Day 2 Today at Wimbledon

Wimbledon falls into two categories, Serena and the rest.

How long until Heather and Laura are so famous that they don't need a

John McEnroe described the defeat of Rafael Nadal by Stephen Darcis as

the biggest in the sport of tennis since Boris Becker lost more than a

generation ago. So who better to have in the studio tonight and Boris

Becker and Martina Navratilova? She can offer her thoughts on the

current state of the women's game. If anybody can derail Serena? It is

not quite Fred Perry proportions, but it is still 36 years since

Britain had a winner of the women's singles here, so Laura Robson was

under no doubt, no allusions, that a lot is expected of her and maybe at

some point in the future, she will find herself another kind of

pressure that Andy Murray has been used to ovulate. Her opponent today,

Maria Kirilenko of Russia, the Number Ten seed, so out of order for

Laura to come through. Here we are serving second, in this case

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line returns, they do an awful lot centre of the court, aiming out

the Olympics, but there is a bit of fever in there, or I am I imagining

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Number Ten player in the world? is three aces out of her last five

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serves. She is on a streak at the tense, and that doesn't help. You

You just want to say to them, keep than that. 32 minutes. Laura Robson,

than that. 32 minutes. Laura Robson, 6-3.

JOHN INVERDALE: An emphatic way to win that opening set and things

going well for Robson in the second, she has one break of serve as we

very good shot. -- goes in. The winners are coming thick and fast of

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her today. You don't get the feeling think, the crowd, and how good this

is. It is scarily good, frankly. She has hit 21 winners and has only only

The reaction to that has been good, she has not got on her own case,

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just in a few rehearsals wings. Just has got under her skin. Kirilenko is

really struggling to find her own game, let alone withstand the

onslaught from the other side of the again, a positive nod of the head.

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more time to think and sometimes thinking isn't good but that was the

the crop on the Dandelions. It is a double break.

double break. JOHN INVERDALE: It is not over yet,

Kirilenko broke back. Nerves jangling, Laura has to serve it out

jangling, Laura has to serve it out careful first serve their, which led

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Kirilenko in the point, it was a she, or rush? Second serve right on

the line. That could have been very gets more nervous over the dominant

silky. Look at the excitement here. It is exciting stuff out here. Two

won! Is that disbelief at the performance? She has shown that she

likes the big stage and can get the big wins, but there was a composure

and maturity about that today from and maturity about that today from

19-year-old Laura Robson. I am still so nervous. Even on the

last point, I didn't die with my forehand was in, so I was walking to

the net unsure. -- I didn't know. That was a big one for me, with all

of the nerves, playing in front of your home crowd in Wimbledon, it was

a big one. If you felt nervous, it was a big one. If you felt most of

that match. What went so right for you today? Well, I could have gone

5-1 up in the second and I lost my focus a little bit and thinking

about winning, I try to get back to focusing on point by the point and I

think I served pretty well today. Huge result of the Laura Robson and

also the British tennis, which means a second top seed has bitten the

dust. Sarah Irani out yesterday and Kirilenko out today. We can analyse

that game forever, but fundamentally, when you see Laura

Robson, how good a tennis player do you see potentially? Well, if you

take maybe ten players that you think may win a Grand Slam, she

would have to be in that mix of young players. Potentially, she

definitely has the goods. She needs to get quicker, she doesn't have

that explosion. That dynamism. Tennis is a very explosive sport,

she just gets that little bit of... To get to the ball. So it is

athletics training, not tennis training? But the most part, yes.

You can train on the court, but to have more of a sprinter's mentality,

explosive. The rest of it, she has all of the goods. She has some big

shots. She's a big girl, she has all of the shots and the technique. It

is the easier part to work your physicality. When you have a problem

with your technicality, it is difficult to fix and if you have a

bad serve, all of your career, you will have about serve. I wouldn't

call her not 100% fit, but there is room for improvement, and it is

easier to fix. Talking about her serve, at the start of this year,

she was bedevilled by double-faulteds, dozens of them, and

today on the bigger stage, C -- she seemed very composed. She made a

very uncomfortable inside out forehand that won her again, but she

showed that she could hold her nerve. She was nervous, a lot of

faults, but she made the serve in the final game, she held up under

pressure. You are impressed? Very. We talked earlier about Andy Murray,

potentially it is about time on the ladies side that you had a

world-class player coming into the second round. It is so much easier

to work with, the crowd would love it and it would be a great addition

to the tournament. At least we do remember Virginia, that is the one

good thing about it. Let's move on, because who knows what will happen

to Laura Robson in the future? There can be few more daunting things in

world sport, never mind world tennis, than playing Serena in the

first round, or any round at all. The big question today, her opponent

was the world 92, Mandy Minella from Luxembourg, was could she win more

games than she speaks languages? She Mandy Minella. Serena Williams

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faking her 14th appearance at UMPIRE: Game, set, match, Serena

Williams. Mandy Minella has enjoyed her day.

Mandy Minella has enjoyed her day. Applause for the champion.

Her opponent from Luxembourg smiled throughout the whole game, which is

a big positive, making the most of the occasion. Serena's press

conference on Sunday was extraordinary. She was asked how she

was feeling going into the Championships and said she felt

amazing. You never hear people say that and it is worrying for

everybody else. She looks set and she has been playing it. She used to

work her way into the tournament, she was more vulnerable the first

week of a Grand Slam, because she kind of used it as a practice to get

better, but now, she is ready from better, but now, she is ready from

the first point, she Extreme determination, and the other women,

they are like, oh, my God. Everybody is beatable, but I think Serena,

when she plays as good as she has in her career, I feel like she

understands that time isn't on her side any more. She is 31, I believe.

She has, in my opinion, wasted a year or two with off court

distractions and maybe injuries to. Maybe that has brought her back with

great enthusiasm. If she had one more in her 20s, she probably

wouldn't want to play tennis any more -- if she had won more. But no

she realises her first love is tennis and she could potentially win

three or four more Grand Slams in the next year or two and is making

the most of it. It seems that Serena at 31 would beat Serena 21. Would

you add 31 have beaten you at 21? Absolutely. I didn't have a coach

until I was 26. Serena for five years wasn't even in the top five

until the end of the year, -- at the end of the year, that was how little

she played. No she is totally focused, she wanted and she knows

her time is running out, and she is putting it all out there. It is

great to see, she has improved every facet of her game, other than maybe

the serve, which has always been there. You kind of feel like playing

Serena these days must have been playing -- like playing Forest in

his pomp, so we thought we would take you back to June 1987. We know

actually... Let me stop you per second, there will be some young

people asking who that is, defending champion going out to Peter Doohan,

who was staying in a YMCA, because he had no money and was literally

camping on the floor, and the point of showing that is that Max said on

the programme last night that apart from Rafael Nadal losing yesterday,

the only thing that was a big shock than that was you losing on that

occasion. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy, Peter Doohan

afterwards came to me and told me that my bad day made his career. He

got so many new engagement in professional tennis. But having said

that, I was 19 at the time and I was winning at 17 and 18 and everybody

thought I would win the next five or six Wimbledons. Everybody knows that

tennis is a game that has to be played on the court, not on the

practice range or without expert explaining who is the favourite, and

I had a bad day. I felt a bit under pressure, in the last two years of

my life, I was so much in the focus of, is he going to be unbeatable,

the next best player of all-time? I had a bad day and a bad week and I

had my first midlife crisis at 19 and had to look back at my life,

what do I do with it and where do go? But it is all good. How do you

think Nadal will be feeling today? Quite honestly, I have commentated

on the match and I think in his heart of hearts, I don't think he

felt he was ready to go all the way. I think he's happy to have come back

the way he did. Six months ago, everybody asks if he would ever come

back, no he is the French Open champion, win six of tournaments and

he is the number one player in the world for the moment. Obviously,

some of the other players will have something to say this week. This

will have hurt him. Nobody really knows what is wrong with his knees.

Obviously, they couldn't do much wrong on clay, but on grass, you use

it differently, you are slipping and sliding, there is never a firm

position and maybe that was hurting him yesterday as the match

progressed. He got less and less confident on his knee, and I think

that has to be said taken it off, maybe taken a little break and

enjoyed his wins from earlier in the year. I won't worry about him on a

proper service where your position on the ground is fixed, but on

grass, I would worry about the future -- proper surface. It is

intriguing for the big four. If Laura Robson is not going to be the

next big British thing, will it be Heather Watson? She was up against

Madison Keys, a highly rated, highly vaunted and hugely talented

18-year-old. A single break of serve was enough for the American to

some big weapons, a bit like we were talking about with Laura Robson.

Here we are at the start of the second set, with the Americans

tactically from Watson at the start of this set? I think the trap she

will fall into is to try and outhit Madison Keys. She is not going to do

that from the baseline, so she has do play a little smarter and not

here and as long as mentally she is OK, move the ball around, because

Madison Keys, I don't think she will maintain this performance. There is

going to be a lapse, and that is when Watson has the ball around,

because Madison Keys, I don't think she will maintain this performance.

There is going to be a lapse, and having set the point up beautifully.

She made a bit of a hash of the volley, but generally speaking,

This should have been a relatively simple volley into the open court,

didn't quite time it, lucky that the law but was hit long. -- lucky that

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possible start Watson could have to do, to draw Keys of the

baseline. The American moves quite well laterally, but not quite a

the second set and it doesn't matter, but you have to build

momentum. Your first break of serve, you have to make the most of

needs to get some width, but it has to be that good otherwise she opens

up that line for Keys, and Keys loves hitting the ball down the

Watson. Hit with pace but plenty of spin, as well. An aggressive shot,

but it is a safe target. After a sloppy start to this game there has

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been a couple of really good points, you can understand Watson's

frustration, too many unforced errors. JOHN INVERDALE: Watson then

broke immediately to take a 2-1 lead.

Here we are with Madison Keys leading 6-5, saw Heather has to hold

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serve here to stay in the the right position there. Another

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decent return from Keys, who has Can you believe it? Highly fortunate

in the final game, but overall deserves her victory.

I am glad that I was in it and had my chances. I would not have liked

to have been wiped off court, nobody wants that to have happened. But

yes, it is disappointing to a break in the second set and not being able

to take control from there. How far are you from feeling like yourself

on court again after your boat of glandular fever?

-- after your period of glandular fever? I still don't feel the same,

my reactions and movement, everything is not there yet. But it

is coming and in the next few weeks I will be doing training getting

ready for the hard court season. Some hard work for Heather to come

in the weeks before the US Open, but she was playing very well. Jessica

Ennis's trainer thinks that Heather Watson could be the next Lindsay

Davenport. She is only 18, she has a big serve and a big game. As she met

yours she has a top ten game for sure. For consolation to Heather,

not easy to come back after a long period of illness. Especially

playing in the biggest tournament in the world and in your home country.

Most people have not faced the problem she has in the last couple

of months. It was good to see her out, and she was quite upbeat

afterwards. She knows there is a lot of work ahead of her. I like her,

she has a good head on her shoulders, she is a good fighter, it

is tough to come back from something like glandular fever. One British

women, one loss, and there was a third British player today, Tara

Moore. It was 1-1 when Tara Moore added

herself to the list of players to have fallen on these courts and that

required striving to her left knee. And that a key break point

opportunity in the third, the ball was called out. Then, the decision

was overruled by the umpire, which caused a fair amount of fuel or -- a

filament of fury, and after that Tara found herself on the wrong end

of a defeat. That is a pretty good performance by somebody ranked 150

places below her opponent from Bostonian. -- is stony. Talking

about age, Kimiko Date-Krumm played for the first time at Wimbledon two

years after Boris lost. There she was out there on court again today

at the age of 42 winning her first round match against Karina Veit Toft

of Germany. She has a chance of getting further in the draw. Tell

us, what is the secret of your longevity?

Aida a lot. People think I don't eat much, but I eat more than my

husband, more than my coach. For example, yesterday, last night, I

ate a big portion of pastor with Bolognese sauce and chicken with

vegetables. -- pasta. Then I ate ice cream. I sleep a lot. Last night I

slept nine hours. Sleep a lot, eat a lot, drink a lot. Water. Water, I

hope! And look what happens! That is why I came back, I wanted to eat

more. When you're on -- that active on the court for three or four hours

a day you have to eat a lot. She is fantastic, what encouragement

for players who are over 30. She can come back at 53! She is

playing her best tennis, at 26 she almost beat Steffi Graf in the

semifinals. Then she decided she wanted to get married and she got

the hunger back and it is great to see her, she is playing better and

better. I still think she thinks she is not playing her best tennis,

which is great. Let us see what else happened in the women's draw today.

In China there are a couple of million people with the same name as

Li Na, but in tennis this is the one and only. She is seeded six and got

two games against Richard's sister, Michaella Krajicek.

And Roberta Vinci is flying the flag for the over 30s, too. She reached a

career-high 11 in the world rankings. South Africa's Chanelle

Scheepers was her victim today. Emphatic success for Australia's Sam

Stokes. -- Samantha Stosur. She has not gone beyond the quarters of the

tournament this year. -- of any tournament. Wimbledon would be a

sweet place to start. Austria's Yvonne Meusburger was able to take

two games of the world number four today. Angelique Kerber what --

reached the semifinals last year at Wimbledon bid to buy Agnieszka

Radwanska. Her first round opponent died her here for the occasion and

saw her second round chances die at the -- at her hands.

Let's now focus on the men and the overall feel it is Novak Djokovic.

He began his campaign against Germany's Florian Mayer. We will

pick this matchup in the second set, Djokovic won the first 6-3, and some

tremendous long grass court rallies That body serve has caught Novak

2003, the Eagle Carlo Rich victory over Lleyton Hewitt -- Igo

That looked like it was wide, it was called in, Mayer challengers.

of all the fun we would have missed if we had Hawk-Eye when you were

There is that foot speed coming in handy.

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UMPIRE: Mr Mayer with two challenges That was a surprising miss to take

folly. -- with that folly. You would think at some point over the course

of the year Djokovic might miss one of those, but he seems never to miss

He is down! Djokovic captures the line, it is game. Mayer loses his

serve. What a point! JOHN INVERDALE: What a rally to give Djokovic the

opportunity to serve out the second set, which he did, here we are at

the start of the third, Mayer To come back from two sets down

against Djokovic on Centre Court at Wimbledon - atoll order. -- a Pol

expended so much energy in the first two sets, taking one hour and 20

He could see that coming, he was going to try and play the trick

shot, but Djokovic would have gotten that had it gone in. Maybe go right

at Djokovic with that forehand, give him something to think about.

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That is just too good, simple as that. Perhaps he gave that shot away

dangerous times for Florian Mayer as Djokovic eases into this lead. JOHN

INVERDALE: That was a break of serve that set him on the path to a fairly

straightforward victory in the end. Matchpoint, thank you very much, and

Morris, what do you say about Djokovic? -- Boris? Florian Mayer is

a very talented player. First round is never easy, I thought Djokovic

played very in control. He has not played a grass court tournament

between France and Wimbledon. We have seen others fall at the first

hurdle. It could have been aforesaid game, five said game.

You must look at the draw, players say I have not looked at my next

opponent, Djokovic, when he knew that the other big guns were in the

other half must have been rubbing his hands thinking, this is mine.

Outside of the top four, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is the biggest threat.

Four of the biggest five guys are in the other half. There is a danger

that you can get to the finals and have not been battle tested, but the

way Novak plays, he is always ready to go. For the other guys in the

bottom, they will be battle tested but maybe they will be tired by the

time they get to the final. He was part of that unbelievable game in

Paris at the semifinals. That still must be hurting a little bit, that

must make him even more determined. Very much so, and also the fact that

his victor in the semi-final left town this morning. He is the number

one player in the world, people are already questioning it a little bit,

Nadal winning so many points, Murray winning Queen's, he wants to show

everyone else that the world ranking is right, I am the world number one.

I want to play Wimbledon again, he wants to win this tournament again.

He always says this is his favourite and most important treatment. He is

psyching himself up for the big stage. I don't think he has checked

out of the Waddell until Monday week, do you? -- out of the hotel.

Grand slam tennis is often about digging deep, finding the mentality

to overwhelming fatigue, going the distance. On a court infamous for

epics, Philip called Schreiber and Ivan Dodig would have a finish that

no one would expect. Join Martin Dub or knows about epic

at Wimbledon beating Roger Federer in a marathon final set decider at

last year's semifinals. -- Juan Martin Del Potro.

David Ferrer also appeared in a hurry in the first set on Centre

Court, winning 6-1 against Martin Alund of Argentina. The

fourth-seeded Spaniard lost his second to slow his progress before

rallying to win in four. On 18, the German Philipp Kohlschreiber was

storming to set clear of Ivan Dodig. But wait for the comeback and that

finish. Another German, Tommy Haas, was thought to be finished when he

finished outside the world's top 300 a few years ago, but he never knows

when he is beaten. Seeded 13, he made straight sets

work of Dmitry Tursunov. As did Milos Raonic. A snapshot in time

compared to the Court 18 shenanigans, where Ivan Dodig was

doing that digging deep thing, taking sets three and four to force

at the Court 18 shenanigans, where Ivan Dodig was doing that digging

deep thing, taking sets three and four to force a decider. Slugfest to

the finish beckoned. It all went -- went all the way on Court three. Sam

Querrey was beaten -- took the next Querrey was beaten -- took the next

two sets. I had a little bit of breakfast and

I was playing and didn't really perform. It was an eight minute

there, I lost my energy in the there, I lost my energy in the

second set. Richard Gasquet came from a set down

to Spain's Marcel Granollers. He is seeded ninth.

Tomas Berdych, finalist in 2010, went out and run and won last year,

but no such trouble today -- went out in round one last year.

Bulgarian seed Grigor Dimitrov was equally dismissive of Italian Simoni

ball early, who could not resist his all, Ivan Dodig 2-1 ahead against

Philipp Kohlschreiber. Then this... A handshake offered by the German -

he has flu, so off he flew. The rest of us strangely unfulfilled. Boris

was sitting there open-mouthed at the end of that game with Philipp

Kohlschreiber. If you look at the seeds board,

Philipp Kohlschreiber is at the bottom right-hand corner. Nadal is

the most high profile to quit the stage so far. Sabine Lisicki was

also playing on BBC Two when we finished our live coverage, so there

is matchpoint for her. The first set goes out and Sabine Lisicki goes

through. We will move on from Philipp

Kohlschreiber. You are shocked. Juan Martin Del Potro - contender?

Yes. He has a great game for grass, he had a great tournament last year.

He had a great Olympics on the same surface. For his standard he had a

low average, so he should be hungry. Everyone speaks only about the top

four, there are a couple of floaters in the top half and he is one of

them that on a good day can beat anyone in the world. If the weather

stays warm, if the ball bounces a bit higher, if it is wet, he is one

of the players that can do damage here. The grass is bouncing higher

than last year, that should be good for Del Potro, as well.

Dmitrov he is a beautiful player. He has a nice game. He has clearly

modelled his game after Federer. He is a contender, maybe not yet. Is he

as good as everyone says he is? He is living up to it.

There is one teenager in the top hundred, but he had such a great

junior game. We're waiting for the next big thing to happen. Maybe we

over promote him or over celebrate him, but he has the talent, he has

the goods. Obviously the top four or five will have something to say

about that but he is there. OK, who is going to be here

tomorrow? This is the order for Centre Court and Court 2.

On Centre Court Flavia Pennetta against Victoria Azarenka,

interesting to see how she responds. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga against Ernests

Gulbis, who said that all players interviews are boring.

Then Roger Federer playing Sergiy Stakhovsky. On Court One it will be

Fernando Verdasco against Julien Benneteau, a connoisseur's game.

Petra Kvitova please Yaroslava Shvedova.

Dustin Brown against Lleyton Hewitt, he could be a surprise

package in the next week or so. Thank you to Boris and Martina. We