:00:26. > :00:40.for the last few standing in the singles.
:00:41. > :00:48.Well today was going to have to go some to match yesterday and we have
:00:49. > :00:53.the former men's doubles champions here at Wimbledon, John McEnroe and
:00:54. > :00:59.Peter fleming to offer pearls of wisdom. We are here until 10 past 9
:01:00. > :01:06.tonight. But there is only one way to start with the most eagerly
:01:07. > :01:23.anticipated game in this country for 361 days! So it is the defending
:01:24. > :01:32.men's singles champions against a man so many thought of a future
:01:33. > :01:41.champion at some point. Andy Murray waving to crowd, against Grigor
:01:42. > :01:46.Dimitrov from Bulgaria. A sense of trepidation from the home fans. Andy
:01:47. > :01:50.hadn't been tested up to this point and this would be a real test. So it
:01:51. > :02:17.proved. Here we are with Murray about to lose the first set by 6-1.
:02:18. > :02:24.One of many long rallies, Murray was broken twice in that set and the
:02:25. > :02:31.force was very much with that man. Here we are in the second set with
:02:32. > :02:51.Dimitrov leading 4-3 and he has got a break.
:02:52. > :02:57.COMMENTATOR: One of the very few unforced errors from Grigor
:02:58. > :03:41.Dimitrov. JIMMY CONNORS: That is the first
:03:42. > :03:53.time he has been ahead on the Dimitrov serve I think. Dim prove
:03:54. > :03:55.will be keen that history repeats itself. Because he got out of that
:03:56. > :04:18.game with some fine serving. That might be the difference.
:04:19. > :04:21.Dimitrov down 0-30 comes up with two big serves, where Andy has thrown it
:04:22. > :04:58.in at 95. Is that confidence? It is another poor error and a shot
:04:59. > :05:01.you don't ed a -- don't expect Murray to miss. There is a few
:05:02. > :05:32.worried faces around here. The magnitude of the game isn't lost
:05:33. > :05:34.on Dimitrov. That is why there have been a couple of unforced errors so
:05:35. > :07:12.far. It was a good return by Dimitrov,
:07:13. > :07:18.but I didn't think it would catch Andy often balance quite that badly.
:07:19. > :07:25.Looks like he is walking in mud at the moment. He is not moving his
:07:26. > :08:15.feet well. Dimitrov moving brilliantly.
:08:16. > :08:25.TIM HENMAN: It is surprising at this stage, the first three points are
:08:26. > :08:30.unforced errors. Both players will be looking to cut those out. In this
:08:31. > :08:35.position, Tim, if you were playing, would you be more aggressive or be
:08:36. > :08:38.passive and let a few errors come. You have got to play to your
:08:39. > :09:41.strengths. That was being aggressive, getting to the net.
:09:42. > :09:58.Sensational play. Such acrobatic defence from Dimitrov. And you
:09:59. > :10:01.Sensational play. Such acrobatic see just contorting his body to
:10:02. > :10:03.somehow stay in the point. He covered a lot of ground that point.
:10:04. > :11:19.See how he recovers? Andy can't be satisfied with playing
:11:20. > :11:24.the ball short down the middle. He has given Dimitrov every opportunity
:11:25. > :11:30.to do what he wants. Leave it in the middle of the court with Dimitrov's
:11:31. > :11:34.forehand, you're going to do a lot of running. Andy's got to play to
:11:35. > :11:37.his strengths and he has got to do the basics well and not dropping the
:11:38. > :12:00.ball in the middle of the court. UMPIRE: Murray is challenging the
:12:01. > :13:25.call. I thought that was a good approach.
:13:26. > :13:31.He came in, he stayed low, it had a good slice on it. Dimitrov held his
:13:32. > :14:05.ground on that one-handed backhand and ripped it cross-court.
:14:06. > :14:11.Beautiful. That was not as easy as he ended up making it look.
:14:12. > :14:20.Especially at the stage of the match where we are hat. -- we are at. This
:14:21. > :14:27.is no easy task. He comes in, look how concentrated he is on the ball.
:14:28. > :14:39.A nice easy touch. Gives him two set points.
:14:40. > :14:52.That is so good from Dimitrov. The champion's in a big hole, but he was
:14:53. > :15:25.two sets down to Verdasco last year. Better get digging at 2-3 down.
:15:26. > :15:33.You see where his body was facing after he hit that shot - almost
:15:34. > :16:01.facing the players' box and pulling off it far too quickly.
:16:02. > :16:09.That is great movement around the court by both players. Andy had
:16:10. > :16:13.quite a little bit off guard there. He runs around, a good, firm shot.
:16:14. > :17:02.That is the one. Dimitrov took a bit of a gamble. He
:17:03. > :17:10.was well inside the baseline. He has been caught by some serves out wide.
:17:11. > :17:21.Didn't allow the same fate to befall him there.
:17:22. > :17:29.Close to the edge of the abyss for Murray here in the third set. No
:17:30. > :17:34.room for error. Did he do it again on that forehand. Did he pull off.
:17:35. > :17:38.It is a similar thing, pulling off the shot and he can't afford these
:17:39. > :17:42.unforced errors at this stage. UMPIRE: Murray is challenging the
:17:43. > :19:13.call. The ball was called out. Well all too soon the reign of king
:19:14. > :19:22.Andy was all over. As soon it was time for the postmortems. But Grigor
:19:23. > :19:31.Dimitrov was brilliant. Nadal departed yesterday. Here was another
:19:32. > :19:39.of big four downed by a shooting star. He is the man who could be
:19:40. > :19:44.king. I'm excited. I'm happy I went through that match in straight sets.
:19:45. > :19:49.It is never coming to play against Andy. Especially with the home
:19:50. > :19:55.crowd. I have been fortunate today and you know just happy. You say you
:19:56. > :20:00.were fortunate, you played pretty well. Maybe Andy wasn't at his usual
:20:01. > :20:05.level. Did you sense there was an opportunity early doors. As soon as
:20:06. > :20:10.we started warming up, I sensed his game is not at the highest level.
:20:11. > :20:14.But I was feeling confident and I knew it would be a good match. The
:20:15. > :20:18.first set helped me get into a good rhythm and then I was holding my
:20:19. > :20:23.ground throughout the match and second set tie-break was the key
:20:24. > :20:31.moment for me and coming into the third set I knew I had lot of things
:20:32. > :20:36.under control. The touchest loss was losing in the final in 2012. --
:20:37. > :20:41.toughest. But I need to go away and make a lot of improvements in my
:20:42. > :20:49.game. I have lost a couple of matches in the last few slams, where
:20:50. > :20:54.I have lost in straight sets and played poorly. So I need to have a
:20:55. > :21:00.think about things, what are the things I need to improve and get
:21:01. > :21:05.myself in better shape and work even harder. Because even's starting to
:21:06. > :21:10.get better. The younger guys are obviously now becoming more mature
:21:11. > :21:16.and improving all the time and I need to make some improvements to my
:21:17. > :21:22.game. So gentlemen of jury, what is the verdict? John? First, I think we
:21:23. > :21:31.should put things in perspective. You waited 77 years. It is sort of
:21:32. > :21:35.if one is saying what is wrong? So I found it interesting that Dimitrov
:21:36. > :21:38.said he saw in the warm up, I have never heard that before. I have
:21:39. > :21:45.heard a lot of things. But never say in the warm up this guy was looking
:21:46. > :21:50.tired or flat. Finally, I don't know about this Amelie Mauresmo coaching
:21:51. > :21:56.thing, because it is early. Can we come on to that. What about the
:21:57. > :22:02.match itself? The match itself is a classic case of a hungier guy that
:22:03. > :22:09.wanted it against a guy who woke up on the wrong side of bed. He didn't
:22:10. > :22:16.mail it in, but he didn't look like he believed he physically could do
:22:17. > :22:24.it at that stage. Dim prove was so -- dim prove was so come fortsable
:22:25. > :22:29.from the baseline. And the one-handed sliced backhand bothered
:22:30. > :22:35.Murray. How much was this about Murray being below par and Dimitrov
:22:36. > :22:41.playing a tremendous match? He has been confident and played so well
:22:42. > :22:46.throughout the ten days. I didn't see more than snippets of match. But
:22:47. > :22:51.it looked as though Murray on big points didn't know what he wanted to
:22:52. > :22:56.do, whether he wanted to just push and allow Dimitrov to attack him. He
:22:57. > :23:04.served a double fault on break point. He came to net in the
:23:05. > :23:09.tie-breaker, where he would normally try to control him from the back of
:23:10. > :23:14.the court. 37 unforced errors, you won't minute doing that. I have
:23:15. > :23:20.never seen Andy Murray miss more easy balls. So how much did it have
:23:21. > :23:30.to do with him having aer the tribl day -- having a terrible day and
:23:31. > :23:37.imtrov -- Dimitrov. We have talked about him for a number of years. But
:23:38. > :23:43.he is the real deal. Circumstances led him to Roger Rashid and he has
:23:44. > :23:48.finally got into his head. Made him realise, a long with a lot of tough
:23:49. > :23:53.losses, you had better get in shape. It is embarrassing when you cramp up
:23:54. > :24:01.in a major. If Roger ra sheepd is doing the right -- Roger Rashid is
:24:02. > :24:05.doing the right thing, where are we with Amelie Mauresmo. How can you
:24:06. > :24:09.judge whether it is the way forward. It is early. They're still getting
:24:10. > :24:15.to know each other. At the end of the day isn't it just whether Andy's
:24:16. > :24:18.comfortable. He is not going to be comfortable losing week in, week
:24:19. > :24:23.out. I think it will play itself out. I think Amelie Mauresmo has
:24:24. > :24:27.done an excellent job coaching other people. There is no reason to
:24:28. > :24:34.suggest she can't do a good job coaching Murray. It would be unfair
:24:35. > :24:41.to fire her. I think it would be right to say there was nothing she
:24:42. > :24:47.could do. I was amazed he got rid of Lendl. Could its be possible. Did he
:24:48. > :24:55.get rid of Lendl? I don't know what happened. I think you did. I think
:24:56. > :24:59.Ivan said I want to do 18 weeks and Andy said that is not enough. He
:25:00. > :25:16.wanted somebody that would get up in the box and be more rah-rah. If Andy
:25:17. > :25:22.Murray rang Lendl tomorrow and said, I need you back, do you think he
:25:23. > :25:27.would say yes? Well, when I saw the quote, why Ivan claimed he wasn't
:25:28. > :25:32.coaching Andy, he said he wanted to concentrate more on his seen yors
:25:33. > :25:36.champions tennis. So I know that is a lie! I wouldn't put it past the
:25:37. > :25:40.two of them that it would be still, I think it still would be possible
:25:41. > :25:45.and possibly profitable for both of them. But I would also feel like, I
:25:46. > :25:52.don't know why after winning, I have got to say the defending champion
:25:53. > :25:57.not to have Ivan back. Almost from a superstitious stand point you would
:25:58. > :26:04.keep the team. But I would give Amelie more of a chance. Lurking in
:26:05. > :26:20.the background. To be continued. Now what was happening on No 1 Court.
:26:21. > :26:30.It sounds like a football match, because it is Serbia against Croatia
:26:31. > :26:36.and in the first set it was 1-0 to Serbia and emphatically. But
:26:37. > :26:41.Croatia, no easy games, fought their way back, much to Mr Becker's
:26:42. > :26:52.discontent. Here we are at set point in the second set. 1-1. So this was
:26:53. > :26:55.a heavy weight clash. With a few Croatian supporters in the crowd and
:26:56. > :27:06.here we are in the third set tie-break.
:27:07. > :27:22.COMMENTATOR: Scrabbling around like a mad man trying to get there, Novak
:27:23. > :27:25.Djokovic. He is OK. He is trying to keep his composure, but he is really
:27:26. > :28:08.struggling to do so. ANDREW COTTER: Doing well to put
:28:09. > :29:11.that game behind him. Djokovic suddenly looks the
:29:12. > :30:03.stronger. is very, very uncertain. It is like
:30:04. > :30:22.he is playing on ice. He just can't get a firm footing.
:30:23. > :30:38.All his efforts in vain. And Cilic is lifting himself for this
:30:39. > :30:48.tie-break. Cilic, six foot five, very agile, a difficult man to
:30:49. > :30:58.pass. And in addition to that, managed a great drop volley. No one
:30:59. > :30:59.quite has the staring eyes of Djokovic when he is putting in the
:31:00. > :31:21.effort. Extraordinary. He has done that a few times, the
:31:22. > :31:30.big first serve well landed, and then can't finish it off.
:31:31. > :31:36.Still an amazing statistic, Djokovic would have nearly doubled the
:31:37. > :32:44.unforced error is. Vat is the way to place a serve --
:32:45. > :32:45.that is the way. What would Cilic give the two mighty first serves
:32:46. > :33:11.now? Wonderfully finished off, because
:33:12. > :33:35.the return of Djokovic was something special to even get to that.
:33:36. > :33:46.He has it! Cilic celebrates, and if Djokovic is going to come back, he
:33:47. > :33:53.has to do it by the long hard road, five sets. It was at that point but
:33:54. > :34:00.the scoreboard flashed up that Murray had lost. Djokovic clearly
:34:01. > :34:06.thought, I am not going the way of Andy Murray and Rafa Nadal. He won
:34:07. > :34:14.the fourth set emphatically, and the fifth set even more emphatically.
:34:15. > :34:17.Here is match point. And that roar that we have become used to over the
:34:18. > :34:22.last two or three years when Djokovic twins.
:34:23. > :34:29.So, Peter, what do you make of Djokovic today? You have been in
:34:30. > :34:36.this situation before where you are playing against a guy when you have
:34:37. > :34:40.won all nine times you have to play before, and you know you have to
:34:41. > :34:49.play one of your rivals in the next round. I think that is how Djokovic
:34:50. > :34:54.was. In sets two and three, Djokovic was making all kinds of unforced
:34:55. > :35:00.error is, off his backhand, which is normally rock-solid. So he goes down
:35:01. > :35:10.two sets to one, and in the fourth set, he just found it. By the way, I
:35:11. > :35:20.am not losing today, you know that, I know that. Is there an element of
:35:21. > :35:26.Cilic, as well, thinking I am two sets to one up, but I have never
:35:27. > :35:33.beaten this guy anyway. Well, he has had Goran Ivanisevic to help him to
:35:34. > :35:38.believe that he can do it, he is more aggressive, so there is reason
:35:39. > :35:42.to believe that stage. But you know that the great players will flip a
:35:43. > :35:46.switch at that stage. That was what was so disappointing about Murray
:35:47. > :35:52.was that he didn't do that today against Dimitrov. I was watching
:35:53. > :35:55.from a monitor, and I was thinking, this total carnage is about a
:35:56. > :36:05.happen, because Nadal had lost yesterday, Murray had lost, Federer
:36:06. > :36:12.was down. Whyte we had the headlines written, the day that tennis
:36:13. > :36:16.changed. But it didn't. There was the possibility for all of the big
:36:17. > :36:29.guys to be out, quite frightening for us tennis aficionados.
:36:30. > :36:33.You could tell that both players, when the heavy-hearted sort of side,
:36:34. > :36:37.when everybody on number one court saw that Murray had lost, both
:36:38. > :36:43.Djokovic and Cilic looked at the scoreboard, and Djokovic must've
:36:44. > :36:54.thought, I don't want to be added to that list. Was that it two set to
:36:55. > :36:57.one? Djokovic was all over the place, slipping, and that is his
:36:58. > :37:03.game, chasing down balls and being quick around the court. And he said,
:37:04. > :37:08.I want new shoes, Boris, bring me new shoes, and he put them on
:37:09. > :37:11.sometime in the fourth set, and suddenly, he was standing up, he
:37:12. > :37:23.didn't slip, and when he was totally calm. Serena, I got this. Having
:37:24. > :37:33.spoken about the influence that Mauresmo has had an Andy, what
:37:34. > :37:41.influence has Boris had on him? Boris was struggling with his hip,
:37:42. > :37:45.he ended up having surgery, and then he couldn't get to Miami which was
:37:46. > :37:53.when Novak was finally getting it together, and you wondered if they
:37:54. > :37:58.were going to keep this going, and then finally Boris was at Rome when
:37:59. > :38:03.he won in event, and they decided to stay together. And now you finally
:38:04. > :38:14.feel like he believes he can win it with just Boris,. Let's move on to
:38:15. > :38:17.the Swiss match, after the trauma of their football match last night, the
:38:18. > :38:22.one consoling thought was that they were guaranteed to have at least one
:38:23. > :38:27.winner, because in opposition were the Swiss number one, and the Swiss
:38:28. > :38:31.number two, Stan Wawrinka and Roger Federer. Of course, Federer is not
:38:32. > :38:59.the Swiss number one. So, here they are, and in the first
:39:00. > :39:03.set, it was Stan who struck first. So as we move on, he we are in the
:39:04. > :39:54.second set. Federer reading it right, 126 miles
:39:55. > :40:20.an hour, but just couldn't deal with it.
:40:21. > :40:40.JOHN McENROE: The record for Federer coming into this, much better than
:40:41. > :40:58.Wawrinka's. Wawrinka simply inspired.
:40:59. > :41:06.Wawrinka's right in front of us, and he we doesn't look great. But his
:41:07. > :41:20.expression very rarely changes. But he has been given a gift there.
:41:21. > :41:21.He is not happy at all with that. That really would have put the
:41:22. > :41:53.pressure on Wawrinka. Federer giving a good look. I don't
:41:54. > :41:59.think he is going to challenge. If you find an angle like that and he
:42:00. > :42:12.ticked at 129 miles an hour, you had better believe it is going to be an
:42:13. > :42:21.ace. Only the fourth first -- for Stan in the match. This would be
:42:22. > :42:23.huge for Wawrinka to win this tie-break and go up two sets to
:42:24. > :42:43.love. He should have moved in and taken
:42:44. > :42:51.the return of the air, but he didn't. He hit that too hard from
:42:52. > :43:21.when he was. So, Federer a mini-break up again.
:43:22. > :43:30.Oh, gorgeous, even for someone of Federer's abilities. To produce
:43:31. > :43:51.that, amazing. Absolutely. Just about got his feet out of the
:43:52. > :44:37.way. Three set points for Federer. Not enough on the return. I have
:44:38. > :44:42.heard he is feeling sick to his stomach. This would be a sickening
:44:43. > :44:49.feeling, if he doesn't win this set. One set point saved, a couple
:44:50. > :45:09.more to go. No, it has just gone wide. He is
:45:10. > :45:16.going to challenge. It did have a feeling of being out. At worst, it
:45:17. > :45:21.would be the replay of the point. Wawrinka will not lose the set on
:45:22. > :45:27.this. And it is out, so it doesn't matter. Third set point now, with
:45:28. > :45:38.Federer serving. APPLAUSE
:45:39. > :46:08.UMPIRE: Game, second set, Federer. Look at those faces.
:46:09. > :46:15.UMPIRE: One set all. JOHN INVERDALE: Two of the big four
:46:16. > :46:18.had gone, and Djokovic had been a bit shaky, but here is the last
:46:19. > :46:24.member of the quartet determined he was going to get through to the
:46:25. > :46:40.semifinals. But don't forget, Wawrinka is a Grand Slam champion.
:46:41. > :46:47.He is playing with more energy, that is clear. He is becoming more
:46:48. > :46:49.dangerous off the ground again. That is why he won that first set. Almost
:46:50. > :47:14.the second. That net loves Federer almost as
:47:15. > :47:37.much as the crowd do. That is bad luck for Wawrinka.
:47:38. > :47:56.That little bark from Federer, Gene himself up for one last effort.
:47:57. > :48:34.And there is another one he could taste. That is his bread and butter,
:48:35. > :49:23.and he sends it wide. Oh, well played, Wawrinka! You can
:49:24. > :49:29.see how much it took out of Wawrinka, that last rally. He is
:49:30. > :49:48.playing with a lot of skill. He looks a little wobbly on his feet.
:49:49. > :50:00.I don't believe that. Stan found a reserve that we didn't know he would
:50:01. > :50:02.be able to come up with to give himself a chance to get back on
:50:03. > :50:44.serve here. Break point. Well, he posed the question,
:50:45. > :51:04.Wawrinka, and Federer had the answer.
:51:05. > :51:23.No. I thought he was going to make it. So did he.
:51:24. > :51:45.Well, he is coming up with some heroic shots. That was a case where
:51:46. > :51:50.he went for it. Seems like he should do that pretty much all the time.
:51:51. > :52:12.That was a great return to stave off match point again.
:52:13. > :52:47.One more move forward does the trick.
:52:48. > :53:00.To goad! That hasn't done him a whole lot of good, but isn't he
:53:01. > :53:05.showing some wonderful plot here? Absolute respect for what we are
:53:06. > :53:35.seeing from Wawrinka. That is some big-time shot -making.
:53:36. > :53:39.After all he has achieved in this game, that was a little bit
:53:40. > :54:15.disappointing. Fourth chance. The crowd don't know what to think.
:54:16. > :54:16.Most of them want Federer to win this, but they love the drama that
:54:17. > :54:31.is going on right now. 124 miles an hour. And here is match
:54:32. > :54:59.point number five. UMPIRE: Game, set and match,
:55:00. > :55:06.Federer. Three sets to one, 3-6, seven - six, 6-4, 6-4.
:55:07. > :55:18.JOHN INVERDALE: Well, Federer had a 13-2 lead before that match, and now
:55:19. > :55:26.it is 14-2. Was he worried at all? Yes, I think he was worried about
:55:27. > :55:29.one setting. Unfortunately for Wawrinka he was playing three days
:55:30. > :55:36.in a row, he was feeling something, and I don't know what it was,
:55:37. > :55:40.whether it was food poisoning or nervous or anger at playing three
:55:41. > :55:51.days in a row, he called for a Dr after the first set. And his serve
:55:52. > :55:57.went from 132 about 110. That took the pressure off Federer. Talking
:55:58. > :56:01.about the mix on the schedule. Djokovic has been vocal in the last
:56:02. > :56:04.48 hours saying that he thinks that they should play on the middle
:56:05. > :56:09.Sunday to avoid the situation is that have happened. Some players in
:56:10. > :56:15.the women's quarterfinals were very, very tired. What do you
:56:16. > :56:22.think? I haven't thought about it. I absolutely think they should do
:56:23. > :56:33.that. Play? Absolutely. Maybe make it a charitable thing, let people
:56:34. > :56:38.in, it would be an real. The argument is that the nature of the
:56:39. > :56:53.courts is that the day gives the court to Mac time to relax. -- time
:56:54. > :56:57.to relax. They have done a lot of positive things over the years,
:56:58. > :57:02.making this an even greater event, but I think it is time now that we
:57:03. > :57:10.make it 14-day event in the event that these issues occur. Let's talk
:57:11. > :57:16.about Federer. 32, still in there. I think 33-year-old got the semifinal
:57:17. > :57:25.in 1992. He didn't do too well in the semis, though. I didn't see the
:57:26. > :57:31.first set, so I don't know how much Stan dropped off, but Roger was
:57:32. > :57:39.looking good in the third and fourth. He certainly came out and
:57:40. > :57:45.looked fresh and sharp, despite having to play two days in a row. I
:57:46. > :57:50.still think it could affect him if he had had to play four matches, the
:57:51. > :57:58.fourth being, I am looking ahead, you say Djokovic, we said
:57:59. > :58:02.differently. Down the road, that could hurt him. It didn't seem to
:58:03. > :58:08.bother him today, but that is because Stan got off so much. But he
:58:09. > :58:19.has to get past granite chin the semifinals now, who earlier on beat
:58:20. > :58:25.Kyrgios. -- get past Raonic. I'm sure some people will say that this
:58:26. > :58:29.was like reverting to the dark days of grass court tennis because
:58:30. > :58:36.Raonic's serve is almost an defendable. It works out well for
:58:37. > :58:42.him because he does get a lot of balls back and block them. And
:58:43. > :58:51.Raonic, unlike some of the other guys, Murray, Djokovic, who don't
:58:52. > :58:56.come in as much, it may well benefit him to come in. Ivanisevic, John
:58:57. > :59:06.Isner, Pete Sampras, the great service. And Ivo Karlovic. You had
:59:07. > :59:10.better be ready to play a couple of tie-breakers when you play this guy.
:59:11. > :59:15.And Boris, thank you for the hospitality last night. Great
:59:16. > :59:25.chicken. I forgot. I lost my manners. Did you watch the USA
:59:26. > :59:30.football game and Boris's? I did. The USA were tremendous, won't
:59:31. > :59:37.they? They were, but they should have won. They have to win those
:59:38. > :59:42.games. Boris, when he was young, Germany didn't have a lot of history
:59:43. > :59:48.in tennis. He turned that around and won all the majors. Tim Howard maybe
:59:49. > :59:53.a coach Andy Murray. That is left-field, very left-field. There
:59:54. > :59:56.are two other matches we have to address today, because two of the
:59:57. > :00:08.women's quarterfinals were held over because of the weather. Canada day
:00:09. > :00:13.may have come and gone, but Bouchard ensured the celebration would go on
:00:14. > :00:21.after she became the first lady from the land of maple leaf to get a spot
:00:22. > :00:29.in the semi finals at Wimbledon. It was after a straight sets win over
:00:30. > :00:39.anning league Kerber. -- Angelique Kerber. It took Bouchard less than
:00:40. > :00:46.an hour to kick Angelique to the Kerber! Kerber looked a shadow of
:00:47. > :00:50.the player who put paid to Maria Sharapova's movement. Bouchard said
:00:51. > :00:59.she wants to be known as Jeannie and will be wishing it is third time
:01:00. > :01:05.lucky in a Grand Slam semi. Eugenie Bouchard is through to her third
:01:06. > :01:10.semi final of the year. I was trying to stay in the moment and not think
:01:11. > :01:21.ahead. To try and stay mentally in the moment. A few bad errors, but I
:01:22. > :01:32.played some good shots. I'm excited to be in the semis and I want to go
:01:33. > :01:37.one step further for sure. Simona Halep's face is becoming more
:01:38. > :01:44.familiar. Reaching the French Open final can do that. But a Wimbledon
:01:45. > :01:56.triumph will raise the stakes. For many it is, Simona who? She made
:01:57. > :02:01.light work of Pereira in round one. She quickly found her feet on grass.
:02:02. > :02:07.It is always difficult to play here, because it is grass and you never
:02:08. > :02:13.know what can happen on court. What almost happened in round two was a
:02:14. > :02:20.shock defeat, before she won in three sets. A magical moment for the
:02:21. > :02:27.fan of the Harry Potter novels. I received the books from my coach. I
:02:28. > :02:34.was improving with my English. I speak more with my coach, because he
:02:35. > :02:38.Isabel January. I am not happy with my English, but I want to believe I
:02:39. > :02:44.can speak better and better. She cast a spell on her next two
:02:45. > :02:54.opponents and today simply swept aside last year's runner up, Sabine
:02:55. > :03:12.Lisicki of Germany. The Romanian sporting Hall of Fame is a club of
:03:13. > :03:15.three. Nadia Komenech and Georgie Hagi. The people are amazing and
:03:16. > :03:19.they Iraqise me and -- Hagi. The people are amazing and
:03:20. > :03:22.recognise me and always Hagi. The people are amazing and
:03:23. > :03:27.congratulations. It is nice, but I feel a bit of pressure. It is not
:03:28. > :03:33.easy to manage. But I have to enjoy this moment, because it is the best
:03:34. > :03:41.in my life. If Halep wins the singles title there will be no more
:03:42. > :03:50.Simona who and instead widespread acclaim. So it means at that
:03:51. > :03:59.slightly unimpressive skyline, we have got this line up tomorrow.
:04:00. > :04:08.Thoughts Peter? The second match, Bouchard and Halep two rising stars.
:04:09. > :04:14.Halep is a talented player and appears to have that champion's
:04:15. > :04:20.mentality. She has won seven tournaments in 18 months. I guess
:04:21. > :04:28.she is the favourite. Kvitova, it would be nice if she came back and
:04:29. > :04:31.played the tennis she can. She was a bit overwhelmed when she won
:04:32. > :04:35.Wimbledon. It has taken her a while. But she is knocking on the door
:04:36. > :04:40.again. I have got to find the tape, because before the event I picked
:04:41. > :04:46.Bouchard to win this. So I mean not that that is major stretch, because
:04:47. > :04:52.she has come a long way. But I thought Serena would do better and
:04:53. > :05:02.she has stepped up and Halep is like a, I don't want to say a poor
:05:03. > :05:09.woman's, but Justine Henin. She is a great ball striker, great athlete.
:05:10. > :05:15.So that should be interesting. So a Bouchard Kvitova final.
:05:16. > :05:19.Halep/Kvitova I think. The semi finals of men on Friday and will
:05:20. > :05:32.look like that. How doo you see those? Well I did
:05:33. > :05:38.make Novak to win this. So I will stick with him. I think Grigor is
:05:39. > :05:43.finding some great tennis. It should be an entertaining tennis. Roger
:05:44. > :05:47.Federer, I haven't picked him or didn't think he was going to win
:05:48. > :05:54.another slam. But I did he would get into a systemy or a final. -- semi
:05:55. > :06:03.or a final. Because it favours his type of return, I'm going to go with
:06:04. > :06:09.Roger Federer over Milos Raonic. Sounds sensible. There is not a lot
:06:10. > :06:14.to add. Dimitrov perhaps could you know could do it, if Novak plays the
:06:15. > :06:20.way he did today. I don't see that happening though. It is probably,
:06:21. > :06:25.Raonic could serve anybody off. The two guys I would pick were Dimitrov
:06:26. > :06:30.and Raonic to step up a and do it. It is nice to see them getting
:06:31. > :06:35.there. This is the potential changing of guard. It could be. But
:06:36. > :06:39.I don't think it will happen quite yet. But both have an excellent
:06:40. > :06:44.chance. Final word about Andy Murray, because the rain is -- reign
:06:45. > :06:51.is over, I am sure the newspapers will be full of inquests and
:06:52. > :06:55.postmortems, inrational terms, what do we say about his performance here
:06:56. > :07:02.and in France and what has happened in the last 11 months. Andy Murray's
:07:03. > :07:10.effort in France is as good or as better as his effort here. He will
:07:11. > :07:16.drop to 10 or 11 in the world, but I think you will see him back in the
:07:17. > :07:21.top four. He looked great in pa Ras, until he -- Paris until he lost to
:07:22. > :07:25.Rafael Nadal and he looked great the first week here. It is difficult to
:07:26. > :07:29.understand what happened today. But the guy's, the guy is a serial
:07:30. > :07:38.winner. He is going to figure it out I'm sure. Thank you very much. It is
:07:39. > :07:42.great to have you here. Ladies semi finals tomorrow. We are on air on
:07:43. > :07:49.BBC1 from half past 12 and irrespective of what happened on
:07:50. > :07:52.Centre Court today, Andy Murray remains Great Britain's greatest
:07:53. > :08:14.ever tennis player. Just not today. # I can take so much # Till I have
:08:15. > :08:22.had enough # # Because I'm only human and I feel when I fall down #
:08:23. > :08:29.I'm only human # And I crash and I break down # Words in my head, I