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And he has done it. Her Majesty will present the trophy to a British | :00:15. | :00:24. | |
winner. Oh, that is brilliant. Oh, yes. That is brilliant. | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
Irresistible, majestic, in a class of her own. This is the most polite | :00:34. | :00:46. | |
sporting stampede you will ever see, enthusiastic tennis fans making | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
their way to the show courts where they will be cheering on defending | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
champion, Andy Murray and also Rafael Nadal. Venus Williams, the | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
five times champion and British number one Johanna Konta. There are | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
65 matches on the opening day and we will be bringing you the best of the | :01:08. | :01:16. | |
action on today at Wimbledon. Coming up: We will see how Murray moved on | :01:17. | :01:17. | |
centre court after nursing his dodgy hip. As defending champion he was | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
the opening days of the day. It is injury watch for the other number | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
one as well, but Johanna Konta says she is good to go. And after an | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
emotional French Open for Rafael Nadal, he is hoping to roll back the | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
years with his first match on grass since 2015. | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
And it is the most lovely evening in south-west London. It is the best | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
weather of the day. It is the first time Wimbledon has started this | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
late, in July, since 1896 when Queen Victoria was on the throne. Looking | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
back at the action of the opening day I2 people who made their debut | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
at Wimbledon 40 years ago, John McEnroe and Tracy Austin. It was 40 | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
years ago today. And this is what you looked like and you had a great | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
run. I came out of nowhere. I was totally unknown. Then I ran into | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
this guy who would not speak to me. In the semifinals. I got to the | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
semifinals and qualified and 18 matches and I still lost. It is a | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
thrill that you are still here. And you turned out for the first time in | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
1977 when you were a baby. 14. When you look at the photo, the racket is | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
bigger than you are. I wait about ?89. What do you way now? 95lbs? I | :02:45. | :03:00. | |
was more worried about the patsy than winning. It was a dream come | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
true to be playing at Wimbledon. Just to update you on the match with | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
Aljaz Bedene and Ivo Karlovic. We will be dipping backwards and | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
forwards into that match, but many people coming in from work will be | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
wanting to know what happened to the defending champions open proceedings | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
on centre court, Andy Murray. Is there. Wimbledon champion again. A | :03:26. | :03:34. | |
supreme performance. A first-class turnaround. Andy Murray. After the | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
long climb to the top of the world it is inevitable that you have to | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
look down and sometimes you will stumble, tumble, grumble. It is a | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
bit stressful because I want to be prepared and be at the practising | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
and I have not been in that position, but I feel much better now | :03:55. | :04:12. | |
and I am looking forward to getting going. Rising from the east to meet | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
him, Alexander Bublik from Kazakhstan. I get a chance on the | :04:15. | :04:15. | |
Centre Court against the best player in the world. For Alexander Bublik, | :04:16. | :04:27. | |
this is a bonus, a shot at the King. Andy is fine. This is the welcome | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
that Andy Murray got when he walked out on Centre Court and Alexander | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
Bublik is 20 years old and is ranked 134 in the world. He believes in | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
surprise tennis. Even he does not know what he is going to play until | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
he plays the shot. We will show you the best of it. Joining them in the | :04:49. | :04:58. | |
first set. Andy Murray is 4-1 up and it is 15-30 on the first serve. | :04:59. | :05:13. | |
This is a stunning piece of work. Going out your opponent is | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
absolutely fair game, but you have to be ready and wrap it up. I | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
thought he gave him a bit of stair afterwards. | :05:27. | :05:57. | |
I am not sure that was the wisest of choices, the forehand slice. | :05:58. | :06:39. | |
You really have to push off to cover the rest of the court with a wide | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
forehand. This is where we can tell how serious that injury is. | :06:47. | :07:14. | |
And finally Alexander Bublik wins one of these exchanges. There is no | :07:15. | :07:56. | |
way between point that Andy Murray is moving like a panther. He is | :07:57. | :08:13. | |
definitely uncomfortable. He has had some injections. You have got seven | :08:14. | :08:14. | |
matches in a grand slam tournament if you want to win. | :08:15. | :08:46. | |
Another entertaining rally. I have seen some opening matches that have | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
been far less exciting than this one and we are only 25 minutes into it. | :08:55. | :09:11. | |
It puts me in mind of the match that he played against Richard Gasquet | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
here when he played a passing shot and almost ran into the crowd. This | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
is a lovely touch from Andy Murray down the line. A bit of a slice as | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
well just to take it away. It was on the side of the court | :09:28. | :10:03. | |
where the umpire is, so he had a perfect view. Andy Murray has | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
challenged this one. Andy Murray pretty much seals the | :10:08. | :10:39. | |
first set with that double break. Murray went on to hold serve to | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
indeed seal the first set. 6-1 was the score, but Alexander Bublik won | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
many fans on centre court with his style of play and general attitude. | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
But it is good news for Andy Murray fans, he is moving all right. This | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
is the second set and the fifth game and it is and Alexander Bublik is | :11:02. | :11:02. | |
serving. I am looking for the two wrappers. | :11:03. | :11:29. | |
There are supposed to be two wrappers in the Alexander Bublik | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
box. There are two seeds available still, maybe they are a little late. | :11:37. | :11:47. | |
They often have long night. Spot the rapper anybody. | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
Don't tell me, another forehand slice drop shot, at juice. Maybe the | :11:56. | :12:13. | |
rappers went to the wrong box. Come on, Alexander Bublik, get this game | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
going and make it competitive. We like Andy Murray, but we quite like | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
this young man as well. What is he going to do next? I do not think he | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
knows. There was a little bit of good | :12:27. | :13:25. | |
fortune in that, but there was even more good tennis. This is gorgeous. | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
I think he just put his racket there, but he has got the touch. | :13:31. | :13:42. | |
Alexander Bublik seemed to warm up on the serve a little bit there. The | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
first delivery was much better. He is orchestrating the crowds now. | :13:48. | :14:08. | |
He may have been settling into the centre court, but Andy Murray | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
maintained the advantage and was soon serving for the second set, but | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
found himself at 0- 40. Well, some theatrical shrieks | :14:18. | :15:27. | |
really. I forehand error. Andy Murray needs to keep it together now | :15:28. | :15:28. | |
when he needs it most. Alexander Bublik has had five break | :15:29. | :16:02. | |
points and he has taken none of them. He shows his excitement to his | :16:03. | :16:11. | |
box. Oh, wow. And again the decibel | :16:12. | :16:54. | |
volume from Alexander Bublik went up, match in complete silence by | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
this piece of work. He does not miss many of them. Still hanging in at | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
that moment. Completely off the court. That is the sign of a | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
champion. Five straight points, Andy Murray | :17:13. | :17:43. | |
recoveries and is two set up in defence of his championship at | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
Wimbledon. The last thing Andy Murray wanted was any sign of rain | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
because already a sleepy green court would get a bit too greasy. They | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
came on with just the lightest of showers when the outside courts | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
carried on. They had a second rain break as well. But soon they were | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
back again and they settled into their rhythm. Let's join the action | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
in the third set with Alexander Bublik to serve once again. | :18:19. | :18:42. | |
It is a lovely shot here. I am surprised Andy Murray is still | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
chasing these. Do you think he spoke to his coach, | :18:50. | :19:45. | |
his father, beforehand to say we are going to do the shots? They must | :19:46. | :19:57. | |
have talked about something. Every strategy has to be revised once the | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
first set is over. What is good, you keep it. What is bad, you change it. | :20:04. | :20:14. | |
Oh, here we go. Andy Murray just making sure the ball had bounced | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
twice before he touched the net. This had a lot of backspin on it and | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
it bounced towards the net. Alexander Bublik was going, did he | :20:30. | :20:39. | |
touched the net? No. That is a devastating return. I know it did | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
not look that much, but that was a 135 mph serve and Andy Murray in | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
knock it back like it was nothing. Although it was 3:35pm by the time | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
they got too much point, in fact the match only stood at one hour and 44 | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
minutes and Andy Murray was on the run. He made Alexander Bublik | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
struggle and the challenge was over and Andy Murray went through, 6-1, | :21:09. | :21:18. | |
6-4, 6-2. Yesterday I had a good practice and it was the best I had | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
felt for a little while. Once I got out there today I moved really well | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
from the beginning of the match and that gave me a bit of confidence. If | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
I had been a bit unsure of my footing and if I had slipped earlier | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
in the match, maybe that could have thrown me off a bit, but I moved | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
really well and I felt good today. That was the best day of my life so | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
far, playing Andy, the defending champion, world number one at | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
Wimbledon. Especially when I have already said goodbye to Wimbledon, | :21:54. | :22:04. | |
the first round qualifying, it was my day. He made it fun. How did you | :22:05. | :22:05. | |
rate that as a match and a performance? He did a lot of good | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
things. He was down a few break points early, once he got at it, | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
then reality set in with this young kid. He has got a lot of upside but | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
in this day and age discipline is more important than ever and maybe | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
we could have got away with a bit more, but you cannot show that lack | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
of discipline in the shot selection and you need to be as fit as ever | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
and it caught up with him pretty quickly. Boris was having some | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
pretty frustrating, tree. What did you think about Andy Murray's | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
movement? Did he look fit and sound to you? It is difficult to say. I do | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
not think it was the type of test that you can determine. He moves | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
well, he knows how to play on this surface, obviously. He uses his game | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
to his advantage. He knows in the first few days it is more slick. | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
This tournament started later than it has in over 100 years and it has | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
been warmer in Great Britain than it has been normally, so the court is | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
already playing better, firmer and dryer than in previous Wimbledons | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
and that has helped the players, including Andy Murray. He has | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
thought about that here and the hip bone is connected to the backbone, | :23:25. | :23:33. | |
etc. He will now face Dustin Brown and this will be another hugely | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
entertaining match. We love Dustin Brown, we saw him a couple of years | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
ago knocking out Rafael Nadal in four sets. He is just a great player | :23:41. | :23:50. | |
to watch. He is entertaining, a great athlete, but he can be | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
dangerous as well, he does not give you great rhythm. It was so | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
important for Andy to get the confidence today and in his hip, but | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
we know Dustin Brown can be dangerous on this surface. He beat | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
Rafael Nadal, it was his last match here does not years ago. He has got | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
big points. He is someone who will love every minute of it and he is | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
proving to be dangerous. Maybe even Court Number One. It has got to be | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
on Centre Court. In the press conference afterwards he was asked | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
with how will you deal with not being the fan's favourite? And he | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
said maybe I will be. Let's catch up with Aljaz Bedene and Ivo Karlovic. | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
We are into a fifth set and Aljaz Bedene, the British number three and | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
world number 58 took his chance and he knocked out the big man. He | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
knocked at the 21st C, Ivo Karlovic of creation, always regarded as such | :24:55. | :25:18. | |
a dangerous player on grass because of his height. That is so impressive | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
to come up with those goods. His serve is so high and it bounces up | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
so high. Aljaz Bedene is deservedly thrilled. But so will all the other | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
players be thrilled because of this guy's serve. Even at the age of 38. | :25:30. | :25:41. | |
I think he called the trainer. He had some issue with his arm, so his | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
serve was only getting up to 140 miles an hour and it gave Aljaz | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
Bedene perchance. Talking of injuries, one of the most exciting | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
players is out because of injury, Nick Kyrgios. He came out wearing | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
what looked like bandages all the way down his legs, they were tight | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
leggings. He had picked up a hip injury at Queen's and he lost the | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
first two sets, but then he threw the towel in and despite all the | :26:11. | :26:18. | |
physio treatment he went out. He said he spoke to the physios and | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
leaned toward not playing, but Wimbledon is his favourite | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
tournament. It is a tough spring for him because he lost his grandfather | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
and he picked up that hip injury that in Madrid and he tried to play | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
through it and he was not at his best in the French as well. He said | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
he had an injection after Queen's and he stopped playing, but then he | :26:40. | :26:47. | |
reinject himself. You notice the hip is also connected to the back and | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
the knees and you keep going up and then it gets to this part. He is one | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
of the most talented tennis players in terms of his raw ability and his | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
ability to move and his athleticism. Have you ever heard of meatloaf? He | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
had a great song, two out of three ain't bad. You have got to have all | :27:11. | :27:20. | |
three if you want to win a major. He started well at the beginning of the | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
year. He played a great match against Federer in Miami. But if you | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
are hurt it is a different story. I hope for the good of the game and | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
for Nick that he can figure out a way to be able to put it together | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
and compete. That is the part that seems to be the biggest problem. | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
Talking of competing or not competing, there may well have been | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
an injury, but what was happening to Stan Wawrinka out on Centre Court | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
today? He was up against Daniel Medvedev and this was match point. | :27:53. | :27:59. | |
You saw all of it, John. I did. What happened is inexplicable for a guy | :28:00. | :28:13. | |
who has the chance to join eight other players in the sport. To have | :28:14. | :28:15. | |
a career Grand Slam. He has played at the French and Wimbledon. He is | :28:16. | :28:18. | |
not confident with movement at Wimbledon. He does not quite get | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
what he needs to do. This was a tough match. But you have to get | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
Sigmund Freud out at times to wonder why when there was such an upside. | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
He would have been number one in the world had he won this tournament. I | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
know that is odd when there are other great players. But to see him | :28:38. | :28:45. | |
not want to be out there in the fourth set, kind of get me off the | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
court. It is upsetting as a fan of his and as an ex-tennis player. You | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
never want to see that when someone stops competing. He had the trainer | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
out numerous times. He had strapped his knee before. I am assuming there | :29:01. | :29:08. | |
was an issue before the match. I guess he has never been past the | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
quarters before at Wimbledon. He tried to bring in that chip return. | :29:13. | :29:22. | |
As a serve and volley and he plays well on this surface, so he is | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
trying to figure it out. It was disappointing to see that little | :29:27. | :29:32. | |
lack of effort. But we have to give Daniel Medvedev credit. He has had | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
some great results in the last few weeks on grass. For his debut to go | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
out and play stand on that court and get the win, you have to give him | :29:42. | :29:42. | |
credit. Medvedev is a natural. He gets it in | :29:43. | :29:51. | |
terms of strategy, in terms of using the court to his advantage. His | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
height. That was good. When you see a guy icing during a match, Clare! I | :29:56. | :30:03. | |
will take that in. I will not do that. Next time you play in | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
Wimbledon in the mixed doubles! We move on to somebody who was playing | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
late tonight, Victoria Azarenka is back here at Wimbledon. Let's show | :30:12. | :30:14. | |
you match point. This is against Catherine Bellis. | :30:15. | :30:30. | |
She's 18. CC Bellis is in the top 40 of the world. Turned pro less than a | :30:31. | :30:34. | |
year ago. This is Victoria Azarenka's second tournament back, | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
played in New York a couple of weeks ago, of course after delivering her | :30:39. | :30:41. | |
little boy at the end of December last year. Leo, he's called? It is | :30:42. | :30:49. | |
great to have her back. She said she would come back for the hard courts | :30:50. | :30:52. | |
in a few weeks. She said her training was going so well, she | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
moved it up to Majorca and to Wimbledon. This has not been her | :30:57. | :31:00. | |
favourite surface. She's a two-time semi-finalist here. Bellis is very | :31:01. | :31:04. | |
talented. Only 18. Someone to watch for the future. Bellis won that | :31:05. | :31:07. | |
first set. A lot of pressure on Azarenka. She really played so much | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
better. So much more accurate in the second two sets. My favourite two | :31:13. | :31:21. | |
players ever in the female game - a mum and won a major and Clijsters. | :31:22. | :31:26. | |
She was able to do it too. It would be nice to see Victoria, because | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
she's been for a while and obviously a mum now as well, to see her pull | :31:32. | :31:42. | |
it off. She's young enough. The fifth bidding to become a champion | :31:43. | :31:49. | |
You would think any one of the players would fancy their chances of | :31:50. | :31:53. | |
winning. Into that mix goes Konta continue. Had she recovers from a | :31:54. | :32:00. | |
nasty looking fall just last week. This year's Wimbledon will be | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
different for Konta. She's hurtled from belief, to hope to expectation | :32:06. | :32:11. | |
in the eyes of the nation. Last week those eyes wined. Watching it back. | :32:12. | :32:17. | |
It was no good. Oh, my goodness! Really distressing scenes. I am | :32:18. | :32:22. | |
doing all I can to recover well. But also I am making sure I am medically | :32:23. | :32:29. | |
fit to compete here. Konta's campaign to become the first British | :32:30. | :32:37. | |
woman to win Wimbledon in 40 years started against Su-Wei Hsieh. | :32:38. | :32:43. | |
And it started fairly sedately but didn't take long for Konta to show | :32:44. | :32:49. | |
her class. We join it at 1-1. Hsieh is serving. | :32:50. | :33:07. | |
THE COMMENTATOR: She'll have another chance. A different sound as the | :33:08. | :33:12. | |
ball comes off the racket from Konta. | :33:13. | :33:15. | |
Well, she's trying to stamp her authority early in this match. And | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
she's dictating, taking charge out here. Very commanding play. | :33:21. | :33:29. | |
Struggling to get behind that ball. Really needs to get her body weight | :33:30. | :33:32. | |
behind the ball and transfer through it. At the moment she's a little bit | :33:33. | :33:34. | |
late on it. A little cry from Konta. And she has | :33:35. | :33:55. | |
the break in this first set. And the number six seed in control. | :33:56. | :34:02. | |
They traded breaks before Konta took control. We join with Konta serving | :34:03. | :34:07. | |
for the first set. 5-2, she leads. Comment taters, Andrew Cotter and | :34:08. | :34:13. | |
Annabelle Croft. THE COMMENTATOR: This time it is | :34:14. | :34:24. | |
well judged by Konta. Seen a lot of this drop shot over | :34:25. | :34:37. | |
the course of the grass course season. It is relatively a new | :34:38. | :34:41. | |
addition to her game. See a little grip change there. Not just about | :34:42. | :34:43. | |
power on the court. If you are being critical, you would | :34:44. | :35:13. | |
say there are still a few mistakes which hopefully are being jettisoned | :35:14. | :35:23. | |
from the game in the first round, things that Konta and her coaches | :35:24. | :35:25. | |
will look to tighten up. So the number six seeds arrive at | :35:26. | :35:32. | |
set point. Oh, what a get! What a way to win | :35:33. | :36:05. | |
the first set. Konta surprised herself there. Applause from her | :36:06. | :36:09. | |
coach and job done in this first set. | :36:10. | :36:12. | |
Konta looking good and feeling good, despite a wobble at the start of the | :36:13. | :36:16. | |
second set. That time of day when it can be just | :36:17. | :37:02. | |
a little tricky, the ball coming out of the shadows, into the bright | :37:03. | :37:03. | |
sunshine. CLARE BALDING: Here is Konta serving | :37:04. | :37:08. | |
for the match, despite that wobble. ANNABELLE CROFT: Rock solid from | :37:09. | :37:24. | |
Konta. That's out! Konta need not | :37:25. | :38:13. | |
challenge. An example of getting down to those low-flying bounces. | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
Just a great dip of the knees. Applause from Court Number One and | :38:18. | :38:45. | |
the British number one has three match points. | :38:46. | :38:54. | |
Well, a challenge at the end from Su-Wei Hsieh. We will end on the say | :38:55. | :39:04. | |
of Hawk-Eye. It is either an ace to win the match, or a second serve and | :39:05. | :39:08. | |
it's an ace to win the match for Johanna Konta. | :39:09. | :39:12. | |
And it is a very tidy, very impressive performance. | :39:13. | :39:16. | |
What we thought might be a potential banana skin didn't prove to be that | :39:17. | :39:22. | |
in anyway. Johanna Konta has stepped up and delivered. There is a smile | :39:23. | :39:26. | |
now. I am very happy to have come through | :39:27. | :39:31. | |
that. She's a tricky player. Obviously lost to her in a close | :39:32. | :39:37. | |
recent match and the French Open. Looking forward to playing her | :39:38. | :39:40. | |
again, to try and beat her. I am happy I was able to come through | :39:41. | :39:45. | |
that. Your recent injury is well documented. How are you feeling | :39:46. | :39:49. | |
today? After I hit yesterday there was definitely one of the first | :39:50. | :39:54. | |
tests to see how I was hitting-wise and I have been feeling pretty good. | :39:55. | :39:57. | |
A really tough day for Konta, not only recover from a fall, but she | :39:58. | :40:07. | |
was beaten by Hsieh in the first round of the French Open. To me, it | :40:08. | :40:12. | |
shows the difference in surface. Su-Wei Hsieh is a defensive player. | :40:13. | :40:16. | |
She does not have a lot of power, but gets balls back in play. Konta | :40:17. | :40:24. | |
not so comfortable on the clay. She now get her on the grass. A bit | :40:25. | :40:28. | |
hitter of the ground strokes. This is the type of player she can run | :40:29. | :40:32. | |
through and she did. Great to see that her back is feeling fine. That | :40:33. | :40:36. | |
was a nasty fall. She was amazing to get up and carry on and win the | :40:37. | :40:41. | |
match. Pulled out and then tried to get right for this. Wimbledon really | :40:42. | :40:45. | |
matters to her. How impressed are you with Konta's improvement to her | :40:46. | :40:50. | |
mental state? As John said about the men, two out of three ain't got | :40:51. | :40:53. | |
enough. Has Konta got the three elements she needs That is why | :40:54. | :40:58. | |
coming back to Wimbledon is in the top ten. It is a different landscape | :40:59. | :41:01. | |
for her. There are more expectations. She seems to be | :41:02. | :41:07. | |
handling the pressure. She worked with a mental trainer for years. It | :41:08. | :41:13. | |
seems to kick in now in her mid-20s. She knows who how to focus on the | :41:14. | :41:17. | |
next point in the match and not necessarily the results. That is so | :41:18. | :41:21. | |
helpful. She hasn't had a lot of success here at Wimbledon. She's | :41:22. | :41:26. | |
still got things to work in. Even in today's match you could see that. | :41:27. | :41:31. | |
She's a bit mechanical for this surface. I think her best is hard | :41:32. | :41:35. | |
courts. You mention at the beginning of the show, obviously it is so wide | :41:36. | :41:43. | |
open. It leads me to believe someone like Konta will say, wait a second I | :41:44. | :41:48. | |
have got to get my act together here. There's no reason it shouldn't | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
be. Konta has never been past the second round of Wimbledon, but she's | :41:54. | :41:57. | |
a completely different player now, in the top ten, winning Miami. That | :41:58. | :42:02. | |
is a big title to win. Dealing with finishing that tournament and | :42:03. | :42:05. | |
winning all of those matches against top players. She's just in a | :42:06. | :42:09. | |
different place and great improvement in 12 months. An example | :42:10. | :42:13. | |
of some of the stuff she will analyse and think I can improve on | :42:14. | :42:17. | |
that. Let's talk about two former lady champions. Because there are | :42:18. | :42:19. | |
some massive names in action. And Venus Williams, tloo through to | :42:20. | :42:37. | |
the second round. Five-times champion winning against Elise | :42:38. | :42:38. | |
Mertens of Belgium. We will hear from Venus in a moment. | :42:39. | :43:00. | |
Kvitova, she had huge support from the crowds. She beat Larsson, 6-3, | :43:01. | :43:13. | |
6-4. Venus Williams broke down in tears | :43:14. | :43:17. | |
as she was questioned in the press conference about an incident which | :43:18. | :43:20. | |
happened in which a man was badly injured and actually then died. And | :43:21. | :43:25. | |
this was Venus's response to a question about that car accident. | :43:26. | :43:29. | |
She was driving the car. In the press | :43:30. | :43:31. | |
??FORCEWHITE REPORTER: Do you think having gone | :43:32. | :43:35. | |
through all the things you have, both mentally and Physically that | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
will help you deal with this situation when you are just trying | :43:40. | :43:42. | |
to be a tennis player? No idea what Vy tomorrow will bring. That's all I | :43:43. | :43:50. | |
can say. That's what I've learned. I saw that you wrote on your Facebook | :43:51. | :43:54. | |
some heart-felt words about the accident. Is there anything else you | :43:55. | :44:01. | |
want to say about that? That, that words cannot really describe how | :44:02. | :44:10. | |
devastating and, yeah, I, completely speechless and it's just... Yeah... | :44:11. | :44:18. | |
I mean, I'm just... Before we take any further questions | :44:19. | :44:31. | |
from Venus, please be aware she's unable to say anything more about | :44:32. | :44:35. | |
this. So, I'd ask you to respect her wishes, please. | :44:36. | :44:40. | |
And just a desperate incident and Venus actually, I think amazing to | :44:41. | :44:49. | |
be here at all, don't you? I can't even imagine what she's going | :44:50. | :44:53. | |
through now. It was a car accident June 9th. A collision, a 78-year-old | :44:54. | :44:59. | |
man, a passenger in a car, his wife was driving. He had bad injuries. | :45:00. | :45:03. | |
Two weeks later he passed away. So obviously in the last couple of days | :45:04. | :45:08. | |
we've come to know about this. Venus already over here and decided to | :45:09. | :45:12. | |
play. She played a good match. I mean, this is her 20th Wimbledon. | :45:13. | :45:18. | |
She's 37 years old. She's part of the conversation as a player that | :45:19. | :45:21. | |
can win. Can she get past this? This has to be so, so emotional. You have | :45:22. | :45:31. | |
two opposite situations, you mention Kvitov, she feels lucky to be here. | :45:32. | :45:35. | |
None of us have any idea of what actually happened with Venus. Either | :45:36. | :45:39. | |
way, whether it turns out she wasn't responsible or in some way she was, | :45:40. | :45:44. | |
you know, she feels horrible and has a tremendous sense of guilt. It's | :45:45. | :45:55. | |
got to be impossible to put into compartments. | :45:56. | :46:01. | |
I guess, if you are on court you are protected, but you are not at a | :46:02. | :46:04. | |
press conference and maybe particularly here. I can vouch for | :46:05. | :46:09. | |
that. I would suspect she wouldn't get asked about it again after that | :46:10. | :46:13. | |
reaction. I am not sure she can say anything about it, legally, so... We | :46:14. | :46:15. | |
have to talk about Kvitov. That she was cut by an intruder. There | :46:16. | :46:30. | |
was a question about whether she would ever be able to play tennis | :46:31. | :46:37. | |
again. She had seven tendons and two nerves cut. She came back at the | :46:38. | :46:40. | |
French Open. She got to the second round there. Played very well. Won | :46:41. | :46:44. | |
Birmingham a couple of weeks ago. Which is amazing because the woman's | :46:45. | :46:50. | |
draw is so wide open, by her winning Birmingham, a couple of weeks ago, | :46:51. | :46:55. | |
people are saying, is she part of the conversation? Another former | :46:56. | :47:02. | |
champion who was in action today and made history earlier this year when | :47:03. | :47:07. | |
he won a Grand Slam for the tenth time, when he completed at the | :47:08. | :47:14. | |
French Open, Rafael Nadal. He was in action against Millman. And Rafa was | :47:15. | :47:22. | |
flying. He looked happy. He looked great. | :47:23. | :47:27. | |
Who knows, when Federer plays back tomorrow we could roll back the | :47:28. | :47:29. | |
years. Now, we have on today at Wimbledon, | :47:30. | :47:36. | |
every day our shot of the day. And I think there was quite a lot of | :47:37. | :47:40. | |
competition for it today. Did you see anything you would have gone | :47:41. | :47:47. | |
for? Are these trick shots or? No I can't recall! There is a rally first | :47:48. | :47:51. | |
from the Nadal match that you ought to see. This was exceptional. | :47:52. | :48:14. | |
Wow! So that could have qualified for shot of the day. Frankly it was | :48:15. | :48:49. | |
rally of the day. A slightly shorter version gets shot of the day. Here | :48:50. | :48:50. | |
it is. This is from Andy Murray's match. | :48:51. | :48:57. | |
This against Bublik. It died on the grass. It was | :48:58. | :49:21. | |
fantastic. Last week I saw that from him. Did you? No! Probably 40 years | :49:22. | :49:29. | |
ago! Aside from Murray and Konta there were five other British | :49:30. | :49:32. | |
players in action today. Here is Phil Jones with a round-up. | :49:33. | :49:38. | |
Remember him? Marcus Willis, turned leading man. Tomorrow Alex Ward | :49:39. | :49:48. | |
hopes to similarly take the spotlight. While today Norrie was | :49:49. | :49:56. | |
another Briton hoping to play out a feel good happy ending against | :49:57. | :49:59. | |
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. France's finest who has beaten Roger Federer in the | :50:00. | :50:03. | |
past, doesn't always fine his heyday peak. He's a foremid-able opponent | :50:04. | :50:08. | |
for someone ranked 220 places below him. Norrie practiced last week with | :50:09. | :50:14. | |
Andy Murray. You know what practise makes? Norrie, he of Welsh mother, | :50:15. | :50:19. | |
Scottish father, born in South Africa, raised in New Zealand and | :50:20. | :50:22. | |
England and based in the United States, showed a good deal of good | :50:23. | :50:26. | |
old British spirit before he was floored by the Frenchman in straight | :50:27. | :50:32. | |
sets. Remember when Laura Robson won the junior title here? That was ten | :50:33. | :50:38. | |
Wimbledons ago. She grew to become the only British women to reach the | :50:39. | :50:43. | |
women's singles. Now 23 and hoping to climb from an injury-fed decent, | :50:44. | :50:50. | |
Robson saved her best until almost last, saving two match points. | :50:51. | :50:56. | |
There was no extraordinary comeback from there, though and Robson bowed | :50:57. | :51:01. | |
out in straight sets. Remember when Broady won her only | :51:02. | :51:05. | |
singles match at Wimbledon? That was three years ago. Her grass court | :51:06. | :51:12. | |
warm up hinted at a second win in six attempts here against Begu. But | :51:13. | :51:23. | |
Broady didn't take the hint. Remember when Watson was two points | :51:24. | :51:27. | |
away from beating Serena Williams at Wimbledon. That was two years ago. | :51:28. | :51:33. | |
Watson needed a wild card for 2017. Glimmers of hope from Eastbourne | :51:34. | :51:38. | |
turned into glaring lights of success as she swept to the first | :51:39. | :51:41. | |
set. And she took victory on a fourth | :51:42. | :51:48. | |
match point in the second set tie-break, just ahead of six wins in | :51:49. | :51:56. | |
eight Wimbledons and more to come. Add Murray, Konta, and that is four | :51:57. | :52:01. | |
British winners today. They will be back on wents. That is fabulous | :52:02. | :52:06. | |
news. -- Wednesday. That is fabulous news. | :52:07. | :52:11. | |
Halep's opponent may have make her own mixed tape. The album is called | :52:12. | :52:26. | |
Go My Way, which this didn't. 6-4, 6-1, the second seed is looking for | :52:27. | :52:29. | |
her first Grand Slam and could head to number one. Who knows? Nishikori | :52:30. | :52:38. | |
may find broken glass to play on than moan grass. On his last five | :52:39. | :52:43. | |
tournaments on turf, he's ended up injured. Careful! No tumbles or | :52:44. | :52:53. | |
troubles against Cec kirks, narto. He only managed to keep this going | :52:54. | :53:00. | |
for an hour and a quarter. Nishikori through safe and sound. Also | :53:01. | :53:04. | |
enjoying a helpfully unmanic Monday was Marin Cilic. Fresh from the | :53:05. | :53:09. | |
Queen's final. Many fancy his chances. They got more evidence in | :53:10. | :53:14. | |
his emphatic dispatching of Kohlschreiber. The German was once | :53:15. | :53:18. | |
in the top 20, but has not won a match at Wimbledon since 2014. And | :53:19. | :53:21. | |
Cilic gave him no hope of ending that run. All over in three. Maybe | :53:22. | :53:26. | |
Cilic can go beyond the last eight this time. A round further than | :53:27. | :53:31. | |
Anderson has ventured. He is through, but went down a set and was | :53:32. | :53:37. | |
a little way ward, to one spectator's benefit. He's got the | :53:38. | :53:43. | |
ball! He's going to keep it! One less to be loaded in the cat pault. | :53:44. | :53:49. | |
He battered his way through two tie-breaks and won it in the fourth. | :53:50. | :53:53. | |
The whereabouts of the ball is still unknown! | :53:54. | :54:01. | |
Petkovic saved five match points and gave everything. | :54:02. | :54:04. | |
Oh, no! Eventually the number eight seed got | :54:05. | :54:11. | |
over the line, but it had taken her nearly two and three quarter hours | :54:12. | :54:15. | |
and a lot of energy. Luxembourg has only two singles | :54:16. | :54:19. | |
players at Wimbledon and one of them wasn't missing this for any reason, | :54:20. | :54:23. | |
even if that reason is she's four-and-a-half months pregnant. Her | :54:24. | :54:27. | |
opponent still going strong at 37, had too much on this occasion. So, | :54:28. | :54:35. | |
afterwards she said she will take a break and have a well-erned rest. | :54:36. | :54:43. | |
Four-and-a-half months pregnant. Now the big question is, should Serena | :54:44. | :54:51. | |
Williams have played on longer? This is her timely Instgram story. She is | :54:52. | :54:54. | |
due in two months. It was 20 minutes, but 20 minutes of | :54:55. | :55:22. | |
fun. I'm going to jump in the pool and relax. | :55:23. | :55:27. | |
She will probably do 40 lengths in the pool! That will be her idea of | :55:28. | :55:31. | |
relactsing. She's staying fit. She is. Two weeks ago, she showed us a | :55:32. | :55:37. | |
video, she looked like she was striking the ball as well as she | :55:38. | :55:41. | |
always has. The movement is a bit curtailed, but I think she's clearly | :55:42. | :55:46. | |
ready for a comeback she has her baby. That would be some story. I'm | :55:47. | :55:50. | |
not saying anything. It is your chance. When's the show over? I | :55:51. | :55:57. | |
don't want to put my foot in my mouth! You could have got yourself | :55:58. | :56:04. | |
out of it. I should have played her right now when her movement is not | :56:05. | :56:07. | |
as good as it normally is. Let's look at the order of play tomorrow, | :56:08. | :56:11. | |
because there are some fabulous matches coming up. | :56:12. | :56:18. | |
Kerber against Falconi. That is the first match on centre. | :56:19. | :56:26. | |
Djokovic, second on. Federer is third on Centre. | :56:27. | :56:34. | |
Raonic, runner up last year to Murray. Followed by Pliskova, who is | :56:35. | :56:40. | |
the Eastbourne champion. And Dominic Thiem as well. He was runner up at | :56:41. | :56:47. | |
Roland Garros. And del Potro will be on court two. The weather forecast, | :56:48. | :56:51. | |
if you have tickets for tomorrow, the morning will be a bit cloudy, | :56:52. | :56:55. | |
but bright with a little sunshine at times and the afternoon will become | :56:56. | :57:01. | |
warm with sunny spells developing and the Tempah praure will reach 25 | :57:02. | :57:05. | |
Celsius. No more than an outside chance of a light shower tomorrow | :57:06. | :57:09. | |
afternoon. Now I wanted to talk to you about the newest Grand Slam | :57:10. | :57:22. | |
champion in the women's game. Ostapenko. The first time Grand Slam | :57:23. | :57:28. | |
players have had trouble with all the expectations, she played well in | :57:29. | :57:31. | |
Eastbourne last week. She had a three-setter today. She's only 20 | :57:32. | :57:35. | |
years old. That is a bad challenge right there. It is one of those | :57:36. | :57:39. | |
desperate challenges on match point, of which we see many. I think they | :57:40. | :57:45. | |
should be banned. I love how she plays. She What do you think of her | :57:46. | :57:58. | |
I think Monica Sellis is a great comparison. I heard her name, but I | :57:59. | :58:03. | |
hadn't seen her and I watched her a at the French. When she was down to | :58:04. | :58:09. | |
Halep, I was like, OK, what will the field be like? She kept playing away | :58:10. | :58:14. | |
and an amazing effort. I am not surprised she's playing that | :58:15. | :58:17. | |
intensity here. It is brilliant. Who has impressed you most today? I had | :58:18. | :58:22. | |
to pick one guy, a guy you don't talk much about, I would say Cilic. | :58:23. | :58:26. | |
Cilic had a shot with Federer last year. And he's playing really well, | :58:27. | :58:31. | |
I think. So he is positioning himself. I am not saying, that is | :58:32. | :58:37. | |
not my pick, but the best, he looked good. And Tracey? For me Keys. After | :58:38. | :58:44. | |
the French Open she had her second wrist surgery and had to take ten | :58:45. | :58:49. | |
days off. She came back, we think way sooner than we thought here at | :58:50. | :58:53. | |
Wimbledon and she won easily. Thank you both. We get to enjoy the | :58:54. | :58:59. | |
graceful movement of Federer. See you tomorrow evening, but Sue will | :59:00. | :59:01. | |
be back at 11. 30am. BBC Sport and Wimbledon, | :59:02. | :59:16. | |
on together for 90 years. Hello, darling. | :59:17. | :59:45. | |
You want to tell me what you saw? | :59:46. | :59:50. |