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What a happy man he must be. Unbelievable. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
One of the greatest matches of all time. | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
What a shot. You cannot be serious! | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
Arguably the greatest champion of all-time. | :00:34. | :00:44. | |
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Game, set and match. The Wimbledon This maybe south-west London, but | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
the sun will rise in the east. Over 11 days of struggle, icons of | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
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repute and great rank have been toppled. And so, two daughters of | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
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Eastern promise will have the final When two sisters ruled with no | :01:28. | :01:38. | |
mercy, she dared to challenge, and triumphed. But there Weston umpire | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
has not crumble away, and so it has taken her seven years to return -- | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
their Western umpire. There can be no capitulation now, only | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
domination. Her comrades have known agony and | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
ecstasy here. But she did minds -- demands her own slice of glory, | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
again based a Russian empress who will give no quarter. -- against a | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
Russian empress. There can be no retreat, only revolution. The final | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
battle is at hand, total war. The victories are known, but this much | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
is true -- the victor is unknown. At the end of this day, the sun | :02:24. | :02:34. | |
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Yes, Maria Sharapova from Russia and Petra Kvitova of the Czech | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
Republic, who will contest today's final. The drama will be played out | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
here on this famous Centre Court. A few people are in their seats, | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
being entertained by the band in this famous arena. This match | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
promises to be a hard-hitting encounter, with the a former | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
champion against a 21-year-old who champion against a 21-year-old who | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
is tipped for greatness. On Centre Court, play gets under way at | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
2:00pm. Maria Sharapova is 24, Petra is 21, this year's champion | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
will be the youngest since Maria won in 2004 as a 17-year-old. Then | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
at the Men's Doubles final, the Bryan brothers through to their 5th | :03:18. | :03:28. | |
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final, they have only won wants. -- once. The Ladies' Doubles final be | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
the last match on Centre Court Starting on Court No 1, a big | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
moment for 17-year-old Liam Broady. He is in the Boys' Singles final, | :03:43. | :03:51. | |
taking on Luke Saville of Australia. The Australian did not -- reached | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
the Australian Open final this year, so he has experience, but this is a | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
whole new experience for Liam Broady. We will join that match | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
shortly. As for the weather, no problems, not only today, but | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
tomorrow as well. It is blue sky all around, the sun has been | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
shining. There should be no disruptions. | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
I am delighted to say that Lindsey and John are here. We have been | :04:23. | :04:31. | |
invaded by greenfly, there are bugs... I don't remember anything | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
like this. Do you? No. There were a couple of tournaments in the States. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
These flies would drive you wild, you would eat them for lunch, | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
breakfast and dinner. They will hopefully get out of here in the | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
next hour. We hope so. Let's tell you the | :04:52. | :05:01. | |
Today starts with just two. At day's end, only one will be | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
champion. Succeeding Serena. Queen of Wimbledon the last two years, | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
the younger Williams sister began her defence against the physical | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
odds. A gashed foot and life threatening illness forced a 40 | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
nine-week absence, which explains the uncontrollable emotion after | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
surviving. I usually don't cry, I don't understand it. It has been so | :05:26. | :05:34. | |
hard, I never dreamt I would be here. To win, I just wanted to win | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
at least one match. Her sister, Venus, had endured her own injury | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
torment, almost five months of age. Burton menswear in round two was a | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
diminutive figure from Japan. She only surrendered in the 14th game | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
of the final set. Victory, but barely. Junior Wimbledon held few | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
fears for Britain's Laura Robson. Girls' champion aged 14 in 2008, | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
she won her first ever main draw singles match this year, to land a | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
plum role in the Maria Sharapova or shower. Then set about stealing all | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
the big scenes. However, the fifth- seeded Russian prevailed. | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
Nonetheless, Robson's adult career suddenly had renewed purpose. | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
Robson was truly a threat. No round two for the juniors start | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
with senior ambition, Heather Watson. An arm injury was cruel | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
misfortune for the talented teenager, who lost in three and | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
couldn't conceal the her it. It is just frustrating, and I am | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
disappointed that I lost. Abbey experience did before? I have never | :06:51. | :07:01. | |
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told anything like this. -- never The Britain's other wildcards fell | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
at the first. Those there by right moved on, Anne Keothavong was | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
unfortunate to face Petra Kvitova in round two, and eventual finalist | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
sliding through the gears. Elena Baltacha briefly had the home fires | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
smouldering, if not roaring. She appeared poised for victory in the | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
second round against Shuai Peng, only to lose her poise and the | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
match. British interest, over. That we expect, but Vera Zvonareva pot | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
shock exit was shocking. Runner-up last year, number two seed this, | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
she was beaten by the woman she beat in the semis last year, | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
Tsvetana Pironkova. Piles of the unexpected are her speciality. In | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
2010, she beat Venus Williams -- tales of the unexpected. In 2011, | :07:56. | :08:04. | |
she did it again, and how. Venus, vanquished, on last 16 day. Just | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
over an hour after Serena had been swatted off court by former | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
finalist Marion Bartoli. The Frenchwoman allowed her father back | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
in the box after banishing him in the previous round, and did dad | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
proud. Some said winning the title after a year out would have been | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
bad for the women's game. Can you appreciate that? Does this result | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
show it is competitive? Yeah, I am super happy that I lost. Go, | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
women's tennis! Bartoli next came up against | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
another comeback girl in Sabine Lisicki. The German wildcard made a | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
name two years ago by reaching the quarters, and reminded us of her | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
enormous talent and resilience as she fought from the brink of | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
elimination to oust lean are under the Centre Court roof. Just a year | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
after learning to walk again following serious injury. It was | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
very hard, I had to start from 0 after being on crutches was seven | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
weeks. It means so much, winning the title in Birmingham, and | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
getting the wildcard. I appreciate it so much, to be back in Wimbledon. | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
It is a place I love so much. been used Steffi Graf, but the | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
first Sabine Lisicki, she insisted. She ground out a three-set quarter- | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
final win over Bartoli. World number one and top seed, Caroline | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
Wozniacki, was the anticipated last eight opponent for Sharapova. | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
Dominika Cibulkova did not like that idea and down to the Danish | :09:33. | :09:42. | |
player in three. Wozniacki awaits a major title break through, whilst | :09:42. | :09:52. | |
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Sharapova awaited the 24th seed Sharapova's grunting is the stuff | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
of solid legend. 4th seed Victoria Azarenka has given her a pitch | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
fight in the old gettable duel. The Belorussian squealed away into her | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
first Grand Slam semi-final. Petra had been pushed to three sets by | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
Pironkova. Could it have a, beaten by Serena Williams at this stage a | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
year ago, came through the semi- finals this time -- could be to | :10:20. | :10:29. | |
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The three-set affair was followed by wobbly serving from Sharapova, | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
in an otherwise ritual romp over Lisicki, whose heroics have all | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
been used up. Maria, back in the final for the first time since 2004. | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
It means so much. It is interesting, it is a whole | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
change. At the French Open, Maria was the youngest semi-finalist, and | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
here she was the oldest. It release shows the difference on the two | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
services and what players excel on the grass and on the clay. -- the | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
two surfaces. These two players are playing the best tennis. There will | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
be a lot of big hitting, but it will come down to the serve. Serve, | :11:12. | :11:20. | |
and no, I think. -- and nerve. Sharapova had a horrible day | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
serving. What is going to happen if she serves well? Petra Kvitova is | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
in a position she has never been in before. They remind me a lot of | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
each other. The way they strike the ball. She has worked herself into | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
much better shape. I wonder what do you think the upside is, as far as | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
movement. That is always key, the game has become so athletic, I am | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
thinking she can win multiple Grand Slams. Absolutely, she is going to | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
win a Grand Slam. She plays a big style of game, she is so much | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
better than last year, she keeps improving. To have the advantage of | :11:59. | :12:07. | |
being a lefty, have that serve and get three points, is so key. She is | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
right into the limelight now. Martina has picked her to win and I | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
think you are picking as well? started the tournament with | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
Sharapova and I still think she is a great player, but watching Petra | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
Kvitova and how she has handled the pressure, she played a terrible | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
second set against Azarenka and it has not phased out. You have to be | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
fearless in these big matches and she is certainly that. A lefty | :12:32. | :12:42. | |
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serve. Should that be allowed, to switch midstream? She is in the | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
Royal Box, she is a royalty today. Don't rabbit in! Sharapova has won | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
this, a couple of other majors -- don't rub it in. I'll be surprised | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
if Petra go back to her is not overwhelmed, feeling the pressure - | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
- if Petra Kvitova is not overwhelmed. In the first set | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
against Azarenka, it looked like she could beat anyone, at any time. | :13:06. | :13:16. | |
But then it's set in, oh my God, I am about to be in the finals. | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
has worked so hard for the last three years to get back to this | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
point. She is not a player that let's opportunity go by very easily. | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
This is her earlier today, she is a great competitor. I call her the | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
Rafa Nadal of the women's tour. I think she is one of the fiercest | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
competitors men, all-women, in the history of our sport. Given the | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
success, the money and endorsements, I think she has done a fantastic | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
job of being able to put that aside, when she trains and plays matches. | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
It is hard to do. She is the highest paid female athlete in the | :13:55. | :14:05. | |
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world -- highest paid. She still $24 million in a year, only 2 | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
million in prize-money. It is a whole different EEF -- whole | :14:09. | :14:19. | |
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You have got to find an excuse was serving 13 double faults. She had | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
two break six-times, I am not sure she is going to get as many chances. | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
-- she had to break six-times. last two big matches, semi-finals | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
of the French and here, the serve went away again. She will be under | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
more pressure with Petra Kvitova's return. She will have to find the | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
rhythm. That is what can go off for have. She will have to have a good | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
serving day. Petra could it ever did not have a great serving day | :14:50. | :15:00. | |
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Over she strikes the ball so well, she ends the point won the second | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
shot. The first serve percentage, I think shook would be doing well -- | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
she would do well to take some pressure off. Maria has a huge win. | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
Can you get over it when you get to the lips on the serve? Maria seems | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
to block things are better than anyone. She has had this problem | :15:30. | :15:37. | |
for a few years. She gets a bit more tense on the court and you can | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
see that. She worked on her serve yesterday, will work on it today, | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
she will be trying to stay relaxed on it. Against Lisicki started with | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
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two double faults in the first game To she has a stubborn mentality, | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
she goes for huge second serves and that gets there in trouble when the | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
toss is not in the correct spot. will continue our build up in about | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
25 minutes. Enjoy your land, sorry we delayed you, you can join your | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
husband in the Royal Box. I will enjoy my lunch in the cafeteria. | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
will be heading off to Court No 1 to see the Boys' Singles final, | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
featuring the 17-year-old, Liam Broady. We will hear from him in a | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
moment but let's remind you of the incredible semi-final victory from | :16:28. | :16:38. | |
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Liam Broady is through to the final. I tried to treat it like any other | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
match. He is a fantastic player, one of the better players here, | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
which is why he is in the semi- finals, and I managed to come out | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
in -- with a win. What does it mean to be in the final? It means | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
everything. It would mean even more if I won it. After the Boys' | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
Doubles last year, it feels great. The last British boy to win, | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
Stanley Matthews, 1962, are you aware of the history of what you | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
are trying to achieve? I have been told a few times already. It | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
doesn't matter to me. It is one match to focus on and try to get | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
the best result for us up growing up, when did you start thinking | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
about tennis? I have been playing since I was about four. Eight or | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
nine, I started to play tennis instead of football and other | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
sports. I understand there is no funding from the LTA. Going further | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
back when you were 14, I remember reading that you were funded | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
because your parents had to sell their house, is this right? Yes. We | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
had two houses on the same road, my dad used to rent one of them out. | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
We ended up selling one and moving into the next one, to help fund the | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
tennis. Did you have childhood heroes growing up? I love watching | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
Federer and Rafa, I enjoyed watching Henman as well. I watched | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
him in the French, the semi-finals one year. I love to his game and | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
the way he played. You have had a knock with rapper in the practice | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
courts. Yes, last year. I learnt a lot about the intensity that you | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
need, even in the practice. To almost contribute to the match | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
court. Obviously, he is an incredible fighter and that is what | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
he brings to the game. A lot of young tennis players are loath to | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
make predictions, or tell people what their ambitions are. For me, I | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
focus year by year. I would love to be number one in the world, top 10 | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
in the world. I will see how far I can take it. Thoughts of appearing | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
on the final on Court one? It will be one of the greatest experiences | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
I have had. I did it in the doubles but on the singles, it will be | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
something else. The match is under way and it has started very well | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
for Liam, he has a break of serve, leading 2-1 against Luke Saville of | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
Australia, hoping to become the first British buoyed to win the | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
championship since Sir Stanley Matthews Junior in 1962. -- first | :19:09. | :19:19. | |
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COMMENTATORS: A very confident start, just broken the serve of the | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
Australian. He had a couple of break points. He needed the second | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
one. A confident opening to this match. They have similar game | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
styles. They like to play from the back predominantly. Any opportunity | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
will come forward. Liam Broady, a bit more solid at the moment. We | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
alluded to the fact that the sense of occasion is everything out here. | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
It is all about the start of this match, Broady coming out of the | :19:49. | :19:59. | |
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We know he has to take the ball. It is easy to miss those, they are | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
fine margins, it low and flat over the net. He doesn't want to back | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
off too much and give too much space and time to his Australian | :20:32. | :20:42. | |
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Both players, predominantly happy to trade blows from the baseline. | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
Luke Saville, in particular, has shown a propensity for coming into | :20:51. | :21:01. | |
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the net, which Broady will need to 17-year-old from Stockport. Which | :21:20. | :21:30. | |
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is where Fred Perry came from. Need I am not sure that Fred used to | :21:45. | :21:55. | |
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blast them down 110 miles an hour. Shots serving from Broady. | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
consolidates the break in the previous game as well. -- sharp | :22:37. | :22:47. | |
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Doesn't look like a 17-year-old who would be unnerved by the occasion. | :22:51. | :23:01. | |
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It is hard to remember a time when That was right on the line, Savell | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
was very quick to hold his racket in the air, and summoned Hawk-Eye - | :23:10. | :23:20. | |
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- Saville was very quick. He was a little too hasty. Yes, the weight | :23:23. | :23:33. | |
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Blonde hair, white back-to-front baseball cap. Quite a fan of | :24:03. | :24:13. | |
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He needs some of the battling spirit here, though. Because if he | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
is unsuccessful with this walk I challenge, he is two break points | :24:50. | :25:00. | |
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He was right to challenge. It is one of the characteristics of | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
Broady's play, that if he does get beaten by a good shot, he tends to | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
acknowledge the shot, which is unusual. I think it is positive, it | :25:37. | :25:47. | |
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An ace followed by another double fault, and another break point. | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
There's Tyson, on the right, with the baseball cap, on the coaching | :26:06. | :26:16. | |
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Oh, he's got it! Saville, the bravery to come to the net. Broady, | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
the effrontery to beat him. Yes, it was a fantastic forehand pass, | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
threaded the needle down the line, beautifully done. You feel he has | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
to ride the wave of support and emotion that this No 1 Court crowd | :26:46. | :26:56. | |
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are giving him. He has got a double break. There is his father, Simon. | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
He has contributed so much to his tennis career. He flew back from | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
Spain yesterday, where he had been looking after his daughter, Naomi, | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
who played in the first round of the women's singles at the | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
beginning of these Championships. She lost to Anne Keothavong. Talent | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
runs through the family. It is all about what they can do. They are | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
doing it on their own at the moment. With all the expense, having two | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
children on the tennis circuit, tennis First as a charity has | :27:31. | :27:41. | |
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It has been cash well invested so far, if early indications here are | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
anything to go by. Broady, with two breaks at the start of this final, | :27:49. | :27:59. | |
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Something about a left-hander. There is an added elegance. Because | :28:16. | :28:26. | |
the right hander is played in so few left-handers, it feel -- the | :28:26. | :28:34. | |
right-handers play against so few It is hard to imagine that his | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
quest to become the first Briton to win this title for nearly 50 years | :28:38. | :28:48. | |
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Beware, the Australian, that was some return. Didn't he get hold of | :29:02. | :29:12. | |
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You feel Saville, squeezing Broady a little more with the approach | :29:25. | :29:35. | |
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behind the forehand as well, to put The error from Broady gives Saville | :30:26. | :30:36. | |
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Held his nerve well. It was a difficult moment on the second | :31:08. | :31:16. | |
serve. Absolutely, he will be delighted that that return from | :31:16. | :31:26. | |
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All the work they have done at the Nottingham Tennis Centre, leading | :31:38. | :31:48. | |
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He needed to get his legs down It was neat play from Saville, and | :32:27. | :32:35. | |
it brings another break point. Both boys wrestling with the sense | :32:35. | :32:45. | |
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The money serve coming to the He has got all the approved routes | :33:46. | :33:48. | |
to goal long way in British tennis, keeping the audience on the edge of | :33:48. | :33:58. | |
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There was a rather sombre field to win will today after Andy Murray's | :34:13. | :34:23. | |
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Shots like that will help. Fabulous serving, and what a follow-up. | :34:43. | :34:52. | |
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By some distance, the longest game In some respects, that will give | :35:27. | :35:37. | |
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him as much confidence as breaking Saville's serve. Absolutely, that | :35:38. | :35:43. | |
was a really important long game. It is tough to lose games like that, | :35:44. | :35:53. | |
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but great to come out on the right side of it. Broady just the second | :35:54. | :36:04. | |
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Briton to make the final in nearly One thing you can say about the | :36:45. | :36:53. | |
Aussie, he has eaten anything short. Yes, Luke Saville does need to find | :36:53. | :37:03. | |
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another gear, and it seems he is He grew up on a diet of videos of | :37:26. | :37:36. | |
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Marcelo Rios, the great Chilean That wasn't an easy overhead, he | :37:49. | :37:55. | |
would have been looking right into the sun. Yes, he watches it very | :37:55. | :38:05. | |
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Second time in this game we have seen the ferocity of the Broady | :38:46. | :38:52. | |
forehand. There is a really encouraging, metallic sound about | :38:52. | :39:02. | |
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SUE BARKER: Here on BBC One, we're going to leave this match. We will | :40:52. | :40:56. | |
keep you up-to-date with it of course. If you want to continue | :40:56. | :41:06. | |
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watching, you can do so by pressing Here on BBC One, we're going to | :41:11. | :41:21. | |
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I'm delighted to say, I'm joined by Tracy Austin. This is a lovely | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
match-up, a former champion back to match-up, a former champion back to | :42:16. | :42:19. | |
her best, and one of the rising stars of the game. Very much so, | :42:19. | :42:21. | |
and they have such a similar style of play. | :42:21. | :42:26. | |
They both hit the ball just about as hard as they can on every stroke. | :42:26. | :42:30. | |
One leftie, one with a ton of experience. And then of course | :42:30. | :42:36. | |
Kvitova, her first Grand Slam final. How will she handle the situation? | :42:36. | :42:39. | |
How will she handle the nerves? That will be critical. And of | :42:39. | :42:44. | |
course, the nerves will be kicking in right now. We will take a look | :42:44. | :42:48. | |
at both players, starting with Maria Sharapova, one of sport's | :42:48. | :42:58. | |
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Every once in a while, you get a sports star with that extra sparkle. | :43:08. | :43:11. | |
But it is the craft behind the beauty that gives the final product | :43:11. | :43:21. | |
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its polish. Creating the perfect Maria was a labour of love. Her | :43:21. | :43:26. | |
parents fled to Chernobyl for Siberia in search of the best | :43:26. | :43:32. | |
opportunities for their daughter. My father was just a big tennis fan. | :43:32. | :43:40. | |
He loved to play at the weekend. I used to come with him and watch. | :43:40. | :43:45. | |
Kafelnikov's father, who used to play with my dad, gave me one of | :43:45. | :43:53. | |
Kafelnikov's rackets. I played with that. The next move was to Florida, | :43:53. | :43:58. | |
and the academy of Nick Bollettieri. The dream was finally crystallised | :43:58. | :44:04. | |
at Wimbledon in 2004, when a 17- year-old Maria Ouch on all before | :44:04. | :44:11. | |
her. I just kept doing better and better. I got to the quarter-finals, | :44:11. | :44:16. | |
and then all of a sudden I was in the semis. I was beyond ecstatic. I | :44:16. | :44:21. | |
was almost ready to go home, I was so happy. I was playing in the | :44:21. | :44:25. | |
Davenport in the semi-final, and she was up, and then there was a | :44:25. | :44:35. | |
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rain delay. We came back and I And then, going into the final, I | :44:37. | :44:43. | |
was just fearless. When you won, we were all reminded | :44:43. | :44:47. | |
that actually, you were still a teenager. You were trying to find | :44:47. | :44:52. | |
your mum, you went up and hug your father in the stands. It was a real | :44:52. | :44:59. | |
reminder that you were still girl. I still feel like that, at 24 years | :44:59. | :45:05. | |
old! She might still feel like girl, but she is the highest earning | :45:06. | :45:14. | |
sportswoman on the planet. And she has got the diamonds to prove it. | :45:14. | :45:23. | |
Bespoke earrings for every match. She really is living the dream. | :45:23. | :45:28. | |
very fortunate to have the life that I have. I'm very fortunate to | :45:28. | :45:32. | |
be a tennis player. But I want people to see that the bright side | :45:32. | :45:35. | |
of things, when you're lifting the trophy is, only comes after putting | :45:35. | :45:39. | |
a lot into it. It seems very glamorous, and you get your picture | :45:39. | :45:44. | |
taken and all of that, but at the end of the day, I'm a pretty simple | :45:44. | :45:49. | |
person. It has been an emotional ride since she first burst on the | :45:49. | :45:58. | |
scene. Two more grand-slam titles were followed by a career- | :45:58. | :46:08. | |
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threatening shoulder injury, which The journey from teenage gem to 24- | :46:14. | :46:18. | |
year-old woman has not been smooth, but Maria's strength carried her | :46:18. | :46:23. | |
through. I have a lot more experience now, I have gone through | :46:23. | :46:28. | |
a lot, the good and the band, the injuries, the Tuft days. It has | :46:28. | :46:33. | |
been a long journey, but I do not regret one tough day, that bills a | :46:33. | :46:38. | |
lot of character. I have learned a lot. I'm very happy to be at my age. | :46:38. | :46:42. | |
It is those tough times which would make victory today more precious | :46:42. | :46:47. | |
than anything she has achieved before. If I was able to win | :46:47. | :46:51. | |
another major, after my injury, it would mean a lot more than the | :46:51. | :46:56. | |
others I have won. Simply because when something is taken away from | :46:56. | :47:00. | |
you, you have a lot of time to think how lucky you are to be | :47:00. | :47:06. | |
playing the game of tennis. I'm a big competitor, and there is | :47:06. | :47:08. | |
nothing like that feeling when you're in front of thousands of | :47:08. | :47:15. | |
people, and you're just trying to win a match. When you wake up in | :47:15. | :47:19. | |
the morning and you're not going out to make yourself at a, I missed | :47:19. | :47:29. | |
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that feeling, and I realised that I It is an incredible story. She's | :47:33. | :47:38. | |
talking about the injury, the operation, that was career- | :47:38. | :47:43. | |
threatening... It really was. She had the injury, and then she had | :47:44. | :47:48. | |
rehabilitation down in Phoenix. She would be flying back and forth from | :47:48. | :47:52. | |
Los Angeles. She did not really want the surgery, because it was | :47:52. | :47:58. | |
not 100% guaranteed to work. The rehab didn't work, so she had to | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
have the surgery in New York. Still it was not 100% that she was going | :48:02. | :48:07. | |
to come back. That's why, if she would be able to win a Grand Slam, | :48:07. | :48:12. | |
after having that shoulder surgery in October 2008, it would be worth | :48:12. | :48:16. | |
all of the other three Grand Slams combined. It is a different Maria | :48:17. | :48:22. | |
now, seven years have passed, she's still only 24! But daddy's not here, | :48:22. | :48:27. | |
he will not be in the players' box. And of course, he was so | :48:27. | :48:33. | |
instrumental in 2004. Yes, he has been there every step of the way, | :48:33. | :48:37. | |
every practice since the time she started playing tennis, through all | :48:37. | :48:42. | |
of her tournaments, all the way up to 2008, when she won her third | :48:42. | :48:46. | |
Grand Slam in Australia. Apparently he sat her down afterwards and said, | :48:46. | :48:51. | |
you have made it. I do not feel like you need me so much any more. | :48:51. | :48:55. | |
You're on the right path. I want to go and do some things which I want | :48:55. | :49:00. | |
to do, apparently, he loves skiing. But she's really made that | :49:00. | :49:05. | |
transition from a young girl, always a mature young girl, but in | :49:05. | :49:08. | |
to a winner. She has changed coaches at the beginning of this | :49:08. | :49:14. | |
year as well. Michael Joyce had been her coach for five or six | :49:14. | :49:18. | |
years, but she wanted something new. She wanted to hear a new voice. She | :49:18. | :49:25. | |
got engaged at the end of last year to a NBA player. As an athlete, it | :49:25. | :49:29. | |
is a terrific relationship, because he can understand what she's going | :49:29. | :49:34. | |
through. To me, it seems like she's in such a great place in her life. | :49:34. | :49:39. | |
Still very close to her parents. Her mother will be here. Her dad is | :49:39. | :49:49. | |
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off doing his own thing. Sacha is here. Remember, she has been back | :49:51. | :49:55. | |
for a couple of years, and she has not had the results which she was | :49:55. | :50:00. | |
getting before the surgery, so this is her opportunity to change that. | :50:00. | :50:04. | |
Anybody who has had an injury knows that you cannot trust it for quite | :50:04. | :50:08. | |
a while. Of course, she went over to the Bollettieri academy in | :50:08. | :50:15. | |
Florida, she turned up, this tiny little thing, and he said she had a | :50:15. | :50:18. | |
competitiveness which he had not seen in anyone. Everyone was | :50:18. | :50:24. | |
frightened of her even at 12, she had that stare. It is still there. | :50:24. | :50:28. | |
The intensity, she plays every point like her life depends on it. | :50:28. | :50:33. | |
A lot like Rafa Nadal. Roger is a bit more relaxed. But those two are | :50:33. | :50:38. | |
the best competitors in the game. You talk about gym being so tiny. | :50:38. | :50:44. | |
She worked with my former coach, she would spend time with him over | :50:44. | :50:50. | |
in Los Angeles, and I remember seeing her at 11. She was a skinny | :50:50. | :50:55. | |
little thing. But the intensity was there. She had this huge second | :50:55. | :51:00. | |
serve already. You just knew where she was going. You just got the | :51:00. | :51:09. | |
feeling that, it is very unusual, for some kid to know where she is | :51:09. | :51:17. | |
going at such a young age. We will have a look at Petra in just a | :51:17. | :51:24. | |
moment. But over on Court No. 1, Liam Broady took the first set, and | :51:24. | :51:30. | |
he has a break of serve in the second set as well. That match is | :51:30. | :51:37. | |
on the red button. But now, let's look at Kvitova, who | :51:38. | :51:47. | |
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has really blasted her way through We had a flat with three rooms. We | :52:04. | :52:09. | |
were there, five of us. I was sharing a room with my two brothers. | :52:09. | :52:19. | |
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It was fun sometimes and sometimes it was crazy. Fees and living one | :52:22. | :52:27. | |
hour away from the city where I was born now. It is not far away. What | :52:27. | :52:33. | |
did you want to be? Maybe I wanted to be a teacher, like my father. Do | :52:33. | :52:38. | |
you remember the first time you started to play tennis? I was there | :52:38. | :52:41. | |
from want to was born, because my brothers played. I was on the | :52:41. | :52:51. | |
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In between all these matches, what else do you like to do, away from | :52:58. | :53:03. | |
tennis? I like watching movies and listening to music. What music do | :53:03. | :53:13. | |
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you like? I like Pink. Sometimes I # I should be locked up right on | :53:23. | :53:30. | |
the spot... What about clothes, do you wear any designers? No, I do | :53:30. | :53:37. | |
not do that. I like normal clothes, like jeans and T-shirt. Of course, | :53:37. | :53:42. | |
sometimes I like wearing dresses. Lots of people get carried away | :53:42. | :53:48. | |
with stardom - do you think you're more level-headed? I think so, for | :53:48. | :53:54. | |
me, it is important, because I do not want to change myself. I just | :53:54. | :54:04. | |
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want to be the same. Nothing For some people it is all about | :54:13. | :54:19. | |
being famous, and money and things like that. But for me, it is about | :54:20. | :54:29. | |
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the emotion. You are fighting, maybe you can beat her, and when | :54:30. | :54:40. | |
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you have a title, it is something COMMENTATOR: Delight for Kvitova, | :54:49. | :54:52. | |
the first leftie through to the final here since her hero, Martina | :54:52. | :54:59. | |
Navratilova. My father told me, look how she plays. She was so | :54:59. | :55:04. | |
happy for me when I won, it was nice. Those days when you played | :55:04. | :55:08. | |
tennis with your brother's, growing up, did you ever think that at the | :55:08. | :55:13. | |
age of 21, you would be walking out to play in the final at Wimbledon? | :55:13. | :55:19. | |
No, I did not think that. I did not think that I would play at | :55:19. | :55:29. | |
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And she will need to play even better if she's going to lift the | :55:37. | :55:41. | |
trophy. It is an incredible story, a left-hander from the Czech | :55:41. | :55:48. | |
Republic, it is a tough act to follow. But she has come from a | :55:48. | :55:53. | |
club which has a lot of top players. A very much so, not an academy, | :55:53. | :55:59. | |
Tomas Berdych plays there as well. There is something at that club. | :55:59. | :56:04. | |
There's a lot of hitting partners, everybody is excited about playing | :56:04. | :56:07. | |
internationally. Today is the biggest opportunity for her, and it | :56:07. | :56:11. | |
is all about whether she will be able to hold her nerve. She comes | :56:11. | :56:15. | |
out with a quick start and then she gets a bit nervous. It is all about | :56:15. | :56:18. | |
whether she can maintain that intensity throughout the whole | :56:18. | :56:25. | |
match. The build-up to this final is so different to any other match. | :56:25. | :56:30. | |
You're in the locker room... And here they come. I always think it | :56:30. | :56:35. | |
is strange that they are not carrying their equipment. You want | :56:35. | :56:41. | |
to hold something! Yes, now, the Wimbledon Championship is on the | :56:41. | :56:47. | |
line. For me, I always think at Wimbledon is the most special, | :56:47. | :56:51. | |
because you will become a member here, there's so much tradition. | :56:51. | :56:55. | |
You walk past one of the other former champions. You're definitely | :56:55. | :57:01. | |
very, very nervous right now. They're so tall, that's what has | :57:01. | :57:08. | |
changed in the game from when we were playing. 6ft and over is | :57:08. | :57:18. | |
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almost the norm now. It is going to be key, because the serve is going | :57:18. | :57:23. | |
to be a key factor. Maria has got to have a better day in that | :57:23. | :57:29. | |
respect. Yes, we know that Maria has come back and had the yips on | :57:29. | :57:35. | |
certain days. Some days, she serves beautifully. In one match she | :57:36. | :57:39. | |
served 13 double faults. She will not be able to do that today | :57:39. | :57:45. | |
against Kvitova and win the match. She is a better opponent I think | :57:45. | :57:50. | |
than Lisicki. So, Maria Sharapova is going to have to get a lot of | :57:50. | :57:55. | |
first serves in. Because Kvitova will really go after the second | :57:55. | :58:01. | |
serve. Even though Maria has been here before, she will be feeling | :58:01. | :58:09. | |
this, won't she? She will, because this is all after the surgery. | :58:09. | :58:15. | |
are just being briefed. That's the former player who now looks after | :58:15. | :58:25. | |
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the players. Paying your first Grand Slam final, like Petra, the | :58:25. | :58:30. | |
whole build-up is so tricky, and you just want to get out there... | :58:30. | :58:34. | |
One thing which might help her is that she was in the semi-final last | :58:34. | :58:40. | |
year here against Serena. She played a pretty good match. But | :58:41. | :58:48. | |
definitely, so keep quiet, just about ready to go on court, this is | :58:48. | :58:54. | |
when the butterflies are really big time. The legs will be heavy. A lot | :58:54. | :58:59. | |
of thoughts going on in your head. This is going to be such a big | :58:59. | :59:03. | |
hitting match. Kvitova has got to go for it, and accept that she's | :59:03. | :59:09. | |
going to make errors. That's when she plays her best. Going after the | :59:09. | :59:13. | |
second serve. She hits so hard and flat, both of them have similar | :59:13. | :59:23. | |
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styles in that respect. This is Chloe, representing the muscular | :59:26. | :59:31. | |
dystrophy Campaign, and I'm President of that charity. When the | :59:31. | :59:35. | |
All England Club asked me to select someone, I chose her. I will tell | :59:35. | :59:40. | |
you more about her in a moment. But this is a long wait, isn't it? | :59:40. | :59:50. | |
is, you can see Maria's legs going back and forth. We are waiting for | :59:50. | :59:54. | |
2 o'clock. It is another 20 seconds! They have to be bang on | :59:54. | :00:04. | |
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time. Both of them are going to want to have a quick start. They | :00:04. | :00:14. | |
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I feel for them, we have never seen anyone have to wake -- wait this | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
long. They brought them down too early. It will play more on the | :00:22. | :00:32. | |
mind of Pedro than Maria. -- of Petra. Because Maria has been here | :00:32. | :00:42. | |
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before. OK, here they come. A big crowd and a big moment awaits them. | :00:42. | :00:49. | |
Maria, with more pressure. Go better there, low were ranked, she | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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will have nothing to lose going in.. -- Kvitova, lower ranked. The serve | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
will be key, Maria had two break six times in her semi-final. | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
Kvitova, if she says as she has been serving throughout the | :01:10. | :01:20. | |
:01:20. | :01:20. | ||
tournament, is not going to give up many opportunities. Exactly. Maria | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
served 13 double faults, 10 when she lost in the semi-finals of the | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
French. It will be the crucial element for both players. Both of | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
them, if there was a weakness, it would be movement about the court. | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
I would say in the last year, both players have become more fit. Her | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
legs are stronger because she has played so many matches on the clay. | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
Maria feels like she has grown as a tennis player. She says she let | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
learns -- has learnt to construct points better. The OK, it Petra is | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
ready. There is Chloe, she has a muscle-wasting disease. It causes | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
weakness in the arms, lake, throat and face muscles. She has used a | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
wheelchair since primary school. -- the arms, legs, throat and face | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
muscles. She laughs wheelchair tennis and says this is a dream | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
moment to be out here with these two great players. Just to remind | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
you we are using electronic review. Any Questions? Which player would | :02:30. | :02:40. | |
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you like to call? Petra. Heads, please. It is tails. Maria? I will | :02:42. | :02:51. | |
receive. OK, a few photos. That is not a very positive start. | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
It is interesting, they both rely on their serve so much. I don't | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
think Martina Navratilova would have let anybody serve first, but I | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
think Maria is thinking it will give her a game to get her arm | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
warmed up and get the feet moving, get the nerves out before she has | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
to serve and think she has do hold serve. And maybe think that Petr is | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
petrified and that she is not going to serve at her best. -- Petra is | :03:20. | :03:29. | |
petrified. When Azarenka paid Kvitova,, cadet are best served | :03:29. | :03:39. | |
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first and faced a few break points There Chloe will be watching this | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
match with her family. As far as Maria Sharapova is concerned, I | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
love the return of serve and she is so intimidating took serve against. | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
You know you need a high serve -- first serve percentage. Maria | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
spends a lot of time on the practise court. I am talking half | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
an hour frequently, and before every match, at least five or 10 | :04:04. | :04:14. | |
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minutes on her return, picking a target and going after them. Maria | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
rarely lets up on her second serve. Both of them play their best tennis | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
when they play second shots. It is a risk, but also a great game, it | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
translates well to the grass court service. They talked a bit about | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
her being left-handed, and that serve will be key. She could really | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
use the movement, to get Maria out of court, but to serve into the | :04:44. | :04:53. | |
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In the last couple of days, Maria has had press conferences, and the | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
first thing she mentioned was the fact that Kvitova was left-handed. | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
It is difficult to get used to. The serve can go out wide, it can go up | :05:20. | :05:30. | |
the T. I'm going to ask you where you're going to put your money. | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
Well, gosh, I have gone with Maria since the beginning. Lynsey has | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
changed her mind, she's Gone With Kvitova. I know, it is tough. But | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
I'm going to stick with Maria. has been lovely to talk to you, | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
Tracy. I know you will be heading off to the commentary box now. This | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
match is also being broadcast in 3D. If you have an h-t box and a 3D | :06:01. | :06:11. | |
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television, you can watch this in We are ready for this final, it | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
promises to be a thriller. Tracy is on her way to join John McEnroe and | :06:17. | :06:27. | |
Good afternoon. As usual the expectations surrounding the Centre | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
Court for ladies' final stage, and what a file it potentially could be. | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
Maria Sharapova knows how to win this tournament, and you wonder | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
whether that would be the edge that get Sir through to this second | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
title here. -- gets her through. Up against a potentially dangerous | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
opponent. This is the tall Russian, who has rediscovered her form in | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
2011 after the terrible shoulder injury. Still, fairly young, so | :06:56. | :07:04. | |
maybe many more major titles for her. She is currently ranked six, | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
has the potential to go to three if she can win here. And of course, | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
like the person sitting next to me, John McEnroe, has been world number | :07:14. | :07:24. | |
one. It is always an incredible thing. A Wimbledon final. You can | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
see her road has been pretty easy. You thought she would have been in | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
more of these finals after winning at 17 years of age. What was the | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
last name? The Williams. They caused some headaches. It was her | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
shoulder that curtailed her for quite a while. It is part of why | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
she is having serving problems. She has tried everything, an | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
abbreviated motion, a different take back. Seems to have gone back | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
to what she did at the beginning. It has been a headache, caused | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
problems in her semi-final. Here, and maybe the reason she lost to Li | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
Na in the semi-finals of the French. Mentally, she is as tough as anyone | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
I have seen on a tennis court, man or woman. This is what this 21- | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
year-old, who I think will be more prepared than many may expect... | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
She has never been in a Grand Slam final. She was at the semi-finals | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
here last year. She has worked her way methodically up the rankings | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
since breaking through here. A fantastic year, winning on all | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
surfaces. It is clear when you watch it, she uses the lefty serve | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
so well. Her best surface is the one she is playing on right now. | :08:40. | :08:49. | |
She is a player who was troubled a couple of times. Nerves, in both | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
cases, got the best of her. She sensed something spectacular was | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
going to happen, particularly for the match against Azarenka. That | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
first set, wow, she was unbelievably good. Interesting that | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
she has been on court less time than Sharapova, even though she has | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
dropped a couple of sets. That is interesting. He plays at a couple - | :09:16. | :09:26. | |
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- a very quick pace. It is part of what worries me. If things go off, | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
if she is able to slow herself, to recognise that maybe, she needs to | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
go to a plan B or try something different... This is going to be | :09:38. | :09:46. | |
awfully interesting. awfully interesting. | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
Alison Lang from Great Britain will Alison Lang from Great Britain will | :09:47. | :09:56. | |
chair this final. The 5th Ladies' Singles final for Alison. Kvitova | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
to serve first, my strength against yours. Maria's return game is right | :10:01. | :10:10. | |
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up there. It started with Monica Seles. There is Sasha Abuja chick - | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
- Sacha Vujacic. He used to play for the LA Lakers. He is a free | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
agent now. Maria is probably thinking, I think you should go to | :10:25. | :10:34. | |
New York or LA. We will see how the young 21-year-old comes out of the | :10:34. | :10:44. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :10:44. | :11:56. | |
Out wide. Trying to take away the Four years, I wondered why Roger | :11:56. | :12:04. | |
Federer didn't do that very thing - - for years. Sharapova is outside | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
the doubles Ali and it causes Kvitova to rethink. It is a good | :12:08. | :12:18. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :12:18. | :12:59. | |
That potentially, a nerve settling As was that. Another option is to | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
slice it into her body. Maria doesn't often return from that | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
position. It is a bit of a new look for her, to have to deal with. The | :13:10. | :13:20. | |
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lefty spin, coming into her Do you know who won the toss? | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
won the toss, and chose to receive. That is surprising. That was also a | :13:50. | :14:00. | |
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good call. She has a break point Perfect start for the Russian. Just | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
the 5th time that Kvitova has been broken in The Championships. She is | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
not used to the return of serves coming back with such pace. | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
Finishing her service motion and the return of serve is on her. | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
is more nerves. I remember a semi- final when my legs were shaking, as | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
I tried to deal with Jimmy Connors' return, which was not too shabby. | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
She has ever been in this position. She is trying to get the | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
butterflies out, and there are some annoying flies out there as well, | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
haven't seen that before on Centre Court. | :15:02. | :15:12. | |
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Might cause some problems with the Sensational forehand! That bodes | :15:23. | :15:30. | |
well, a good response after dropping her serve. One of Maria's | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
best shots, the backhand on the run, she is able to flick it so well | :15:35. | :15:45. | |
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I think it is safe to say, you will We interviewed Maria for American | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
TV, and she said, that is women's tennis, just deal with it. Returns | :16:06. | :16:16. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :16:16. | :17:33. | |
Opportunity for Kvitova to get the There is the break back. Her coach | :17:33. | :17:42. | |
was on the right of the picture there, briefly. He will also be | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
breathing a sigh of relief. The trainer on the left, there. Both | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
clearly doing an excellent job. This young lady is playing better | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
than ever, there is no doubt about it. That was just what she needed. | :17:59. | :18:09. | |
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That is that lefty slice that is going to come into her body. That | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
is a good call for her. Kvitova credits those two young men for | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
helping her too much -- so much. She said she has had to work hard | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
to make her serve a weapon. She has been with that team for three years | :18:29. | :18:39. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :18:39. | :19:27. | |
UMPIRE: Me Sharapova is challenging the call. -- Miss Sharapova. | :19:27. | :19:37. | |
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one element that Kvitova has is I am very impressed with how well | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
Kvitova uses the slice, for such a tall girl. That will be important | :19:44. | :19:52. | |
for her. She has more variety, she has been to the net twice as much | :19:52. | :20:02. | |
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as Maria and she is quite handy at For someone as tall as she is, she | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
gets down very low. Excellent knee bend off the ground when she needs | :20:10. | :20:20. | |
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Sharapova at saw it coming. guessed right. She was forced to. | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
She doesn't have that sprint speed that some of those ladies have. A | :21:04. | :21:14. | |
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good, calculated risk. Still in the That is what she will do if you | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
serve a soft second serve. Which of course, put so much pressure on | :21:37. | :21:47. | |
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Obviously, that is the plan for both players, they hit so hard and | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
flat, trying to rush the other, get the other off balance. When they | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
continue to hit hard and flat, that is when they draw the unforced | :22:27. | :22:37. | |
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Here comes a challenge again from Sharapova. She looks convinced as | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
well. This is why this challenge system has come a long. Look at | :22:54. | :23:04. | |
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this. Instead of it being jews, it Once you have committed to your | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
shot, whether or not the player ends up being there or not, it is | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
hard to change gears. It is better to hit a firm ball and make Maria | :23:35. | :23:43. | |
come up with a tough past. She couldn't do it. Maria is used to | :23:43. | :23:53. | |
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doing this to others. She's not She got used to it, dealing with | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
the Williams sisters. It is a different shot because I think | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
Kvitova hits flatter than the Williams sisters. That is more | :24:13. | :24:23. | |
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That is special. If that is a glimpse into the future, this could | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
be a special afternoon. STUDIO: Indeed, tennis of the | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
highest quality in just three games. highest quality in just three games. | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
We will just dropped into No 1 Court, to see how Liam Broady is | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
going. When we were last there, he was a break of serve up in the | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
second set, but he was broken twice, he has dropped the second set. It | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
is into a third and final set. That is live on the red button and | :25:04. | :25:14. | |
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is live on the red button and COMMENTATORS: Kvitova will be | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
sitting there and she will be delighted with the way she got out | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
of that last service game, very tough. There was that call that got | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
Maria back in, and then a another call, and suddenly she was under | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
severe pressure, looking like she may be broken again. Condoleezza | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
Rice. There are lots of former Champions in the Royal Box, and a | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
former Secretary of State. She was in Prague, where Kvitova is from, | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
yesterday. They named a street after Ronald Reagan. It would have | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
been the -- his 100 birthday. They felt he was the main contributed to | :25:55. | :26:05. | |
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the demise of contribution, so she There is the backhand slice, that | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
can cause the error. It comes at a different speed. It is a nice | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
backed can slice. Really cuts it well -- nice backhand slice. | :26:37. | :26:47. | |
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Is Kvitova weaker off one wing of the return? I think she's pretty | :27:02. | :27:12. | |
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I think she is weaker when she has to stretch out on her backhand. | :27:17. | :27:26. | |
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can't put enough weight behind her We saw a lot of those in the semi- | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
finals, that is for sure. Became an issue in the semi-finals of the | :27:39. | :27:47. | |
French, she lost to Li Na. It is a headache, to have to deal with. | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
just the double fault, but the first serve percentage, under 50%. | :27:52. | :28:02. | |
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48%, not what she can afford to Her camp might be getting nervous. | :28:15. | :28:25. | |
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I think she could have taken an extra step, and the shot would have | :28:53. | :28:59. | |
been easier to pull off. Marie are doing what she has to do, get the | :28:59. | :29:09. | |
first serve in. Maria taking so much time in between points. | :29:09. | :29:19. | |
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Supposed to be 25 seconds. We have had a couple of breaks, a | :29:46. | :29:56. | |
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You sense that she thought that was more than half a chance. I think | :30:05. | :30:14. | |
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she likes to play at a quicker pace A think she maybe actually helping | :30:27. | :30:34. | |
her settle down. You are playing fast, you look up and the set will | :30:34. | :30:44. | |
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be over. Let this sink in for Very different service positioning | :31:08. | :31:18. | |
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She got lucky there because the court was wide-open for Sharapova. | :31:21. | :31:29. | |
She doesn't miss that very often. She does like to get a little bit | :31:29. | :31:34. | |
wider, Kvitova, to get that angle but that opens the door for | :31:34. | :31:44. | |
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She would prefer if Maria tries to go cross-court, that is any easier | :31:53. | :32:00. | |
shot for her to deal with. easier shot from Maria as well. She | :32:00. | :32:10. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :32:10. | :33:12. | |
First time in a Wimbledon final and Everything that we really wanted | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
from Kvitova. We knew that Sharapova can handle these | :33:16. | :33:21. | |
occasions, but the question was how Kvitova was going to come out here | :33:21. | :33:26. | |
and the signs are great. She is taking her time. She did seemed | :33:26. | :33:30. | |
annoyed that Maria on her own serve was taking that extra time but she | :33:30. | :33:39. | |
needs to get used to the pace of the server. Billie-Jean King. | :33:39. | :33:45. | |
time winner here at Wimbledon. Just the most passionate tennis fan | :33:45. | :33:51. | |
around. Martina Navratilova, nine- times singles champion. It was her | :33:51. | :34:01. | |
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lefty serve that helped her so much. Jana Novotna. Back in 98. | :34:04. | :34:14. | |
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Czechs are out in force! Maria boy no, she is always here. Such an | :34:16. | :34:26. | |
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It looked awkward but it was effective. That is why she does not | :34:47. | :34:51. | |
volley a whole lot, because she pretty much goes four winners on | :34:51. | :34:56. | |
the approach shot. That's right, a lot of swinging volleys as well. | :34:56. | :35:06. | |
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That is really unusual for a top player not to hit an overhead. She | :35:13. | :35:22. | |
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goes matches where she doesn't hit Her depth of shot, Kvitova, is | :35:38. | :35:48. | |
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really impressive here. That thing She just stayed ahead enough in | :36:15. | :36:19. | |
that point to get it done, impressive. Good scrambling by | :36:19. | :36:24. | |
Kvitova. Good movement from Sharapova, who said she feels like | :36:24. | :36:29. | |
she is stronger. It is so important for her to be a little bit quicker | :36:29. | :36:39. | |
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to the ball. She has played a lot You see that more often with the | :37:09. | :37:13. | |
players going up the middle, that gives you three options. It is a | :37:13. | :37:23. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :37:23. | :38:10. | |
The Achilles heel reappears. It is It seems to offer to time, waiting | :38:10. | :38:20. | |
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for it to drop down. -- tougher to time. It affected her performance | :38:25. | :38:31. | |
in the semi-finals but Sharapova was still able to get through. But | :38:31. | :38:37. | |
she has just gifted Kvitova that break of serve. Two doubles in a | :38:37. | :38:47. | |
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row, and the last one was not even A softer serve there, and it really | :39:00. | :39:10. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :39:10. | :40:06. | |
For a moment there, another all left-handed final. She will often | :40:06. | :40:10. | |
go to the left hand when she is on the stretch. She obviously didn't | :40:10. | :40:16. | |
want to hit this shot. That means she is in big trouble. Kvitova | :40:16. | :40:26. | |
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Looking comfortable. That is such a nasty served to return. 100 that | :40:39. | :40:49. | |
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What an excellent half-hour that has been for Kvitova. Think about | :41:02. | :41:08. | |
it, she walked out on Centre Court, never been there before, she loses | :41:08. | :41:12. | |
her serve in the first game and now we sit back 30 minutes into the | :41:12. | :41:16. | |
match and she looks like she's unbeatable almost. Playing so well, | :41:16. | :41:24. | |
like she did in the first set of the semis. Azarenka was the same, | :41:24. | :41:34. | |
she didn't step up quite so much. The key is whether she can sustain | :41:34. | :41:41. | |
this for the two sets. She has so much experience, she lost to Serena | :41:42. | :41:46. | |
Williams last year in the semi- finals. It was not that she let up, | :41:46. | :41:51. | |
more that she tightened up, seeing how close she was to get in here. | :41:51. | :41:56. | |
That is what we are all asking. think she tightened up, therefore | :41:56. | :42:04. | |
she leapt up and backed away from her shots. There is a leftie that | :42:04. | :42:14. | |
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one this, and Jones. There is Nick Clegg. Captain of his college | :42:17. | :42:23. | |
tennis team, says he plays his best tennis in the warm up. That is | :42:23. | :42:33. | |
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That is three doubles in a row, two at the end of the last game. It is | :42:57. | :43:01. | |
a big second serve, isn't it? When you have just missed two in your | :43:01. | :43:10. | |
previous game, then you put one in there at 100 mph. She knows that | :43:10. | :43:20. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :43:20. | :44:07. | |
I think she should try to get her percentages up to like 80. She is | :44:07. | :44:12. | |
little or bought 60%. She should basically cut out the second serve | :44:12. | :44:17. | |
entirely, try different spins, cricket sometimes, slice it into | :44:18. | :44:27. | |
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the body, place it, but try not to Got a glimpse of just how flat | :44:35. | :44:42. | |
Kvitova was hitting the ball in this, just 48 centimetres the net | :44:42. | :44:48. | |
clearance compared to 78 for the Russian. Nine mph faster on the | :44:48. | :44:58. | |
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Maybe she should have sliced that. She tried a very tough shot, maybe | :45:15. | :45:25. | |
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Beautifully done again, the slice set it up. That is a tough shot to | :45:49. | :45:59. | |
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deal with. Sharapova taking some Even there, she will not hit the | :46:23. | :46:33. | |
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overhead. Still gets the job done. She learned from a couple of points | :46:56. | :47:00. | |
to go on the full stretch on the backhand, she went to the slice | :47:00. | :47:10. | |
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this time. Got it back in play, Sharapova yet to drop a set in | :47:38. | :47:48. | |
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these championships, in danger of She got her first ace in the semis | :48:01. | :48:06. | |
a set point up, this time a set point down. She has got to hang in | :48:06. | :48:16. | |
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There it is, the first over head of The set point saved, the service | :49:05. | :49:15. | |
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game held, but still a lot of work So many obvious attributes, the | :49:22. | :49:27. | |
Russian, but that competitiveness get her through so many encounters. | :49:27. | :49:32. | |
That is true, her tenacity, her will to win is incredible. Right | :49:32. | :49:37. | |
now, only matched by Serena Williams on the women's tour right | :49:37. | :49:47. | |
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It is disturbing former rear that she is not hitting the ball as | :50:11. | :50:15. | |
clean off the ground as we are used to seeing, especially in this | :50:15. | :50:22. | |
tournament. She is feeling a lot more rushed than players she is | :50:23. | :50:32. | |
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That was the perfect serve. Triple set point now for Kvitova or on her | :50:44. | :50:54. | |
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50% of the journey undertaken on the journey to her opening title. | :51:13. | :51:17. | |
SUE BARKER: Are the overwhelming favourite was Sharapova but it is | :51:17. | :51:20. | |
Kvitova who has taken the first set Kvitova who has taken the first set | :51:20. | :51:24. | |
and in some style. We will be back on centre in just a moment, but | :51:24. | :51:34. | |
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disappointing news for Britain over on Court One because Liam is now | :51:40. | :51:43. | |
having to serve to stay in this match. That is live on the red | :51:43. | :51:50. | |
button, on all platforms and online. We now know who is through to the | :51:50. | :52:00. | |
ladies doubles final. It is Lisicki and Stosur. They are through to the | :52:00. | :52:04. | |
final and will be on Centre Court later on today. Back we go to the | :52:04. | :52:14. | |
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For this reminds me of seven years ago when I saw Sharapova play in | :52:14. | :52:18. | |
Serena Williams and going out were as if it was no big deal, | :52:18. | :52:26. | |
dominating. I think that score was 6-1, 6-4. This is almost as | :52:26. | :52:35. | |
impressive, considering that she dumped served the first game. Look | :52:35. | :52:42. | |
at her percentage compared to Sharapova. 76% and she is losing so | :52:42. | :52:46. | |
she is faced with a dilemma about what to do. It will be interesting | :52:46. | :52:51. | |
if she has got an alternative to what has happened so far. You | :52:51. | :52:57. | |
suspect she will have something up her sleeve. And whether Kvitova can | :52:57. | :53:07. | |
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She tightened up in the second set of the semis, it would be | :53:45. | :53:50. | |
surprising if she didn't. She is just one set away from her first | :53:50. | :54:00. | |
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That is wonderful! Testing her to the limit, but once again finding | :55:00. | :55:05. | |
all the answers. She has such a loose swing on the forehand. This | :55:05. | :55:14. | |
one here was very impressive to get the angle. Sharapova tries to get | :55:14. | :55:19. | |
the angle back. I would like to see her tribe that drop shot. She had | :55:19. | :55:26. | |
her off the court and hit it right back to her, paid the price. A late | :55:26. | :55:33. | |
call that Sharapova will challenge. This isn't watching needs, more | :55:33. | :55:43. | |
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time to think about her second UMPIRE: Sharapova has two | :56:01. | :56:07. | |
challenges remaining. I think she knew it was out, it was pretty | :56:07. | :56:17. | |
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clearly out, but here we are again If it was called in, that will be a | :56:37. | :56:42. | |
challenge. She has got to challenge that because it will be a break. | :56:42. | :56:46. | |
What was your sense? My sense is that it caught a bit of the back | :56:46. | :56:56. | |
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Mine eyes haven't totally deceived me yet. That was a special forehand. | :57:06. | :57:12. | |
She talked a bit about the slice, and this is the speed that it has | :57:12. | :57:15. | |
come through to Sharapova. She has been struggling to deal with this | :57:15. | :57:21. | |
particular shot. You wonder if that is in her repertoire, that is part | :57:21. | :57:25. | |
of the problem. Tracey said that she has more variety in her game, | :57:26. | :57:31. | |
and you can see that right now. Plus she is moving better. Maria | :57:31. | :57:36. | |
has got to impose her will. She seems a little bit shaken at the | :57:36. | :57:46. | |
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moment, you don't see that very Same style, Kvitova doing it better | :58:04. | :58:14. | |
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That is her first double. And when does the change come from Kvitova's | :58:17. | :58:23. | |
mindset, from the underdog, the one who has got to produce the tennis, | :58:23. | :58:28. | |
now a set and a break-up. That is when it comes out, exactly, there | :58:28. | :58:38. | |
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you go! That is why the double just That is really surprising to see | :58:39. | :58:46. | |
her miss it by that much. On her back foot. That is what I was | :58:46. | :58:52. | |
talking about earlier, where they let up. They need to continue to | :58:52. | :59:02. | |
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drive the ball and stay on the What a pick up! I am not sure she | :59:05. | :59:11. | |
will admit that is what she meant, but she will take that. Just to get | :59:11. | :59:20. | |
it back in play! Instinct can't be coached. You got that right. It | :59:20. | :59:27. | |
seems like the better players somehow go in knowing it almost | :59:27. | :59:32. | |
every time. How often do you see that with Nadal when he comes up | :59:32. | :59:42. | |
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A great serve to open the court, and Kvitova knows that very end | :00:02. | :00:12. | |
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nine times out of 10 will go cross- JOHN MCENROE: Much better serve | :01:15. | :01:25. | |
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Even with a couple of double faults, Even with a couple of double faults, | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
she consolidates the break of serve. That left the spin is really | :01:55. | :02:05. | |
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TRACY AUSTIN: That was a slower serve. I think that's a good play. | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
Kvitova has won the last six games in a row. Can Sharapova stop the | :03:16. | :03:26. | |
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in a row. Can Sharapova stop the The acoustics are so good here that | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
there was someone on the phone almost at the top of the stadium, | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
and you could hear it on the court. SUE BARKER: We will be straight | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
back on Centre Court. But over on Court No. 1, I'm afraid it has | :03:54. | :04:04. | |
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ended in disappointment for the British youngster, Liam Broady. | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
Huge disappointment for Broady, who was a set and a break up in that | :04:14. | :04:24. | |
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And Kvitova is in exactly the same position, a set and a break up. It | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
is interesting to look at Sharapova's record against left- | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
handers. She has only played 34 matches against left-handers, | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
compared to more than 420 against right-handers. It is a massive | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
adjustment. JOHN MCENROE: It is an adjustment | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
you should be able to make pretty easily, I would think. It is about | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
the quality of the opposition. They do not come around too often as | :05:10. | :05:20. | |
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good as Kvitova. She's not playing well right now, surprisingly, after | :05:20. | :05:30. | |
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getting that break in the first Sharapova has had more races than | :05:52. | :06:02. | |
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She put enough on that one to put it up the line, and Sharapova could | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
not react. She was not able to get on the front foot properly, but she | :06:26. | :06:36. | |
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was powerful enough to get it away. Sharapova has moved back to give | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
herself some more time on the return. That's a good adjustment. | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
She will keep searching for a way back, make no mistake about it. | :07:12. | :07:22. | |
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I have watched her play a couple of matches where she keeps going up | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
the middle, and I will bet you Maria's new coach warned her about | :08:04. | :08:14. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :08:14. | :09:06. | |
this, and boy, did it pay-off No doubt Sharapova can sense | :09:06. | :09:16. | |
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That's a very poor shot, as simple as that. Not surprising that she's | :09:27. | :09:37. | |
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JOHN MCENROE: That's the best shot she has hit today. | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
TRACY AUSTIN: She was so off balance, it was way behind her. And | :10:19. | :10:29. | |
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then to send it back with that kind I'm sure she thought that point was | :11:30. | :11:40. | |
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hers. Kvitova played some really She keeps passing all the mental | :12:08. | :12:18. | |
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Either player just takes a bit of pace of the shot, and the other one | :13:17. | :13:27. | |
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There's that ball you were talking about, didn't have enough on it, | :13:54. | :14:04. | |
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Not often that Sharapova's constantly on the back foot after | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
her first serve. I loved the way that Kvitova was | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
more than willing to move in. Some of the players on tour do not like | :15:16. | :15:26. | |
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Just a humongous return of serve. Half that box is standing after a | :15:54. | :16:04. | |
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She just continues to impress. TRACY AUSTIN: She just takes such a | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
full swing. She gets so much penetration. | :16:54. | :17:02. | |
JOHN MCENROE: Maria's trying to use the slice to get it into Kvitova's | :17:02. | :17:10. | |
forehand. But because she's so lacking in confidence on her serve, | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
she is having to go for safety a bit too much to get it in, and it | :17:15. | :17:23. | |
is sitting up just enough so that Kvitova is absolutely ripping it. | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
It is being hit harder than the serve, no doubt about it. She's | :17:29. | :17:39. | |
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taking her game to a new level now, This is a 21-year-old Czech who has | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
never been in a Grand Slam final, and look how well she's playing - | :17:57. | :18:07. | |
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There's no way this lady's going to Both of them very tall, they're | :18:57. | :19:06. | |
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getting down nice and low for these And a graphic illustration of that | :19:20. | :19:30. | |
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here. She finishes that stroke literally on her knees. I think | :19:32. | :19:42. | |
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Sharapova feels like she's on her Took her eye off the ball. Remember | :19:54. | :20:01. | |
what happened to Murray when he was up in the second set, missed a shot | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
about as easy as that and turned the whole thing around against | :20:04. | :20:14. | |
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Nadal. Didn't seem to bother her in JOHN MCENROE: She loves pace - | :20:25. | :20:35. | |
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How costly could that easy backhand Smart serve. That is absolutely a | :22:00. | :22:10. | |
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smart serve, jamming Sharapova for Oh, no! How did she miss that? That | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
is unbelievable. She did not need to go so close to the line. Not at | :22:32. | :22:42. | |
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all. Once again, the serve, totally And Sharapova good enough to | :23:05. | :23:15. | |
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Two basic errors, that's going to You don't want to give gifts at | :24:22. | :24:32. | |
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this moment. Kvitova has got JOHN MCENROE: It doesn't even look | :24:49. | :24:59. | |
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Maria taking a look at the grass, I have never seen that reaction from | :25:01. | :25:11. | |
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her. Still thinking about that Trying to go up the line with the | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
forehand, but not successful. pendulum perhaps swinging back | :25:37. | :25:47. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :25:47. | :26:44. | |
towards Kvitova once again in this Once again, Kvitova regains the | :26:44. | :26:54. | |
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That certainly is the sign of a champion, to be able to shrug off | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
something as bad as what happened in the previous game. Just to be | :27:04. | :27:13. | |
able to bounce back again and look like she believes again. Talk about | :27:13. | :27:23. | |
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unpredictable - how does anyone get momentum right now? 16 games, eight | :27:23. | :27:33. | |
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breaks of serve. Only half the time they have been able to hold. Set | :27:35. | :27:45. | |
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and a break, it is more like a set Henman Hill, it is pretty well pack, | :27:52. | :28:00. | |
well done. It has been an intriguing final, it has been a | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
good build-up to it, no-one quite sure what was going to happen out | :28:03. | :28:13. | |
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here. And it has proved to be The problem with new balls, they | :28:56. | :29:05. | |
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fly a bit. It certainly did on that That was called out, but changed. | :29:22. | :29:32. | |
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They are going to play a let. So intimidating to play someone | :30:15. | :30:20. | |
like Sharapova because you know she will never disappear. She will | :30:20. | :30:30. | |
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Good composure shown by Kvitova. She made sure of her first serve, | :30:40. | :30:49. | |
100 mph. Didn't want to give Sharapova a look-in on her second. | :30:49. | :30:59. | |
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Same serve, same play. Gets another 80 minutes played, and now cover to | :31:31. | :31:41. | |
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there is just one game away from You can't accuse Maria, if she's | :32:25. | :32:35. | |
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not playing well, of not being to A little bit of a loose game from | :33:05. | :33:13. | |
Kvitova. Something tells me she realise it's one game away from | :33:13. | :33:23. | |
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Maria's fiance still believes, but does Maria herself? How difficult | :34:02. | :34:07. | |
is this now? JOHN MCENROE: this is extremely | :34:07. | :34:11. | |
exciting, it is so exciting. Your heart starts beating faster and | :34:12. | :34:17. | |
faster, as you try to tell yourself, just keep what you were doing, | :34:17. | :34:20. | |
simple as that. TRACY AUSTIN: And don't think of | :34:20. | :34:25. | |
the finish line. Just think about the next point. Think about | :34:25. | :34:31. | |
something real basic. Think about the first point or two. Don't look | :34:31. | :34:38. | |
in the Royal Box. No, don't do that. Don't look anywhere, just keep it | :34:38. | :34:41. | |
within the rectangle. Try to get those legs moving, that's a good | :34:41. | :34:51. | |
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For Sharapova, get more balls back Such a great couple of points. | :35:40. | :35:50. | |
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gets so much power from anywhere on She couldn't have asked for it to | :36:12. | :36:22. | |
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go any better, this game. On a Her first ever Wimbledon title, | :36:29. | :36:38. | |
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A stunning end! Petra Kvitova is Her first ace of the final, and | :37:05. | :37:09. | |
everybody standing, including the nine times champion. She knows how | :37:09. | :37:16. | |
it feels to win the first one. One wonders how many this player has in | :37:16. | :37:20. | |
front of her. I think it is the first of many. She has a very | :37:20. | :37:25. | |
complete game. Big shots from both forehand and backhand, finishes | :37:25. | :37:31. | |
points at the net well, could finesse. Now, as a Wimbledon | :37:31. | :37:36. | |
champion, she will feel a big part of the elite in women's tennis. | :37:36. | :37:41. | |
couldn't agree more. I think she's going to win many Grand Slams. We | :37:41. | :37:48. | |
are seeing a very special talent. We first saw her last year, and boy, | :37:48. | :37:52. | |
has she improved her game. To go out for the first time and play the | :37:52. | :37:57. | |
way she did, to handle the adversity as well, it was | :37:57. | :38:01. | |
shockingly good. That is not easy to do at all. She made it look | :38:01. | :38:08. | |
pretty easy, I will tell you. Youngest champion since Roland | :38:08. | :38:18. | |
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Garros in 2008 when Ana Ivanovic won there. But the composer she -- | :38:20. | :38:29. | |
composure she showed every single time. Great resilience. This is the | :38:29. | :38:38. | |
moment. A pretty good time to serve your first ace! Sheer joy, and | :38:38. | :38:48. | |
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She will be able to watch that many One of several left-handed players | :39:10. | :39:20. | |
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to win in the final here, including Martina Navratilova and Ann Jones. | :39:20. | :39:28. | |
It has taken 20 years or so. trophies will now be presented on | :39:28. | :39:38. | |
:39:38. | :39:39. | ||
court by his Royal Highness, the Duke of Kent. The Duke's a company | :39:39. | :39:46. | |
by Philip Brook, chairman of the All England Club, and the President | :39:46. | :39:50. | |
of the Lawn Tennis Association. is already on the roll of honour | :39:50. | :40:00. | |
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here. Boy, that doesn't take long! They have been doing it for a few | :40:03. | :40:09. | |
years, haven't they? Lay dazed and gentlemen, the chair umpire, Alison | :40:10. | :40:19. | |
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And the runner-up, Maria Sharapova. Still a favourite with the fans. | :40:39. | :40:43. | |
She was the favourite, but I think even she would agree she has been | :40:43. | :40:48. | |
outplayed today. But she knows how it feels, did the same thing to | :40:48. | :40:57. | |
Serena Williams seven years ago. Serena was a heavy favourite then. | :40:58. | :41:06. | |
And the Wimbledon ladies' singles champion 2011, Petra Kvitova. | :41:06. | :41:16. | |
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champion. It has been a long journey, but this is a short walk. | :41:19. | :41:23. | |
The Venus rosewater dish in her hands for the very first time, what | :41:23. | :41:33. | |
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a feeling that must be. Made all the way back in 1864, so much | :41:33. | :41:41. | |
history attached to it, so many great names engraved on it. Ian | :41:41. | :41:45. | |
Ritchie, the chief executive of the All England Club adding his | :41:45. | :41:50. | |
congratulations, there will be many more. | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
SUE BARKER: I know it wasn't the result you wanted, but you came | :41:54. | :42:00. | |
across a player who was just inspired today. Yes, absolutely. | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
Unfortunately in tennis there is only one winner at the end of the | :42:03. | :42:08. | |
day. That is what makes this tournament so special, so | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
congratulations on a wonderful victory. I have had so much amazing | :42:11. | :42:15. | |
support over so many years, and to be back on the stage and holding | :42:15. | :42:21. | |
the runner-up trophy is something - I would have wanted that big one | :42:21. | :42:25. | |
obviously, but it is something I will be back four and hoping to get | :42:25. | :42:35. | |
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again soon. Thank you very much. Maria Sharapova! | :42:37. | :42:47. | |
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Petra Kvitova, Wimbledon champion - how does that sound? To see the | :42:52. | :42:58. | |
great players in the Royal Box, I am so happy that I'm won. | :42:58. | :43:04. | |
showed no sign of nerves. In that final game, your coach and your | :43:04. | :43:14. | |
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trainer were so excited but you looked so can't! -- calm. Of course | :43:15. | :43:20. | |
I was nervous but I had to focus on each point. Is that the best match | :43:20. | :43:30. | |
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you have ever played? I think so, of course, in the final Wimbledon! | :43:31. | :43:40. | |
-- the final of Wimbledon. mentioned so many great champions | :43:40. | :43:45. | |
in the Royal Box today, and I know Martina Navratilova and Jana | :43:45. | :43:49. | |
Novotna are especially proud. Have they inspired you? Yes, it is very | :43:49. | :43:54. | |
nice they are watching me. They have watched me through the | :43:54. | :43:58. | |
tournament and given me some advice. It is great. And your family is | :43:59. | :44:03. | |
here today, your parents and your brothers have come over here. Where | :44:03. | :44:13. | |
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are they? Over there. Have you got a message for them? I love you guys. | :44:18. | :44:22. | |
You now know that you have a lot of interviews to do, but first | :44:22. | :44:26. | |
everybody here wants to have a picture of you with that trophy. | :44:26. | :44:32. | |
Are you ready for your lap of honour? Yes, I am ready. Fantastic. | :44:33. | :44:42. | |
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The champion this year, Petra She speaks as well as she plays. | :45:00. | :45:05. | |
Maria is gracious in defeat, leaving Kvitova to have her moment | :45:05. | :45:12. | |
in the sun. Sterling silver, the Venus rosewater dish, but that must | :45:12. | :45:22. | |
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feel like pure gold in her hands It is a remarkable story because | :45:34. | :45:36. | |
this wasn't necessarily her most famous surfaced at the start of her | :45:37. | :45:44. | |
career. She lost her first ever four matches on the surface, but | :45:44. | :45:48. | |
has won the last 16 of 18 and it will take a very special player to | :45:48. | :45:58. | |
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stop her in the future. Her coach As ever, you can hear the crowd | :46:20. | :46:24. | |
giving their sympathy to the runner-up. It has been a wonderful | :46:24. | :46:28. | |
tournament for Sharapova, and it has been a good 2011 for the | :46:28. | :46:38. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :46:38. | :47:52. | |
This is a tradition that was started a number of years ago now, | :47:52. | :48:00. | |
and it gives all the spectators and fans who are fortunate enough to be | :48:00. | :48:08. | |
on Centre Court the opportunity to give get their own picture of the | :48:09. | :48:13. | |
newly crowned champion. So many questions answered today by Kvitova | :48:13. | :48:17. | |
in terms of her temperament on the big stage. We knew she had the | :48:18. | :48:21. | |
ability and the game to be the champion here, it was just a | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
question of whether she could produce it on the day, up against | :48:24. | :48:30. | |
one of the fiercest competitors on the women's tour. Maria Sharapova | :48:30. | :48:34. | |
fought back so valiantly from the shoulder injury, tested her, but | :48:34. | :48:44. | |
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Jana Novotna the last champion back in 1998 from the Czech Republic, | :48:54. | :48:58. | |
and there she is. Absolutely thrilled for her fellow | :48:58. | :49:08. | |
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We all remember the emotional Andrew Jarrett, and as this | :49:28. | :49:37. | |
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tournament comes to a close another successful championships. Her | :49:42. | :49:50. | |
brother, and father. She takes the original trophy off the court. She | :49:50. | :50:00. | |
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is the champion. She leaves the SUE BARKER: You just get the | :50:19. | :50:24. | |
feeling she will be the champion of Grand Slams for many years to come. | :50:24. | :50:29. | |
It was such a polished performance from this 21 year-old. Reached the | :50:29. | :50:34. | |
semi-finals last year, but now she is the champion. The new chairman | :50:34. | :50:44. | |
this year, Philip Brook, she is meeting him. There she is, her name | :50:44. | :50:49. | |
is already on the board. She seems overwhelmed by the whole occasion, | :50:49. | :50:54. | |
but she was as cool as a cucumber on court right through that final. | :50:54. | :51:02. | |
No sign of nerves at all. What a time to pick to serve your first | :51:02. | :51:12. | |
ace, and to win the Wimbledon trophy. I don't think she quite | :51:12. | :51:18. | |
believed it. The junior and Tracey are with me. Virginia, you remember | :51:18. | :51:22. | |
that feeling I'm sure. You would have been very impressed with her | :51:22. | :51:27. | |
performance today. I wish I had served like that. What was so | :51:27. | :51:32. | |
impressive was the way she mixed up her serve. It was just sort of like | :51:32. | :51:36. | |
a swinging thing, and her groundstrokes, she gets on a roll | :51:36. | :51:40. | |
and when she is good she is unbelievable. But to be that good | :51:41. | :51:44. | |
in the first final that you ever play at Wimbledon, that is what is | :51:44. | :51:50. | |
really good. That says a lot about her as a person, doesn't it? That | :51:50. | :51:54. | |
she can produce that tennis and hold her nerve. Yes, she started | :51:54. | :51:59. | |
out so well and you felt she was going to have a struggle in the | :51:59. | :52:04. | |
second set. She missed the easy backhand, and the easier queued | :52:04. | :52:08. | |
forehand and lost her serve. That to me was the crucial time in the | :52:09. | :52:14. | |
match. That was when Maria needed to grab hold of the match, and she | :52:14. | :52:20. | |
couldn't. She double-faulted, and she really let it back into | :52:20. | :52:24. | |
Kvitova's court. A lot of changes and momentum and Kvitova handled it | :52:25. | :52:29. | |
beautifully. It is not often you see Maria on the back foot like | :52:29. | :52:34. | |
that. One of the things that has been impressive about Maria this | :52:34. | :52:38. | |
year is have improved speed around the court. She is in perfect | :52:39. | :52:45. | |
physical shape. At certain stages she has been carrying extra weight, | :52:45. | :52:49. | |
or underweight, but she is still not the quickest round the court. | :52:49. | :52:55. | |
You look at someone like Kvitova who is also tall and gangly. They | :52:55. | :53:00. | |
might say that is one area she might need to work on, her foot | :53:00. | :53:06. | |
speed, but she was everywhere today. It was so great sitting behind the | :53:06. | :53:10. | |
court because you can really see the explosiveness of the shots and | :53:10. | :53:14. | |
she was really swinging. She could have hit winners with her eyes shut | :53:14. | :53:20. | |
today. You have done this Virginia, she is heading out to the front of | :53:20. | :53:24. | |
Centre Court. This is one of the great traditions of this tournament, | :53:24. | :53:29. | |
to come out and show those who were not lucky enough to get a ticket to | :53:29. | :53:33. | |
Centre Court to show them the trophy. I am sure she will be | :53:34. | :53:37. | |
encouraged to wander down the line. But this is a whole new experience | :53:37. | :53:44. | |
for her. And I am telling you, that drove the is so heavy! She is a | :53:44. | :53:48. | |
strong girl. The photographers keep asking you to hold it up, and that | :53:48. | :53:54. | |
is the best you can do. If you hold it over your head, your arms start | :53:54. | :54:01. | |
falling off! It is a magnificent trophy. I knew when I won it, I was | :54:01. | :54:05. | |
so excited that all I was thinking was I know I am going to see | :54:05. | :54:10. | |
pictures of me in the paper holding the trophy, because you are just so | :54:10. | :54:15. | |
overwhelmed with the occasion. is life-changing. She was number | :54:15. | :54:21. | |
eight in the world, three titles this year, now Wimbledon champion, | :54:21. | :54:26. | |
Grand Slam champion, and everyone will be going after her. How will | :54:26. | :54:30. | |
she handle that? She will be so famous and it is such an exciting | :54:30. | :54:34. | |
day for her, to be able to have that luxury of having three match | :54:34. | :54:39. | |
points as well. That was fantastic because you have that cushion, and | :54:39. | :54:45. | |
then to finish it with any case, to not even have to play that point. | :54:45. | :54:51. | |
You were in the studio with me when the coin toss was played. When the | :54:51. | :54:56. | |
serve was broken we thought it was such a good decision but we will | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
show you the second game because this was key to the match. If she | :55:00. | :55:05. | |
had lost this game, it could have been over very quickly in | :55:05. | :55:13. | |
Sharapova's favour. Just so hard hitting, both of them. Look at the | :55:13. | :55:17. | |
depth she hits. Sharapova is usually the one moving her opponent | :55:17. | :55:21. | |
about the court and keeping them off balance, but Sharapova got a | :55:21. | :55:31. | |
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bit of her own medicine today. Kvitova, in that first set she was | :55:33. | :55:37. | |
hitting her ground strokes around nine mph faster than her opponent. | :55:37. | :55:47. | |
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Did you know that at the start of the match, if you do lose your | :55:48. | :55:52. | |
serve and lose a game, it is hard to come back from that, isn't it? | :55:52. | :56:00. | |
Yes, Kvitova seemed to be all hard hitting forehands. Is Maria ever | :56:00. | :56:05. | |
going to find a way of preventing that? Maria likes to move her | :56:05. | :56:10. | |
opponents around, and she was on the back end of the steam engine | :56:10. | :56:15. | |
there. Because you don't often see people returning her serve like | :56:15. | :56:21. | |
this, do you? No, I think Kvitova plays defence a little better than | :56:21. | :56:26. | |
the rear. Maria needs to be on a fence to win. Once you get in a | :56:26. | :56:30. | |
defensive position, she finds it hard to get the point back into | :56:30. | :56:37. | |
neutral. A lot of people were thinking Kvitova is an unknown so | :56:37. | :56:44. | |
it is an anti-climax but I hope they realise how good she is. She | :56:44. | :56:48. | |
should be around for a long time, with the talent that she has. She | :56:48. | :56:53. | |
will already be a household name, a worldwide name, and I think people | :56:53. | :56:59. | |
will really enjoy watching her. The power and the accuracy. I would | :57:00. | :57:05. | |
like to see a little more variety in a match like this. I think there | :57:05. | :57:13. | |
is capability have more variety for Kvitova. She is quite good around | :57:13. | :57:17. | |
the neck, she doesn't have to go up there too frequently but that is | :57:17. | :57:21. | |
another dimension she can work on with her coach to add more to her | :57:21. | :57:26. | |
game. And that is exciting, to win her first Grand Slam and there is | :57:26. | :57:31. | |
still more room for improvement. You would expect her to be nervous | :57:31. | :57:36. | |
at this stage, but that point was particularly keep and she looked so | :57:36. | :57:42. | |
cool out there. She made a few errors. You thought she might get a | :57:42. | :57:48. | |
little joke, but she hit some of the returns and then finished off | :57:48. | :57:58. | |
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Kvitova had made a number of unforced errors at 5-3, kind of a | :58:02. | :58:07. | |
loose game, and you thought OK, well she play another loose game? | :58:07. | :58:11. | |
But she came out, cleaned up, dictated again, and got back on | :58:11. | :58:17. | |
track. If you play on your debut, because did you win your first | :58:17. | :58:23. | |
Grand Slam? Never. I wasn't a regular in the finals are so I have | :58:23. | :58:29. | |
to win it when I was there! This girl is going to be a regular. I | :58:29. | :58:32. | |
watched her beat Kim Clijsters in the final of an indoor tournament | :58:32. | :58:38. | |
in Paris a few months ago, and she was incredible. That time she was | :58:38. | :58:42. | |
coming up to the net a bit because she was hitting so aggressively | :58:42. | :58:50. | |
that she was throwing herself into the court and volleying well, too. | :58:50. | :58:55. | |
Sharapova didn't find her rhythm, Kvitova didn't allow her to. Match | :58:55. | :59:01. | |
point. This is the perfect way to end it, look at that. All through | :59:01. | :59:07. | |
the match, Maria was struggling to meet her shots. They are so well- | :59:07. | :59:11. | |
disguised, she can hit the forehand across the court, down the line | :59:11. | :59:16. | |
equally, and she conserving to any corner of the box with any kind of | :59:16. | :59:26. | |
spin. She is almost embarrassed by her success, isn't she? It reminds | :59:26. | :59:36. | |
me of what Maria did two so Arena. Serena was the more experienced | :59:36. | :59:46. | |
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players for -- player. Never in history of women's Grand Slams has | :59:49. | :59:58. | |
a number eight seed won the title, until today! So she has broken that | :59:58. | :00:04. | |
record as well. Thumbs-up from Martina, who picked her to win the | :00:04. | :00:09. | |
tournament right from the start. Of course she knows that feeling well, | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
too. She was always looking like a potential winner. If things went | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
right, and they went so right today. It is pretty nice to go on and play | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
a match when you see the ball like a football and you can't do any | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
will star and a word for Maria Sharapova because she was not | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
allowed to play her best today but semi-finals of the French she | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
looked good and the final here, it is good to have her back. It is | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
very good to have her back because it has been a long time after the | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
surgery to come back a full circle. I think she is back all the way now. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
She just played against a player who was hot today. Similar styles | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
of play but played it a bit better than the rear. You know she will be | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
so disappointed, and she will get back on the practice court. That is | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
exactly what she wants, more Grand Slam titles. You would think she | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
would have enough, with the money and the titles but she is so | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
passionate about the game. This will be tough for her to swallow. | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
The only Grand Slam title she lost before this was again Serena | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
:01:28. | :01:29. | ||
Bakery the semi-finals had been decided, and the Williams sisters | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
were not there, she would have been expecting it. She's so professional. | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
Her mind is so tough. You thought she would come back. I was | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
surprised that she went off the boil a bit in the middle of the | :01:45. | :01:53. | |
second set. Kvitova threw in some marginally slower service, and | :01:53. | :02:03. | |
:02:03. | :02:04. | ||
suddenly, Maria got a bit messed up. She's a great player, I thought she | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
might win the tournament, I thought she might win the French. I'm only | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
disappointed from her point of view, I thought it was great for the game | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
that Kvitova one this. After Royal, she's only 24 years old, Maria | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
Sharapova. If she can stay in decent condition, hopefully I think | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
people will appreciate her game and she will be up at the top. Just to | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
get a comment from both of you about women's tennis - the Williams | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
sisters are back, we have got new stars emerging, we have been very | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
critical of the women's game, but you get a feeling that it is | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
beginning to turn. And hopefully Kim Clijsters will be back as well. | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
The Williams sisters, just not enough matchplay before Wimbledon | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
to make a huge threat here. The women's game has taken some hits, | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
but now we have a new star. Azarenka also get into the semi- | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
finals of a Grand Slam for the first time. It is a transitional | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
period. Li Na winning the French Open at 29 years old. Schiavone | :03:08. | :03:16. | |
winning at last year at 29 Aug 30. There's a lot of stars. I thought | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
it was very good news that the three most promising of the new | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
generation got to the semi-finals. Sabine Lisicki, she was not quite | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
ready to win this tournament, but boy, is she a threat? And Azarenka | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
as well. I was listening to somebody on the radio today, saying | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
that they had heard comments that the final might be a bit of an | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
anti-climax. They said, no, there have been so many great matches on | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
the women's side, so I think we turned a big corner. The men have | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
got these superstars at the top. It is just a privileged generation. | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
was a terrific final and a great story. Thank you very much, both of | :04:00. | :04:10. | |
you. The Women's Final has been completed, but about to takes place | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
is the men's doubles. It is the Bryan brothers. They have won this | :04:13. | :04:21. | |
once before, Bob and Mike Bryan, up against last year's runners-up, | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
Horia Tecau and Robert Lindstedt. Walking on to Centre Court for the | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
doubles. They are a great story, the Bryan brothers. They have been | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
around for a long time. They have won numerous Grand Slam titles. | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
Before the tournament, John Inverdale caught up with the twin | :04:40. | :04:49. | |
:04:50. | :04:52. | ||
brothers from America. 71 tor titles, 10 Grand Slams, the best | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
known doubles partnership in the world. So, where do you go for a | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
chat with two of the most genial men of the tour? The pub. Was there | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
ever any likelihood of one of you being a tennis player and one of | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
being a tennis player and one of you being a nuclear scientist? | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
don't think so, we were always a package deal. We have the same DNA, | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
we both loved tennis. Our parents had it all set up for us. My dad | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
owned a tennis club, they were both prose, and they treat us into | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
following this path. At any stage did either of you think, during | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
those rebellious teenage years, did you think, I hate this game, get | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
out of here. I thought I hated my brother, but I never thought I | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
hated the game. My dad did a good job, he made it fun for us. He took | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
us to matches. When we went to tournaments, we went with our | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
friends, we were always having a blast. We set our goals and never | :05:56. | :06:04. | |
wanted to do anything else. What age were you when you set those | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
goals? We played our first tournament at age six. Was that | :06:09. | :06:17. | |
doubles? Yes. Every January 1st, we put our goals on the refrigerator. | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
If it was just to win 10 trophies or get a college scholarship, there | :06:24. | :06:32. | |
was always a goal on the refrigerator. An were you winning | :06:32. | :06:40. | |
aged six? Yes, it was a novice, local tournament, but we made sure | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
we did the stepping stone. You start off low and then you go up. | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
How many times have you faced each other in singles? We have met in | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
the finals of more than 100 tournaments, but our parents did | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
not let us play against each other until we were 17 years old. They | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
did not one of us to dominate the other. Because that was when we | :07:02. | :07:11. | |
might lose interest and not love the game. That developed our | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
friendship, and that's why we're playing doubles together, we don't | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
hate each other. So, when you did play against each other, at 17, who | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
was winning? I took him out. No, we were pretty even. We have played 20 | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
times, and it is 10-10. I got you in the US Open final. It is pretty | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
even. Even in mixed doubles. We are one complete player, he has got the | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
big serve, I have got the good return. When you were setting those | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
goals, you probably imagine what life as a tennis player was going | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
to be like - is it like that? it is a great life. We went to see | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
Agassi play at Indian Wells when we were 10 years old, we wanted to be | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
just like him. And you read his book, and he talks about the | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
turmoil, and there times when he was hating the game. Yes, there's | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
pressure. There's money and points on the line every week. We put a | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
lot of pressure on ourselves and each other to play Bath. We expect | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
to be number one at the end of the year. That takes winning a lot of | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
matches and not really getting up at any time. When you win a | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
tournament on Saturday night, you want to go party, but you think of | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
a voice in the back of your head saying, but you have got to play on | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
Tuesday next week, let's keep it tight. Yes, for the past 13 years, | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
we have made sacrifices. We don't go out very often, we're always | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
training. We have been in Europe for two months straight now. You | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
have just got to pack your bags and become road warriors, basically. | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
Having had tennis in your blood from day one, can you conceive of a | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
life without tennis? We're going to try to milk this as long as we can. | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
We have spoken to players who retire early, and they just get | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
bored. Stay on the tour as long as possible. Yes, you get that | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
adrenalin. The highs and lows. A lot of players, they go home, and | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
they're dead, they don't have the thrill of the win. So we're going | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
to take their advice and keep going as long as we can. We are 33, we | :09:36. | :09:46. | |
:09:46. | :09:46. | ||
can see the finish line. One last sprint, and like Mike said, milk it. | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
Whose idea was the bumping chests? We started at move when we were in | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
college. We wanted to get all of our College teammates excited. For | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
some reason, we jumped up in the air and did that, and it was on the | :10:02. | :10:11. | |
front cover of the Stanford Daily News. So we started doing it. And | :10:11. | :10:18. | |
now it is our signature move. actually took a lot of heat when we | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
did it on the tour, a lot of the veteran guys in the locker room | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
where, these cocky little twins, doing that. One of them wanted to | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
fight this one time in Indianapolis, in our first rookie year on the | :10:32. | :10:39. | |
tour. Then we started winning, and we got the respect of the guys. | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
They're extremely nice guys, but isn't it impossible to tell the | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
difference? Luckily, Bob is left- handed, and Mike is right hand it, | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
so we have got a chance. Let's join this match, with John Lloyd and | :10:55. | :11:05. | |
:11:05. | :11:10. | ||
Yes, the Bryan brothers playing their fifth final at Wimbledon, but | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
surprisingly, they have only won once. They're up against the pair | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
who were runners-up last year, that's Robert Lindstedt of Sweden | :11:21. | :11:28. | |
and Horia Tecau of Romania. Straw Dundee eighth seeds up against the | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
number 1 seeds. This is the youngest man on the court, Horia | :11:33. | :11:43. | |
:11:43. | :11:50. | ||
The Bryan brothers easy to tell apart, because Bob is the left- | :11:50. | :11:59. | |
hander, and a Mike is the right hander. Actually play the wrong way | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
round, don't they? Yes, but the reason they do that it is so that | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
they can both get the forehands down the middle. And you will see | :12:09. | :12:17. | |
some big forehands from them when they get that opportunity. I am | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
that there is a difference between them because I cannot tell them | :12:20. | :12:30. | |
:12:30. | :12:35. | ||
DAVID MERCER: So, it is Bob, who has a massive serve, to get us and | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
a way. They were put into bat, as it were, their opponents chose to | :12:41. | :12:51. | |
:12:51. | :13:29. | ||
Powerful forehand from Robert Lindstedt, who lives in southern | :13:29. | :13:37. | |
Sweden, where they play the Swedish Open. | :13:37. | :13:47. | |
:13:47. | :14:11. | ||
JOHN LLOYD: Well, the linesman had The Bryan brothers have won 72 | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
titles together, a new record in the Open era. Today they are | :14:16. | :14:26. | |
:14:26. | :14:27. | ||
looking to match Woodbridge and Woodford, who held the record. The | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
Open era started in 1968, when Wimbledon said, we're going to go | :14:32. | :14:42. | |
:14:42. | :15:16. | ||
open, and the rest of the world had Double fault, not the way you want | :15:16. | :15:26. | |
:15:26. | :15:26. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :15:26. | :16:07. | |
It is a nervy start from Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau. Having | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
played in the final last year, you would have thought they would not | :16:10. | :16:20. | |
:16:20. | :16:35. | ||
Oh, my word. Dear, oh dear, that one was in the middle of the net. | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
He has got to calm himself down here. The captain of the team, | :16:42. | :16:52. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :16:52. | :17:52. | |
Robert Lindstedt, just telling his Just not giving them any chance to | :17:52. | :18:02. | |
:18:02. | :18:07. | ||
settle here. They're so fast If I was them here, I would really | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
slow up the return of serve, just take the full time allotted, slow | :18:13. | :18:22. | |
:18:23. | :18:24. | ||
the Americans down a bit. You can't keep it, that's not allowed. US | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
Open, of course, you are allowed to keep the ball if it goes into the | :18:28. | :18:38. | |
:18:38. | :18:43. | ||
stands. No, here, they will hunt you down. You can come again next | :18:43. | :18:53. | |
:18:53. | :19:00. | ||
Well, there we were expecting a really competitive start to this | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
match, we have had three games, and the Bryan brothers have lost one | :19:05. | :19:13. | |
point. It is just a nightmare, unfortunately. They won the toss, | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
and elected to receive, just to get their nerves out a bit, but it only | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
lasted about to seconds. And then when Horia Tecau served, probably, | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
it is easy to say, but it might have been better for Robert | :19:30. | :19:38. | |
Lindstedt to go first. They are getting rushed here, and this set | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
is almost over already. People coming back in, having nipped out | :19:44. | :19:54. | |
:19:54. | :20:04. | ||
to get some refreshment after the Ann Jones, she's remained in the | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
Royal Box, as indeed has the President of the club, the Duke of | :20:07. | :20:17. | |
:20:17. | :20:29. | ||
JOHN LLOYD: Well done, there you go. I think at the end of these matches, | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
they should have seat warmers, like they do at the academy Awards, when | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
someone goes off, they bring someone in to have the seat taken | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
so it doesn't look empty. Do you think that would go down well? | :20:42. | :20:50. | |
maybe not in the Royal Box. Have you been to the academy Awards? I | :20:50. | :20:58. | |
know you're a big film buff. but I watch it. They are just | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
anticipating at the moment, they're just attacking. You can see the | :21:02. | :21:12. | |
:21:12. | :21:31. | ||
volley, not enough punch on it. And It is an interesting tactic, the | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
lefty being on that side of the court. When they come into volley, | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
and he moves over the tramline, it forces the Pare to volley out wide | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
if they want to get it on to his backhand, otherwise he has got that | :21:45. | :21:55. | |
:21:55. | :22:04. | ||
In other words, they narrow the angle, they make it really | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
difficult on the boarder, because you do not want to come against | :22:07. | :22:17. | |
:22:17. | :22:40. | ||
this man's forehand, he has got a Really solid service game there, by | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
Robert Lindstedt. Relief for Dedham support team, they're on the | :22:45. | :22:55. | |
:22:55. | :23:32. | ||
Poorer old Horia Tecau just cannot do anything at the moment. There | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
was a second serve, a real opportunity to get into it. He has | :23:37. | :23:47. | |
:23:47. | :24:03. | ||
frozen at the moment, unfortunately Oh, it has landed on the line. They | :24:03. | :24:13. | |
:24:13. | :24:32. | ||
Lovely stuff, that might just help Horia Tecau to relax a little. | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
was the best exchange we have had so far. Good pick up from Horia | :24:37. | :24:47. | |
:24:47. | :25:17. | ||
Well, this is a big comeback, from 40-0. Lovely angle, got round the | :25:18. | :25:27. | |
:25:28. | :25:28. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :25:28. | :26:22. | |
Suddenly the match has taken off Great second serve, and the Bryan | :26:22. | :26:32. | |
:26:32. | :26:33. | ||
SUE BARKER: Confident start from the Americans. We will be back on | :26:33. | :26:43. | |
:26:43. | :26:45. | ||
Centre Court in a moment. Out on court 12, Oliver Goulding and his | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
partner, Jiri Vesely, of the Czech Republic, have made it through | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
their semi-final. So, we are guaranteed a British winner. | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
Because the other semi-final has a brick chick on each side of the net, | :27:00. | :27:08. | |
that's George Morgan and Liam Broady. Back to Centre Court. | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
And amongst the former champion's be in the Royal Box, Lindsay | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
Davenport. She was a very useful doubles player herself, as well as | :27:17. | :27:27. | |
:27:27. | :27:36. | ||
being the number one player in the You feel now that Horia Tecau and | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
Robert Lindstedt are at least into the match. Yes, at the beginning it | :27:40. | :27:46. | |
was looking like they were getting brushed off. Horia Tecau | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
particularly was so nervous in his first service game. He might need | :27:51. | :28:01. | |
:28:01. | :28:01. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :28:01. | :29:18. | |
to slow down that first serve just DAVID MERCER: Lost his first | :29:18. | :29:25. | |
service game to love, holds his second service game to love. What a | :29:25. | :29:35. | |
:29:35. | :29:38. | ||
They are in the defensive formation for the first serve, both men back | :29:39. | :29:48. | |
:29:49. | :29:54. | ||
for the first serve, both men back Now for the second serve, Horia | :29:54. | :30:03. | |
Tecau moves forward. Not the most gorgeous technical volley I have | :30:03. | :30:08. | |
ever seen, but it didn't matter, it was a winner. He took a bit of a | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
swing, it came at him very fast. Not sure what you would call that | :30:13. | :30:22. | |
:30:23. | :30:55. | ||
Yes! That was only 91mph, that Looking down at the court and | :30:55. | :31:02. | |
shaking his head. Sorry, Robert, you don't get bad bounces on Centre | :31:02. | :31:12. | |
:31:12. | :31:12. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :31:12. | :32:13. | |
Lovely tale about the Bryans. When they would unions, their parents | :32:13. | :32:19. | |
banned them from playing each other in singles. One week, Mike would | :32:19. | :32:25. | |
have to give a walkover to Bob, and the next week, or vice versa. They | :32:25. | :32:29. | |
did not have the angry competitiveness that certain | :32:29. | :32:34. | |
siblings can have. I agree that it wasn't a bad decision. It is always | :32:34. | :32:40. | |
awkward, when you play brothers or sisters in a tournament. You were | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
the middle of three brothers? older brother, David, no one beat | :32:44. | :32:49. | |
him, or he might give you a clip around the ear. He always won. My | :32:49. | :32:59. | |
:32:59. | :33:20. | ||
youngest brother was respectful to Oh, that would be nice! Afterwards, | :33:20. | :33:30. | |
:33:30. | :33:30. | ||
though, after we've finished! New balls, 2-5, serving to stay in the | :33:30. | :33:40. | |
:33:40. | :34:09. | ||
first set. A tough volley, there, Tecau looked | :34:09. | :34:15. | |
like he was going to cross, made the move and decided not to, he | :34:15. | :34:20. | |
jumped back, didn't really have a good view of that ball, it came at | :34:20. | :34:25. | |
him to quit, he was unfortunately blocked. -- it came at him too | :34:25. | :34:35. | |
:34:35. | :34:35. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :34:35. | :35:16. | |
That was a really good volley from Lindstedt, because the return was | :35:16. | :35:25. | |
dipping down low. He did well, to manoeuvre the racket head, just to | :35:25. | :35:35. | |
:35:35. | :36:09. | ||
It comes at you so fast, he just didn't get hold of that right, and | :36:09. | :36:19. | |
:36:19. | :36:19. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :36:19. | :37:02. | |
an easy set-up. From Bob Bryan, Lindstedt and Tecau have settled | :37:02. | :37:09. | |
down, playing well, but the awful start, from Tecau particularly with | :37:09. | :37:13. | |
the two double faults in his first service game, have given the Bryan | :37:13. | :37:23. | |
:37:23. | :37:39. | ||
twins at the opportunity of serving That's the sort of return they have | :37:39. | :37:49. | |
:37:49. | :37:49. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :37:49. | :38:56. | |
That was pretty good, calling it We will get the ball back | :38:56. | :39:06. | |
:39:06. | :39:43. | ||
eventually! That was a good one-two punch, very | :39:43. | :39:50. | |
good return of serve from Tecau. Well done, here, stepping in and | :39:50. | :40:00. | |
:40:00. | :40:14. | ||
hitting the drive volley. Not Oh! The trademark chest bump. | :40:14. | :40:24. | |
was a brilliant point. A great dive, good control, got up quick, good | :40:24. | :40:27. | |
anticipation from Bob Bryan, to take over, cover the middle of the | :40:27. | :40:37. | |
:40:37. | :40:48. | ||
They are off. A little bathroom break, one presumes. After a very | :40:48. | :40:53. | |
slow and disappointing start, the match really warming up now. | :40:53. | :40:58. | |
whole set was... It came down to the first service game from Tecau. | :40:58. | :41:04. | |
He was just so nervous. He threw it away. Since then, it has been very | :41:04. | :41:13. | |
even. But we have had some good points already. If these four start | :41:13. | :41:18. | |
to play at their best, we are going to get some wonderful rallies. This | :41:18. | :41:24. | |
was about the best of them all. A good pick up from Bob Bryan, the | :41:24. | :41:28. | |
diving volley from Mike. Bob takes over and covers the middle of the | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
court. That's where he knew the ball was going, the lowest part of | :41:33. | :41:38. | |
the net. He just moved over and helped his brother out. There is | :41:38. | :41:44. | |
that move. There is the advantage of having the two forehands down | :41:44. | :41:54. | |
:41:54. | :41:55. | ||
the middle. Very good set. It has been an amazing career for the | :41:55. | :42:01. | |
twins. Doubles has been there for tear from the beginning. It was | :42:01. | :42:10. | |
only about two years ago... It all came down to one game, really. It | :42:10. | :42:17. | |
was pretty even other than that one service game. They had joint bank | :42:17. | :42:21. | |
accounts. They stayed in the same house. That changed about two years | :42:21. | :42:27. | |
ago. They started to live a bit more out separately. Now one of | :42:27. | :42:34. | |
them is married. It would have been smart to have moved out! Times are | :42:34. | :42:40. | |
a-changing, but what a great career they have had. Condoleezza Rice, | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
former Secretary of State for the United States. I am told she is a | :42:44. | :42:50. | |
very good pianist. I thought you were going to say tennis player. | :42:50. | :42:55. | |
Don't know about that. A few presidents have played tennis, | :42:55. | :43:05. | |
:43:05. | :43:07. | ||
including the current one. Although Certainly, Michelle Obama plays a | :43:07. | :43:17. | |
:43:17. | :43:24. | ||
The US Tennis Association have a lovely advert featuring the | :43:24. | :43:34. | |
:43:34. | :43:35. | ||
American first Lady, and Steffi Graf as a ball kid. It is with the | :43:35. | :43:45. | |
:43:45. | :44:20. | ||
aim of getting them to play tennis. We saw that serve being used so | :44:20. | :44:24. | |
effectively by Petra Kvitova in the ladies' final, being jabbed into | :44:24. | :44:34. | |
:44:34. | :45:01. | ||
Ended up the right way for the Americans, but didn't do too much | :45:01. | :45:05. | |
with the overheads. Almost lost that point, they should have put | :45:05. | :45:09. | |
one of these away. Didn't do much with it. It looked like they were | :45:09. | :45:14. | |
going to lose this rally, but a lovely forehand, flicked it down | :45:14. | :45:24. | |
:45:24. | :45:39. | ||
An excellent serve on a real pressure point. He wall know he | :45:39. | :45:42. | |
lost his opening serve of the first set, and that was the set gone, | :45:42. | :45:49. | |
can't afford to lose this one. Still doing I formation. He gets | :45:49. | :45:59. | |
:45:59. | :46:34. | ||
He has left it, and it has landed What is the purpose of I formation? | :46:34. | :46:39. | |
It is to confuse the returners. It is to put them off, to not give | :46:39. | :46:49. | |
:46:49. | :46:52. | ||
them the same pattern to where they There, they went back into the | :46:52. | :46:55. | |
conventional formations, to try to break up the pattern of play? | :46:55. | :47:05. | |
:47:05. | :47:05. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :47:05. | :47:46. | |
Well, double faults cost them dear in the first set. The two in the | :47:46. | :47:56. | |
:47:56. | :48:18. | ||
Oh, my word. This is where Lindstedt, as the captain of the | :48:18. | :48:23. | |
two, he needs to do some calming down with his partner. He is not | :48:23. | :48:29. | |
chatting too much at the moment, but he needs to start talking. His | :48:29. | :48:39. | |
:48:39. | :48:47. | ||
partner is not reacting well to Another pair of double faults. | :48:47. | :48:57. | |
:48:57. | :49:12. | ||
Lovely use of the angle. They get a break, they are so quick on their | :49:12. | :49:16. | |
serves, everything is quick motion, you feel the set goes away so | :49:16. | :49:26. | |
:49:26. | :49:32. | ||
They don't give their opponents a chance to breathe, I don't know why | :49:32. | :49:42. | |
:49:42. | :49:46. | ||
they are not taking more time and The brilliant. The game is all | :49:46. | :49:56. | |
:49:56. | :50:24. | ||
being played to the Americans'' There we are. That means Lindstedt | :50:24. | :50:34. | |
and Tecau are illegal, it is That forehand, taking over, in that | :50:34. | :50:43. | |
rally. There is the first one, good reflexes, a wind-up, and the whip, | :50:43. | :50:53. | |
:50:53. | :50:53. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :50:53. | :51:56. | |
Oh, well played! If they lost that point, they might as well have gone | :51:56. | :52:02. | |
home. Unbelievable. Unbelievable reflexes from Mike Bryan. What a | :52:02. | :52:08. | |
lob this was. Great pick-up. They looked like they would win the | :52:08. | :52:18. | |
:52:18. | :52:44. | ||
I think that illustrated the danger of the formation. If you have got | :52:44. | :52:47. | |
to cross to the far side, you have a lot of difference with the server | :52:47. | :52:52. | |
coming in, to cover. A good place to hit the return, down the | :52:52. | :53:02. | |
:53:02. | :53:02. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :53:02. | :53:49. | |
A lovely kick of serve from Robert Lindstedt. That see how this one | :53:49. | :53:54. | |
really Riaz up. Mike Bryan is six foot three and he couldn't get to | :53:54. | :53:59. | |
it. You mentioned the fact they were so close, the other thing the | :53:59. | :54:04. | |
Bryan brothers share is a love of music. They love to have jam | :54:04. | :54:09. | |
sessions, Bob plays the keyboards. You know the way to tell them apart | :54:09. | :54:14. | |
if you are chatting to them. Bob on the right, on the right and, he has | :54:14. | :54:24. | |
:54:24. | :54:24. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :54:24. | :55:23. | |
They do use those acute angle bullies at the net a lot, very | :55:23. | :55:33. | |
:55:33. | :55:33. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :55:33. | :56:38. | |
effectively. -- acute angled Just to illustrate how quickly the | :56:38. | :56:46. | |
Bryans play, they won that in one minute and 30 seconds, and they | :56:46. | :56:51. | |
lost a point of it. It is so quick, they get their service game out the | :56:51. | :57:01. | |
:57:01. | :57:01. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :57:01. | :58:39. | |
way, and they put the pressure back A much better serving game from | :58:39. | :58:47. | |
Horia Tecau. He is not going to be able to forget those four double | :58:48. | :58:54. | |
faults that have really cost them. They play a tremendous amount of | :58:54. | :58:58. | |
exhibitions all around the world. Not only would the prize money they | :58:58. | :59:05. | |
have made, but they do extremely well for themselves. Some of the | :59:05. | :59:11. | |
tournaments in the States that they play, they actually feature them in | :59:11. | :59:14. | |
the promotional advertisements that they have, which is very rare for a | :59:14. | :59:18. | |
doubles team these days. Because you don't have the big names | :59:18. | :59:22. | |
playing in doubles generally speaking. The Bryan brothers are | :59:22. | :59:27. | |
household names, almost, in the States. They get promoted, they get | :59:27. | :59:31. | |
big appearance fees, they do very well for themselves. They love the | :59:31. | :59:36. | |
doubles, they promote it as much as they can. They try to get more | :59:36. | :59:40. | |
people out here to watch doubles. At Wimbledon, we don't have that | :59:40. | :59:44. | |
problem, but at some of the other tournaments, not so well supported, | :59:44. | :59:51. | |
unfortunately. No, Wimbledon, the only major to still play best of | :59:51. | :00:01. | |
:00:01. | :00:06. | ||
The ironic thing is that, 75% of the crowd watching today, who play | :00:06. | :00:12. | |
tennis, play doubles at their local clubs. And not singles, it so much. | :00:12. | :00:22. | |
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It always used to be the great tradition at Wimbledon, the last | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
match of the evening would be men's doubles. At a time when all the top | :00:38. | :00:47. | |
players played doubles as well as singles. And think Bjorn Borg | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
really was the first great champion to stop playing doubles. Until then, | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
pretty much everybody played doubles but he was the first want | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
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to not do it. Then the top players Singles players these days make a | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
vast amount of money and they would want to concentrate, understandably, | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
on singles. Occasionally Andy Murray plays a doubles tournament | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
with his brother. Roger Federer is the Olympic doubles champion with | :01:39. | :01:49. | |
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Rafael Nadal plays to walk three doubles tournaments a year, I think | :01:57. | :02:07. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :02:07. | :02:52. | |
That is rare error from Robert Minstead who has played a solid | :02:53. | :03:02. | |
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match, he has been the rock in this That is where they are so good, so | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
sharp on these crosses, these interceptions. May make their minds | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
up very early when they are going to go. He starts to move just as he | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
is about to hit the volley, so he doesn't have time to direct it | :03:39. | :03:49. | |
:03:49. | :03:49. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :03:49. | :04:34. | |
behind them and they are on to it Of course the regular tour has made | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
all sorts of changes to try and encourage the top guys to play | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
doubles again. When they get to deuce, the next point decides. They | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
don't play a full set, they play a match tie-break, the first to 10 | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
points. But let's be realistic, the top guys will play at Queen's Club | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
for example, Nadal and Andy Murray will play doubles to get practise | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
but the days of them playing doubles at the major Grand Slams | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
are gone. It is unfortunate because it is fun to watch, also the | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
spectators like it and there would be more chance of matches being | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
televised if the top names were playing. It is sad, but it is the | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
way of the world now. The women's have supported it better, but even | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
there some of the top women don't play as much as they used to. | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
would be lovely to see Sabine Lisicki playing in the women's | :05:35. | :05:45. | |
doubles final after this one, after being a semi-finalist in the | :05:45. | :05:55. | |
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singles. The art is a pity, it was That guy can play a little bit of | :05:59. | :06:09. | |
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One of the greatest doubles players That was a slight chance in the | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
scheme of things. 15-15 from the Bryan serve, at least they had a | :06:36. | :06:45. | |
slight chance there, but snuffed out so quickly by the Bryans. They | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
can't get into these service games, they are not picking the returns. | :06:51. | :07:00. | |
The Bryans are all over them at the net, there is pace, this is tough. | :07:00. | :07:10. | |
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That might be the hardest forehand he has hit all day. A bit of anger | :07:21. | :07:31. | |
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on Nov 4 and I think, frustration Second serve again from Mike Bryan | :07:55. | :08:05. | |
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and it was punished. A slight 123 mph serve coming at you, you | :08:24. | :08:34. | |
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get about 0.6 of the second to That is David make fierce and, the | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
Australian coach. He was a very useful doubles player himself, a | :08:55. | :09:05. | |
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Quick reactions from both players. Unbelievable. The first one here, | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
quick reactions from Mike Bryan to shovel that one back, and then the | :09:18. | :09:28. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :09:28. | :10:27. | |
OK, so they have now got a break serve to avoid going two sets to | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
love down. They have got to do something different here. They have | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
got to try. The lob, you look at the court position of the players | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
these days and the Net man is so close to the Net that you think why | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
don't they lop? But the serves are so big, that the timing to hit that | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
shot quick enough to get over their head, and they are such good | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
athletes, it is almost impossible. I understand what you are saying, | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
it looks like they should do it and they don't do it very often but it | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
is a tough shot to control. Hang on a minute, I have heard of Christmas | :11:05. | :11:15. | |
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coming early, but this is They ended up on the same side of | :11:31. | :11:41. | |
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the court and left a hole. Not that he ever gets angry, but his | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
reaction was that this was his ball. He was on that side of his court, | :11:48. | :11:58. | |
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They almost looked like they were not sure who should hit that one as | :12:01. | :12:11. | |
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well! I think Lindstedt is: to I think he is talking about the net | :12:20. | :12:30. | |
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Not a very Swedish reactions from Another massive serve and it is two | :13:03. | :13:13. | |
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Two bad service games from Tecau, two doubled service faults in each | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
of them. Obviously they have got to be saying to each other here, we | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
have got to play more solid at the beginning of this set. We have got | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
to stay with them to the business side, and something may happen at | :13:52. | :14:00. | |
least in the tie-breaker. I am not saying the Bryans have not played | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
well but the first break was handed to them and the second one was not | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
much better. You can't do this at this level so they have got to play | :14:08. | :14:16. | |
more solidly at the start. They just have to do that. | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
statistics actually don't look that bad. You just look to the two | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
double faults. That is what it comes down to really. At this level, | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
it is just a small things can happen and that has been the story. | :14:31. | :14:38. | |
They have got to be more solid on this first service game. The good | :14:38. | :14:48. | |
:14:48. | :15:21. | ||
news for them is that it is not Amazing watching the Bryans how | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
well they have played, they have struggled so much in this | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
tournament. They almost went out twice, hard to believe it the way | :15:28. | :15:38. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :15:38. | :16:27. | |
Not far away! Reflexes are so fast. Too big a swing. It was a bad | :16:27. | :16:37. | |
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volley. All a bit rushed. Wanting to force the action too much, Tecau. | :16:39. | :16:49. | |
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He just needs to use the pace of Brilliant return, and here we go | :16:53. | :17:03. | |
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again. First game of the set, break First time they have been able to | :17:23. | :17:33. | |
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UMPIRE: Quiet, please. A bit of Boy, that was Tecau there. That | :18:09. | :18:19. | |
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That would have been cool if the mishit return had landed in. -- | :18:53. | :19:03. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :19:03. | :19:44. | |
One of those days. Even on the overhead, Tecau mishit that. He is | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
not hitting the ball cleanly, just trying too hard at the moment. He | :19:49. | :19:59. | |
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needs to try and calm down a little And there was a massive hole full | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
instead and Tecau. If they had lost that game, you could have written | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
at the Bryans' names on the trophy. This is where they are hitting the | :20:28. | :20:37. | |
ball, the Bryan twins. But coming forward, look at the number of | :20:37. | :20:47. | |
:20:47. | :20:48. | ||
volleys. They are nearly breeding over the net, they are closing in. | :20:48. | :20:58. | |
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You will notice that Bob Bryan has changed ends for serving. They | :21:05. | :21:13. | |
always get him to serve first in the set. And you are allowed to | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
change ends at the start of a new said. You can even change receiving | :21:19. | :21:28. | |
:21:29. | :21:39. | ||
sides, although I have never seen Gorgeous. Another one of those | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
quick games. They start to serve and it is over in a flash. There is | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
not enough balls coming back, and right away the pressure is back on | :21:51. | :22:00. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :22:01. | :23:36. | |
This is the man who has proved Lindstedt looking very sharp at the | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
net. It is important for his partner that he is, takes some of | :23:41. | :23:51. | |
:23:51. | :24:18. | ||
A much better start to this set the on the previous two for Lindstedt | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
damned Tecau and that is good because we need a competitive said | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
to bring this final alive. With the early breaks, the first two sets | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
were a little predictable. Wembley Stadium. I don't know, I still miss | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
the twin towers, even though that arch is quite spectacular. We come | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
back over the borough of Wandsworth, back down to Wimbledon and Court | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
One. There is a mixed doubles semi- final going on, the winners of it | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
will appear on the Centre Court tomorrow. It is always the way the | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
finals pan out, if there has not been bad weather. We have the | :25:02. | :25:12. | |
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women's singles final, and the men's doubles on the Saturday and | :25:12. | :25:22. | |
:25:22. | :25:45. | ||
the men's singles final and the Still looking for their first break | :25:45. | :25:52. | |
point of course. Nicely done here. The ball stays pretty low. Saw the | :25:52. | :26:02. | |
:26:02. | :26:07. | ||
gap, went for it, made it. The They are certainly having more | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
chances on Mike Bryan's serve. They seem to be getting their racket on | :26:11. | :26:21. | |
:26:21. | :26:29. | ||
Again, if the server is struggling, his partner has to get involved. | :26:29. | :26:39. | |
:26:39. | :26:43. | ||
Brilliant sunshine or the sudden. It all happens in a flash, doesn't | :26:43. | :26:51. | |
it? You guess, and he guessed Bob Bryan was going across on this one, | :26:51. | :27:00. | |
instead he hit a great return but unfortunately he stayed there. Talk | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
about helping your partner out, three magnificent volleys there | :27:05. | :27:13. | |
from 15-30. Yes, they have played superbly. No wonder they are right | :27:13. | :27:20. | |
up there with the great pairs of all time. Win this, and they match | :27:20. | :27:30. | |
:27:30. | :27:46. | ||
And they could play for another In two years' time, they will be | :27:46. | :27:56. | |
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Yes, that is what you want to see. All four men at the net. Lovely | :28:07. | :28:17. | |
:28:17. | :28:18. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :28:18. | :29:09. | |
exchange here. Reflexes, touch. Super return, that time from Mike | :29:09. | :29:19. | |
:29:19. | :29:52. | ||
Bryan, really getting the ball down Best part of the match, now. A | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
lovely exchange in that last game. It was lovely to watch. When you | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
see the reflexes from the players on the court, particularly the | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
Bryan brothers, it is amazing how quick they are. I have seen them do | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
these drills, a lot of times they will have their coach and they will | :30:09. | :30:13. | |
stand a foot from the net, the coach will just blast balls right | :30:13. | :30:19. | |
at them. You look at it and you think, are these blokes nuts? But | :30:19. | :30:24. | |
they pick up a ball... That was a wonderful ending there. It can | :30:24. | :30:30. | |
happen. Just one reflex shot can be the difference of winning it. When | :30:30. | :30:36. | |
you get the hand speed of this quality in the doubles, that can | :30:36. | :30:46. | |
:30:46. | :31:00. | ||
make the difference. It is amazing, There is the vulnerability to the | :31:00. | :31:06. | |
lob, but it has got to be perfect. It is easier, during a rally, | :31:06. | :31:11. | |
rather than off the serve. They have more time, not much more time, | :31:11. | :31:19. | |
but a little bit more time to get the ball over the head. Still, no | :31:19. | :31:29. | |
:31:29. | :31:34. | ||
He is almost leaning over the net, when he hits that volley. So close. | :31:34. | :31:44. | |
:31:44. | :31:45. | ||
It was a good return of serve. A lovely lob, that one. The first | :31:45. | :31:53. | |
point of this game. That is a great return. Now, again, 15-30, these | :31:53. | :31:56. | |
are the half chances that if Lindstedt and Tecau are going to | :31:56. | :32:04. | |
get into the match, they have to take. If Mike helps his brother | :32:04. | :32:12. | |
out... Doesn't need to. It is a lovely serve, only 106, but he cut | :32:13. | :32:22. | |
:32:23. | :32:52. | ||
There is that jamming serve. It was following Lindstedt, he couldn't | :32:52. | :32:58. | |
get out of the way of it. It is not the wisest thing, to try to get | :32:58. | :33:02. | |
around and hit a forehand, if you are right handed, with the left | :33:02. | :33:04. | |
deep swerving the ball, it is coming into your body the whole | :33:04. | :33:14. | |
:33:14. | :33:23. | ||
time -- the lefty swerving the ball. Time for a new set of balls. The | :33:23. | :33:29. | |
ball boys and girls going so efficiently about their duties. We | :33:29. | :33:32. | |
never noticed them, because you only notice when something goes | :33:32. | :33:37. | |
wrong. The ones here are from local schools, they go through the most | :33:37. | :33:43. | |
rigorous training. And of course, the ones on the Centre Court are | :33:43. | :33:53. | |
:33:53. | :34:10. | ||
Tecau has served very well, apart from those two service games, when | :34:10. | :34:20. | |
:34:20. | :34:53. | ||
he chucked in two double faults in Oh, another example. Wonderful | :34:53. | :35:01. | |
reactions. The net cord, could have been awkward, it wasn't. This one, | :35:01. | :35:05. | |
it is unlucky, it hit the net because it would have been a winner. | :35:05. | :35:15. | |
:35:15. | :35:30. | ||
It gave the chance for Tecau to put An amazing return! It was a self- | :35:30. | :35:40. | |
:35:40. | :35:48. | ||
preservation shot, I think! Right Lovely reaction from instead. -- | :35:48. | :35:58. | |
:35:58. | :35:58. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :35:58. | :36:48. | |
Another lovely exchange. This use of these short angles. Gorgeous | :36:48. | :36:54. | |
point, this one. That is why Bob Bryan is so dangerous, he gets all | :36:54. | :36:59. | |
the way around, he tries the offer shot, Tecau just picked it in time. | :36:59. | :37:04. | |
There is such a nice mixture with the pace and the field. There is | :37:04. | :37:08. | |
that lovely volley. For the first time, they have held their serve | :37:09. | :37:12. | |
together. Now they are at the business end of the set, at least | :37:12. | :37:16. | |
they have got that job done. They have sort of thrown away two sets | :37:16. | :37:21. | |
because of one shaky service game in both, but at least they are in | :37:21. | :37:31. | |
:37:31. | :37:39. | ||
You feel, if they are going to break, this is the game. It is Mike | :37:39. | :37:42. | |
Bryan that they are getting more returns into court. He doesn't | :37:42. | :37:52. | |
:37:52. | :37:57. | ||
quite have the pace or swing of his But he does have Bob in the | :37:57. | :38:02. | |
forecourt. Lindstedt looked up after that shot, he hit a good | :38:02. | :38:07. | |
return again, he thought it was crossing. He's just picking the | :38:07. | :38:17. | |
:38:17. | :38:19. | ||
He stands very close to the net. At the start. He then just moves up. | :38:19. | :38:26. | |
He is almost on the net when he hits that volley. Starts off about | :38:26. | :38:31. | |
four or five feet away. As soon as the ball goes past his head, he is | :38:31. | :38:41. | |
:38:41. | :39:03. | ||
To his full stretch, but he is so close to the net that if he just | :39:03. | :39:10. | |
gets anything on the ball, it is a winner. Yes, it was more frame than | :39:10. | :39:20. | |
:39:20. | :39:40. | ||
No breaks in this third set. Rapid fire tennis once again. A huge game | :39:40. | :39:47. | |
for Lindstedt and Tecau. They have forced the Bryans to serve to save | :39:47. | :39:57. | |
:39:57. | :40:06. | ||
One statistic that is very much in favour of Lindstedt and Tecau, they | :40:06. | :40:16. | |
:40:16. | :40:16. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :40:16. | :41:52. | |
had served 15 aces to just four First double fault of the match | :41:52. | :41:57. | |
from Lindstedt. The other four from his team of all come from Tecau. | :41:57. | :42:07. | |
:42:07. | :42:23. | ||
Oh, dear. Tecau, very conservative with that put away. I don't know | :42:23. | :42:30. | |
what he was thinking. He actually could have hit it straight at Mike | :42:30. | :42:40. | |
:42:40. | :42:56. | ||
Bryan, he got away with it, but They have clung on well in this set. | :42:56. | :43:01. | |
Lindstedt and Tecau would have been easy to let their heads go down. 2- | :43:01. | :43:06. | |
0 down to the best players in the world. They haven't. Out on the | :43:06. | :43:10. | |
hill, not as packed as it was yesterday, of course. But it has | :43:10. | :43:15. | |
still become a great institution, hasn't it? The number of people who | :43:15. | :43:18. | |
will come down to get a grounds pass, because they just want to | :43:18. | :43:24. | |
share in the wonderful atmosphere down there. And there's a little | :43:24. | :43:30. | |
bit of refreshment. I'm sure there will be a lot of people there | :43:30. | :43:37. | |
tomorrow. Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, the two best players in | :43:37. | :43:47. | |
:43:47. | :44:15. | ||
the world, going head to head. He I don't believe they won that point. | :44:15. | :44:25. | |
:44:25. | :44:32. | ||
A full turn! Landed just on the That's gorgeous. What a serve. What | :44:33. | :44:40. | |
a volley. Good anticipation from Mike Bryan, he knows he has to move | :44:40. | :44:44. | |
out there. That is the obvious place for that return to go, but | :44:44. | :44:54. | |
:44:54. | :44:56. | ||
Every now and again, Lindstedt has really connected with the forehand | :44:56. | :45:06. | |
:45:06. | :45:22. | ||
A little unlucky, Tecau. It was a good return. The net cord just | :45:22. | :45:29. | |
pushed it wide. It would have been a very difficult ball for Bob Bryan | :45:29. | :45:39. | |
:45:39. | :45:58. | ||
We talked before the match began, of the likelihood of tie-breaks. I | :45:58. | :46:03. | |
have a feeling, big pressure on the Tecau serve. The only man on court | :46:03. | :46:10. | |
to have lost his serve in this match. He has lost it was. -- lost | :46:10. | :46:20. | |
:46:20. | :46:20. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :46:20. | :47:22. | |
He is really feeling the pressure, In the semi-final, the Bryans were | :47:22. | :47:32. | |
:47:32. | :47:42. | ||
up two sets to love, and lost three They have done their job, held | :47:42. | :47:46. | |
serve throughout this third set, something they were unable to do in | :47:46. | :47:51. | |
the first two. They almost have a free game here. That's exactly | :47:51. | :47:56. | |
right. Lindstedt has been returning pretty well, but when he has made | :47:56. | :48:04. | |
that return, a number of times he has hit a good return and gone down | :48:04. | :48:08. | |
the line and they have stayed, or they have gone across court. He | :48:08. | :48:14. | |
hasn't quite pick it yet. You never know. They just need a one-two | :48:15. | :48:18. | |
punch here. They have had a couple of very good points but they have | :48:19. | :48:22. | |
never done much combination together at the same time, so that | :48:22. | :48:32. | |
:48:32. | :48:32. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :48:32. | :49:58. | |
they can get a lead in one of these A bit of a change up, only 73 mph, | :49:58. | :50:08. | |
:50:08. | :50:26. | ||
Paul returning from Minstead, missed all three. -- it is Paul | :50:26. | :50:36. | |
:50:36. | :50:36. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :50:36. | :51:42. | |
It will be a tie-break to decide That serve went right into his | :51:42. | :51:52. | |
:51:52. | :52:13. | ||
hitting zone, just rushed it a Lindstedt hit a good return. He | :52:13. | :52:23. | |
:52:23. | :52:46. | ||
says, why didn't I go down the Tecau serving at the Royal box end, | :52:46. | :52:56. | |
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he has always served from the Well one mini-break be enough? -- | :53:17. | :53:27. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 50 seconds | :53:27. | :54:28. | |
Here is the first challenge of the It is good! Lindstedt has just | :54:28. | :54:37. | |
thrown his racket to the ball girl, he has had enough. He has just had | :54:37. | :54:47. | |
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enough. Come on, he is saying! I That's a brilliant return, and the | :55:20. | :55:29. | |
best pair of their generation have four championship points. | :55:29. | :55:36. | |
UMPIRE: Code violation, ball abuse, warning, Lindstedt. That is a shame, | :55:36. | :55:46. | |
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getting a warning and probably a A terrific performance by the | :56:03. | :56:09. | |
Bryans. Got the dream start, the first three games. From then on, | :56:09. | :56:19. | |
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were always in charge. They join it the would ease -- they joint Todd | :56:26. | :56:30. | |
Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde on 11 major titles, but surely they are | :56:30. | :56:34. | |
going to break another record in the not too distant future. They | :56:34. | :56:39. | |
could go on for five years winning these tournaments, no reason why | :56:39. | :56:49. | |
:56:49. | :56:56. | ||
not. They win Wimbledon for the SUE BARKER: It was a terrific | :56:56. | :57:00. | |
performance from the Bryans. Straight sets today, their 11th | :57:00. | :57:05. | |
Grand Slam title, their second at Wimbledon. Well done to them. If | :57:05. | :57:10. | |
you are coming in, we can tell you what happened earlier today. We had | :57:10. | :57:20. | |
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a terrific ladies' final and a new The new star is Petra Kvitova. She | :57:22. | :57:26. | |
won the title today. Playing in her first Grand Slam final, she beat | :57:26. | :57:34. | |
Maria Sharapova or 6-3, 6-4, and no sign of nerves as she clinched | :57:34. | :57:38. | |
victory. A huge disappointment for Liam Broady, who lost in the final | :57:38. | :57:42. | |
of the ball use singles to Luke Saville. The 17-year-old from | :57:42. | :57:47. | |
Stockport was a set and a break up, but he let it slip away and the | :57:47. | :57:54. | |
Aussie went on to win 6-2 in the final set. | :57:54. | :57:57. | |
Those are the headlines from earlier today. It has been 10 years | :57:57. | :58:01. | |
since one of the greatest sporting tales of all unfolded on the courts | :58:01. | :58:06. | |
at SW19. Goran Ivanisevic, three times a losing finalist, had fallen | :58:06. | :58:11. | |
down the rankings and only a letter to the All England Club secured him | :58:11. | :58:15. | |
a wildcard. From the moment he stepped on to the grass, you could | :58:15. | :58:25. | |
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Growing up, my favourite tournament, definitely Wimbledon, maybe because | :58:28. | :58:33. | |
of the grass. Watching Bjorn Borg, McEnroe, Connors, playing the there, | :58:33. | :58:37. | |
something different, green grass. It was always like a goal for me, | :58:37. | :58:42. | |
to one day be there. Play, watch, doesn't matter. That was my | :58:42. | :58:45. | |
favourite tournament, since I was 10 years old, since I started to | :58:45. | :58:55. | |
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How vivid are the memories of that day? I can't believe it is 10 years. | :58:58. | :59:03. | |
People are coming to me, remembering every detail, saying | :59:03. | :59:06. | |
how I change their life. I don't know how I did that, but I changed | :59:06. | :59:11. | |
my. It is just so many memories, especially when I am sitting here | :59:11. | :59:21. | |
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92, I was favourite in that final. I was playing well, a then that | :59:32. | :59:36. | |
happened. I had so many chances in the 5th and I still didn't believe | :59:36. | :59:46. | |
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Ivanisevic is thinking what might have been. If I could play in the | :00:02. | :00:11. | |
first week, I would beat him for sure. But because he played some | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
terrible matches in the first week, and in the second week he came out | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
a different player. And Ivanisevic, the disappointment of being twice a | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
losing finalist. I had a lot of chances in the final of 1998, it | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
was the final I should have won. It was missing, and then somehow he | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
put a few unbelievable returns in. It was so upsetting when I lost my | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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This is the worst thing ever. Twice beaten, I was watching him | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
hold that beautiful trophy. I said I don't want to hold that plate | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
ever again because second place, saying you are runner-up at | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
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Wimbledon is great but it is not In 2001, I played horrible. I | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
played the Queen's Club, I lost a terrible match and on that day they | :01:42. | :01:50. | |
were deciding over my wildcard. I hoped they didn't watch that match. | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
You wrote your own letter for the wild card. You have to ask for an | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
invitation, don't you? Do you remember what you put in the | :02:04. | :02:12. | |
letter? Police have to me?! I was three times a finalist, twice | :02:12. | :02:22. | |
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Cemaes. Still I have credit, maybe I will get one. Goran Ivanisevic | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
and Frederick Johnson have come out... When I started to play, I | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
can't explain. He has had a terrible year. He really is the | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
shell of a player he once was. started to feel good. I was serving | :02:43. | :02:53. | |
:02:53. | :02:56. | ||
Even now, I am trying to explain to myself how I started to play that | :02:56. | :03:06. | |
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Against Andy Roddick, I mean the guy could not return my serve and I | :03:23. | :03:31. | |
felt very good. I believe nobody even talked about me and I really | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
started to believe because I felt the first time after a long time, I | :03:38. | :03:48. | |
:03:48. | :03:58. | ||
But I couldn't say I was going to win so I just kept it to myself. | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
You're feeling deep down at this point I have got a great chance | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
here but you couldn't share it. They would say look at this guy, OK, | :04:09. | :04:19. | |
:04:19. | :04:19. | ||
so I just kept it to myself. Round four and my friend Greg. I am | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
looking forward to it, it will be a good match and hopefully I can | :04:23. | :04:31. | |
continue my run. It will be another beautiful match to watch. And very | :04:31. | :04:41. | |
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exciting, you know. I was begging not to play on Court One. As soon | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
as it was on Court One, I knew it was gone. I thought I had a good | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
chance that day. He was too good, served unbelievably well, played | :04:54. | :05:04. | |
:05:04. | :05:09. | ||
A little bit of play-acting from Rusedski! He has given the ball boy | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
his racket. I knew he was thinking about Court One, why did they put | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
him on Court One? They just seemed some kind of destiny. Every time he | :05:22. | :05:32. | |
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needed a break or a good shot, it It is a scorching day and we are | :05:38. | :05:48. | |
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wondering if the fairy-tale can It is the story of the | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
Championships, no doubt about it. What an occasion the semi-final was | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
going to be. Then the semi-final came. My think it was great | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
expectation. It was my third semi- final. Ivanisevic came into the | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
tournament with no form, he was a wild card entry. He was playing | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
some great tennis to start off with, and could have quite possibly been | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
up two sets to love but I was able to hang in there and improve my | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
game. I won the second set on the tie-break and that was a massive | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
boost to me psychologically, and a Downer to him. I have to say the | :06:34. | :06:42. | |
rain saved me because on two sets to one, Tim started to play very | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
well and I didn't have any answers. He did everything that he had to do. | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
I didn't do anything wrong, he just killed me. I can't believe Tim | :06:54. | :07:04. | |
:07:04. | :07:09. | ||
Henman has ever played a better set And then we stopped, and the next | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
day I came stronger, better. He was playing worse and worse, I played | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
better and better. All these little signs, they were like something big | :07:20. | :07:30. | |
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is coming. Would you believe it? All need is a roof. Just give us a | :07:32. | :07:42. | |
:07:42. | :07:45. | ||
route! At the moment I won the match, I just knew it. He missed | :07:45. | :07:55. | |
:07:55. | :07:56. | ||
shots he had never missed in his life. I just knew I could not lose. | :07:56. | :08:06. | |
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Ivanisevic is into the final for It was a Monday final obviously, a | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
slightly unusual. What was the thought process for you that day? | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
was very nervous, I didn't sleep. I had all my things to do before the | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
final because I had so many things on my mind. When I came in, there | :08:30. | :08:38. | |
was an unbelievable atmosphere. atmosphere I have never experienced | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
at Wimbledon before. This time was different because it was Monday. | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
Maybe I would have lost on Sunday but this time it was a Monday. | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
will be devastated if Ivanisevic loses. He would be devastated. | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
was in the final against a guy I really admire. A great guy, a good | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
friend. I was very nervous, but I was ready to go. He was still not | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
ready. That is why I won the first set because I was much more relaxed | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
than him. What about that at this fear because it is probably the | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
only time we are ever going to see something like that at Wimbledon. | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
It was a unique occasion. It was unbelievable. Now we have a roof so | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
it will always be a Sunday final, I don't think it will ever happen | :09:30. | :09:40. | |
:09:40. | :09:42. | ||
again. And it was like I loved it, even when I was struggling. It was | :09:42. | :09:51. | |
great. The 5th set, I was very confident I was going to win and I | :09:51. | :10:01. | |
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For the second time then, it is And one can only guess that the | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
turmoil raging in the mind of Goran Ivanisevic at this moment. | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
What was the thought that got you back on track? To regroup at that | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
point, that showed a lot of strength, a lot of character. | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
just said to myself, put a first serve in, or try to put in a | :10:56. | :11:05. | |
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And maybe it was not perfect but my leg was blocked. I said to myself | :11:14. | :11:24. | |
:11:24. | :11:35. | ||
jump, what are you doing? Why are I said to myself he is nervous just | :11:35. | :11:45. | |
:11:45. | :11:56. | ||
like you, so put the serve in At last, the waiting is over. A man | :11:56. | :12:06. | |
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who four times now has attempted to scale the ultimate height. I didn't | :12:07. | :12:16. | |
become a good tennis player that had never won a major. You were | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
already a national hero, and he became some legend in that moment. | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
What was it like when you first saw how many people were there? | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
couldn't believe they came for me. I was like, why are these people | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
here? Who is coming? Then I realised it was funny. It was a | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
victory for the whole country, and my home town made it happen. It was | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
just unbelievable. For all these years I didn't do it, and there was | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
this massive welcoming. Everyone was there. After wavering on the | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
brink, at last he clutches the Challenge Cup. I was destined to | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
win because everything was different. Three days the semis, a | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
Monday final, all the little things but different. It was meant to be | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
like that. SUE BARKER: It was one of the great | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
stories. We are moving now over to BBC Two because we are having live | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
coverage of the women's doubles final but now we are going to leave | :13:25. | :13:30. |