Day 4 Highlights Today at Wimbledon

Hello and welcome to Today at Wimbledon. Here on Centre Court, two

British number one is back to back. Later on you will see Joanna Konta,

but first it is Andy Murray and the fans are ready! -- Johanna. We will

see how Murray managed against Lu. Could Konta take control against

Bouchard? And will Dan Evans and Heather Watson winds through? 41

extra matches had to be squeezed in today because of the brain

yesterday. -- wins. Tim Henman is in charge. High praise! Tim Henman and

Tracy Austin with me. We will concentrate on Andy Murray and windy

Lu as he would like to be known. They have been here before.

Flashback to 2013 and the second round. And even Andy Murray plays

Lu, he beats him in straight sets. We know what happened that

Wimbledon. Andy Murray is the Wimbledon champion! Three years on

Andy Murray is seeded and he is coached by even than dogs and once

again faces Lu in round two. -- by Ivan Lendl. Bands were hoping for a

repeat of the same. You could call it deja lu. Murray started strong in

the opening game of the match. A perfect drop shot, the sort of thing

that Murray likes to do himself. We will join it with Lu serving 3-2 up.

The commentary comes from Simon Reed and John McEnroe.

JOHN MCENROE: Lu is definitely more confident on that backhand, more

consistent. Murray is a student of the game, he knows that all too

well. That is a super shot. Murray is

going to challenge. It looked from our viewpoint like the back of the

line. Not much in it. That is the one. You could see this

coming and for him that is a safe return over a lower part of the net

and he can be aggressive and it is spinning away from Lu, that is a

tough shot for him to handle. It is like an inside out backhand. Where

is his first serve? Murray is after the second.

APPLAUSE A good serve, 129 mph. That is a

good way to play the match, save one break point.

CHEERING Even Andy Murray did not know.

STUDIO: Great rally and Andy Murray was just sensational. We join them

when Lu is 3-4 down. APPLAUSE

The mistakes continued to come. -- continue.

It is a bit of a problem right now with that son, but Lu's serve has

gone completely off at the moment. -- sun. Just 42% of serves in at the

moment. It was a whole lot better than that after the first couple of

service games. APPLAUSE Suddenly it is a very different

match. Break points for a second successive break.

APPLAUSE STUDIO: After that slightly slow

start, Murray was on a roll, he took the first set 6-3, the second set he

broke twice and he took it two. He was in no mood to let Lu back in. We

will join him serving for the match. JOHN MCENROE: It is pretty hard for

anyone in the Murray camp not to be feeling pretty good. Not to mention

his serve and energy. I wonder if Ivan Lendl will congratulate him?

LAUGHTER APPLAUSE

He is finishing with a flourish. That has some serious velocity on

it. APPLAUSE After 39 minutes it is match point

for the number two seed. CROWD GASPS

APPLAUSE You know when you are doing good

when people are amazed that you missed. They groaned because they

wanted him to finish in spectacular style. It has been a spectacular

performance. Game, set and match, Murray. A tour

divorce from Andy Murray. -- toured a

force -- tour de force. I think I finished the match well. As I went

on I hit the ball better and better, I was feeling more comfortable with

my movement and I just need to keep building on that. It was a good

match for sure. Andy Murray's assessment of his performance, Tim,

what did you make of it? It was fantastic, the foundation has been

set over the past eight weeks and you look at the clay-court season, a

totally different surface, but the amount of balls he had to hit, the

coverage of the court but you cover on clay, then to come to a grass

court where he is even more comfortable, he won Queen's and he

is playing more comfortable than I have ever seen him play. You can

certainly lose it in the first few weeks -- first week. Going back to

Ivan Lendl, is that a good idea? I think it was a great idea, I think

Ivan has always encouraged him to go after his forehand more, hit through

the strikes, not, round too much. Look to move forward. The clay-court

season for Andy was really spectacular, it was only last year

that he won his first title on clay. Getting to the finals of the French

as well. That is a huge build-up of confidence and then to get onto a

surface where he thrives, on this surface. He gets rewarded for being

determined. He has always loved the drop shot, but is it more effective

in these conditions when there is a bit of moisture in the air? It is

not only moisture, but it is also the front of the court, it is

definitely green. People are not there so much, when you play a drop

shot, the ball is not getting up too high. And he does like the drop

shot, but certainly on grass more effective. The other thing about

having Ivan Lendl in his corner, there is less chirping. Too often we

see the chirping in the box, a lot with Amelie Mauresmo, when she had

to go up to the sponsor suites when she did not want to hear it. Ivan

does not want to hear it. That is beautiful. That shot is going to

work on any surface. It is where do you play the drop shot from. You

push your opponent back. Running into the umpires to! If you are a

bit inside the court, you do not have so far to travel. -- into the

umpire's chair! A tremendous feel. Great court sense and he knows when

to use the drop shot, great ball recognition. The battle of the

matches meant there are an awful lot of women on court all over the place

and if you took a wander around, you were likely to come across a big

name and a fantastic match. Our correspondent reports. Yesterday's

reign at Wimbledon sprinkled seeds across the back courts. Court 18

hosted Venus Williams, but there are most that shall rules for the stars

if you take too long. Second service. Now she loses her first

serve. The 20-year-old Greek woman won't stay at 115th in the world if

she keeps on play tennis like this. She took a set from Venus with the

oldest woman in the main draw knowing how to get out of a corner.

She is 36, but few can match this power and when required, touch.

Bigger stages of weight. We could head over to court 17 where Samantha

Stosur met a Wimbledon finalist Lisicki. She has dropped to 81st in

the world since reaching the final in 2013, but she grows on the grass.

She knocked out the 14th seed in straight sets. Wimbledon certainly

gives her something so she get something back. If you popped back

to 18, you would find curb up. She won it in two sets. -- Kerber.

Schiavone was a French Open winner six years ago while her opponent had

not won one but is due. Schiavone managed a few shots, but it was a

straight sets defeat. Perhaps Bencic should have known something was up

when she had her shoes inspected. The American who is only 125 was on

her game, but Bencic was not. It was not her feet, but her wrist. A set

down, she retired early. As the day drew on, a remarkable story of

folded on Court Two. Radwanska, the third seed, she was facing Konjuh.

Radwanska sees the second set, but the Croatian teenager battled back

again and this break point left her serving for the match. She had two

match points on the serve, but Radwanska recovered and fate was to

take a horrible twist for Konjuh. She has twisted her ankle badly

there. There is no doubt about it. Still, she refused to give up,

fighting on until she had nothing left. Radwanska advances, but on a

day of stars, they will remember Konjuh. STUDIO: Was such a shame for

Konjuh. You could see Radwanska saying, are you OK? The biggest

shock was the departure of Muguruza. The score was 6-3, 6-2. There is

stretches at play. Muguruza just was not on it today. Chappell --

Cepelova beat Serena in the past. But Muguruza looked really

uncomfortable out on court and Cepelova played well. You have two

handed to her. It is difficult to watch her. Cepelova said afterwards

that she loves playing on the big names on court, she was not overawed

one bit. After winning the strolling open at the beginning of the year,

the pressure of being a champion really got to her, do you think at

the French Open there was any inkling of that? Muguruza lost the

first round, so I do. I do not know, I just feel like it is Serena and

the rest and it has been a merry-go-round at number two and so

many of these young ladies have this great success and they cannot

sustain it. So many players in past generations, once they felt they had

won the Grand Slam, it gave them confidence and they felt they were

part of the elite and they would carry on and be able to handle that.

I find it an interesting concept that so many of them are feeling the

pressure and they are shying away from it. Muguruza was asked about

that at the press conference. For sure, more expectations from other

people, but for me, I knew very clear that it would be a rough

tournament for me after winning a Grand Slam and coming here. Everyone

looking at me. Honestly not really, I know the matches are tough and

nothing will happen, I lost today, it is normal, it is part of the

game. Hopefully I lose fewer matches, but there is not any drama.

She is trying to be sensible about it. Interesting perspective, but I'm

sure she will be mightily disappointed. She has a great game

on grass. She is very aggressive on grass, she has a big serve, can

dominate. Straight on the back of Roland Garros, she lost at the

Joker, that would have been disappointing, at her home

tournament. -- Majorca. Did we get planning permission from you, this

is your spot. I was thinking about routes and staff. You have a

blanket. -- roof s. Heather Watson was delayed by rain, she was trying

to beat the weather and Anna -- her opponent. Heather Watson served

against Serena Williams last year only to see the miracle turn to

Mirage, can she ever forget how close she came? This year brought a

chance to have victory, but Beck held in the third overnight. They

break of serve. At first it swung away from Watson, Beck, the world

number ?43 on her serve. Heather is hurling her racket into the ground,

that got her a code violation. Four games in a row went her way, the

brakes she lost were achieved. That is how you do it. The scales were

rebalanced, in this set serving with little security. Again the game

broke, then she would win the match if she broke serve. Break or bust

for Watson now, they gain from urgency came quality. -- again. Now

game followed game, no one dared follow this. This is effectively a

penalty shoot out between Germany and England. But with the score

10-9, the German blinked. Watson had three match points, Beck saved them

all. It is on the line! You have to say that was very brave from back.

Holding her serve she wrestled back momentum. She made sure Watson made

the mistake. That has gone long and Anneka -- and Beck has won against

Heather Watson. I was not pleased with the match in general, how I

played. Having match point and not being able to win. I take losses

badly, but this is one of the worst. Does the spectre of Serena still

haunt Heather Watson, who knows? But her Wimbledon hopes must wait

another year. It was desperate to watch actually. Even in highlight

form, awful to watch again. She did so well to get herself back in the

match. She went for it on the first one and missed it and I talked to

Michelle, Heather's mum, she agreed she was too passive on the next two.

That is tough when you have to finish in match and you lose. She

was not happy with the way she played it. You always want to play

the way you play your best tennis and when Heather goes for her shots,

that is when she is playing at her best. This is difficult, the second

year of a heartbreaker. Last year, the third round, the best much of

her life, those two points beating Serena. I always felt that it is

more difficult to sleep at night when you win a point and then lose a

point. A home tournament, to get that close. She did so well. She

lost nine games in a row, the second set 6-0, she kept on fighting. Then

to get that close. Down 4-1 in the third as well. Then to have 0-40 on

your serve. She had a confession about something that she did. Have

you heard anything about the nasty stuff on Twitter? Do you think today

will lead to more of that? Absolutely, I was just in the

changing rooms with Naomi Broady and Tara Moore. I feel I need to punish

myself after something like this. Just to like... I don't know,

because it was not a good day. I went on Twitter and there was

plenty. Did it in some perverse wager you up? Definitely not, why

would that cheer me up? People say nasty things. But you deliberately

looked it up? I was in a bad mood, it is like when you bang your

racket, it is not a positive thing. You are taught at an early age not

to read magazine articles, my mum said if it is good it blows your

head up and if it's not... There could be 100 positive ones and 1-1

and the -1 will linger. People that tweet are so nasty. -- and 1-1 and

that one will linger. -- and one negative article and that will

linger. You do not need to go and assess somebody else's opinion that

is relevant and they do not know anything about what you are doing.

It is wasted energy. Heather has a lot of opportunities ahead. She has

to look back at the match and so this is what was frustrating. She

had three match points to win at Wimbledon, she did not take them.

She has to use that motivation to get back on the practice court and

get better results. Not what some loser is saying on Twitter. Very

good advice from Tim Henman, I hope she is listening. Yesterday was all

about Marcus Willis, today his great mate Dan Evans had a match against

Federer. -- against Dolgopolov. They were both in really good form. A

double fault in the end from Dolgopolov handed Evans that first

set. We will join it in the second. COMMENTATOR: Behind him twice! A

very controlled performance. APPLAUSE

Three break points. In the end he could not find a

slice. Evans is ranked 91 in the world and

Alexandr Dolgopolov is the 19th seed. But Daniel Evans still won the

second set with touch at the net. Alexandr Dolgopolov is serving to

stay in the match in the third set. Combination again, the slice and the

big forehand perfectly executed. APPLAUSE

The crowd responding. Three minutes short of two hours. Daniel Evans

comes to match point. UMPIRE: Game, set and match. And it

is a truly convincing victory by the British player. He is not a normal

guy, but he is another tennis player I have to prepare myself to just

play another match against him. It would be

play another match against him. It would be stupid to say it is not a

special occasion to play him on the big cord. I just have to prepare

myself best and try and put that to the back of my head that it is Roger

I am playing and go out and give it my best. Daniel Evans talking about

his next round which will be against Roger Federer. He will ring Marcus

Willis for advice because they are mates. How good a performance was

that? Very good. He has got a lot of ability, but there have always been

questions about the commitment and how dedicated he is towards the

sport. To back up his first round win and get through to the third

round and have that opportunity to play Federer, he has done really

well. Irrespective of what happens in the next match I think it is

really important he kicks on and uses this as a platform to continue

to rise up the rankings because he has a lot of ability. That touch was

like Andy Murray. What is the Murray effect? Is it because he trains and

works so that the others around him are feeling that? He is the ideal

role model. You look at every aspect of his game, whether it is the work

he does in the gym or on the track, or his diet or the way he practices,

the attention to detail, all those young players, both men and women,

can look up to him and say that is the level of

commitment. There are no grey areas with commitment, you are either in

or out. With all due respect for a long time Daniel Evans has been out

and he is buying into it and he has had some good results. He has broken

into the top 100. Hopefully this will instil the work ethic he has

got to continue with. He would have a bit more time ordinarily to think

of the Federer match, but he is back tomorrow. I need to bring the

results from the Coventry league and that is that Marcus Willis and his

partner one dead doubles. He said yesterday was a warm up. How far

away was that from here? An hour and a bit. Use some of that money that

he won? We have a lot more to discuss. We are going to show you

the match between Johanna Konta and Eugenie Bouchard. British number one

Johanna Konta's first round victory over Monica Pugh it was her first

ever singles win at NSW 19 in five years of trying. Today the number 16

seed was looking to make it two in two days. Her opponent, Canada's

Eugenie Bouchard was Wimbledon runner-up in 2014. At the 2015 US

Open and she slipped in the locker room and suffered a head injury and

concussion and withdrew from the event. She filed a lawsuit against

the organisers which is pending. Head tennis has been curtailed and

her ranking has fallen to number 48. It was Konta who struck first in

front of her home crowd, but the 16th seed then lost her home served

twice for Eugenie Bouchard to take the opening set 6-3. We join it in

the second set with commentary from Sam Smith and Tracy Austin.

It is exactly what you were saying, it is about not allowing your

emotions to take over your rational mind. It is difficult to do when you

are in this kind of arena and you are a set down and pressure is on.

TRACY AUSTIN: Konta handled it very well in the first round. Monica Pugh

reeked of Porto Rico, number 36 in the world, just outside of being

seeded. Monica Pugh each also got to the semifinals, so an nifty grass

court player. And also Konta had to come back and sleep on the match and

had to finish the match on Court Number One. That is sometimes

difficult, which added nerves. Konta has an on-board computer and

the hard drive is doing well here. Gives her a chance to get an early

break. CLARE BALDING: Konta exhorting

herself and she did and she took the second set 6-1. Let's head into the

deciding set with Konta serving. Well, at this time in the evening

there is a little moisture in the green section of the court. The

baseline is starting to rip up now and the court is playing far harder

than it was a couple of days ago. I think the players like it. It has

been very soft. In the first couple of days it was very greasy and the

players did not feel they have much traction, on the edge of slipping.

You might remember, Tracy, we have had a drop of rain here!

She had 144 until this game and now two already. -- one double fault.

That is a magnificent forehand. She stayed down through it. What an

angle. Her forehand has improved, in particular at this sharp angle.

Oh, fabulous. What a way to get the break in this deciding set.

Bouchard approaching up the middle so as not to give Konta an angle.

Stunning. That is resilient after getting her serve broken.

She had three chances to break Bouchard in the opening game of this

final set. Three more now. Two missed returns. She has got to

get this one in play to keep the pressure on.

Her feet did not move. They got stuck. And on this surface more than

any others you have to have happy feet because you might get the odd

bounce in the last second that you might need to adjust to. Bouchard is

doing a great job behind the break point of winning seven from ten.

This is the resilience from her that we did not see last year. She looked

miserable on the tennis court as if she wanted to be anywhere but

hitting a tennis ball. It was hard to watch at times. Bouchard is back.

UMPIRE: Miss Bouchard is challenging the call. That is confidence for

you. Serve. Now the Canadian number one is

flying here now. She sprints into a 3-0 lead.

CLARE BALDING: And to be honest she did not stop sprinting. Konta had a

couple of opportunities to break back, but after an hour and 47

minutes the Canadian clinched her place in the third round. Let's hear

from them. It was a good match, we played high

quality tennis. She has a great game and can become a really good player.

I feel like in a way she forced me to raise my level. It was very high

quality and I am proud of the way I finished. It is a battle between two

competitors and I really enjoyed it. I think I have got a lot of good

things to take away from that match and a lot of things I hope to

implement in my development as a tennis player and as a person. So, I

definitely would have liked to have stayed longer in the singles, but I

am very happy with the experience that I had today. She is

philosophical and positive and she has made an incredible rise to where

she is. That was a tough draw. Very much so. We talk about Andy Murray

leading from the front and what she has achieved in the last few months

is fantastic. She was 146 and is now in the top 20 and is seeded 16.

There are no magic secrets, it has been continuous hard work and

dedication. It was a tough draw, Bouchard did very well playing a

British player on Centre Court and to deal with the adversity. But

Johanna cannot deal with this too much. She has had her first match on

Centre Court and she can build on this. For Bouchard this is a

breakthrough moment because it has been an awful time for her. It has

been a difficult time for her since 2014 and she has struggled with the

expectations with so many more eyes on her in 2015 and it was difficult

to watch her play because it did not look like she was enjoying it. Now

she has hooked up with her coach Nick Saviano and he's started

working with her when she was 12. That was important for her. At the

end of 2014 she got rid of Nick and with all the expectations you need

somebody familiar around you. She has played the best I have seen her

since coming back. She had that concussion at the US Open and had

started to build momentum. She felt when she was going to an ice bath

late at night and did not play for the rest of the year. It has taken

her a while and this was an impressive match. It was a weird

dynamic. Konta was supposed to win this match. She had just broken into

the top 20 and had played only one other match on Centre Court last

year against Sharapova with a decisive win. In one year she has

improved so much. It is up here. Technically she has always had a

huge serve. At 25 it is all starting to come together and it is the

mental coaching and the process which she calls it, terrific

maturity and I expect big things from Konta. She has enjoyed her

experience, it is a shame she did not get a chance to play more. The

rain delay had an effect and you could see lots of men's matches all

over the place. Patrick Gearey can bring us up to date on a few men who

may have wished they had stayed indoors.

Plenty of tennis to get through the day. With clear weather came a

return of the Wimbledon bones. Julien Benneteau proved a to Kei

Nishikori. The Frenchman took the first set, but Nishikori eventually

swatted him in fourth away. Nobody wanted to stop for showers again,

but after some drizzle Gilles Simon was not taking any chances. There is

no chance. I will sue you. He did not call the lawyers in the end,

although he nearly caused an accident of his own. He ended up

losing his case in this court. The 16th seed was beaten 3-1 by Grigor

Dimitrov, world number 32. On Court three more of the same. Milos Raonic

also does not like playing in rain and Andreas Seppi was also a little

wayward. Deep breaths. John McEnroe says Milos Raonic can win Wimbledon.

Bold words matched with bold tennis, through in straight sets. Marin

Cilic's match proved closer than some might have imagined. The world

number 94 to set from the number nine only to lose in four. He gave

it everything. Marin Cilic will play a real giant killer hook at the 23rd

seed down to size over the course of four sets. The big Croatian could

not find his range with the ground strokes to the Slovakian's delight.

Another seed found unforgiving ground on course 16. David Ferrer,

13th seed, and a former French Open finalist, outplayed in straight sets

by Nicolas Mahut. Richard Gasquet must have felt he was losing his

grip on his match with Marcel Granollers. Richard Gasquet has

reached the semifinals here twice and he knows when to dig deep and

how to get himself out of trouble. But eventually here he had too much.

One last surprise lay in wait. Dominic Thiem is seen by many as

tomorrow's man, but today he plays world number 64, Jiri Vesely. But

the poker face finally slept. What an extraordinary final point

and Jiri Vesely with a huge roar knocks Dominic Thiem out of

Wimbledon. It is a shame about Dominic Thiem.

Lots of names went today and there was so much going on. A lot of

players slipping. Conditions are tricky. Are they? No, they are all

right. It is still a little bit lush. They have not had a massive

chance to dry out. When you get around the extremities of the court

it will still be green and you will always see a bit of slipping, but

there is not much to worry about. I have seen so many more slips at

other tournament than here. It is the way it is. With a three-week gap

at Wimbledon they get more of a chance to get used to playing on

grass. You have both got children and for those at home with teenagers

and toddlers you will appreciate the effort that goes into a really good

rant. This takes the biscuit today. This is Viktor Troicki on Court

number 17. What? No! No way, look at it. Come on, please, look at it.

White, white. Look at it! UMPIRE: Game, set and match. Albert

Ramos-Vinolas. Umpire, do you know what you did? Do you know what you

did? Do you know what you did? You are horrible.

BOOING What are you doing here? What do you

want to talk about? You are the worst ever. I mean, it was a crucial

point. I should not laugh. You are horrible! It was unfortunate. The

problem was there was a sound made by the line judge and they thought

about calling it out, but he did not have a play on the ball because it

was going to be an ace. He had a few problems with the umpire before that

and he was not a happy bunny. Players can get emotional at

Wimbledon and he lost his cookies. It was almost comical to watch. On a

more positive note this is our choice for short of the day. And it

is Fabio Fognini. We have to get some variety in this,

we cannot always go for the old lob. It is not just one match that Marcus

Willis was playing with Gavin Henderson. He is playing a second.

It is the Warwick Club and they are playing against Coventry and they

are playing the second match under the lights in the shadow of the

local supermarket and it is still going on. Let's have a look at the

order of play tomorrow. Stan Wawrinka against Juan Martin Del

Potro will be a really good match. You've got to see Nick Kyrgios

against Dustin Brown. It has been the Wimbledon fairy tales so far and

Tara Murray gets her chance tomorrow against Svetlana Kuznetsova, the

former French Open winner. It has been a day of massive shops with 18

seats going out, 11 women and seven men. I do not know whether that is a

record. But savvy Muguruza is a real shock. Absolutely. Thank you to

Tracy and Tim. Tim will be with us tomorrow night. He will be joined by

John McEnroe. We can depend on you and we can depend on this man as

well. See you tomorrow, goodbye.