:00:37. > :00:54.Welcome to Eastbourne. She has such good volleys. Top of the list for
:00:55. > :01:08.Heather Watson. She is a set to the good. Lovely soft hands. Verities -
:01:09. > :01:14.what a win for Heather Watson. She defeated the defending champion on
:01:15. > :01:18.day one, Dominika Cibulkova. And this is day two. Today, British
:01:19. > :01:23.number one and number five seed Johanna Konta looking to make it
:01:24. > :01:27.through to the second round. Eastbourne got off to a sunny,
:01:28. > :01:32.happy, shiny start yesterday, but 24 hours is a long time in weather, and
:01:33. > :01:37.it was a cloudy welcome to Eastbourne for Novak Djokovic this
:01:38. > :01:42.morning, although his mere presence here really has sprinkled stardust
:01:43. > :01:45.on the seaside town. The crowds came first thing this morning to see him
:01:46. > :01:51.practice, and we hope to speak to him a little later this afternoon.
:01:52. > :01:57.Somebody here clearly has a sense of humour, because they have just
:01:58. > :02:04.played Cruel Summer by Bananarama here. It is all about covers,
:02:05. > :02:07.umbrellas, and it is generally miserable, and I'm afraid to say,
:02:08. > :02:16.the forecast for the afternoon is not any better. Simona Halep, the
:02:17. > :02:22.number two seed from Romania, she managed three games. There was a
:02:23. > :02:26.break of serve either way, and then they were called off as well. Our
:02:27. > :02:35.plan of campaign, if the weather relents, looks like this: We will
:02:36. > :02:38.probably pick up the Simona Halep match, if it resumes. And then
:02:39. > :02:49.Angelique Kerber plays Kristyna Pliskova, and Sorana Cirstea Place
:02:50. > :02:53.Johanna Konta. -- plays Johanna Konta. Talking of things that are
:02:54. > :03:01.not going to plan, Andy Murray has announced he will not play a
:03:02. > :03:11.proposed exhibition match against Pouille of France tomorrow. It is
:03:12. > :03:14.not inconceivable that Andy will find himself going to Wimbledon at
:03:15. > :03:18.the start of next week to defend his title having only played one match
:03:19. > :03:24.on grass this season, and that was the defeat at Queen's last week
:03:25. > :03:34.against Jordan Thompson. We will update you and Matt -- on that as
:03:35. > :03:49.and when. A new superstar of the women's game, Elaine a Ostapenko --
:03:50. > :03:53.Elena Ostapenko. She played Navarro, an old campaigner and a tough
:03:54. > :03:56.individual who was going to test her on the grass. It started at
:03:57. > :03:57.tea-time, this match, and went late into the night. An enthralling
:03:58. > :04:11.encounter. COMMENTATOR: The third meeting
:04:12. > :04:20.between these two, the first since 2016. Andujar was there last meeting
:04:21. > :04:53.-- Doha. A good love hold. All eyes will be
:04:54. > :04:59.on Ostapenko, her first tournament since lifting the title on clay in
:05:00. > :05:07.Paris, an incredible achievement. Yes, and the pundits, myself
:05:08. > :05:11.included, we got it oh so wrong. It was just extraordinary, what she did
:05:12. > :05:16.there. That was the last match she is ever going to play without any
:05:17. > :05:23.pressure. In a way, her career effectively starts now. Now she is
:05:24. > :05:29.the hunted. She's the French Open champion and everyone wants to beat
:05:30. > :05:30.her. The weeks between then and here will be some of the most important
:05:31. > :06:45.weeks in her career. We know there has been some
:06:46. > :06:49.celebrating since she lifted the title in Paris. She pulled out of
:06:50. > :06:54.Birmingham with a back injury, so it will be interesting to see how she
:06:55. > :06:58.reacts to what was a life changing experience. This is a very important
:06:59. > :07:03.match for her. And a tricky one at that. I was watching her practice
:07:04. > :07:06.yesterday afternoon with a fairly new coach, who was a very good
:07:07. > :07:29.player on the tour for many years. And their practice was all about the
:07:30. > :07:36.transition from clay to grass, dealing with low balls, so she had
:07:37. > :07:40.to get down. She kept saying, get down, get down. They spent an
:07:41. > :07:44.enormous amount of time on the serve, which was a liability for her
:07:45. > :07:48.through her young career so far. They spent hours on the practice
:07:49. > :07:50.court trying to get it right. It has already improved, but there is a
:07:51. > :08:09.long way to go. Someone said that her coach should
:08:10. > :08:16.be nominated for coach of the year, because she had only been with
:08:17. > :08:21.Ostapenko for up you months. Jelena was coached predominantly by her
:08:22. > :08:24.mother. They were trying to bring someone in, trying a few different
:08:25. > :08:27.academies, and I think it is interesting that they brought in
:08:28. > :08:56.another female voice, because that is what she has been used to.
:08:57. > :09:07.And while you won't get a player who adores the grass in Navarro, you
:09:08. > :09:13.will get an awful lot of experience. But she is an old school Spaniard,
:09:14. > :09:23.from those back in the day that thought that grass was for cows, and
:09:24. > :09:32.she hasn't moved on into the modern world of tennis. She has some cut on
:09:33. > :09:39.the serve, but she doesn't feel comfortable. Caught one is probably
:09:40. > :10:01.the quickest court here. -- Court Number One.
:10:02. > :10:08.Saying all that, a couple of service games in for the Spaniard and she
:10:09. > :10:13.has yet to drop a point on serve. Sam, for those who may not have seen
:10:14. > :10:18.a lot of Jelena Ostapenko, because she really rose to prominence at the
:10:19. > :10:22.French Open, described her game for people thinking, what is it about
:10:23. > :10:28.this young lady, just 20, that took heart to her first Grand Slam title?
:10:29. > :10:32.I can't talk about her game for you without talking about her as a
:10:33. > :10:38.person, because for me, that is so much of her recent success and why
:10:39. > :10:42.she was a top junior, because Jelena, with these two on the
:10:43. > :10:51.personality spectrum, Jelena is at one end. She was self-confident when
:10:52. > :10:54.I saw her last year as a teenager. There was a brashness, and even
:10:55. > :10:59.though she has just turned 20, there is a teenage temperament in there as
:11:00. > :11:04.well. She backs herself in the manner of a Serena Williams or a
:11:05. > :11:11.Maria Sharapova. She reminds me of Victoria Azarenka. There is hunger
:11:12. > :11:15.and passion. Then add to that great ball striking. She has a wonderful
:11:16. > :11:24.forehand - on orthodox, a little late and very flat. And she loves
:11:25. > :11:30.grass. She hits the ball so big. The sound of the strings, which is
:11:31. > :11:37.wonderful timing, beautifully balanced, wonderful footwork. She is
:11:38. > :11:42.raw, mentally, emotionally and in her game. She won the junior title,
:11:43. > :12:05.Jelena Ostapenko, in 2014. And there is Annabel. She still has
:12:06. > :12:09.not officially retired. She retired from single three years ago after
:12:10. > :12:23.the French, but she could still play doubles.
:12:24. > :12:29.She could team up with Ostapenko on the doubles court. Might be good for
:12:30. > :12:37.you Elena, actually. The ground are big and heavy. And they are
:12:38. > :12:40.fearless. They are. I did not think they would hold up under the
:12:41. > :12:51.pressure of the French Open final, but they did exactly that. And she
:12:52. > :12:57.is unplayable sometimes. She enjoys coming forward, likes to work her
:12:58. > :13:02.way to the net. And it is a really big game. Victoria Azarenka is the
:13:03. > :13:26.closest, I would say. Four games played, just two points
:13:27. > :13:32.dropped on serve. That was Ostapenko's first service game. Good
:13:33. > :13:40.conditions - sun shining, blue sky, little whispery white clouds, a
:13:41. > :13:46.perfect summer's day. Do they look quiet? Whispery white clouds? I
:13:47. > :13:51.don't think they talk, but if they could, they would whisper. We
:13:52. > :14:07.digress! Someone told me in Paris that clouds
:14:08. > :14:08.had feelings. That was all so -- that was also something where I
:14:09. > :14:27.didn't know where to take it. One of the problems players have
:14:28. > :14:33.against Ostapenko, and they talk about it in the locker room, they
:14:34. > :14:36.cannot read where she's going to put the ball, because she has a late
:14:37. > :14:40.contact on the forehand, and you don't get any clues from the racket
:14:41. > :14:42.as to where the ball is going. It is hard and flat, and it gets to you
:14:43. > :15:10.super quickly. Little things like a late contact
:15:11. > :15:14.point, will she have always done those things or is that taught? I
:15:15. > :15:18.would say it is natural to her. I have a feeling she would have grown
:15:19. > :15:25.up on clay courts in Latvia in the summer, but she would probably play
:15:26. > :15:36.on the wooden floor of a school gymnasium. They are like greased
:15:37. > :15:40.lightning, so you end up taking the ball slightly late. That is my best
:15:41. > :15:53.guess, but I will ask her when I see her. Azarenka is like that as well.
:15:54. > :16:01.We have a first break point of the match. Had not dropped a point on
:16:02. > :16:04.serve in the first to make service games, but now looks to defend three
:16:05. > :16:35.at 0-40. There it is, at the first time of
:16:36. > :16:41.asking, Jelena Ostapenko gets the first break of the match, breaking
:16:42. > :16:50.Suarez Navarro to love, takes the edge and goes ahead 3-2. The mental
:16:51. > :16:54.strength that Ostapenko showed in Paris cinema all that attention, the
:16:55. > :16:58.life changing experience, all the media out on court in the final, and
:16:59. > :17:03.she just did what Jelena Ostapenko does. She seemed to handle it very
:17:04. > :17:06.well. As I said, the real test is now. I was watching some of the
:17:07. > :17:12.juniors in the second week of the French Open, which I feel is always
:17:13. > :17:16.a real privilege to be able to do, and try and see who you think might
:17:17. > :17:22.come through. There was a young Latvian kit out there. Jelena
:17:23. > :17:26.Ostapenko had a semifinal the next day, and she sat with her mother,
:17:27. > :17:30.watching the entire match in the Latvian camp, which I was pleased to
:17:31. > :17:35.see. I don't think she was completely unaffected by what went
:17:36. > :17:44.on. Now, reality has it, because she is a superstar back home. Think
:17:45. > :17:53.Ernest Gold this has been well and truly moved over. There is a new
:17:54. > :17:58.Latvian tennis star. -- Gulbis. It is only a population of 2 million,
:17:59. > :18:01.so everything will be on Jelena. She loves the attention, she is a
:18:02. > :18:06.performer, and I think she will take to this. There is a touch of the
:18:07. > :18:07.Serena Williams about her, who is her idol. I think she is ready for
:18:08. > :18:27.this. She was very quick at the start with
:18:28. > :18:33.her service. So they were trying... She was speed serving as if she had
:18:34. > :18:44.to finish the motion in 0.3 seconds. They are trying to extend it to
:18:45. > :18:47.maybe 1.5 seconds now. They are also working on how she throws the ball a
:18:48. > :18:54.long way to the left, way too far to the left. It is just the path of her
:18:55. > :19:00.throwing hand that is taking it there, so they have spent hours
:19:01. > :19:07.working on that. Have a look at where the ball is. It should be at
:19:08. > :19:18.one minute to 12, but it is about ten minutes to 12 on the clock face.
:19:19. > :19:25.She is also very expressive as a character, on court she let you know
:19:26. > :19:28.how she's feeling. And she is exactly the same off court. I am
:19:29. > :19:36.pleased to say that she must have skipped the media training module.
:19:37. > :19:49.She'd bunked off that day! Good for her!
:19:50. > :19:53.Love the return of serve from the Spaniard, gives her immediate break
:19:54. > :20:18.back points on the Ostapenko serve. We are back on serve. The first
:20:19. > :20:20.break point opportunity for Suarez Navarro, she takes it, we level up,
:20:21. > :21:17.3-3 in the first set. Kala looks so uncomfortable on this
:21:18. > :21:24.surface. -- Navarro looks so uncomfortable. She likes time to
:21:25. > :21:26.really manoeuvre the ball, use that great racket work, and the ball gets
:21:27. > :21:45.at her far too quickly. Players go hard and fast at her on
:21:46. > :21:54.this surface, at her forehand. She doesn't really like it when it comes
:21:55. > :21:59.at pace. And it is definitely going to come at pace if it is coming off
:22:00. > :22:02.the racket of Jelena Ostapenko, who gives herself another couple of
:22:03. > :22:04.opportunities to break and advance in this third set. In this third
:22:05. > :22:20.meeting between the two. She rigger aims -- she regains the
:22:21. > :22:41.break. I had a chat with Ostapenko in
:22:42. > :22:44.Paris, and I think it was a quarterfinal match, where her coach
:22:45. > :22:47.was there and her mother wasn't, and I asked if her mother was OK,
:22:48. > :22:52.because she has been the primary coach. And she said, I told her not
:22:53. > :22:56.to come. I asked if there was a particular reason, she said, just
:22:57. > :23:01.pressure. I told her to stay in the hotel. I don't know if she literally
:23:02. > :23:05.did that. Maybe she felt a little bit of pressure and was trying...
:23:06. > :23:08.The mother came back for the semifinal and final, you couldn't
:23:09. > :23:13.keep her away. But she is very much a person who knows her own mind,
:23:14. > :23:16.what she wants and how she wants to do it. Yes, and I think this
:23:17. > :23:21.transition, I don't know if it will be a partnership between mother and
:23:22. > :23:28.Annabelle of whether there will be a transition. I think that might be
:23:29. > :23:31.the way forward. There have been so many players who have been coached
:23:32. > :23:37.by a parent who can't seem to bring someone into the team. Think of
:23:38. > :23:43.Caroline Wozniacki. This is an important stage in her career and
:23:44. > :23:48.has to be handled very carefully. Mum is not overbearing, she is very
:23:49. > :24:00.quiet, chilled and happy just to let you later take the lead. It is an
:24:01. > :24:04.interesting dynamic. -- to let Jelena take the lead. Three games
:24:05. > :24:15.and three breaks will stop Ostapenko the advantage 4-3. -- three games
:24:16. > :24:21.and three breaks. Ostapenko has the advantage, 4-3. A tough season for
:24:22. > :24:27.Navarro, starting at number 12 in the world. She has dropped because
:24:28. > :24:28.she has had a string of injuries that have curtailed her start to
:24:29. > :25:22.2017. She does switch the ball and move it
:25:23. > :25:28.so quickly. Yeah, the distribution is fabulous. You don't get to settle
:25:29. > :25:36.against Ostapenko will stop she takes the ball early, she is upon
:25:37. > :25:42.the baseline, the timing is unreal. IPlayer like Suarez Navarro, she
:25:43. > :25:43.wants to ease into the match. It is very manana there. This is not her
:25:44. > :26:07.cup of tea. The break is consolidated. A hell to
:26:08. > :26:18.love for Jelena Ostapenko, moving her to within one game of the first
:26:19. > :26:47.set. -- a hold to love for Jelena Ostapenko.
:26:48. > :26:58.She had a good first round win against Makarova. I know Makarova is
:26:59. > :27:02.not where she used to be, but that would have given Suarez Navarro
:27:03. > :27:03.confidence on the grass. I raised an eyebrow at that result, I must
:27:04. > :27:25.admit. Got a little caught there, but what
:27:26. > :27:28.I love about her is that she hit a great shot, saw Navarro open the
:27:29. > :27:32.racket face, knowing it would be a defensive shot, and she was already
:27:33. > :27:37.moving up the court for the next one. It was a good defence by Suarez
:27:38. > :27:42.Navarro there, and yell a nap either had to move more explosively forward
:27:43. > :28:01.or just check back, and she did neither. -- year Lane -- year
:28:02. > :28:10.and -- Jelena either had to move explosively forward... It is not
:28:11. > :28:15.often you see a disgruntled Suarez Navarro. She is quite a cool
:28:16. > :28:20.character. Jelena Ostapenko has quite a reputation for moving a lot
:28:21. > :28:23.between first and second serves, and I have a feeling that is what is
:28:24. > :28:26.upsetting Suarez Navarro. She is on the other end of the personality
:28:27. > :28:39.spectrum, very quiet. It is so good, you almost can't
:28:40. > :29:12.believe your eyes here. It really is. Set points, Ostapenko.
:29:13. > :29:24.A lovely -- I love the disgust when she makes a mistake. There is either
:29:25. > :29:27.a look at the shot, or the support camp, but usually it is a look at
:29:28. > :29:55.Mum. It is her fault. And there it is. Tulane Ostapenko
:29:56. > :29:59.picking up from where she left off in the French capital, showing no
:30:00. > :30:05.fear, looking comfortable and taking that first set against Carla Suarez
:30:06. > :30:11.Navarro by six games to three. STUDIO: As you might have noticed
:30:12. > :30:16.from the latter are at the bottom of your screen, that is a replay from
:30:17. > :30:22.yesterday. -- as you might have noticed from the letter R. The
:30:23. > :30:30.situation is very frustrating today. It is rain and it is drivel...
:30:31. > :30:35.Dribble?! That is me! Drizzle. British stoicism is undaunted, we
:30:36. > :30:40.will stick it out for as long as is humanly possible, even though there
:30:41. > :30:43.is no suggestion of play this afternoon. Undaunted, we will go
:30:44. > :31:40.back to the second set from last night.
:31:41. > :31:45.A good thing, and maybe a slightly frustrating thing from a coaching
:31:46. > :31:52.point of view for us to panko, if she misses it she just goes again.
:31:53. > :32:07.She could keep missing it, but it could work.
:32:08. > :32:14.Lovely footwork. I find it fascinating batches the French Open
:32:15. > :32:18.champion, I notice a packed schedule, but the French Open
:32:19. > :32:25.champion on Court One. That is a surprise. And I think a lot of fans
:32:26. > :32:34.will not follow tennis week in, week out, who will not know who she is.
:32:35. > :32:41.Maybe that is still quite good for her. I think it is really good for
:32:42. > :32:45.her. At Wimbledon it will be very different. I like that she did not
:32:46. > :32:49.rush back into playing a tournament very quickly after the French Open.
:32:50. > :32:53.Enjoy the moment. We have had lots of players who have made a big
:32:54. > :33:06.breakthrough and have not sustained it, who have gone into meltdown.
:33:07. > :33:12.A back injury was the reason she did not enter Birmingham, had to pull
:33:13. > :33:15.out of that. This is her first match on grass this year. Suarez Navarro
:33:16. > :33:43.with a very early break point. There it is, a gift from Fed. A fist
:33:44. > :33:47.pump from Suarez Navarro. The Spaniard has the early break in the
:33:48. > :33:52.second set. When you say that one of Carla Suarez Navarro's coaches would
:33:53. > :33:58.say hang in there, she will miss, you were joking, but would that have
:33:59. > :34:03.been part of the team talk? Just try to stay there? Carla struggles with
:34:04. > :34:09.their intensity. I am not sure about these statistics, I thought she made
:34:10. > :34:13.a lot more unforced errors. It is making balls and getting a little
:34:14. > :34:20.bit more in the face of Ostapenko, which is something that Suarez
:34:21. > :34:23.Navarro, with her quiet, shy and introverted personality, finds
:34:24. > :34:32.difficult. But she has the skills to cause some problems.
:34:33. > :34:43.If looks could kill! One day it will not be at home with the Kardashians
:34:44. > :35:01.ayes, it will be at home with the Ostapenkos.
:35:02. > :35:10.Ostapenko, even though she is 20, she is like a petulant, difficult
:35:11. > :35:13.teenager and Annabel is the hardened professional who has been number two
:35:14. > :35:17.years and will not not take any nonsense. -- the hardened
:35:18. > :35:19.professional who has been on the tour four years and will not take
:35:20. > :36:03.any nonsense. That is a much smarter serve. You
:36:04. > :36:10.have to be very accurate with your deliveries against Ostapenko, if she
:36:11. > :36:17.hits a tumult probably not see it for a while. -- if she hits it you
:36:18. > :36:23.will probably not see it for awhile. Good news the Spaniard. She wins the
:36:24. > :36:30.point and the game and, important for her, she consolidates 2-0 in the
:36:31. > :36:35.early stages of the second set. When you get the looks that could kill
:36:36. > :36:38.from Ostapenko it is in the stark contrast to the ballroom dancing
:36:39. > :36:42.training she had for seven years. Ballroom dancers always have that
:36:43. > :36:47.manic smile. She can do that but she can do the opposite. What she has
:36:48. > :37:06.taken from ballroom dancing is performing. It has to be a show.
:37:07. > :37:15.The face in the first set we saw the good and the hitting of the lines,
:37:16. > :37:20.in this the ball is being spread everywhere.
:37:21. > :37:23.There is not a B+ game, like Petra Kvitova there is not just a game she
:37:24. > :37:25.can pull back from if everything is not going to plan. Even Serena
:37:26. > :38:23.Williams can pull back these days. This is just class from Suarez
:38:24. > :38:29.Navarro. She is so underrated as a player. That is so perfect,
:38:30. > :38:35.technically. Lovely feathery hands. She could play well on grass, she
:38:36. > :38:40.just has to believe. She had a lot of success in the doubles court. She
:38:41. > :38:49.is a real tennis player, Carla Suarez Navarro. Double fault from
:38:50. > :38:54.Ostapenko, incomplete contrast to what we saw in the first set now we
:38:55. > :38:55.are seeing the ugly side of Ostapenko because Suarez Navarro has
:38:56. > :39:11.raced to a double break 3-0 lead. Carla Suarez Navarro's tactic of
:39:12. > :39:16.waiting to see if the mistakes come, that is currently paying off. She
:39:17. > :39:19.has a little bit more Lens on her ball, using the sliced backhand
:39:20. > :39:28.more. She has this gorgeous top-spin. Let's just listening. Lets
:39:29. > :39:38.players are running longer, then see who is good in the point. OK? You
:39:39. > :39:45.had to be ready. No rush. Then the knees, keep playing the point. --
:39:46. > :39:51.bend the knees. When you have the opportunity, go for it. Let's see if
:39:52. > :39:56.she can play that aggressive all the match. For you, it is easy, this
:39:57. > :40:04.aggressiveness, because you are used to it. Let's see if she will be like
:40:05. > :40:07.this all the match. No complaints, please. No complaints. It's OK. Come
:40:08. > :40:32.on. UMPIRE: Time. A coaching time out for Elaine
:40:33. > :40:49.Ostapenko, a double break down in September two. -- set number two.
:40:50. > :40:57.I do enjoy these on Court coaching is with this particular scenario. I
:40:58. > :41:01.am not a fan per se, but there was a very good one in Rome when Annabel
:41:02. > :41:17.came on. The player calls the coach on, they cannot just one darn. --
:41:18. > :41:22.cannot just wander on. Annabel comes on, delivers an very important
:41:23. > :41:27.points and Jelena says it is this, I can't play, I am awful. Annabel
:41:28. > :41:32.says, did you bring me on just to complain, or are you going to
:41:33. > :41:47.listen? And that stopped any further conversation. It was great.
:41:48. > :41:56.I like the well that Annabel said at the end, no complaining. Just no
:41:57. > :42:03.complaining. She will not tolerate this. But is she said that, Jelena
:42:04. > :42:07.was still complaining. It is handy for Jelena, as a fellow Spaniard she
:42:08. > :42:08.knows Carla, she knows her traits and she knows that aggression is
:42:09. > :42:24.difficult for her. She is playing with more impetus and
:42:25. > :42:28.using the sliced backhand, which causes problems. A couple of
:42:29. > :42:32.opportunities for the Latvian French Open champion to get one of the two
:42:33. > :42:50.breaks that she is down back in the second set.
:42:51. > :43:03.Oh, lovely shot! Her racket work is supreme. There is not another woman
:43:04. > :43:07.on the planet who can hits a single hander like that. She does not get
:43:08. > :43:26.enough credit how beautiful her gamers. -- game is.
:43:27. > :43:51.She is currently the highest ranked woman with a single backhand.
:43:52. > :44:04.That really looked long. It was not that far. That is a junior mentality
:44:05. > :44:09.version of how far the ball was out. That was an immediate drop of the
:44:10. > :44:13.racket. Like when you catch a tiny fish and you go, no, it is too big.
:44:14. > :44:27.-- it is this big. Sadly for Ostapenko she was still on
:44:28. > :44:31.the previous point, motioning once again by how much she thought the
:44:32. > :44:39.previous ball missed. But the court stood, Suarez Navarro got on with
:44:40. > :44:42.doing her own thing. To have Hawk-Eye, it costs a few quid to get
:44:43. > :44:47.those cameras up there and process all the data. They just have it on
:44:48. > :45:23.Centre Court. Mentally and emotionally, she is
:45:24. > :45:27.spiralling. In her head there is a conspiracy against every shot she is
:45:28. > :45:38.playing that it is out when it is in.
:45:39. > :45:43.She might be out of this set but she needs to invest in it to get this
:45:44. > :46:06.game ready for the decider. I think she has a case. I think that
:46:07. > :46:10.was in. There is no way she will overrule on
:46:11. > :46:16.that file line, but I do think she has a point. -- that far line. I am
:46:17. > :46:21.not happy saying that because she has been complaining an awful lot,
:46:22. > :46:28.but... Oh, my eyesight is appalling. That is so far out. I am quitting
:46:29. > :46:30.now! I am going to ask for a refund from that laser eye surgery I had
:46:31. > :47:29.all those years ago. Coalface a point for a triple break
:47:30. > :47:34.the Carla Suarez Navarro. I think Ostapenko would be happy to see the
:47:35. > :47:39.back of the second set. She has felt there has been a conspiracy against
:47:40. > :47:40.with those line calls. Suarez Navarro, credit to her, is doing her
:47:41. > :47:55.thing and doing it well. In what seems like a blink of an
:47:56. > :47:59.eye, Carla Suarez Navarro has a triple break and leads the French
:48:00. > :48:06.Open champion by five games to love in the second set. STUDIO: Just to
:48:07. > :48:09.say that at that point Ostapenko had a medical time-out. If you're
:48:10. > :48:14.wondering why we're watching this match from last night, it is still
:48:15. > :48:17.raining at Eastbourne on Tuesday afternoon, this is from late on
:48:18. > :48:20.Monday night. It is still raining here and they have announced a few
:48:21. > :48:26.moments ago that there will definitely be no play here until
:48:27. > :48:30.3pm. Ostapenko at 5-0 down in the second set had a medical time-out,
:48:31. > :48:40.then they resumed play, here's what happened. COMMENTATOR: Back from the
:48:41. > :48:44.medical time-out. I saw her flexing that right leg at the end of the
:48:45. > :48:52.fifth game. And now, Sam Smith, it is heavily strapped? You tend to get
:48:53. > :48:55.those sort of injuries when you switch surfaces. Also it is probably
:48:56. > :49:10.coming from her back. There is probably some back tightness.
:49:11. > :49:17.The injury time-out was not ideal for colour. It took the first set to
:49:18. > :49:19.get to the required level of intensity for the match, not easy to
:49:20. > :49:37.have to sit for five or so minutes. There is a touch of the drama queen
:49:38. > :49:52.about Jelena. A very likeable young woman, but watch this space.
:49:53. > :49:57.Three set points for Carla Suarez Navarro. Made the fourth round at
:49:58. > :50:06.Wimbledon a couple of times, semifinal in Birmingham last year,
:50:07. > :50:12.looking for her first last 16 place at Eastbourne. We are set for a
:50:13. > :50:17.deciding set. There it is, a little bit of a late
:50:18. > :50:21.call and a bit of a look from Jelena Ostapenko, but the call stands, as
:50:22. > :50:25.does the point and the game, meaning back Carla Suarez Navarro, with a
:50:26. > :50:29.triple break, there was a medical time-out for Ostapenko but the
:50:30. > :50:31.Spaniard did what she needed to do, she has taken the second set 6-0 and
:50:32. > :51:20.we are going into a decider. I just went later in the afternoon,
:51:21. > :51:23.the early evening, I'm not sure what the cut-off is between late
:51:24. > :51:36.afternoon, early evening, there is some moisture picking up. You just
:51:37. > :51:57.saw Carla having a little scared. -- a little skid.
:51:58. > :52:04.Tactically Ostapenko needs to aim to Rush Suarez Navarro on the forehand.
:52:05. > :52:07.Playing Ostapenko, I imagine the problem is that the ball comes to
:52:08. > :52:09.hard, fast and early but also Sidibe to the baseline, you do not have
:52:10. > :52:22.time. I think a slightly injured Ostapenko
:52:23. > :52:27.is an even more dangerous animal on the tennis court, she will probably
:52:28. > :52:31.just swing. Looking back historically, she has lots of the
:52:32. > :52:39.scorelines. She plays big momentum swings in her matches. -- lots of
:52:40. > :52:43.these scorelines. If you looks back over the last few season, this is
:52:44. > :52:47.only her third main year on the tour, the rise is extraordinary from
:52:48. > :52:50.being the junior champion, she probably has more 6-0, 6-1 sets than
:52:51. > :53:06.anybody else out there. Big ball striking seems to be back
:53:07. > :53:10.from Ostapenko. Takes the points in the game. Under way in the deciding
:53:11. > :53:17.set. A slight limp on the walk from Ostapenko. But she know she has a
:53:18. > :53:25.reassurance and even if the movement is not quite there, how big flat she
:53:26. > :53:29.can strike that on the surface. Some players like Dominika Cibulkova,
:53:30. > :53:32.Simona Halep, Radwanska, Caroline Wozniacki, they are so reliant on
:53:33. > :53:41.their movement that if they are carrying an injury it is very
:53:42. > :53:45.difficult for them to carry on. Ostapenko, this is the first set
:53:46. > :53:50.summary, smashing so many winners. The second set, did not hit as many
:53:51. > :53:54.and more errors. You always want to look at the error ratio with her.
:53:55. > :53:58.Remember the early days of Serena Williams, she made lots of unforced
:53:59. > :53:59.errors. You always looking up that numbers, that told exactly where she
:54:00. > :54:28.was with her game. The winner of this match will face
:54:29. > :54:37.either Johanna Konta or Cirstea. It is a pack revealed. -- packed field.
:54:38. > :54:43.If it is Sorana Cirstea, they will have to reinforce the tennis balls
:54:44. > :54:51.with those two! That is what is extraordinary, when
:54:52. > :54:55.you get a close, the ball striking, the sound of it off the rackets,
:54:56. > :54:58.they are using this updated equipment, the new strings which
:54:59. > :55:01.gives so much more control so you can swing away and hardly miss, they
:55:02. > :55:25.have taken full advantage of it. Ostapenko is back with us. The club
:55:26. > :55:29.rather like the shower in my hotel room, scorching hot one moment,
:55:30. > :55:38.touch the dials and it is freezing the next. I never quite know what
:55:39. > :56:00.state my skin will be in from one second to the next!
:56:01. > :56:08.There we go, the first break point opportunity in this deciding said.
:56:09. > :56:12.Ostapenko takes her opportunity, breaks to love, leads by two games
:56:13. > :56:16.to love. I would love you to interview her and compare her to the
:56:17. > :56:21.shower in your hotel room, see where she goes with that! I will leave
:56:22. > :56:25.that to you! When you prepare to play Ostapenko you might as well
:56:26. > :56:28.practised your half volleys from the baseline, I cannot believe how many
:56:29. > :56:45.Suarez Navarro has had to hit in this match.
:56:46. > :56:51.Just gets a little quick with the action. If you think about a service
:56:52. > :56:55.motion, it is very quick at the start, it builds and accept rates.
:56:56. > :57:00.Hers starts off very quick and it quickens up. She does not have
:57:01. > :57:25.anywhere to load the potential energy.
:57:26. > :57:31.Did you ever have a side that you wanted your balls coming from? I was
:57:32. > :57:36.happy that there was somebody to throw them at me. I spent a lot of
:57:37. > :57:40.tournaments where I picked it my own balls! Particularly on Centre Court
:57:41. > :58:00.at Eastbourne, you could not manage without the ball kids.
:58:01. > :58:07.This venue is used to something called County Week, where the best
:58:08. > :58:11.counties play each other, men and women, but you don't have ball boys
:58:12. > :58:17.and ball girls, you pick your own balls up. Can you imagine, it goes
:58:18. > :58:18.for miles. Matches take together, always tromping off to get the
:58:19. > :58:59.balls! -- matches take forever. Suarez Navarro was practically on
:59:00. > :59:08.Beachy head, she was so far back. She was four or five metres behind
:59:09. > :59:12.the baseline. They do just need a camera following her facial
:59:13. > :59:18.expressions. She will have her own reality TV show one day. The
:59:19. > :59:26.Kardashians will be old hat very soon. At Home With The Ostapenkos
:59:27. > :59:29.has a good ring to it! She has a brother who could get involved, her
:59:30. > :59:38.father is a former football player, get involved.
:59:39. > :59:45.Punishment of the short server. Suarez Navarro has broken back. 2-1
:59:46. > :59:52.in the decider. And there is also a dog. The dog
:59:53. > :59:58.could be At Home With The Ostapenkos. Sybil Clover has two
:59:59. > :00:04.Yorkshire terriers who travel with her. Ostapenko's dog is a Yorkshire
:00:05. > :00:10.terrier, she used to trouble but does not like flying. It is to stay
:00:11. > :00:16.home. How does a dog tell you it does not like flying?! It is just
:00:17. > :00:22.obvious, isn't it? Can't choose sedate nicely? Legally? From past
:00:23. > :00:31.experience of flying with babies you can calm them. Can't do that with a
:00:32. > :00:36.dog? This dog is her beloved dog. Players quite often travelled with
:00:37. > :00:41.dogs, I think it started with Martina Navratilova, who had kadi,
:00:42. > :00:48.Killer Dog,, it used to bite players. Martina used to have these
:00:49. > :00:52.dogs and so did some others. Many players over the years have
:00:53. > :00:59.travelled with dogs, they tend to be small. Handbag dogs. Serena has one.
:01:00. > :01:03.You could not have a whopping great beast, it would need a seat. The
:01:04. > :01:11.Ostapenko's Yorkshire terrier does not want to travel any more.
:01:12. > :01:23.Aletta lover that stubbornness. -- a little of that stubbornness. Yes, a
:01:24. > :01:50.family trait! If Carla can get hold of the ball,
:01:51. > :01:53.the ideal would be to play it with an awful lot of width, because she
:01:54. > :01:58.can play with angle, wants to get the ball low as well, just make life
:01:59. > :02:14.uncomfortable for Ostapenko. I'm sure it's hard not to smile for
:02:15. > :02:54.her coach. At times. You have to be more accurate with
:02:55. > :03:00.your serving. Look at the way she got her body out of the way of the
:03:01. > :03:04.ball. She just lets the racket head go through. I wish Heather Watson
:03:05. > :03:18.would do that. Let those super powerful rackets do the work.
:03:19. > :03:26.She is 100% trusts the racket. She has put all her faith in it when she
:03:27. > :03:32.opens up and hits. Sometimes the racket face can be open, and that is
:03:33. > :03:44.often via her ball flies long, because she hasn't had time to close
:03:45. > :03:46.the face. Same again. Fought that point does, it means that Carla
:03:47. > :03:51.Suarez Navarro levels up after getting the break back, so we are
:03:52. > :03:58.locked at 2-2 in the deciding set. First match of the year on grass for
:03:59. > :04:02.the French Open champion. Navarro suffered first-round exit on grass
:04:03. > :04:08.in Majorca. It is not a surface that she loves particularly likes. --
:04:09. > :04:21.that she loves or particularly likes.
:04:22. > :04:34.There was a big screen set up in Riga in Latvia, in the town square,
:04:35. > :04:37.for everyone to watch. Imagine, you have just turned 20 and a large part
:04:38. > :05:21.of your country is watching you on a big screen.
:05:22. > :05:27.It's a lot for these youngsters to take in. Simona Halep, when she
:05:28. > :05:38.burst through a few years ago, became an overnight superstar in
:05:39. > :05:46.Romania. That is why it is fingers crossed here for year Lane -- for
:05:47. > :05:55.Jelena, that she can keep it together for the next few months and
:05:56. > :05:59.get used to this status. I have a feeling that the way she has always
:06:00. > :06:03.carried herself in juniors and her first two years on the tour, in her
:06:04. > :06:05.head, she has always been a superstar. What is happening now is
:06:06. > :06:34.just completely normal. It's... First little cry from Ostapenko
:06:35. > :07:05.brings up game point. Carla Suarez Navarro is muttering to herself.
:07:06. > :07:13.A lovely shot, that backhand from Carla Suarez Navarro. Sheepfold
:07:14. > :07:20.Ostapenko beyond the singles tramline. -- she told Ostapenko.
:07:21. > :07:23.There are not many places on the court where you think she cannot
:07:24. > :07:27.pick a winner. Even if you hit the ball down the centre deep, she gets
:07:28. > :07:33.her body out of the way so well, and she can hit winners from everywhere.
:07:34. > :08:14.That is poor from Suarez Navarro. A rare foray to the net for Jelena
:08:15. > :08:20.Ostapenko bears fruit. She holds serve, well and truly pumped up now.
:08:21. > :08:23.3-2 she reads in the decider. A lot of the movement we touched on comes
:08:24. > :08:31.back to the ballroom dancing training. Her footwork is so elegant
:08:32. > :08:35.as she moves around the court. Balances not spoken about enough in
:08:36. > :08:38.tennis, and how important it is. Think of Novak Djokovic, he was a
:08:39. > :08:47.former skier, how balanced he is, and how important... Simona Halep is
:08:48. > :08:53.another example. It has started to be more of a priority when you are
:08:54. > :08:58.developing a young player. We have had players come from all sorts of
:08:59. > :09:05.different sports. Angelique Kerber from swimming, Simona Halep was a
:09:06. > :09:15.very good handball player. We have had volleyball players as well. Coco
:09:16. > :09:20.Vandeweghe play basketball. And Carla Suarez Navarro is one of the
:09:21. > :09:25.best football players on the tour, and a hand a basketball player. Who?
:09:26. > :09:32.Carla Suarez Navarro. Someone had to break it to her that it might not
:09:33. > :09:44.work out. That because of her height? She is five foot four. Yes.
:09:45. > :09:48.It is awful to specialise too early. One player on the mend's tour played
:09:49. > :09:58.so many sports in his teens, and it is so good to do these other things.
:09:59. > :10:13.What would have been your sport other than tennis? Tennis was my
:10:14. > :10:21.second sport. Swimming was my first. Oh... There have been quite a few
:10:22. > :10:30.competitive swimmers who have had to choose. Curb had the same - swimming
:10:31. > :10:38.and then tennis. -- Angelique Kerber. Especially when you're
:10:39. > :10:42.younger, it is better to work on different sports because it works
:10:43. > :10:46.different skills and areas. Being a swimmer gives your body a good
:10:47. > :10:53.structure, and it is fantastic coordination as well. -- it is
:10:54. > :11:14.fantastic for coordination as well. I like how Ostapenko is aggressive
:11:15. > :11:18.on serve. She will step up, step in and say, if you drop anything
:11:19. > :11:22.slightly short, I am on it. And she is always looking to get up the
:11:23. > :11:27.court, very much a Venus and Serena trait. She steps forward and goes
:11:28. > :11:38.after it, never takes a step backwards. It is a great brand of
:11:39. > :11:42.tennis. But to play this way, you have got to back yourself, and there
:11:43. > :11:48.is something within her, a great well of self belief, and I don't
:11:49. > :13:26.know where that comes from, but she has got it.
:13:27. > :13:43.A little bit of a slip, as later in the day the grass gets a little you
:13:44. > :13:46.on it. -- a little dew on it. That is why it is good to have a long
:13:47. > :13:50.grass court season coming into Wimbledon, because by then, your
:13:51. > :13:58.foot pattern is right and you will make smaller steps. There is the
:13:59. > :14:02.point and a break for Jelena Ostapenko. She got up very early
:14:03. > :14:07.break in this second game of this deciding set. She was immediately
:14:08. > :14:14.broken back, but as you heard, she regained the advantage and a break,
:14:15. > :14:19.and leads 4-2. Another thing with Jelena, like all the top players,
:14:20. > :14:23.the ones that are very comfortable at the top, she is a fantastic front
:14:24. > :15:30.runner, loves being ahead. She doesn't quite stay with a
:15:31. > :15:34.backhand long enough. Think of how long Novak Djokovic stays on the
:15:35. > :15:42.ball with his arms - she is a little quick through the shop. She is a
:15:43. > :15:49.Grand Slam champion and she is so raw still, so much to work on. And
:15:50. > :15:57.it was her first tour- level title. Imagine when she is older - friended
:15:58. > :16:01.you win your first title? Hers was in the French capital and it was a
:16:02. > :16:03.Grand Slam. And her ranking tells you a lot as well, how quickly she
:16:04. > :16:20.has moved up. They year she won the juniors at
:16:21. > :16:26.Wimbledon, 2014, she was ranked 300 in the seniors. One year later, she
:16:27. > :16:30.finished inside the world top 80. In her second year, top 50, and her
:16:31. > :16:36.third year, she will be in the top ten. And we might really be looking
:16:37. > :16:41.at a multiple slam winner here, a potential world number one. All the
:16:42. > :16:58.big names have all progressed on that kind of trajectory.
:16:59. > :17:09.I just love the racket drop, the absolute horror from Ostapenko - did
:17:10. > :17:17.I do that? How could I do that? Give her 18 months, and I have a feeling
:17:18. > :17:23.that most of that will be gone. I want it to stay. She needs to lose
:17:24. > :17:29.that whole junior tennis gig. She has got to get that ball past is
:17:30. > :17:45.sorted. It is so far left, she has to kick it. -- that ball toss.
:17:46. > :17:50.Navarro said, have that, Ostapenko said, have this. That had to be a
:17:51. > :17:55.winner. It needed to be another one metre, right over to the line,
:17:56. > :18:00.because she was so overcommitted. That is good anticipation from
:18:01. > :19:48.Ostapenko. Another opportunity for the Spaniard.
:19:49. > :20:02.Another cry from the Latvian. I know we touched on the junior tennis
:20:03. > :20:05.aspect, racket dropping, getting knocked out of her game, but we
:20:06. > :20:09.talked about this with Nick Kyrgios in the mend's tour, how much you
:20:10. > :20:12.knock out and how much you keep, because you have to be careful not
:20:13. > :20:18.to lose too much of the personality, because a little bit of that is
:20:19. > :20:23.Jelena Ostapenko. Which, in many ways, is why it has been so good
:20:24. > :20:27.that her mother has overseen her development, because no one knows
:20:28. > :20:30.you better than your parents, and that is absolutely key - be mother
:20:31. > :20:34.would know how much to get onto her and how much to pull back, but she
:20:35. > :20:38.is at an age where it will be detrimental to her tennis, and it
:20:39. > :20:45.will be upset the locker room, and it already has. How much does that
:20:46. > :20:49.matter? It really does matter. You don't want to have players who
:20:50. > :20:53.really want to beat you because they think you are a pain. It doesn't
:20:54. > :20:57.help you at all out there, and you want to have good relations so that
:20:58. > :21:02.you players to play doubles with, to practice with as well. It is her
:21:03. > :21:07.coping mechanism, that's all. When she is under stress, she looks to
:21:08. > :21:10.blame the umpire, the line call, something else, someone sitting in
:21:11. > :21:16.the stands. I don't think they will have to crack down on that too much,
:21:17. > :21:21.and I take your point - you don't what to lose what is good. I think
:21:22. > :21:29.it will gradually ease. -- you don't want to lose what is good. Carla
:21:30. > :21:37.Suarez Navarro missed a couple of tournaments early in the year, hence
:21:38. > :21:38.the dropping down in the rankings. Serving to stay in the tournament
:21:39. > :23:21.now. Navarro has been hammered on that
:23:22. > :23:32.area, but it has been an issue for most of her career. That serve is
:23:33. > :23:40.just sitting up. Suarez Navarro does what she needed to do to hang on in
:23:41. > :23:42.there summer but now a chance for the French Open champion,
:23:43. > :24:53.20-year-old Jelena Ostapenko, to serve her way into the final 16.
:24:54. > :25:02.That is seven double faults now for Ostapenko. Under pressure, that very
:25:03. > :25:10.quick chin gets more jerky and speeds up -- that very quick action
:25:11. > :25:16.gets more jerky and speeds up. What she does do when she makes big
:25:17. > :25:25.mistakes is, she has a little complain, looks at Mum or Annabelle,
:25:26. > :25:28.and then she resets very well. She does reset very quickly, puts things
:25:29. > :25:44.in the past. A couple of break points for Carla
:25:45. > :25:50.Suarez Navarro to get her back on serve, keep this match alive,
:25:51. > :25:54.second-round encounter here in Eastbourne, Ostapenko with Rabbi in
:25:55. > :26:10.the first round, as did the top 16 seeds, and she is number ten.
:26:11. > :26:16.There we go, a little bit of a helping hand from Jelena Ostapenko,
:26:17. > :26:20.but Carla Suarez Navarro will keep that because she is not heading back
:26:21. > :26:23.to her bench to pack up her bags. She is going to take a break and
:26:24. > :26:32.then wait to see what she can do, because we're back on server 5-4.
:26:33. > :26:35.This guy speaks very quickly in Spanish, so he is hard to pick up.
:26:36. > :27:17.HE SPEAKS SPANISH because you stop Jon Rahm... Keep
:27:18. > :27:28.playing -- you stop your arm. Keep playing the point. Once you hit the
:27:29. > :27:40.ball, close and accelerate. Chica, come on. I quite like it when the
:27:41. > :27:44.coach leaves before the umpire calls time, because I feel that you have
:27:45. > :27:51.to have 10-20 seconds to process what they have said, and just have
:27:52. > :27:56.some time for yourself. Very good words from Annabel. She is
:27:57. > :27:59.impressive. How about your Spanish? I think it was about being
:28:00. > :28:05.aggressive and intense. That's my best guess! We're back on serve,
:28:06. > :28:58.4-5, Suarez Navarro. Ostapenko would love to close here
:28:59. > :29:01.will stop there is a difficult shadow on the court now, and it is
:29:02. > :29:16.difficult when the ball comes out of the shade and into the light.
:29:17. > :29:27.Punishing the Suarez Navarro serve once again. Whatever the scoreline,
:29:28. > :29:32.whatever the momentum was, she just backs herself. This is such an
:29:33. > :29:37.important match for Ostapenko, on the back of the French Open win. Her
:29:38. > :29:46.first grass match, her first match since winning the title in Paris.
:29:47. > :29:54.We have a first match points -- our first match points of the contest,
:29:55. > :30:24.on the Spaniard's serve. Disappointment for Carla Suarez
:30:25. > :30:27.Navarro, concedes the contest with a double fault, meaning the French
:30:28. > :30:32.Open champion in her first match since winning the title in the
:30:33. > :30:43.French capital moves on to the round 16. The final score, 6-3, 0- six,
:30:44. > :30:49.6-4. You had us all really worried. What
:30:50. > :30:52.is up with your like, how you doing? I am fine but during the second set
:30:53. > :30:57.I pulled a muscle a little bit, I think. I started to feed it. It was
:30:58. > :31:01.tough today because I did not play for a couple of weeks after the
:31:02. > :31:06.French, and it is the first match on grass, I am really happy that I won.
:31:07. > :31:18.Mentally, how did you reset for that third set? You are not feeling
:31:19. > :31:21.physically great, given the second set. What did you say to yourself?
:31:22. > :31:23.Carla is a great player and was fighting for every ball, I was
:31:24. > :31:26.trying to fight and play every point. Obviously you had great
:31:27. > :31:31.success at Roland Garros, we are dying to know, how did you
:31:32. > :31:34.celebrate? Did you buy at handbag, go shopping, what? I did some
:31:35. > :31:40.shopping and spent time with family and friends and did a celebration,
:31:41. > :31:44.then I had to get ready for grass. It is now the grass court season,
:31:45. > :31:49.how did you take yourself away from the win at Roland Garros mentally
:31:50. > :31:54.and refocus for those couple of weeks? It is a completely different
:31:55. > :31:58.servers, I think my game fits grass because I play aggressive. I just
:31:59. > :32:04.prepared and now I am looking forward to my next match. When you
:32:05. > :32:11.walk onto the court each time, you always have earphones in. What were
:32:12. > :32:15.you listening to when you walked on? Some Russian music. I always listen
:32:16. > :32:19.almost to the same song before the match, if I keep winning I keep
:32:20. > :32:26.listening to that song. It is a lucky charm right now? Yes. Many
:32:27. > :32:31.congratulations Jelena. Ladies and gentlemen, your lane Ostapenko!
:32:32. > :32:37.STUDIO: The camera lies, that was last night. Blue skies. It was
:32:38. > :32:44.barmy, fantastic. This is how it is now, it is just grim. There is a
:32:45. > :32:48.carpet of grey hanging over Eastbourne at the moment, rain
:32:49. > :32:52.falling down and the chances of us seeing any more played today, I
:32:53. > :32:57.think, is pretty limited. That sounds a bit downbeat but we were
:32:58. > :33:01.hoping to have seen Jo Konta in action, Angelique Kerber, this is
:33:02. > :33:06.how the top half of the draw looks at the moment. As we move onto the
:33:07. > :33:10.second quarter, some big names still to enter the fray. I suspect they
:33:11. > :33:17.are all back at their hotels waiting for the call at the moment, but they
:33:18. > :33:21.might think it will be tomorrow at the earliest. Without wishing to add
:33:22. > :33:24.gloom, the forecast for tomorrow is not much better. We are not
:33:25. > :33:29.downtrodden, we are upbeat and hoping we will see these big names
:33:30. > :33:32.at some point over the next 48 hours or so, it is worth saying that the
:33:33. > :33:35.women's draw here is the best I think it has ever been in the
:33:36. > :33:41.history of the Egon classic at Eastbourne. As far as the men's
:33:42. > :33:44.draw, it was given an unbelievable shot in the arm when Novak Djokovic
:33:45. > :33:50.chip announced that because of the recent travails he was having, he
:33:51. > :33:54.would play here. He has sprinkled some stardust on Eastbourne, the
:33:55. > :33:58.crowds were out in force at first thing this morning to see him
:33:59. > :34:02.practice. He went on court against Vasek Pospisil of Canada but only
:34:03. > :34:07.played one game before the rain came down. He has been talking to Russell
:34:08. > :34:17.Fuller about what it is like to be in Sussex by the sea.
:34:18. > :34:24.Normally at this sort of time we might expect to see you at
:34:25. > :34:28.Wimbledon, practising for the Championships next week, why have
:34:29. > :34:32.you change your schedule and country Eastbourne? I wanted to change
:34:33. > :34:38.things around a little bit. Challenge my routine. As you have
:34:39. > :34:43.said, for the last seven years I have not had any leader tournament
:34:44. > :34:48.to Wimbledon, I have had that privilege to have lots of success on
:34:49. > :34:54.the clay courts and play a lot of matches coming into grass court
:34:55. > :34:59.season. The decision was always to skip the Queen's or the other one
:35:00. > :35:05.because they were too close to the end of Roland Garros. The schedule
:35:06. > :35:09.has changed a little bit in the last couple of years, we gain an extra
:35:10. > :35:14.week. I thought it was too early for me to play Queen's and I wanted more
:35:15. > :35:19.time to spend with my family and to rest. But I still wanted to have a
:35:20. > :35:24.couple of matches coming into Wimbledon. That is why I have
:35:25. > :35:28.decided to country Eastbourne. It is not far from London, it is very
:35:29. > :35:32.close. Playing on grass is completely different from any other
:35:33. > :35:37.surface, it takes time to readjust your movement on the court and
:35:38. > :35:42.everything happens very quickly. Service is probably the most
:35:43. > :35:46.important element. I came here a bit earlier to get some practice
:35:47. > :35:51.sessions on the surface, get myself adjusted as much as I can. I am
:35:52. > :35:55.excited to be in a new place, I don't often get to do that. We have
:35:56. > :36:00.pretty much the same schedule every single year over and over, it is
:36:01. > :36:08.great to visit new places. It is a small town but everybody is excited
:36:09. > :36:13.to come out on the courts and supports the tennis players. It is a
:36:14. > :36:18.combined event, lots of matches on the outside court, so you can feel
:36:19. > :36:23.the great vibe around the court. How are you feeling about your game in
:36:24. > :36:26.general? You have been used to having so much success that we sit
:36:27. > :36:29.up and take notice when you only make the quarterfinals at Roland
:36:30. > :36:35.Garros, but did that defeat to Dominic Thiem affect your
:36:36. > :36:40.confidence? It is normal to say that I am not
:36:41. > :36:44.playing looking at my results in the last five or six months, I am not
:36:45. > :36:50.playing at my best, I am aware of it. I had to stay positive about
:36:51. > :36:58.myself and my game, I have to trust my capabilities to get back to the
:36:59. > :37:03.level that I want to be in, to be able to compete for the biggest
:37:04. > :37:07.titles in the sport. Honestly I have never experienced this particular
:37:08. > :37:14.situation since I started playing professional tennis. I was very
:37:15. > :37:20.fortunate to experience and upwards direction in terms of results and
:37:21. > :37:26.improving the game. For the first time now in a stretch of seven or
:37:27. > :37:34.eight months I have not won any big tournaments. I have been struggling
:37:35. > :37:42.with the level of tennis. It had to happen sooner or later, I am really
:37:43. > :37:48.glad it did because it made me start asking myself certain questions,
:37:49. > :37:55.seeing things that may be over the last couple of years I had so much
:37:56. > :38:00.success but I went with my head to the wall many times when I felt so
:38:01. > :38:06.confident and I ignored the signals from my body and mind to take a bit
:38:07. > :38:12.of a rest and be able to be rational with myself, I was not. I had lots
:38:13. > :38:18.of success, I can't complain. I am very, very content with that. But
:38:19. > :38:22.sooner or later I hoped it would not come, but it came, now I have to
:38:23. > :38:26.deal with it and figure out the way, figure out all the roles in my life
:38:27. > :38:30.and how to balance things around, how to get back on the desired
:38:31. > :38:34.level. I am looking for the best version of myself at the moment, the
:38:35. > :38:40.process will probably take a little bit of time and I will try to be
:38:41. > :38:52.patient. I am not sure Eastbourne could cope with Novak Djokovic and
:38:53. > :38:55.Andre Agassi in the same week, is there any prospect of him coming
:38:56. > :38:57.here or, more importantly, will he be at Wimbledon? He will be in
:38:58. > :39:01.London for Wimbledon and I look forward to spending time with him.
:39:02. > :39:06.It is fantastic to have him as part of my team, part of my life. He is
:39:07. > :39:17.an extraordinary person, someone that cares a lot about this sport
:39:18. > :39:21.and about values in life, about the character features that he has been
:39:22. > :39:27.building and nurturing for so many years. He is trying to always
:39:28. > :39:35.emphasise the importance of knowing who you are and working on those
:39:36. > :39:42.character features and trying to be the best version of yourself outside
:39:43. > :39:47.and inside of the tennis lines. Every day is a lesson learned with
:39:48. > :39:51.Andre. I have tried to use those eight or nine days we spent in
:39:52. > :39:59.Roland Garros as best as I could, we got to know each other, shared lots
:40:00. > :40:05.of nice things. I look forward to growing in that relationship even
:40:06. > :40:10.more and we will see what awaits us on the court. A thoughtful, pensive
:40:11. > :40:14.and philosophical Djokovic. Listening to that was one of the
:40:15. > :40:18.giants of the press room of tennis for the last... I hate to think how
:40:19. > :40:22.many decades, Richard Evans, the voice of tennis on BBC radio for so
:40:23. > :40:28.many years. When you listen to Djokovic talking it is amazing to
:40:29. > :40:32.think that 12 months ago he came to Wimbledon master of surveyed, almost
:40:33. > :40:45.untouchable and unbeatable, 12 months and he seems as vulnerable on
:40:46. > :40:47.court is off. How do you rationalise that? He achieved a lifetime
:40:48. > :40:49.ambition, won his fourth slam, not numerically, but all four by winning
:40:50. > :40:52.the French, which he always thought would be the most difficult. I think
:40:53. > :40:58.it was like popping a balloon, I have done that. But then a few
:40:59. > :41:03.personal problems crept in and he lost it mentally. Those who sat in
:41:04. > :41:06.his press conferences like you do, month after month, we suddenly found
:41:07. > :41:18.ourselves talking to a different guy. No longer the hard-nosed game.
:41:19. > :41:23.He was philosophical and going off at tangents and the focus had gone.
:41:24. > :41:31.I think he was trying to get that back that he has not yet. If he has
:41:32. > :41:33.issues, has Andy Murray? He lost at Queen's in the first round, he
:41:34. > :41:38.announced he would have a hip injury so he will not be playing in the
:41:39. > :41:42.exhibition match. He might be fine but he might not. He might be going
:41:43. > :41:46.to Wimbledon next week having played just one game of grass court tennis
:41:47. > :41:52.of any merit since the end of last year. Where do you think he is at
:41:53. > :41:57.the moment? He has pricked a few balloons as well. We are not sure
:41:58. > :42:01.about Andy He looks back to his best in Paris, he was one tie break away
:42:02. > :42:04.from getting to the French Open final, meaning he is playing good
:42:05. > :42:11.tennis. But then the first-round loss at Queen's was a major setback
:42:12. > :42:17.for him, I think and a shock to him. He had shingles, that is not easy to
:42:18. > :42:21.get over. Again, after that amazing last six months of last year when he
:42:22. > :42:26.won practically everything there was to win apart from the US Open,
:42:27. > :42:31.including Wimbledon and retaining his gold medal in Rio, that takes so
:42:32. > :42:35.much out of you, not just physically. The concentration and
:42:36. > :42:39.the travelling, winning one week in Beijing, next week Shanghai, next
:42:40. > :42:43.week Vienna. Try the travel, that would ruin most people. In between
:42:44. > :42:48.he is getting off these aeroplanes and playing the best tennis of his
:42:49. > :42:53.life month after month, that leaves its mark and he realises that now.
:42:54. > :42:58.Whether he can refresh himself, I don't know, he got a hip injury. Our
:42:59. > :43:09.colleague Kathryn Whittaker has just been speaking to Grigor Dimitrov,
:43:10. > :43:12.who has practised with him a lot, including in December in Miami, he
:43:13. > :43:14.says it is nothing to worry about. No one knows about Andy Murray's
:43:15. > :43:17.body except for Andy Murray. There is a chance he can click back into
:43:18. > :43:21.gear at Wimbledon, if he gets a couple of wins and his belt, who
:43:22. > :43:26.knows? Talking about reinvention, Halys Roger Federer the bookmakers
:43:27. > :43:33.favourite to win Wimbledon this year for the eighth time? It is
:43:34. > :43:37.extraordinary. I tell you is most astounded when he won the Australian
:43:38. > :43:41.Open, Roger Federer. He was off court for six months, he came back
:43:42. > :43:45.and in his own mind he said it make the quarterfinals I will be doing
:43:46. > :43:49.well. He ended up not only winning but beating Nadal over five sets in
:43:50. > :43:53.the final, which is something he had never done before and he always felt
:43:54. > :43:58.he could not beat Nadal over five sets. He started off in a rush
:43:59. > :44:03.against Nadal, that is where Ivan Ljubicic, his coach who has been him
:44:04. > :44:07.for the last year, was very good. He said to him before that match, get
:44:08. > :44:14.rid of the mindset that you have to start fast. You can't beat this guy
:44:15. > :44:18.in five sets. Believe it. And he did, from a break down in fifth. I
:44:19. > :44:23.don't know if you saw it, I was common trading on Australian Open
:44:24. > :44:30.radio, it was 4-3 with a to Nadal, certainly within ten minutes it was
:44:31. > :44:37.the reserves... Reverse, Federer had the break. Then to win Indian Wells
:44:38. > :44:40.and Miami, the start was unbelievable. We can't get you here
:44:41. > :44:44.without talking about your extraordinary career in the media
:44:45. > :44:51.watching tennis, and elsewhere, mind you. Your first Wimbledon was when?
:44:52. > :44:57.1960, Neale Fraser beat a young redhead who had not won yet, Rob
:44:58. > :45:04.Lever. And the best final you ever saw? Federer against Nadal? The most
:45:05. > :45:08.intriguing, fascinating, intriguing match I saw was Arthur Ashe beating
:45:09. > :45:13.Jimmy Connors in 1975, not just because they were in litigation,
:45:14. > :45:18.Jimmy Connors was saving the ATP and Arthur Ashe is president of the ATP
:45:19. > :45:21.personally, Connors was beating everybody, the locker room was
:45:22. > :45:26.saying he was unbeatable, he had always beaten Arsenal. Arthur got
:45:27. > :45:30.together with his team the night before and said we have got to do
:45:31. > :45:33.something different, Arthur went out in the most important match of his
:45:34. > :45:38.life, he knew he would never get another chance to win Wimbledon, and
:45:39. > :45:42.he played contrary to his entire style. Instead of wham, bam, thank
:45:43. > :45:47.you ma'am, which was his style, he's soft bald Connors to death. He gave
:45:48. > :45:54.him a droopy drop shots and lobbed him and took all the pace off the
:45:55. > :45:59.ball, Connors was lost because Connors fed off the pace of others.
:46:00. > :46:04.He had such an eye that he could feed off the pace of others, when
:46:05. > :46:08.you took that away he was helpless. It was an astounding intellectual
:46:09. > :46:11.exercise, also being able to do it. It is not easy to go pitter patter
:46:12. > :46:17.when you are used to hitting the ball is 100 mph. Arthur Ashe's place
:46:18. > :46:21.in the pantheon of tennis game changers is pretty significant. I
:46:22. > :46:24.thought we would move on to talk about the women's game, here is an
:46:25. > :46:33.archive piece about one of the most influential women in all of sport.
:46:34. > :46:40.How are you, good to see you? I am Fed. Wimbledon, tradition and
:46:41. > :46:46.innovation. Combining this two gives the texture. There is something
:46:47. > :46:50.magical about that place. I grew up dreaming and reading about
:46:51. > :46:54.Wimbledon. I love the history, I knew every champion in singles,
:46:55. > :46:58.doubles and mixed. When I was 17 they sent me for my first time, I
:46:59. > :47:02.loved the intimacy and beat symmetry, I had dreams about this
:47:03. > :47:08.since forever. I immediately fell in love with it and I thought, this is
:47:09. > :47:12.just happen. That Centre Court is divine. My very
:47:13. > :47:16.first match ever at Wimbledon was on Centre Court.
:47:17. > :47:21.The fun part is when you open the doors and you start to see the
:47:22. > :47:26.people to your left. If you look to go back, you see the Royal box. You
:47:27. > :47:31.turn your corner and you go, that is beautiful. The worst was when you
:47:32. > :47:35.had to turn around to the service line and do the curtsy. My God, both
:47:36. > :47:42.of us would go, I am glad that is over.
:47:43. > :47:46.Let's talk fashion. To see Fred Perry, he gave me four shirts and
:47:47. > :47:51.two skirts, that is always a big deal. If you talk to the Americans,
:47:52. > :47:56.I want to get Fred Perry! I love him, I knew he had won three
:47:57. > :48:01.Wimbledons in a row, I know all about them. Gave me the clothes, but
:48:02. > :48:05.the initials, we thought we had gone to heaven. You had some serious
:48:06. > :48:12.glasses when you first came over. I still do! You only had about two
:48:13. > :48:19.traces in the 60 's. I didn't like them but it was all they had!
:48:20. > :48:23.I was sitting on the same court with him, still playing a little. There
:48:24. > :48:28.was a sense of intensity to my right, I look over and it is this
:48:29. > :48:34.kid. I go back to the fence whether coaches are sitting, what is the
:48:35. > :48:39.name of this kid? Boris Becker. I said, I think he has got something
:48:40. > :48:43.extra. There he is, two years later he wins
:48:44. > :48:45.the men's singles, I could not believe it, I saw him when he was 15
:48:46. > :48:58.and he was amazing. That is just part of a documentary
:48:59. > :49:03.that is on Sunday at 5:20pm. 90 years on the BBC, goodness! And you
:49:04. > :49:09.have been there for everyone, Richard! Almost. 50 years next year,
:49:10. > :49:15.Billie Jean was at the heart of what happened as the game went from being
:49:16. > :49:17.amateur to being open. How symbolic was that, sociological ER and
:49:18. > :49:23.politically and how has it transformed the sport we have now?
:49:24. > :49:27.Totally, 100%. The BBC was complicit in the whole thing, the head of BBC
:49:28. > :49:33.sport at the time wanted to have an outdoor broadcast in colour, he went
:49:34. > :49:37.to Herman David, chairman of the All-England Club in 1967 and
:49:38. > :49:40.Hermannsson don't really want to get the professionals here, which was a
:49:41. > :49:44.revolutionary thought, because the professionals were not allowed in
:49:45. > :49:54.the gate. Jack Kramer had been signing up all the great champions.
:49:55. > :49:58.The head of BBC sport said if you put in a professional tournament in
:49:59. > :50:02.August, I will televise it on the BBC in colour, it will be an
:50:03. > :50:08.experiment for us to see how it goes. Herman said, OK. He spoke to
:50:09. > :50:13.Jack Kramer and others involved in the professional tour, they all said
:50:14. > :50:17.yes. He got 16 of them, the best professional players who had not
:50:18. > :50:21.been seen at Wimbledon for five, ten or 15 years, they put on a
:50:22. > :50:27.professional tournament in August. Herman David wanted to see of the
:50:28. > :50:35.crowd would come. Centre Court was full, Rob Lever won
:50:36. > :50:39.it, it was amazing. Herman David had the courage to say to the tennis
:50:40. > :50:43.world, sorry, guys, you can argue about it for as long as you like
:50:44. > :50:49.that in 1968I am throwing the doors open to anybody who is good enough,
:50:50. > :50:51.anybody can play at Wimbledon, and the professionals arrived, including
:50:52. > :50:59.Billie Jean King and people we had not seen for years. It was
:51:00. > :51:08.monumental for the game. Then, of course, things followed, as I
:51:09. > :51:12.mention in the book. The Roving Eye. Once you start Richard, he does not
:51:13. > :51:18.stop. We will have to stop in a moment. Top of the head, greatest
:51:19. > :51:25.female player you have ever seen? Serena Williams, with Martina
:51:26. > :51:34.Navratilova very close. And the men? Roger Federer, before him Lou Hope,
:51:35. > :51:38.who gets forgotten because he was one sets... Two sets away from doing
:51:39. > :51:42.the Grand Slam when he allowed Ken Rosewood to come back and beat him
:51:43. > :51:46.in the final at Forest Hills. He could do anything on the tennis
:51:47. > :51:51.court. But Roger Federer is the best all-round tennis player. You could
:51:52. > :51:55.make a case for Rafa Nadal, for Novak Djokovic, who we have just
:51:56. > :52:00.seen, is that how much they have won, but as a pure tennis player,
:52:01. > :52:04.Roger Federer is unbelievable. Great to see you again, thank you so much
:52:05. > :52:08.for coming by. Let's tell you what has been happening with Wimbledon
:52:09. > :52:13.qualifying over last couple of hours or so. Harriet Dart of Great
:52:14. > :52:16.Britain, it's rained when they were one set all, this happened they few
:52:17. > :52:28.moments or so ago, the match still to be completed. If rain relents in
:52:29. > :52:33.SW19, I think Roehampton is still south-west London? Postcodes are
:52:34. > :52:37.very important. But it is on the BBC Apple and the website. It is on the
:52:38. > :52:41.red button as well. Sadly one British player had a chance to
:52:42. > :52:46.complete a much before the rain came, that was Katie Swan, who went
:52:47. > :52:54.out in three sets, as you can see. It is all building up to next week.
:52:55. > :53:25.Well, Britain's Jo Konta should have played this afternoon but it looks
:53:26. > :53:28.like even though 12-macro of the covers are coming down at the
:53:29. > :53:33.moment, even so they say no play for at least an hour, and she is a match
:53:34. > :53:39.and a half away from coming on, so I think it is unlikely she will play.
:53:40. > :53:42.She comes here as British number one, the fifth seed, firmly
:53:43. > :53:44.established in the top ten of the world game. These are her thoughts
:53:45. > :53:58.coming back to her hometown. I had been fortunate enough to have
:53:59. > :54:02.played this tournament a few years now, I have been able to stay at
:54:03. > :54:06.home for a few years in a row, I feel very lucky with that. I think
:54:07. > :54:11.to be able to play in front of a home crowd and Centre Court, the
:54:12. > :54:16.crowd Dann court is beautiful, so I'm looking forward to the
:54:17. > :54:21.experience. I have had five great matches in Nottingham, two great
:54:22. > :54:26.matches in Birmingham, so I feel pretty fortunate with my time on the
:54:27. > :54:28.surface. We will be looking to stay in Eastbourne for as long as
:54:29. > :54:33.possible. I am going into the Championships
:54:34. > :54:37.looking to do the best that I can. I definitely will hope to make it a
:54:38. > :54:42.full two weeks, but most importantly I will be looking to produce the
:54:43. > :54:47.best level that I have and to really compete every single match that I
:54:48. > :54:52.get to play. Hopefully it will be seven, that would be very nice to be
:54:53. > :54:56.able to content with. First and foremost, it is always important to
:54:57. > :55:00.take it one match at a time, once we get to Wimbledon Nurse my mind has
:55:01. > :55:03.to be in Eastbourne at the moment but when we get there it will be
:55:04. > :55:08.looking to prepare for my first round. Can you profit from the fact
:55:09. > :55:12.there is no Serena and the field is so open? Her presence is missed, she
:55:13. > :55:15.is a massive force in the sport, but it is important to remember that
:55:16. > :55:19.have been Grand Slam champions alongside her over last couple of
:55:20. > :55:23.years, it is important to give credit to those women who have been
:55:24. > :55:31.Grand Slam champions in the last couple of years. Obviously there are
:55:32. > :55:34.new faces this year. The depth in women's tennis is truly remarkable,
:55:35. > :55:36.I have said that for quite some time. It showcases the level of our
:55:37. > :55:39.sport in a really great way and shows that this is the 100 best
:55:40. > :55:44.women at this sport in the world, that is a very positive thing to
:55:45. > :55:50.see. For me personally, I am looking to compete well each week. Going
:55:51. > :55:53.into every single match that we are playing I will be faced with a tough
:55:54. > :55:58.opponent. Everyone can play at an incredibly high level on any given
:55:59. > :56:03.day, keeping that in mind, I need to make sure that I keep improving and
:56:04. > :56:07.I keep maximising everything that I have.
:56:08. > :56:12.Sam Smith has replaced Richard Evans. Do you think Jo Konta might
:56:13. > :56:18.win a Grand Slam one day? I do, and I think it might come very soon. How
:56:19. > :56:21.soon? I think she could win the US Open. All the top players, while
:56:22. > :56:26.Serena is away, she probably will not be back until next Wimbledon,
:56:27. > :56:31.they are scrambling, she is out for a while, let's go for it! I
:56:32. > :56:43.genuinely feel she can win the US Open this year. How much is her
:56:44. > :56:44.serve the key element? Which is on form, very few people can live with
:56:45. > :56:46.serve the key element? Which is on form, very few people can live with
:56:47. > :56:48.her? And it is the second serve as well, it sets up the first ball. She
:56:49. > :56:53.has great ground strokes. That is her best service for me. She is
:56:54. > :56:59.growing in confidence, the movement is improving, the all-round game. I
:57:00. > :57:03.think she has lots of capacity to improve quite a few aspects which
:57:04. > :57:09.will show upon the grass, sometimes the net play is not as good as the
:57:10. > :57:13.best in the world. It is also her, how hard-working she is and how
:57:14. > :57:16.devoted she is to winning a slam and becoming world number one. I don't
:57:17. > :57:20.know if you heard Richard, he said he thought Serena Williams was
:57:21. > :57:23.probably the greatest woman tennis player of all butter might be nip
:57:24. > :57:29.and tuck whether she would beat Martina Navratilova. Would you go
:57:30. > :57:33.with that? On a grass court, Martina in her heyday, I was lucky or
:57:34. > :57:37.unlucky enough to play her one of the year she win Wimbledon, it was
:57:38. > :57:37.pretty formidable. I would love to see
:57:38. > :57:41.pretty formidable. I would love to pretty formidable. I would love to
:57:42. > :57:46.see that battle. Maybe some computer-generated... These days you
:57:47. > :57:53.can do that kind of thing. Away from grass? Serena wins on...? On hard
:57:54. > :57:57.court, I would say. It is for certain we will be back tomorrow at
:57:58. > :58:02.1pm on BBC Two, but exactly what we will do between now and then, we are
:58:03. > :58:05.in the lap of the gods. If the rain suddenly relents and the sun comes
:58:06. > :58:11.back we might have some play for you, but we might not. In terms of
:58:12. > :58:15.what this does for the draw, is this playing at anybody's hands? You
:58:16. > :58:19.don't want to get backed up so close to Wimbledon, you know the situation
:58:20. > :58:25.here if you are a top player, you come here and get on with it, try to
:58:26. > :58:34.find indoor courts if you can, you relax and you deal with what is in
:58:35. > :58:37.front of you. But then it becomes a problem if you get Tambe in Baghdad.
:58:38. > :58:44.You might have to play two matches in a day. Get on with it! I wonder
:58:45. > :58:49.what Novak makes of this?! I am so glad I went to... What was that
:58:50. > :58:53.place called again?! We will be back when we are back, I am not quite
:58:54. > :58:58.sure. As things stand at the moment, we might be back today, we might
:58:59. > :59:01.not, but we will definitely see you tomorrow at 1pm.