve.

:45:46. > :45:53.Beautifully executed right across court. This slice serve out wide is

:45:54. > :46:00.therefore Verdasco to hit all day long. He didn't actually mean to

:46:01. > :46:07.serve and volley, but played it well.

:46:08. > :46:19.Fantastic. A brilliantly deep shot return. Then

:46:20. > :46:24.just look at that backhand crosscourt, and the ankle. A short

:46:25. > :46:31.angle, Head with power. Unreturnable. -- a short angle, hit

:46:32. > :47:10.with power. He was crying a passing shot winner

:47:11. > :47:50.that which would have gotten back into this set -- he was eyeing.

:47:51. > :48:01.Wawrinka was eyeing a break back, but consolidated by Verdasco. He is

:48:02. > :48:13.just one game away from this opening set. A free game here for Verdasco,

:48:14. > :48:18.really. He can almost swing. Yeah, and in that regard it as a

:48:19. > :48:25.free game for Wawrinka as well. He is just trying to find a little

:48:26. > :48:32.rhythm. He has written this set off already.

:48:33. > :48:43.How cross do players, top players are specially, get when they get a

:48:44. > :48:47.foot faulted? -- top players especially? Everybody is different,

:48:48. > :48:52.but like most players they will think, what are you, blind?! I don't

:48:53. > :49:07.foot fault! Don't you know who I am?!

:49:08. > :49:11.I think that overhead from Verdasco would have been enjoyed by all club

:49:12. > :49:31.players watching this afternoon. A free game for Stan, he took

:49:32. > :49:37.advantage of it. Now it is up to the Spaniard to serve, to take this

:49:38. > :49:41.opening set. Threatening clouds, as you can see

:49:42. > :49:47.on our picture, everywhere. But at the moment, maybe they are a little

:49:48. > :49:51.bit higher than of late. The good thing is that the flags, certainly

:49:52. > :49:56.on the main stand to the right, are really quite gusty and mystery. That

:49:57. > :50:01.may be good news. There was an element of few minutes -- humidity

:50:02. > :50:08.yesterday that meant that when the rain was here, it could not move on.

:50:09. > :50:15.But maybe ourselves Asian maybe the wind that blows away the rain. --

:50:16. > :50:22.may be our salvation. At the rain has gone, so the other rains might

:50:23. > :50:27.be coming quicker? But they do not have time to drop their water, they

:50:28. > :50:35.are going so fast! Going sideways, never hitting the ground. That is my

:50:36. > :50:44.recollection of geography O-level! David and Romeo.

:50:45. > :50:51.Do you suppose he rings up to get tickets for himself, or does he have

:50:52. > :51:02.somebody to do that? I think EQ is out in front! -- I think he queues.

:51:03. > :51:07.At the Piccadilly line to Barons Court. Of all the footballers, he

:51:08. > :51:41.might. -- get the Piccadilly line. That second serve has been the bane

:51:42. > :51:48.of Verdasco 's existence for quite some time now. They just sometimes

:51:49. > :51:57.leads him. -- it just sometimes leaves him.

:51:58. > :52:07.It is inexplicable, to a large extent. His service action is

:52:08. > :52:12.beautiful, it really is very good. His ball toss, perhaps, is erratic.

:52:13. > :52:14.That might getting into trouble. He just does not have the confidence.

:52:15. > :53:12.That you would think he would have. Verdasco is doing a nice job of

:53:13. > :53:16.staying on the offensive. Whenever Wawrinka gets a ball that he can

:53:17. > :53:34.hits, he is overanxious, trying to do too much.

:53:35. > :53:42.So, Fernando Verdasco takes the first set against Stan Wawrinka. And

:53:43. > :53:51.I think of the number two seed has cause for concern. SUE BARKER: What

:53:52. > :53:55.a way to finish off the first, the two-time champion in trouble.

:53:56. > :53:58.Another two-time champion will be next, weather permitting, Andy

:53:59. > :54:02.Murray. He was out on the practice court earlier when it was quite

:54:03. > :54:05.bright, he got a full rack this session with his coaches, Jamie

:54:06. > :54:11.Delgado, who has been there since the start of the year, and Ivan

:54:12. > :54:15.Lendl, who just arrived from America yesterday. He got a full practice

:54:16. > :54:22.against Alex Ward on Court number three today, it is obvious that

:54:23. > :54:26.Lendl is making Murray be more aggressive. I think we will expect

:54:27. > :54:31.to see a more aggressive Andy Murray going through his grass court

:54:32. > :54:37.season. That is Murray and Lendl back together, hopefully Andy Mark

:54:38. > :54:43.Roe will be on Court very soon, against Nicolas Mahut, who has come

:54:44. > :54:47.straight from a grass tournament victory in the Netherlands. --

:54:48. > :54:51.hopefully Andy will be on court very soon. A difficult start for Andy

:54:52. > :54:55.Murray, a difficult start for Wawrinka, he needs to take some of

:54:56. > :54:59.these break points against Fernando Verdasco.

:55:00. > :55:08.COMMENTATOR: Bees two met on grass last year at Wimbledon. Wawrinka won

:55:09. > :55:12.in straight sets. -- Vives two met. In their career head-to-head, they

:55:13. > :55:17.are two apiece. This is their solitary meeting on grass. Sam will

:55:18. > :55:27.want -- Stanwell want to get the second set off to a good start. --

:55:28. > :55:32.stand will want. As long as he gets up to a competitive start here, he

:55:33. > :55:41.is essentially 50/50 to win this match. A very important stage of the

:55:42. > :55:47.match right now. That is worth the challenge. UMPIRE: Mr Wawrinka is

:55:48. > :55:53.challenging the call. The ball was called out.

:55:54. > :56:05.COMMENTATOR: Are you linked up with him? Cyclically. -- cyclically.

:56:06. > :56:07.Peter Fleming's eyesight... Is terrible! But I could just feel

:56:08. > :56:41.the ball! Two double faults for Wawrinka,

:56:42. > :57:29.against three for Verdasco. Note to self, do not go in. Or at

:57:30. > :57:31.least don't approach crosscourt. Give him the down the line shot, it

:57:32. > :57:59.is wide open. That was a hot dog minus the

:58:00. > :58:03.sausage! Certainly not a lot of mustered on one. That is just the

:58:04. > :58:10.kind of first game that Wawrinka wanted. On both occasions, Verdasco

:58:11. > :58:14.came into the net when he got past, very straightforwardly, and when he

:58:15. > :58:21.gave Wawrinka the chance to lob him to secure that first game. Is both

:58:22. > :58:27.times he went crosscourt, which made it more difficult for him to cover

:58:28. > :58:33.the net -- but both times. That is a very dark cloud. Do not adjust the

:58:34. > :58:37.colour on your set, that is a very, very dark cloud ominously hanging

:58:38. > :58:42.over us. Is it coming through at 80 mph?! It is going to come by so

:58:43. > :59:26.fast! There is no combating that! That is

:59:27. > :59:36.a sort of 1- to combination. There are those dark clouds! -- that is

:59:37. > :59:38.the sort of one-two combination that took Verdasco into the top ten for a

:59:39. > :59:47.few years. That was asking a lot for even his

:59:48. > :00:33.forehand. Two very powerful forehands. It is

:00:34. > :00:37.interesting that everyone thinks about Wawrinka's backhand, how great

:00:38. > :00:48.it is, yet he is more aggressive of the forehand more often than not.

:00:49. > :01:08.That is a solid hold for the Spaniard. Level-headed.

:01:09. > :01:19.The clock will strike to lack -- two very shortly.

:01:20. > :01:32.That was the 1-2 from the Wawrinka. We've had 45 units of play, which

:01:33. > :02:05.about midday today we had almost given up on that.

:02:06. > :02:20.Case number three for Wawrinka. Having been broken twice in the

:02:21. > :02:50.first set. -- ace. He is looking solid at the start second.

:02:51. > :03:00.Take that! It has been that style of tennis which served him so well in

:03:01. > :03:03.set number one, just slapping winners left right and centre. Can

:03:04. > :03:15.he string a few more together here? That return of serve was at 84 miles

:03:16. > :03:22.per are, he now has to look at a second serve.

:03:23. > :03:34.That is a third double fault for Renke having made 40 - zero for this

:03:35. > :03:47.game he is now back at deuce. -- for above Renke -- Wawrinka.

:03:48. > :03:55.Come on, you heard, from Wawrinka because he knows it is important to

:03:56. > :03:57.hang onto the server early in the second set, he does not want to go

:03:58. > :04:24.behind on break here. And that is the famous forehand from

:04:25. > :04:29.the Wawrinka that puts him ahead. You're one of the most cerebrally

:04:30. > :04:32.members the tennis fraternity, probably ever, I would like to

:04:33. > :04:39.mention something to that happened yesterday in the mid-of the rain

:04:40. > :04:45.breaks, bonded to someone, and it turned out it was a guy called

:04:46. > :04:51.Professor Zoltan mum off who is Professor of neurology at Oxford

:04:52. > :04:59.University. He is a serious boffin, who travels the world lecturing on

:05:00. > :05:04.your science, fitting in with tennis tournaments because he is a tennis

:05:05. > :05:07.fanatic. Ismet neuroscience. He speaks to the boffins of Spain to

:05:08. > :05:15.coincide with the Madrid open and Rome to speak. Anyway, have I guess

:05:16. > :05:20.what the exam question was the second year students at Oxford

:05:21. > :05:24.University this year, their second year exam in the neuroscience

:05:25. > :05:28.department was described the neurological process going through

:05:29. > :05:33.tennis player's mind when preparing to return serve and implement the

:05:34. > :05:39.action. How cool is that have a professor like that? -- to have a

:05:40. > :05:51.professor. Yes. Can I get back to you in a second?

:05:52. > :05:54.Thankfully the knowledge of that is not acquired to actually return

:05:55. > :06:07.serve. -- required. He only had tickets for yesterday

:06:08. > :06:09.because he has got to go back and mark all of the answers to that

:06:10. > :06:24.question. We will have a roundtable discussion

:06:25. > :06:24.at the next rain break about the neurological functions required to

:06:25. > :06:37.do that. That sounds like fun, will we sell

:06:38. > :07:02.tickets for that? It will be on the red Button, extensively.

:07:03. > :07:23.That tucked Wawrinka up very well in the body serif and a simple put

:07:24. > :07:26.away. What I wouldn't give to the forehand like that! What a thing of

:07:27. > :08:07.beauty. Do not be deceived by the shadows on

:08:08. > :08:30.the court, it is just a postage stamp of blue above just now.

:08:31. > :08:42.That is a big, heavy serve from the Spaniard.

:08:43. > :08:48.There it is. Second-class at the moment.

:08:49. > :09:18.Is that blue? You might need to make some adjustments.

:09:19. > :09:24.Really interesting point, Verdasco put the ball in an awkward position

:09:25. > :09:28.but Wawrinka never took the split septal he was going the wrong

:09:29. > :09:33.direction and took the circle route to change to read and get the ball

:09:34. > :10:32.and did not get there in time. -- split step.

:10:33. > :10:40.I kind of feel that this is an important game, if Wawrinka got a

:10:41. > :10:42.broken way Verdasco is serving, he might find it hard to get back in

:10:43. > :11:02.the match. No sooner said than a break point

:11:03. > :11:43.for Verdasco. That time Wawrinka got the ball to

:11:44. > :11:49.kick off the court surface. As wet as it is, that is probably a bit of

:11:50. > :12:00.a strange reaction and Verdasco miss timed it.

:12:01. > :12:05.When it is slippery and wet like this you would expect people to

:12:06. > :12:09.slide through and slice into the body. The kick service much more

:12:10. > :12:26.difficult execute. Wawrinka's serve got himself out of

:12:27. > :12:32.trouble, that kick-serve and another big serve straight to the body. And

:12:33. > :12:37.then that serve down the middle. You're speaking about Wawrinka's

:12:38. > :12:41.technique on the volley. This is maybe why Richard Krajicek has been

:12:42. > :12:47.brought in to help him with his technique on the grass. What is

:12:48. > :12:51.wrong with this? In fact, the volley, there is nothing wrong with

:12:52. > :12:58.that. But what we missed as he is just running. Back in the old days,

:12:59. > :13:05.what these great serve and volley is, McEnroe, labour, Rose Edberg,

:13:06. > :13:08.you run to it and just as your opponent is about to hit the ball

:13:09. > :13:14.you take a hot and land on both feet so that you can go to either side

:13:15. > :13:19.very quickly. Stan did not do that, he was just running, so it took him

:13:20. > :13:24.a little time to actually take his first step to the left and it was

:13:25. > :13:30.too slow and he was off balance and missed the volley as a result. I

:13:31. > :13:33.think because players come to net so seldom these days because it is very

:13:34. > :13:38.difficult with the strings, the players can put so much top-spin on

:13:39. > :13:42.the ball, it is difficult to defend the net. They just are not practised

:13:43. > :13:48.enough to be effective up there. And it hurts them, not many weeks of the

:13:49. > :13:54.year, but this would be one of them. All dogs and new tricks. At 32, how

:13:55. > :13:58.easy is it to teach Stan Wawrinka to split step going into the net? It is

:13:59. > :14:03.a mental discipline. It is something that I think players would be set

:14:04. > :14:08.well served to do before every shot, so once you get into that habit it

:14:09. > :14:12.is routine. You are right, it does take a little time to eradicate the

:14:13. > :15:02.old, bad habits. That was right, right, right on the

:15:03. > :15:09.baseline. There is Becks and there is everybody looking at him. I

:15:10. > :15:21.wonder how you ever, ever come to terms with that.

:15:22. > :15:27.John, you said earlier that if there was one footballer that you might

:15:28. > :15:28.find taking the tube, that it would be Becks? The Piccadilly line,

:15:29. > :15:37.certainly. The service is much better than the

:15:38. > :16:00.central. Verdasco doing a nice job of mixing

:16:01. > :16:09.up the player, wrong footing Wawrinka. It is getting into the

:16:10. > :16:23.Swiss player's head. Struggling to stay upright.

:16:24. > :16:35.That is a great way to move your opponent about like that.

:16:36. > :16:36.And there is the Chelsea keeper, Begovic. He changed at Fulham

:16:37. > :16:58.Broadway! 113 miles an hour, but it is not the

:16:59. > :17:00.speed, it is the angle of the slice. We have an intriguing game, do we

:17:01. > :17:18.not? Many in the crowd appear as

:17:19. > :17:22.distracted by we've -- as we were by that cloud. Hanging ominously over

:17:23. > :17:51.Centre Court. A solitary cry of, come on, Stan!

:17:52. > :18:10.From the crowds. Crowd, singular. Do you sense the tennis public at

:18:11. > :18:22.large appreciates Wawrinka and his talent? Or is he always just kind of

:18:23. > :18:33.off the pace of the big dies? Both. -- the big guys?

:18:34. > :18:44.I think anyone that knows tennis can really appreciate how well he can

:18:45. > :19:06.play on any given day or week, for example.

:19:07. > :19:22.Despite clear signs of frustration from the Swiss, he is OK at the

:19:23. > :19:34.moment, going on serve. And Npower ladies and gentlemen, players

:19:35. > :19:38.suspended. -- UMPIRE: Ladies and gentlemen, play is suspended.

:19:39. > :19:43.COMMENTATOR: Nobody saw that coming. I think we thought we had got away

:19:44. > :19:55.with it and then, Wolf, down came the rain. -- and then, woof. The

:19:56. > :20:00.wind is substantial. I think this might be a delay of quite some

:20:01. > :20:04.duration. Wawrinka will be delighted that he managed to hold his serve

:20:05. > :20:17.and going out 4- three. You are right. Here comes a monsoon! Yikes!

:20:18. > :20:22.It is tipping its down now. So Verdasco will be a bit cold and

:20:23. > :20:30.stiff when they next come out. And to serve at 3-4 will be a bit of a

:20:31. > :20:36.shaky moment for him. What has been your take on how Wawrinka has played

:20:37. > :20:40.so far? He is clearly not confident yet, he has not quite worked his way

:20:41. > :20:46.into the event. Which is quite often the case for him. He takes a little

:20:47. > :20:52.while to warm to the circumstances. These people might take a little

:20:53. > :21:03.while to warm after this drenching! Is that Hale, or just very, very

:21:04. > :21:07.heavy rain? -- is that hail? James Key of the bumblebee displays that

:21:08. > :21:11.he left something behind. Tactical error. It cannot be the umpire's job

:21:12. > :21:19.to take the microphone away, surely?! It appears to be. I think

:21:20. > :21:25.he has got to the point that he is still wet, he does not occur. He is

:21:26. > :21:31.like a little kid, he is like, this is fun! Get inside! About it is a

:21:32. > :21:37.colourful site by virtue of umbrellas, otherwise the sky is the

:21:38. > :21:44.colour of a white T-shirt when you have washed it too often and gets

:21:45. > :21:49.progressively more grey and grubby. That is it at the moment. Although,

:21:50. > :21:55.actually, further away, just behind the clubhouse, it is a bit brighter.

:21:56. > :22:05.That is the direction it is coming from. You should be here! Possibly!

:22:06. > :22:09.So many big sporting events taking place in this country over this

:22:10. > :22:24.week. It is such a shame that the weather is as it is at the Heights,'

:22:25. > :22:30.is, of summer. -- at the heights, in inverted commas. But I think it has

:22:31. > :22:36.gone, umbrellas are going down as quickly as they came up. So 80 mph

:22:37. > :22:41.winds are good for something after all! You could have synchronised

:22:42. > :22:45.umbrella putting up and putting down. Andrew Cotter or somebody

:22:46. > :22:49.could be in the middle of Centre Court, and when he said go,

:22:50. > :22:53.everybody could put umbrellas about the same time. What a fantastic shot

:22:54. > :22:59.that would be. And then bring them down at the same time. I think he

:23:00. > :23:16.has just volunteered for the job! State and for that! -- stay to and

:23:17. > :23:21.for that! -- stay tuned. We will have a chat with a mere Begovic in a

:23:22. > :23:25.moment. Speaking of goalkeepers, Petr Cech, formerly of that parish

:23:26. > :23:30.and no of Arsenal, was here a couple of years ago. Apparently he is very

:23:31. > :23:36.handy. He is very tall, and I think he is a left-hander, six foot six,

:23:37. > :23:41.hammering down an angled left serve, that would do a lot of damage to a

:23:42. > :23:48.lot of players. I think Glenn Hoddle was a good tennis player as well. In

:23:49. > :23:54.your pump, Peter, when there was pro-celebrity things like that,

:23:55. > :24:00.footballers take part? They tend to play golf as opposed to tennis?

:24:01. > :24:08.Yeah. A phew, but with no huge amount of skill. Jimmy Hill was a

:24:09. > :24:11.very avid tennis player. He was. And a guy who used to play for

:24:12. > :24:18.Southampton called Glen Cockrell, he was a very handy tennis player. That

:24:19. > :24:23.is a miserable picture, although she is smiling through the rain in the

:24:24. > :24:26.middle. It is a great opportunity for many companies to advertise

:24:27. > :24:33.their wares by way of their umbrellas. Let's go back to Sue who,

:24:34. > :24:40.like us, is in the comfy warmth of the studio full stop I feel I should

:24:41. > :24:45.have that sign, you should be here! We're in a lovely, one studio, out

:24:46. > :24:48.of the rain. We have been talking about food all is, Graeme Le Saux

:24:49. > :24:54.plays a lot at Wimbledon, a very keen tennis player and improving all

:24:55. > :24:58.the time. Asmir Begovic, we will be hearing from him as soon as we get

:24:59. > :25:01.him to agree to stand under an umbrella on the balcony and talk to

:25:02. > :25:05.us. At least we have had just over an

:25:06. > :25:11.hour of tennis, and a very entertaining match, although in very

:25:12. > :25:14.difficult conditions, cold, blustery and a slippery court. Fernando

:25:15. > :25:20.Verdasco seems to have adapted a lot that Obama number two seed, Stan

:25:21. > :25:24.Wawrinka. Hopefully, as John said, it is looking brighter over the

:25:25. > :25:29.clubhouse. So in about half an hour will get players back on. The good

:25:30. > :25:35.news is they got the covers on before the downpour. They tended

:25:36. > :25:39.perfectly. If they had waited for that, you add another 30 minutes on.

:25:40. > :25:44.It was only driven it -- drizzling when they got the covers over. It

:25:45. > :25:50.does not look like it at the moment, but we might be OK. We forecast

:25:51. > :25:55.another two days of this. Just behind you and over your left

:25:56. > :25:59.shoulder is Heathrow. I am looking at the aeroplanes, there were some

:26:00. > :26:10.little tales coming down, along with the Hale, -- that were some little

:26:11. > :26:16.tails coming down, along with the hail. Over Queen's Club you are 25

:26:17. > :26:20.for 30 seconds away from touchdown, they were disappearing into black

:26:21. > :26:27.clouds. If you are a nervous flyer, you do not want to be up there right

:26:28. > :26:31.now! We heard that the forecast is better, hopefully we will get some

:26:32. > :26:37.more play. The match that we have seen at the moment, Verdasco has

:26:38. > :26:43.played well. Big forehands, attacking and moving well, better

:26:44. > :26:47.than stand. It has been a very smart match so far. It has been the tale

:26:48. > :26:51.of somebody who really wants to be in these conditions, and another

:26:52. > :26:57.player that has not stopped Verdasco did not worry about the dampness of

:26:58. > :27:01.the court and has stuck in, whereas Stan has been muttering, slipped a

:27:02. > :27:07.couple of times, he is not comfortable. One player is, one is

:27:08. > :27:10.not. At this level, even the top players and the level slightly

:27:11. > :27:16.below, if they are not mentally and physically right in the match they

:27:17. > :27:19.will lose. It is taking chances, he has been broken three times but has

:27:20. > :27:25.had six break points and not been able to take them. All grass ever is

:27:26. > :27:28.is a pointer two here and there. Until you find the rhythm and you

:27:29. > :27:33.see that the surface under your feet as comfortable, there is so much

:27:34. > :27:36.uncertainty, which is why they are added the week between the French

:27:37. > :27:40.Open and Wimbledon in the first place and extended the grass court

:27:41. > :27:46.season, so guys can get a handle on how to move on it. Yet Novak

:27:47. > :27:51.Djokovic, with the Wimbledon Haas he has won, he has never played a grass

:27:52. > :28:00.court tournament beforehand. -- with the Wimbledon Haas he has won. Yawn

:28:01. > :28:09.blog was the same. -- Bjorn Borg. They require matches. What was that

:28:10. > :28:20.about the rain clearing up?! Yes! It is absolutely... I can hardly hear

:28:21. > :28:25.you. Unbelievable. Andrew was talking about the movements, that is

:28:26. > :28:31.the big issue. You couldn't find a bigger gulf between coming from clay

:28:32. > :28:35.to grass. One extreme to the other. Totally, which is why, as Andrew

:28:36. > :28:40.says, although there is a little bit more in three weeks, when there was

:28:41. > :28:45.only a two week gap, that was the greatest feat in tennis by Miles

:28:46. > :28:47.when somebody won both back to back, because the difference between the

:28:48. > :28:53.services and the movement is knighted today. In the old days, it

:28:54. > :28:57.was a joke of the balls bouncing down here and appear at the French,

:28:58. > :29:04.the movement and sliding is totally different. The different shoes they

:29:05. > :29:08.have adapted to. Somebody can win back-to-back, the French and

:29:09. > :29:11.Wimbledon, it is still amazing. Three weeks apart, incredible

:29:12. > :29:16.whoever can do it. They were talking about the difference in the

:29:17. > :29:24.movement. The desk, there is a likeness to his movement. Some of is

:29:25. > :29:28.confidence. -- Verdasco, there is a lightness to his movement. If he had

:29:29. > :29:35.started better in 2013 Wimbledon, we might not have seen Murray become

:29:36. > :29:40.the first written in 1000 years to win Wimbledon. He has a likeness of

:29:41. > :29:45.that, he moves well. Stan does not look it on television, he is a big

:29:46. > :29:51.unit. He likes to Head from a very firm days. A very firm base here

:29:52. > :29:56.looks like planting your foot. You look like you are risking your life

:29:57. > :30:06.or a need ligaments. Give Stan three or four matches, he will be fine.

:30:07. > :30:11.But watch this year. -- this here. He does not like that, who does?

:30:12. > :30:17.Right before Wimbledon, you do not want to take risks. Grass courts

:30:18. > :30:21.change dramatically. If we get much play we will see the chord change

:30:22. > :30:25.over the week. Over Wimbledon, the court that starts on the first

:30:26. > :30:31.Monday to finals day is totally different. I member when Martin Del

:30:32. > :30:36.Potro when he hyped extended his knee a couple of times. Running

:30:37. > :30:41.around, hitting big ground strokes from 15 or 20 feet by the baseline

:30:42. > :30:44.is not the right place to be for the first two or three days of the

:30:45. > :30:49.tournament, especially not this one. They prepared this court with only

:30:50. > :30:52.seven days of play in mind. A preparatory certain way. Very hard

:30:53. > :30:57.and unease, quite juicy grass on top. -- they prepare it a certain

:30:58. > :31:05.way. You would put socks around it in the old days. How times have

:31:06. > :31:14.changed! They have studs on their shoes now.

:31:15. > :31:19.They are back in the locker in that next up when play resumes Andy

:31:20. > :31:23.Murray will take on Nicolas Mahut. Andy had a wonderful run through the

:31:24. > :31:28.French Open and was in the final against Novak Djokovic. Andy got up

:31:29. > :31:34.with him a couple of days ago. The last time I saw you on the telly you

:31:35. > :31:38.were coming off the French Open final. Great effort to get the final

:31:39. > :31:43.come you look tired, it's only a week on, you look better. I took

:31:44. > :31:50.five full days off and didn't hit any balls or go to the gym, was just

:31:51. > :31:52.at home with the family and I got a little bit sick. I think I would

:31:53. > :32:03.just run down, I didn't feel too bad. It had been long few weeks. The

:32:04. > :32:06.French Open. It was tough. A good tournament but any time you get to

:32:07. > :32:10.final and do not when it is a bit disappointing. I'm better now.

:32:11. > :32:16.Amazing, the final full four Grand Slams. It is just a fantastic

:32:17. > :32:22.effort. You ran into a brick wall in the final, you played well. I played

:32:23. > :32:26.some good stuff in the final. Beginning of the second set was

:32:27. > :32:30.important, I had a break point in the first time in -- first game and

:32:31. > :32:37.did not get it come he settled after that and started playing very well.

:32:38. > :32:41.A few years ago I wouldn't have expected to have been in the French

:32:42. > :32:47.Open final, so to have improved on last year's performance and getting

:32:48. > :32:52.to the semifinals is progress, but also disappointing when you do not

:32:53. > :32:56.win. Of course, but you beat him at the Italian open, which is the

:32:57. > :33:00.drastic result in playing on clay, you must be so fit and ready for the

:33:01. > :33:06.grass court season, do you find it an easy transition? I feel like the

:33:07. > :33:10.movement and stuff for me comes quite naturally in comparison which

:33:11. > :33:15.I move onto the clay court it takes the time to get used to the movement

:33:16. > :33:20.on clay, on grass like a lot of trouble moving but I feel fit and in

:33:21. > :33:25.good shape, I played lots of matches but on grass I get out of breath

:33:26. > :33:28.quite quick because the ball is coming back much faster, the rallies

:33:29. > :33:34.are a lot quicker, although they are shorter. It is slightly different

:33:35. > :33:39.and that takes a little well to get used to. Do not want up to slowly

:33:40. > :33:43.because Nicolas Mahut knows how to play on grass courts. That is a good

:33:44. > :33:48.way to get onto the grass and into the swing of things, playing some

:33:49. > :33:53.with that experience? Well, he is number one in the world in doubles,

:33:54. > :34:00.I lost in once in the first round here before in a close match, so it

:34:01. > :34:03.will be a tough one. He likes these conditions and has played well here

:34:04. > :34:08.in the past. I need to be ready for that. Is he have a fifth when he

:34:09. > :34:13.would be something. Yes. It is a bit goal of mine to try and do that. It

:34:14. > :34:18.has not been done before here. I will give it a good shot. He

:34:19. > :34:23.certainly will. Had a wonderful season on the clay courts. He has

:34:24. > :34:27.made changes physically and technically trying to have bigger

:34:28. > :34:30.second service. He has made the changes and has gone from someone we

:34:31. > :34:36.thought doesn't like the clay into force. He loves the clay now and

:34:37. > :34:40.look at his game, you look back at it and say, why didn't he earlier? I

:34:41. > :34:43.think the back injury was the main thing. That needed the surgery

:34:44. > :34:50.because every time he moved on to the clay, he had changed his

:34:51. > :34:54.movement to get rid of the back pain and after the surgery he feels pain

:34:55. > :34:58.free. I think that is true, but I don't think he ever totally believed

:34:59. > :35:02.he was going to win the French or get close to it as he has done. Look

:35:03. > :35:07.at his game now, his movement is ridiculous. He can get cheap points

:35:08. > :35:14.on his serve that other players cannot get. His drop shot is

:35:15. > :35:17.magnificent. The only one that consistently gets the ball past him

:35:18. > :35:24.is a Djokovic. He moves so well on it. There is no reason he cannot win

:35:25. > :35:27.the French now. This one player, really, I am exaggerating, but the

:35:28. > :35:32.one main player in his way, other than that, he can beat all of these

:35:33. > :35:36.players on clay and any surface come as the complete player. He might

:35:37. > :35:39.against Stan Wawrinka was something. Yes, the match against Stepanenko is

:35:40. > :35:46.something in the first round. In a different way. The cutest was not in

:35:47. > :35:50.the ignition. It was all me that point of crisis motivation and two

:35:51. > :35:55.sets down when he went, no, but get stuck in. Suddenly he engaged and

:35:56. > :35:59.got through that one. I think it was two points for him to be from now

:36:00. > :36:04.on. The next one he was against Matias Boruc. A French guy that no

:36:05. > :36:07.one has heard of before. And suddenly he started developing his

:36:08. > :36:14.game. He has a great match player. Yes, and he hates losing. It is

:36:15. > :36:18.obvious, but he competes, he does not want to shake hands having lost,

:36:19. > :36:23.which is why lenders about because the only person he loses to now is a

:36:24. > :36:27.Novak Djokovic. He just had a clay-court season, Andy, where he

:36:28. > :36:38.won 18 matches and lost three. He only lost to Nadal and Dokovic. He

:36:39. > :36:41.won Rome, the Italian open, and he didn't lose a set. Including

:36:42. > :36:47.Djokovic, who was tired in the final. It is remarkable. He thinks

:36:48. > :36:51.he can complete the full set. He has a one US Open and Wimbledon, he has

:36:52. > :37:00.Olympic gold and the Davis Cup, there is no, some people said you

:37:01. > :37:04.feel sorry for him? No! He has done fantastically well, how many of us

:37:05. > :37:08.can say we maximise -- maximise what we got? That is why I love watching

:37:09. > :37:11.him play, we should make the most of him because there is not a country

:37:12. > :37:15.in the world that wouldn't have liked Andy at the head of their game

:37:16. > :37:21.and the I hope it continues for ages and then becomes Davis Cup captain.

:37:22. > :37:25.You'll speak but Lendl's influence but you mentioned Djokovic, we

:37:26. > :37:28.looked at the point yesterday, her for a heady years, he holds all four

:37:29. > :37:34.Grand Slam titles you have to salute what he has put into the game, what

:37:35. > :37:37.he has changed physically, mentally, technically, he has just got better

:37:38. > :37:43.and better and the bar is raising all the time. It is scary now with

:37:44. > :37:46.him. He could go on to become the greatest player of all-time. No

:37:47. > :37:51.question. As long as the motivation there, it doesn't like it is

:37:52. > :37:55.diminishing at the moment. You beat him? The problem as it is maybe over

:37:56. > :37:58.the problem as it is maybe overly best-of-3 sets come piece starts

:37:59. > :38:03.badly you can maybe jump ahead and you get fortunate, but over five

:38:04. > :38:09.sets the physicality of is the chink in his armour? I don't know.

:38:10. > :38:12.Mentally at one stage years ago he had a couple of times of defaulting

:38:13. > :38:17.matches or getting injured on the court, people said he even had a

:38:18. > :38:26.reputation of being a choker at one stage. And erotic mentioned that.

:38:27. > :38:30.Look at him now. -- Andy Roddick mentioned that. He changed his diet

:38:31. > :38:36.as well. And he has changed it again. He went gluten-free but now

:38:37. > :38:39.he's some fish but is more or less a vegetarian. He says he needs a

:38:40. > :38:45.little bit of fish. Maybe that is the secret. We are all looking for

:38:46. > :38:49.something. No stone left unturned. Physically he has got it and the

:38:50. > :38:53.flexibility, he has taken clicks ability to whole new level. It is

:38:54. > :38:58.frightening. He is a reprimand. The funny thing was, he was telling a

:38:59. > :39:06.story once about how he was stretching in a park in Madrid, went

:39:07. > :39:12.for a run, he can stretch. I've seen him have his foot straight above,

:39:13. > :39:17.meaning the hamstring should go pain like a rubber band. He saw someone

:39:18. > :39:20.else stretching like him and he was competing with this person, it

:39:21. > :39:24.turned out to be Serena Williams doing the same thing because she is

:39:25. > :39:28.unbelievably flexible as well. He will not leave any stone unturned in

:39:29. > :39:34.pursuit of what is a virtual perfection from the back of the

:39:35. > :39:40.court. His overhead is rubbish. And that is it. What will you do, bring

:39:41. > :39:43.him in so you can lob him? Got to see how it goes. It was interesting

:39:44. > :39:48.and watching Lendl on the practice court with Andy, we spoke about it.

:39:49. > :39:52.Everyone knows he wants to attack dog of it and it was interesting, he

:39:53. > :39:55.was right on the baseline really attacking the shots and that is how

:39:56. > :39:59.Lendl will try and take him through this grass court season. He has to

:40:00. > :40:07.do something different because the results in the slams, he has not had

:40:08. > :40:10.any success for a while. It is just these little, small things he will

:40:11. > :40:14.work on. I still believe it is the mental side that Lendl will be

:40:15. > :40:18.pushing all the time, getting into his head, just firing him up and

:40:19. > :40:24.making sure no wasted energy in the early rounds and he tends to do. No

:40:25. > :40:30.shouting at the box. That will be at. The positive stuff, noises he

:40:31. > :40:36.should try and suddenly not say anything. No, that is part of his

:40:37. > :40:39.DNA. But he has to be tuned in on a positive way for the bees getting

:40:40. > :40:43.stuck in right off the bat. This will also be interesting for Jamie

:40:44. > :40:46.Delgado, who has a magnificent job coming in and will be part of this

:40:47. > :40:53.team listening to Lendl. What a tuition to have to to mimic for

:40:54. > :40:58.occult -- to have for a coach. He's one of the Masters and to be with

:40:59. > :41:01.these. There he is, with these two greats, and I achieve an Lendl. This

:41:02. > :41:07.will be a sponge frame to soak it all in. What a great occasion for

:41:08. > :41:10.him to be part of this team. And Andy was saying it has been greater

:41:11. > :41:15.Jamie around because he lives nearby in Wimbledon. They are good friends.

:41:16. > :41:21.Yes, I think they entered the Snooker championship together. I

:41:22. > :41:25.heard he was very competitive in that, surprise surprise. I'll is

:41:26. > :41:30.already didn't win. There was a large crowd who went to watch him.

:41:31. > :41:35.That is a small room! Jamie Delgado would did very well with Gillies

:41:36. > :41:39.Miller. He is a smart guy, Jimmy has been unable for donkeys years,

:41:40. > :41:43.probably playing the most intelligent game in his own head

:41:44. > :41:48.now. It takes a lifetime to learn it. Sadly, physically you lose it

:41:49. > :41:52.around 28, 30, 32, just when you begin to learn the game. He has a

:41:53. > :41:56.lot to bring. I'm impressed me did well with Gillies Miller and can say

:41:57. > :41:59.he was at the helm when Andy made the French Open final. And they will

:42:00. > :42:03.work hard with Andy because it is one of these frustration days and

:42:04. > :42:07.marries a second centre and we get some more play. We had a number of

:42:08. > :42:11.celebrities enjoying the tennis including Chelsea goalkeeper Begovic

:42:12. > :42:15.and we can hear from him now with Andrew. Clashing umbrellas with us,

:42:16. > :42:21.who is very tall and this is disturbing. You are a tennis nut and

:42:22. > :42:25.sport -- supported Stan Wawrinka. Yes, I'm a big tennis fan and was

:42:26. > :42:30.invited by stand to watch him play. So I happily accepted. They were

:42:31. > :42:34.speaking highly, I think they were speculative about your own prowess

:42:35. > :42:38.as a tennis player. You must have a big serve? I would say the server

:42:39. > :42:43.and my forehand my strength. I get Oblak a little in my off-season with

:42:44. > :42:48.friends, which is nice. But not as much as I would like. You're

:42:49. > :42:51.obviously used to this weather, this does not disappoint you, the only

:42:52. > :42:57.day your kind are here today? At the moment, it is a shame that there is

:42:58. > :43:01.a rain delay, but living in England you get used to it and ensure it

:43:02. > :43:04.will pass and we'll see more tennis later on. That stock football

:43:05. > :43:08.because the greatest nations in Europe, Scotland and

:43:09. > :43:14.Bosnia-Herzegovina, did not qualify. You're what it's dispassionately,

:43:15. > :43:18.what have you made of it? As -- I think it has been a good tournament

:43:19. > :43:21.and seems wide open, anyone's to win and we will see who gets hot towards

:43:22. > :43:29.the end of term and picks up form. It is interesting so far. I'm not

:43:30. > :43:33.saying other comment on Chelsea, what about your future? I reports

:43:34. > :43:38.linking you with a possible move. Anything on that? .Com I think that

:43:39. > :43:41.is pure speculation, I'm looking forward to enjoying a couple more

:43:42. > :43:45.weeks off in my time with my family and beginning of July getting back

:43:46. > :43:49.to pre-season and focusing on Chelsea. Nothing else in my mind

:43:50. > :43:54.just now. Rampant speculation. Thank you, enjoy the rest of the day. I am

:43:55. > :43:58.told it will dry up and perhaps a comeback first time. Thank you for

:43:59. > :44:06.speaking to us. Lovely to hear from him. Big sports fan. Great knowledge

:44:07. > :44:10.on question of sport. Big fellow. Yes,. Wouldn't want to take the ball

:44:11. > :44:14.into him. He must have a big serve but we're still waiting for the

:44:15. > :44:19.winter stop. They are hardy, some of these spectators, sitting here and

:44:20. > :44:25.waiting for more tennis to happen. It looks brighter it will be at

:44:26. > :44:29.least 30 minutes or so before there is any play. Andy Murray, second on

:44:30. > :44:34.Centre Court we've spoken a lot about him and even Lendl and out

:44:35. > :44:38.that it was booking about Nicolas Mahut come his first-round opponent,

:44:39. > :44:42.really tough customer who knows his way around grass coming off a

:44:43. > :44:47.victory in the Netherlands. Matt ready and comfortable on the

:44:48. > :44:51.surface. -- match. And had a win against Andy on this surface. He is

:44:52. > :44:56.an awkward customer. Did not look quite so happy. Not on that one. Of

:44:57. > :45:00.course he had the famous match at Wimbledon. He loves this surface and

:45:01. > :45:04.it suits him perfectly. Comes in with one of the best of all these in

:45:05. > :45:09.the game. Number two in the world in doubles under Jamie Murray and this

:45:10. > :45:14.is a difficult first round the Andy Murray to play.

:45:15. > :45:22.He is one of my favourite players. For a start, he still plays doubles,

:45:23. > :45:28.only about 13 singles players in the top 50 by any doubles at all, I love

:45:29. > :45:31.that. He won his first match at to level in the year 2000, you clearly

:45:32. > :45:39.wants to be out there. I love the way he dives on the court, he gets

:45:40. > :45:45.amongst it. That match against Roddick, 2007, two match points. A

:45:46. > :45:47.tie-break in the third set. He has provided us with great entertainment

:45:48. > :45:59.but he seems to lose the match is that we enjoy the most. -- the

:46:00. > :46:02.matches that we enjoyed the most. He had that epic match with John Isner.

:46:03. > :46:10.Then he became a father about year and a half later, he made John Isner

:46:11. > :46:18.his godfather! -- the baby's godfather. Really?! I am not going

:46:19. > :46:23.to Brighton to be godfather, get out of here! He has got the game to hurt

:46:24. > :46:29.Andy, Andy can take this easy, as we have seen with Wawrinka. He has a

:46:30. > :46:34.lovely serve, it is not huge but he positions it well. He comes in at

:46:35. > :46:40.the right time, excellent volley, he can spot when players are playing

:46:41. > :46:45.defensively, he can get in quick. He is natural at volleying, loves to

:46:46. > :46:49.attack the ball. It is not an easy much for him to play. It is a good

:46:50. > :46:53.one if you get through it, because you are coming against a tough

:46:54. > :47:00.player, but I think Gandhi would have preferred someone else in the

:47:01. > :47:07.draw rather than Nicolas. And the weather is helping. It is an even.

:47:08. > :47:12.And he has the ability to rest and recuperate after his last win. There

:47:13. > :47:18.are not that many grass court tournaments around, Murray wins a

:47:19. > :47:23.lot of them. He has won four titles, all of them on grass. It is not an

:47:24. > :47:31.easy era to be a grass court specialist Asian Mark make hay!

:47:32. > :47:35.We remain hopeful that we will get more play. The tournament director

:47:36. > :47:39.has said there is another window of opportunity, so fingers crossed. We

:47:40. > :47:43.will bring you a match that was on Centre Court yesterday which we were

:47:44. > :47:49.not able to show you when we came off the air on BBC Two, featuring

:47:50. > :47:57.the number four seed Richard Gasquet against Steve Johnson of the USA. We

:47:58. > :47:59.are at the start of the tie-break, Johnson to serve. The commentators

:48:00. > :48:42.are Peter Fleming and Andrew Cotter. COMMENTATOR: The French has been

:48:43. > :49:09.working hard. You could hear him labouring.

:49:10. > :49:29.Barking for the towel, the mini-break disappears.

:49:30. > :49:42.Good play. Flicking the ball over Gasquet.

:49:43. > :49:47.Considering the nerves that he is no doubt feeling right now, that was

:49:48. > :49:56.about as well as he could play that point. A chance for Gasquet to

:49:57. > :50:58.attack a couple of serves of Johnson.

:50:59. > :51:06.The crowd is getting excited, lively at this point of the evening. There

:51:07. > :51:08.is not segregation between the two sets of supporters. I am sure it

:51:09. > :51:49.will be fine! A little slice of early on, then

:51:50. > :51:53.returns to his plodding ways. Midway through the dry lake, it was almost

:51:54. > :51:57.as though Gasquet through a gratuitous shot into the Johnson

:51:58. > :52:02.forehand just to keep him honest. But he paid the price Boyd. As soon

:52:03. > :52:12.the American got to hit a forehand, he was in control. -- but he paid

:52:13. > :52:14.the price for it. As... Gasquet is against it once

:52:15. > :52:41.more. -- is up against it. Once again, Gasquet opting for

:52:42. > :52:50.disguise over efficiency. Courts the top of the net. He had Johnson

:52:51. > :53:13.moving the wrong way. Two big serves will do it for the American.

:53:14. > :53:19.Once again, the forehand does it work. Steve Johnson, four set

:53:20. > :53:38.points. There is a bit of a difference in

:53:39. > :53:43.those forehand speeds. Taken with an ace, the man who was two breaks down

:53:44. > :53:49.and similarly out of this first set, Steve Johnson takes it against the

:53:50. > :53:52.number four seed. Richard Gasquet is going to have to do with the long

:53:53. > :53:58.way. It has been long enough already. Finally have a set up on

:53:59. > :54:04.the board. The match started at around 12:30pm. Steve Johnson takes

:54:05. > :54:09.it, his first appearance at Queen's. Gasquet only has himself to blame.

:54:10. > :54:18.Having been in 4-0, rolling his way to the first set, but not so. 4-0

:54:19. > :54:22.game was just a real donation. He threw in and forced errors, which

:54:23. > :54:35.allowed the American to settle and just relax, not worry. And to start

:54:36. > :54:38.to get into a rhythm, a routine. And, of course, the stop and start

:54:39. > :54:46.nature of that first set did not help Gasquet. Once he realised that,

:54:47. > :54:48.oh, my goodness, I am in danger of allowing him back into the set, he

:54:49. > :55:05.tightened up a little bit. Incidentally, on Court Number One,

:55:06. > :55:16.Kevin Anderson is through. He has beaten Vasily in straight sets, two

:55:17. > :55:19.tie-breaks, though. There are a few quarterfinal places to be filled.

:55:20. > :55:25.They will not have made the draw yet. Four qualifiers still too

:55:26. > :56:53.redistributed. -- to be decided. What a rally! That will be a warning

:56:54. > :57:08.for Gasquet. Could have hit somebody there.

:57:09. > :57:29.And that racket will be retired. UMPIRE: Code violation for racket

:57:30. > :57:33.abuse, warning, Mr Gasquet. What a difference that last rally.

:57:34. > :57:35.The allegiance of Steve Johnson seem to have forced to winsome quick

:57:36. > :57:56.points. Hansen emerging. It shows what a difference a bit of

:57:57. > :58:03.confidence can make. That last rally, 29 shots. Johnson's sliced

:58:04. > :58:13.backhand had a lot of bite. At the start of the match, it was pretty

:58:14. > :58:24.tentative. Gasquet has that slump shouldered, Billy good look. --

:58:25. > :58:31.Billy good. The American served so well, it will not be easy for

:58:32. > :58:35.Gasquet to create many break point. On the right is Johnson's coach, he

:58:36. > :58:41.has worked with a few American players such as John Isner, Mardy

:58:42. > :58:47.Fish, James Blake. Very pleased with what he sees at the moment. What a

:58:48. > :58:54.turnaround in this match. Johnson in control, set up.

:58:55. > :59:14.You are assuming he is pleased? Did he give it away? Poker face.

:59:15. > :59:22.A different player now. Confident enough to try a few different

:59:23. > :59:27.things. He is in the flow now. Before the match, the gears were

:59:28. > :59:28.binding, he was thinking. You don't want to think, you just want to

:59:29. > :59:47.react. That is what he is doing now. But Gasquet has been in many

:59:48. > :59:51.positions such as this over his long career. Johnson drops his level for

:59:52. > :00:31.the moment. Gasquet certainly has the calibre.

:00:32. > :00:40.Time and time again on that forehand, he backs up the break.

:00:41. > :01:02.He serves hard. Up over 130 mph in heavy conditions today.

:01:03. > :01:18.You speak about players finding their feet on grass. Johnson is

:01:19. > :01:38.certainly doing that. Cannot miss! Steve Johnson has

:01:39. > :01:42.transformed himself into a combination of Novak Djokovic ten

:01:43. > :01:58.Andy Murray. Cannot miss the backhand now.

:01:59. > :02:07.The Gasquet has to hold because two breaks down against this man with

:02:08. > :02:31.this serve. Very tough, even for a man of his quality.

:02:32. > :02:38.It is that combination, Gasquet's level has dropped as much as

:02:39. > :03:18.Johnson's picked up. That could have been awkward but he

:03:19. > :03:21.is OK. Gasquet saves the second break point. That was the kind of

:03:22. > :03:25.shot Gasquet was hitting so often in the early going, opening the court

:03:26. > :04:04.with the short angle. We've not seen many of those recently.

:04:05. > :04:47.Gasquet does not have a huge serve. But that one was well directed.

:04:48. > :04:53.Gasquet holds and remains just one break adrift, which might be very

:04:54. > :05:08.important. It is something to have a look at,

:05:09. > :05:12.we have been speaking a lot over many years about the great backhand

:05:13. > :05:18.of Gasquet, the one hand that is so damaging at times. Different spin he

:05:19. > :05:23.puts on the ball on the back cans of respective players and Gasquet is so

:05:24. > :05:27.powerful in his backhand is very damaging whereas Steve Johnson is

:05:28. > :05:30.generally sending it the other way, sliced far more than top-spin. Let

:05:31. > :05:45.me show you the numbers. I promise we will show the numbers.

:05:46. > :05:53.I can tell you we can save that for later. -- save.

:05:54. > :06:01.Take a look at the amount of time to Steve Johnson's stirrer of -- server

:06:02. > :06:02.with new balls goes with the sliced backhand. Gasquet, for more

:06:03. > :06:44.top-spin. Gasquet clinging on, but again, that

:06:45. > :06:50.is not the way he is going to win this match. He must somehow figure

:06:51. > :07:00.out a way to stay it on the attack as often as possible.

:07:01. > :07:11.Of course, if Johnson continues to put in a lot of first serves, there

:07:12. > :08:12.will not be many chances for Gasquet to get on the attack.

:08:13. > :08:17.Again, if there are nerves, they are not showing them. The level has not

:08:18. > :08:27.dipped. This is a different thing to look at

:08:28. > :08:32.as well, speaking about the backhand of Gasquet and how much higher it

:08:33. > :09:38.bounces on clay, much law on grass. -- much lower.

:09:39. > :09:51.Probably would have made the backhand had he not lost his

:09:52. > :10:16.balance. Just punched its down the line. We

:10:17. > :10:24.did not really get to see whether Gasquet took a pop -- proper split

:10:25. > :10:29.step. It is likeable, you have to guard the near post, especially

:10:30. > :10:30.against a guy like Johnson who does not often hit the ball that

:10:31. > :10:50.accurately. Another opportunity, there is a case

:10:51. > :10:59.in point of the sliced backhand against the top-spin backhand and

:11:00. > :11:00.the sliced winning. He is doing a nice job of keeping that in an

:11:01. > :11:43.awkward part of the court. He knew before it landed it was

:11:44. > :11:47.good. And Steve Johnson has the double break as close to a place in

:11:48. > :12:00.the second round now. Well, Richard Gasquet, number four

:12:01. > :12:06.seed, 10th ranked player in the world. Really up against it. Here is

:12:07. > :12:12.this point where it is this pensive slice against the backhand top-spin

:12:13. > :12:23.of Gasquet. As Peter said, using it so well. It is a real throwback. He

:12:24. > :12:31.is trying to imitate Kendra was wall someone. -- Ken Rosewall. Just a nod

:12:32. > :12:35.there. Those are the numbers we were speaking about, the number of times

:12:36. > :12:44.Gasquet hits his backhand with the beautiful top-spin and Johnson's

:12:45. > :12:49.slice. Working wonderfully well now just hitting the ball so cleanly,

:12:50. > :12:53.has not made many unforced errors in the last half a dozen games, more

:12:54. > :13:00.than that. Serving with a double break advantage.

:13:01. > :13:17.We have seen some way worse challenges, this one quite close.

:13:18. > :13:28.Away word. Correct to challenge, the first successful challenge.

:13:29. > :13:55.Gasquet flummoxed. Even the mis-hits are working for Johnson.

:13:56. > :14:14.What a mistake. All he had to do was heated in the court. Gasquet had

:14:15. > :14:40.gone the other way. Bright evening sunshine here at

:14:41. > :15:13.Queen's Club now. Another challenge by Gasquet. It

:15:14. > :15:15.certainly looked long. If this is long, far too many unforced errors

:15:16. > :15:23.from Gasquet. A little bit foggy but we are told

:15:24. > :15:49.it is out. There we are. That may be the last few chances for

:15:50. > :15:57.Gasquet now because Steve Johnson remains two breaks to the good.

:15:58. > :16:02.Gasquet has the disinterested look now that sometimes he can just

:16:03. > :16:06.wander away when things are getting away from him. Serving to stay in

:16:07. > :16:35.it. Beautiful touch. Feathered over the

:16:36. > :17:06.net by Gasquet. By some distance, Steve, some

:17:07. > :18:21.distance. Gasquet at the very least ensures

:18:22. > :18:35.Steve Johnson will have to serve for it. Tell us about this, Peter.

:18:36. > :18:39.Haskett and his problems today. I have been looking ahead to Wimbledon

:18:40. > :18:46.because he has such a good record on grass. Things to be concerned about?

:18:47. > :18:51.He will be really disappointed, as his team will be. Sebastien Grosjean

:18:52. > :18:56.must be tempted to send him to bed without supper tonight because it

:18:57. > :19:01.was a childish performance really. At 4-0 played a terrible game,

:19:02. > :19:12.donated unforced errors and the bottom of his confidence fell out of

:19:13. > :19:17.his game. And of course, it -- the stopping and starting didn't help

:19:18. > :19:21.matters. Once Johnson was able to secure the first set, it was one-way

:19:22. > :19:30.traffic. Only thing that save Gasquet, well I don't think rain

:19:31. > :19:42.will, it is if Johnson collapses now. Unlikely.

:19:43. > :19:51.Gasquet, with the freedom of the man who has tension in there, but

:19:52. > :20:03.Johnson will certainly be tight. This will be a major scalp.

:20:04. > :20:11.It was good from Johnson but Gasquet really should have punished him. You

:20:12. > :20:18.may be right, Johnson might be nervous because he is playing

:20:19. > :20:24.against top ten players coming into this match bought up a set and two

:20:25. > :20:34.breaks allows him to play in a lot more relaxed fashion.

:20:35. > :20:53.They have only actually been on court under an hour and a half. Oh,

:20:54. > :21:17.dear. And that can only be over eagerness, excitement.

:21:18. > :21:27.Gasquet with a chance to nibble back into that lead of Johnson. Yes, talk

:21:28. > :21:33.about good fortune. The return was a bit of a mis-hit, hit the net cord

:21:34. > :21:42.and just died. What a serve. And precious those are

:21:43. > :22:06.to Johnson right now. And another one brings Steve Johnson

:22:07. > :22:51.to match point. Now Johnson has it. What a victory

:22:52. > :22:58.for Steve Johnson, the fourth seed Richard Gasquet is out and Steve

:22:59. > :23:02.Johnson survives and skips through the rain and delays and moves

:23:03. > :23:13.through to the second round. What a victory, one of the biggest in his

:23:14. > :23:18.career. How satisfying was that win for you

:23:19. > :23:22.today? That is an important win for the year, trust me, that will

:23:23. > :23:28.hopefully this start of a good second half of the year to me. It

:23:29. > :23:32.didn't start very well but a couple of rain delays helped me out and I

:23:33. > :23:39.played well on the fourth try. Maybe I just need more rain delays. What

:23:40. > :23:43.did you do particularly well out there today? Richard Gasquet is

:23:44. > :23:50.Wimbledon semifinalist, he has done a lot on grass. What was the key? I

:23:51. > :24:01.neutralised his backhand. If I can do that, that is a good sign for me.

:24:02. > :24:05.It was a hugely frustrating day for everyone in the crowd today. Great

:24:06. > :24:11.that you were both able to come out and play such an exciting match,

:24:12. > :24:16.including by my count about 40 shot rally at one point which Richard

:24:17. > :24:22.wasn't too pleased with the result of, but you were. For a time in the

:24:23. > :24:27.day I thought you guys were going to get in three matches because I was

:24:28. > :24:31.going to lose so quick but I turned it around. I'm pretty glad I turned

:24:32. > :24:36.it around when I did and that was a big point in the second set.

:24:37. > :24:42.Everyone here is kicking their keels, getting the time to pass by

:24:43. > :24:47.when it rains. What do you do as a player? Just in the locker room,

:24:48. > :24:54.hanging out. You try not to think about it because it is tough to stay

:24:55. > :24:59.mentally engaged. Fortunately the weather permitted and we were able

:25:00. > :25:04.to get at least one singles in today. Many congratulations today,

:25:05. > :25:07.Steve, and good luck for the next one.

:25:08. > :25:12.It was David Law asking the question, it took about six hours

:25:13. > :25:18.start to finish that match, it was awful. What about Gasquet now. He

:25:19. > :25:20.has gone out in the opening round. Find an entry form for Nottingham

:25:21. > :25:32.next week if you want more matches. He needs time on the court, but

:25:33. > :25:37.Steve Johnson is a great advocate of the American College system. Four

:25:38. > :25:43.years he did there. I think it was Southern California. It is actually

:25:44. > :25:49.the only match that has been completed and we are day and a half

:25:50. > :26:07.in so Gasquet has gone out, Wawrinka is on trouble on the Centre Court,

:26:08. > :26:13.and Lopez is against Cilic. Unbelievable strength.

:26:14. > :26:19.All good grass players. You would have been happy if it was

:26:20. > :26:25.quarterfinals, perhaps semifinals in this first round. The strength of

:26:26. > :26:28.this jaw is amazing, but there's a lot of minefields out there for the

:26:29. > :26:32.top players, particularly when the weather conditions are like this and

:26:33. > :26:38.these are dangerous matches for the top seeds. When his tournament

:26:39. > :26:43.starts, it is going to be really good! We are hoping to get more play

:26:44. > :26:56.today. This is the bottom half. Outstanding, the players. The Centre

:26:57. > :27:04.Court match is probably the pic, Kyrgios and Raonic. I just want to

:27:05. > :27:12.see John McEnroe's reactions when things don't go his way. I bet he

:27:13. > :27:17.puts on a stony face and I bet it doesn't last. Well, we are hoping

:27:18. > :27:23.for play. You can see the covers are still on, the umbrellas are still

:27:24. > :27:37.up. We have had some play, just over an hour. The Das -- Fernando

:27:38. > :27:41.Verdasco one set against Stanislas Wawrinka. It is a wonderful

:27:42. > :27:46.tournament, such a popular tournament and that's why it

:27:47. > :27:56.attracts such a wonderful array of stars. It is a great event, the

:27:57. > :28:02.players love it. The is close to everything in London. The facilities

:28:03. > :28:05.are fantastic, everything from food to transport. You see the quality of

:28:06. > :28:10.the players going out on Court Number One. I am particularly

:28:11. > :28:17.interested to see Grigor Dimitrov this year because he is looking for

:28:18. > :28:22.a second career now. When he first started, he looked like world number

:28:23. > :28:26.one, world number two, he will be the next guy. It was all too much

:28:27. > :28:33.pressure. It was, but he had some great results. Beat Andy Murray at

:28:34. > :28:37.Wimbledon. He's that good but he has fallen away so I look forward to

:28:38. > :28:41.watching his progress over this grass court season. If he cannot

:28:42. > :28:48.call down and think about tennis and nothing else, I think he can be a

:28:49. > :28:51.factor at the very top. Anyway, we are continuing to sit here at the

:28:52. > :28:57.Queen's Club and watching the rain come down. We are going to take a

:28:58. > :29:02.break for about half an hour. We will be back with an update had

:29:03. > :29:03.fully with some live tennis but no play before four o'clock so we will