Day 4 Part 1 Queen's

Every once in awhile sport throws up a fixture that fires the

imagination. To day on BBC television, we have such a match.

Are you ready? It is time to walk the walk. England

versus Wales? No, Murray against Bedene, England's very own battle

royal. We have our own Battle of Britain to look forward to. Just a

few moments ago, Andy Murray, the British number one coming on to play

Alianza Bedene. To the delight of the fans. We have had showers, and

more are forecast. At the moment, the players are caught, hopefully,

they will be on for some time. That was just a few moments ago, we have

ready had dramatic news to day. Kyle Edmund, already through to the

quarterfinals. His opponent Paul Henry Mathieu foldout. We are

guaranteed a British quarterfinalist. Jiri Vesely, he

lost in qualifying to Kevin Anderson can in after Alexandr Dolgopolov

Phil Dowd. Here he is facing the third seed, Milos Raonic. Roberto

Bautista Agut up against Donald Young. That is the order of play,

weather permitting. The radar not looking too hopeful. Talking about

England versus Wales in the football. A great sporting venue at

Queen's Club, there was an international played between England

and Wales played on the 18th of March, 1895. 1-1. 13,000 people in

attendance. 1-1 is not good enough for England, not after the other

night. I am with Andrew Castle and John Lloyd to watch Andy Murray. He

will be pleased to be out on the court, with the forecast, don't want

to be getting behind in matches. Extremely impressive the other day,

footwork was urgent, look like was the turning back to the grass court

after a fantastic clay-court season. When you go through the whole

clay-court season, winning the Italian Open, the final of the

French, semifinals in Monte Carlo. Only lost to Djokovic, and beats

Novak. Coming in with a great deal of confidence. You would expect he

would put the British number two away. You know something, not easy

to play countrymen, even if he comes via Slovenia. Very supportive of

Aljaz Bedene coming into the British game, playing Davis Cup, if that had

been allowed, of course it isn't. I like that attitude, saying other

guys at the respond, understand why they are threatened. No love lost on

the court though. It happened in the past with Greg rejects key. He has

lived in the UK since 2007. We know a lot about the British number one,

what about the British never two? John Inverdale caught up with him

before the match. British showdown, first time you

played Andy Murray on a big stage like this? In front of a British

audience. Great occasion. I hope the people enjoy it. I will give my

best, see what happens. I would try to introduce myself to the British

public. Let's see what happens. You have been on the circuit for a

number of years, watching Andy achieved all he has achieved. What

is your assessment of him as a player, also somebody carrying

British tennis on his shoulders? I think we can all learn, really

important to fight. Nothing is given, basically. He is one of the

greatest fighters. We are lucky to have him. Are you excited about a

match like Andy Murray at Queen's Club? Does that get you really

excited? Every match, you go in, wanting to win. If you play someone

like Andy, in a way, even more important to show your best. If you

do not, he is one of the best players, likely to kill you. Going

to be important, to play well. I am definitely going to be pumped. Play

your best, looking forward to it. We are all looking forward to it. I

agree with Aljaz, we are pleased to have Andy Murray at the top of the

game, putting the pride back in British tennis. As far as Bedene is

concerned, how can you at Murray? That is the problem. Compact player.

Where are the weapons? -- how can you hurt Murray? He doesn't have a

shot which is a weapon. Good matchplay player. I was in the

players' lounge, he was having lunch, I think he thought it was

going to be raining. Tucking into a decent portion of food. Last meal! I

cannot see how he can hurt Murray. Particularly how Murray played in

the first round, looking so good. He is a good competitor. He is, a good

season, good run at the French Open, winning a couple of rounds. Should

not hurt Djokovic, losing in straight sets. Has not beat a player

in the top ten. His main weapon is the speed of the racket arm on his

serve. Difficulties pick-up. Comes in at a low angle, he can do damage.

Coming into the match with Andy Murray, nothing to lose. Enjoy

yourself. Beat the Frenchman in the first round, in the 20s. Just go

correct, win the first three or four service games. You never know. This

guy is not here to make up the numbers, a proper player, 45 in the

world last year. He does not think he has had a great year. Bounty 58

in the rankings. He's not here to make up the numbers, he do damage.

Quite cool, damp, more showers expected, could be on and off, a bit

of a leveller. For top players, tough. Leveller ranked players do

not mind situations like this. The court a little bit greasy. With the

weather we had. Even though Andy won the last match, a couple of times

I'm sure his footing. If Bedene gets off to a good start, you never know,

you don't mind it if you are a leveller ranked player. We have seen

the loss of Stan Wawrinka, Richard Gasquet. Murray serving well, be

more aggressive. The Ivan Lendl factor, he was more aggressive with

him. He may be again. Ivan Lendl will tell you what if you are

naughty boy. You will listen. Interesting relationship. When you

employ somebody who is an authority figure in your professional life,

very peculiar. He will tell the truth, JB del Garda has done a good

job. The new team in fashion, Murray is playing for them. -- Jamie

Delgado. You know Tim free-macro very well, he has done really well.

He has embraced the job. He will look forward to being next to Ivan

Lendl, being a sponge. And what this man is about. Jamie Delgado will be

around for a long time, what a person to learn from, Ivan Lendl.

Talk about how long they will be together, could be 18 weeks. Ivan

Lendl said, 18 weeks? Have not heard about that. Negotiating. At least

they few successful weeks on the grass, at the least. John is on his

way to the commentary box, to join Andrew Cotter.

COMMENTATOR: Should be very exciting, Andy Murray against Aljaz

Bedene. It is a balance, the coaching. Ivan Lendl, Jamie Delgado,

his regular hitting partner. He will be the strong favourite, getting

under way in this first set. The forecast, a bit of drizzle for

the next hour. Nothing at the moment. Can play through a little

bit of drizzle. Tight first round match, Murray had

against Nicolas Metge. That is too easily put away. Murray

just feelings shoulder, shake head. Four. First game, break point for

Bedene. Everyone wondering what is up with

the right shoulder. Certainly worth asking the question.

Just wide. Does not look entirely comfortable,

Murray. Bedene looks comfortable, footwork excellent. Preparation. OK

going slice to slice with Murray. A bit more zip on serve. I was going

to say, that is pretty good in these conditions.

Murray eventually holds. He gets there in the end. Worrying signs for

Bedene. One of the major talking points about Bedene over the last

few years has been his citizenship. He successfully applied for the

United Kingdom but unable to represent Great Britain in the Davis

Cup. Also the Olympics. That process has been ongoing. His latest appeal

failed in March. It has affected his season for the he says he is out of

sorts. Just after the latest appeal failed. -- his season. He is talking

about going to be Court of Arbitration for Sport but it is a

very expensive procedure. He is in limbo at the moment. He has

certainly made an impressive start to this match.

Just reaction from Murray. Quite casual. He should have put that one

away full to this one was such an easy overhead. He hits it straight

down the middle. -- put that one away.

Not massive firepower. Up against just about the best return in the

game. A good, clean start by Bedene. It is

impressive. Nice serving by him. He has not missed a first serve yet. In

the corners. He is one of the very best in the

game at that. He always disguises it so well. That is the thing. You

cannot pick it. As soon as the ball left the racket, they knew that was

over his head. A marvellous shot! Marry untroubled by that shoulder.

His ground strokes might have adjusted. He might loosen up.

You could see his reaction, Bedene. He hit a very good serve, a body

serve. The ball comes back to him so quickly, he did not have time to

take a swing. A good serve as he gets ready to prepare, right at his

feet but he hardly moves. He is serving well. The problem is, he is

still struggling to hold his serve. He has hardly missed a first serve

and he is varying it 12. -- it well. So, Bedene, a lot of grafting but he

eventually holds it. As you say, John, that was with 91% first serve

landing. Just a demonstration of the size of the task that Bedene has.

We will keep an eye on the freedom of movement of Murray and his

service game now. It is all good now. No clutching of

the shoulder. That was a wicked slice. He thought

the first ball was out and did not play it till the last fraction. He

managed to poke the ball back somehow. He thought he had already

won the point. This is just vicious. That is horrible to play against.

That was a more commanding service game from Andy Murray. Just talking

about the state of affairs in British men's tennis. There are four

inside the top 100 with Bedene the second of 58. He has slipped back in

little bit this season. Kyle Edmonds is 85p will improve a bit. Dan Evans

is 92. -- it is 85. He will improve a bit. That is why we have a chance

with Andy Murray playing a British opponent. We go back to 2006 with

Andy Murray playing Tim Henman. It seldom happens. It will happen in

the next round as well. It is good to see. He has someone like Andy

Murray to live up to. The bar is very high. The British players below

him, the Davis Cup has been big as well. Fighting for places in the

team was admitted as an exciting time right now for British tennis.

The women's game is going well as well. The men's game with Andy

Murray has been outstanding. It's sort of raises the bar. When you get

that group, they are all pushing each other. That is when you get

players starting to break through. It is competition. It is not France.

We have to see what we had in the last few years. If we were France,

we would be very happy. Or Spain for that matter.

He must be sorely tempted to stand up and call for order, John Burke

oh. -- Bercow. Again, Bedene court that once

weekly. With the pace, it was 109. Not a bad serve. Look what he has to

put up with. Anything that is in the right

hitting area for Murray, he needs to big his serve up a bit. The accuracy

is important, where you place the service. If it is in the Murray

hitting zone, you can forget it. He was lucky to get away with that.

That was an impressive point. Bedene had to deal with a lot of low shots,

a lot of Spain. See how low he gets on this forehand. He whips the

forehand through. From Bedene, the error count has to

be at a bare minimum. There is that thing in tennis, just

below the very top level. Bedene is very talented. You always need to

hit a couple more shots and you are used to when you're up against the

very best players. -- than you are used to.

The on court school board has not quite caught up. -- scoreboard.

Chasing the lines a bit more than you might do. When you are playing

someone like Murray, you tend to go outside your normal comfort own and

range. You have two. The likely is Bedene will make more errors, but

you have to try and hit more winners to cataracts. -- to counter that.

May serve more double faults, because you have to get bigger with

the second serve. All things you have to try and get right.

Remember how earlier in his career he hit so many drop shots. It was

his trademark. Married with the hold. -- Murray.

Looking stronger with every passing moment. We were talking about the

national qualification for Bedene. Talking about the Davis Cup, and why

can't he played. It was an international tennis Federation

ruling, if you have represented one country at Davis Cup, you cannot

represent another. He had played three times for Slovenia, dead

rubbers back in 2010, 2000 12. If you have represented another

country, you cannot. His point of view, he had a ready apply for a

British passport, citizenship, before that ruling was brought in. I

think he's a bit unlucky. Dead brothers should be banned. The match

is over, you have played in three matches that did not count. It was

the principle, the rules. He still was a bit unlucky. He's a great

clay-court player, that is where strength lies. Sadly helping against

the country that chooses that option. A good weapon to have. It

applies to the Olympics as well, that ruling. Bedene cannot be

considered for the British team at the Olympics.

A good quality match so far. Andy Murray adjusting pretty well. He has

to worry about his shoulder at the beginning. This is a totally

different match, against Nicolas Mahut he had a target, someone

moving in. This is baseline to baseline, he has to outmanoeuvre his

opponent. Doing pretty well. So is Bedene. Pretty good match.

Quickest serve of the match for Bedene. 124, if you were wondering.

Not much Murray could do about those two serves, both right in the

corner. Very accurate. Did well to get that one back into play.

What a point. Murray seemed to be controlling it, but Bedene with the

last word. Murray shaking his head, toward his box, not sure what else

he could do. Came in at the right time, manoeuvred his opponent

around. Lovely volley. Sometimes you have to say, a bit too good. Really

was. Took Murray a long time to recover

from the disappointment of that point! Stepping in, smacking that

one away. Bedene may have to take more risks on the second serve.

He has missed a couple of first serves, not many.

Mistake from Murray, good hold from Bedene. He has done his job, a lot

of pressure on him. On a couple of the service games, Murray throwing a

lot at him, he has held on. Now in the middle of the set, really

excellent game on the break. Did go down in any break, against a good

front runner like Murray, don't want that to happen, but he has done

well. Down to 52%, first serves landing,

Andy Murray. Still early in the match, can be misleading. A little

bit low. Tough shot, well executed by Murray.

I love is instinct is to get into the net, did not do much with the

first volley, but good recovery, tough shot, that one.

Murray holding, to love. Bedene gingerly feeling something, seems to

be OK. We were talking about watching Milos Raonic, sometimes he

would not know when to come into the net. You see Murray, always picks

the right moment, doing it in the right fashion. His instincts are so

good. This is a quality match, and this point we saw in the previous

game, Murray at his best. Bedene at his absolute best, how piquant game.

Murray manoeuvres his opponent so well. One side and in other, the

footwork, going back again. Then the wicked slice. Getting the chance to

come in. Picking the right spot. Lovely fading volley. If you can

keep doing points like that, your opponent hit winners, you say your

opponent is too good. That was not gay to happen. Great play from both

players. That is when you can see the potential of the lice Bedene --

potential of Elisha . He has got into the 40s in the

world. The GB into the top 20. Now and again coming up against the good

guys, but to see where you are, purchase of against them, see where

you are in the game. So far excellent seven games of tennis. You

hope Bedene, can he keep this standard at? Murray will think, keep

pushing him, he will wilt. At the moment, no sign of that. New balls,

for Bedene. A moment from this set, you sense

the better player, the bigger player will turn the screw. This that is

what the form book will say, he will go up against it. At the moment,

hanging in well. That is the Murray presents. Going up with a shot like

that, special to get him on the run. Trying to do a little bit too much.

This Bedene will be grateful for that. Second serve on 0-30. Let him

off. Comfortable forehand, to do that, a rare error.

Is a tough time to go for that, at 15-30. If he had got it over, would

have been a winner, Murray was on the baseline. A long way back to go

for a shot like that, on such an important point. Two break points

for the number one seed. Mr Murray is challenging the call on the

service line. The ball was called in. Trying to inspect the ball for

little white markings. He thinks it is out. He is wrong. Just. We have

not seen that in the crowd. It is 40-30. Sorry. Andy Murray convinced

it was out. We have minor technical

difficulties. The big screen showing England against Wales.

Andy says, I want the evidence. We cannot show you the image on the big

screen. I want to prove. Take my word for it, says the umpire.

In the end, it matters not. Murray takes the break. He will serve for

the first set. That is probably his weakest shot,

his overhead. The same with Novak Djokovic.

You cannot say, I'm going to play on that weakness.

It was just a stumble in the set from Bedene. Three set points for

Murray now. Andy Murray takes the first set. The

world number two is looking pretty impressive. Some good tennis. Taking

the first set 6-3. Really holding his service games very well indeed.

The first set goes to the British number one. We are thrilled to be

having tennis. There are showers around the Queen's Club but we are

playing. More to look forward to this afternoon. The news from

earlier today, we were expecting Andy Murray to be on later this

afternoon but Kyle Edmonds is through to the quarterfinals. His

opponent, who put out Dan Evans yesterday, has been forced to

withdraw because of a serious wrist injury. Kyle Edmund is through to

the quarterfinal to face the winner of this match. That will be the

first time that two Britain's will meet in a quarterfinal in the open

era. If you want to get in touch, please do. We would love to hear

your thoughts for any questions you have two the team. Andy Murray in

control. A bit of early concern with his shoulder. He has had a tiring

clay-court season. He is a victim of his own success. A couple of five

setters early on. He needed a bit of a rest. He looks pretty fresh. He

looks good. He has played so well in the first round and he has played

well here. Bedene played very well, only a couple of laps in the last

game. That is the pressure that Murray puts on you. An excellent set

of tennis. He did that well, Murray. A big game

for Bedene after losing the first set. He does not want to go down an

early break. These are dangerous times. A little

belief evaporated. That was very impressive. What a

response from Bedene. That was a pretty tidy serve from

Bedene. Again, he sees off the break point

well. That had to be near enough perfect

to beat Andy Murray. That was 85 miles an hour that

winner. It is just relentless. He plays so

well. This game was 0- 40. The backhand comes right down its

throat at you. It is amazing. Once small, working hard. -- once more.

There is a challenge coming. Again, Murray wants to inspect. His own

little investigation. Murray has a bit of height on the

ball as well. Oh, dear! Bedene, from 0- 40, rouses

himself. Everybody in here thought that Murray was going to break and

move away with it. That was a good effort. He missed a couple of easy

forehands. You'd think, maybe a bit down after losing the first set. He

played a serve brilliantly. Came back from 0- 40.

Maria Bueno up there as well. She is next to a former Swedish number one

tennis there. He was expressing disbelief it was

his own failings he was incredulous. I was about to say good, deep

hitting from Bedene. That was too deep.

A challenge from Bedene. A challenge and the ball was called in. Just

before we put the game up on the board, we will have a look at it. It

has just clipped the outside. Game, Murray. 1-1. Mr Bedene has two

challenges remaining. He actually was punching the strings

earlier, like the tension might be a bit wrong. Sometimes the conditions

out there... May be the strings are strung to tight because it is too

damp. It is heavier conditions than you expect. He has been complaining

a little bit about it but has not been playing too badly.

But, dear. They're to be put by Bedene. -- it was there to be put

away by Bedene. Just amazing. To attack in a blink

of an eye. Bedene thinks the point is over, hitting an amazing shot. At

least an easy put away. That lob is one inch from the line, he can go on

the attack. That is what he does, so difficult to put the ball away

against. Andy Murray just checking. Every

point won against him is a personal slight to Andy Murray.

Cannot do to marry what Murray has done to him. -- cannot do to Murray.

So low, that slice. Murray committed himself. Would not been a winner,

just a couple of shorter. Another opportunity, big point again for

Murray. He takes it this time. The crucial

breakthrough in the second set, and the match. Andy Murray moving ahead.

Murray looking to become the first five-time winner of this. In the

Open Iraq, McEnroe, Leyton Hewitt, Roy Emerson. Looking at the past

wins, winning in 2009, 11, 13, 15. What do you think is best surfaces?

Seems to get better every season on the clay. The greater success in

terms of winning the final, Australian Open. Won the US Open. I

have always thought grass, in a lot of ways, his best. Some of the other

top players do not move that well on grass. Less chance of losing on

grass. Only a couple of players, not a couple, but if you seem to play

that surface as well, they don't move as well. He is an expert at

that. He is so good on everything. I still think grass is the best

surface. The other players are not as good on it. Obviously, not Roger

Federer, Djokovich, they are great and everything.

The problem with the statistics for Bedene, losing half of those, the

message, you have to shorten the points. Otherwise you are not going

to win. He does not have that type of game, to take the ball on like

that. That is the problem. Not his very best, getting a bit

darker out here. That is a rare failing. Suddenly

Murray has two face a break point. Most unexpected. The Danae hits

back, drawing level in the second set. -- Bedene hits back. Architect

of his own downfall, Murray. Very loose. Two backends in a row, down

the line. Missing them both. One of his best shots. Bedene hanging in

there, not going away. Casual, really casual. He had so

many options, picking the wrong one. You do get a sense Murray has had a

little blip. He wants to get this over with, obviously. His opponent

becoming pretty tricky in this match. He's also aware of weather,

as well. Does not want to mess around, dragged into a long second

set, possibly tie-break and third set. He wants to get in, watching

some reruns of Scotland in Euro 92. Of course, top of the menu. Most of

all, those dark skies lingering. To the south, and the left.

The art of getting your opponent out wide, one shot after another,

pushing them off the court. Not much Murray could do about that.

Frustration. That was clinical from Bedene.

Opportunity for Murray. You have to applaud their Danae, hanging in

there, will not go away. -- applaud their Danae.

you try not to think about weather conditions, you think ahead, trying

to play every point. Sometimes not very easy. The conditions we have

had here, you want to get the match over. I think he rushed it little

bit. He rushed it on that service game. I wonder what he will say

after every performance. We were saying, how long was he meant to be

out here? Ideally, 25-26 weeks. Always a compromise, even Lendl did

not want to be on the tour that long. Might be around the slams,

even around the summer, the grass court. They will be more selective,

in his appearances, than last time as coach. Just a few spots of rain.

Just a bit of He generated the pace of the Murray

forehand. That is beautiful played by Bedene.

Taking advantage of an uneven performance by Murray at the moment.

He is playing so well. A classy point. Just ran Murray all around

the place. Finished off. Soft hands at the net as well. Murray mattering

away at himself. -- mattering. Muttering.

That is a shame for Bedene. He was looking stronger. He is putting

Murray under a lot of pressure in this game. Another awesome rally.

Eventually it broke down. He had to dig himself out of some problem

areas. Sometimes, after working so hard to

hold serve, you have a go at your opponent's. -- opponent's serve.

A clench of a fist. A is Number 10 for their Danae. He is ahead of

Murray in that count. One small, it break point

opportunity. Two converted so far from eight attempts.

There it is. Bedene was a dead man walking from the moment he missed

that first serve on break point. Murray again breakthrough. You sense

this time, having broken, he will not so easily give it up. He seems

to be really charged up now. Just lost his concentration a little bit.

Bedene has hung in so well in this match. You have to give him credit.

He has been very aggressive, perhaps more so than in other matches. To

know he had to up his game, he has gone for it. Ten aces is an

excellent start for someone like him against Murray. Sometimes you need

to remind yourself what a great player Murray is. It is an amazing

record. So difficult to beat him in a Grand Slam. He loses in some of

the regular tournaments. It is a good effort to beat him. Best of

three sets is such a different game. Best of five sets, the mental side

comes into it so much more. Over the five sets he is almost unbeatable.

He finds that against Djokovic. The problem last few times is he cannot

stay with him for three, four hours. He can stay with him for a while.

That is what they have to come up with a plan about. It is a

combination probably of both. Now with Ivan Lendl back, it could make

a big difference. We see. Serving 4-3.

I would like to see that speed on the second serve from Murray, 90

miles an hour. 90 miles an hour plus, not drifting back into the 70s

and 80s sometimes. That is a website. -- rare sight. Serve and

volley. He has very good technique on the

volley. We work talking about the all

British meetings on tour and how this was the first one since Tim

Henman against Andy Murray back in Bangkok 2006. That would be the

first British quarterfinal in the modern era. This one since Adelaide

in 2002 when Henman beat requisite skill. -- Greg Rusedski. He expect

it will be Andy Murray against Kyle Edmund, but you never know. -- you

expect. That was a bit of frustration. He

did not mess around with that one, did he?

That is one of his more comfortable holds in the match.

A reminder of that news is that Kyle Edmund moved through to the

quarterfinals without having to do anything on the court. His opponent

had a wrist injury so he is through. He will meet the winner of this one.

Very encouragingly, he had a good win against jail Symons. -- Simon.

There were mutterings of discontent from other British players. He said

typical Murray words, it is up to them to respond and get better and

tried to lift their game. The situation is ongoing. Bedene is

still keen to play Davis Cup tennis but his appeal was unsuccessful back

in March. He will need to go to a higher authority that is

time-consuming and worrying and very expensive. He has other matters on

his mind. Trying to stay in it, Murray is serving for the match.

Concentrate on the loud instruction, second double fault.

Murray winning that point. Here we are, the one he did not believe. Two

cries of fault. Did not challenge. Once again marries steps in. --

Murray steps in. Thankfully for all, test stage

right. After that initial delayed start. Murray at match point. Just

like that, Andy Murray moves through to the quarterfinals, looking for

women number five. He takes another step to that target. All credit to

Aljaz Bedene. Beating him in straight sets. At times, a little

bit hard on himself. Again, that is the Murray way. Exactly, he's a

perfectionist. A few balls he missed, got a bit sloppy, lost

concentration. Complaining about his serve, serving mid 60s first serve

percentage. Played a very good match indeed. Bedene pushed him hard. Good

contrast from the first match, against Nicolas Mahut, coming in

more, first serve was good. Good performance from Andy Murray, get

through one like that. Certainly competed well enough.

He will go through to another British meeting with Kyle Edmund in

the quarterfinals. Andy Murray closing things out.

First British man to win this five times. He's talking to us now. What

will your thoughts on that performance? Not bad, difficult

opponent, different to my first round, Nicolas Mahut comes to the

net a lot. Aljaz plays mostly from the back. A few more rallies.

Getting used to conditions of it. Ten years since he played a British

person in a tennis tournament, Tim and then, feels longer than ten

years ago, with respect to Tim. Did that have any bearing today? Not for

me. All of the British players are doing well, I play Kyle in the next

round. A long time, I'm happy there are more of them around. At the

bigger events. I actually had a feeling I was going to play one

here, speaking to my team. I thought I was going to get one. You wait

years for one, two come along in a rush. Kyle Edmund speaking in

glowing terms about what he owes you as an inspiration. What is your

assessment of him as an upcoming star? He's improving all the time,

steady progression for him. Not one massive leap. Getting better though.

Very professional, works hard, good team around him. Going in the right

direction. Hopefully this year, he can finish higher than last year.

Keep progressing, nor the surfaces. Good for him to get to the latter

stages of these events on the grass court. He has done well on the clay,

he likes the hard. Doing well in all the surfaces, positive. We had

forward to the match tomorrow. Andy Murray, congratulations, through to

the quarterfinals. We can have a quick word with Aljaz Bedene. What

was your take on how close it was? How much closer it might have been?

Started pretty well. Congrats to envy, great match. Always a player

playing someone like him. Losing in two sets never great. I hope I

showed myself in a good light. Happy with my performance. You show

yourself in a good light, the crowd enjoying your play. You felt at

home, they enjoyed having you here. It was great, thank you from much.

-- very much. It felt like home, playing in front of a home crowd.

For the first time a club. Great. Onwards and upwards for Wimbledon.

Hopefully the rapport between you and the British crowd will get

closer and closer as the weeks go by. Hopefully. Hard lines. Aljaz

Bedene. Certainly played his part. Andy Murray just too good, raising

his game when it mattered. In both of those two sets will stop going

home with a victory. The weather forecast was not too good. Through

to the quarterfinals, guaranteed to play again tomorrow. He is through.

Interesting, talking to John, Kyle talking about how much Andy Murray

has helped. Training with him in Miami, hitting with him a lot. Most

players give back when they quit the sport. Andy giving back when he's

playing. Leading the Davis Cup team with Leon Smith. Would not have won

without him, in singles and doubles, the talisman. If you want to see

what work rate is, turning up for practice, how much you sleep, how

much you eat, everything is a science for Andy. Leave no stone

unturned in pursuit of perfection. We know only one black he's trying

to get in front of, if he does that, he will win Grand Slams again. Great

leader, great black to have around, to look up to. Bedene, very calm

fella, still a whole lot of improvement. All the talk about

this, this is a man with a British passport, it means something to

them. He wept when he was not able to play in the British Davis Cup

team. When the passport came through on the 31st of March, there were

tears. I hope we get to know him better. Not a man of many words, but

an absolute gem. My style, plays well. Did not match up well with

Andy. When it mattered, he was going to move up a gear or two. Dominating

the game. You cannot be passive against Andy Murray. If your game is

at the back of the court, do you change? What does not necessarily

come naturally? At the beginning of the match, some of these points,

illustrative of what we could expect. The service motion buying

him quite a lot of success. Quick serve, good on grass. If Murray

comes for you, not much you can do about it. Same thing happened

against Novak Djokovic, you know Bedene will get two, three, four

games in the set. You are supposed to do something else, quite what, I

not sure. That is where the coach comes in. When bed plays at the net,

he does quite well. He can be more effective. -- when Bedene plays of

the net. If he works hard on his fitness, explosion on the ball that

can only help him. Like spec team to be back in the top 50 for sure. I

think he will be looking for top 20. The Matt Wilcox development

programme, fantastic programme, full of professionalism and excellence.

He has been there for seven years. You mention the good lady had.

Certainly had his moments. Beautiful rallies, striking the ball so well.

He strikes it cleanly, lateral movement unbelievable. Pulling the

trigger on the forehand side. His defence is very good. Not going to

miss that one. All the time in the world, fine from the back of the

court. Concerned about Andy Murray's shoulder, any pain he has got.

Clearly worn off. Prefer to see Bedene on the attack on a grass

court cannot afford to let the other people get the first striking. Moves

well lead to the ground, plenty of power. Good service motion, low to

the ground. Get something short, this is a guy, who will win

regularly on the tour level. Not a man there to make up the numbers. He

is hard to beat. Anyone has a slight off day, he will take advantage.

Very consistent. The quality of the movement. That was at 30-30, 3-2,

first set. Andy was upset, but nothing you could do against a shot

like that. Slice from Andy Murray inside the baseline. He did that a

lot, slice, keeping low, not giving Bedene muchly hit. When you do, he

moves you out. Nice touch at the net. He has some very tidy volleys,

like to see him coming forward more often. Imagine if those to were the

-- those two worth the Davis Cup team. I understand why the other

guys were upset. Extremely lucrative to be a member of winning Davis Cup

team. When Aljaz Bedene was trying to get in the team by appealing the

ruling, James Ward, be quiet, Dan Evans saying he does not prove too

much. I can understand. Very much what happened with Greg Rusedski.

The same sort of questions. What is his motivation? Commercial interest.

There are bigger things than that consideration. He has lived here

since 2007, training here. Bedene, yes. He's prepared to make the

commitment, should be in the team, he has a British passport. The ITF

changing the rules at a later date. Subsequently backing that up.

Stephen Farrow, the lawyer acting for him, he paid some of those fees.

Good of them to do so. He has a very good case. Talk of other federations

doing the same, when people change their nationality, getting together,

going to the ITF. That is what they said, if they do him, they will open

up a can of worms. That is the argument. Why they threw it out. If

somebody has a passport, Australian, they should be all to play for

Australia, Canadian, Canada. Bedene of the British passport means so

much to him. He considers himself British. I said, why are you ever

hear? He said, I love this country. How nice to hear after all the

nonsense in the debate over the goodness

We will move on! Bedene can't play in the Davis Cup so the number two

is Kyle Edmund. That is Andy Murray's next opponent, 21-year-old

Kyle Edmund. John spoke to him earlier today. Three years ago if

I'd offered you a quarterfinal at Queen's what would you have said,

would you have said, don't be silly or, that's what I'm after?

Absolutely would have been, that's what I'm after. Being a sportsman,

individual player, you know, you have ambition, you want to do well,

I think that's natural. You want to go as far as you can. Always

improve. Yeah, I'm in the quarterfinals, but obviously, you

know, by merit and a bit of luck. You take your luck, you have

misfortune. I've had to pull out of matches. In Neath, I had to pull out

after going over on my ankle, something you don't want to do. --

in Nice. It works the other way, sometimes you get luck and you take

it when you can. Yeah, it happened in the quarterfinals. -- happy to be

in the quarterfinals. Whoever I play next will be a Brit. If it's Andy it

will be on a scale of enormity in terms of playing in front of a

British crowd with the world number two and global superstar, it's one

of those wow moments. He's done so much for the game, for British

tennis, but at the same time also having a relationship on and off the

court with him, he's someone you respect. I've been fortunate to know

him for 3-4 years, spending time with him, you know, socially. Off

the court and in the professional environment. I've a lot of respect

for him. The world changes very quickly, you go from being a

promising junior who occasionally does the odd local radio interview,

to having big press conferences and doing interviews of the national

television, do you like that or are you finding it hard to come to terms

with? I think it's part of it, that's the way I look at it, it's

part of the job, as you go up through the rankings, a lot more, I

don't know, demand comes with it. I think you have a choice as well, you

can choose to put it off, either bit negative about it, or you can choose

to embrace it and enjoy it. I certainly like to be honest and just

say what I feel and stuff. Yeah, I think, as you said, it's something

you don't do as a junior but as you become a senior you certainly watch

TV and see professionals to it, the top guys do it, so as you can

expect, when you go up the game, this is what's going to happen. You

can see who does it well and who doesn't. Be honest, serious

question, you are 40 grand better off no matter what happens in the

quarterfinal and you are young guy, does it ever occur to you, the

money? Yeah, it's obviously is a factor, you come up, you have bills

to pay. You have a team. All those things. You need to travel. There is

the point where you are a junior and maybe get funding and there is a

point when you become a senior and have two provide for yourself. As

you become older that becomes the case. I have a team that helps me,

trainer, fitness coach, tennis coach. If you invest in your career,

you will get back from it, that is the way I look at it. Travel and

stuff. So, you know, that's also the benefit you get from putting in the

work. If you do well you get financial benefit. It's not

everything. I definitely don't think about, if I win this, I'll get this

much. If your game improves and you get results, that's the benefit. So

the Ferrari can wait? It can wait, exactly. I'm not sure my mum and dad

would approve. I don't think they would, would they! This is the draw.

It's right at the top where Kyle is through to face Andy Murray. In

Steve Johnson, who came through against Mannarino yesterday will

play Marin Cilic, who won here late last night. We'll see the bottom

half of the draw. Still being played at the moment. Vesely against Raonic

will be next on Centre Court. And after that Bautista Agut will play.

And Tomic and Verdasco will be playing on Court One later stop Kyle

and Andy are good friends. Kyle has improved so much, he has big weapons

now. As is Andy Murray stick that in the middle of the court he knows

Kyle will give it the treatment. Look at his development, Kyle has

done so fantastically well, delighted for him. Also delighted

that Dennis and Stephen his mum and dad are down-to-earth. He's not sure

they would approve, he mentioned. It still matters to him, that approval,

that family backing. This is important, it's a bit like Eric Dier

in the England football team, level-headed, from a lovely family.

Sometimes you can tell. I get the feeling with Kyle he's not going to

get out of things, he's just bought a new Volkswagen. He has the R

version, which was probably met with some disapproval, but it's not a

Ferrari. He understands fully that there is more to come. We'll talk

more about Kyle in a moment but here come the players for the next match.

Milos Raonic leads the way. He put out Nick Kyrgios in three sets

yesterday, that match taking three days to be completed because of the

rain. Lovely to see one of the new stars of the game, Vesely of the

Czech Republic. He lost in the qualifying but came in as a lucky

loser. Before we talk about this one, because they've got the coin

toss to do, and a warm up, a little bit more about Kyle and the weapons

he had. We were talking about how he can hurt Murray, he has a big server

as well as a big forehand. To be quite honest, that is a match that

is a horror story in every department for Kyle, but a great

indicator, litmus test if you like, of exactly where he is in the game.

I would prefer to him to beat Paul-Henri Mathieu today. His

backhand has improved greatly, reminds me of Jim careers in his

pomp. Short jab half the time. His movement at the side and his

defence, clearly something Ryan Jones his coach will have to work

on. Well outside the tramlines to hit beforehand. Natural gift, the

racket head speed. Sometimes looks comfortable at the net, happy to

come forward. His game is big enough to trouble people. In some ways it's

good you've got things you can work on and improve, there are quite an

number of areas, you talk about the movement, more variety, a few more

depth shots and drop shots, variety to add to the game not to be too

one-dimensional. So he can improve and go up the rankings. Do you make

the decision as a coach that he wants to work on the strength and

say, I'm just going to do that, keep working on that, do you fiddle

around ten or 20% of the time with the weaknesses? Or do you make a

decision of really rounding his game out and working on the defence and

the backhand, trying to get a real good all-round game. His forehand

isn't going anywhere. Is world-class. Its playbook number

one, T off on beforehand. They'll be working on stuff. He will invest in

himself, he's a smart young man from his management is good, they make

good decisions for him. I'm very impressed with him and if he goes

top 60 this week even if he loses this match... I got that from

Twitter, you can probably disregard that. But because this is ATP 500,

that could be the case. Confidence going into Wimbledon, where he has

had three wildcards and hasn't been able to progress. This is his year,

this is his time. I think he's worked through the challengers.

That's what you have to do, but the ranking high enough so you don't go

back down there because it's hard to get back out again. Let's talk about

the players on court at the moment. Milos Raonic we know a fair bit

about him. But Vesely, I remember watching him in the juniors a few

years ago, he was a big, strong junior. In a macro talk about

Giants, Milos Raonic, 25, semifinalist in the Australian Open,

if I list at Wimbledon. If you don't follow the game day in, day out, do

you remember he was in those situations? He goes about his

business in such a quiet and understated way. For a man who looks

like a Tyrannosaurus rex, the power he has. He's actually a very shy,

gentlemanly fellow, I don't think he likes the limelight particularly, I

don't think he's particularly comfortable with that. With John

McEnroe on board its interesting. What does he want McEnroe to bring

to the game, is it personality? Is it the physical nature of playing

the game on grass? I think there is certainly an element of both. He has

the right man in the corner if he wants personality, that's for sure.

Nick Kyrgios said how he attacked him, he said he didn't give him any

time to think, right on top of him, always trying to move forward,

always kept Kyrgios on the back foot. For three sets. He's very

comfortable at the back of the court. When he has more time to hit

the ball on the big forehand. It's a huge stroke, absolute haymaker. He's

very comfortable at the back but you have to do some things where you are

not comfortable but you know you will get the job done. If you are

six foot five with that wingspan and a massive serve like that, and tidy

technique on the volley, you can get to the net. John McEnroe's coaching

advice is get to the net. Amongst other things. I think he sees the

Royal materials with Milos Raonic. He's not going to work with just

anybody, not going to waste his time. He's been knocking on the door

of the Grand Slam semifinals at the Australian, been playing good

matches. He maybe needs that push over the line and feels he can play

well on the grass and come forward and volley. When I saw this guy

playing in the juniors he was such a big, strong player at 16, 17 years

of age. Looking at the record books this year only three players have

beaten Djokovic and he is one of them. It was Lopez, Marianne Tim.

Lopez was a default. -- it was Lopez, Murray and him. I'm not shown

over was 100% engaged, he gets engaged generally when he's about to

lose and Vesely knocked him off. He's probably. Whenever I see Jiri

play I think about the guy he played against in the juniors as well,

Oliver Golding. Who quit the game, the British player who had such

wonderful Grand Slam success in the juniors. It is so sad we lost him

and James Bailey who won the Australian Open, and a number of

others. That transition is so hard, to go from top junior under the

tour. We were talking about all the young players coming through, Kyle

Edmund's era. There is an edge , Taylor Fritz... And the former

Russian junior champion. Why quit, like Golding did? You have to

understand you have three or four more years when you are not a big

deal. He was a character. Vesely can definitely play the game and at 22

he is a man, not the child. He's been at 35 in the world. This will

be a tough match, he has a big left-handed serve. John McEnroe has

been buzzing with Raonic, he has been key to the practice session,

getting in those left Serbs. Look! We've only had about two minutes of

sunshine, but Mac is prepared, he has the shades on. He has to look

after that lovely skin of his. He will not thank us for showing this,

I can tell you, I'll get the brunt of it, probably. Show it anyway.

Ricardo Piatti on the right has coached great deal of super players

over the years. He's a massive part of the team. You never get to hear

about him but he has been there and done it. Great deal of experience in

the Raonic camp. This is going to be a big hitting match, and bolts,

left-handers always tough on grass. It's horrible. When you had a second

chance like Vesely who lost in the qualifying and got lucky loser

position because somebody in the main drop all out... Dog beloved

pulled out, then he came in and beat Jeremy Chardy. -- to three macro

pulled out. Gilles Muller came back winning the second set tie-break

18-16 against John Isner. John Isner had ten match point in this. --

Dolgopolov pulled out. He's at it again, well done Gilles

Muller, who Delgado used to coach. That has been happening on Court

Number One. He faces either Fernando Verdasco or Bernard Tomic. We're

ready for this one, the sun has come out. Mac is prepared, I hope you

are, too. Peter Fleming alongside John Inverdale in commentary.

COMMENTATOR: Good afternoon everybody. That might be overstating

it. Hello, both of you. I know that there are rival attractions

elsewhere. Peter Fleming is here, I'm here. If there are two copy

about there, we are a quorum and we can start. It is an interesting

game. As Andrew and Sue were saying. Jiri Vesely can go to his grave

saying he wants beat Novak Djokovic even if it never happens again, if

Novak never loses another matching his career, Vesely did beat him at

Monte Carlo this year and it is no mean feat.

Exactly, Vesely with a big serve. This match will be quite different

from the last match, rest assured, on this main court, a lot of aces.

You're a genius. You must be psychic. How did I know ace must

come sometime soon? That is the shot that has improved

immensely. Used to be a huge hole in Raonic's game, the two handed

backhand is improving every day. You talk about big serving, I was

true on in a compulsive kind of way to that second set tie-break between

Gilles Muller and John Isner on Court One, so I left Andy Murray and

Aljaz Bedene for the duration of that.

I thought that was going over shortly but it went on forever. It

did feature a call of indescribably bad proportions. It is not often you

see John Isner go berserk on a tennis court. Was that on match

point? No, but it got molar back into the match. It was just one of

those moments. I thought, if John Isner loses this match it will be a

very interesting moment in the press conference afterwards, and he has

now lost it. It is not often you see him, he's a big man, but very

briefly he had a big temper. Just six foot six!

I know we have been talking about Raonic wanting to come to the net

more often. That time, though, possibly a little premature. Needs

to work the rally may be a couple more shots, to get Vesely out of

position. Obviously injury and illness are

unfortunate for the individual concerned, but can often be a bonus

for the people who are beneficiaries. When Dolgopolov

pulled out, Vesely came in. And he has nothing to lose, he was wasn't

expecting to be here so he can use every opportunity to say, this is a

golden opportunity I didn't expect to have. That is one way of looking

at it but I don't think anyone does look at it like that. There is an

opportunity cost to losing this match. It is an opportunity to get

to the quarterfinals, ranking points and still the chance to go further,

so it's not the sort of match you enter into lightly.

No, but the point I was making was he with out of the tournament and

he's packed his bag and then someone suddenly says, come back, you get a

second shot at it. And I'm saying, he won't look at it like that. I'm

agreeing with you... You can look at it either way. There is always three

sides to a Queen. -- to a coin. A couple of wild errors from Raonic

fare. I'm not sure if Johnny Mac will be that concerned, though.

Let's face it, when you hold serve as easily as he does, on a regular

basis, roll the dice, give it a shot.

Like a mouse on a string, Vesely. Your former friend Johnny Mac, looks

like he is dressed as a cricket umpire today. Have you seen what he

has on? It's gone from Woody Alan to Dickie

Bird in a few hours. No, you told me he selected that outfit especially

to honour all the umpires and referees of the world. Who he has

had such respect for over the years. Exactly!

I suspect Raonic, and we can maybe talk about this more when the

inevitable point is won in the next couple of points and they change

ends. I suspect Raonic will be delighted with the novelty of

McEnroe being in his box gone. I don't know. I think that although

he's a quiet guy, he wants to be number one in the world. So

therefore I'm sure he's ready to embrace all that comes with that. So

if John McEnroe creates a bit of a circus atmosphere, and let's face

it, it's not a huge circus, because John, as much as he can, he's happy

just to stay in the shadows little bit. That's a serious tattoo. He has

a few of them. Decided he didn't want to have the cricket umpire's

outfit any more. It was just a moment now, and he can get on with

life. He is wearing a Rage Against The Machine T-shirt. Are you a fan?

No, but he is a good friend of one of the members in LA, when he does

go to LA. I don't suppose there are too sentence Rage Against The

Machine fans at Queen's today. Maybe...

That serve's never coming back. Hit it almost directly on the T. It

won't be the last. So you were talking earlier on about

Raonic going in at the right time. That was a well worked point. The

sliced backhand often is quite effective at breaking up an

opponent's rhythm. You have to play it back safely, put more top-spin on

it than ordinarily you would like. That 1's not back either. The ball

was called in. Did that look good to you, it looked it could have been

wide? You are going wide? I am going in. Probably the edge of the line.

The call stands. 40-30. Mr Raonic with two challenges

remaining. There are a few things Johnny Mac would like to work on

with Milos. His ability to put returns back in play could improve.

And even that last one, where he was trying to just chip the ball back

and it came off the frame almost. By the very nature of being six foot

six, six foot seven, whatever it might be, players can often appear a

bit rushed sometimes. But Vesely seems to have a lot of time on the

ball, doesn't he? Yes, whatever that means. Never quite got that same. It

means that they don't appear to ever be in a rush.

Yes, well... It takes away the chip return or the floated chip return.

Often players who just float it back to the base, then Raonic has to

start again. If an opponent knows he cannot play that shot, he's going to

miss a lot more returns. Happy with that? Beautiful. This

game has grown immensely over the last two years or so. I remember the

year he played Murray at the US Open and was trounced by him, like a fish

out of water. Having predicted a ace fest and no

rallies, we've actually had a lot of all court tennis is surprisingly in

this first four and a half games. Raonic waited just long enough for

Vesely to take off the other way. You heard John McEnroe say "Good

serve". The voice cutting through the

silence here on Centre Court. He's a good cheerleader, he always has

been. Does he have it in him to sit with his hands clenched between his

knees and to just watch a game in silence, or when it gets to the

really big occasion, if we were talking about the final here on

Sunday if Raonic got there, if a quarter or semi-final at Wimbledon,

is he going to be really engaged vocally, emotionally, physically?

No, I don't see it, I don't see that at all. It's not about him, it's

about getting Milos to play as well as he can. No, he's not going to be

jumping up and down, shouting, assist pumping. He's going to do

what most other coaches do. They kind of meld into the background,

say it's all you buddy, you're the greatest. Let's go!

Sorry if you're disappointed by that. I'm not disappointed by that

actually. I personally think there will be, in a Wimbledon final, I

think there could be some fist pumping if Raonic is in there. OK.

Of course, who is to say that he won't be?

I think just the Vaughan factor raises Raonic into one of the top,

if not the top outsider. -- the Johnny Mac factor. He's still got

another 2-3 weeks to develop. I suppose the likelihood is he will

be seeded eight at Wimbledon. Which effectively gives him a quarterfinal

berth against somebody, at the moment when the draw comes out it'll

be fascinating to see the permutations. People will want to

avoid him, nobody will look forward to playing him three weeks down the

road in another last eight match at Wimbledon.

It is beat McEnroe factor that means you end up talking about Raonic the

whole time in a match like this when it takes two to tango and we will be

level pegging shortly, you suspect. He would have been happy until that

moment. So, we are all square. A match yet

to ignite, but some good play. And one or two moments where it tips

below what we might expect. If you were watching that first

serve from Raonic and thought it looked in, I, from up here, thought

it looked in. Hawk-Eye has told us it was out actually.

That was a great lob, it really was. Yeah. Nice feel. On the half-volley,

too. Yeah, this is just dream on Hollywood. Also worth saying, that

lob was over a man who is six foot six tall, it's like when Don is now

gets logged and there is an element of comedy about that. That is the

touch on the half-volley to get the ball that high, then get it down. To

be fair, Vesely was charging pretty quickly. Again, with the grass just

a little slippery. Hard to change directions quickly.

Here, in two minds, wasn't he? Looked as though he wanted to leave

it and at the last moment he dared not. Vesely feinted to go one way,

went the other. Suddenly... Two break points for the Czech.

That's a pretty solid way to save one of them. You look at the game

like 15-40 and say, what a great opportunity. Get Raonic will say,

OK, this game is about even now. I'm sure he wins at least as many games

when he is behind 15-40 on his serve. As he loses.

Vesely's looking at the baseline, hoping, he was yearling to hear a

cry of" out" from the line judge. It was on the line which is perhaps why

Vesely didn't hit the passing shot as cleanly as he would have liked.

Checks that it hits the line. It's also worth saying, if sometimes you

think line judges, for heaven 's sake, how can they get those things

wrong? I actually went out and sat on the doubles match last night,

Murray and Suarez, I sat on the service line pretending to be a line

judge. Tell you what, sometimes very, very hard to tell, really is.

The question is, what's wrong with them? Why would they want to be a

line judge, it is a mug 's game, you can't possibly win in that role. You

get 93 calls right and the one you get one if the one that counts. --

the one you get wrong. On TV, the cameras are behind the court. It

looks quite pedestrian, Raonic, what is the big deal, I could return

that! Then you sit on the side of the court and get a feel for the

speed being hit. Even I said, Whoa, I don't want to be anywhere near

that serve. On the play, the ball makes a distinct mark. In a sense it

makes it a bit easier to see. But on grass, especially with the whitewash

happens to spread a bit around the line, the ball can scoot on it

amusing, was it in the mouth, I'm not sure. You're just guessing.

It's all about pretending like you know best. There is a man who should

have made a career out of being a line judge. The number of times when

he was serving and I was at the net and he would hit the serve six

inches long and he would look at me like, what was that? Sometimes he

would hit it on the line and say, what was that? I would say, that was

long. I just don't want to deal with it. There were a lot of balls, he

was 100% certain were in, that were out. He would have been a lousy

linesman. Good job he stuck to playing. And coaching. 4-3. On

serve. I probably ought to welcome viewers

to BBC Two who may have been elsewhere. Good afternoon. Lovely to

have you with us. As you were flicking around the channels and

found us, here we are with tennis at Queen's and a hugely competitive

match from Jiri Vesely from the Czech Republic and Milos Raonic of

Canada. Exactly what you were talking about

earlier, Raonic, getting the ball back into play on the return,

whatever. Yeah, it's important, all the best players but a lot of

returns in the play. Plain and simple. Give your opponent a chance

to make an error. He makes up for it pretty emphatically. The fourth ace.

It's more difficult, though, for Milos because he doesn't move as

well as the very best players, doesn't get around the court

anywhere near as well as Djokovic, Nadal, Federer. Murray.

Subconsciously he will think I need to return this ball with a bit of

interest so I can join the point with the other hand perhaps. That,

of course, leads to more unforced errors.

Am sure Andy Murray when he is returning serve just says, OK, get

the ball back anywhere near the baseline and I'm good. I'm now 50-50

in this round. Marries the most phenomenal athlete, he moves like a

gazelle sometimes, which you would never, if looking for an animal to

describe Raonic committee would never go down that route, would you?

He's more of a bull rhino. If you hit any ball over shoulder

height for Raonic... Kiss that point goodbye he is solid as a rock. Most

of our viewers would have fancied put away, though. Yeah, but a lot of

players on the previous smash would have hit high volleys on that one.

And hit it ineffectually. Lovely touch from Vesely. You know,

I'm sure you didn't mean to be disparaging to Milos Raonic, but

from baseline to net and from side to side, he moves well. He got off

the mark quickly, got up to that ball very quickly, where he needs a

little bit of work perhaps is changing directions, whereas Murray

changes direction on a diner. When you have a serve like that... --

changes direction on a dime. Three aces to Raonic and four for Vesely.

We have some interesting statistics on where Vesely is serving and what

effect it has. Every time he goes wide, wins the point, on either

flank. You can see the sliced out wide, here hasn't hit it that often,

but it has quite a bit of spin on it, slides through the court and

goes to Raonic's weaker link. On the deuce caught out wide, Vesely is

hitting that ball very flat with a lot of power, and just bowling

Raonic, really. Let's face it, he hasn't lost a lot of points on

serve, has he? No. But he will certainly hope he can keep that run

going here, because he's about to serve to stay in this first set. And

you have to say, this one is a match in advance where you thought it

would have at least one tie-break in it. The way things are going at the

moment, we're not that far away from the first one. Every time Milos

Raonic walks on the court, you think there has to be at least one

tie-break in this match. That was in, from where we were

sitting, that was definitely in. I'll take your word for it. Hawk-Eye

says in. Not the most demonstrative of

players, Vesely, you have to say. But he doesn't need to be when you

are hammering the ball at a odd miles an hour like that. -- 120 odd

miles an hour. That is a solid serving game, four first serves.

None of them came back, did they? That game took barely a minute.

That's what you want, when you're serving to stay in the set. So the

pressure, such if there is any pressure when you have a serve as

big as Raonic, is at the other end. If I'm not mistaken Raonic's

percentage of service games won is 94% for the year. That is roughly 19

out of 20 service games he holds. So, you play a long 3-set match on

average he will lose his serve once. Good volley. That also impacts on

how you approach playing against him, thinking if this goes three

sets I am only going to get one chance of breaking his serve, so I

have to take it. Yes, it puts immense pressure on opponents.

That was beautifully executed. Not much room for manoeuvre at the end.

And that's why I have a feeling that John McEnroe is going to say, roll

the dice everyone's in a while. Play a game where you just ripped the

ball, rip the ball four times, and if you happen to time it well,

that's the break. And now you've got opponents scared to death, scared to

death to play with you. I remember when I first turned pro, one of the

veteran guys told me about the guy everyone hated to play most was

Arthur Ashe. Arthur had a huge serve but also went for winners on the

return. So guys never thought they were in control of their own

destiny. They ways felt, if after gets a go in one game, he will break

me, there is nothing I can do about that. It was a horrible feeling. I

remember hearing and thinking, I like that. I took that to heart

probably too much. But for a guy like Raonic, who virtually never

loses his serve, give it a shot, come on, but the pressure on the

guy, make him try and do more than he really would be comfortable

doing. He can roll the dice here, really, because Vesely has to serve

to stay in this set. And if he does that we have a

tie-break and then it really is anybody's game.

And there's always the slightly nervous moment at 5-6, where you

think it's always good to get the first point in the bag and Vesely

hasn't done that. A glimmer for Raonic. More than a glimmer of

sunshine, by the way. This is unheard of.

As predicted by Peter Fleming. Well, no, I think he played this pretty

conservatively, Raonic. Defended well.

Just reiterating the point we made earlier, if you have a serve as big

as Vesely's, 0- 30 is not a giant hole, just a small manhole. Which

suddenly is no hole at all. Yes, but you have to hold your nerve to get

out of that little predicament. A shrug of the shoulders from

Raonic, like, what can I do about that? Move over! 30-30, you have to

take that serve away from him, because that has to be about his

favourite serve. Well played, Raonic. In control of

that from the word go. Well that time, because Raonic's

return was a bit short, he guessed wrongly, as it was, that Vesely

would hit a backhand crosscourt. By the time he backtracked, he was out

of position. Well, Vesely somehow found himself

at the net. Ghosted in, I don't think he took a split step which put

him off balance. It was a nice dink by Raonic. Not sure it should have

been listed as an error. That was not a percentage shot to

play at 5-6 and deuce. You would have to call that a brain cramp. And

so here we are, after 40 minutes of play, with the first set point of

the afternoon to the number three seed, Milos Raonic.

Well, an opportune time for a mis-hit. Exactly John, that is

exactly the trajectory it went. Irrespective, it's not how but how

many and it is the first set to Raonic. SUE BARKER: We will be back

on Centre Court in a few moments, but if you are just joining us, a

couple of results to bring you. Good news for Andy Murray, he is through,

beating Briton's number two, Aljaz Bedene. He is through to the

quarterfinal 2-faced Kyle Edmund of Great Britain. That will be their

first meeting. An all British quarterfinal here tomorrow. And what

a battle out on Court Number One, John Isner and Gilles Muller. This

is match point to Gilles Muller. This is such a huge story, he saved

ten match points against John Isner. 18-16 in their second tie-break, the

longer since Wimbledon 2014, which also faced John Isner. Ten match

points saved by Gilles Muller and put out the big serving American,

John is now. That was a battle out on Court Number One. Goes a couple

of results from earlier today, and now we go back to Centre Court under

some beautiful blue sky, what a lovely change. COMMENTATOR: In case

you're thinking that is computer graphically enhanced, it is the

colour of the sky at the moment, almost the colour of those seats,

which is remarkable. We came here today thinking we might barely see a

set and a half but we have not seen rain interruptions and Andy and

Bedene walked on earlier on. There is another match later on, Roberto

Bautista Agut against Donald Young. And Bernard Tomic is playing

Fernando Verdasco. Batman is for- four. -- that map she is for- four.

-- that match is Raonic beginning the second set

exactly the same as he began the first.

I'm surprised he did not hit that on the smash. So confident. Just power

it through the opponent. When you've got a big serve like

this, when you have a big serve full stop, heating it straight at your

opponent is quite a good call, isn't it? The body serve especially

against the guy with a two hander or right-hander, slide it in. Slide it

into the body. They can't take full swing and have to block it, almost

like a shot. -- almost like a cricket shot. I do enjoy your

cricket analogies. Thank you very much. APPLAUSE

That was a very solid opening game. Technically quite sound. Maybe

Stefan Edberg would have got the racket head through the ball just a

little bit more, but we're rippling there, really. -- we're quibbling. I

doubt there are not things going through Vesely's mind at the moment.

Like, we should be at the tie-break at the moment, not serving in the

second set. He has to banish those thoughts.

I don't understand that attempt, the chances of Raonic actually executing

this backhand are one in ten, if that. Throw it up, Miles in the air,

let the winds take it, let's see if Vesely can handle that, make him put

it away. Well... Or play it like this. Quite

a similar attempt that time. Put the Czech in all kinds of problems.

Worth repeating if you've just joined us that Vesely is one of only

three men to beat Novak Djokovic this year, Andy Murray is one of

them but Lopez is the other. He didn't beat Djokovic because

Djokovic retired during the game. Vesely can say he is one of only two

meant to have beaten Novak Djokovic in tennis this year. That was at

Monte Carlo. He is no mean performer, 68 in the world at the

moment and former world junior number one.

Suddenly we're back where we were at the start of the first set with the

Vesely serve under pressure. Lovely sight of Queen's, 4:20pm on Thursday

afternoon, almost blue skies. They are not blue any more? Bits of them

are blue. That's a great put away, great put

away. OK, it was worth a shot. Maybe this is why he didn't hit the

previous one up in the air. Again, let's see it. Secure overhead,

though. Johnny Mac will be pleased with this

movement up at the net. Mr Raonic challenging a call left me

a line, ball is called in. This is a slightly abortive challenge. That

was genuinely unplayable, wrapped serve, the angle it was going at.

You would have had to be standing by the scoreboard to have bought that

back. Advantage Vesely. That's the way to do it, two aces

takes the tally up to ten now. The first time we've seen a bit of

emotion from the Czech. Thought he was teetering a bit there, but he's

back level pegging one apiece at the start of the second set.

It's always interesting talking about junior superstars and whether

they are going to make the transition. He was world number one

and everybody saying he was going to be the next big thing. Looking at

the record books, his doubles partner when he was number one

junior singles player was Oliver Golding from Great Britain, they

played together at the US Open and all that sort of stuff. Doing lots

of interviews and features with Oliver when he played here to three

years ago. He is now effectively given the game up. There are no

gimmes, you can be the best in the world at 16, 70, it's a different

world when you get into the adult environment. Some people make that

transition as Kyle Edmund is doing at the moment, some people just

don't. To win in the juniors requires largely different skills.

Than winning on the men's tour. To develop a man's game takes a lot of

time, a lot of patients. And you have to take lumps along the way,

learning how to win. Is it too simplistic to say talent gets you

buy in the junior, what you need more than that when you get to the

adult game? I think that's true in some cases. In a lot of cases.

And perhaps players that are serial winners in the juniors find it more

difficult to change their styles. Big serving from the Canadian.

Whereas if you are always losing in the juniors it's easy, no hardship.

I'll jettison that style, it's not working. But the men's game is so

athletic now, these guys are so fast and strong. You have to go 20, 30

shots deep in the rally to open up the point sometimes. It's too

arduous for 18-year-olds. In the domain. One or two superstars,

through. Not many kids are mature enough to

make a dent in the men's game. Was it 50 people in the menstrual at

Roland Garros? 49 players, something like that, extraordinary, the sort

of thing you wouldn't have expected a decade ago. Interesting to see the

strapping on Vesely's shoulder. We were talking about the hugely

promising young German player, Zverev. I was confused because he

was educated in Germany, Vesely. Finding some way out of that! Is a

fluent German speaker. The winner of this match will play

the winner of the next match here on Centre Court between Roberto

Bautista Agut of Spain, the sixth seed here, and Donald Young,

qualifier from the USA. I'm looking forward to that match because two

players with totally different styles from these two. There'll be a

lot of baseline rallies in that game. Yeah, two guys who are very,

very quick around the court, so it won't be especially easy to hit

winners for either one of them, yet they are both attacking players.

A lot of tactics, probably, on display.

This match a little more straightforward. You will be able to

watch that match on BBC Two and our coverage on the red button continues

until close of play each day here at Queen's. I think his options were

limited once he got there. Yeah, it's a case of, I'm out of the

court, I'd better make this shot perfect. Perfect is not so easy to

execute. 40-0 you are in control of the game,

almost ready for the next one, then it is 40-15, then 40-30. Suddenly,

you will need to win this point. Vesely needs a big serve here.

His 11th ace. Makes us level. Water time. I wouldn't say it is warm out

there, but it's pleasant. I would say, by the way, Johnny Mac has put

an excessive amount of sun block on today for the amount of sunshine

that we've had. Here's a question, if you were just

listening whilst watching to this match, the sound of the ball off

both these two brackets is very, very different, why is that? -- two

rackets. Let me listen. That wasn't the best

example, but when they were trading blows from the baseline in the

previous rally... It could be one of two things, either their string

tensions are slightly different or just the fact one is on the other

side and one is on this side, so the sound is travelling in different

directions. As a general rule of thumb, if you

are a big hitting, big serving die like Raonic, do you string your

bracket more tightly? If you are a power player, often players will

string it tighter because it gives you more control.

So conversely, if you are Baghdatis or a touch player, do you string it

less tightly, because it gives you the ability to manoeuvre the ball

more? It is personal preference, really. Tim Henman, who wasn't the

most powerful player off the ground, strung his racket very tight. He had

lots of feel around the net. He had a powerful serve, but the rest of

his game was very much a touch game. He strung it tight. John McEnroe, on

the other hand, also very much a touch player, strung it like a

sieve. It was so loose. But that gave him the field that he liked.

So, you know, it's hard to make hard and fast rules. Gave himself feel he

liked. I think it is the dental reasons Raonic wears a gumshield. I

think it is a relaxation thing, so you don't grit your teeth. Right on

cue, thank you Milos. That's a big winner crosscourt there

from Vesely. That's well played by Raonic, it

really is. Absolutely. Beautiful set up pass, set it low, forcing Vesely

to hit up into the open quart. And mopping up on the next ball. -- the

open . He's always got that to get him

out of bother. He's winning 12-8 on the ace count

at the moment. Just coming back to the McEnroe

influence on Raonic, how much of this is going to be about not just

playing tennis, but about demeanour on court, attitude to tennis life

generally? I gather they've been going to art galleries and things

together. Is Raonic more relaxed? He smiled when he made an error on the

panel to map art of that game. Is part of McEnroe's remit to make him

a bit more chilled? No, just the opposite. I think Ricardo is happy

to have a bit of back up. I think both of them would like to see Milos

just be a little more emotive out on the court.

That is beautiful. From both sides of the net. And suddenly... Vesely

has a chance. What a crisp overhead that was.

You'd have thought by now Vesely would have gotten the message.

A lob over Raonic's head is not going to happen too often.

And suddenly from 0- 30... I suppose if you are playing the odds long

enough, you work on the basis, he's going to miss one some time. Yes...

That's one way of looking at it, I'm not sure if that one is going to

work out percentage-wise. A big fist pump their as Raonic

served followed. -- serve and volleyed.

A break point against the Raonic serve.

That was four over long off, really, wasn't it?

That's the problem, isn't it? You have a great point... Against

somebody like Raonic, and we don't have the stats here to say what

percentages of break points anyone ever takes against Raonic across the

duration of his career, but it isn't many. That's why he wins 94% of his

service games, because he is right up at the top of the list, in terms

of saving break points. Not quite sure anybody knew what was

happening there. He somehow extricated himself from that.

He kept his cool. Miss charged the floating shot from Vesely, thought

he could charge it and take it out of the air, and realised at the last

moment... -- misjudged the floating shot to stop but kept it in play,

and perhaps Vesely would have liked to have done a little more with the

forehand pass. Kept his balance well, that's all you can do in that

situation. What a stylish finish. Zero from three is Vesely from this

match so far, break points on the Raonic serve.

And at no point, actually, have you really felt that Raonic has been

thinking "I'm in trouble here on my serve". Raonic is at 30, 40, always

a chance, always a feeling that at some point Raonic might make the

breakthrough on the serve of Vesely. A very low-flying helicopter goes

overhead here on Centre Court. Not quite sure why the umpire asked

for a delay, but anyway, this is first serve once again.

If you're sitting down in the front row, you are in line of fire, you

are sitting at second slip and you have to have your hands in front of

your body... There is Annabel Croft at the back, and obviously someone

took it in the pins. I think whoever it was got sacked

from the England team, not playing in the slips again.

Second double fault from the racket of Vesely.

The ball shot away as it pitched near the baseline.

Slightly ambitious shot from Vesely, don't you think? Yeah, perhaps.

That's a lovely touch. Raonic thought it was in.

Raonic did very well to ask the question. Because the approach once

again was very deep, skidded through the court. Vesely showed a lot of

feel with that finish. Getting to the serious stage now, four apiece.

Is that the kind of Hooper helicopter you've got? Going to

Battersea! -- Uber helicopter. That was a lovely pick-up by Raonic, made

that look very, very simple. This looks like another very

straightforward hold for the Canadian. Which means with that ace,

number nine, Vesely will have to serve to stay in the match should.

STUDIO: A tense changeover for Vesely, a lot to think about. We're

going to bring you news from elsewhere in the ladies

championship. The Aegon classic in Edgbaston. Johanna Konta now ranked

18 in the world, got revenge for her defeat. Caroline Wozniacki has gone

out, beaten by her opponent. Also a first-round. And the fifth seed,

Petra Kvitova, has gone out, also in three sets. That is what's happening

at Edgbaston, but plenty of tennis to look forward to over the next few

weeks, we're at Eastbourne from Tuesday for the ladies championship,

then the big one, Wimbledon, starting 27th of June. And the Davis

Cup, Serbia against Great Britain, Djokovic against Murray. On the 15th

of delight from L grade. A lot to look forward to. A lot to look

forward to here with Vesely serving to stay in this match. If you were a

betting man do you think Murray will be in Bucharest to play in that

Davis Cup match? In Belgrade? If he's in Bucharest he will be playing

in the wrong match. He'll have got on the wrong plane. It would greatly

enhance Serbia's chances of getting through. I hadn't thought about that

too much. Think about it in a minute. I think it depends how well

it goes. If he thinks Novak is going to play, I'm not sure which way that

swings it. Some solid hitting from the back of

the court by the Czech. Just for a second he thought that

might landing, but it drifted wide. More activity overhead. As we turn

our eyes to Hawk-Eye and see where the ball landed. I think Raonic

knows it was wide but it's a challenge to disrupt the flow. Of

Vesely. He's got two points to square things up at five apiece. One

will do. This is where we were in the first set. Everybody neatly

holding their serve five apiece. Raonic held, then he broke Vesely to

take the first game 7-5. You would say there is a not

inconsiderable incentive for the winner of this match because this

half of the draw has Vesely, Raonic, Bautista Agut, Young, Gilles Muller

who has put out John is not already, Tomic and Verdasco. Raonic, I'm sure

they won't have discussed it because they take each game as it comes,

Raonic could be eyeing the final here. Yeah, he's the favourite to

come through certainly. That's very solid. Classic serve and

volley, did everything right. Good wrong footing approached shot.

You would expect him to go up the line. It makes it easier to cover

the net. On a slippery surface, a wrong footing approach is always

pretty effective. A good return from Vesely.

Reiterating what Peter was saying, Raonic was heading towards the

centre of the court. Hard to get back and get a ball going so far to

his forehand. He still has a point for a 6-5 lead. And there was a

certain inevitability about that result. Ace number nine.

And the Vesely will be hoping history doesn't repeat itself here.

Mac is on his feet. Sending positive energy across the court to his

charge. LAUGHTER Looking like he's in WWE or

something, isn't it, just about to walk into the ring. Giving the evil

eye to the mechanical camera. Don't even think about it! I've got my eye

on you! There is the mechanical camera. It's what we call Mac camp,

it just follows McEnroe wherever he goes, he doesn't know this, but he's

under surveillance from the BBC 24-7. I think he's talking about it

now, I know we are talking about you! Here's the moment of truth for

Vesely. Because he fell at the last, effectively in the first set, and

he's got to make sure it doesn't happen again here. Best case

scenario for him is a second set tie-break but Raonic knows he can go

for it now, this is almost a free game, really. Can he complete what

happened in the first set? Raonic was cross about that, he

thought he hit it just in the far corner.

Just when he needs it most, Vesely's first serve has deserted him.

You've probably heard a disgruntled Raonic going, come on! I could have

done more with that. And he was right.

I gather that previous ball was caught by Annabel Croft in the slips

as it shot off. Into the first and second row. There she is. Or

otherwise costume did she catch it? There was a smattering of applause,

I don't know if we have video evidence of this. That's better for

Vesely, that's what he wanted. Get into a tie-break.

We had an 18-16 tie-break earlier today between Gilles Muller and John

Isner. Which was the longest tie-break since Juan Mata Wimbledon

a couple of years ago which also feature John Isner. There is no John

Isner here but we have two big men who served 22 aces between them so

far and we can expect a few more in the course of this tie-break.

These guys have played one tie-break in their career. At Roland Garros on

clay. Raonic won that one. Vesely was cross about that shot.

Wow. I was about to say, that was a fabulous serve, fabulous drive into

the corner, fabulously put away, until then. Come on! That's why you

put the ball back into play whenever possible. Almost a miraculous miss.

It's a mini-break, and given Raonic's serve, the pressure really

is an Vesely now, to somehow get back to level pegging.

But that was a lovely return, right at Raonic's feet. He was so adept

previously, but on this occasion the ball goes long, so 2-2.

Suddenly Vesely feels a bit better about that missed volley at the net,

marginally. There's only one time he will

marginally feel better, and that is if he gets to seven first in this

tie-break. Raonic hit that forehand like he

hated the ball. Taking no chances this time. And of

course, they change ends. It was bizarre watching that match earlier

on today between John is and Muller. It was 15-15 on Centre Court when

dead Danae was playing Murray, and at the same time it was 15-15 in the

tie-break on Court One. -- when Aljaz Bedene was playing Murray.

You actually feel the crowd are really in gauge in this match, you

feel they fancy a third set here. -- engaged.

A couple of loan umbrellas up, which must be very irritating for the

people sitting behind them when it's not raining. Another big serve.

And just no margin for error here now. One mistake here from either

men and you kind of feel it will hand it to the other.

Another huge serve. You heard Johnny Mac shouting "Good serve". It was so

quick, the speed serve machine at the end didn't actually register it,

but it was very, very rapid. That was bold. It was bold, I liked

the way he stepped into the court and allowed him to take the ball at

the peak of the bounce. Put it back into play. That was just

a loss of concentration, tennis the backhand off the line. And all of a

sudden, it's a set point the Jiri Vesely to take us into a third and

decisive set. Where does he go here, Raonic? I don't know! Down the

middle. In the end it was a very

conservative serve, landed about 2-macro-3 feet from the centre

service line. Put it in play with power, and that was enough.

Well, in the world of European Championships, this is effectively

now a straightforward penalty shoot out. Miss and you're gone, as far as

this second set is concerned. First up, Milos Raonic.

And he went straight at the keeper, which is often a very good tactic.

This is when the pressure swings 180 degrees straight to the other end of

the court. It's match point to Milos Raonic.

And he's got it! One opportunity was all he needed, and he hammered it

down the sideline. Milos Raonic of Canada is through in straight sets

against Jiri Vesely of the Czech Republic, 7-5, 7-6. The crowd on

their feet and Raonic's box are on their feet. He is through to a

quarterfinal meeting against the winner of Roberto Bautista Agut and

Donald Young, which is coming on here next. That was a pretty

impressive performance. A high-quality match, both players

served well. I think Raonic will be pleased with his performance. He did

a number of things quite effectively. Vesely will rue a

couple of easy balls he missed in that match, that allowed Raonic to

either get back into it, or establish dominance. But such is the

way matches are often won on this surface, it is just a point or two

here or there. You cannot afford to give easy ones away. It's going to

be a very different kind of match or Raonic, whether he plays in the next

round, whether it be Donald Young or Bautista Agut. He won't be facing

cannonball serves but a lot more all court kind of play. The light from

his goal friend, as well. -- delight from his girlfriend, as well. I get

the sense that Milos Raonic is benefiting from the Stardust that

McEnroe is sprinkling. Yeah, it's always nice to be the focus of