0:00:11 > 0:00:14Wimbledon falls into two categories, Serena and the rest.
0:00:14 > 0:00:24How long until Heather and Laura are so famous that they don't need a
0:00:24 > 0:00:29
0:00:29 > 0:00:35John McEnroe described the defeat of Rafael Nadal by Stephen Darcis as
0:00:35 > 0:00:40the biggest in the sport of tennis since Boris Becker lost more than a
0:00:40 > 0:00:44generation ago. So who better to have in the studio tonight and Boris
0:00:44 > 0:00:50Becker and Martina Navratilova? She can offer her thoughts on the
0:00:50 > 0:00:54current state of the women's game. If anybody can derail Serena? It is
0:00:54 > 0:00:58not quite Fred Perry proportions, but it is still 36 years since
0:00:58 > 0:01:05Britain had a winner of the women's singles here, so Laura Robson was
0:01:05 > 0:01:08under no doubt, no allusions, that a lot is expected of her and maybe at
0:01:08 > 0:01:13some point in the future, she will find herself another kind of
0:01:13 > 0:01:21pressure that Andy Murray has been used to ovulate. Her opponent today,
0:01:21 > 0:01:31Maria Kirilenko of Russia, the Number Ten seed, so out of order for
0:01:31 > 0:02:06
0:02:06 > 0:02:16Laura to come through. Here we are serving second, in this case
0:02:16 > 0:02:16
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0:03:11 > 0:03:21line returns, they do an awful lot centre of the court, aiming out
0:03:21 > 0:03:52
0:03:52 > 0:04:02the Olympics, but there is a bit of fever in there, or I am I imagining
0:04:02 > 0:04:02
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0:05:18 > 0:05:28Number Ten player in the world? is three aces out of her last five
0:05:28 > 0:05:28
0:05:28 > 0:07:01Apology for the loss of subtitles for 54 seconds
0:07:01 > 0:07:11serves. She is on a streak at the tense, and that doesn't help. You
0:07:11 > 0:07:31
0:07:31 > 0:07:37You just want to say to them, keep than that. 32 minutes. Laura Robson,
0:07:37 > 0:07:40than that. 32 minutes. Laura Robson, 6-3.
0:07:40 > 0:07:44JOHN INVERDALE: An emphatic way to win that opening set and things
0:07:44 > 0:07:54going well for Robson in the second, she has one break of serve as we
0:07:54 > 0:08:07
0:08:07 > 0:08:17very good shot. -- goes in. The winners are coming thick and fast of
0:08:17 > 0:08:17
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0:09:27 > 0:09:33her today. You don't get the feeling think, the crowd, and how good this
0:09:33 > 0:09:43is. It is scarily good, frankly. She has hit 21 winners and has only only
0:09:43 > 0:09:53
0:09:53 > 0:10:03The reaction to that has been good, she has not got on her own case,
0:10:03 > 0:10:03
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0:11:04 > 0:11:09just in a few rehearsals wings. Just has got under her skin. Kirilenko is
0:11:09 > 0:11:19really struggling to find her own game, let alone withstand the
0:11:19 > 0:11:26
0:11:26 > 0:11:36onslaught from the other side of the again, a positive nod of the head.
0:11:36 > 0:11:36
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0:13:07 > 0:13:17more time to think and sometimes thinking isn't good but that was the
0:13:17 > 0:13:28
0:13:28 > 0:13:31the crop on the Dandelions. It is a double break.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34double break. JOHN INVERDALE: It is not over yet,
0:13:34 > 0:13:44Kirilenko broke back. Nerves jangling, Laura has to serve it out
0:13:44 > 0:14:03
0:14:03 > 0:14:13jangling, Laura has to serve it out careful first serve their, which led
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0:15:06 > 0:15:16Kirilenko in the point, it was a she, or rush? Second serve right on
0:15:16 > 0:15:46
0:15:46 > 0:15:56the line. That could have been very gets more nervous over the dominant
0:15:56 > 0:16:22
0:16:22 > 0:16:32silky. Look at the excitement here. It is exciting stuff out here. Two
0:16:32 > 0:17:07
0:17:07 > 0:17:12won! Is that disbelief at the performance? She has shown that she
0:17:12 > 0:17:17likes the big stage and can get the big wins, but there was a composure
0:17:17 > 0:17:20and maturity about that today from and maturity about that today from
0:17:20 > 0:17:2319-year-old Laura Robson. I am still so nervous. Even on the
0:17:23 > 0:17:31last point, I didn't die with my forehand was in, so I was walking to
0:17:31 > 0:17:34the net unsure. -- I didn't know. That was a big one for me, with all
0:17:34 > 0:17:40of the nerves, playing in front of your home crowd in Wimbledon, it was
0:17:40 > 0:17:45a big one. If you felt nervous, it was a big one. If you felt most of
0:17:45 > 0:17:52that match. What went so right for you today? Well, I could have gone
0:17:52 > 0:17:565-1 up in the second and I lost my focus a little bit and thinking
0:17:56 > 0:18:01about winning, I try to get back to focusing on point by the point and I
0:18:01 > 0:18:04think I served pretty well today. Huge result of the Laura Robson and
0:18:04 > 0:18:14also the British tennis, which means a second top seed has bitten the
0:18:14 > 0:18:17dust. Sarah Irani out yesterday and Kirilenko out today. We can analyse
0:18:17 > 0:18:23that game forever, but fundamentally, when you see Laura
0:18:23 > 0:18:27Robson, how good a tennis player do you see potentially? Well, if you
0:18:27 > 0:18:31take maybe ten players that you think may win a Grand Slam, she
0:18:32 > 0:18:38would have to be in that mix of young players. Potentially, she
0:18:38 > 0:18:41definitely has the goods. She needs to get quicker, she doesn't have
0:18:41 > 0:18:49that explosion. That dynamism. Tennis is a very explosive sport,
0:18:50 > 0:18:54she just gets that little bit of... To get to the ball. So it is
0:18:54 > 0:18:58athletics training, not tennis training? But the most part, yes.
0:18:58 > 0:19:04You can train on the court, but to have more of a sprinter's mentality,
0:19:04 > 0:19:09explosive. The rest of it, she has all of the goods. She has some big
0:19:09 > 0:19:12shots. She's a big girl, she has all of the shots and the technique. It
0:19:12 > 0:19:16is the easier part to work your physicality. When you have a problem
0:19:16 > 0:19:20with your technicality, it is difficult to fix and if you have a
0:19:20 > 0:19:28bad serve, all of your career, you will have about serve. I wouldn't
0:19:28 > 0:19:32call her not 100% fit, but there is room for improvement, and it is
0:19:32 > 0:19:35easier to fix. Talking about her serve, at the start of this year,
0:19:35 > 0:19:44she was bedevilled by double-faulteds, dozens of them, and
0:19:44 > 0:19:50today on the bigger stage, C -- she seemed very composed. She made a
0:19:50 > 0:19:56very uncomfortable inside out forehand that won her again, but she
0:19:56 > 0:20:01showed that she could hold her nerve. She was nervous, a lot of
0:20:01 > 0:20:07faults, but she made the serve in the final game, she held up under
0:20:07 > 0:20:12pressure. You are impressed? Very. We talked earlier about Andy Murray,
0:20:12 > 0:20:17potentially it is about time on the ladies side that you had a
0:20:18 > 0:20:21world-class player coming into the second round. It is so much easier
0:20:21 > 0:20:25to work with, the crowd would love it and it would be a great addition
0:20:25 > 0:20:30to the tournament. At least we do remember Virginia, that is the one
0:20:30 > 0:20:33good thing about it. Let's move on, because who knows what will happen
0:20:34 > 0:20:39to Laura Robson in the future? There can be few more daunting things in
0:20:39 > 0:20:44world sport, never mind world tennis, than playing Serena in the
0:20:44 > 0:20:49first round, or any round at all. The big question today, her opponent
0:20:49 > 0:20:59was the world 92, Mandy Minella from Luxembourg, was could she win more
0:20:59 > 0:21:02
0:21:02 > 0:21:12games than she speaks languages? She Mandy Minella. Serena Williams
0:21:12 > 0:21:12
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0:22:04 > 0:22:09faking her 14th appearance at UMPIRE: Game, set, match, Serena
0:22:09 > 0:22:13Williams. Mandy Minella has enjoyed her day.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16Mandy Minella has enjoyed her day. Applause for the champion.
0:22:16 > 0:22:20Her opponent from Luxembourg smiled throughout the whole game, which is
0:22:20 > 0:22:23a big positive, making the most of the occasion. Serena's press
0:22:23 > 0:22:26conference on Sunday was extraordinary. She was asked how she
0:22:26 > 0:22:30was feeling going into the Championships and said she felt
0:22:30 > 0:22:34amazing. You never hear people say that and it is worrying for
0:22:34 > 0:22:37everybody else. She looks set and she has been playing it. She used to
0:22:37 > 0:22:41work her way into the tournament, she was more vulnerable the first
0:22:41 > 0:22:44week of a Grand Slam, because she kind of used it as a practice to get
0:22:44 > 0:22:49better, but now, she is ready from better, but now, she is ready from
0:22:49 > 0:22:55the first point, she Extreme determination, and the other women,
0:22:55 > 0:23:00they are like, oh, my God. Everybody is beatable, but I think Serena,
0:23:00 > 0:23:04when she plays as good as she has in her career, I feel like she
0:23:04 > 0:23:09understands that time isn't on her side any more. She is 31, I believe.
0:23:09 > 0:23:14She has, in my opinion, wasted a year or two with off court
0:23:14 > 0:23:18distractions and maybe injuries to. Maybe that has brought her back with
0:23:18 > 0:23:24great enthusiasm. If she had one more in her 20s, she probably
0:23:24 > 0:23:28wouldn't want to play tennis any more -- if she had won more. But no
0:23:28 > 0:23:31she realises her first love is tennis and she could potentially win
0:23:31 > 0:23:38three or four more Grand Slams in the next year or two and is making
0:23:38 > 0:23:45the most of it. It seems that Serena at 31 would beat Serena 21. Would
0:23:45 > 0:23:48you add 31 have beaten you at 21? Absolutely. I didn't have a coach
0:23:48 > 0:23:54until I was 26. Serena for five years wasn't even in the top five
0:23:54 > 0:23:56until the end of the year, -- at the end of the year, that was how little
0:23:56 > 0:24:00she played. No she is totally focused, she wanted and she knows
0:24:00 > 0:24:04her time is running out, and she is putting it all out there. It is
0:24:04 > 0:24:08great to see, she has improved every facet of her game, other than maybe
0:24:09 > 0:24:13the serve, which has always been there. You kind of feel like playing
0:24:13 > 0:24:21Serena these days must have been playing -- like playing Forest in
0:24:21 > 0:24:31his pomp, so we thought we would take you back to June 1987. We know
0:24:31 > 0:24:53
0:24:53 > 0:25:00actually... Let me stop you per second, there will be some young
0:25:01 > 0:25:04people asking who that is, defending champion going out to Peter Doohan,
0:25:04 > 0:25:08who was staying in a YMCA, because he had no money and was literally
0:25:08 > 0:25:11camping on the floor, and the point of showing that is that Max said on
0:25:11 > 0:25:18the programme last night that apart from Rafael Nadal losing yesterday,
0:25:18 > 0:25:20the only thing that was a big shock than that was you losing on that
0:25:21 > 0:25:29occasion. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy, Peter Doohan
0:25:29 > 0:25:31afterwards came to me and told me that my bad day made his career. He
0:25:31 > 0:25:38got so many new engagement in professional tennis. But having said
0:25:38 > 0:25:46that, I was 19 at the time and I was winning at 17 and 18 and everybody
0:25:46 > 0:25:49thought I would win the next five or six Wimbledons. Everybody knows that
0:25:49 > 0:25:53tennis is a game that has to be played on the court, not on the
0:25:53 > 0:25:57practice range or without expert explaining who is the favourite, and
0:25:58 > 0:26:03I had a bad day. I felt a bit under pressure, in the last two years of
0:26:03 > 0:26:07my life, I was so much in the focus of, is he going to be unbeatable,
0:26:07 > 0:26:11the next best player of all-time? I had a bad day and a bad week and I
0:26:11 > 0:26:17had my first midlife crisis at 19 and had to look back at my life,
0:26:17 > 0:26:20what do I do with it and where do go? But it is all good. How do you
0:26:20 > 0:26:26think Nadal will be feeling today? Quite honestly, I have commentated
0:26:26 > 0:26:29on the match and I think in his heart of hearts, I don't think he
0:26:29 > 0:26:34felt he was ready to go all the way. I think he's happy to have come back
0:26:34 > 0:26:39the way he did. Six months ago, everybody asks if he would ever come
0:26:39 > 0:26:42back, no he is the French Open champion, win six of tournaments and
0:26:42 > 0:26:45he is the number one player in the world for the moment. Obviously,
0:26:45 > 0:26:51some of the other players will have something to say this week. This
0:26:51 > 0:26:55will have hurt him. Nobody really knows what is wrong with his knees.
0:26:55 > 0:26:59Obviously, they couldn't do much wrong on clay, but on grass, you use
0:26:59 > 0:27:01it differently, you are slipping and sliding, there is never a firm
0:27:02 > 0:27:07position and maybe that was hurting him yesterday as the match
0:27:07 > 0:27:13progressed. He got less and less confident on his knee, and I think
0:27:13 > 0:27:18that has to be said taken it off, maybe taken a little break and
0:27:19 > 0:27:22enjoyed his wins from earlier in the year. I won't worry about him on a
0:27:22 > 0:27:27proper service where your position on the ground is fixed, but on
0:27:27 > 0:27:33grass, I would worry about the future -- proper surface. It is
0:27:33 > 0:27:36intriguing for the big four. If Laura Robson is not going to be the
0:27:36 > 0:27:42next big British thing, will it be Heather Watson? She was up against
0:27:42 > 0:27:45Madison Keys, a highly rated, highly vaunted and hugely talented
0:27:45 > 0:27:5518-year-old. A single break of serve was enough for the American to
0:27:55 > 0:28:00
0:28:00 > 0:28:03some big weapons, a bit like we were talking about with Laura Robson.
0:28:03 > 0:28:13Here we are at the start of the second set, with the Americans
0:28:13 > 0:28:23
0:28:23 > 0:28:28tactically from Watson at the start of this set? I think the trap she
0:28:28 > 0:28:31will fall into is to try and outhit Madison Keys. She is not going to do
0:28:31 > 0:28:41that from the baseline, so she has do play a little smarter and not
0:28:41 > 0:28:52
0:28:52 > 0:28:55here and as long as mentally she is OK, move the ball around, because
0:28:55 > 0:28:59Madison Keys, I don't think she will maintain this performance. There is
0:28:59 > 0:29:01going to be a lapse, and that is when Watson has the ball around,
0:29:01 > 0:29:11because Madison Keys, I don't think she will maintain this performance.
0:29:11 > 0:29:24
0:29:24 > 0:29:28There is going to be a lapse, and having set the point up beautifully.
0:29:28 > 0:29:38She made a bit of a hash of the volley, but generally speaking,
0:29:38 > 0:29:41
0:29:41 > 0:29:50This should have been a relatively simple volley into the open court,
0:29:50 > 0:30:00didn't quite time it, lucky that the law but was hit long. -- lucky that
0:30:00 > 0:30:00
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0:30:54 > 0:30:58possible start Watson could have to do, to draw Keys of the
0:30:58 > 0:31:08baseline. The American moves quite well laterally, but not quite a
0:31:08 > 0:31:27
0:31:27 > 0:31:30the second set and it doesn't matter, but you have to build
0:31:30 > 0:31:40momentum. Your first break of serve, you have to make the most of
0:31:40 > 0:32:17
0:32:17 > 0:32:22needs to get some width, but it has to be that good otherwise she opens
0:32:22 > 0:32:32up that line for Keys, and Keys loves hitting the ball down the
0:32:32 > 0:32:50
0:32:50 > 0:32:57Watson. Hit with pace but plenty of spin, as well. An aggressive shot,
0:32:57 > 0:33:07but it is a safe target. After a sloppy start to this game there has
0:33:07 > 0:33:08
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0:34:27 > 0:34:32been a couple of really good points, you can understand Watson's
0:34:32 > 0:34:35frustration, too many unforced errors. JOHN INVERDALE: Watson then
0:34:35 > 0:34:40broke immediately to take a 2-1 lead.
0:34:40 > 0:34:50Here we are with Madison Keys leading 6-5, saw Heather has to hold
0:34:50 > 0:34:50
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0:36:03 > 0:36:13serve here to stay in the the right position there. Another
0:36:13 > 0:36:13
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0:36:58 > 0:37:04decent return from Keys, who has Can you believe it? Highly fortunate
0:37:04 > 0:37:09in the final game, but overall deserves her victory.
0:37:09 > 0:37:15I am glad that I was in it and had my chances. I would not have liked
0:37:15 > 0:37:21to have been wiped off court, nobody wants that to have happened. But
0:37:21 > 0:37:27yes, it is disappointing to a break in the second set and not being able
0:37:27 > 0:37:33to take control from there. How far are you from feeling like yourself
0:37:34 > 0:37:39on court again after your boat of glandular fever?
0:37:39 > 0:37:49-- after your period of glandular fever? I still don't feel the same,
0:37:49 > 0:37:55
0:37:55 > 0:37:57my reactions and movement, everything is not there yet. But it
0:37:57 > 0:38:00is coming and in the next few weeks I will be doing training getting
0:38:00 > 0:38:03ready for the hard court season. Some hard work for Heather to come
0:38:03 > 0:38:05in the weeks before the US Open, but she was playing very well. Jessica
0:38:05 > 0:38:08Ennis's trainer thinks that Heather Watson could be the next Lindsay
0:38:08 > 0:38:12Davenport. She is only 18, she has a big serve and a big game. As she met
0:38:12 > 0:38:18yours she has a top ten game for sure. For consolation to Heather,
0:38:18 > 0:38:24not easy to come back after a long period of illness. Especially
0:38:24 > 0:38:27playing in the biggest tournament in the world and in your home country.
0:38:27 > 0:38:32Most people have not faced the problem she has in the last couple
0:38:32 > 0:38:36of months. It was good to see her out, and she was quite upbeat
0:38:36 > 0:38:39afterwards. She knows there is a lot of work ahead of her. I like her,
0:38:39 > 0:38:45she has a good head on her shoulders, she is a good fighter, it
0:38:45 > 0:38:51is tough to come back from something like glandular fever. One British
0:38:51 > 0:38:54women, one loss, and there was a third British player today, Tara
0:38:54 > 0:39:01Moore. It was 1-1 when Tara Moore added
0:39:01 > 0:39:05herself to the list of players to have fallen on these courts and that
0:39:05 > 0:39:11required striving to her left knee. And that a key break point
0:39:11 > 0:39:17opportunity in the third, the ball was called out. Then, the decision
0:39:17 > 0:39:23was overruled by the umpire, which caused a fair amount of fuel or -- a
0:39:23 > 0:39:29filament of fury, and after that Tara found herself on the wrong end
0:39:29 > 0:39:35of a defeat. That is a pretty good performance by somebody ranked 150
0:39:35 > 0:39:44places below her opponent from Bostonian. -- is stony. Talking
0:39:44 > 0:39:47about age, Kimiko Date-Krumm played for the first time at Wimbledon two
0:39:47 > 0:39:53years after Boris lost. There she was out there on court again today
0:39:53 > 0:40:02at the age of 42 winning her first round match against Karina Veit Toft
0:40:02 > 0:40:09of Germany. She has a chance of getting further in the draw. Tell
0:40:09 > 0:40:13us, what is the secret of your longevity?
0:40:13 > 0:40:21Aida a lot. People think I don't eat much, but I eat more than my
0:40:21 > 0:40:26husband, more than my coach. For example, yesterday, last night, I
0:40:26 > 0:40:33ate a big portion of pastor with Bolognese sauce and chicken with
0:40:33 > 0:40:40vegetables. -- pasta. Then I ate ice cream. I sleep a lot. Last night I
0:40:40 > 0:40:48slept nine hours. Sleep a lot, eat a lot, drink a lot. Water. Water, I
0:40:48 > 0:40:52hope! And look what happens! That is why I came back, I wanted to eat
0:40:52 > 0:40:57more. When you're on -- that active on the court for three or four hours
0:40:57 > 0:41:07a day you have to eat a lot. She is fantastic, what encouragement
0:41:07 > 0:41:11for players who are over 30. She can come back at 53! She is
0:41:11 > 0:41:16playing her best tennis, at 26 she almost beat Steffi Graf in the
0:41:16 > 0:41:20semifinals. Then she decided she wanted to get married and she got
0:41:20 > 0:41:24the hunger back and it is great to see her, she is playing better and
0:41:24 > 0:41:33better. I still think she thinks she is not playing her best tennis,
0:41:33 > 0:41:39which is great. Let us see what else happened in the women's draw today.
0:41:39 > 0:41:47In China there are a couple of million people with the same name as
0:41:48 > 0:41:56Li Na, but in tennis this is the one and only. She is seeded six and got
0:41:56 > 0:42:06two games against Richard's sister, Michaella Krajicek.
0:42:06 > 0:42:06
0:42:06 > 0:42:11And Roberta Vinci is flying the flag for the over 30s, too. She reached a
0:42:11 > 0:42:20career-high 11 in the world rankings. South Africa's Chanelle
0:42:20 > 0:42:26Scheepers was her victim today. Emphatic success for Australia's Sam
0:42:26 > 0:42:31Stokes. -- Samantha Stosur. She has not gone beyond the quarters of the
0:42:31 > 0:42:38tournament this year. -- of any tournament. Wimbledon would be a
0:42:38 > 0:42:45sweet place to start. Austria's Yvonne Meusburger was able to take
0:42:45 > 0:42:48two games of the world number four today. Angelique Kerber what --
0:42:48 > 0:42:53reached the semifinals last year at Wimbledon bid to buy Agnieszka
0:42:53 > 0:43:03Radwanska. Her first round opponent died her here for the occasion and
0:43:03 > 0:43:07saw her second round chances die at the -- at her hands.
0:43:07 > 0:43:13Let's now focus on the men and the overall feel it is Novak Djokovic.
0:43:13 > 0:43:21He began his campaign against Germany's Florian Mayer. We will
0:43:21 > 0:43:31pick this matchup in the second set, Djokovic won the first 6-3, and some
0:43:31 > 0:43:36
0:43:36 > 0:43:46tremendous long grass court rallies That body serve has caught Novak
0:43:46 > 0:44:23
0:44:23 > 0:44:332003, the Eagle Carlo Rich victory over Lleyton Hewitt -- Igo
0:44:33 > 0:44:36
0:44:36 > 0:44:39That looked like it was wide, it was called in, Mayer challengers.
0:44:39 > 0:44:49of all the fun we would have missed if we had Hawk-Eye when you were
0:44:49 > 0:45:05
0:45:05 > 0:45:15There is that foot speed coming in handy.
0:45:15 > 0:45:15
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0:46:31 > 0:46:41UMPIRE: Mr Mayer with two challenges That was a surprising miss to take
0:46:41 > 0:46:50
0:46:50 > 0:46:53folly. -- with that folly. You would think at some point over the course
0:46:53 > 0:47:03of the year Djokovic might miss one of those, but he seems never to miss
0:47:03 > 0:47:27
0:47:27 > 0:47:34He is down! Djokovic captures the line, it is game. Mayer loses his
0:47:34 > 0:47:38serve. What a point! JOHN INVERDALE: What a rally to give Djokovic the
0:47:38 > 0:47:48opportunity to serve out the second set, which he did, here we are at
0:47:48 > 0:47:52
0:47:52 > 0:48:01the start of the third, Mayer To come back from two sets down
0:48:01 > 0:48:11against Djokovic on Centre Court at Wimbledon - atoll order. -- a Pol
0:48:11 > 0:48:14
0:48:14 > 0:48:24expended so much energy in the first two sets, taking one hour and 20
0:48:24 > 0:48:32
0:48:32 > 0:48:42He could see that coming, he was going to try and play the trick
0:48:42 > 0:48:43
0:48:43 > 0:48:47shot, but Djokovic would have gotten that had it gone in. Maybe go right
0:48:47 > 0:48:57at Djokovic with that forehand, give him something to think about.
0:48:57 > 0:48:57
0:48:57 > 0:50:20Apology for the loss of subtitles for 54 seconds
0:50:20 > 0:50:30That is just too good, simple as that. Perhaps he gave that shot away
0:50:30 > 0:50:46
0:50:46 > 0:50:50dangerous times for Florian Mayer as Djokovic eases into this lead. JOHN
0:50:50 > 0:50:54INVERDALE: That was a break of serve that set him on the path to a fairly
0:50:54 > 0:51:01straightforward victory in the end. Matchpoint, thank you very much, and
0:51:01 > 0:51:07Morris, what do you say about Djokovic? -- Boris? Florian Mayer is
0:51:07 > 0:51:12a very talented player. First round is never easy, I thought Djokovic
0:51:12 > 0:51:18played very in control. He has not played a grass court tournament
0:51:18 > 0:51:23between France and Wimbledon. We have seen others fall at the first
0:51:23 > 0:51:28hurdle. It could have been aforesaid game, five said game.
0:51:28 > 0:51:32You must look at the draw, players say I have not looked at my next
0:51:32 > 0:51:37opponent, Djokovic, when he knew that the other big guns were in the
0:51:37 > 0:51:41other half must have been rubbing his hands thinking, this is mine.
0:51:41 > 0:51:46Outside of the top four, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is the biggest threat.
0:51:46 > 0:51:51Four of the biggest five guys are in the other half. There is a danger
0:51:51 > 0:51:55that you can get to the finals and have not been battle tested, but the
0:51:55 > 0:52:00way Novak plays, he is always ready to go. For the other guys in the
0:52:00 > 0:52:05bottom, they will be battle tested but maybe they will be tired by the
0:52:05 > 0:52:08time they get to the final. He was part of that unbelievable game in
0:52:08 > 0:52:14Paris at the semifinals. That still must be hurting a little bit, that
0:52:14 > 0:52:20must make him even more determined. Very much so, and also the fact that
0:52:20 > 0:52:25his victor in the semi-final left town this morning. He is the number
0:52:25 > 0:52:30one player in the world, people are already questioning it a little bit,
0:52:30 > 0:52:36Nadal winning so many points, Murray winning Queen's, he wants to show
0:52:36 > 0:52:40everyone else that the world ranking is right, I am the world number one.
0:52:40 > 0:52:44I want to play Wimbledon again, he wants to win this tournament again.
0:52:44 > 0:52:49He always says this is his favourite and most important treatment. He is
0:52:49 > 0:52:56psyching himself up for the big stage. I don't think he has checked
0:52:56 > 0:53:06out of the Waddell until Monday week, do you? -- out of the hotel.
0:53:06 > 0:53:07
0:53:07 > 0:53:11Grand slam tennis is often about digging deep, finding the mentality
0:53:11 > 0:53:19to overwhelming fatigue, going the distance. On a court infamous for
0:53:19 > 0:53:27epics, Philip called Schreiber and Ivan Dodig would have a finish that
0:53:27 > 0:53:32no one would expect. Join Martin Dub or knows about epic
0:53:32 > 0:53:41at Wimbledon beating Roger Federer in a marathon final set decider at
0:53:41 > 0:53:44last year's semifinals. -- Juan Martin Del Potro.
0:53:44 > 0:53:50David Ferrer also appeared in a hurry in the first set on Centre
0:53:50 > 0:53:53Court, winning 6-1 against Martin Alund of Argentina. The
0:53:53 > 0:53:59fourth-seeded Spaniard lost his second to slow his progress before
0:53:59 > 0:54:06rallying to win in four. On 18, the German Philipp Kohlschreiber was
0:54:06 > 0:54:10storming to set clear of Ivan Dodig. But wait for the comeback and that
0:54:10 > 0:54:15finish. Another German, Tommy Haas, was thought to be finished when he
0:54:15 > 0:54:20finished outside the world's top 300 a few years ago, but he never knows
0:54:21 > 0:54:30when he is beaten. Seeded 13, he made straight sets
0:54:31 > 0:54:32
0:54:32 > 0:54:35work of Dmitry Tursunov. As did Milos Raonic. A snapshot in time
0:54:35 > 0:54:39compared to the Court 18 shenanigans, where Ivan Dodig was
0:54:39 > 0:54:42doing that digging deep thing, taking sets three and four to force
0:54:42 > 0:54:44at the Court 18 shenanigans, where Ivan Dodig was doing that digging
0:54:44 > 0:54:51deep thing, taking sets three and four to force a decider. Slugfest to
0:54:51 > 0:55:01the finish beckoned. It all went -- went all the way on Court three. Sam
0:55:01 > 0:55:04
0:55:04 > 0:55:08Querrey was beaten -- took the next Querrey was beaten -- took the next
0:55:08 > 0:55:13two sets. I had a little bit of breakfast and
0:55:13 > 0:55:16I was playing and didn't really perform. It was an eight minute
0:55:16 > 0:55:23there, I lost my energy in the there, I lost my energy in the
0:55:23 > 0:55:29second set. Richard Gasquet came from a set down
0:55:29 > 0:55:33to Spain's Marcel Granollers. He is seeded ninth.
0:55:33 > 0:55:40Tomas Berdych, finalist in 2010, went out and run and won last year,
0:55:40 > 0:55:46but no such trouble today -- went out in round one last year.
0:55:47 > 0:55:56Bulgarian seed Grigor Dimitrov was equally dismissive of Italian Simoni
0:55:57 > 0:56:01
0:56:01 > 0:56:08ball early, who could not resist his all, Ivan Dodig 2-1 ahead against
0:56:08 > 0:56:18Philipp Kohlschreiber. Then this... A handshake offered by the German -
0:56:18 > 0:56:20
0:56:20 > 0:56:23he has flu, so off he flew. The rest of us strangely unfulfilled. Boris
0:56:23 > 0:56:29was sitting there open-mouthed at the end of that game with Philipp
0:56:29 > 0:56:39Kohlschreiber. If you look at the seeds board,
0:56:39 > 0:56:41
0:56:41 > 0:56:45Philipp Kohlschreiber is at the bottom right-hand corner. Nadal is
0:56:45 > 0:56:48the most high profile to quit the stage so far. Sabine Lisicki was
0:56:48 > 0:56:58also playing on BBC Two when we finished our live coverage, so there
0:56:58 > 0:57:10
0:57:10 > 0:57:14is matchpoint for her. The first set goes out and Sabine Lisicki goes
0:57:14 > 0:57:21through. We will move on from Philipp
0:57:21 > 0:57:29Kohlschreiber. You are shocked. Juan Martin Del Potro - contender?
0:57:29 > 0:57:34Yes. He has a great game for grass, he had a great tournament last year.
0:57:34 > 0:57:42He had a great Olympics on the same surface. For his standard he had a
0:57:42 > 0:57:46low average, so he should be hungry. Everyone speaks only about the top
0:57:46 > 0:57:50four, there are a couple of floaters in the top half and he is one of
0:57:50 > 0:57:55them that on a good day can beat anyone in the world. If the weather
0:57:55 > 0:58:00stays warm, if the ball bounces a bit higher, if it is wet, he is one
0:58:00 > 0:58:10of the players that can do damage here. The grass is bouncing higher
0:58:10 > 0:58:12
0:58:12 > 0:58:17than last year, that should be good for Del Potro, as well.
0:58:17 > 0:58:26Dmitrov he is a beautiful player. He has a nice game. He has clearly
0:58:26 > 0:58:33modelled his game after Federer. He is a contender, maybe not yet. Is he
0:58:34 > 0:58:37as good as everyone says he is? He is living up to it.
0:58:37 > 0:58:44There is one teenager in the top hundred, but he had such a great
0:58:44 > 0:58:50junior game. We're waiting for the next big thing to happen. Maybe we
0:58:50 > 0:58:56over promote him or over celebrate him, but he has the talent, he has
0:58:56 > 0:59:00the goods. Obviously the top four or five will have something to say
0:59:00 > 0:59:07about that but he is there. OK, who is going to be here
0:59:07 > 0:59:09tomorrow? This is the order for Centre Court and Court 2.
0:59:09 > 0:59:13On Centre Court Flavia Pennetta against Victoria Azarenka,
0:59:13 > 0:59:20interesting to see how she responds. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga against Ernests
0:59:20 > 0:59:28Gulbis, who said that all players interviews are boring.
0:59:28 > 0:59:33Then Roger Federer playing Sergiy Stakhovsky. On Court One it will be
0:59:33 > 0:59:39Fernando Verdasco against Julien Benneteau, a connoisseur's game.
0:59:39 > 0:59:42Petra Kvitova please Yaroslava Shvedova.
0:59:42 > 0:59:52Dustin Brown against Lleyton Hewitt, he could be a surprise
0:59:52 > 0:59:52
0:59:52 > 0:59:55package in the next week or so. Thank you to Boris and Martina. We