Day 5, Part 2

:00:36. > :00:43.In the past, this title has been won by Lleyton Hewitt, Jimmy Connors and

:00:44. > :00:48.Rod Laver. One more thing they have in common, they were all under six

:00:49. > :00:53.feet tall. They say size doesn't matter. But in this year 's Queen 's

:00:54. > :01:02.quarterfinals, it could be described as a land of giants. This afternoon,

:01:03. > :01:11.sixth at 62010 champion, Sam Querrey of the United States, takes on six

:01:12. > :01:21.that or Gilles Muller from Luxembourg.

:01:22. > :01:33.There is a gigantic obstacle in front of six foot three Grigor

:01:34. > :01:37.Dimitrov as he faces 65 Daniil Medvedev. And last but not least,

:01:38. > :01:56.6-foot five, Thomas Berdych plays Feliciano

:01:57. > :02:02.Lopez. So, huge matches everywhere today. Do you think? You've got to

:02:03. > :02:07.go with the big guy. That really narrows it down! The spectators are

:02:08. > :02:13.arriving and looking forward to another lovely summers day and, of

:02:14. > :02:18.course, the exceptional hospitality that was on offer here at the Aegon

:02:19. > :02:23.Championships. This is the order of the day for quarterfinal stage.

:02:24. > :02:31.Sam Querrey has one both of their previous meetings against Gilles

:02:32. > :02:39.Muller, but that was before he improved. Another champion, Grigor

:02:40. > :02:43.Dimitrov, up against the youngest player left in the last eight,

:02:44. > :02:48.21-year-old Daniil Medvedev. And then Thomas Berdych may have been a

:02:49. > :02:52.runner-up in Wimbledon in 2010 but he's not the favourite in this one

:02:53. > :02:57.against Feliciano Lopez, the left-hander who is so effective on

:02:58. > :03:02.this service. So, that is what we are looking forward to. Big eyes,

:03:03. > :03:09.big serves we are going to see, but no real serve volley is. No, not at

:03:10. > :03:12.all. I think it has been almost eliminated from the game because

:03:13. > :03:19.guys are so good at returning and hitting passing shots now that it is

:03:20. > :03:23.difficult to come to the net. Guys just have sort of lost that skill a

:03:24. > :03:27.little bit, so when you get a guy who comes in even occasionally, like

:03:28. > :03:33.Lopez or Mahler, it's almost a surprise. When you look at the last

:03:34. > :03:38.eight, who is your favourite? Who have you been more impressed with?

:03:39. > :03:45.Well, Cilic, I think, appears to be in the best form. Daniel Kozlov must

:03:46. > :03:51.be thrilled in that he managed to win a point on Cilic's first serve.

:03:52. > :03:58.Better than is needed. I was looking at the stats. In his first matches,

:03:59. > :04:05.he won 5051 points on his first serve. John Isner didn't any. That

:04:06. > :04:16.is amazing. And this guy must be, lamented, because he has moved Cilic

:04:17. > :04:23.on? Yes, he is more confident on his grand strikes than he's ever been.

:04:24. > :04:27.His 4/ -- his forehand has improved and is stronger than it has ever

:04:28. > :04:33.been. Lauren Ivanisevic helped to make that a formidable weapon. --

:04:34. > :04:37.Goran Ivanisevic. He is now a threat to win just about anything. You

:04:38. > :04:44.wonder how Donald Young will hurt Cilic in any way. It is a struggle.

:04:45. > :04:51.He is not the biggest hitter around the court but he is quick. I am just

:04:52. > :04:57.not sure how many Cilic will offer comic in as good form as he is in.

:04:58. > :05:02.Another one who has been very impressive is Grigor Dimitrov, the

:05:03. > :05:05.2014 champion, and he burst on three, not just winning this

:05:06. > :05:09.Championships but going through to the semifinals champion -- of

:05:10. > :05:14.Wimbledon, beating Andy Murray. Do you think he's back on that level?

:05:15. > :05:19.He is not far away. His form hasn't been perfect this week but at this

:05:20. > :05:23.sort of level, it just takes a couple of matches for a guy's

:05:24. > :05:31.believed to grow and suddenly he thinks he's unbeatable. For Dimitrov

:05:32. > :05:34.on this surface, that's certainly a possibility, because he is their

:05:35. > :05:39.best move on grass by any stretch of the imagination. He is so flexible

:05:40. > :05:46.and well balanced and incredibly graceful. And you do get a case with

:05:47. > :05:49.him of the mental side of it. Wins breed confident and when he is

:05:50. > :05:56.confident, he is capable of beating almost any of the big names. I guess

:05:57. > :06:01.the biggest confidence -- the biggest challenge for him is to get

:06:02. > :06:08.over that confidence comp. To be a winner. He knew what it was like in

:06:09. > :06:11.the juniors, but for some reason, he hasn't quite got over that last

:06:12. > :06:20.obstacle to launch himself into the very highest grouping in this group.

:06:21. > :06:25.We are going out on court here to Gilles Muller. He is a different

:06:26. > :06:33.kind of player this year? He is aged 34, playing their best tennis of his

:06:34. > :06:39.life. Also now pretty solid of the ground and moving better than he

:06:40. > :06:44.ever has, too. And he is coming forward, making himself attack more.

:06:45. > :06:48.He has taken the first set against Sam Querrey and it is for - four.

:06:49. > :07:05.Let's join this one live with Andrew Castle and John loyd.

:07:06. > :07:19.ANDREW CASTLE: this was always going to be a match where things were very

:07:20. > :07:26.tight. The first set was one after a small loss of concentration. That's

:07:27. > :07:32.the kind of match this is. Both players are winners on the ATP tour

:07:33. > :07:39.this year. Sam Querrey, a winner in Acapulco. And last week, Gilles

:07:40. > :08:50.Muller one on grass in Holland. Oh, good feel. So, just that one

:08:51. > :08:56.break. This is the essence of grass court tennis, between players like

:08:57. > :09:01.this. Absolutely. Sam Querrey, this match has come down to that one game

:09:02. > :09:06.where he just, for some reason, his mind wandered, and when you play

:09:07. > :09:10.against a big server, and he is a big server himself, both of their

:09:11. > :09:15.coaches will have said, manage your side of the court, take care of

:09:16. > :09:20.business on your serve, fight hard, you may only get one chance in the

:09:21. > :09:25.set but be ready. For some reason, Sam Querrey's mind wandered for one

:09:26. > :09:37.game. Credit to Mahler, but he didn't really need to do much to

:09:38. > :09:43.win. If he loses this match, he may feel he threw the test away -- the

:09:44. > :09:49.match away before he even got to the tie-break. It's good tennis, pure

:09:50. > :09:54.serve and aggressive second shots. The serving of Gilles Muller in the

:09:55. > :09:57.first set, he was at 80% on his first serve and hitting lines all

:09:58. > :10:01.over the place. What can you do against that? You hang in there, I

:10:02. > :10:05.suppose, and try to get into a tie-break. Quarterfinals here at

:10:06. > :10:23.Queen's Club, the Aegon Championships, and this is the best

:10:24. > :10:28.of those quarterfinals. Some doubles coming up later on and Dimitrov

:10:29. > :10:35.Medvedev will be interesting, then Berdych versus Lopez. The last of

:10:36. > :10:38.these 4/4-finals later on. -- the last of these four quarterfinals

:10:39. > :11:23.later on. Sometimes, if you can just get your

:11:24. > :11:43.racquet on it, errors happen. That is what happened therefore Muller.

:11:44. > :11:53.You will be familiar with the name Jamie Delgado who is now working

:11:54. > :11:57.alongside Andy Murray and before he joined him, he was with Gilles

:11:58. > :12:04.Muller, making a tremendous difference to his game. Great credit

:12:05. > :12:08.to him. I guess he couldn't resist the call of the world number one.

:12:09. > :12:14.Well, he wasn't at the time. That was what made it a good challenge as

:12:15. > :12:26.well. No, he was just the Wimbledon champion. Amir Wimbledon champion.

:12:27. > :12:31.Did you see Sam Querrey there? He went about half an hour early. You

:12:32. > :12:34.would have to pick one side or the other with this delivery. We will

:12:35. > :12:59.illustrate that in a second. It is funny, trying to receive this

:13:00. > :13:05.Muller serve. Let's have a quick clip that this one. This was from

:13:06. > :13:07.the first set. We will show you what it's actually like to receive in a

:13:08. > :14:05.minute. That's the way to back-up the first

:14:06. > :14:51.serve. Run round and felt that forehand away. He's done so well.

:14:52. > :15:01.Just over an hour paid. -- played. Big shocks at the beginning of the

:15:02. > :15:05.week and the temperatures as well. Much cooler today. Never a difficult

:15:06. > :15:09.day to be in the stands and enjoying some of the hospitality. So much

:15:10. > :15:18.going on. This tournament has grown so much over the years. Now, what,

:15:19. > :15:25.9500 people in what is a magnificent stadium. It's the ATP tour event of

:15:26. > :15:34.the year again for the fourth year in a row. It's a great place to

:15:35. > :15:38.come. The plastic seating, I am told, if you are coming here on a

:15:39. > :15:43.hot, long day, bring some kind of cloth to sit on. Especially on a

:15:44. > :15:49.long day like today with four excellent matches. Well, you have

:15:50. > :15:53.this sort of take a slightly German view, if I may be so bold, with the

:15:54. > :16:11.seats in front of the pavilion. I was by the polls before breakfast.

:16:12. > :16:15.So many people out early this week and it is unreserved up above on the

:16:16. > :16:21.balcony as well. Some former champions watching from their this

:16:22. > :16:26.week. Many of the corporate guests will make their way in for this

:16:27. > :16:31.second match featuring Marin Cilic, who is in great form at the moment.

:16:32. > :16:34.He is the highest seed left, number four, playing Donald Young. That is

:16:35. > :17:37.after this one. That's the sort of mistake you can't

:17:38. > :17:42.make. If you are trying to break serve and haven't had much of

:17:43. > :17:43.looking, he had quite a lot of time on that backhand and just dragged it

:17:44. > :19:51.into their net. Now, then, there's a little bit of

:19:52. > :19:53.an opening. Unless this ball is called in. I don't think it's in,

:19:54. > :20:25.but... The call stands. Let! Oh, that's one of those once,

:20:26. > :20:31.because Querrey was stealing to his left. It's an automatic indication.

:20:32. > :20:37.In the old days, he would have argued about that big-time, but he

:20:38. > :20:47.can't argue against a machine, can he? And Fergus as well. No, he's

:20:48. > :21:20.formidable. Oh, wow, here we go. Suddenly. We didn't see this coming.

:21:21. > :21:31.Oh, how did he get out of that?! I thought he was done there. That's a

:21:32. > :21:35.great effort from Muller. He did not look like at any stage he would win

:21:36. > :21:39.this rally. Hey, he was in trouble. Here, he was in trouble. This was

:21:40. > :21:49.the first time there was a very good blog. I don't know, could Sam have

:21:50. > :21:52.hit an overhead there? I think so. He could have hit the volley better,

:21:53. > :22:15.too. He's got a lot of biting his game at

:22:16. > :22:21.the moment, hasn't he, Gilles Muller? Match wins last week in

:22:22. > :22:50.Holland, very sharp. Yes, the tennis is good now. Much

:22:51. > :23:43.better than the first set. The coaching team getting it in the

:23:44. > :24:01.air -- ear. That's such a good serve. Sam

:24:02. > :24:10.Querrey they're probably just leaning slightly to his left. You

:24:11. > :24:13.have to do really expect that serve, percentages, to go out wide, but

:24:14. > :24:55.changing it up down the middle. How good is that approach? See their

:24:56. > :24:59.heavy slice. But it's the depth. Deep, leans into that one. You can

:25:00. > :25:18.see the slice, keeps a low, enabled him to get good net position.

:25:19. > :25:25.Oh, well, that was the shot he hit so well yesterday against John

:25:26. > :25:29.Thompson. He was just brilliant on the backhand side. You expected

:25:30. > :25:40.beforehand but not so much on the back and that open stance backhand,

:25:41. > :26:02.still on court, still in this game. Oh, he looked for a second like he

:26:03. > :26:12.had lost his balance and wasn't going to make that overhead. I'm not

:26:13. > :26:15.sure if it was a gust of wind or something but he was completely off

:26:16. > :26:18.balance when he hit that. Good upper body strength there, keeping him are

:26:19. > :26:39.bright enough to hit that one away. He did well. Well, that was a

:26:40. > :26:44.testing game. Almost ten minutes long. He saved break points that

:26:45. > :26:51.came out of the blue and he always feels pretty good going into break

:26:52. > :26:58.points with the serve he has got. The only one of the last six

:26:59. > :27:05.tie-break that he has lost was here, first round against Atherley. He

:27:06. > :27:28.lost it 19 -- 17. Querrey defeated Cameron Norrie, who

:27:29. > :28:08.has now gone pro, and Jordan Thompson.

:28:09. > :28:13.Winning is a habit, isn't it? You find that lovely with and you know

:28:14. > :28:18.you're going to be OK, you trust yourself. You're not thinking, just

:28:19. > :28:41.playing by interest -- playing by instinct.

:28:42. > :28:49.Querrey has been anticipating and making effective returns more in the

:28:50. > :28:53.last ten, 12 minutes than in the previous hour of the match. It's

:28:54. > :28:58.quite amazing that, when you think of it. So many of his other service

:28:59. > :29:03.games, he's just been walking side to side, hardly making a return. All

:29:04. > :29:05.of a sudden, this patch, he is picking the Serbs off now. It's

:29:06. > :29:25.taken him a long time. He's straight hitting has been

:29:26. > :29:29.unveiled, hasn't it. It's over the top part of the net where he is

:29:30. > :29:33.picking a place anything, I am going through with this. -- he's straight

:29:34. > :30:38.hitting has been unreal, hasn't it? I have two slightly question that

:30:39. > :30:43.return. The serve into the body from a left-hander, it's a tough one. But

:30:44. > :30:48.Sam settling for getting it into play and mid-court against Gilles

:30:49. > :30:51.Muller isn't good enough today. I know it's a very difficult ball,

:30:52. > :30:57.that left-handed swerve, you don't know if it'll kick a bit or swerve,

:30:58. > :31:01.and it certainly has pace and it is well. Perhaps he could go for broke,

:31:02. > :31:07.with the forehand he has got, back to the way he against Djokovic on

:31:08. > :31:11.Court one in the first round of Wimbledon last year. He could

:31:12. > :31:12.unleash that second serve return on occasion. Perhaps he should be

:31:13. > :31:25.threatening it more. Easy place to play a match, the

:31:26. > :31:51.commentary box. Seeing that serve now. A mini-break

:31:52. > :31:54.up again, the American. Number 28 in the world playing the number six,

:31:55. > :32:42.Muller. Off the top of the net, just a

:32:43. > :32:48.change in the direction of the ball, but he got a hold of it, Muller,

:32:49. > :32:55.positive play, back on serve. Again, evidence of the matches he has

:32:56. > :33:14.played. Knowing how important that point was, to make something happen.

:33:15. > :33:23.He did well to get that serve back into play. No pace on it, still it

:33:24. > :33:28.was deep. You can see there, to go for a winner from that position,

:33:29. > :33:30.that sort of place, such an important point. Credit to Muller

:33:31. > :33:59.for that. Well, I don't know whether that was

:34:00. > :34:05.a bad bounce or not. A bit strange, that was. He took a full swing there

:34:06. > :34:14.and just completely... Might have to just call one are whiff. Three

:34:15. > :34:18.straight points for Muller, bottom line, and suddenly Querrey, who had

:34:19. > :34:30.played a pretty good tie-breaker until this point, match point down.

:34:31. > :34:45.And he has got it! Wonderful winning run from Gilles Muller continues.

:34:46. > :34:51.Not just a superb serving performance by any means, from great

:34:52. > :34:59.to know how. He has had a career high at the moment playing with

:35:00. > :35:03.confidence, the 34-year-old. He backs it up with another straight

:35:04. > :35:10.sets victory, this time over Sam Querrey, the former champion, the

:35:11. > :35:15.first of three former champions on this court. How about that? I40 had

:35:16. > :35:21.approached the wrong way coming into the Sam Querrey forehand in the

:35:22. > :35:27.final point. Not a bit of it. He has had success here before, Gilles

:35:28. > :35:34.Muller. This is his third straight quarterfinal showing. But now into

:35:35. > :35:39.the semifinal and all of this after winning his second tournament of the

:35:40. > :35:45.year last week on grass in Holland, so with great confidence he

:35:46. > :35:50.advances. And he will play the winner of our next match, Marin

:35:51. > :35:56.Cilic expected to beat Donald Young, but it has been an unpredictable

:35:57. > :36:04.week. Later on, Grigor Dimitrov against Medvedev. Always good to see

:36:05. > :36:08.Dimitrov play, and this young next-generation star, Medvedev, of

:36:09. > :36:13.Russia, who beat Kokkinakis and Mahut this week, so he is a quality

:36:14. > :36:17.player. To finish it off, Berdych against Lopez today. The closing

:36:18. > :36:21.stages of the first four quarterfinal matches at Queen's

:36:22. > :36:27.Club. Came in on the forehand side, which was strange, then this one,

:36:28. > :36:35.enough backspin and short enough in the court. From 3-5 down, a 7-5

:36:36. > :36:38.victories in the tie-break. He is through to the quarterfinal. Let's

:36:39. > :36:48.catch up with the winner, Gilles Muller, talking to John Isner.

:36:49. > :36:53.Cannot stop winning?! Yes, it feels good! Everything is working out

:36:54. > :36:57.great at the moment, playing good tennis and I feel in important

:36:58. > :37:01.moment I am able to bring up very good shots and everything is coming

:37:02. > :37:04.my way at the moment. People talk about the difference between

:37:05. > :37:08.practising and actually playing matches, you have played so many

:37:09. > :37:13.matches in the last few weeks, we could see in those moments there you

:37:14. > :37:16.are match tight. Yes, for sure, it is a great feeling when you get that

:37:17. > :37:20.many matches in a row, it doesn't happen too often in the year for me,

:37:21. > :37:39.so to get this many wins in a row gives me a big boost

:37:40. > :37:41.and a lot of confidence. During the last couple of matches, I was

:37:42. > :37:43.googling famous people from Luxembourg, especially in sport, and

:37:44. > :37:46.without being rude, there are not many. You still live in Luxembourg,

:37:47. > :37:48.you have not decamped to Monte Carlo or anywhere, how proud you to be

:37:49. > :37:50.representing your country? Very proud. Like you said, there are not

:37:51. > :37:55.many Luxembourg people in the world, only half a million live there,

:37:56. > :37:59.maybe 600,000 now, and it is great to be representing Luxembourg all

:38:00. > :38:03.over the world. Mostly it is famous for the banks so I'm very happy that

:38:04. > :38:09.I'm also putting it on the map because of tennis. You are doing

:38:10. > :38:11.that magnificently at the moment, congratulations, see you tomorrow in

:38:12. > :38:16.the semifinal. Just getting better and better at

:38:17. > :38:20.the age of 34. He had not won a title on the ATP Tour until this

:38:21. > :38:25.year, won in Sydney and then last week as well, through to his first

:38:26. > :38:29.semifinal here, some beautiful tennis particularly in those last

:38:30. > :38:34.few games. Andrew Ann John made their way here, that was a lovely

:38:35. > :38:40.match to watch. Some fabulous rallies there. We were watching two

:38:41. > :38:47.players who are unbelievably sharp at the moment and I thought it was

:38:48. > :38:50.going to be tie-breakers, and unexpected bad game from Sam in the

:38:51. > :38:54.first but other than that, how they were backing up their service, the

:38:55. > :38:59.feel that they had and, particularly with Muller, what he would do with

:39:00. > :39:04.the ball, how he managed his game, I thought he was absolutely brilliant,

:39:05. > :39:09.and how he saved that set point, just brilliant play. As John said in

:39:10. > :39:13.the interview, he is match tight, playing big points unbelievably

:39:14. > :39:19.well. Let's enjoyed that match point against it because it was a lovely

:39:20. > :39:24.touch, particularly at the end. He has come of age this year? Anybody

:39:25. > :39:28.playing in a career-high ranking feels pretty great, this amazed me

:39:29. > :39:31.that he went to the forehand, there wasn't a great deal on it but when

:39:32. > :39:37.you have got the winning habit things do go your way. You have

:39:38. > :39:41.positivity, you are allowing your tennis to come out, so a great

:39:42. > :39:46.moment in his career and at the age of 34, this year he wins his two

:39:47. > :39:53.travels, he lost six finals before that. It is a delightful time five,

:39:54. > :39:57.playing with no pressure at all and to be honest that serve is going to

:39:58. > :40:05.make him a lot of money. That serve is such a weapon. 80% first serves

:40:06. > :40:09.in the first touch, at one point he started running about half an hour

:40:10. > :40:14.before he hit the serve to try to guess where the ball was going and

:40:15. > :40:18.he guessed wrong. He is fighting lines, goes in the body, has the

:40:19. > :40:23.same ball toss wherever he puts it, you can go either way with it, he

:40:24. > :40:27.just it well, so confident on it. Great economy to his game, he does

:40:28. > :40:32.not look like he's doing that but everything he is simple and he does

:40:33. > :40:37.it with weight and purpose and that is what you want. Jamie Delgado home

:40:38. > :40:42.his game so well before going with Andy Murray so he deserves some

:40:43. > :40:45.credit but Gilles is out there doing it, he might not look like the most

:40:46. > :40:49.animated guy in the world but he is one of the nicest guys out there, I

:40:50. > :40:54.am delighted for his success. Sam Querrey will be thinking, what did I

:40:55. > :41:01.do wrong when I had that set point? But he did not really do anything

:41:02. > :41:04.wrong, did he? Not really, could he have got more weight on that

:41:05. > :41:08.backhand smash? Perhaps, but Muller looks like he was going to win that

:41:09. > :41:12.point, Sam Querrey played a great second set and still lost it. Let's

:41:13. > :41:16.just moved to Edgbaston because the news in the papers involving Jo

:41:17. > :41:22.Konta, who played yesterday and lost her second round match to the big

:41:23. > :41:27.hitting American Coco Vanderweghe, always a danger on the grass, she

:41:28. > :41:32.was down 5-0 in just 16 minutes. This follows from losing the final

:41:33. > :41:36.in Nottingham to Donovan kitsch, ranked 70 in the world last week, so

:41:37. > :41:43.she was asked in her press conference, is it a blow to your

:41:44. > :41:47.Wimbledon hopes and she rather angrily replied, another defeat in a

:41:48. > :41:52.short period? I think I did OK, I made the final last week but thanks

:41:53. > :41:58.for the positivity. Wow, is it a big blow to you? I am not entitled to

:41:59. > :42:08.win every single match. To be honest, the reporter had every right

:42:09. > :42:12.to ask the question. Every player here and who loses is asked, is this

:42:13. > :42:21.a blow to your Wimbledon? Exactly, it is silly season. She is the focus

:42:22. > :42:24.of a lot... Even coming here today with the aforementioned motorcycle

:42:25. > :42:29.to try to get around, huge great billboard on the a four, Jo Konta,

:42:30. > :42:35.so this is attention and with the money and the adoration and the

:42:36. > :42:41.glory comes the expectation, so that is what it feels like. Incidentally,

:42:42. > :42:46.Coco Vanderweghe, now coached by Pat Cash because he thinks she can win a

:42:47. > :42:51.major championship, one of the things Jo Konta said was, cheers for

:42:52. > :42:59.the positivity, I did beat last week's semifinal before coming here.

:43:00. > :43:04.She is just feeling feisty at the moment. We have all played a match

:43:05. > :43:11.like that, well and truly stumped, and you really are feeling angry,

:43:12. > :43:16.but it is a lesson you learned to get angry when you leave the press

:43:17. > :43:20.conference? Yes, there is pressure on her, the British pressure, home

:43:21. > :43:24.audience. If I was her I would go and have a chat for five minutes

:43:25. > :43:27.with Andy Murray and say, how do you deal with the pressure and embrace

:43:28. > :43:34.it? You have to embrace it or you run away from it and that remark was

:43:35. > :43:38.a bit like, oh, Wimbledon is coming, what will they ask me, instead of

:43:39. > :43:43.saying, you are playing great tennis, enjoy yourself. It shows

:43:44. > :43:47.that she cares. It is fine, but the fact we are talking about it on the

:43:48. > :43:54.TV, it is just more of the same. But you are right, we ought to back off

:43:55. > :43:57.and leave her. We understand the pressure, Jo will be at Eastbourne

:43:58. > :44:03.and there will be coverage of that starting on Monday from 2pm on BBC

:44:04. > :44:06.Two, eight of the world's top ten playing at Devonshire Park,

:44:07. > :44:10.something to look forward to next week.

:44:11. > :44:14.Further ahead to Wimbledon, this year the BBC are celebrating 90

:44:15. > :44:17.years of coverage at the Championships, and to celebrate that

:44:18. > :44:21.5 Live is running a competition to pick the greatest moment. They have

:44:22. > :44:23.narrowed it down to their top ten, so take a look at this and make your

:44:24. > :44:40.choice. And he has done it! He really has

:44:41. > :44:56.done it. Yes, she has done it!

:44:57. > :45:14.That's it, that's it, the dream has come true!

:45:15. > :45:31.That's it! And, at last, he does it. There is a new man in men's tennis,

:45:32. > :46:01.Rafael Nadal. Isner, three sets to two.

:46:02. > :46:24.The waiting is over! I get tingles watching all of that

:46:25. > :46:28.again! Make your choice, that is the top then they have chosen and you

:46:29. > :46:32.can make your choice by logging onto the BBC sport website, there will be

:46:33. > :46:38.a special programme on Wednesday at 8:30pm on 5 Live.

:46:39. > :46:49.Where was said to Rhett Rogic, another absolute classic! -- Federer

:46:50. > :46:53.Rogic. I felt Goran because of how unexpected it was, but how could it

:46:54. > :46:57.not be Andy? How long it had been before he won it, you have to go

:46:58. > :47:04.with that. But there are too many to choose from. I just thought about

:47:05. > :47:07.something, Tim Henman smacked me right in the head when Andy Murray

:47:08. > :47:12.won because he was right beside me in commentary and he almost hit his

:47:13. > :47:18.head on the roof, he hit my head with his elbow, trying to deliver

:47:19. > :47:24.this winning line, would you sit down?! The sheer intensity of Murray

:47:25. > :47:29.winning in 2013 and that final game, the sheer, oh my God, can we just

:47:30. > :47:31.get this over with, moment, that was my number one. But in terms of

:47:32. > :47:37.purity of tennis and the finest tennis I have ever seen played, I

:47:38. > :47:44.cannot see past 2008 Federer Rhett Nadal. There were moments in that

:47:45. > :47:48.when it was just... I saw the game elevating and they just continued to

:47:49. > :47:51.bring the best out of each other, nine years later they played the

:47:52. > :47:56.Australian Open final, another classic, and they are still at it,

:47:57. > :47:59.even in the first two Grand Slams this year, two great sportsman said

:48:00. > :48:03.for that reason I would probably pick that. I would add your

:48:04. > :48:10.semifinal from 77. As the worst moment! Thank you very much, let's

:48:11. > :48:14.move on, shall we?! The players are coming out for our

:48:15. > :48:17.next match, our next quarterfinal here, Donald Young of the United

:48:18. > :48:21.States making his debut in the last eight here at the Championships, he

:48:22. > :48:26.has had a couple of good weeks after a rather poor run of form since

:48:27. > :48:31.March, up against the big man, Marin Cilic, big former champion. The

:48:32. > :48:34.players are on court and Cilic, we talk about these super coaches in

:48:35. > :48:42.their corner, in his corner it is Younus Bjorkman, who has been

:48:43. > :48:45.talking to John. Is there one way of coaching everybody or do you tailor

:48:46. > :48:50.your coaching to the individual personality, the guy you are in

:48:51. > :48:56.charge of? Tough question! I have only coached two guys, so probably

:48:57. > :49:01.not the perfect one to ask but so far I feel that you have two with

:49:02. > :49:05.just a little bit because they all have different personalities,

:49:06. > :49:09.different routines for their practice but also for the matches,

:49:10. > :49:15.so I think you have to adjust quite a bit. Can you compare the changes

:49:16. > :49:26.or nuances you have to make between Andy and Marin? I would say they are

:49:27. > :49:29.the same, very hard workers, they want to take advantage of every

:49:30. > :49:39.minute on the practice court, before and after, which is something I

:49:40. > :49:42.really enjoyed, just have half an hour of not the perfect practice,

:49:43. > :49:48.you know, they want to go out and work really hard, so I would say

:49:49. > :49:55.there are a lot of similarities in their ways of preparing and playing.

:49:56. > :50:00.We always think of Marin in terms of the big serve but he is so much more

:50:01. > :50:04.of that, do you practice more to make the strength is stronger or

:50:05. > :50:09.practice the weakness is more to make them less weak? It is always a

:50:10. > :50:16.combination. You have the strength with the serve, like he has, you

:50:17. > :50:22.have to continue to work on it and in his case I think what we try is

:50:23. > :50:25.to get a little bit more consistency to lift up the first serve

:50:26. > :50:31.percentage because if he can get above 60%, I think, is really hard

:50:32. > :50:36.to play against and obviously that lifts his confidence in the rest of

:50:37. > :50:39.the game. But, like you said, at the same time, when that is feeling good

:50:40. > :50:44.you have to try to find ways of improving as well. So it is a mix

:50:45. > :50:49.every week. And there is Marin Cilic, he is a

:50:50. > :50:53.wise man to have in your corner? He is, I think with Cilic the matches I

:50:54. > :50:57.have seen this week, he is looking more aggressive, looking closer to

:50:58. > :51:02.the baseline, looking to go forward all the time and I am sure that is

:51:03. > :51:05.what Jonas has been doing, he was a great grass court player himself and

:51:06. > :51:11.I think it was an excellent choice for Marin Cilic to have someone like

:51:12. > :51:15.Jonas who is calm and get his point across and knows what he is doing on

:51:16. > :51:20.this surface. Absolutely. He is up against Donald Young, a return to

:51:21. > :51:25.form because he have had some disappointing results in the

:51:26. > :51:30.build-up to this, but he looked good here, but you just wonder how he

:51:31. > :51:34.will hurt Cilic? No idea, but you are right, it is about confidence,

:51:35. > :51:38.when you break a losing streak, he lost five first-round matches over a

:51:39. > :51:42.couple of months. You get a win or two and feel like you belong once

:51:43. > :51:47.again, the clouds part and you are ready to play so he will not feel he

:51:48. > :51:50.has got much to lose in this match and he can pass, you can move, he is

:51:51. > :51:58.quick around the court. If Cilic does not have a great serving day or

:51:59. > :52:01.loses concentration he will certainly be in there, but Cilic I

:52:02. > :52:07.think has lost... One point on a first serve in two matches. That is

:52:08. > :52:13.absurd, isn't it? And one against John Isner, who returns well. That

:52:14. > :52:17.is an amazing stat, and frightening. I hope Donald did not look at those

:52:18. > :52:21.stats before he came out because it does not make good reading! Being a

:52:22. > :52:25.lefty helps on the grass if he uses his serve well, but he moves well

:52:26. > :52:29.laterally, he passes well, could get close. You feel Cilic, looking at

:52:30. > :52:34.him on a grass court, former champion here, if he could attack

:52:35. > :52:38.more and be more coming forward, and I think what he is showing... And

:52:39. > :52:43.nobody knows transition body better than Jonas Bjorkman, and if he

:52:44. > :52:46.learns even more to go from the back of the court to the front of the

:52:47. > :52:49.Court effectively and at the right time, you are certainly looking at

:52:50. > :52:56.one of the top six, seven, eight grass court players in the game. We

:52:57. > :52:59.were talking about how few serve-volley as there are now, all

:53:00. > :53:06.due to the quality of the return as much as anything. Absolutely, he

:53:07. > :53:09.mixes it up well. Particularly with the way he plays at the moment,

:53:10. > :53:13.going into Wimbledon, one of the favourites to win here, you have to

:53:14. > :53:17.put him in the mix now to win Wimbledon this year. Grand slam

:53:18. > :53:21.winner, don't write him off. Thank you, guys, let's enjoy this in the

:53:22. > :53:27.company of Peter Burling and Andrew Cotter.

:53:28. > :53:36.ANDREW COTTER: It did not take long for Marin Cilic to become the top

:53:37. > :53:38.seed in this competition. He is the favourite, and he gets us going here

:53:39. > :53:55.in this quarterfinal match. As they were highlighting in the

:53:56. > :54:00.studio, the utter dominance of his server, two matches so far, losing

:54:01. > :55:00.just one point in a couple of matches on serve.

:55:01. > :55:11.That pattern continues, hold to love, Cilic has seen a good few of

:55:12. > :55:15.those already, Jonas Bjorkman, not much to chat about there. There have

:55:16. > :55:20.been a couple of good Winsford Donald Young but if you look closer

:55:21. > :55:24.at those wins, the retirement of Nick Kyrgios after he had that fall

:55:25. > :55:30.and aggravated a hip problem and then Viktor Troicki, who played

:55:31. > :55:36.dreadfully, so he hasn't really been tested, he will need to lift himself

:55:37. > :55:42.for this challenge. Yes, you have to think that the opening few serve

:55:43. > :55:43.this are crucial for Donald Young, just to see if he can't become

:55:44. > :56:15.competitive. This is a shot. He really now

:56:16. > :56:59.believes it. Nicely wrong putting Cilic. Young

:57:00. > :57:04.Stefan Kozlov yesterday was steam-rollered in the first set,

:57:05. > :57:24.couldn't get into it at all. Young needs an early foothold.

:57:25. > :57:39.That is a good game from Donald Young. Really good start. He takes

:57:40. > :57:43.the ball early and he is a pretty savvy match player, he understands

:57:44. > :57:51.what he needs to do, what he can do to bother opponents. A different

:57:52. > :57:55.style from most up-to-date's players. This has been the best

:57:56. > :57:57.serve of the championship without doubt so far, Marin Cilic in fine

:57:58. > :59:14.form. Set tougher Young. His mother,

:59:15. > :00:07.shares some of the coaching duties with Donald Young's father.

:00:08. > :00:21.So, another hold to love, still just that one point conceded on serve

:00:22. > :00:24.during the championship. It requires repeating, an astonishing stat given

:00:25. > :00:30.that he has seen off John Isner and Stefan Kozlov. We have been talking

:00:31. > :00:33.at great deal about it but chatting more about Donald Young, he does not

:00:34. > :00:39.quite have the serious firepower of some of the other players but he has

:00:40. > :00:44.a good all-round game. He is 27, just outside the world's top 50.

:00:45. > :00:49.Right up at the top of the Junior world rankings, one of those that

:00:50. > :00:53.have kicked onto a good professional career, you can never tell who will

:00:54. > :00:59.take it in the transition from great junior to great senior pro. Parents

:01:00. > :01:04.coaching him, we have talked about this a little bit, Peter, a bit of

:01:05. > :01:06.friction between the USDA and the parents again, just who has the

:01:07. > :01:13.better idea for the development of the player themselves.

:01:14. > :01:20.Donald went through a wayward period when probably too many voices were

:01:21. > :01:26.chatting in his ear about how to play. You know, the USDA had their

:01:27. > :01:34.various coaches that they wanted to get involved with Donald, who was,

:01:35. > :01:39.as a junior, thought of as the next, potentially next huge star. John

:01:40. > :01:44.McEnroe had the same agent and was brought in and no doubt Donald

:01:45. > :01:46.learned a lot from all those people, but only settled down when he went

:01:47. > :02:46.back to his parents. He is playing well and hasn't missed

:02:47. > :03:19.a first serve fair, Donald Young. Again, that thermometer is in the

:03:20. > :03:24.sun, so in the shade, it is quite comfortable, isn't it? Also, that

:03:25. > :03:45.Fahrenheit, it's actually about freezing. This hardy souls, here.

:03:46. > :03:59.And Marin Cilic, one of those players who will be pretty excited

:04:00. > :04:03.about prospects going forward to Wimbledon as well. It's a subject we

:04:04. > :04:07.have been talking about a little this week, just how open the men's

:04:08. > :04:11.singles in particular might be at Wimbledon. Everyone jockeying for

:04:12. > :04:19.position. Djokovic heading down to Eastbourne, to play there. With each

:04:20. > :04:31.match win that Roger Federer has this week in Hull, he becomes more

:04:32. > :05:01.and more the favourite. -- has this week in Halle.

:05:02. > :05:08.A lot of players like a familiar routine, as well. The same build-up

:05:09. > :05:11.going into the majors, safer Djokovic to be going down to

:05:12. > :05:32.Eastbourne, we know he is trying to find something. Yes.

:05:33. > :05:40.Cilic against Stefan Kozlov yesterday was a thing of beauty, not

:05:41. > :05:41.for Kozlov, but Cilic was hitting it so cleanly, so accurately, so

:05:42. > :05:58.beautifully. Oh! Well, that's quite a momentous

:05:59. > :06:03.occasion. That's another point lost on serve for Marin Cilic. That

:06:04. > :06:11.hasn't happened a lot in this tournament by his own doing. Two

:06:12. > :06:20.times on first serve in the tournament. But that was a bit of a

:06:21. > :06:24.duck. Just two points. You wouldn't think we'd be saying that. It's

:06:25. > :06:34.still good enough though. A fairly easy hold for Cilic. And, when your

:06:35. > :06:38.opponent is serving so well, it just puts that extra bit of pressure on

:06:39. > :06:46.your serve. Donald Young is doing pretty well so far.

:06:47. > :06:59.Reached the last 16 last year here after coming through qualifying.

:07:00. > :07:03.Managed to beat Vasek Pospisil, but this is his best performance at

:07:04. > :07:10.Queens. A lot of you will remember his final against David Nalbandian,

:07:11. > :07:17.the Argentinian. That was in 2012, and Nalbandian disqualified for,

:07:18. > :07:21.well, destroying some of the furniture and with it, doing a bit

:07:22. > :07:33.of an injury to one of the line judges. Who did his greatest Diego

:07:34. > :07:37.Maradona impersonation, didn't he? Well, no, Maradona would have done

:07:38. > :07:44.it without contact. There was actually content. Oh, no, I know. It

:07:45. > :07:47.was just the one or two second interval between the hoarding

:07:48. > :07:53.hitting his leg and him collapsing onto the floor. It was like, oh, I

:07:54. > :07:58.didn't know players did that. You are coming down on the side of the

:07:59. > :08:00.player, I'm... No, what he did was inexcusable and he had to be

:08:01. > :08:10.defaulted. It's just an aside. Please, ladies, the players are

:08:11. > :08:26.waiting for you. And gentlemen. No, it was just three ladies, and

:08:27. > :08:31.Chile. I've just seen them sit down. There are a lot more now coming in,

:08:32. > :09:07.taking their chances. That back can set up nicely for

:09:08. > :09:11.Cilic to whack it. -- that backhand sat up nicely for Cilic to whack it.

:09:12. > :09:14.Young can't afford too many of those. The winner of this match will

:09:15. > :09:29.play Gilles Muller. Very nearly threaded the needle but

:09:30. > :09:32.not easy to do from back where he was, six, seven feet behind the

:09:33. > :10:33.baseline. Already clear that Cilic is going to

:10:34. > :10:37.have a much tougher match today than he had yesterday against Kozlov. But

:10:38. > :10:45.also clear that he is still hitting the ball sweetly. You get the

:10:46. > :10:47.feeling that it just might be a matter of time before he strings of

:10:48. > :12:16.those forehands back together. 135 mph. There we are, just a little

:12:17. > :12:19.blip a few moments ago in his previous service game, where he lost

:12:20. > :12:27.only his second point off of his first serve.

:12:28. > :12:55.That's it, the run is over. He's down. Back to just another ordinary

:12:56. > :12:58.player. -- he's done. Mr Cilic is challenging the call. The ball was

:12:59. > :13:39.called out. Mr Cilic has two challenges

:13:40. > :13:43.remaining. Cilic has been consistently the best of the bigger

:13:44. > :13:45.names in this tournament. He hasn't really had any dip in form in any of

:13:46. > :14:21.his matches. Game, Cilic. New balls, please.

:14:22. > :14:25.Cilic leads 4-3. And unless Cilic has a dip on his serve, it's

:14:26. > :14:30.difficult to see where Donald Young might get anything on it. Again,

:14:31. > :14:42.tie-breaks might be his best hope. If he can cling on for dear life and

:14:43. > :14:46.take his chance in the lottery... Well, yes, in the form that Cilic is

:14:47. > :14:52.displaying right now, you would have to say that it would be mightily

:14:53. > :15:04.difficult for Donald Young. Although, the Croatian, below 60%

:15:05. > :15:13.first serves in. So, I guess that's the bad news. He has room to grow.

:15:14. > :15:19.That US Open win remains Cilic's only grand slam win. And what a Win

:15:20. > :15:22.it was. For Cilic and Kei Nishikori to reach the final, seeing off

:15:23. > :15:29.Djokovic and Federer in the semifinals. And Cilic coped far

:15:30. > :15:37.better with the pressure of Flushing Meadows in that final van Kei

:15:38. > :15:42.Nishikori, who succumbed rather. Cilic won his last three matches,

:15:43. > :15:46.quarters, semis and final, in straight sets. Including those wins

:15:47. > :15:56.over bed and Nishikori. He was dominant. You wonder now, is that

:15:57. > :15:59.him stepping forward to win a couple more? It hasn't happened. Yet. He is

:16:00. > :16:22.still young. He is only 26. I beg your pardon, he is ancient, at

:16:23. > :16:26.28. He has perhaps another five years of playing. Who knows. Some

:16:27. > :16:35.players aged better than others in terms of flexibility and injuries.

:16:36. > :16:43.What Roger Federer is doing, well, what he always done, is astonishing.

:16:44. > :16:53.Well, you know, Roger has such an immense belief in himself, in his

:16:54. > :17:04.ability to adapt and react to this situation that he is able to take a

:17:05. > :17:08.week that very few players have ever done before. You know, he wins the

:17:09. > :17:16.tournament is to start the year and then says, oh, I think I'll have two

:17:17. > :17:19.or three months. Who does that? And yet I'm sure that it is that ability

:17:20. > :17:48.that has allowed him his incredible longevity.

:17:49. > :17:51.One of the rare occasions in this tournament where his forehand has

:17:52. > :18:27.let himself -- let him down badly. That's not a good sign, when you

:18:28. > :18:39.hear a player 's sake, why is it flying like that? It shows he

:18:40. > :18:44.doesn't know why. But again, it's a hold, and Cilic unable to find a

:18:45. > :18:57.break point even on the double serve. I just started to wonder in

:18:58. > :19:15.my idle moments here where he ranks in the famous Donald is in America.

:19:16. > :19:24.There is Donald Young, Donald Duck. Trump, duck, Sutherland. Oh, no,

:19:25. > :19:59.Sutherland is Canadian, isn't he? Something to ponder.

:20:00. > :20:05.That's what he did time and time again against Kozlov and is now. --

:20:06. > :20:30.and John Isner. The only other one I've been able to

:20:31. > :20:36.come up with is the Donald who played Ralph in happy days. Now we

:20:37. > :21:12.are hitting the big time. Well, the way it reacted on the line

:21:13. > :21:34.suggested it had hit the line. Yes, it was right on it. The call

:21:35. > :21:58.stands. 40-0. Oh, Osmond. I will leave that now.

:21:59. > :22:07.So, another one for Cilic. But, again, still a very real hope for

:22:08. > :22:25.Donald Young that he could take Cilic to a tie-break.

:22:26. > :22:36.He was a semifinalist it at Wimbledon where he came up against a

:22:37. > :22:43.steam roller in Federer, US Open in 1997 he was a semifinalist as well,

:22:44. > :22:48.the chap here in the Black cat. He was with a good players are you

:22:49. > :22:56.thought he would be a good coach, because he was able to get the best

:22:57. > :23:01.out of abilities. He had some of the quickest reaction I have ever seen.

:23:02. > :23:09.A great return of serve. Often stood well inside the baseline to return.

:23:10. > :23:20.Yes, teamed up with Todd Woodbridge after the Woody is where disbanded.

:23:21. > :23:23.He had success with Max Mirnyi as well. Played for a bit with Pat

:23:24. > :23:43.Rafter in doubles as well. Please take your seats quickly.

:23:44. > :23:48.Ladies and gentlemen, behind the players, please. Right behind Donald

:23:49. > :24:31.Young, they are still filing in. A bit of a logjam.

:24:32. > :24:37.Well, for a guy who is complaining about the ball flying off his

:24:38. > :25:26.strings, he is hitting it pretty crisply.

:25:27. > :25:53.That was certainly an ambitious return. He struck it pretty well.

:25:54. > :26:50.Cilic sensing that this might be his time. Young, not a happy camper.

:26:51. > :27:04.Cilic, possibly two points away from this sector. -- from this set. He

:27:05. > :27:14.was berating himself, now berating his support crew. No, he's not

:27:15. > :27:15.berating them. He's berating his equipment, remonstrating to his

:27:16. > :27:23.support crew. Cilic gives it a star but he knows

:27:24. > :28:31.that was long and a bit of a waste. Wide from Young and a first set goes

:28:32. > :28:37.to Cilic, makes that breakthrough with the first set, and looking very

:28:38. > :28:43.impressive indeed. Yes, Marin Cilic has been very

:28:44. > :28:46.impressive all week and he take the opening set against the American.

:28:47. > :28:53.This is the second match on Centre Court here today. Earlier run today,

:28:54. > :28:58.Gilles Muller, in the form of his life at 34, defeated Sam Querrey.

:28:59. > :29:03.Just watch this, lunging volley, great touch, wonderful way to

:29:04. > :29:07.finish. That brought the crowd to life. The first set was a little

:29:08. > :29:13.routine but wonderful rallies in the second set. He has already won two

:29:14. > :29:17.titles this year and he is the best man free to the final four here at

:29:18. > :29:25.Queen's Club and everyone really appreciating a wonderful match. That

:29:26. > :29:30.was the first result and this is the second match. Ben Grigor Dimitrov is

:29:31. > :29:39.up against Danelle Medvedev, just 21 years of age. And Thomas Berdych up

:29:40. > :29:43.against Feliciano Lopez who put out Stan Wawrinka earlier in the

:29:44. > :29:50.tournament. All that to come, but let's rejoin Centre court.

:29:51. > :30:06.So, the stats on the first set, and again, they make very good reading

:30:07. > :30:17.for Marin Cilic. His first serve and the effectiveness of it coming into

:30:18. > :30:20.this match, and as you said during that is that, even though Donald

:30:21. > :30:24.Young was hanging in there, you suspected they would come a moment

:30:25. > :30:33.where Cilic would step up and it was right at the end. Yes, Cilic put him

:30:34. > :30:38.under pressure and I think that led to young feeling that pressure and

:30:39. > :30:41.just getting a little tense. -- to Young feeling that pressure and

:30:42. > :30:45.getting a little tense. He reacted in a negative way to the ball flying

:30:46. > :30:51.off his strings. Sometimes in that situation, you need to relax, but

:30:52. > :30:52.that's hard to do. And it is Cilic he gets to serve first in the second

:30:53. > :31:58.set. Had a little think about it, Donald

:31:59. > :33:34.Young. Cilic, very rapid start the second

:33:35. > :33:43.set. Haven't been too troubled by Donald Young in this match. Had a

:33:44. > :33:49.little bit of bee bother in that game. I think there is a bee survey

:33:50. > :33:54.going on right now, you have to report sightings of bees, so there

:33:55. > :34:03.is one! They are worried about the numbers of them. Rightfully so.

:34:04. > :34:10.Could you be a beekeeper? He has got one bee and let it go there as well,

:34:11. > :34:16.so he's not a very good beekeeper. I could just see, I could see a hive

:34:17. > :34:25.of bees just swarming around you, loving every second. One of those

:34:26. > :34:27.bee beards that used to be prevalent in the Guinness book of records in

:34:28. > :34:47.the 70s for some reason. People called Bea, Bea after from

:34:48. > :35:22.The Golden Girl 'S. Nice recovery from Cilic, the ball

:35:23. > :35:29.dropped on the baseline and stopped dead, pattern lurch forward just to

:35:30. > :35:42.reach it. Under pressure from the Donald Young serve in this set.

:35:43. > :36:03.Even more so, continues to look very frustrated indeed, Donald Young.

:36:04. > :36:47.Now it is Cilic's turn two flap away in frustration. Donald Young just

:36:48. > :36:50.hanging in here. If you were to be broken at the start of the second

:36:51. > :36:57.set there would be almost no way back, the way Cilic is playing.

:36:58. > :37:12.Come on, D, he says. That is the style of tennis that he needs to

:37:13. > :38:11.play, he needs to be the aggressor as much as possible.

:38:12. > :38:24.Tried something different at the end, Cilic. Again, Cilic hitting his

:38:25. > :39:29.forehand so crisply, had Donald Young hanging with shot for shot.

:39:30. > :39:36.Probably the longest game of the match, there have not been too many

:39:37. > :39:48.of them. Such an important one for Donald Young.

:39:49. > :40:02.Again, well done, Donald Young, for hanging in there. Nicely played, I

:40:03. > :40:06.liked the way he stepped inside the baseline, take a few of those ground

:40:07. > :40:31.strokes very early. Very good at keeping opponents of balance.

:40:32. > :41:32.That is just bread and butter, though.

:41:33. > :41:47.We have been here before. Donald Young working, crafting a way to

:41:48. > :41:48.hold serve, whereas Cilic wasting little energy in his own service

:41:49. > :42:07.games. The world number seven at the

:42:08. > :42:14.moment, Marin Cilic, and again all sorts of jostling for position with

:42:15. > :42:19.the big four, I never know if the big four really exists, there are

:42:20. > :42:26.others trying to join... It is mythical! But, as those four near

:42:27. > :42:30.the end of their career, who knows when it will be, certainly Murray or

:42:31. > :42:34.Djokovic are a couple of years younger than Federer, but Federer

:42:35. > :42:37.seems to go on and on! It is who will take over, who will step into

:42:38. > :42:45.the gap once they inevitably do depart the scene. You would have to

:42:46. > :42:53.say that Stan Wawrinka might not be one of those, I am not sure he will

:42:54. > :43:02.outlast Fedorov. Stan is 33 now. Although he certainly has been in

:43:03. > :43:09.the big buys of late anyway. All of those big five, if there are five,

:43:10. > :43:16.they are all north of 30 now. You have to think Zverev will certainly

:43:17. > :44:07.be one of the new crew. Thiem, Kyrgios?

:44:08. > :44:13.I might have to apologise for some language there. He was wondering

:44:14. > :45:04.what on earth is going on. Nicely finished with the high

:45:05. > :45:54.overhead backhand. Reminder of the running order on

:45:55. > :45:59.Centre Court, we have had Gilles Muller beating Sam Querrey, after

:46:00. > :46:08.this one it is Grigor Dimitrov against Daniil Medvedev, who looked

:46:09. > :46:13.very good against tenacity Kokkinakis -- Fenati Kokkinakis. And

:46:14. > :46:19.then Tomas Berdych against Feliciano Lopez. It was a shame Kokkinakis did

:46:20. > :46:27.not bring the same form he had against Milos Raonic. Not sure

:46:28. > :46:31.exactly what we can take away from that Medvedev performance, but as

:46:32. > :46:56.you say he served brilliantly. Well, that is a reaction,

:46:57. > :46:59.improvisation, it is just about the only place he couldn't hit it.

:47:00. > :47:45.Brilliant. Perhaps a worry for Cilic is that he

:47:46. > :48:13.is starting to peak too soon. Again, so little for Donald Young in

:48:14. > :48:17.the serve of Cilic. A sense of inevitability about this match but,

:48:18. > :48:25.again, who knows if Donald Young can just steer it towards a tie-break,

:48:26. > :48:38.because he certainly isn't going to break on current form. It certainly

:48:39. > :48:44.appears not. For him to somehow find his way into a tie-break, you would

:48:45. > :48:48.have to think he needs to stay calm. Take advantage of every mini

:48:49. > :48:59.opportunity that might present itself. Had his best run in the

:49:00. > :49:02.French Open this year, Marin Cilic, reached the quarterfinals, lost in

:49:03. > :49:07.straight sets to Stan Wawrinka but if he does well in the French Open,

:49:08. > :49:13.which ordinarily would not seem to suit him, coming into the grass

:49:14. > :49:20.season in pretty decent nick. Yes, I think on clay he just doesn't have

:49:21. > :49:29.enough firepower to combat a guy like Wawrinka at his best. On grass,

:49:30. > :49:37.Cilic's service takes on just a little bit more potency. Not easy to

:49:38. > :49:42.return. The ground strokes that follow it up our... Well, that much

:49:43. > :50:05.more effective. You can hear little cries from

:50:06. > :51:29.Cilic, come on, let's go. Again, under pressure to serve big

:51:30. > :51:51.against Cilic, five double faults now.

:51:52. > :51:58.Opportunity knocks again for Marin Cilic. Donald Young very impressive

:51:59. > :52:29.last time he faced break points. That is well played, good serve out

:52:30. > :52:35.wide, opening up the court. It is a tactic that has worked well for him

:52:36. > :52:36.throughout this match. Serve out wide then take advantage of the open

:52:37. > :53:08.court. Again, as it was last time, handled

:53:09. > :53:17.the break point very well, Donald Young.

:53:18. > :53:28.One of those matches, though, where one player is just hanging on on his

:53:29. > :53:32.serve and the other is dominant. Again, the scoring system in tennis

:53:33. > :53:37.gives you a chance. Yes it does, and of course we just assumed that Cilic

:53:38. > :53:39.will remain dominant on serve but it just takes one or two errors to open

:53:40. > :53:52.the door. Cilic with the new balls, still on

:53:53. > :54:33.serve in the second set. Good return from Donald Young,

:54:34. > :55:47.forced Cilic to hit another shot and draws the mistake.

:55:48. > :55:55.Cilic feeling that was constantly over the net but he's pointing to

:55:56. > :56:04.the let machine, you cannot argue with technology.

:56:05. > :56:12.He has only lost five points on serve in this match, Marin Cilic,

:56:13. > :56:20.and once again the pressure will be on Donald Young to just hang with

:56:21. > :56:27.him. You cannot argue with technology? Well, you can, but here

:56:28. > :56:33.you have to give the benefit of the doubt to technology. I have argued

:56:34. > :56:38.with technology many, many times. I cannot say it ended well too many

:56:39. > :56:43.times for me! It is a one-sided argument, impotent rage at a machine

:56:44. > :56:51.you fail to understand, whatever it might be! Phones, laptops,

:56:52. > :57:03.Towcester?! That is about my level, toaster! Just about full house in

:57:04. > :57:14.here today in this newly extended, for this year, Centre Court seating,

:57:15. > :57:19.9542, to be precise. A lot of people when they bought their tickets might

:57:20. > :57:23.be expecting on quarterfinal day that Andy Murray would be here, but

:57:24. > :57:28.he is off elsewhere, preparing, getting ready for the big showdown

:57:29. > :57:36.the road. Doing better things! Different things! OK, thank you,

:57:37. > :57:44.that is probably more appropriate. Family time. No, he will be

:57:45. > :57:46.practising hard. He would have loved a little bit more much time on grass

:57:47. > :58:42.before Wimbledon. That moment in a set, Cilic senses

:58:43. > :58:50.it. Young has been here before, 0-30, and responded well. Cannot

:58:51. > :59:06.find the first serve at the moment. Young folding. Three break to leave

:59:07. > :00:24.Cilic just a game away. Two have gone. Again, mistakes from

:00:25. > :00:27.Cilic because the first serve of Donald Young has disappeared. Still

:00:28. > :00:48.one break point remaining for Marin Cilic.

:00:49. > :00:59.Well, suddenly, with the door ajar, Cilic becomes a little bit ragged.

:01:00. > :01:30.Young is clinging on by his finger nails in this match.

:01:31. > :01:35.Five break points Marin Cilic has had in this second set. Five break

:01:36. > :01:52.points have gone begging. Played again by Donald Young. The

:01:53. > :01:56.crowd applause and you have to applause, because Cilic failed on

:01:57. > :02:03.great points but Donald Young did again what he had to do.

:02:04. > :02:07.And might that start to just nibble away in the mind of Marin Cilic?

:02:08. > :02:13.This match has been his for the taking.

:02:14. > :02:20.Well, perhaps. But, of course, Donald Young has to

:02:21. > :02:22.somehow make inroads on Cilic's service games.

:02:23. > :03:00.They have been imperious so far. Cilic, still, is yet to lose a point

:03:01. > :03:01.on his second serve. Yep.

:03:02. > :03:42.. A pretty astounding step. He just wants to get it back in the

:03:43. > :03:49.court. It is such a good second serve that Cilic is producing. 15

:03:50. > :04:41.out of 15 second serve points won. Once more in this match, there tells

:04:42. > :04:46.the story of the imbalance of the service games and Donald Young to

:04:47. > :04:53.get through them. Cilic is utterly untroubled.

:04:54. > :05:01.Cilic, showing relentless power. Not only on the serve, which we would

:05:02. > :05:11.expect but off the forehand as well. He's been so dominant and so

:05:12. > :05:16.accurate with it. I know John Isner is not quite the

:05:17. > :05:25.player that he was at the moment but he still came through against Cilic

:05:26. > :05:31.comfortably in a dangerous match. And 19-year-old Russian/American,

:05:32. > :05:36.Stefan Kozlov, who looked very good against Steve Johnson looked very

:05:37. > :05:43.good, was blown away by Cilic. It's a reflection of the quality of

:05:44. > :05:52.play the Cilic at the moment. Than a lack of quality from his

:05:53. > :05:58.opponents. So Donald Young, who, just managed

:05:59. > :05:59.to hang on in his last service game, is now serving to stay in this

:06:00. > :06:41.match. Just when you think he's going to

:06:42. > :06:52.have an easier time of it in his service game... Donald Young is

:06:53. > :06:57.looking for answers. Cilic is doing what Donald Young is

:06:58. > :07:34.struggling to do, he's putting returns back into play.

:07:35. > :07:45.Cilic thinks this is long. And I think he might have a point.

:07:46. > :08:02.That's a good challenge from Cilic. But it mattered not in the end. A

:08:03. > :08:06.better service game from Donald Young.

:08:07. > :08:13.And he keeps gathering up the games in the second set.

:08:14. > :08:18.The crowd have adopted Donald Young as their underdog favourite, I

:08:19. > :08:20.think. As their favourite Donald? Let's not

:08:21. > :09:21.go there again! for the little puff of the white.

:09:22. > :09:37.Again, that's second-serve quality from Marin Cilic.

:09:38. > :09:58.That one's not coming back too often.

:09:59. > :10:06.And again, and the fact that Marin Cilic is not sitting in the

:10:07. > :10:11.interview, with his feet up, having a little chat about his semifinal

:10:12. > :10:14.match to come, is just because of that inability to convert break

:10:15. > :10:27.points. He has one of them that brought him

:10:28. > :10:33.the first set. But eight in total. It's a little sat on the big screen

:10:34. > :10:41.in the background. Two matches he hasn't faced a break point, Cilic.

:10:42. > :10:50.So it tells the tale of his serve, that's it's just about as good as it

:10:51. > :10:52.gets. But again, there is the safe harbour for Donald Young with a

:10:53. > :10:59.tie-breaker. Safish.

:11:00. > :11:05.Yes, a harbour where anything can happen.

:11:06. > :11:10.Exactly. Once again a packed house at Queen's Club. I'm sure that the

:11:11. > :11:15.organisers were a little concerned that adding an extra 2700 seats a

:11:16. > :11:25.day, that maybe they wouldn't be able to fill them but no reason to,

:11:26. > :11:30.though. Jammed as ever. Nah what a difference the weather

:11:31. > :11:38.this year to last. Last year it was a very soggy affair. It's been the

:11:39. > :11:45.hottest June since 1976. Which Peter Fleming has been reminiscing about,

:11:46. > :11:46.at his first Wimbledon. Now, Young once again, to try to

:11:47. > :12:27.stay in this match. Questions of what is that and what

:12:28. > :12:28.are you doing out here? These are the questions of a investigationed

:12:29. > :12:55.tennis player. -- vexed tennis player.

:12:56. > :12:59.His first serves are failing him. Yeah but Cilic has just come off the

:13:00. > :13:22.boil ever so slightly of late. Well, errors from both of them at

:13:23. > :13:28.the moment. Yeah, he didn't commit to that shot.

:13:29. > :13:31.He scored with a forehand down the line numerous times in this second

:13:32. > :13:32.set. Cilic again, potentially two points

:13:33. > :14:06.away from the match. Some industrial language from Donald

:14:07. > :14:34.Young but it is match point. voice to their approval. That was

:14:35. > :15:06.right down the line and Young survives again, Cilic undone.

:15:07. > :16:12.Points. Cilic has had ten break points in this match.

:16:13. > :16:16.Seven double faults for Young, none for Cilic.

:16:17. > :16:40.Two in this game. This time that was good for Young.

:16:41. > :16:57.Now can Young see himself into this tie-break?

:16:58. > :17:03.And there is the movement from Cilic. It's been absent for a bit.

:17:04. > :18:36.But this was clean. Well, what do you say about this,

:18:37. > :18:45.Peter? The double faults in this game alone? So the fourth time for

:18:46. > :18:47.Marin Cilic. On the verge of a place in the

:18:48. > :19:04.semi-finals. He has it now. And Donald Young

:19:05. > :19:08.thrashes it out in frustration. Furious at the way he's played but

:19:09. > :19:13.Marin Cilic, too good, too strong for Donald Young. A hand-shake now

:19:14. > :19:17.but Donald Young a picture of frustration. Marin Cilic very

:19:18. > :19:24.impressive in the first set. Dropped his level a little in the second but

:19:25. > :19:28.overall he looks strong. He looks like he deserves the Mantell of

:19:29. > :19:34.favourite for this title. Absolutely, he played very well.

:19:35. > :19:40.Just took his foot offer the pedal towards the end. Donald Young fought

:19:41. > :19:45.well but the combination of Cilic's power and consistency and perhaps

:19:46. > :19:52.Young's, well, slight jitters, at the end, probably did the American

:19:53. > :20:01.in. But a deserving Victor. Well he could have been, done a lot

:20:02. > :20:06.earlier to Marin Cilic. 11 break points, 12 in total with with the

:20:07. > :20:22.final match point there. It took him a while to convert. But Donald

:20:23. > :20:28.Young. There have been plays against Viktor Troicki. Some anger at his

:20:29. > :20:33.performance. He feels he should have done better there. Now let's head

:20:34. > :20:37.down to John Inverdale. Raise ray ladies and gentlemen if I

:20:38. > :20:42.can ask you to stay in your seats for a couple of moments. We are

:20:43. > :20:48.having a showing on the big screen of a moment of special history here

:20:49. > :20:50.at Queen's, 20 years ago today. But before that, Marin, another

:20:51. > :20:54.semifinal for you, how are you playing? Playing well this week.

:20:55. > :21:01.Obviously feeling great on the court. Again today a match without

:21:02. > :21:06.losing. And that is good for me. Today it was gusty with the wind.

:21:07. > :21:11.Not easy. A lot of break points but Donald was hanging in there and kept

:21:12. > :21:16.coming up with some great shots. And really glad that I finished in that

:21:17. > :21:21.second set. I'm sure you are not thinking about it but the last game

:21:22. > :21:25.had seven deuces in it. There is lots of talk about making no ad in

:21:26. > :21:30.the game. As a player, what do you think of that? I don't think it will

:21:31. > :21:36.be good for the singles players. When you are having that big serve

:21:37. > :21:42.or when the point matches decided on one point, still, as it is, it would

:21:43. > :21:46.be even more difficult. You know, it would change the rules a lot. For

:21:47. > :21:50.me, I prefer the old traditional rules.

:21:51. > :22:00.Talking about big serving, your countryman played in the final here

:22:01. > :22:06.20 years ago. Goran Evanisovic, if you look at the big screen, this is

:22:07. > :22:11.one of those funny great moments in sporting history.

:22:12. > :22:17.This is Goran playing in the final 20 years ago.

:22:18. > :22:23.Now handing his racket to the ball girl, asking her to continue...

:22:24. > :22:36.Well, this always gets a little bit of applause.

:22:37. > :22:54.Well the crowd's going to love this. We'll see if Mark plays ball here.

:22:55. > :23:26.This is wonderful! APPLAUSE

:23:27. > :23:32.Full marks to Goran. Well, Goran was beingthrashed by

:23:33. > :23:38.Mark that day. We sought the aid of Amy, who 20 years on, she was the

:23:39. > :23:44.ball girl then, and is back at Queen's 20 years ago today. What

:23:45. > :23:50.were you thinking when you saw those pictures then? Slightly embarrassed.

:23:51. > :23:55.I had the butterflies in my tummy when Goran handed me the racket. I

:23:56. > :24:00.felt blind panic I wouldn't know what to do, or I would and I

:24:01. > :24:05.wouldn't do it very well. It just brings back lovely memories.

:24:06. > :24:11.That was probably the longest rally in the match, wasn't it? I'm told it

:24:12. > :24:17.was. Not many people can say that, so a fact I'll carry with me

:24:18. > :24:23.forever. So yes, a great point. And 20 years on, Marin was an arch

:24:24. > :24:26.user of the towel for points, was it simple 20 years ago, was it more

:24:27. > :24:32.simple to get the ball to the players? I think so, I don't recall

:24:33. > :24:37.the head bands, there is much more of that these days. No. I don't know

:24:38. > :24:45.if it is the right thing to say but it was about getting the ball at the

:24:46. > :24:49.right place. What do you think of Queen's then as today? It looks very

:24:50. > :24:55.different. The ball girls are even better now

:24:56. > :24:59.than they were 20 years ago. But there is a soul to Queen's and that

:25:00. > :25:03.has not changed. Let's hope it doesn't. It's a wonderful, wonderful

:25:04. > :25:08.club and I have very happy memories here.

:25:09. > :25:12.And I know most people in the audience here Willem pathise but I

:25:13. > :25:18.gather you met your sports teacher today for the first time in 20

:25:19. > :25:26.years. Were you still in awe of her? Well, she wants me to call her Nicky

:25:27. > :25:30.but I can't, Mrs Holmes. Well, Marin, there you are. I'm sure

:25:31. > :25:34.that Goran never told you that story but that was in his prime. There you

:25:35. > :25:39.are. Thank you.

:25:40. > :25:42.Good luck in the semifinal. Obviously the third quarterfinal

:25:43. > :25:46.coming up in a couple of moment's time.

:25:47. > :25:50.We have that to look forward to. And Grigor Dimitrov. What a nice moment

:25:51. > :25:54.that was. Well done to Amy and to Marin. It is nice that the club have

:25:55. > :26:00.found her and brought her back and let her celebrate what was a lovely

:26:01. > :26:06.moment at the championship. I like the Mrs Holmes.

:26:07. > :26:16.Would you be able to call your sports teacher by their first name?

:26:17. > :26:20.No. Mrs Embury. A great deeper, fearsome but a loving character.

:26:21. > :26:24.Lovely from the past. Lovely she is back. That match, we think that the

:26:25. > :26:30.serve dominates now, when you think of how different the game was, there

:26:31. > :26:39.was no rallies, now, nobody volleys or comes to the nets. How strange.

:26:40. > :26:45.Lots has changed? It is much harder. So I do yearn for some of the more

:26:46. > :26:48.artistic play at the net. There have been two matches, baseline

:26:49. > :26:52.dominated. Because it is windy it looks a little scrappy. I think that

:26:53. > :26:57.the next one will be possibly different. Slightly more

:26:58. > :27:02.entertaining but you never know what you are going to get with tennis.

:27:03. > :27:07.Donald play well but I think that Marin Cilic which be thinking how

:27:08. > :27:12.many break points do you have? You don't get many on a grass court? We

:27:13. > :27:16.saw with Sam Querrey and Gilles Muller mull, you sometimes only get

:27:17. > :27:23.one chance in a set and have to take it. Marin had a lot more but as you

:27:24. > :27:29.said, windy today. Donald gets the balls back. But he makes thing

:27:30. > :27:32.awkward. He is more confident. This was a good performance by Donald

:27:33. > :27:35.Young but Marin had too much class and power in the end. He overpowered

:27:36. > :27:41.him. Eight of the world's top ten are

:27:42. > :27:47.playing this week, either here or in Halle. Only Federer and Marin are

:27:48. > :27:50.left in. But Marin is not eve no-one the top ten for the betting. No-one

:27:51. > :27:56.thinks of him as a Wimbledon champion? I must be honest, do you

:27:57. > :28:00.see him as a Wimbledon champion? Can he go through two or three big names

:28:01. > :28:05.over five sets in the biggest moment? If he proves it and does it,

:28:06. > :28:09.I suppose it's a possibility. I'm not sure I see him as a Wimbledon

:28:10. > :28:13.champion but you never know. You don't know what could unfold

:28:14. > :28:17.throughout the Championships. We have seen Federer and Nadal having

:28:18. > :28:21.losses and Novak last year... That's right.

:28:22. > :28:27.If they go out, you can see it. I think it is the most open

:28:28. > :28:33.Wimbledon's men's for a long time. Nadal obviously won the French but

:28:34. > :28:38.has not played on grass. Djokovic we don't know where he is, well,

:28:39. > :28:44.Eastbourne but we don't know where he is mental. Andy Murray has been

:28:45. > :28:49.up and down. Federer has hardly played, so I think someone like

:28:50. > :28:54.Marin Cilic is in the mix. I think that the balance of the seeds, a

:28:55. > :29:00.couple of wins or losses early, I think he is in the balance. Yes.

:29:01. > :29:04.Talking of Wimbledon, the BBC, we are celebrating 90 years of

:29:05. > :29:08.coverage. We started on the radio. It's 80 years since television was

:29:09. > :29:12.broadcast there. I've been spending the last few months travelling

:29:13. > :29:16.around and interviewing some of the great champions who have greased

:29:17. > :29:22.Centre Court. But a test of that, a man who dominated at Wimbledon.

:29:23. > :29:29.Winning it seven times it is pistol Pete himself. It is Mr Sampras.

:29:30. > :29:33.It was a family tradition, Wimbledon, it was our Super Bowl. We

:29:34. > :29:44.would all sit around together and watch the final it had a huge effect

:29:45. > :29:49.on me as a kid. Watching Borg, McEnroe, Pat Cash, they were big

:29:50. > :29:53.moments. As a kid, I was like, OK, Wimbledon, that was the place for

:29:54. > :29:58.me. That was it. I just remember walking into the stadium and looking

:29:59. > :30:02.around like I am finally here. This was it for me. I thought I was born

:30:03. > :30:09.to win here. I would have to say that my sixth

:30:10. > :30:14.Wimbledon against Andre,' the 99. It is rare to get into a zone in a

:30:15. > :30:18.Wimbledon final, I got into the zone. He was the perfect opponent

:30:19. > :30:21.for me. I could play a little bit. I liked that. I was moving great.

:30:22. > :30:27.Serving well. Everything just clicked.

:30:28. > :30:59.I felt like it was the best tennis I've ever played. Pure perfection.

:31:00. > :31:13.He lost the whole thing, to see him play and be competitive at 35. It is

:31:14. > :31:26.incredible. When he leaves at 55, he will be greatly missed. That will be

:31:27. > :31:30.5:20pm on the 22nd of July. Talking about Federer and Sampras, Sampras

:31:31. > :31:37.made it look easy back then. I was in America while back and they had a

:31:38. > :31:43.documentary about him. You start watching the players and the big

:31:44. > :31:48.servers here, Raonic, Johnny is no -- John Isner. And then you see

:31:49. > :31:54.Sampras and you watch those matches again and you realise how great he

:31:55. > :31:59.was. And the server was ridiculous. They showed these points, against

:32:00. > :32:04.Andre Agassi, who was a great champion and loved this game. So

:32:05. > :32:08.difficult to beat. If he were still out here now, I know the game has

:32:09. > :32:12.changed, but you telling me they would break his serve on this court?

:32:13. > :32:18.They wouldn't. He would be right up there now if he was playing. The

:32:19. > :32:22.match is on court right now and we have plenty of tennis to come. We

:32:23. > :32:31.are here right the way through Sunday. On Monday, BBC Two,

:32:32. > :32:37.Eastbourne, our coverage starts, eight of the world's top ten women

:32:38. > :32:41.are playing at Devonshire Park. And then the Wimbledon qualifying will

:32:42. > :32:48.be Monday right through to Thursday. You can also follow it on the BBC

:32:49. > :32:53.sports website. And then the big one, Wimbledon starting across the

:32:54. > :32:59.BBC on Monday third July. Talking of possible Wimbledon champions, we

:33:00. > :33:03.have been talking about Grigor Dimitrov since 2014. He came here,

:33:04. > :33:09.he won the tournament and beat Murray and reached the semifinals

:33:10. > :33:14.and we thought he was on the way up. He is playing good tennis again.

:33:15. > :33:21.There have been times where we could image as play tennis that other

:33:22. > :33:28.people cannot play. -- when Grigor Dimitrov has played tennis. He has

:33:29. > :33:33.elevated to these new levels and you think it is his moment. He started

:33:34. > :33:39.this year winning 16 of 17 matches. I wondered if it was the year of his

:33:40. > :33:43.arrival. But he with somebody like Nadal, who over five hours managed

:33:44. > :33:48.to beat him but someone finds a bit of something. I cannot think he will

:33:49. > :33:52.go throughout his career without winning a Grand Slam. The

:33:53. > :33:56.thoroughbred nature of his game and the way he strikes the ball, he is

:33:57. > :34:03.thrilling. The complete opposite today at the other end in Medvedev

:34:04. > :34:09.who goes to work cracking slabs. This is the match I have been

:34:10. > :34:13.looking forward to most of all. An artist against an executioner if you

:34:14. > :34:19.like. An interesting matchup. In terms of raw talent and people you

:34:20. > :34:23.will turn the television on to watch, I certainly will. I played

:34:24. > :34:28.next door to him the other day and the noise of his racket is

:34:29. > :34:39.fantastic. I enjoyed watching him play. Did you spend six months

:34:40. > :34:48.talking to great champions. I had a wonderful time, Rudd labour, Billie

:34:49. > :34:56.Jean King. It was fabulous. Highest ranking of eight back in 2014, if

:34:57. > :34:59.you look at the bottom of that is this year, semifinal of the

:35:00. > :35:06.Australian Open. Beginning to prove himself in the Grand Slams. I hope

:35:07. > :35:11.it continues, he is 26, how long will it be before he arrives because

:35:12. > :35:16.there are a few guys who might be next on the block. He has grown up

:35:17. > :35:23.now. There was a lot of interest in his personal life, so he is a bloke

:35:24. > :35:30.living a life of the court as well as on it but perhaps a new-found

:35:31. > :35:40.dedication with his new coach, Danny Valverde. I like seeing him hit a

:35:41. > :35:43.tennis ball. Less than ten minutes before we start play, John will be

:35:44. > :35:50.joining you in the commentary box soon. Tell me about this young man.

:35:51. > :35:55.We talk about the next gen that the ATP are promoting their younger

:35:56. > :36:01.players, 21 years of age and so accomplished and looks so at home

:36:02. > :36:05.out on the Centre Court. It will be fascinating, when you look at how he

:36:06. > :36:13.plays, his serve is awkward looking and fluid. Not a big serve but he

:36:14. > :36:18.hits aces because he hits the lines. He doesn't have huge ground strokes

:36:19. > :36:24.but he makes very difficult shots for his opponent. He is quick at six

:36:25. > :36:30.feet six. I think Dimitrov, this doesn't look good. Already. That

:36:31. > :36:39.definitely doesn't look good. Oh dear. We talked about Dimitrov and

:36:40. > :36:43.his stats, we didn't see what was happening. If that is a shoulder

:36:44. > :36:49.injury, he relies so much on that serve. When he played his previous

:36:50. > :36:55.match, it was the placement of the serve that was so good. That would

:36:56. > :37:00.be very sad, I was looking forward to seeing if Dimitrov would

:37:01. > :37:06.overpower him perhaps or maybe not. Whether he would get involved in

:37:07. > :37:15.long rallies. We can see what happened here. It looks like this is

:37:16. > :37:19.something he possibly brought onto the court. I think this is an injury

:37:20. > :37:24.perhaps after last night 's match and he is tender but from that

:37:25. > :37:32.position, it is a difficult area for rehab as well. That is not good. He

:37:33. > :37:41.can't serve out his full power, this could be a troublesome match. He may

:37:42. > :37:47.not even start this match. As much as you want to play well here, and

:37:48. > :37:52.there is prize money, you need your eye on the bigger picture. Wimbledon

:37:53. > :37:58.is not far away and can you get things right. This is an injury that

:37:59. > :38:03.doesn't heal quickly. I don't like the look of this at all. Of course

:38:04. > :38:08.he wants to play and win this but there is no point if he can't play

:38:09. > :38:16.at 100%. And he does have Wimbledon coming up. Dimitrov will be thinking

:38:17. > :38:19.will he be playing or not. He is not looking at the other side of the

:38:20. > :38:26.court until anyone tells him different and he is ready to play.

:38:27. > :38:30.They are trying to assess him before giving the injury time-out. He is

:38:31. > :38:35.talking to the trainer and the doctor and see if there is any

:38:36. > :38:40.treatment that will ease it. Andrew has made his way to the commentary

:38:41. > :38:49.box. Not easy for either player in this situation. So disappointing to

:38:50. > :38:54.see another young player with what looks like a really nasty injury. He

:38:55. > :39:00.is 21 years old and still growing into his strength and building up

:39:01. > :39:07.his body. We have talked about how the best players are a bit older

:39:08. > :39:11.than they used to be, you learn how to train and have different strain

:39:12. > :39:19.on your body and the type of tennis you used to play. He has got a

:39:20. > :39:25.history of retiring. He had cramp against Djokovic in the Davis Cup

:39:26. > :39:32.and also in the first round of the French Open. He withdrew from the

:39:33. > :39:39.Masters 1000 in Miami and Marrakesh so he has really had a difficult

:39:40. > :39:44.year. We remember Andy Murray and 17 getting cramp and Djokovic until he

:39:45. > :39:49.went on a gluten-free diet and found his best way physically. He also

:39:50. > :39:56.retired in Budapest and withdrew from Estoril and Madrid. Whatever is

:39:57. > :40:01.happening with his body, he is still growing. Tall and angular, maybe it

:40:02. > :40:08.is a deltoid injury in the shoulder. A very sinewy area. They are

:40:09. > :40:12.starting the injury time-out, they will give him a chance to play but

:40:13. > :40:17.it is the strain of these players are put on at a young age to put

:40:18. > :40:24.their audience through the training that needs to get to the top of the

:40:25. > :40:28.game. Absolutely. And with grass as well, you start to hit the ball a

:40:29. > :40:32.bit late until you get used to it, it is a different type of surface

:40:33. > :40:37.and there are sometimes injuries because of that. They are spraying,

:40:38. > :40:42.I suppose that is a freeze spray but you have to be careful, the pain

:40:43. > :40:49.goes away but you could do more damage to it. He also took a couple

:40:50. > :40:58.of pills so he is trying. I have had that before and that is nasty. It

:40:59. > :41:03.hurts the serve the most. Without that, he might as well not take part

:41:04. > :41:09.in the match if it is that bad if he can't serve at full speed. It is a

:41:10. > :41:14.waste of time walking on. The spectators would be disappointed but

:41:15. > :41:19.there is no point going on if he is not 100%. For the tournament and the

:41:20. > :41:25.players, they won't be ready. They are probably just having some pasta

:41:26. > :41:31.in the players lounge. Stretching and trying to keep himself warm. He

:41:32. > :41:41.has to try and keep himself ready to go in this match. The wind is so

:41:42. > :41:45.strong here and that will blow the ball around bit which will not be

:41:46. > :41:50.easy for a shoulder injury either. The main area affected would be the

:41:51. > :41:57.serve but you base your game on a big serve these days and mobility as

:41:58. > :42:00.well. If your mind is not fully focused on the task, it can

:42:01. > :42:06.sometimes help if you have a slight abdominal strain. Bjorn Borg did win

:42:07. > :42:10.several Wimbledon is with injuries, they say beware the injured golfer

:42:11. > :42:14.but something as basic as a bad shoulder, you would think it

:42:15. > :42:19.unlikely he could give his best. We are taking an injury time-out now

:42:20. > :42:24.before the match starts. You look down the other end and you have

:42:25. > :42:30.Dimitrov ready to play. It would be a massive disappointment to

:42:31. > :42:38.everybody. Dimitrov is a great attraction. What a week it has been.

:42:39. > :42:42.Disappointing results in terms box office with so many big names going

:42:43. > :42:48.out and we were looking forward to seeing Dimitrov and this young man

:42:49. > :42:54.play. But the deltoid muscles, they run top to bottom and they can

:42:55. > :42:59.sometimes get tangled up, that is what it feels like. You can lose a

:43:00. > :43:05.bit of confidence with it. And with Wimbledon so close he won't want to

:43:06. > :43:11.take any chances. The preparations they do, he is ready to play, that

:43:12. > :43:16.is good news. Let us keep an eye on it. Dimitrov against Medvedev. All

:43:17. > :43:26.over to you Andy. COMMENTATOR: He will probably serve to love now.

:43:27. > :43:46.There you go, nothing wrong with the shoulder.

:43:47. > :43:56.0-30, isn't that amazing. He will be thinking he is just trying to pull a

:43:57. > :44:53.fast one. He is quite a spindly one, not too

:44:54. > :45:02.much muscular weight. A finely conditioned athlete but young and

:45:03. > :45:10.still holding strength. -- building strength. Quite a simple game. He

:45:11. > :45:16.leans on his backhand with strength. I will enjoy watching him play as we

:45:17. > :45:30.enjoyed watching ship have a love this week. From 0-30, Dimitrov happy

:45:31. > :45:38.to hold. Now we will have a moment of truth. As Medvedev steps up to

:45:39. > :45:52.serve for the first time after taking that medical time-out.

:45:53. > :46:00.First meeting between these two players. Medvedev still new Honda

:46:01. > :46:21.tour. Everyone will be taking note. It doesn't look too good. On that

:46:22. > :47:08.first point, it looked like he was trying to go for winners right away.

:47:09. > :47:20.That wasn't bad. Not a huge server anyway. That wasn't a three quarters

:47:21. > :47:54.survey it there. He has some of the longest limbs I

:47:55. > :48:06.have ever seen on a tennis court. He is willowy and has great timing.

:48:07. > :48:11.Never looks rushed. Some of you might remember Magnus Larsson, the

:48:12. > :48:15.Swedish player who went into the top ten and gave some of the best

:48:16. > :48:17.players in the world they tough time for a few years, he reminds me of

:48:18. > :50:00.him. Had it, anything over the net would

:50:01. > :50:36.have been fine. Whatever they have put on that

:50:37. > :51:22.shoulder, he will want more of that. Lovely depth from Dimitrov. Blocking

:51:23. > :51:28.the ball back deep. A former coach of Andy Murray, great friends. They

:51:29. > :51:33.were roommates. Downing was a college player in the United States,

:51:34. > :51:37.he went on to coach Tomas Berdych and there were handbags between the

:51:38. > :52:21.campus at times. He is now coaching emitter of.

:52:22. > :52:36.Oh, what a shot. Fantastic racket head work here. That preparation as

:52:37. > :52:41.he was moving forward ball. He got the racket the right position,

:52:42. > :52:57.getting it over the highest part of the net and bending it round.

:52:58. > :53:07.He has the trainer out again. Just with the evidence of those three

:53:08. > :53:15.games, he hits decent size serves on his delivery but to me, looking at

:53:16. > :53:20.how he hit the rest of his ground strokes he is a player where he

:53:21. > :53:25.manoeuvres the ball around. When he gets into position, he goes for it.

:53:26. > :53:30.In the first service game, it looked like he was going to go for

:53:31. > :53:35.something very quickly. Would that be his game plan? The aggressive and

:53:36. > :53:40.go outside of his normal comfort zone, I tend to think it is not, I

:53:41. > :53:48.think he is trying to finish off the points quickly. The ATP supervisor

:53:49. > :53:59.in the background overseeing the medical staff. The referee is here

:54:00. > :54:03.as well. Stephen Farrar is the tournament director of this new look

:54:04. > :54:05.Queen's Club Centre Court this year. Bright sunshine today, temperatures

:54:06. > :54:13.much more comfortable than the beginning of the week. Semifinals

:54:14. > :54:20.tomorrow and the final on Sunday afternoon. On BBC television and

:54:21. > :54:27.radio. Dimitrov has done the job here before. Has had great loyalty

:54:28. > :54:33.to this tournament ever since. The former tournament director gave him

:54:34. > :54:44.a wildcard as a youngster and took some criticism for it. Now here is

:54:45. > :54:48.another young man who may not have seen him play on TV before. If he

:54:49. > :55:05.wins this, he goes into the top 50 in the world. Currently number 60.

:55:06. > :55:48.Difficult to see how he will win this match at this point.

:55:49. > :57:48.It wasn't just wide, it caught the outside edge.

:57:49. > :57:59.You can see what Dimitrov is doing, slices crosscourt, another one

:58:00. > :58:01.without pace down the line, just a very attractive game of tennis that

:58:02. > :58:55.he plays. Another break point. It was rather obvious whether

:58:56. > :59:05.approach shot was going. Very little backlift from a Dimitrov, he doesn't

:59:06. > :59:17.let the ball play him. He is hitting the ball well.

:59:18. > :59:25.Didn't move his feet, it landed short in the court that he thought.

:59:26. > :00:46.Just a lunging step here. I felt like it was the best tennis

:00:47. > :01:20.I've ever played. Pure perfection. He gets round it so quickly. It

:01:21. > :01:28.didn't look like he could get to the forehand there. About so quick those

:01:29. > :01:29.side steps and then he could have gone the off-forehand but he picked

:01:30. > :02:16.the right spot. Two breaks.

:02:17. > :02:21.We wonder with the strains in the body come from. You have to know a

:02:22. > :02:32.lot of tennis to play your best tennis. A little underary year ago,

:02:33. > :02:37.he was playing ilkley, he did well there.

:02:38. > :02:43.Following that, he played Wimbledon qualifying, which is on the telly

:02:44. > :02:49.from Monday, behind the Red Button on BBC, 11.00am in the morning. He

:02:50. > :02:57.lost to Marcus Willis in the final round of qualifying in four sets.

:02:58. > :03:02.Willis, of course, went on to beat his next opponent and then went on

:03:03. > :03:07.to play that next match with Roger Federer. He has done a lot of

:03:08. > :03:08.playing and a lot of winning in the last year, Daniil Medvedev but

:03:09. > :03:40.perhaps not today. No problem.

:03:41. > :03:45.It's a pity this. There is no doubt about it, Medvedev is not playing

:03:46. > :03:53.his normal game. He is not manoeuvring the ball around.

:03:54. > :03:58.We could say that is the case for Grigor Dimitrov to a certain extent.

:03:59. > :04:04.But this is not his style. It is like he is shortening the points.

:04:05. > :04:08.Obviously, Grigor Dimitrov is too good a mover and gets the balls back

:04:09. > :04:13.and is too effective for that to happen. If he doesn't confact his

:04:14. > :04:18.points the way he likes, the score will show that. It is interesting to

:04:19. > :04:49.see if he keeps going after this set or if he decides to stop.

:04:50. > :05:02.Playing in. Jay Clarke is in action. The wild card player. He has a

:05:03. > :06:30.quarterfinal match in Ilkley. All roads lead to Wimbledon.

:06:31. > :06:39.He's up and running, Medvedev with his sore shoulder in the

:06:40. > :08:00.quarterfinal match. That will do. He bent that around

:08:01. > :08:03.well. I think that the wind will help from

:08:04. > :08:07.that end. It is left to right looking down the

:08:08. > :08:47.court. It didn't have much spin on it. It did curl in, didn't it? Mmm.

:08:48. > :09:14.A little loose in this game, Dimitrov.

:09:15. > :09:24.Two games in a row for Medvedev. Well done to him. He was getting

:09:25. > :09:28.trounced, now he's back in the set. Funny how that happens.

:09:29. > :09:34.I think he thought that the first set whats in the bag a couple of

:09:35. > :09:44.games ago, really. That game he was just overconfident.

:09:45. > :09:50.I'm sure he will get back down to business now. But it was a bit of a

:09:51. > :09:56.sloppy game, that's for sure. Just as we are watching Daniil

:09:57. > :10:02.Medvedev in this quarterfinal, wanted to tell you about a tennis

:10:03. > :10:07.book, if that is your thing. Potentially a great sports book.

:10:08. > :10:12.Richard Evans has a book out. McEnroe is making the headlines with

:10:13. > :10:17.everything he is saying but this book is called The Roving Eye. A

:10:18. > :10:20.love affair of Paris, politics and sport.

:10:21. > :10:28.He really has been a lot of places, Richard. I think the best tennis

:10:29. > :10:37.book I ever read if you do have a chance, it's: A Ap Handful of

:10:38. > :10:48.Summers. It is by Gordan Forbes. It is what it is to travel, and play

:10:49. > :11:01.the sport. And you don't know how lucky you are.

:11:02. > :11:14.To get out and see the world. Now, here is Medvedev. 2-5.

:11:15. > :11:18.So, the beginning of the next game may be interesting.

:11:19. > :12:20.Plenty of people have lost 5-0 sets. His shoulder seems OK.

:12:21. > :12:23.Well that's the area that would be causing the most problem is the

:12:24. > :13:00.serve. The power seems to be the same.

:13:01. > :13:10.So, Medvedev on the way back here after being 5-0 down.

:13:11. > :13:14.Grigor Dimitrov may have lost serve but he has not missed a first serve

:13:15. > :13:21.yet. It's been amazing. 100 percent first

:13:22. > :13:21.serves in. There's

:13:22. > :13:50.Not going to go a whole set not missing a first serve, is he? It

:13:51. > :14:01.would be pretty incredible, though wouldn't it.

:14:02. > :14:12.It's a very tidy game. He hasn't missed a first serve for

:14:13. > :14:17.an entire set. I'm sure it's not a record. Impressive nevertheless.

:14:18. > :14:23.Always a good policy against an injured opponent, get the ball in

:14:24. > :14:32.play, go on! Yay! That's great. Perfect. 130 miles an hour. He

:14:33. > :14:38.wasn't holding back! Very impressive.

:14:39. > :14:44.A couple of lapses, a couple of mistakes but got the job done in a

:14:45. > :14:49.final game. Playing against an injured opponent, you want the

:14:50. > :14:53.percentages. He was obviously serving well,

:14:54. > :14:56.Grigor Dimitrov but then he lost concentration. His opponent is going

:14:57. > :15:03.for way more than he would normally do. A lot of errors, so it is a

:15:04. > :15:08.bitty kind of set. But he just did enough to win it. He's always in

:15:09. > :15:15.charge, obviously. That's unbelievable, that is.

:15:16. > :15:25.First serves in 100% down the left-hand side. Four aces, no

:15:26. > :15:29.doubles. Dimitrov has to improve, John!

:15:30. > :15:35.Classic. That's where the statistics can lie!

:15:36. > :15:39.So a third quarterfinal today. Victory for Gilles Muller against

:15:40. > :15:46.Sam Querrey earlier on. He will now play Marin Cilic. You just missed

:15:47. > :15:53.him playing Donald Young. We have Grigor Dimitrov and later on

:15:54. > :16:02.Tomas Berdych against Feliciano Lopez. It's been a week noticeable

:16:03. > :16:09.for the arrival of some of the youngsters, Medvedev, is amongst

:16:10. > :16:15.that. A sense that some of them have

:16:16. > :16:19.arrived. Back in the years to come. Sure of

:16:20. > :16:23.that. And Grigor Dimitrov being one of the

:16:24. > :16:28.younger members of the star line-up here. And another story being

:16:29. > :16:30.written here as Grigor Dimitrov tries to make it through a second

:16:31. > :18:24.Aegon Championships. So, Grigor Dimitrov, first serve

:18:25. > :18:31.placement. All first serves. Hasn't missed one yet.

:18:32. > :18:41.Second set, we can keep an eye on this. He likes to go out wide.

:18:42. > :18:45.Remember the first game he likes to go out wide.

:18:46. > :18:54.He love it is down the middle court as well. Average first serve speed

:18:55. > :18:57.taking it a little down today on his previous couple of matches. Almost

:18:58. > :19:03.as though he has gone out with the idea he is not going to miss any.

:19:04. > :19:09.Going to the high percentage serve you know that you can make it is

:19:10. > :19:12.very worth doing that at club level. Have a serve you know you can make.

:19:13. > :19:42.First one missed. 35 minutes. That to me is a shot he doesn't use

:19:43. > :19:47.enough. He's got such a lot of bite on that

:19:48. > :19:52.slice. I mean how are you supposed to pass there? This that position,

:19:53. > :19:54.with the ball bending out the other way with the side spin. It's deep. A

:19:55. > :21:26.lot of pace on it. It was a good pick up there from

:21:27. > :22:30.Medvedev. Good hands to get that one back.

:22:31. > :22:37.That's wild. Sometimes just throwing in a few

:22:38. > :22:44.loose shots. That was another one of those. He took a big step on that

:22:45. > :22:50.backhand. It looked like the balance wasn't really set. Never really

:22:51. > :22:52.committed to the shot. Was in a position to hold comfortably and now

:22:53. > :23:18.he's a break point down. Played the perfect point until that

:23:19. > :23:25.shot. He missed the easiest shot in the rally. He did so well there.

:23:26. > :23:29.Just a little drink forehand, cross-court, over the net. Anything

:23:30. > :23:32.as we looked at it. It would have been fine. He elected for power. A

:23:33. > :23:52.bit low. He was practicing with Jamie Baker

:23:53. > :23:54.at Wimbledon the other day. Jamie after about 20 minutes looked like

:23:55. > :24:14.he had been through the spin cycle! Break point saved. It used to be the

:24:15. > :24:19.case, didn't it, you would look at the squash players in terms of

:24:20. > :24:24.rackets and say, these guys are ridiculous in term of how fit they

:24:25. > :24:29.are, and certainly that is the case. Matthew is a great example of that.

:24:30. > :24:47.Tennis players are right up there, or surpass them in terms of

:24:48. > :24:53.cardiovascular fitness. Tennis if you don't agree.

:24:54. > :25:00.And the likes of Nadal, Djokovic, Murray, they could hardly be fit

:25:01. > :25:03.they were a cardiovascular sense. Dimitrov here can do the splits I

:25:04. > :25:29.would have thought. Nothing wrong with the flexibility.

:25:30. > :25:40.Nicely done. He's certainly more engaged in this

:25:41. > :25:44.set. The first set, Medvedev, he sort of went out there and he was

:25:45. > :25:54.even concerned about whether or not he should play or not play, and so

:25:55. > :25:58.on. He wasn't putting any of those types

:25:59. > :26:04.of rallies together. Which, that's the way he plays. He manoeuvres his

:26:05. > :26:08.opponent around. He flattens out the shot when he needs to. But in the

:26:09. > :26:09.first set it was very much just going for shots in the wrong

:26:10. > :26:46.position on the court. He's known affectionately as The

:26:47. > :26:51.Bear. But no relation to Andre Medvedev, in case you are wondering

:26:52. > :26:59.about that. He trains in France. 21 years of age. 230 in the world 12

:27:00. > :27:03.months ago but now at this young age he has risen tonne the verge of the

:27:04. > :27:12.top 50. Right on the edge of it. If he wins this match, he's going to be

:27:13. > :27:17.around for a long time. And we are dealing with great raw materials.

:27:18. > :27:22.How high do you think he can go? It is tough to judge. I think he can

:27:23. > :27:28.make top 20. I would like to see more of him to see what he does on

:27:29. > :27:33.different surfaces, and see how his game affects other players. He is

:27:34. > :27:44.interesting. Unorthodox. Sometimes in today's players, there are

:27:45. > :27:55.players that same the same sort of patterns.

:27:56. > :27:58.It can cause problems. Nicolas Mahut, playing and Thanasi

:27:59. > :28:04.Kokkinakis coming through in round two. Coming through a tough section

:28:05. > :28:11.here. He is kind of awkward to watch. He

:28:12. > :28:15.is gangly, his arms and legs. The wing span.

:28:16. > :28:21.He doesn't have much of a rhythm to his game. It makes him so strange in

:28:22. > :28:34.the way he plays. But it's very effective.

:28:35. > :28:45.Been a lot of unor the docks Russians over the years. Alexander

:28:46. > :28:47.Volkov. Remember him? A left-hander. You never knew what shot was coming

:28:48. > :29:02.off him. Rained Chesnikov, another one.

:29:03. > :29:22.Tough competitors when they were in the mood. Davydenko...

:29:23. > :29:29.All play, these Russians, with a sense that they really don't care

:29:30. > :30:33.what anyone else thinks. They got on with it. Strong minds.

:30:34. > :30:40.Just had to take a little adjustment to his left side there. That's the

:30:41. > :33:06.wind above the clubhouse whipping in from the west.

:33:07. > :33:16.You can see the wind getting up there. Both players really needing

:33:17. > :33:38.to adjust their footwork. The ball was swirling all over the place.

:33:39. > :33:51.The overrule, he called it out. So a quick request to Hawk-Eye. Yes, it

:33:52. > :34:11.was just out. Yes it was just out. Quarterfinal action continuing, we

:34:12. > :34:15.pick up all your tweets. This is interesting. Tom Wilkinson says

:34:16. > :34:19."Thoughts on the legendary footballer Paolo Maldini making his

:34:20. > :34:26.pro tennis debut this week at 49 years of age?" We did see that, that

:34:27. > :34:31.is a challenge in Italy. He has qualified, I guess it is

:34:32. > :34:37.prequalifying for the doubles. Is he in the main draw? Legendary

:34:38. > :34:45.footballer of AC Milan and Italy. 48 years old now, capped 126 times by

:34:46. > :34:52.his country. He has won a qualifier with that with his partner. Who was

:34:53. > :35:00.once ranked 975 in the world. He has coached Maldini since he retired in

:35:01. > :35:08.2005. It is a Challenger Event in Milan on the 29th of June. Keep an

:35:09. > :35:14.eye on it. Juan Mata plays a good game of tennis as well. Gets around

:35:15. > :35:23.the court fast. A lot of them can hit the ball but not well, they can

:35:24. > :35:30.all get round. Maldini only took the game up about eight years ago I

:35:31. > :35:38.think. That is a rapid rise up the top. Qualifying for an event. In a

:35:39. > :36:04.totally different bought than he has played before, that is amazing.

:36:05. > :36:11.The way he plays, it is so difficult to predict what he is going to do

:36:12. > :36:15.next. An excellent point there. It is like there is no more pain in his

:36:16. > :36:19.shoulder, I would like to get some of that spray, it seems to have

:36:20. > :37:59.worked wonders. Take a shower in it. Two errors in a row, particularly

:38:00. > :38:01.the one with the backhand, that was very wild, he missed it by a long

:38:02. > :39:39.way. I saw the way that ball checked once

:39:40. > :40:14.it hit the line. Very well played on the backhand. He

:40:15. > :40:17.had to keep it down. Six foot six, getting down to the backhand and

:40:18. > :40:24.have the hand skills to control the ball. It was impressive. He has a

:40:25. > :41:09.lot of game, this young man. 21 years of age.

:41:10. > :41:25.Just wide. He is getting frustrated. Loose errors in this set from

:41:26. > :41:38.Dimitrov. In some ways it is like he expects to win. His concentration is

:41:39. > :44:03.not quite there. It is those type of errors.

:44:04. > :44:10.That is fantastic, best rally of the match. So much adjustment, excellent

:44:11. > :44:22.footwork from Medvedev to control the ball. The spin coming from

:44:23. > :44:24.Dimitrov was testing him. 26 shots. A final between Mark Philippoussis

:44:25. > :44:31.and Goran Ivanisevic may not have had that many shops. A man who may

:44:32. > :44:36.not have taken the court for this match, having a medical time-out for

:44:37. > :44:44.a bad shoulder he has really got his concentration now. I think Dimitrov

:44:45. > :44:51.has somewhat allowed this to happen. When he was up 5-0 and his opponent

:44:52. > :44:56.was looking dicey and unsure about things, if he had closed out then

:44:57. > :45:00.and got on top early in the second, he didn't. He lost a bad service

:45:01. > :45:56.game and Medvedev started getting into the match.

:45:57. > :46:12.Nine aces now for Medvedev. More than Dimitrov.

:46:13. > :46:20.He still plays some shots, where he just probably is not the right thing

:46:21. > :46:47.to play. Goodness gracious, he has his dander

:46:48. > :47:00.up now. He is a powerful player for the future, powerful now. Getting

:47:01. > :47:08.back to your comments here. Brenda, "You made me cry with moments,

:47:09. > :47:17.especially Andy winning. " More to come. "How Is Federer breaking the

:47:18. > :47:21.slam record not one of Wimbledon's greatest moments?" You will have a

:47:22. > :47:26.lot of support for that in the studio. Sue Barker would agree with

:47:27. > :47:31.that. That is the reason for this, to have a discussion. 2009 Wimbledon

:47:32. > :47:35.was unreal when he beat Andy Roddick, 16-14 in the fifth. Was it

:47:36. > :48:10.50 aces to win his 15th Grand Slam? We have rescued it. Don't really

:48:11. > :48:32.need that. There is not too much direct sunlight anyway.

:48:33. > :51:13.He was unsure what to do and got caught in no man's land.

:51:14. > :51:19.Grigor Dimitrov will change his racket because it is a first game

:51:20. > :51:27.with a new set of tennis balls where he is receiving. Each player has

:51:28. > :51:34.their own way about going about their business. There is an

:51:35. > :51:40.important game here. Are we going to a decider all will Dimitrov keep

:51:41. > :52:14.this set going? Can't really allow Dimitrov to move

:52:15. > :52:16.forward on his forehand side. We have seen that in the last five

:52:17. > :53:05.minutes. A lovely one strike there. Medvedev

:53:06. > :53:06.did well to get the first ball back. It was so fast, you can't even

:53:07. > :54:06.react. A glorious backhand. This is fantastic serving, really

:54:07. > :54:10.impressive. His maxes around 124 mph at six foot six and long arms. So

:54:11. > :54:36.accurate with it. Hand that is the end of that, great

:54:37. > :54:41.effort. Medvedev has made it one set all quarterfinal here at Queen's,

:54:42. > :54:46.the first one to go the distance. Studio commentary -- STUDIO: Who

:54:47. > :54:50.would have thought at the start of the match that this would happen

:54:51. > :54:55.after we had the trainer on court. If you are enjoying the tennis,

:54:56. > :55:01.maybe it is inspiring you to pick up a racket, why not? Get inspired as

:55:02. > :55:06.BBC sport's campaign to help you get active. Get inspired as an the BBC

:55:07. > :55:10.sport website, you can find inspirational from stories from

:55:11. > :55:15.people like you and over 70 practical guides to help give

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:55:23. > :55:29.something to try near you. Just get up and get inspired and get active.

:55:30. > :55:35.STUDIO: Why not pick up a racket yourself? I hear John Lloyd and

:55:36. > :55:39.Andrew Castle will pick up their racket and have a gentle hit on one

:55:40. > :55:43.of the courts so if you fancy a laugh, I mean, if you fancy seeing a

:55:44. > :55:49.couple of golden oldies in action, they will be taking to the court on

:55:50. > :55:55.Sunday. , JoJo only if you join us. You can get that challenge number

:55:56. > :56:00.one dusted off, I want to CDC Barca forehand, we should be denied no

:56:01. > :56:06.longer. She has gone, she has run away. She doesn't want to play with

:56:07. > :56:14.us John. It will be fun, I hope we can get a court. You are fit and

:56:15. > :56:21.well now. I am in good shape. Good enough to play, I could stand on one

:56:22. > :56:25.side and run you around. It is a game for life. A big announcement

:56:26. > :56:32.next week from the LTA, can't say anything at the moment but it is

:56:33. > :56:40.good. It really is a game that once you have it in your system, local

:56:41. > :56:45.parks and clubs. It is not a difficult game to learn to begin

:56:46. > :57:02.with. But once it gets under your skin, that is it. Third set.

:57:03. > :57:10.Great start to a set. Right round the outside of the ball though.

:57:11. > :57:55.Stayed so low, six foot six. It is definitely going on. A

:57:56. > :57:59.different player from the first set where he looked all over the place.

:58:00. > :58:03.He looked like he wanted to be off the court. He has stuck to his guns

:58:04. > :58:40.and now these rallies, this is what he loves. Rallies from side to side.

:58:41. > :58:47.Improvised on that shot and it went over as well. So many different

:58:48. > :59:26.shots. And weird things he does with a racket.

:59:27. > :59:38.Not without its worries, that game. Serving first in this deciding set.

:59:39. > :59:43.A reminder that Tomas Berdych, the former will modern finalist plays

:59:44. > :59:50.Feliciano Lopez after this. -- the former Wimbledon finalist. We had to

:59:51. > :00:33.catch some of that on BBC Two and it will be on the red button after 6pm.

:00:34. > :00:50.This boy is a pain. He makes you work hard when he is in the mood. He

:00:51. > :00:52.gets you out quite so well, stretching all the time. Good length

:00:53. > :01:51.as well. One of the things he does so well,

:01:52. > :01:57.Medvedev, for a 6ft 6 man, he handles the ball low so well.

:01:58. > :02:03.With the extreme slices, and the ball staying so low, he seems to

:02:04. > :02:14.stay down so well, and gets the whip shots and gets them back so deep.

:02:15. > :02:21.Oh! First one of the day! Haven't seen this shot before from him.

:02:22. > :02:24.The same take-back as for a regular forehand and then just cutting

:02:25. > :02:29.through the underside of the ball here but going through it, not just

:02:30. > :02:42.dumping the racket through it. Very nice.

:02:43. > :02:59., here, he was guilty of jumping, he could have moved back three or four

:03:00. > :03:03.steps. But I think the wind, perhaps, he misjudged the flight of

:03:04. > :03:06.it with the wind. He's beginning to look a little bit

:03:07. > :03:25.weary. He is a little bit.

:03:26. > :03:36.He's wondering why this Angela bean pole won't go away down the other

:03:37. > :03:40.end. I'm actually really enjoying Medvedev, I hope you are at home

:03:41. > :03:46.too. I have a really strong feeling he's going to be around for a long

:03:47. > :03:52.time making other players' lives fairly miserable.

:03:53. > :03:58.Well, that's away as well. He's going to have to show some resolve

:03:59. > :04:02.here quickly, Dimitrov. The overhead, the forehand, the double.

:04:03. > :04:06.That forehand, the odds of him making that shot from that position

:04:07. > :04:11.on the court were really slim. You have to get back into the court

:04:12. > :04:23.position, in the middle of the court and set up the shot selection. He is

:04:24. > :04:28.now in trouble. Well, that's a wonderful thing from

:04:29. > :04:31.Medvedev, a poor one from Dimitrov, it's a break in the third and you

:04:32. > :04:37.would have never have seen this coming.

:04:38. > :04:41.An hour and 21 minutes ago, when the match commenced, there was a delay

:04:42. > :04:45.at the beginning as Medvedev took treatment for a sore shoulder. We

:04:46. > :04:51.are not sure if it happened while warming up his serve or a little bit

:04:52. > :04:57.of nerves beforehand. This was him serving.

:04:58. > :05:03.Just holding his shoulder. He looked quite pale with the whole thing.

:05:04. > :05:08.Took some treatment. Anti-inflamtories, perhaps after the

:05:09. > :05:12.treatment was taken. Took some medical time out and then almost

:05:13. > :05:17.broke serve straightaway. And one way traffic in the first set until

:05:18. > :05:21.he picked up three games at the end. But we didn't know if the match

:05:22. > :05:27.would start. So that's the story of the match. He's been icing it ever

:05:28. > :05:33.since and worn that same expression, which is he could be anywhere, doing

:05:34. > :05:39.anything, and he's actually become an ab-Hewitt rock on the court.

:05:40. > :05:50.Dimitrov can't break him down, he is pretty despondent. He's got the old

:05:51. > :05:55.tennis tan going there. Look at that arm! That's as pale as

:05:56. > :06:04.it gets at the top. OK. Well, this is interesting, isn't

:06:05. > :06:09.it? Does he win it from here, John? I think he'll still come back,

:06:10. > :06:22.Dimitrov. But I'm getting worried. Not for his sake.

:06:23. > :06:32.I, well, we will never know, if he won the set 6-0, and he was five up,

:06:33. > :06:41.I wonder if Medvedev would have continued. He was so despondent, and

:06:42. > :06:51.then it went 5-3 and it was like, hello.

:06:52. > :07:03.Wide? No, not wide. You know he missed that last ball.

:07:04. > :07:55.Could he have challenged here? Yeah. OK.

:07:56. > :08:04.He's just surrendering too much of the court, Dimitrov. His forehand it

:08:05. > :08:08.is pushed back a little too deep. Hitting mid-court, just past the

:08:09. > :08:33.service box sort of shots and he's getting punished.

:08:34. > :08:45.A tough way to win a point. Not getting too many free points

:08:46. > :09:02.anymore, like he was in the first set, Dimitrov.

:09:03. > :09:17.Oh! He timed his jump wrong as well in this overhead. He just slipped a

:09:18. > :09:24.little bit there. That was the problem. But he didn't turn side

:09:25. > :09:27.enough quickly. He did a shuffle. A couple of steps further back. He

:09:28. > :09:37.pulled that one straight down into the net. A lucky break for Dimitrov.

:09:38. > :09:42.Oh! How on earth did he get either of those two shots back. The serve

:09:43. > :09:46.and then the backhand flick that is just outstanding. What a way to get

:09:47. > :09:56.yourself back in the match. Look at this shot here. Seriously?! How did

:09:57. > :10:03.he make that?! So glad this crowd are getting to see some good tennis

:10:04. > :10:06.today. It's really gone up. It didn't start promisingly with

:10:07. > :10:11.Medvedev with his shoulder and the time out. But it is really warming

:10:12. > :11:43.up now. Two games shared. 2-2.

:11:44. > :11:51.He's had to dig deep and it's quite a sight to see for Dimitrov. Getting

:11:52. > :11:56.forced to play some pretty strong tennis now. Back on serve they are

:11:57. > :12:01.now with this decider. What a lovely match this is to

:12:02. > :12:06.watch. Great, great tennis. We have two other raiments to bring you from

:12:07. > :12:16.elsewhere. Dimitrov was the baby Federer but the main man, Roger

:12:17. > :12:31.fedder has been in action in Halle looking for his 92nd career title.

:12:32. > :12:38.He defeated Florian Mayer. And Petra Kvitova beating her opponent.

:12:39. > :12:44.Possibly the two favourites for the Wimbledon tight.

:12:45. > :12:52.And there is more from Eastbourne all week from Monday on BBC Two at

:12:53. > :12:57.2.00pm. And Medvedev v Dimitrov continues

:12:58. > :13:02.here. The football season seems not so far

:13:03. > :13:07.beyond the tennis. It seems to get closer and closer.

:13:08. > :13:19.There is the Russian former and national coach.

:13:20. > :13:27.He's supporting this man here, only 21 years old. We have seen some good

:13:28. > :13:35.young ones. Andy Murray went out early, losing to Jordan Thompson on

:13:36. > :13:38.his first-round match. Nick Kyrgios went out with a hip injury.

:13:39. > :14:01.Stanislas Wawrinka to Lopez. Oh, yeah. Good shot.

:14:02. > :14:08.It's good to see Medvedev playing well now. After the first set, we

:14:09. > :14:12.looked injured. People maybe thinking why is everyone making a

:14:13. > :14:18.fuss of this player, he is not that good. But now we see what he is

:14:19. > :14:20.capable of another young player who is going to be rising up the

:14:21. > :16:00.rankings. Dimitrov hit this and then stood

:16:01. > :16:02.there and thought that ball was out and it landed in. Hello, this

:16:03. > :16:49.rally's still on! It's another break. Dimitrov shows

:16:50. > :16:56.real resolve. And from a break down, exactly what

:16:57. > :17:01.John Lloyd said would happen. Soothe sayer, another of all, star-gazer!

:17:02. > :17:20.Watched a bit of tennis in your time! I wish.

:17:21. > :17:30.He slid into this beautifully and just knocked it deep, turned the

:17:31. > :17:40.wrist over. It Graeme Kimpton sees you doing this, young man, I don't

:17:41. > :17:47.care if you are in the main game or not, you're going to get told off.

:17:48. > :17:53.Graeme is the head groundsman. Taking over from his father.

:17:54. > :17:59.He's had an easy job this week. Where's he been? With all the

:18:00. > :18:06.sunshine, he's been sitting there enjoying himself. No, I'm sure he is

:18:07. > :18:10.still there, working every night, keeping them in great shape.

:18:11. > :19:34.It's the other 51 weeks! Exactly. So good.

:19:35. > :19:39.From a break down to 5-2 up, in this decider.

:19:40. > :19:44.It's a funny game this, tennis. In the last match we were commentating

:19:45. > :19:49.on how one shot or one point can sort of get you going, change a

:19:50. > :19:55.match around. It was really this way with Dimitrov. He looked like going

:19:56. > :20:01.out. Played two inspired points the one where he hit the flick back,

:20:02. > :20:04.since then, it is as if he has said, it is his match now. He has totally

:20:05. > :20:09.changed. And after all of the double faults

:20:10. > :20:14.and the missed serves. Sometimes when you realise you are in trouble,

:20:15. > :20:20.you get going. Exactly. And he turns up at the tournament

:20:21. > :20:25.wanting to win it. His effort is good to see. Incidentally, Medvedev

:20:26. > :20:31.and a number of the next gen players, as they are called, they

:20:32. > :20:37.are playing in an event, open to seven players plus a wild card. 21

:20:38. > :20:42.years old and under. Just the top eight or seven that will be there.

:20:43. > :20:49.No points in this it sounds good to me. The best of five sets, two

:20:50. > :20:56.groups of four. The first of four games in each set so. A tie-break at

:20:57. > :21:01.3-3. No add-scoring. He receive chooses on the game point. No let's,

:21:02. > :21:09.either. A good idea.

:21:10. > :21:28.Experimenting on the young-uns. I'd like to see that.

:21:29. > :22:44.His concentration definitely waivered.

:22:45. > :22:59.Now that was a special return of serve.

:23:00. > :24:34.Dimitrov here with match point, an hour and 39 minutes.

:24:35. > :24:56.Now, Dimitrov serving for a place in the semifinal.

:24:57. > :24:58.From the top half we have the semifinal, it will be Gilles Muller

:24:59. > :25:15.versus Marin Cilic. The winner of this will play either Tomas

:25:16. > :25:30.Berdych or Lopez. Can Dimitrov close? Well, music enrow thinks that

:25:31. > :25:33.the women shouldn't grunt in tennis but that the men should but at the

:25:34. > :25:38.lower pitch. It's all in his book! Medvedev there

:25:39. > :25:42.with the volume going up. Sometimes players do it for effect.

:25:43. > :25:47.Absolutely. They grunt two seconds after the

:25:48. > :25:52.ball has appeared. I think they are sending a direct message. I don't

:25:53. > :25:58.like it, especially. I agree.

:25:59. > :26:51.Well handled. Well what defensive skills from the

:26:52. > :27:01.Russian. The backhand, he was fored to play was magnificent length going

:27:02. > :27:11.corner to corner. He managed to pin Dimitrov back. Still there mentally,

:27:12. > :27:27.we had wondered. Oh, and then that mistake! Just

:27:28. > :28:14.didn't expect that. Three minutes after his first

:28:15. > :28:16.match-point, a second for Grigor Dimitrov. This time on his own

:28:17. > :28:53.serve. Oh! Too bad. That he should finish

:28:54. > :28:57.on a loser from Medvedev. He is certainly not a loser, though. A

:28:58. > :29:01.wonderful performance from him after starting with that injury. Dimitrov

:29:02. > :29:19.from a break down advances to the semifinal.

:29:20. > :29:28.Well we will hear so much more about this man, Daniil Medvedev of Russia.

:29:29. > :29:34.So a super player. It's been a pleasure to see his arrival on the

:29:35. > :29:39.British grass court scene as he is ushered away, to do, no doubt, some

:29:40. > :29:43.press. An interesting game and I think he is an interesting character

:29:44. > :29:47.as well. He will reflect perhaps on the missed opportunities in the

:29:48. > :29:53.third set. He had a break and also 15-30 in the last service game and

:29:54. > :29:59.missed a second-serve return. But he still continues to learn and

:30:00. > :30:08.to improve. Grigor Dimitrov, the 2014 champion here.

:30:09. > :30:13.A couple of selfies! Now he can make his way into the corner to chat with

:30:14. > :30:17.our John Inverdale. But just signing some of these souvenirs that people

:30:18. > :30:21.have. Certainly the highlight of the day this match, for me. Another

:30:22. > :30:27.excellent match to follow, I should say, the last of the quarterfinals,

:30:28. > :30:30.Tomas Berdych. He is playing against Feliciano

:30:31. > :30:33.Lopez who is playing great tennis at the moment. That could be a

:30:34. > :30:40.highlight. But this is how Dimitrov closed it out. Didn't he have to

:30:41. > :30:46.work. An the court time he is getting really used to. An hour and

:30:47. > :30:49.three-quarters. Breaking down a sunshine stubborn opponent. Dimitrov

:30:50. > :31:02.continued to impress. Showing resilience. And having beaten Ryan

:31:03. > :31:05.Harrison 3 hypo 6, 3-1. And his fellow Benitou, losing a set there.

:31:06. > :31:11.But this is really one he had to play some of his best tennis with.

:31:12. > :31:13.So we look forward to seeing Grigor Dimitrov in the semi-finals

:31:14. > :31:19.tomorrow. He is talking with John Inverdale.

:31:20. > :31:23.Grigor Dimitrov thank you for being half a an absolutely fantastic game.

:31:24. > :31:26.Especially in the last two sets. The quality was magnificent.

:31:27. > :31:32.It was a very, very tricky match today. Never easy to play against a

:31:33. > :31:38.guy you have never played before. He is a very talented player. Sometimes

:31:39. > :31:42.you don't expect bolts to come in. But he surprised me, especially in

:31:43. > :31:48.the mid-second set or the middle of the third. I was not playing so well

:31:49. > :31:52.overall but I am happy to win. So from now on it can get better and I

:31:53. > :31:57.can produce better tennis tomorrow. It is amazing how matches swing on a

:31:58. > :32:02.moment. You broke on the third set then broke back with two

:32:03. > :32:07.unbelievable shots from the baseline on the backhand side. Do you feel

:32:08. > :32:14.that could be a key moment? Of course. Every time you win important

:32:15. > :32:17.points, you get more confidence and feel for comfortable on the court

:32:18. > :32:23.and you realise you are back in the game. So, yeah, I played a solid

:32:24. > :32:26.game to break him back. It was my fault I was not serving well at the

:32:27. > :32:32.end of the second set and the beginning of the third. So I had to

:32:33. > :32:38.readjust today. I'm glad that I did. Serving brilliantly in the first

:32:39. > :32:43.set. 5-0 up in the first set. He has had an injury, time before before

:32:44. > :32:46.starting is there a danger you took your foot off the pedal and lose

:32:47. > :32:53.concentration? Of course. But in our case it is a quarterfinal match. A

:32:54. > :32:57.big event. So those thoughts shouldn't go through your head if

:32:58. > :33:00.you have pain, you have nothing to lose. You swing a little more

:33:01. > :33:05.freely. I have been there, done that. It is nothing knew. But I am

:33:06. > :33:09.sure he is still a battle. And he will have a bright future.

:33:10. > :33:11.You have a semifinal tomorrow, so good luck.

:33:12. > :33:15.Thank you. Daniil Medvedev does have a bright

:33:16. > :33:20.future. This man is still in the tournament. A huge favourite. The

:33:21. > :33:23.champion in 2014. Producing magical tennis on the Centre Court against a

:33:24. > :33:30.very difficult opponent and one we will hear more of. He is back on

:33:31. > :33:32.court tomorrow to face the winner of our quarterfinal, Tomas Berdych

:33:33. > :33:36.against Feliciano Lopez. John is here to join us. Peter, some match,

:33:37. > :33:50.wasn't it? I was shocked by some of the shot

:33:51. > :33:53.making in the final set. It is amazing he served with such power

:33:54. > :33:59.after not being able to lift his shoulder in the beginning. Difficult

:34:00. > :34:05.for Dimitrov because he was up 5-0. If he had been able to close it out

:34:06. > :34:10.then, it may have caused Medvedev to question whether he should carry on?

:34:11. > :34:13.It seemed Medvedev was trying to hit the cover of the ball and make the

:34:14. > :34:19.rallies as short as possible which is not how he plays. But Dimitrov

:34:20. > :34:24.let him in a bit. And then he gave it a try. It is good we saw the

:34:25. > :34:28.Medvedev we saw yesterday. Otherwise people would have said why everyone

:34:29. > :34:35.was making a fuss because he looked average. Then we saw in the last

:34:36. > :34:40.couple of sets why, some of the shots he made were staggering.

:34:41. > :34:47.Whether he is winning or losing, Medvedev, he has such a deadpan

:34:48. > :34:54.face, you would not be able to read him. Not at all. That is often a

:34:55. > :35:02.real asset for a guy. To not let your emotions get to you. Not easily

:35:03. > :35:08.done. Grigor Dimitrov produced some magical tennis, especially when he

:35:09. > :35:16.had to break back in the third set. Inspirational points. I believe this

:35:17. > :35:23.was the one at deuce, it went on and on, the footwork. And he gets the

:35:24. > :35:31.break point here and this is where the backhand, that is one of the

:35:32. > :35:36.best shots you will ever see. That was the start of the comeback after

:35:37. > :35:42.that. It was almost like he needed a shot like that to charge himself up.

:35:43. > :35:48.He had gone into the set and it looked like he was going downhill

:35:49. > :35:53.fast. He got out of it just in time. Medvedev has shown us what he can do

:35:54. > :36:01.in the future because he is so difficult to play. He hits the ball

:36:02. > :36:07.so deep. He doesn't look like a flute player but he reacts to bad

:36:08. > :36:16.bounces. And it was windy and it did not seem to faze him. In his mind,

:36:17. > :36:24.he is able to adjust and come up with some big shots. Obviously he

:36:25. > :36:29.has a lot. The first set was quite special for Dimitrov. All of his

:36:30. > :36:33.first serves went in. We have put together all 24 of them to see how

:36:34. > :36:40.impressive that was. He was not holding back. It was an average

:36:41. > :36:44.speed of 119. I wonder if he knows he did that. It is always in the

:36:45. > :36:49.game when you have that thought in your mind where you haven't missed a

:36:50. > :36:54.first serve and then you miss the next one so I don't think he knew.

:36:55. > :37:04.He lost serve having made every first serve. It is a good serve but

:37:05. > :37:09.not as big as others. He has to be accurate which when he is serving

:37:10. > :37:14.well, he is. If he gets you out wide, he can attack you on the

:37:15. > :37:19.second ball. That is unbelievable. How many people have done that in

:37:20. > :37:25.their career? It is difficult for Dimitrov, when you have an opponent

:37:26. > :37:28.but has the train on before the match starts, it is difficult to get

:37:29. > :37:34.your mindset and think that was playing games with him. Absolutely.

:37:35. > :37:41.They say the most difficult opponent is someone who is injured. I think

:37:42. > :37:48.the key is you have to keep attacking and play your game. Even

:37:49. > :37:51.if you make a few mistakes. Write it off as not believing he is injured

:37:52. > :37:56.and keep the pressure on. That is when you get guys to default because

:37:57. > :38:03.they feel the mental pressure on them. And they feel it is no use.

:38:04. > :38:09.Exciting times in men's tennis with so many good young players around.

:38:10. > :38:23.They are coming out of nowhere. This week alone, the list goes on. You

:38:24. > :38:27.look at them and in the next five or ten years, the landscape rankings

:38:28. > :38:32.will change. The new group will come through. Who knows, Federer might

:38:33. > :38:38.still be playing at 45 but I think we will see this exciting crop and

:38:39. > :38:43.men's tennis will be unbelievable. Checking my phone because there is

:38:44. > :38:46.breaking News as far as tennis is concerned, the British Davis Cup

:38:47. > :38:52.star Dan Evans has failed a drugs test for cocaine back in April. He

:38:53. > :38:56.called a press conference this afternoon and I believe we can hear

:38:57. > :39:03.what he said in that. Hello everyone. This is a very difficult

:39:04. > :39:09.day for me and I wanted to come here in person to tell you guys face to

:39:10. > :39:16.face. I was notified a few days ago that I failed a drugs test in April

:39:17. > :39:21.where I tested positive for cocaine. It is really important that you know

:39:22. > :39:26.that this was taken out of competition and a context completely

:39:27. > :39:31.unrelated to tennis. I made a mistake and I must face up to it. I

:39:32. > :39:37.do not condone for one second to anyone that this was acceptable

:39:38. > :39:44.behaviour. I have let a lot of people down. My family, my coach, my

:39:45. > :39:50.team and sponsors. British tennis and my fans. I can only deeply

:39:51. > :39:57.apologise from the bottom of my heart. This has been an extremely

:39:58. > :40:01.sad and humbling experience. I hope you understand that I will not be

:40:02. > :40:07.taking any questions and I would like to thank you for the support in

:40:08. > :40:16.my career to date in the good and bad times. You know him very well.

:40:17. > :40:20.It is very disappointing. Well, with Dan, the question is how many

:40:21. > :40:24.chances do you get? That is the bottom line, he has had so many

:40:25. > :40:28.chances in his career. We have written him off and he has come back

:40:29. > :40:32.and done other things. Hasn't trained and done the work needed to

:40:33. > :40:36.cover got in trouble and came back. It looked like he had finally broken

:40:37. > :40:43.through with tremendous performances and he was a world-class player. And

:40:44. > :40:49.now this has happened. I don't know, at some stage that has got to

:40:50. > :40:53.change. It is very sad. Looking at him at the Australian Open and the

:40:54. > :40:58.US Open a few years ago, he has such star quality and he can worry the

:40:59. > :41:02.big names. To make a mistake when you know, as every player does, that

:41:03. > :41:09.you are responsible for what you put in your body and you get these tests

:41:10. > :41:14.done throughout your career. As they say, life is not about what happens

:41:15. > :41:22.to you but how you react to it. Often as young athletes, guys think

:41:23. > :41:30.they are impermeable. Bullet-proof if you will. And you do stupid

:41:31. > :41:35.things. Hopefully he looks back on this and grows from it and says that

:41:36. > :41:40.was a mistake and he will have to pay his suspension and come back

:41:41. > :41:46.strong from it. It won't be easy because I don't know what the

:41:47. > :41:50.suspension might be. We remember Richard Gasquet, he failed test for

:41:51. > :41:53.cocaine and he claims he kissed a girl in a nightclub and got

:41:54. > :41:58.overturned but he was suspended up until the hearing and then he was

:41:59. > :42:02.given two years. But it was overturned. Even if they suspend

:42:03. > :42:09.him, it was one year, sorry, and it was overturned, he would certainly

:42:10. > :42:17.be suspended until the trial and that will be 60 days I believe. So

:42:18. > :42:22.he is out of Wimbledon. Out of Wimbledon and it is terrible. In all

:42:23. > :42:27.probability, he will get a long suspension from this. I imagine. He

:42:28. > :42:31.will have to start all over again and he has had a lot of chances in

:42:32. > :42:39.his career. He will have to restart again. It is a great pity. How

:42:40. > :42:44.difficult is it, you've got to keep fit and nothing to motivate you and

:42:45. > :42:52.everyone else will be moving on. And that is the key. He has two self

:42:53. > :42:55.motivate. We have had guys come back and do well, Viktor Troicki came

:42:56. > :43:04.back from a drugs suspension and has played well. He can do it but you

:43:05. > :43:07.are right, he will have to dig deep. Also disappointing for the Davis Cup

:43:08. > :43:13.team, we were talking about Liam Smith having the choice if Andy

:43:14. > :43:20.Murray chooses not to play singles, that has now been taken away from

:43:21. > :43:24.him. -- Leon Smith. You have the thing sometimes. He has done this so

:43:25. > :43:28.many times, not as bad as this but in other ways. It is possible to

:43:29. > :43:31.come back but unfortunately he has not been the greatest trainer of all

:43:32. > :43:38.time in keeping going when he needs to. If he gets suspended for a year,

:43:39. > :43:44.can he come back from that and work hard and motivate himself? It is a

:43:45. > :43:48.big ask. This is the thing that might shock him into saying it is

:43:49. > :43:53.his last chance in tennis. Don't blow it. He could have had such a

:43:54. > :43:59.good career ahead of him. He has shown what he is capable of, to

:44:00. > :44:05.waste it is criminal. He has frustrated you in the past and this

:44:06. > :44:11.is another mistake. Such a talented player. When I first signed play, I

:44:12. > :44:16.thought he was a top 50 player. His career was up and down and people

:44:17. > :44:22.would say he would talented but, and he has come back and it looked like

:44:23. > :44:27.he finally looked strong. He looks like a player and looks hungry and

:44:28. > :44:32.then there is no ski service. He said he made a mistake and face up

:44:33. > :44:35.to it and he must. That is the disappointing news that Dan Evans,

:44:36. > :44:39.the British Davis Cup star has failed a drugs test for cocaine.

:44:40. > :44:45.More news as to when the trial will be when we get it. Back to the

:44:46. > :44:48.tennis. We have the draw here to look at, one semifinal already

:44:49. > :44:56.decided. Muller, who put out Sam Querrey earlier will take on Marin

:44:57. > :45:00.Cilic. And Grigor Dimitrov is through to face the winner of the

:45:01. > :45:09.final match, Feliciano Lopez against Tomas Berdych. Let us talk about

:45:10. > :45:11.Berdych, we have talked a lot about Lopez but Berdych is often be

:45:12. > :45:16.forgotten man. You keep forgetting he made the final Wimbledon, he

:45:17. > :45:23.complained on this stuff. He hasn't had a great year this year. His

:45:24. > :45:26.results have dropped off a little bit from the previous five or six

:45:27. > :45:30.years when he was so consistent. Every time you looked to the

:45:31. > :45:42.quarterfinals, he was in them. It hasn't been the case this year. He

:45:43. > :45:49.has changed coaches, he had Goran, you will come good. When you change

:45:50. > :45:56.the way you think, it can be a risk. He has such a heavy big game. The

:45:57. > :46:01.thing he had been guilty of, if that is the word, he only has one place,

:46:02. > :46:06.he is very good at it but there is no plan B with Tomas Berdych. He

:46:07. > :46:10.comes on the court and imposes with the ground strokes and a big serve,

:46:11. > :46:16.if you are quick enough and can stay with him and get him on the move, he

:46:17. > :46:20.is in trouble. But don't take away his record, his consistency over the

:46:21. > :46:25.years has been exemplary. One good tournament, he is having one, he can

:46:26. > :46:28.win this event. He has a tough match today but it could turn it around

:46:29. > :46:32.with his confidence going into the grass court season, where he plays

:46:33. > :46:39.his best. He is a long way from being done in his career. He will

:46:40. > :46:43.get allsorts of things flown at him from the listener Lopez, wonderful

:46:44. > :46:49.then and the left-hand serve. Exactly right. That is what he does

:46:50. > :46:54.better than anyone. Apart from the first of which is a bomb. The sliced

:46:55. > :47:03.backhand, he will hit some short angled volleys and generally play an

:47:04. > :47:06.old school style of tennis. You thought that might work well against

:47:07. > :47:14.Tomas Berdych, they have played twice on grass and Lopez has won

:47:15. > :47:18.both of those matches. He clearly does something the big man is not

:47:19. > :47:23.comfortable with. Peter will make his way to the commentary box.

:47:24. > :47:30.Thanks to John Lloyd and we had to join Andrew Cotter. COMMENTATOR:

:47:31. > :47:37.Masquerading actually as John infidel, good afternoon for the

:47:38. > :47:41.fourth quarter final on this cloudy Friday afternoon with the lot of big

:47:42. > :47:45.serves today from Sam Querrey, Muller, Marin Cilic and Dimitrov and

:47:46. > :47:51.Medvedev and we will have a lot of aces and big serving here from these

:47:52. > :47:57.two. This should be a really good close match. If only because that is

:47:58. > :48:04.what the figures tell you. They have played 13 times, Lopez leading 7-6.

:48:05. > :48:12.And each player has won 16 sets in those matches. Lopez leading 2-0 on

:48:13. > :48:21.grass. This is an even game to call and the winner will play Dimitrov in

:48:22. > :48:25.the semifinal tomorrow. A full house in the members as you can see but

:48:26. > :48:31.the last match a few moments ago between Dimitrov and Medvedev was so

:48:32. > :48:34.engrossing that the stand on the far side has emptied somewhat as people

:48:35. > :48:38.go off for some refreshments but I am sure they will be back. What the

:48:39. > :48:45.tournament went here and what the fans want is for a neat nip and tuck

:48:46. > :48:50.confrontation that goes to a third set and takes everyone here into the

:48:51. > :48:51.early hours of Friday evening. Berdych will start, Peter Fleming

:48:52. > :49:31.has joined me. Who wins this? Lopez. I hope she does my missing, Sue

:49:32. > :49:40.Barker said watch this. She was really going to wind up John in the

:49:41. > :49:43.dale. Call him Andrew Cotter, that will get under his skin. And she

:49:44. > :50:03.succeeded, big-time. I always liked working with John

:50:04. > :50:59.Lloyd actually. How much quicker is this Court now

:51:00. > :51:13.than it was on Monday? I don't know if quicker is the term I would use.

:51:14. > :51:19.It is bouncing higher. When it is green, it shoots through and skids a

:51:20. > :51:28.little bit. So it feels like it is quicker. I don't know if technically

:51:29. > :51:30.it is. It also feels quicker because your footing is not as good so you

:51:31. > :52:50.don't get in as good a position. Mr Lopez is challenging the call. He

:52:51. > :53:04.has got to be right on this, hasn't he? It seemed a long way wide.

:53:05. > :53:38.Here is a question, all logic says that this game is becoming more and

:53:39. > :53:41.more physical. The physicality, body mass index, everything else involved

:53:42. > :53:47.in the game. How come we have players like Muller in their mid-30s

:53:48. > :53:50.playing the best tennis of their life and Lopez, nearer 40 than 30,

:53:51. > :53:56.playing some of the best tennis of his life when logically, most of the

:53:57. > :54:03.top players in the rankings, are in the early to mid 30s, how has this

:54:04. > :54:06.happened? I think it is understanding and knowledge of the

:54:07. > :54:15.body and how it works and how to look after it. Sports science has

:54:16. > :54:20.grown so much over the years. These guys really do know how to look

:54:21. > :54:27.after themselves. The body is meant to operate well for a longer period

:54:28. > :54:43.of time than it ever did for those of us who have no idea. It does seem

:54:44. > :54:47.in tennis that 35 is the new 25. They have learned how to play the

:54:48. > :54:58.game. I think I hit the ball better on

:54:59. > :55:10.some shots now than I ever have. I just can't get to any of them. I

:55:11. > :55:28.think that serve was definitely in. He is not questioning if the overall

:55:29. > :56:06.was correct or not. And one of the keys for Lopez is to

:56:07. > :56:20.keep the pace on his shot. If he is at the net. He went over the highest

:56:21. > :56:26.part of the net and the net won. When you hit touch shots like that,

:56:27. > :56:31.you don't want to keep pace on it but he wants to make Berdych move

:56:32. > :56:36.sharply. Because once Berdych kept going, he covers a lot of ground

:56:37. > :56:56.with a couple of steps. The quick moves are not necessarily his forte.

:56:57. > :57:12.There was a gaping hole down that line. Power shots are not

:57:13. > :57:40.necessarily Lopez's strength, apart from the serve of course.

:57:41. > :57:49.It is always bold to just stop playing and make a decision that the

:57:50. > :58:04.ball was out. Berdych has cast his fate to Mr Hawk-Eye. Who says? Off

:58:05. > :58:10.with your head. That is almost like losing two points in one. Especially

:58:11. > :58:52.as you put the return back in play. He was in the rally.

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