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We are going to take you over to Wimbledon... Her Majesty will | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
present the trophy. That is brilliant. Irresistible. Majestic. | :00:26. | :00:44. | |
Such is the enormous appeal of Roger Federer that there is a bigger crowd | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
around him practising than most matches. We've got fans from China, | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
Philippines, as well as the UK. The king of Wimbledon. His match will be | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
featured today. Here's what's coming up. Novak Djokovic has been in | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
strange form after completing his career Grand Slam at the French | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
Open. He's now got Andre Agassi to help his focus. We will see the best | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
of a home-grown battle between Kyle Edmund and Alex Ward. For | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
entertainment, look no further than Gael Monfils. | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
This is the scene at Wimbledon from our position in the presentation | :01:33. | :01:44. | |
base. The crowd are watching the end of the Kuznetsova match. The play on | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
the other courts finished earlier than expected so we've got time to | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
round everything up in the company of Pat Cash and Martina Navratilova, | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
who between them have 16. I've only got one. But between you, you've got | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
16! We've got one hour to get across everything and we will start with | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
the man who has won the men's singles twice in the last three | :02:12. | :02:12. | |
years. Novak Djokovic had an early exit | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
last year in the third round and has been missing in action for over a | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
year. For the first time since 2010 he has no current Grand Slam to his | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
name. He went to Eastbourne to get a feel for the grass and he won it. He | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
was up against Martin Klizan on Centre Court. | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
Klizan showed some early promise. Lovely touch. | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
But it seemed that was possibly the one shot that was going to work. | :02:53. | :03:02. | |
Let's pick up commentary. Klizan is serving at 3-4. | :03:03. | :03:39. | |
It does not look to me like he's going to make it to the end of this | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
match. Where is that balance between being | :03:45. | :04:11. | |
a family man in your 30s but still committing the way that you need to | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
commit to be the Robert Halfon? I wish I had a better answer -- being | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
the world number one. I wish I had known how to do that in my late 20s | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
as well as 30s. That dropped in. It is a shame for those who were | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
hoping they would be entertained. It makes what Roger Federer has done | :04:32. | :05:11. | |
all the more amazing. Four kids, loving travel, loving everything | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
about it. I was told he would sleep in the kids bedroom. If he can do | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
that as well? Not sleep and win? It is nicely played. The drop shot | :05:19. | :05:32. | |
is being used as a life belt by Martin Klizan to good effect. It's a | :05:33. | :05:41. | |
shot he does like to use. But he's really going to it quite a bit. | :05:42. | :05:55. | |
Get the feeling Novak Djokovic is getting slightly annoyed about this | :05:56. | :06:08. | |
time, that this has not gone his way yet. | :06:09. | :06:30. | |
He just hit an absolutely gorgeous shot up the line. You just feel that | :06:31. | :06:51. | |
it's a matter of time. Don't think it will take too long for him to | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
just get to where he wants to be. Every time Klizan put any pressure | :06:55. | :07:17. | |
on that left calf, he unfolds himself very gingerly. | :07:18. | :07:45. | |
Klizan is challenging the call. The right service line. The ball was | :07:46. | :07:54. | |
called out. He is really struggling and he's looking to Hawk-Eye for a | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
little bit of salvation. He won't find it on this occasion. | :08:00. | :08:11. | |
And indeed Djokovic took the set with an ace. Prior to it you will | :08:12. | :08:21. | |
have heard of his injury, he had retired with a calf injury. He | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
seemed to be feeling it again, he had been very ginger on court | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
commonly called for the physio, he looked in a lot of pain. | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
Having dropped that first set he was down in the second, trying to nick | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
one but he could not run for anything. Eventually, he threw in | :08:42. | :08:50. | |
the towel. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Klizan cannot continue and has | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
retired. Only a short outing on Centre Court for Novak Djokovic but | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
he's happy to get his campaign under way. I wish that I could maybe play | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
a bit longer on Centre Court but I've played enough and I'm feeling | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
well on the grass, and I think I was focusing more on myself and the | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
entire impression of being in the Centre Court again, which is very | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
special in my career and my life. The tradition, the history around it | :09:24. | :09:35. | |
is part of the Wimbledon atmosphere. You cannot not feel it so it was | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
enjoyable to spend some time there. How are you right now, mentally? Is | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
the engine restarting? In the last couple of months, things started to | :09:46. | :09:56. | |
click in. I started to feel complete on the court. I was struggling, and | :09:57. | :10:08. | |
I was not the only one that struggled mentally. Winning four | :10:09. | :10:17. | |
Grand Slams in a row was an incredible achievement and made me | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
very content but I thought I would not face these kinds of emotions | :10:20. | :10:29. | |
which I've read many athletes did face in their careers at some stage, | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
usually after they achieved everything, basically, and I have. | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
So it took me some time to recharge my batteries. It's interesting | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
talking to Novak Djokovic because it always feels like you could talk | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
philosophy and mental state for longer than you could talk tennis. | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
You've maintained the motivation. How do you do it when, as he says, | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
he achieved everything? You need to want to do it again, and it was | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
about becoming a better tennis player. I was still learning and | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
experimenting, what can I do better? I never got bored, and I was never | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
not motivated. I was burned out a little bit in the late 80s but that | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
was because I did it so many times, did not really allow myself to take | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
a day off so I was just tired, but overall, excited to be on the court. | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
Never found a lack of something to achieve. If there is going to be a | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
place that reignites you it will be Centre Court at Wimbledon. You would | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
think so, but also we are in an era where we've got Rafael Nadal and | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
Roger Federer, they are phenomenal and the attempt to get better and | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
better and better, and it is definitely possible for him to get | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
better if he wants to but they are the benchmark and it is pretty hard | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
to live up to that. I was pretty satisfied, I wanted to win | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
Wimbledon, the Davis Cup and the Australian Open and I almost got | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
them. I was done by then. That was enough for me. These guys, 35, they | :12:11. | :12:19. | |
still want to win. You go to Roger Federer and say, why is he still | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
playing? I don't know what keeps them going. Novak Djokovic is pretty | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
normal. I guess he is. Did you see enough to know whether he's back on | :12:33. | :12:42. | |
his A-game? I don't think he did play particularly well, he served | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
well, he looked focused, things will come together. Often, you can over | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
think these things. They needed more meditation, more motivation. He will | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
find his balance. Sometimes you need to take some time off your game. You | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
need to give yourself permission to quit and then you either do that or | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
think again. There's no question in my mind that he has been burned out | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
a little bit. He achieved everything so what comes next? But you can | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
overanalyse things. It's easy to do that. Tennis is a perfectionist | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
sport. You can tinker. At that point you need to go simple. Not over | :13:36. | :13:50. | |
think. Just hit the ball. At the end we will talk about players retiring | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
when injured and John McEnroe was scathing about Klizan. He said, you | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
should offer them half the prize money. You don't want guys just | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
showing up for the pay cheque. You understand it is meaningful to them | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
so you give them half of it. Svetlana Kuznetsova has been one of | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
the players in action on the second day of the Wimbledon, and she moved | :14:16. | :14:27. | |
smoothly to match point. And indeed, rather good rally. Wasn't expecting | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
it to be that brilliant on match point. | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
She advances to the second round. Seventh seed. | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
There was an all British affair out on court and an awful lot of fans | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
supporting them because Alex Ward was the only British man to come | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
through qualifying and he was up against Kyle Edmund. Wimbledon 2016, | :14:56. | :15:03. | |
round one, Day one. Alex Ward lost a tennis match in straight sets. By | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
playing that he earned ?30,000. He cleared his debts, he kept himself | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
going. Then he got injured. It's a long way back. Mile after mile, | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
match after match, practising with Andy Murray, worrying about money, | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
all the while, his ranking fell. Then finally, luck. A wild him into | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
qualifying. He did the rest. The world 869 stepped out on Court three | :15:34. | :15:41. | |
to play Kyle Edmund, and watching Alex, his mum, 60 today. The best | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
present ever. I'm overjoyed for them and I admire him. I really admire | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
the effort he's put in. Now for the reward. It is breaking the serve of | :15:53. | :16:04. | |
a man 700 places above you in the first game. Going on to take the | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
first set when you thought you'd be playing at an event in Spain in | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
front of 50 people. Mum's birthday is going rather well. Kyle Edmund | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
seemed uncomfortable with being the favourite. In the sixth game, the | :16:18. | :16:27. | |
match reached its pivot. Alex Ward never recovered. Kyle Edmund took | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
the set from there. He dropped three games in the final two sets. Kyle | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
Edmund is 50th in the world but has seemed to sink on grass. This | :16:44. | :16:45. | |
victory was a long time coming. Kyle Edmund faces Gael Monfils next. | :16:46. | :17:03. | |
Alex Borg may have lost a tennis match but he's gained some | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
prize-money and potentially 300 ranking places -- Alex Ward. | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
The fairy tale of the qualifier, Alex Ward, comes to an end. The | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
story is just beginning for Edmund. Nice to get the winner at Wimbledon. | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
The home Grand Slam. It is a dream when you're a kid. Has not been a | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
good tournament for me in recent years. Well done to Alex. He had a | :17:34. | :17:43. | |
long injury layout. It's interesting to see him do well. I'm happy that I | :17:44. | :17:53. | |
did well. Kyle Edmund winning his first match at Wimbledon. He was | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
part of a Davis Cup winning team. Still seems remarkable. As -- really | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
big step for him. Winning is also an experience and it can become a | :18:05. | :18:13. | |
habit. Credits to Alex Ward, for coming through qualifying. He is a | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
terrible time with injuries. Anybody who qualifies is a heck of a player. | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
There is some really good players out there. If you look through the | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
list you will be like, I remember him, I remember him. Injury is the | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
curse for any athlete and hopefully he can stay fit and move through the | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
ranking. We can talk about how he should play it because one of the | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
most entertaining players is Gael Monfils. The crowd were in for a | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
real treat. Very very good. Great composure. | :18:53. | :19:43. | |
Yes, down the line. Gael Monfils breaks in game 11 offset two. That | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
game 11 of set to. Could not help himself. Could he? | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
Could have been an easy brutal way. Everyone is that it now. I guess if | :19:53. | :20:15. | |
you play enough of them, one will come off. When they come off its a | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
great shock. If it does not you are exasperated as to why they played | :20:24. | :20:24. | |
it. He takes the match at the first time | :20:25. | :20:37. | |
of asking, I good performance from Gael Monfils. He'd never got beyond | :20:38. | :20:47. | |
the third round here at Wimbledon. He is so much fun to watch. So far | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
behind the baseline, there is a loopy swing on his forehand, not | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
enough time to recover, because he covers the course so well but he | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
runs out of space here. And he's a bit nuts as well. He's got much more | :21:03. | :21:10. | |
focused now. He seems to be much more serious about his game. I felt | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
he was not hitting the forehand as far as he could and now he's doing | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
it once in a while. He's got all the shops, and unbelievable athlete. | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
Everybody is glued to the TV screen. Whatever happens next. The French | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
Open, with Dustin Brown, did you see some of those points? It was | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
unbelievable. I've never seen shots like that. It's worth going on you | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
Tube and checking that out. Unbelievable. Not until we've | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
finished the show. Kyle Edmund is going to play him. What does Kyle | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
Edmund do to counteract and nullify Gael Monfils? He's got to use his | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
forehand well. They've played quite similarly. He's got some real power | :22:02. | :22:10. | |
on his forehand. He is going to play a great game. He's got to play | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
aggressive and take it to Gil Montes. I don't see that as an | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
impossible task. It's a chance. One British woman who looks like she's | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
got a massive future is a 20-year-old called Katie Boulter. | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
Today she was taking on Christina McHale. We will pick this matchup | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
with Katie Boulter serving in the first set. | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
Her second ace. Took all the speed off it, added loads of spin. | :22:50. | :23:17. | |
Love to see this on the grass court, someone coming in and cutting across | :23:18. | :24:00. | |
the ball. Hugely exciting start for the | :24:01. | :24:37. | |
wildcard. She lost a tight second set 7-5. She was leading 2-0. McHale | :24:38. | :24:47. | |
got five games in a row and served out the match. Katie Boulter, this | :24:48. | :24:57. | |
was her reaction after. I'm devastated. I'm sure in the next | :24:58. | :24:59. | |
couple of days I will reflect on it more. Of course, I'm proud to | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
represent my country and give my all, that is where I'm at right now. | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
What is devastating, is it because you felt you had the opportunity to | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
win that? Definitely. I really felt like I could win that match and I | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
was in with a chance, and from the very first ball I felt comfortable | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
out there. I'm very happy with the way that I played. It was a tough | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
last set for Katie Boulter. She had the break in the decider as well. | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
How impressed are you with the response? I love it. She is | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
devastated, and it should hurt. You need to improve and work it out and | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
play in the same position. I love the fact that she cares so much. Her | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
first Wimbledon and I'm pretty sure that we will see her again. She's in | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
good hands with and Jeremy. Let's have a look at some of what they've | :26:04. | :26:12. | |
got. She's tall and she's got very good technique and she works really | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
hard. I tell you what, they were working really hard. I'm trying to | :26:20. | :26:28. | |
put my finger on whether it was illness or injury that took her out. | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
If somebody works that had and they are really determined, if they are | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
athletic, hopefully she's got it in the future. Hopefully we will see | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
her back here. News of the other British players in action. Two to | :26:47. | :26:54. | |
tell you about. James Ward said it was really tough out there. He was | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
up against Marcos Baghdatis. He lost in straight sets. | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
Wildcard Brydan Klein made it a tight first set against Sugita of | :27:10. | :27:21. | |
Japan. He faded after a tight first set. So I'm afraid it was a good | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
start and a disappointing end to his first Wimbledon. What about | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
Angelique Kerber? Current number one, a little bit wobbly of late. | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
She got the honour of opening up Centre Court in the absence of | :27:40. | :27:40. | |
Serena Williams. Just a little idea of how she was | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
playing out there. You were watching this match. Do you | :27:46. | :28:11. | |
think she's the most dangerous player? She would not have been at | :28:12. | :28:18. | |
the beginning of the tournament but her odds will go up. She looks | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
better than she had all year. I still would like her to be more | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
aggressive. That's how she got to the number one. She got out of it by | :28:29. | :28:37. | |
Falconi who is not a big hitter. That cannot happen later on in the | :28:38. | :28:40. | |
tournament because people will not beat themselves. But good signs | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
today because there were some hiccups with a match could have | :28:46. | :28:48. | |
turned around and she kept her cool. She played well enough to win and | :28:49. | :28:50. | |
much better than she has done. I know you love her forehand. Moved | :28:51. | :28:57. | |
really well. Her forehand down-the-line is what got her to | :28:58. | :29:00. | |
number one last year. She has not been hitting it well this year. But | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
today, much, much better. Falconi hit as many winners off lobs and | :29:06. | :29:11. | |
drop shots as off hard shots. She was throwing everything but the | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
kitchen sink at Kerber. Kerber moved really well. Yeah, a real athlete. I | :29:16. | :29:20. | |
would like her to be closer to the baseline. She's still too passive | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
positionally. It's such an interesting draw. The women's looks | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
just wide-open. It is. Anybody who starts to feel the momentum could | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
really do it. Yes. I mean confidence is hard to get. But you can actually | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
get confident during the match and then lose it within the match. It's | :29:37. | :29:42. | |
a very elusive thing to have. Kerber looks like she's on her way up, | :29:43. | :29:45. | |
which is good to see. One of the players who might start to feel | :29:46. | :29:48. | |
she's on a roll is Karolina Pliskova, who won Eastbourne. She's | :29:49. | :29:56. | |
the third seed. She pedestrian Rodina 6-1, 6-4. This was match | :29:57. | :29:59. | |
point. Tracy Austin was on that match and said she's her favourite. | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
It's tough to pick this year. Picking someone never beyond the | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
second round of Wimbledon. What has Pliskova got and why is she | :30:10. | :30:12. | |
dangerous? She's got a big game. She's tall and long. She moves well | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
enough for the grass. Huge serve, huge forehand. Big backhand as well. | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
The forehand particularly is very effective. The serve, I mean it's a | :30:22. | :30:27. | |
bullet. First serve aces, second serve, she can get aces on her | :30:28. | :30:30. | |
second serve as well, that's how well she serves. She looks for the | :30:31. | :30:34. | |
short ball. She's good at the next she can take the pace off the ball. | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
She's got it all. Her biggest downside is her movement. She's | :30:39. | :30:41. | |
gotten better. She's good enough. She's fast enough to win this thing, | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
that's for sure. I think she's a real talent. There's no doubt about | :30:46. | :30:52. | |
it. She's got a big game. If you can smack aces and you are going to get | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
forehand winners it reminds me of some Williams girl who's not here | :30:58. | :31:01. | |
this year. And on the grass you can hit plenty of winners. With a big | :31:02. | :31:05. | |
game like, that hits the ball flat or she can mix it up and come to the | :31:06. | :31:10. | |
net and long reach over that, the wing span is pretty big. Without | :31:11. | :31:16. | |
Serena Williams here the matches on Pliskova racquet against everybody | :31:17. | :31:21. | |
else. Other than maybe Petra Kvitova, would can outhit her. | :31:22. | :31:24. | |
That's why she's two are the favourites. Playing as well as they | :31:25. | :31:29. | |
are, with the big games they have, match on the racquet. More on the | :31:30. | :31:32. | |
women's matches in a minute, including the one that Pat Cash is | :31:33. | :31:35. | |
now coaching. We have decided as well as a player of the day, we | :31:36. | :31:38. | |
probably should give an award foreofficial of the day. It goes to | :31:39. | :31:49. | |
this guy. The line judge who was on the Del Potro-Kokkinakis match on | :31:50. | :31:53. | |
court two, three times he takes one for the team. Now bearing in mind | :31:54. | :31:59. | |
that Kokkinakis is no slouch at 127mph with his fastest serve. Del | :32:00. | :32:05. | |
Potro about 133. How much would that hurt? I think I would put something | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
there on the mid-section just in case. As if you were playing | :32:10. | :32:13. | |
cricket. Usually the centre service line is a pretty safe place to be, | :32:14. | :32:16. | |
but not when these guys are serving as big as they are. You've got to | :32:17. | :32:20. | |
read the play, read the ball. It was curling in, go the other way! He | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
kept running into the ball. He stepped forward to it. Quite brave. | :32:25. | :32:27. | |
He was the magnet. They were colliding. I think he was on a later | :32:28. | :32:32. | |
match, though. He has survived. And he walks on. Now to the man who is | :32:33. | :32:36. | |
the bookies' favourite to win the title this year and if he did so, it | :32:37. | :32:41. | |
would be his eighth title here at Wimbledon. And his 19th Grand Slam. | :32:42. | :32:53. | |
COMMENTATOR: If you love tennis and you don't like watching Roger play | :32:54. | :32:58. | |
then you've got a real issue. SUE BARKER: Today the most famous court | :32:59. | :33:04. | |
in the world welcomes back the greatest player ever. The amazing | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
grace of Roger Federer where athleticism meets artistry. | :33:10. | :33:13. | |
Federer's forehand is the greatest shot in the game. Where raw effort | :33:14. | :33:18. | |
looks easy. How does he conjure that up? Of course, it's anything but | :33:19. | :33:23. | |
easy. For all of the complex questions time and body pose him, | :33:24. | :33:28. | |
his philosophy remains simple. I'm trying to remind myself every single | :33:29. | :33:31. | |
point I play just enjoy yourself out there and then good things will | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
happen to you. Roger Federer was going for a record-breaking 85th win | :33:37. | :33:41. | |
at Wimbledon to overtake Jimmy Connors. He was up against Alexandr | :33:42. | :33:51. | |
Dolgopolov. I met some of his fans earlier on. They come from all over | :33:52. | :33:55. | |
the world. They were flooding there to Centre Court and Federer had an | :33:56. | :33:59. | |
early break of serve. We join it at 4-2 with the Ukrainian serving. | :34:00. | :34:04. | |
Andrew Cotter, Boris Becker and Tim Henman in the commentary box. | :34:05. | :34:22. | |
Centre Court approves. You can see when Dolgopolov is playing well. | :34:23. | :34:34. | |
Boris Becker: They want to have a longer match. The last one was a set | :34:35. | :34:38. | |
and something. Early in the afternoon for Wimbledon standards. | :34:39. | :35:07. | |
It was a blistering return from Federer. | :35:08. | :35:16. | |
BORIS BECKER: Some of these double faults happen because your position | :35:17. | :36:10. | |
has done something before to create a bit more pressure. Once more break | :36:11. | :36:14. | |
point for Federer. Back of his feet almost before he | :36:15. | :36:56. | |
knew it. Another chance for the double break. | :36:57. | :37:34. | |
Dolgopolov breaks through, good defence from Federer, but the | :37:35. | :37:39. | |
Ukrainian survives this break point as well. | :37:40. | :38:02. | |
He's playing pretty well. He keeps the pressure on. He's not afraid of | :38:03. | :38:07. | |
the occasion. He's not overwhelmed as some of the other first-round | :38:08. | :38:09. | |
opponents. The hold. | :38:10. | :38:34. | |
STUDIO: Good effort to hold serve. But fairly soon Federer was serving | :38:35. | :38:38. | |
for the first set. The Ukrainian struggling more and more with his | :38:39. | :38:44. | |
movement. He called for the trainer during the break. He had a deep | :38:45. | :38:47. | |
conversation with him and asked him to look at his ankle. Heavy | :38:48. | :38:57. | |
strapping on that ankle. Meanwhile Federer, well, he served his | :38:58. | :39:01. | |
10,000th ace today, only the third player to reach that milestone. Ivo | :39:02. | :39:09. | |
Karlovic and Goran Ivanovic are the other two. Rejoining the match, | :39:10. | :39:14. | |
Federer leads 3-0 in the second set and Dolgopolov really just getting | :39:15. | :39:16. | |
lamer and lamer. Early Federer takes that second | :39:17. | :40:01. | |
serve return, putting a lot of pressure on Dolgopolov's serve. | :40:02. | :40:48. | |
Oh, dear. This might be the end of things for Dolgopolov. | :40:49. | :40:58. | |
UMPIRE: Ladies and gentleman, due to injury... Very sad for Alexandr | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
Dolgopolov. Roger Federer will be the first to offer words of | :41:04. | :41:07. | |
consolation. He will feel for his Ukrainian opponent. The crowd is | :41:08. | :41:12. | |
denied a longer match here. Two retirements in a row. Djokovic moved | :41:13. | :41:16. | |
on and Roger Federer does so now as well. Very sad for his opponent. I | :41:17. | :41:25. | |
think no, a player should not go on court if he knows he won't finish. | :41:26. | :41:29. | |
The question is, did they truly believe they were going to finish. | :41:30. | :41:32. | |
If they did, I think it's OK that they walk on court. Otherwise I feel | :41:33. | :41:38. | |
they should give up the spot. In the process, maybe the tour or like, not | :41:39. | :41:42. | |
the tour, the ATP has adjusted the rule, but maybe the slams should | :41:43. | :41:47. | |
maybe have a look at what they could do for the players to make it just a | :41:48. | :41:50. | |
little bit easier. It's a lot of money. For some of them it's even | :41:51. | :41:55. | |
more. For some it's less, it doesn't matter. For some they just want to | :41:56. | :41:58. | |
be out there, they feel like miracles do happen. Maybe the other | :41:59. | :42:02. | |
guy retires too. Maybe the other guy is carrying an injury. Maybe if I | :42:03. | :42:06. | |
win and I have a day off I will feel better on Thursday. All these things | :42:07. | :42:10. | |
play into the equation as well. Don't forget those things as well. | :42:11. | :42:13. | |
Could be rain, come back the next day, you know, you never know what | :42:14. | :42:18. | |
the player's motives are. Well there is plenty to discuss here. Because | :42:19. | :42:23. | |
eight players have retired hurt in their matches so far. We're only on | :42:24. | :42:27. | |
day two. Seven men and one woman. You can look at them there and the | :42:28. | :42:33. | |
various reasons. Hips, knees, the odd calf and ankle and a foot. It's | :42:34. | :42:37. | |
not heat. It's not heat, you're right. So what is happening? Seven | :42:38. | :42:43. | |
men and one woman, I'm just saying. That's true. But what is happening? | :42:44. | :42:51. | |
Tennis is a tough sport. I mean, I think there were probably a couple | :42:52. | :42:55. | |
of guys who shouldn't have played. It's ironic, they've taken some | :42:56. | :42:58. | |
money out of the tournament and made the first round losses more money, | :42:59. | :43:03. | |
so the lesser players who are coming through, like the Wards we just saw, | :43:04. | :43:07. | |
qualified and they make money, keep themselves going on the circuit for | :43:08. | :43:11. | |
a while. ?35,000, isn't it? There are guys that go, I'm here any way, | :43:12. | :43:16. | |
why not give it a shot. It's OK to give it a shot. It's a tricky one. | :43:17. | :43:22. | |
Yeah, I think... The only person that knows whether they think they | :43:23. | :43:24. | |
can finish the match is the player themselves. The doctor can't even | :43:25. | :43:28. | |
know. Only you can know. You just have to look in the mirror, is it | :43:29. | :43:31. | |
worth it for me, for this money? And by the way, we are professionals. We | :43:32. | :43:36. | |
are playing for money. But at the same time, hopefully, you are | :43:37. | :43:39. | |
selfless enough to think about other things, other than yourself which is | :43:40. | :43:41. | |
your opponent, the player that didn't get in and the spectators. | :43:42. | :43:45. | |
Let's not forget that. They paid a lot of money to be here. That's why | :43:46. | :43:48. | |
they were booing at the end of that match, because they had two in a | :43:49. | :43:51. | |
row. That's unheard of. I've never seen it happen. That That was a | :43:52. | :43:59. | |
great ticket at the beginning of the day. In a lot of sports, you have to | :44:00. | :44:05. | |
pass a medical before you can take part. Now is there a medical for | :44:06. | :44:09. | |
players? No. Not at all? No such thing. No, it's totally up to you to | :44:10. | :44:13. | |
play. You could still win a match on one leg, it's not going to happen | :44:14. | :44:17. | |
against Federer or Djokovic. If one was being harsh, you would say they | :44:18. | :44:20. | |
are denying somebody else the chance. They are. Even if they lost | :44:21. | :44:25. | |
in the first round, as well as denying spectators, you're denying | :44:26. | :44:28. | |
somebody else the chance of winning it or finishing the match. It's the | :44:29. | :44:32. | |
lucky losers if they pull out. If they think they can play and they go | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
out and realise because you know the draw is made on Friday. The | :44:38. | :44:40. | |
qualification finished on Thursday. You think OK, they're not playing | :44:41. | :44:44. | |
till Tuesday. I've got four days for the ankle to get better. It can | :44:45. | :44:47. | |
happen. You do know the day of the match though whether you can finish | :44:48. | :44:51. | |
the match. Yeah, you definitely do. By that time it's too late. Who is | :44:52. | :44:56. | |
going to walk away from that much money. For some players it sets them | :44:57. | :44:59. | |
up for the rest of the year. Let's not forget we talk about the | :45:00. | :45:02. | |
pressure on the top players. There's pressure on the lower ranked players | :45:03. | :45:06. | |
to just pay the bills. This could set them up for the rest of the | :45:07. | :45:09. | |
year, the difference between having a coach or not. It's a tough call. | :45:10. | :45:14. | |
But I think the slams should pony up some money here and say look, if you | :45:15. | :45:17. | |
don't think you can finish the match, here is a percentage of the | :45:18. | :45:22. | |
prize money and put on a real match. And give someone else the chance, | :45:23. | :45:25. | |
give half the prize money and put on somebody else instead? Something | :45:26. | :45:28. | |
like that. What due make of Federer in the 43 minutes you saw of him? | :45:29. | :45:33. | |
Not much. I mean everything. We didn't see him enough. Nobody did. | :45:34. | :45:37. | |
Probably saw, actually those crowded around court ten where he was | :45:38. | :45:41. | |
practising, they probably saw more. He looks fresh. As well he should | :45:42. | :45:47. | |
be. Great tune up in Holland. He looks as sharp as he needs to be | :45:48. | :45:51. | |
right now. It's probably good for him actually. He just got the feel | :45:52. | :45:55. | |
of Centre Court. He missed a couple of passing shots, just getting the | :45:56. | :45:59. | |
feel of Centre Court. For a guy who is turning 36 soon, you know it's | :46:00. | :46:04. | |
not bad to have a nice, easy cruise around. One match ticked off. Six | :46:05. | :46:08. | |
more to go. Yeah, if you can get off the court an hour-and-a-half less, | :46:09. | :46:13. | |
then he'll take that. He just looks so fluid. It's just so easy. Any | :46:14. | :46:19. | |
way. He was showing off. Now to shot of the day. There were so many that | :46:20. | :46:25. | |
we could have chosen from this one match Gael Monfils against Daniel | :46:26. | :46:29. | |
Brands. We chose this because you get pretty much two trick shots for | :46:30. | :46:35. | |
the price of one. There's the tweenor. Then that. I | :46:36. | :46:39. | |
love the way Monfils holds the pose afterwards. That was good. That was | :46:40. | :46:45. | |
the easy shot. Not that easy, but he made it look easy. Germans featured | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
in some big matches today and Rishi can mark our card. | :46:51. | :46:58. | |
First of the German contenders on court one was Struff, the | :46:59. | :47:03. | |
27-year-old faced last year's finalist Milos Raonic and showed he | :47:04. | :47:09. | |
was made of stern stuff. But he finally succumbed 6 high pressure 7, | :47:10. | :47:16. | |
2-6, 6-7. Raonic Thunderered 20 aces past him and shows he has a fearsome | :47:17. | :47:23. | |
return. Better news for German fans on court | :47:24. | :47:30. | |
14, Alexander Zverev encountered an Ungur spired Bernard Tomic. He | :47:31. | :47:37. | |
admits he lacks motivation. Zverev looks impressive none the less, | :47:38. | :47:42. | |
serving and volleying with aplomb, winning 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 in just 84 | :47:43. | :47:46. | |
minutes. His younger brother is also through | :47:47. | :47:50. | |
to the second round. The 20-year-old has been touted as a future | :47:51. | :47:55. | |
superstar and the 6'6" German looked every inch the next big thing as he | :47:56. | :48:00. | |
breezed past the Russian in straight sets. It means that Misha and | :48:01. | :48:06. | |
Alexander are the first seeded brothers to reach the second round | :48:07. | :48:10. | |
at Wimbledon in 35 years. Sadly no German success on court 18 and | :48:11. | :48:18. | |
Bartel lost to Coco Vandeweghe. She is now coached by Pat Cash. | :48:19. | :48:22. | |
Described the former Wimbledon champion as "On the side of doshingy | :48:23. | :48:31. | |
sometimes". Next up for the American is another German, Tatiana Maria. So | :48:32. | :48:37. | |
Pat, you were happy today? Do you want to put your glasses on? She | :48:38. | :48:47. | |
called me quite doshingy. -- dorky. She was asked, what has he | :48:48. | :48:50. | |
contributed to your life. He's introduced me to a lot of 80s rock | :48:51. | :48:54. | |
bands which I wasn't quite familiar with. I keep reminding him I was | :48:55. | :49:03. | |
born in '91. I told her the best rock bands ELO, Black Sabbath, Judas | :49:04. | :49:10. | |
priest all from Birmingham. Who's not from there? What was your | :49:11. | :49:15. | |
question? Were you happy with her today and also, nower can she go | :49:16. | :49:20. | |
here? She made the quarter finals in 2015. All I'm concerned about is her | :49:21. | :49:24. | |
winning the first point of the next match. That's what we're focussing | :49:25. | :49:29. | |
on. That's just refining it right down. It's been a few weeks. I've | :49:30. | :49:34. | |
set really tricky targets for her. She's been really very, very good. | :49:35. | :49:38. | |
I've been really impressed by her efforts. She's got potential. She's | :49:39. | :49:42. | |
got a great attitude. She always seems very positive. Yes, she's got | :49:43. | :49:46. | |
an attitude and she can back it up with her game. You have to stay in | :49:47. | :49:51. | |
the moment. She's doing that. She's got the potential. We'll see where | :49:52. | :49:56. | |
she takes it. I think she said it with great affection. I would say | :49:57. | :50:03. | |
he's actually on the side of dorkey a little bit. Now we're going to | :50:04. | :50:10. | |
discuss Bernard Tomic. This is one of the tamest dismissals so far | :50:11. | :50:13. | |
here. This is what he said in the press conference afterwards. It's | :50:14. | :50:23. | |
tough to find motivation, you know being out there, playing I think | :50:24. | :50:26. | |
this is my eighth Wimbledon already and I'm 24 years old and still very | :50:27. | :50:32. | |
young on tour. I just feel a little bit I'm border out there. I've just | :50:33. | :50:37. | |
got to find a way to get back and you know enjoy tennis again. People | :50:38. | :50:43. | |
think it's an amazing life, we are making millions of dollars and you | :50:44. | :50:45. | |
know, sometimes it's tough mentally to compete and put yourself out | :50:46. | :50:49. | |
there day in, day out. I'm not the best character to do that. | :50:50. | :50:54. | |
So he's had enough already. No motivation. I think one of the worst | :50:55. | :50:59. | |
issues there is he took medical timeout and blatantly said yeah, I | :51:00. | :51:03. | |
wasn't injured, I did it because I wanted to break up the time. You | :51:04. | :51:07. | |
know, he took - I wonder if he's going to get a big fine for that. I | :51:08. | :51:11. | |
mean he's just admitted it. I don't know where Bernie's at. I understand | :51:12. | :51:15. | |
it can be tough out there. He's one of the most decorated juniors there | :51:16. | :51:21. | |
was. What has he done as a pro? Quarter finals here. Oh, Ottowa, | :51:22. | :51:28. | |
great. -- oh, wow, great. I think he was the youngest since Boris Becker | :51:29. | :51:34. | |
to get that far. Oh, now I can quit. He needs to go and work in a factory | :51:35. | :51:37. | |
for a while and do some labour and see what it's like to really work | :51:38. | :51:40. | |
out there. And fight your way through. Somebody take his money | :51:41. | :51:46. | |
away and say OK, there you go. He's too rich too early. Simple as that. | :51:47. | :51:50. | |
It's not that simple, but there's complex issues going on with him. I | :51:51. | :51:59. | |
think that is a big issue. Renee Stubbs said what was said in the | :52:00. | :52:04. | |
interview was a disgrace not only to tennis but Australian tennis. I | :52:05. | :52:07. | |
don't want to stick the boot in. But that wasn't a great day. I don't | :52:08. | :52:12. | |
think Bernie by a long shot represents everybody, all Australian | :52:13. | :52:18. | |
players. Of course not. He will have to do worse than that to damage it. | :52:19. | :52:25. | |
A lot of ex-players are cringing, ex-Aussies, especially the guys that | :52:26. | :52:30. | |
started this pro circuit. It's disrespectful to the sport. It's | :52:31. | :52:33. | |
disrespectful to the history of sport. If you can't get motivated at | :52:34. | :52:38. | |
Wimbledon, find another job. The spectators paid good money. These | :52:39. | :52:42. | |
people that probably work in a factory, they spent their good money | :52:43. | :52:46. | |
to come here and watch and the guy shows up and doesn't really show up, | :52:47. | :52:49. | |
doesn't try. He can't be bothered. Just stay home. Take time off. And | :52:50. | :52:54. | |
maybe as he said, I don't have to work the rest of my life, so maybe | :52:55. | :52:59. | |
he shouldn't. On a more positive note for Australian tennis, happy | :53:00. | :53:03. | |
anniversary tomorrow. OK! Because it is 30 years ago tomorrow... It must | :53:04. | :53:10. | |
be hold on, it must be yours today. Oh, that's right. I played the day | :53:11. | :53:15. | |
before you. That is it. The thing is we knew it would be an anniversary | :53:16. | :53:19. | |
of something for you. Pretty much every year. Thank you. But yeah, it | :53:20. | :53:25. | |
is Cash's anniversary tomorrow. What's funny he climbed into the box | :53:26. | :53:28. | |
and I'm like oh, that's just not done here. And a couple years later, | :53:29. | :53:33. | |
everybody's doing it. Pat start aid trend. There Very cool. Now there's | :53:34. | :53:38. | |
a walkway so you don't climb onto the roof any more. Exactly health | :53:39. | :53:43. | |
and safety got involved. Happy anniversary to you today and Pat for | :53:44. | :53:46. | |
tomorrow. Let's look at the order of play tomorrow. | :53:47. | :53:49. | |
If you have a ticket for Centre Court, one has got to think that | :53:50. | :53:50. | |
this is a corker. Now, Rafael Nadal, how has he been | :53:51. | :54:45. | |
preparing for his second round match? | :54:46. | :54:52. | |
Well this is how. He has been shopping and using the self-service | :54:53. | :55:00. | |
tills in south fields in Tesco Express. Actually, our editor saw | :55:01. | :55:07. | |
Dustin Brown in M, just so we represent more than one supermarket. | :55:08. | :55:11. | |
Where else are they going to get their food? I know. That's what | :55:12. | :55:19. | |
people do. Imagine Rafa doing his own shopping. You know better what | :55:20. | :55:26. | |
you need. I ran into David and all the players shop there. You've got | :55:27. | :55:29. | |
to eat. He's so down to earth. At the Olympics in Rio, we went out | :55:30. | :55:34. | |
after the cycling had finished. It was quite late, a gang of five came | :55:35. | :55:38. | |
up to a restaurant and they were turned away because they were told | :55:39. | :55:41. | |
it wasn't open any more and it was Rafa. He was so good about it. He | :55:42. | :55:44. | |
didn't turn around and throw a fit or anything. I wanted to say to | :55:45. | :55:50. | |
them, do you know that's Rafael Nadal? The good news on the weather. | :55:51. | :55:54. | |
If you are coming today or watching on TV, it is a very good day. Dry | :55:55. | :55:58. | |
and bright, plenty of sunshine becoming hot in the afternoon. | :55:59. | :56:02. | |
Temperature rising to 29 Celsius. And if you're staying at home to | :56:03. | :56:06. | |
watch the TV, it should be around 3pm that I suspect Andy Murray comes | :56:07. | :56:10. | |
out to play Dustin Brown. This is what they call a pop corn match. | :56:11. | :56:18. | |
You're used to being a crowd favourite and if you play Andy... | :56:19. | :56:24. | |
Who said I won't be? I'm hoping no-one's going to boo me. I will | :56:25. | :56:28. | |
play my game. Either way he's the favourite. I will be relaxed and | :56:29. | :56:35. | |
play my game. I'll go out there and try my best. I like him a lot. He's | :56:36. | :56:39. | |
a fun guy to watch and not easy to play. On the court, he's a big | :56:40. | :56:43. | |
personality in the way he plays, you think that he's quite loud and you | :56:44. | :56:47. | |
know, stuff away from the court. But he's very quiet, humble, nice guy. | :56:48. | :56:54. | |
We get on well. So it's two unpredictable players in a row for | :56:55. | :56:58. | |
Andy. Does that suit him? Murray is so solid. He was limping around in | :56:59. | :57:03. | |
his first round match, but he was moving well. It didn't seem to | :57:04. | :57:08. | |
affect him. That's the thing with these players, especially Murray, he | :57:09. | :57:10. | |
doesn't give anybody unforced errors. He makes you play the tough | :57:11. | :57:14. | |
shots all the time. Dustin can produce unbelievable stuff. We know | :57:15. | :57:17. | |
that. It's really entertaining. Can he do it the whole match and put | :57:18. | :57:20. | |
enough pressure on Murray? We'll see. It will take his best effort to | :57:21. | :57:27. | |
beat somebody like Murray who will make lots of returns. It will be | :57:28. | :57:31. | |
good. What do you make of Johanna Konta after her fall and coming back | :57:32. | :57:35. | |
and winning well in the first round. I think she's almost getting too low | :57:36. | :57:38. | |
for the ball. She's scraping the ball quite a bit. No, she looked | :57:39. | :57:42. | |
sharp. Everything was cooking. Didn't look like she was feeling any | :57:43. | :57:46. | |
pressure. Just a good win, solid. Didn't stay there too long. Played | :57:47. | :57:52. | |
well enough. Hopefully will keep getting better. We know Rafa is | :57:53. | :57:57. | |
relaxed and eating well as well. Will Donald Young pose troubles? | :57:58. | :58:01. | |
Young is playing well at the moment. He hasn't got a great record on | :58:02. | :58:05. | |
grass. He played really well at Queen's and I was quite impressed | :58:06. | :58:08. | |
with him. He played the week before as well, I'm trying to think where. | :58:09. | :58:13. | |
He's actually playing his best grass court tennis of his career. He was a | :58:14. | :58:18. | |
really heralded junior, I mean really the next superstar. It's been | :58:19. | :58:21. | |
a lot of pressure for him. He's coming out there swinging away. This | :58:22. | :58:25. | |
will be an interesting match. It will be tricky. It could be fun. It | :58:26. | :58:30. | |
could be the other pop corn match. They both play flashy and obviously | :58:31. | :58:36. | |
Rafa plays like himself. A lot of flair. Reminds me of Rios, really | :58:37. | :58:44. | |
good hands. Flashy like Zorro. Thank you both so much for today. It was a | :58:45. | :58:50. | |
weird day at Wimbledon. Do eat the strawberries. So many players | :58:51. | :58:56. | |
retired hurt. Pat is back with me along with John McEnroe and I | :58:57. | :58:59. | |
suspect we'll be talking about this guy. | :59:00. | :59:02. |