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There is an overwhelming force that accompanies the Williams sisters. I | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
should know. This must be so difficult for | :00:48. | :01:01. | |
Lindsay Davenport. First, there is the power. Brutal serving, vicious | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
ground strokes. You hit it hard, they hated backorder. Next, there is | :01:08. | :01:16. | |
the speed. They are athletes. Not quite as fast as years gone by, but | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
if you think they are past it, get real. That is the point. To them, | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
experience is no enemy. It is their best friend. They have been there, | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
done it and when it all. They are beatable, everybody is, but trust | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
me, it is more than a game when you are up against Venus or Serena. | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
Standing in the way of them, a first singles semifinal for Elena Vesnina | :01:44. | :01:53. | |
and a player who is finding her place at the top table at it more | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
comfortable, Angellica Bell, who beat Serena in the final at | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
Melbourne. Welcome to our platform, looking down on Centre Court and No | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
one Court. Great words. You do yourself a disservice, because Wendy | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
won in 1999, you beat one of the greatest players in the final, | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
Steffi Graf. You get a little lucky now and then. It was a different | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
era. Once Venus and Serena came, they changed the way grass court | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
tennis was played on the women's side. Martina Navratilova came | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
forward, Venus and Serena have dominated with their power, it was | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
so tough to defend against. Everybody else has to step up to | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
keep pace with them. They do, they have changed the face of women's | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
tennis. They have so much power through the court, and the most | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
beautiful service motions that get in so many free points, they can | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
take driver volleys out of the air, and their movement on the court. All | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
of us were shocked by the boxer type Speaker pages to have, their | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
overflowing self-confidence. But they have mellowed a bit, they have | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
mature on the tour, they have been easier around the other players than | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
when they first burst out. The question everybody was asking, did | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
the a first... A first semifinal for Venus, the first since being | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder. Could it be her first | :03:29. | :03:40. | |
final for ages? As far as Angelique Kerber was concerned, could she be | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
the first German in the final since Steffi Graf 20 years ago? | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
Venus Williams, the kid from Compton with no family history in tennis. | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
Venus Williams, the kid from Compton who became the Queen of Wimbledon. | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
This her 19th Wimbledon, a champion five times, but not since 2008. | :03:59. | :04:08. | |
Venus Williams is the champion. For the fifth time at Wimbledon. She | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
reigns supreme. At 36, the matriarch of matchplay. In her way, the up and | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
coming star, Angelique Kerber, winner of the Australian Open, she | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
has been in sparkling form this year. The fourth seed is the only | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
player not to drop a set so far at the Championships this year. It is | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
always good to win matches into sets. I know how to play on grass, | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
to win against good players. I am looking forward to the next | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
challenge. I still feel 26. You have this infinity that feels like you | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
could go forever. Could Venus rising curb her enthusiasm? | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
The Sun was shining as they walked out onto Centre Court, the stage was | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
set. Venus looking cool and calm, she has been here many times before, | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
her mother knows what it is like to sit and support both of her | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
daughters. It was a nervous start for both players, no holds of set's | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
holds of serve in the first four games. | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
We are going to join it with Venus Williams about to serve. | :05:23. | :05:51. | |
A fine serve. Venus' favourite serve on the outside. Kerber should move | :05:52. | :06:01. | |
over a bit to her right. Venus like that with a bit of spin to swing | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
away from the two hander. Neither player happy with the way | :06:05. | :07:03. | |
they have started. Not yet. Not quite found the nice groove. | :07:04. | :07:32. | |
A good shot from Kerber. Williams making her way in. For so long | :07:33. | :07:45. | |
people thought of Kerber as a defensive, reactive counterpuncher. | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
She really becomes offensive on the stretch. | :07:51. | :08:13. | |
What a shot, five breaks of serve in a row. | :08:14. | :08:26. | |
Kerber serve for the set, Venus is nothing if not a fighter, and for | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
every shot at Kerber made, she bashed it back. This was the longest | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
rally of the first set, but Kerber took it 6-4. Let's join it at the | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
start of the second. Great retrieving from Kerber. But to | :08:43. | :09:27. | |
no avail. You could hear her say no when she | :09:28. | :10:41. | |
hit the forehand. She did not need to see where it landed. Just not | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
trusting the forehand today. Kerber is keeping her on the move. | :10:48. | :11:12. | |
For the fifth break of the Williams serve. She had a 30-0 lead this | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
game. There is no control. | :11:18. | :11:49. | |
A good break by Kerber, and important. After that, both players | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
started to settle, with some great rallies. The wingspan of Venus | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
counteracted by the fast feet of Kerber, she kept Venus guessing. | :12:00. | :12:11. | |
Let's rejoin commentary with Venus serving. | :12:12. | :12:32. | |
You can see that Venus is trying different things, trying to move | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
forward, into the net 15 times today. Well played. That has a | :12:40. | :12:55. | |
lovely flowing shot. Just can't string enough of these points | :12:56. | :12:56. | |
together. There we go again. Did you see the | :12:57. | :13:43. | |
improvisational skills from Kerber? Completely stopped. Changed her | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
swing path. It is in. A shake of the head, | :13:48. | :14:05. | |
misjudgement. Another break point. It is corrected. Kerber is going to | :14:06. | :14:43. | |
challenge. Interestingly, she believes this is out. She is wrong. | :14:44. | :15:04. | |
Miss Kerber has two challenges remaining. Will that be an important | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
reprieve? Better volleying. So necessary at | :15:09. | :15:45. | |
this time. Just feel like Venus needs to win this game to hang in. | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
Before the school board gets away from her. | :15:51. | :16:00. | |
It did look a tired shot. If you see your opponent on the full stretch, | :16:01. | :16:09. | |
expect a short shot. Very slow first step. | :16:10. | :16:42. | |
She just can't put Kerber away. Astonishing work from the German. | :16:43. | :16:57. | |
Another forehand into the net. Kerber will extract unforced errors | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
from her opponent. It is too good. So smart to come | :17:00. | :17:38. | |
forward, Venus did not want another 14 shot rally like the previous one. | :17:39. | :17:46. | |
The unforced errors starting to mount up, 21 for Venus. Seventh | :17:47. | :18:21. | |
Kerber. Well done. The crowd latching onto | :18:22. | :18:48. | |
anything they can from Williams, they want this to be a contest. | :18:49. | :19:22. | |
A champion's mentality, really digging deep. | :19:23. | :19:33. | |
She holds, but there is hardly any joy in it. She is looking very weary | :19:34. | :19:47. | |
as she trudges to her chair. She may have been looking query, but | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
that was an important hold. She is just one break down. Angelique | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
Kerber now serving for a place in her first Wimbledon final. | :19:59. | :20:10. | |
It was on the line. She has three challenges. | :20:11. | :21:06. | |
Steady as she goes. Two match points. | :21:07. | :21:51. | |
It is amazing. To beat Venus, it is always a really tough match. She is | :21:52. | :22:17. | |
a champion, she has won so many times, that is why I am happy about | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
my game and my first final here. A wonderful shot to finish with. I | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
tried to go for every shot, moving well. The last point was amazing. | :22:28. | :22:37. | |
Totally, I wanted to win. What are you going to do? You do the best you | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
can. I ran into a better player. Next time. You are doing things at | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
an age when many at your contemporaries have hung it up. When | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
you are an athlete, you are not thinking about age, you are thinking | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
about what you can accomplish. Perhaps people will think of it more | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
in that way. I am in a good place. She is rewriting the record books. | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
With that answer, next time, she will be back again. Let's talk about | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
Angelique Kerber. Her retrieving ability, she gets everything back. | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
She does. She is one of the best athletes playing the game. Not as | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
powerful as Serena, but she is so explosive, she has great | :23:28. | :23:29. | |
anticipation. She backs up and she reads the play. She then can do | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
stuff with her hands to make the balls do incredible things, angles, | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
up the line. We look at her as not a grass court player, because of her | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
serve, because it can be vulnerable, but every other part of her game is | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
suited to grass, she stays low, it is difficult to play against. Talk | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
us through what Kerber is doing and how she is managing to put Venus | :23:59. | :24:00. | |
under pressure. She gets the ball back into play | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
time and time again, she extends the rallies, she makes Venus have to | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
play an extra shot. She went a bit down the middle, she did not go into | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
the corners as much as I expected. She did not go into Venus' forehand | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
side as much as she could have, but then she drew out the forced errors | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
on that side. I think she is one of the fittest athletes out there, she | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
has worked so incredibly hard on that side of her game. She has this | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
ability to track down balls, the take-off speed, the footwork skills, | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
she gets behind the ball and click the rest. The last point summed up | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
what she is all about. She can come up with the running passing shots, | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
she is so dangerous, it is wonderful to see somebody who has worked hard | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
and you see it come to fruition. She had a plan with her serve, | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
astounded, coming into Venus' forehand. That was the question, | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
would she be willing to go to the serve to the forehand? She is more | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
comfortable serving to the backhand. That is Venus' best shot. She came | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
out of her comfort zone and hit more to the forehand. She came in knowing | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
that she had to not hit her best serve every single time, she had to | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
mix it up and have the confidence to do that. That is the weaker side of | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
Venus, it broke down a bit today. Kerber took advantage of that. And | :25:39. | :25:47. | |
-- we think of left-handers being great servers out wide, but when | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
they serve into the forehand side, the ball is swinging in, you have to | :25:51. | :25:58. | |
cut across the line of the ball, but feels comfortable, sometimes people | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
can dictate to the strings. Quite often there were miscues from Venus, | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
she was not comfortable. They said how tired she looked, she is playing | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
not having recovered from this awful disease, but managing it. That is | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
what we will never know, did she come in fatigued? She is 36, she had | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
played five singles matches coming in, last year she never knows, each | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
day is a new day, she has the manage her energy and schedule. What she is | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
doing is remarkable. She did not seem to have the same and other of | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
energy that we have seen coming into this match today. Full credit to | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
Angelique Kerber. Through the second set could have gone either way, and | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
then we would have been into a decider. To serve out nervously, how | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
brilliant what this. It showed mental strength. So much pressure, | :26:57. | :27:04. | |
to reach her first Wimbledon final. She had been broken many times | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
during the match, especially in the first set, but she remained | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
extremely calm. She said she was nervous at the start of the match | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
but then she started to flow. She trusted herself. There is more in | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
confidence from having won her first Grand Slam in Australia. This was a | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
terrific match point, to finish the rally, to win the match to get | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
through to the final. She has to be on cloud nine. She talked about her | :27:32. | :27:38. | |
disappointment at the French, her first major as a grand slam | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
champion, she lost in the first round, her opponent played well, but | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
she was so disappointed, she learned from that, and she tried to take the | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
pressure off PR. One reason why she is so confident, there is no way her | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
camp is not telling her, you should believe in yourself, you have done | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
this, you spend hours training, your game will hold up. Even if your mind | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
starts to get nervous. That is what happens, you can see it, you know | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
she puts in so many hours to be the best player she can be. An | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
incredible job, she will be back on Saturday afternoon in the final, but | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
who would she meet? With a look at the younger Williams sister against | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
the unknown quantity of the semifinalist Elena Vesnina. | :28:27. | :28:33. | |
Elena Vesnina has Neville travelled so far alone. Part of a duo who has | :28:34. | :28:42. | |
found success as a solo artist. The images she will remember for the | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
rest of her life. Her biggest challenge lay ahead, how do you | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
solve a problem like Serena? She is getting better and better. There are | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
lessons in recent history, women who took on the phenomenon and one. At | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
the fridge open, youthful energy. Before that in Australia, Angelique | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
Kerber. Roberta Vinci stopped her making the final at the US Open. For | :29:07. | :29:12. | |
those who are confident, courageous, there is a chance. Her energy can | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
become unmanageable. The passion and intensity I have is what makes me | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
Serena. I can't change, I would not want to be different. Wimbledon is | :29:23. | :29:28. | |
her domain, the six time champion who gains strength as the end grows | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
nearer. Serena Williams may have offered more clues to those who | :29:34. | :29:35. | |
challenge her, and she remains the most formidable puzzle. | :29:36. | :29:42. | |
She had the headphones off backstage but took them off to hear the | :29:43. | :29:48. | |
applause of the crowd. Aliona does mean, her first singles match on | :29:49. | :29:55. | |
Centre Court. -- Elena Vesnina. The crowd very appreciative. | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
They played four times before, Serena had one each meeting, Vesnina | :30:00. | :30:06. | |
did not have time to let her nerves settle. As we join it, Serena | :30:07. | :30:09. | |
Williams is already leading. How much does Serena want to play | :30:10. | :31:03. | |
Venus in the final? That is a great question. Or not want to? Most | :31:04. | :31:10. | |
importantly she is focused on getting to the final. | :31:11. | :31:39. | |
A huge punch from Serena right at the end. Great defence from Serena. | :31:40. | :31:46. | |
You don't see her need to do that too often. At least Vesnina is | :31:47. | :31:54. | |
finding her legs, starting to move out there. She was frozen for the | :31:55. | :31:55. | |
first few games. I only asked that question because, | :31:56. | :32:12. | |
if Venus was to win the next match, and Serena wins this, how much would | :32:13. | :32:18. | |
she say, I would have given anything for that opportunity? For Serena, it | :32:19. | :32:26. | |
is probably easier for her to focus if it was not against her sister, | :32:27. | :32:32. | |
but for her sister's say, she busy ones Venus to get to the final. I | :32:33. | :32:36. | |
don't know how you played your brother. We played three times. I | :32:37. | :32:43. | |
just felt like, take me to the top of a bridge if I lost. I thought you | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
were going to say how hard it was emotionally. | :32:49. | :32:54. | |
Venus handles it unbelievably well. She seems to be more worried about | :32:55. | :33:05. | |
Serena than Serena is. You don't get the feeling it is reciprocal. She | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
gets the job Journal and then she worries about Venus. I thought you | :33:11. | :33:18. | |
were going to say, beating your brother 6-0, 5-0, I must let him | :33:19. | :33:28. | |
have a game. There we go. It is three aces as well. In this game, | :33:29. | :33:37. | |
Vesnina has not played poorly. Serena is sharp. This is an example | :33:38. | :33:43. | |
of another one of these great sets she has played this tournament. | :33:44. | :33:52. | |
There will be a huge cheer if she wins this point. | :33:53. | :34:20. | |
Would that settled the Russian's nerves? The next games went with | :34:21. | :34:29. | |
serve and we are going to join it at 5-2-macro, Serena serving to take | :34:30. | :34:30. | |
the first set. Vesnina is hitting some high-quality | :34:31. | :35:16. | |
shots but Serena, I think her movement was hampered at the end of | :35:17. | :35:20. | |
last year and even in Australia this year, she did not look 100%. She has | :35:21. | :35:29. | |
moved better this tournament, this year's Wimbledon, than she was six | :35:30. | :35:32. | |
or eight months ago because of her knee. | :35:33. | :35:47. | |
Shelling peas for Serena Williams. 6-2, 28 minutes. | :35:48. | :35:57. | |
Serena in sensational form and she continued where she left off in the | :35:58. | :36:03. | |
second set, breaking in the first game, so here is Vesnina serving 2-0 | :36:04. | :36:05. | |
down. It is getting hot, the sun and the | :36:06. | :36:54. | |
heat, but it is the emotion. It is the racket, it is the ball and | :36:55. | :36:57. | |
anything else. And error from the Williams racket. | :36:58. | :37:30. | |
In two hours' time, we could say that was the turning point of the | :37:31. | :37:38. | |
match. 20 years from now. We will never forget that forehand that went | :37:39. | :37:39. | |
long. It's changed my life. The school board has one other | :37:40. | :38:40. | |
interesting statistic. Just 38 minutes played. All Serena. | :38:41. | :39:05. | |
Hawk-Eye has been awoken from its slumber. Fingers crossed here for | :39:06. | :39:18. | |
Vesnina. No, well wide. That was a second double fault from her. And | :39:19. | :39:22. | |
the end gets ever nearer. And there was still no respite as | :39:23. | :39:34. | |
Serena serve to love again. Here is the Russian serving 4-0 down. | :39:35. | :40:09. | |
This can't be a semifinal. It has taken her 43 minutes to decide to | :40:10. | :40:17. | |
throw a drop shot in and that happens. It is a shame, because it | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
is the second Thursday of a grand slam event. | :40:23. | :40:39. | |
What was your head to head wins against Serena? Not great. So much | :40:40. | :40:50. | |
has been written about her before she actually went on the tour but | :40:51. | :41:00. | |
did she play her first ever match at Wimbledon in 1998? At that time, | :41:01. | :41:05. | |
were people saying, you had better watch out yet, this could be one of | :41:06. | :41:13. | |
the great players? Yes. I saw her when she was eight. The same thing. | :41:14. | :41:23. | |
John, you were right. The first round, 1998. | :41:24. | :42:07. | |
Oh, my goodness. She has lost just three points in total on her serve | :42:08. | :43:02. | |
in this match. You could not have an easier time on your service games | :43:03. | :43:05. | |
and what she has had in this semifinal. If you can't put pressure | :43:06. | :43:12. | |
on Serena at all on her service game, she will be so loose and | :43:13. | :43:15. | |
relaxed in her return games and that is what we have seen. That is an | :43:16. | :43:26. | |
11th ace and so after just 48 minutes, barely one half of | :43:27. | :43:30. | |
football, Serena Williams, three match points. | :43:31. | :43:40. | |
As simple and as easy and as straightforward as you could | :43:41. | :43:47. | |
possibly imagine. Just an exhibition performance from Serena Williams. | :43:48. | :43:54. | |
Ruthless, relentless and into yet another Wimbledon final. | :43:55. | :44:01. | |
I am very happy. I was really focused today because I know we have | :44:02. | :44:08. | |
had a lot of tough matches before, especially on this surface. I knew | :44:09. | :44:14. | |
she could really bring it to me. Are you surprised you one as easy as you | :44:15. | :44:18. | |
did? It is never easy out there. Every point you have got to fight | :44:19. | :44:24. | |
for. It is never easy. Through to your ninth final at Wimbledon. How | :44:25. | :44:29. | |
significant is that to you? It is weird. I can't believe I am in the | :44:30. | :44:35. | |
finals again. I am determined to get at least one more year. | :44:36. | :44:43. | |
I felt like Serena just blew me from the court. I am a little bit | :44:44. | :44:47. | |
disappointed and I wanted to play better in my first Grand Slam | :44:48. | :44:51. | |
semifinal against Serena but you have got to admit she was better, | :44:52. | :44:55. | |
stronger, faster and I could not do anything today. It is just something | :44:56. | :45:01. | |
I can take this experience with me for the future and I am just wishing | :45:02. | :45:07. | |
best of luck to Serena in the final and that is what it is. | :45:08. | :45:16. | |
Vesnina incredibly gracious but she was against an unstoppable force. | :45:17. | :45:21. | |
Serena only lost three points on her serve in the whole match. Here is | :45:22. | :45:25. | |
your quiz question. That was the fastest semifinal since? Someone | :45:26. | :45:33. | |
told me earlier. You have got to know this, Lindsay. 99, I think. | :45:34. | :45:47. | |
Who? In my match. Yes, you. But it was just majestic from Serena. She | :45:48. | :45:52. | |
has really been that perfect, certainly not this year. It really | :45:53. | :45:56. | |
was perfect. Everyone has been wondering when the Demons might | :45:57. | :46:00. | |
suddenly reappear but there is no sign of them. She had one difficult | :46:01. | :46:04. | |
match earlier in the Championships but now she has got the flow, she is | :46:05. | :46:09. | |
firing on all cylinders, the movement around the court, she is | :46:10. | :46:13. | |
like an express train. When you are against someone like that, Vesnina | :46:14. | :46:18. | |
had a lot of nerves in her first Grand Slam semifinal, but there was | :46:19. | :46:22. | |
not much she could do to try and stop the rot. Try to get involved in | :46:23. | :46:27. | |
her head to create some sort of doubt out there. She needed to | :46:28. | :46:30. | |
extend those rallies are little bit just to keep pressure on that | :46:31. | :46:36. | |
scoreline. She is such a good front runner, if she gets going, there is | :46:37. | :46:43. | |
no stopping her. As this demonstrates, it is a beautiful, | :46:44. | :46:46. | |
simple motion, but when she throws the ball. It is the most beautiful | :46:47. | :46:53. | |
service motion, I am sure Lindsay would agree, but it is such a close | :46:54. | :46:58. | |
cluster of balls and that is very difficult for the opponent. If she | :46:59. | :47:03. | |
can save so many different choices of serve off roughly the same ball | :47:04. | :47:07. | |
toss, that is a nightmare, because it is coming through the courts so | :47:08. | :47:14. | |
fast. You had the figures. 123 mph? She has done it a few times. You | :47:15. | :47:20. | |
have so little time to react. We wanted to compare it to Novak | :47:21. | :47:25. | |
Djokovic's serve. His fastest of the tournament. She has that ability to | :47:26. | :47:31. | |
take the play out of her opponent's hands. When a Serena is feeling | :47:32. | :47:36. | |
called double and confident on that shot, it has just been flowing | :47:37. | :47:43. | |
effect in this tournament. In Australia, in the final, she was | :47:44. | :47:47. | |
forcing it a little bit, last year's US Open, the same thing. But it is | :47:48. | :47:54. | |
flowing perfectly. She has the ability to go 125, she also has the | :47:55. | :48:00. | |
ability to go slower, but she hates her target. Their opponents don't | :48:01. | :48:03. | |
know which one to cover and it gives you so much confidence. She was in a | :48:04. | :48:10. | |
very good mood afterwards. I had a long chat with her and she talked | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
about her serve. She should be in a good move right now. But she also | :48:15. | :48:20. | |
posted this. I mentioned that the Duchess of Cambridge was in the | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
Royal box. Afterwards, Serena said, can we have a selfie and do this | :48:25. | :48:30. | |
video with me? If you look carefully, you can see the Countess | :48:31. | :48:36. | |
of Wessex coming in as well. It is just great. At net, you saw her have | :48:37. | :48:44. | |
a quick chat with Vesnina, that is because they knew they would do to | :48:45. | :48:54. | |
play doubles. The Williams sisters, it went with recess, but the | :48:55. | :48:58. | |
Williams sisters through to the semifinals of the doubles. This is | :48:59. | :49:01. | |
all about getting ready for the Rio Olympics. They have not played | :49:02. | :49:07. | |
doubles in the last few years in the majors and this year they have made | :49:08. | :49:11. | |
more of a commitment to try and win the gold medal at the Olympics. Ron | :49:12. | :49:15. | |
while Venus is saying, so be blogging she might retire after the | :49:16. | :49:21. | |
Olympics. She said 20/20 the other day. It is crazy. But she pulls it | :49:22. | :49:26. | |
out there, don't ask me about retirement. We will talk more in a | :49:27. | :49:31. | |
moment about that, Serena Williams against Angelique Kerber. But lots | :49:32. | :49:34. | |
more doubles going on today. Coming to Wimbledon is like dropping | :49:35. | :49:43. | |
in on an old friend for Martina Hingis. She and Sania Mirza took the | :49:44. | :49:50. | |
doubles title last time and would top seeds this year. Timea Babos and | :49:51. | :49:56. | |
Yaroslava Shvedova dealer owned them on the day the second seeds also | :49:57. | :50:00. | |
went out. Maria Hingis was staying for another one though. Three and a | :50:01. | :50:06. | |
half hours later, she reappeared later alongside Leander Paes, facing | :50:07. | :50:11. | |
Britain's Heather Watson and her partner Henry continent, who had | :50:12. | :50:15. | |
been progressing without playing. Despite Watson and Henry continent's | :50:16. | :50:23. | |
efforts, they lost the first set. But this was not done. They seized | :50:24. | :50:27. | |
the second and got the break they needed in the third, knocking the | :50:28. | :50:31. | |
defending champions out and earning a place in the quarterfinals. Here | :50:32. | :50:35. | |
is a far happier ever than the one that left her last week. In Grand | :50:36. | :50:42. | |
Slam wheelchair tennis doubles, for the first time, she would try her | :50:43. | :50:48. | |
luck on her own. She sort of her fellow Brit in the previous round. | :50:49. | :50:57. | |
Gordon Reid says playing singles on these courts is something he has | :50:58. | :51:01. | |
always creamed. No need to wake up just yet. Inference of the Duchess | :51:02. | :51:06. | |
of Cambridge, he crafted his way past the Frenchman. A tiger could | :51:07. | :51:10. | |
have been to have negotiated perfectly. An occasion he has waited | :51:11. | :51:16. | |
all his career for could hardly have gone much better. | :51:17. | :51:22. | |
A historic Wimbledon for having wheelchair singles for the first | :51:23. | :51:28. | |
time. Everyone is still buzzing about yesterday's match as Centre | :51:29. | :51:33. | |
Court saw two of the greatest quarterfinal matches ever. One | :51:34. | :51:36. | |
featuring Roger Federer, the other featuring Andy Murray. | :51:37. | :51:43. | |
It is men's quarterfinal stage and it is an absolutely cracking | :51:44. | :51:46. | |
line-up. He is not going to leave Wimbledon | :51:47. | :52:03. | |
this year without a fight. Absolutely stunning! | :52:04. | :52:08. | |
The best shot of the day. A phenomenal comeback. He is truly one | :52:09. | :52:22. | |
of the greatest players ever of the game. | :52:23. | :52:28. | |
The world number two, Andy Murray. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. A match to | :52:29. | :52:34. | |
savour. He has got the ball on a string. | :52:35. | :52:41. | |
He has not lost a set at these championships yet. | :52:42. | :52:49. | |
That is why Murray does the hours. He is not out of this match yet. He | :52:50. | :52:59. | |
is going the distance. There was triumph on Centre Court for Andy | :53:00. | :53:00. | |
Murray. Tsonga and Cilic played their car in | :53:01. | :53:13. | |
those encounters. Angelique Kerber knows she has done the work to | :53:14. | :53:16. | |
deserve these moments, did you see him shout at his clan, there is no | :53:17. | :53:24. | |
way I am losing this match. You just know with Andy, he is such an | :53:25. | :53:28. | |
unbelievable fighter, a warrior out there, he is in his domain, Centre | :53:29. | :53:32. | |
Court, where he has won this championship. I thought Tsonga did | :53:33. | :53:38. | |
extremely well to turn it into a five setter. You felt mentally he | :53:39. | :53:42. | |
had been beaten and he was going away from the match and yet he | :53:43. | :53:46. | |
started to really fire on the forehand, he started to get the flow | :53:47. | :53:51. | |
going with his serve, and he did mess the rhythm with his slice | :53:52. | :53:55. | |
backhand. And the backhand side, which is normally a weaker side for | :53:56. | :54:00. | |
him, he started coming up with phenomenal passing shot. But | :54:01. | :54:04. | |
ultimately, Andy does mess with a lot of players' heads and it is very | :54:05. | :54:10. | |
difficult to unravel him. And where Murray shows all his determination, | :54:11. | :54:18. | |
he shouts, he screams at his camp. I think a lot of that is geared for | :54:19. | :54:22. | |
the opponent. Look at that, there is no way I am losing this match. Roger | :54:23. | :54:28. | |
Federer, in contrast, you don't see it, but as an opponent you must feel | :54:29. | :54:33. | |
it. He just has that aura. You could tell he was getting intense because | :54:34. | :54:38. | |
he was yelling, come on! He was getting a little bit more vocal | :54:39. | :54:42. | |
yesterday. But you never get the sense of any anxiety or any panic | :54:43. | :54:47. | |
ever from Roger. That, I think, it helped him through yesterday. He | :54:48. | :54:57. | |
saved three match points. 3-3, 0-40. He just believes. And he finishes up | :54:58. | :55:03. | |
with two aces and that is when you realise. He does not look like it | :55:04. | :55:10. | |
takes that much out of him but I am just so interested in the effect he | :55:11. | :55:15. | |
had on Cilic. Cilic is going to be thinking today, I should have won | :55:16. | :55:18. | |
that match here, here, here and here. He was going in earlier in the | :55:19. | :55:25. | |
first two sets but when he had a chance to take a stranglehold, those | :55:26. | :55:30. | |
returns were not going in. That is because he is playing Roger Federer, | :55:31. | :55:33. | |
Centre Court at Wimbledon. That is what being that big of a legend and | :55:34. | :55:37. | |
that much of a champion does to opponents sometimes. This is the | :55:38. | :55:42. | |
order of play for tomorrow and a cracking line-up it is. It will all | :55:43. | :55:48. | |
be on the BBC. Milos Raonic, from Canada, with John McEnroe in his | :55:49. | :55:52. | |
coaching camp, up against Roger Federer. And Tomas Berdych, who has | :55:53. | :55:58. | |
been a final here before, against Andy Murray. Just extraordinary. On | :55:59. | :56:03. | |
Saturday we will have the women's final. How does Angelique Kerber go | :56:04. | :56:07. | |
about beating Serena Williams again? Will it be effective on grass. In | :56:08. | :56:12. | |
Australia she brought a very high level out onto the court but she | :56:13. | :56:16. | |
played with aggression, she ran down balls and she managed to extend the | :56:17. | :56:21. | |
rallies. She started to get into the forehand side of Serena Williams who | :56:22. | :56:26. | |
started to break down emotionally, started to doubt herself, and she | :56:27. | :56:30. | |
stepped with her emotionally. It is very difficult to do that but if you | :56:31. | :56:34. | |
are doing it, it starts to change the momentum and shifts the rhythm | :56:35. | :56:38. | |
of the match. I don't think it is going to be as easy for her to do it | :56:39. | :56:41. | |
on a grass court because of that serve of Serena Williams. She comes | :56:42. | :56:47. | |
up with so many free points. But if anyone can extend the rallies and | :56:48. | :56:51. | |
defend, Angelique Kerber has Beth Mead put herself in a position to do | :56:52. | :56:56. | |
that. This was our shot of the day, to do that under pressure to finish | :56:57. | :57:02. | |
that rally. What do you think about the final? Would you make Serena a | :57:03. | :57:09. | |
heavy favourite? Serena is her heavy favourite just based on the surface, | :57:10. | :57:13. | |
being six times champion and the quality she has shown this week. | :57:14. | :57:19. | |
Kerber has to get a high percentage returns back and this is the most | :57:20. | :57:23. | |
difficult surface to do that on. She also asked to hold her serve early | :57:24. | :57:27. | |
on. But a bit more pressure on Serena if she can go from there. If | :57:28. | :57:34. | |
she gets into a rally, she has a chance. Those first shots in this | :57:35. | :57:39. | |
match are going to be huge. And if she does start to return very well, | :57:40. | :57:43. | |
which she has been doing during the course of the Championships, that | :57:44. | :57:46. | |
can produce misses of first serve, you can look up second service, all | :57:47. | :57:51. | |
pieces of a jigsaw that part romantic during the match. And | :57:52. | :57:58. | |
Serena can be susceptible to stress. You have seen her, her breathing | :57:59. | :58:02. | |
gets very quick and you can see it start to happen. One thing she is | :58:03. | :58:06. | |
doing better at this stage of her career is learning from losses, | :58:07. | :58:08. | |
learning from previous mistakes. That overwhelmed her last year at | :58:09. | :58:14. | |
the open. I don't thing she was 100 set healthy in Australia. She is | :58:15. | :58:21. | |
moving better here. The French, she was struggling off court. So why | :58:22. | :58:24. | |
think she is going to do better here. They are about to make the | :58:25. | :58:29. | |
announcement that everybody needs to leave the ground. We have got to go | :58:30. | :58:32. | |
because otherwise they will lock all the gates and we will be here for | :58:33. | :58:37. | |
ever. On Saturday, Serena could finally equal Steffi Graf's record | :58:38. | :58:43. | |
of 22 Grand Slam victories. With her and Venus in the semifinals and | :58:44. | :58:47. | |
Roger Federer still going as well, this has been a Wimbledon way | :58:48. | :58:53. | |
vintage is back in vogue. We will be back tomorrow. Join Sue on BBC Two. | :58:54. | :58:55. |