Day 3 Highlights Today at Wimbledon

going on! Rafa is ripping off his shirt! In any events... I got

distracted myself! A little late night entertainment for you. Are you

still look like that! Back in the day. He's working his way in the

tournament. He would be very satisfied with the way that he

served. He's a double full at the wrong time, but basically he served

well, he's got his rhythm. He mistimed a few balls, but Young is

playing well. Rafa will be happy. Just a couple of matches still going

on on quotes three and 12. Camilla Georgia Lees 2-0 up in the third set

against Madison Keys. Also into a decider, Elaine Ostapenko, the

French Open champion, the newest of the Grand Slam champions is 3-2 up

against France was of Canada. But we are going to start today at

Wimbledon with looking back on the early action at Centre Court.

First out onto court was the British number one, Johanna Konta.

She was playing Donna Vekic, who had beaten her in three

sets in the final of the Nottingham Open.

The crowd had queued overnight. We will join the match in the opening

And we join it in the seventh game of the first set.

Sam Smith and Kim Clijsters were watching.

I always said that I have the strength in my legs from my dad and

my frack stability from my mother, he was a footballer and she was a

gymnast. -- might flexibility. Konta, smart move, you might have

seen her creep into the shade in the back of the court. It is a hot one

out there. We might have a top of 27 degrees today. And they are really

going for it out here. With the circumstances, like in

Australia. We can do heat here, you know, Kim!

It's unusual. I like how she steps in after a big

serves like that. Because she stays on the court after she lands, and

it's almost like she knows that there's a ball coming. -- a short

ball coming. No, she's not going to challenge.

Just right. Margins are very tight in this opening set. Still on serve,

Vekic leading 4-3. STUDIO: Some great tennis.

Vekic held for 4-3, and then broke the Konta serve to lead 5-3.

Vekic served for the set, but that was the moment

that Konta broke back, and eventually the set

We picked it up at 4-4 in the tie-break, with Vekic serving.

I fear it's the first 27 points, with two points clear. And Johanna

with a couple of serves to go now. Using that serve out wide. Just

going to have to make it harder than it is. Two set points for the

British number one. What a comeback from Konta! It's

Great Britain one, Croatia zero, as Konta take the opening set by 7-6.

It's fabulous, tight tennis as well. Vekic gives as good as she gets.

First game of the second set, Vekic broke, and the momentum seemed

Searing heat on Centre Court, and an invasion of flying

In the fourth game, Konta broke back.

But Vekic broke Konta's serve again, and we join it with her

serving for the second set to level things up.

And we rejoin us Vekic is serving for the second set.

What poison. That the combination that you try to practice. -- what

poise. Open up into the". It was a perfect example. It's on, and what a

fightback from Croatia's Donna Vekic. She levels.

Both served much more solidly in the third set,

and 12 service holds later they were at six games

all in the final set, where of course there

There was, however, some truly great tennis.

COMMENTATOR: What a point. Konta and 0-30 now. Really great tennis we are

seeing about. The ball just skimming the net.

Great pick-up. Vekic got to it and kept it really low, so made it hard

for Donna with that shot. -- Konta got it.

She's likely to use that serve out wide on that side of the court.

A fabulous combination from Donna Vekic. The very first break point of

this deciding set. And we pick up the match

towards the end of the 18th game. It's 30-30, with Vekic serving

to stay in the match. COMMENTATOR: There we go. She knew

that second serve was coming to the forehand. It has been a battle

royale match point for Konta. It's that easy! A titanic battle a couple

of weeks ago on the grass of Nottingham with the final set. This

is surpassing even that contest. I think when a match gets to such a

stage where there is so little separating you, for me, personally,

I can just as easily feel the position. I can feel what it's like

to be in her shoes. You feel her pain as well, and it could just of

easily as been made on that side of the equation. So I feel very proud

of myself and very fortunate to have battled through. You had a number of

things to contend with. Obviously, a very good opponent. The sheet. And

then suddenly flying ants. There was quite an army of flying ants. I

think I've definitely taken home a few as a souvenir in my belly and my

bags. I definitely ate a few! You're so careful with your nutrition! I

know. I try to get the real lean protein. I'm not sure whether flying

ants were a good thing or a bad thing, but she certainly tried to

take it in her stride. Was always going to be a battle. It

really could have gone either way. Really hot conditions, and the girls

were chasing everything down. It was a huge match for both of them. Vekic

has got a great future. She was touted as one of the best up and

coming players. It took her a little while. She's still very Young. You

can see the standard of tennis here. Some of it was under extreme

pressure on match point, Vekic serves a monstrous ace. She's got a

big serve. Konta, there is good serve there, her ground strokes,

she's a good all-round player. Should she be getting more

aggressive? Winning makes you positive. We are seeing the

highlights of her here. A very good crosscourt backhand. You can see she

uses the court very well. That's not an easy shot to take out, looking up

in the blue sky and the sun. It's a great performance for her, and she

will only gain confidence from that. She talks a lot about staying light

in the mind. She did that brilliantly, one step at a time.

Let's get a quick update on those two matches still going on. Madison

Keys is in big, big trouble. 5-1 down in the deciding set against

Camila Giorgi. We could be losing another seed therefore Madison Keys.

And what about Jelena Ostapenko, the French Open champion? She is playing

on Court 12. Oster Pankow was closing in on victory, but the light

is dimming fast. -- Ostapenko. She's actually at match point. A goal that

certainly goes for her shots. That's about what the stats are, certainly.

We can almost hear her grunting from up here. She blew through the French

Open. We've never seen anybody come out like that hitting so many

winners. Second serve, attacked on the grass. What that was her very

first tour win, wasn't it? It's unbelievable. What an amazing story.

That fit! There we go. Well done. Ostapenko into the third round. Live

shots were from court 12. COMMENTATOR: Is not always easy to

transition from such an amazing position under the grass court

Wimbledon with everybody watching you.

Meanwhile, we've just had match point number three court, where

Madison Keys, who is the 17 seed, has been in big trouble against

Camila Giorgi. And the Italian has one. So, Madison Keys is out. This

just all adds to the feeling that anything can happen at the moment in

women's tennis, and particularly on grass where it can be even more

unpredictable. Camila Giorgi has been around for a while. Madison,

you would think she would be a little bit disappointed. The Giorgi

has played almost every tournament is grass court season and is getting

the hang of it. She's only small, but she hits the ball really flat.

She gets a serve going, it's tough to pick up. Some people feel much

more comfortable here at Wimbledon than they do anywhere else. Possibly

one of those is Heather Watson. Two years ago, she very nearly took out

Venus Williams. Today, she was up on court wasn't hanging about on first

set. COMMENTATOR: There it is, our first

break point of the match and six minutes on the clock. What a start

for Watson, the British number two. Sevastova is a little bit stunned at

the moment. That's it. 80 minutes played, and we

have our first set point. -- 18 minutes played. Never a better first

set of tennis. Just 19 minutes on the clock.

STUDIO: Perhaps not surprisingly, Watson went off at the start of the

second set. But she is certainly back on form, as it were, as we

rejoin her with Sevastova serving to stay in the match.

COMMENTATOR: So, how much does Sevastova want this?

We have three match points for Heather Watson to defeat the 18th

seed, Anastasija Sevastova. I love the way the crowd growing! --

the way the crowd growing. Don't worry, we've got two more. What a

performance. Heather Watson has equalled her best ever at Wimbledon.

She's into the third round, and she's done it at the expense of the

18th seed, Anastasija Sevastova, in just over an hour. Final score out

on Court Number Two to a delighted crowd, 6-0, 6-4. Everybody is

basically saying you should be a top 20 player. Do you feel that's

possible? I absolutely feel as possible. I've beaten a lot of top

20 players in the last couple of weeks. I'm playing really well. I've

been on tour a long time now, and I know how I'm playing. I feel

confident, and I feel just more experienced at the moment. I know

how to take advantage of playing well. You're into the third round,

you've been here before. Victoria Azarenka awaits. What's your plan? I

can't tell you my plan, because it's a secret. But also because I haven't

even made one yet! She's a great player, a very tough opponent. With

myself, I'm going to continue doing what I'm doing with my game and

remain aggressive. But I'll be doing my research on her and watching how

she's been playing recently to come up with some good tactics. If you

were to make the fourth round, is there anything that you've said to

your team then you would want them to do? Well, actually, one of my

coaches told me, he said, Heather, I've got a good feeling. This was a

few days ago before the tournament. He said, if you make fourth round,

al-Shabaab had. I said, your golfing's going to kill you. -- if

you make fourth round, I'll shave my head. I said, you can shave your

legs. STUDIO: She said, don't do it,

because his girlfriend is a good friend of hers. Overrule her! John

McEnroe has joined us, fresh from watching Rafael Nadal. The guy

looked incredible. The movement was outstanding. Astonishing in a way.

Young tried everything. He did himself proud, but I tell you,

that's the guy I saw who was in five Wimbledon final to play. So, watch

out. Let's hear from Rafa Nadal after those straight sets against

Donald Young. Rafa, well done. Up against the

talented opponents. How well did you have to play to win today? I had a

solid match. I'm happy now. It's great to be back in the third round

without losing a set. Just happy now, always at Wimbledon and happy.

It's a special place for me. I've missed being in the third round. You

done well so far. Two matches, both wins in straight sets. How

comfortable do you feel on the grass? I don't know. I just tend to

go day by day. Tomorrow I have half a day for practice, so I will take

it easy now and just try to enjoy every moment. This tournament are

special because the preparation is not as it is elsewhere. So just

tried to enjoy every moment, and every match that I win, it means a

lot to me. STUDIO: She's just always so nice.

He's so humble. He really is. He takes nothing for granted. He comes

here and try to make it seem like there's low expectations. That part,

I'm not sure I buy into that time. He's had a lot of success here and

we need that boost. The guy has caused all of the top players

problems come to take the rockets out of their hands. The big bombers

who go big win a lot of free points. Young couldn't do that. The type of

guy he will play next will develop and potentially could win a Grand

Slam tournament. This guy is the real deal, but I don't think he's

the real deal yet. So Rafa could be a big champion. But what about Andy

Murray? He was up against the tricky trickster the material magician that

is Dustin Brown. The first set, this was basically exhibition tennis. Do

some of these shops even have names, or are these things but, you know,

the likes of Dustin Brown just make up? The problem with Dustin is that

he had three hours because of the Konta match. So he thought of even

crazier things to attempt when he started this one. But he was

actually playing really well. You talk about unorthodox and

unpredictable. He's taking it to a whole new level. Murray handle it

about as well as he possibly can and do the circumstances. I wonder if

the actually quite enjoyed it. He knows if he can play his game, he's

one of the best attic, Murray, they're just get the ball in an

awkward position. That was the hardest back and I've seen in my

life. I think there was a scorch mark on the court! There was a lot

of dropped shot. I suppose testing Murray's hip out. He's chasing a

lots down, Murray. He's the kind of guy that would get the shot back.

Watch this - drop shot smash. There you go, Andy. And Andy just goes,

no. That was about it, to be honest. Then Andy just played. He was so

clever. That's the best I've seen him play for a long time. He didn't

play a great match at Queen's. His first match was a bit similar,

actually. When passed, flicked the ball down to Brown's toes. If you

look at the score, it was very one sided. Absolutely. Let's look

forward to match point. Murray didn't want to make the mistake that

Rafa Nadal had been forced to make when Rafa Dustin Brown knocked him

out. -- to make when Dustin Brown knocked out. The other good news for

Murray is it didn't take that long. 1:36, straight sets, and Dustin

Brown was making some errors of his own design because he was trying

such extravagant stuff. But Murray was making him make mistakes. The

frightening part is that his next opponent, Fabio Fognini, seems

orthodox by comparison. The first two guys he's played, this Young

20-year-old, Dustin Brown is going to be in the Hall of Fame for this.

Straight in there. He looked physically spent. But Fognini, he's

not someone at you can necessarily expect to beat a top player at an

event like this on grass. He did the same to Nadal a few years back at

the Open. But he's going to seem normal compared to the first two.

The good news is Murray is moving better than he had been. He's

probably sitting in his second ice bath of the day.

It's been a good day for British tennis, because Aljaz Bedene didn't

waste any time anyway. COMMENTATOR: That the Gloria shot,

and that's an even better one. Well-run, Aljaz Bedene. -- that's a

glorious shot. Backhand down the line. Winning

again. That's a beautiful volley. That's

just about the best shot he's played today. That's well played.

The British number three is through to a third round confrontation with

Gilles Muller. STUDIO: Aljaz Bedene just giving it

a little shy, because Zuma is a great friend of his. He lent him

whites because he didn't have any. Very hot out there, and he is

through because he goes through to play Gilles Muller. -- because

Dzumhur is a great friend of his. He lent him some whites today of! Why

didn't he just watched the first shot? Players of fussy -- why didn't

he just wash the first shot. Players are fussy.

Daniil Medvedev has been throwing coins under the chair. He really,

really wasn't happy. Having said all the controversial things he said, he

then rather backtracked in press conference, and in the quote he gave

on BBC, saying that he didn't really mean it. That wasn't a wishing well,

he was throwing coins. He backtracked and tried to get out of

it, and understood that people are going to make a big deal out of it

than perhaps they should have, given the fact that he was extremely

frustrated having beaten Stan Wawrinka and lost in the second

round in the fifth set after winning the fourth and fifth set. In my

humble estimation, you've got to cut the guy a little slack. Do you think

it's bad to call up the referee, John McEnroe? To call up the referee

and say, you call me that trick. -- you taught me that trick! It didn't

work when I brought him on anyway. He's going to get fined for throwing

coins. And I think you lost the coins, too, because he left them

there on court. We have had a couple of big names

depart from Wimbledon today, amongst them to turn champion Petra Kvitova.

A doctor came to see her on court and took a blood pressure. She is

still recovering from the dreadful injury when an intruder came into

her flat and cut her wrist badly. This is what she said in a press

conference. I'm glad it's over, actually. I feel

very empty right now. My body is not great. But mentally, I'm glad that

it's over. It was kind of frightening, but on the other hand

it was very tough. I just need to look forward and look to the future,

how everything will be, before the next tournaments. I know I can play

on all surfaces. So that's very nice. I wish I've played longer

here, for sure, but on the other hand I would have time to get

prepared for everything that is coming next.

A brave thing to try and come back. Madison Brengle, beat Ayr in three

sets. She wishes she could have gone further. Unfortunately, you can't

have it both ways. We all feel for her. I'm sure she's worried. Is that

they haven't found the guy who did it. How weird and horrible is that?

This is something that's going to take months, years, the rest of her

life to figure out what happened. Look what happened after Monaco was

stopped on the courts. She was never the same player or person. Needless

to say, the ten as part of it is just a small part of hopefully Petra

Kvitova coming to terms with it. Just a few other winners, Kei

Nishikori, Venus Williams, Marin Cilic. We haven't had time to show

all of these. Victoria Azarenka, who now meets Heather Watson. Gilles

Muller is through, Fabio Fognini comedy mentioned. Let's have a look

at the order of play tomorrow. We have four British players through

for the first time since 1997 and two women for the first time since

1986. Could it be a fifth grade? Kyle Edmund opens up on Centre Court

with Gael Monfils. Roger Federer, a third match.

Dimitrov, that could be a really entertaining match. Milos Raonic is

there little later on. The weather forecast, this is a bit

mixed. I think we will be grateful for the roof on Centre Court. A bit

cloudy in the morning, and possibly thunderstorms, a rumble of thunder.

But I am told the afternoon will be dry, sunny and with temperatures

rising to 30 Celsius. That might be nasty to play in. Like Australia

when I first went. The flies in your mouth. Flying ants we had today. OK,

performance of the day? That would be Konta pulling that matchup. Hard

to go past that. I didn't see all of the matches, but I thought Murray

played really well with a dodgy hip, just about as well as he could

possibly play. Exactly, getting hotter and hotter, we hope. Thank

you for watching tonight. Sue Barker is back tomorrow from 11 colon 30.

There is coverage right across the BBC, and online. Good night.