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Welcome to week two of Wimbledon. If if the first seven days are anything | :00:41. | :00:54. | |
to go by... They expect the unexpected. It is going to be fast, | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
furious. Always is. Magic Monday! If no Monday like it in the Grand | :01:01. | :02:09. | |
Slams. It is exciting, my favourite, everybody eager to get in the | :02:10. | :02:22. | |
ground, everybody left is on court. Steve Johnson, on Centre Court, | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
against Roger Federer. Kuznetsova, at this stage for the first time | :02:31. | :02:46. | |
since 2009, as is Berdych, Madison Keys expected to go for, Roger | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
Federer is going to have a step up to date, against the American, | :02:53. | :03:02. | |
Johnson, Venus Williams knows what it is about, 19th appearance, Court | :03:03. | :03:18. | |
One today. And that is Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, and Mahut, good friends, two | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
of four Frenchman, first time since 2008. Mahut against Sam Querry. | :03:21. | :03:33. | |
Ending Djokovic's unbeaten run. This is the order of play. Roger Federer, | :03:34. | :03:48. | |
first up, and on the 4th of July, American theme continues. And | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
finally, match of the day. We're bias! Andy Murray yet to drop a set, | :03:55. | :04:10. | |
against Kyrgios, firecracker. And finally, all French affair. Richard | :04:11. | :04:21. | |
Gasquet and his guile against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. And | :04:22. | :04:39. | |
second, on court 18, but I can just tell you, Radwanska already on the | :04:40. | :04:55. | |
red button, we will be joining that after the build-up. Go on the | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
website to find out everything. Everybody, who is anybody, has been | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
practising. We have seen Andy Murray, and Nishikori, followed by | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
photographers. Is where we are. And this I am exhausted. Too much | :05:17. | :05:25. | |
happening. It is the greatest day, manic Monday, all the men and women | :05:26. | :05:35. | |
taking place, it does not happen at any of the other majors. And so much | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
has already taken place. It has been crazy. It has been a strange | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
tournament. Top seeds not looking dominant. I was doing Djokovic and | :05:47. | :05:57. | |
Querry, that forehand, nailing it. Perhaps he can go farther. And they | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
are looking forward to Johnson, and Roger Federer. You're having some | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
trouble with the microphone. Happy Independence Day, by the way. Sun is | :06:09. | :06:21. | |
shining! If you are here, it is great, but if you're at home, on | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
television, it is also good because we are going to try to cover | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
everything. We can take a look at the draw. It is different, as far as | :06:29. | :06:47. | |
the top goes. Querrey, Mahut. And also, Goffin, practising at the | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
moment, number 11, he has beaten Raonic in the past, you could almost | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
think it is little and large, that is not a foregone conclusion. It | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
could go five. And Andy Murray, tough section, Kyrgios, Jo-Wilfried | :07:05. | :07:14. | |
Tsonga. Andy Murray had a good answer, when he was asked about | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
Djokovic going out, he said that he has got a tough draw, and possibly | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Gasquet, a lot of competition left. We have just | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
been talking about Goffin, we saw him at the Davis cup final, heresy | :07:30. | :07:40. | |
going to fare against the weapons? When he gets the ball back into | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
play, 50/50, 60/40 in his favour. I have loved watching him, when he was | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
with the Davis cup, another one of these matches, that if you can take | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
a look at that, it is good to be fantastic. I think that is going to | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
be Court Two. And we can take a look at the ladies. Serena Williams, | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
looking better at the last March. We have seen that so often, stumbles at | :08:15. | :08:23. | |
the third round, it was tight, bottom you are excited at the United | :08:24. | :08:31. | |
States. Four left. All of those women, love the grass. Favourites to | :08:32. | :08:43. | |
win. And the match at the bottom, Shvedova... Good luck to the umpire! | :08:44. | :08:57. | |
Against Safarova. An opportunity, at the bottom half? Absolutely. And | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
even Venus Williams, she does have a difficult game, against Suarez | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
Navarro, it has been a few years since she has had a factor, and we | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
have also brought Keys, Halep, Kerber. It is a huge opportunity for | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
one of them to possibly reach the final. Where do we start? Murray. | :09:18. | :09:29. | |
Andy Murray, was walking past, and he has been looking resource, yet to | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
drop a set. He has played impressively, against Kyrgios was | :09:37. | :09:51. | |
marked counterpart. Efficient, so far. He has looked controlled. | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
Navigated the opening three rounds without dropping a set. How do you | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
assess the performance? I thought it was a good performance, some tough | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
moments at the end of the second set, 5-5 game, long game, both of us | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
having opportunities, long points, physically it was testing but I | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
managed to get through that. How aware about the situation with | :10:20. | :10:41. | |
Novak? Crowd reacted? Obviously, you are aware, it is on the scoreboard, | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
but after ten, 15 seconds, you are not focusing on your own March. Code | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
you somewhat the first week? The last few matches, I have finished | :10:57. | :11:05. | |
well, it has been stress free start. Hopefully I can keep that going. | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
Novak is going to be belittling, his departure, people think you are | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
going to be the favourite? I do not think you pay too much attention to | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
what other people say, about who's going to be the secret. For that | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
result to any impact on my competition, I need to reach the | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
final. The next five, six, days, my job it is to try to win my matches. | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
I need to be ready for the next one. He has got to be ready. He was good, | :11:41. | :11:51. | |
against Milner, good tennis? He does not look like losing, any time soon. | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
I know that he has got Kyrgios today, but I think he has been | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
relying on the backhand. I think that has been Lendl's influence. We | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
know that he is comfortable on the grass. And the personal life, | :12:08. | :12:17. | |
fantastic. New dad. But this is when the work starts. No doubt somebody | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
is going to get inspired against him. Kyrgios, all about confidence, | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
who knows what can happen? So far Andy Murray has been looking | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
composed. He has always been respectful of Kyrgios. We will see | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
what happens. Dangerous opponent. One of these days, he going to rise | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
up. Have a run. But hopefully not this one. You asked me who you pick! | :12:44. | :12:55. | |
Just I think because of the surface, more even, Kyrgios is going to be | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
the future, you cannot deny that, one of these times, he is going to | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
get through, we saw Roger Federer do that 15 years ago, against Sampras | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
so it is going to happen for Kyrgios at some point. But it does seem, for | :13:14. | :13:23. | |
Andy, the Lendl addition has given him a boost. Fascinating. Andy | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
Murray mentioned respect. That is certainly what Kyrgios has got for | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
them. I think the relationship is pretty good. He is in the locker | :13:34. | :13:47. | |
room, instant banter, fun. He has relaxed, it is good to have one of | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
the best, being such a good friend. I have seen him at times, more than | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
I see my family. The last couple of times I have played Andy, lost to | :13:58. | :14:06. | |
him US Open, four sets, beat him later, by dismally few that he is | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
beatable. Only human. I am obviously relaxed, nervous as well, but then | :14:12. | :14:20. | |
looking forward to going out. Where does the basis of your friendship go | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
back to? First time you hit it off? Terrible saying. Love at first | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
sight! Such a character, in these conferences. The impetuous talent. | :14:38. | :14:50. | |
Those that win count? The one that he talked about? It probably trims | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
for Kyrgios, but not Andy Murray. Exhibition events, and Andy looks at | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
that as trying to get fit, I do not think it is going to enter Andy's | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
mind, but could give Nick confidence. Some breaks in that | :15:11. | :15:22. | |
match. Some of the tennis, just lovely, both of them happy to | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
express themselves. Facial expressions. And when they get | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
animated, the crowd adore it. Holding posture at the end. I think | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
Kyrgios is fantastic, but I do not think he is just fit enough yet, to | :15:40. | :15:47. | |
get a run, he does not want to take a coach. He was asked about Lendl, | :15:48. | :15:59. | |
and Andy Murray, but he was talking down the idea that it could be an | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
addition to his doom. I think you need somebody. But to take Kyrgios | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
on, you have a wonderful talent, and on the other hand, the complicated | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
character. That makes them interesting. You never know what | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
you're going to get. He was ranting at his support team. He wanted them | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
standing, applauding him. He has only been fined $6500. Doing well! I | :16:25. | :16:38. | |
think we can also see the same, from Andy, but he has been cutting back | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
on that significantly, with Lendl in his corner. It is good to be | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
interesting, Kyrgios behaving on Centre Court, against Andy, you do | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
not want to be wasting energy, hopefully that is something that he | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
matures out of. Dangerous opponent. What about Serena Williams? Coming | :16:59. | :17:11. | |
out, easing past Beck? I think, when Serena has a scare, it sharpens her | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
senses. This is what we saw, against Beck yesterday. Serena Williams, | :17:19. | :17:28. | |
just taking it on, after going down a break in the opening set, as a | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
presence on court, she is the one. Everybody probably thinks this is | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
the greatest of all time, I am not sure if I can win this match. Does | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
she look vulnerable? She has this habit, looking vulnerable, in the | :17:43. | :17:53. | |
first week, gets out of it, but today, Kuznetsova has defeated her | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
three times, not scared or intimidated by anybody. The | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
interesting question, how much energy does Kuznetsova have? Long | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
win yesterday. Took her almost three hours. You need all the energy, | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
against Serena, I do not go with Kuznetsova can recover so quickly. | :18:19. | :18:28. | |
And Serena didn't even know it was her 300th Grand Slam win! 800 aces. | :18:29. | :18:40. | |
But we are going to be seeing Radwanska, against Cibulkova, the | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
Eastbourne champion, coming out, on Court number three. That is | :18:48. | :18:58. | |
Dominika, we will be going to this, Cibulkova has the disposition, could | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
easily be troubling the number three seed. Not only does she have talent | :19:01. | :19:10. | |
with tennis, but also the incredible sense of smell! Sniffing the tennis | :19:11. | :19:20. | |
balls! How did it start! I like to smell things! If you give me balls | :19:21. | :19:31. | |
from the US Open, Roland Garros, I would know! That is going to be the | :19:32. | :19:40. | |
test, being able to detect, the different balls, venues. We have got | :19:41. | :19:51. | |
all of them here. And we have got a blindfold. No expense spared. This | :19:52. | :20:02. | |
is interesting. This is going to be funny. It is easy. It is from here. | :20:03. | :20:18. | |
Yes. Wimbledon. Well done. I have been used to this for two weeks. | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
This is the next one. The Australian Open. Goodness. Correct. Roland | :20:25. | :20:45. | |
Garros. Yes! And it does not matter. Fourth is the fourth one! That is | :20:46. | :20:55. | |
the incredible super powers! I have never seen anyone, with that in my | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
life. Wear a cape! Bow! I am speechless. I get tell a white wine, | :21:03. | :21:12. | |
not sure about tennis balls! It is good to see characters, taking a | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
look behind the Pearson, playing tennis. It is good to try to sell | :21:19. | :21:29. | |
characters. Such a good sport, about the habits, some of them want to | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
deny it, but she is just a bundle of energy, hard hitting tennis, | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
especially for not being tall. She defeated Radwanska, at Eastbourne, | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
and getting married, this Saturday? We were joking about that. Clearly | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
not thinking she had the chance to win. But I am sure she would happily | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
postpone that. Absolutely. That is the match that we're going to, we | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
have been at the practice courts, we have actually had some sunny | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
weather, it has been a horrible week, Carol brought us rain, rain, | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
more rain! We're going to get you one more chance. Thank you. You can | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
see behind me, Henman Hill it is just a kaleidoscope of colour. This | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
morning, it was a beautiful start. Hardly a cloud. But you can see that | :22:30. | :22:40. | |
building. That is the forecast. More cloud. Bright, rather than wall to | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
wall blue skies. Outside chance of showers. But that's all. Even this | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
evening, it should still be pleasant, bright, dry, warm. Humid. | :22:54. | :23:02. | |
Tomorrow... Cloudy start. Damp first thing. And then it is going to be | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
gorgeous. Some sunny spells, fresher, and we could still get | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
temperatures going up to 22 Celsius. Even on Wednesday, looking at a nose | :23:17. | :23:27. | |
of high settled, dry. Thursday, more cloud. Risk of a shower. But that is | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
all that it is. This week is looking good. My job, safe. Nose of high | :23:33. | :23:42. | |
pressure? Yes. That is what it is like. It is elongated, like a nose. | :23:43. | :23:50. | |
And Andrew has just been attacked by a bee!? Huge! The sunshine brings | :23:51. | :24:03. | |
them out! That certainly made me nervous. I think I have pulled a | :24:04. | :24:12. | |
muscle! Get the trainer! So I just have to ask, what you're looking | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
forward to the more today? Day eight? It has been a long five weeks | :24:18. | :24:33. | |
to Wimbledon! I am looking forward to Keys and Halep. We have been | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
talking about Kyrgios, it is inevitable about him at some point, | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
and if you were saying about Madison, huge opportunities and I | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
believe she is going to be a future Wimbledon champion. It could be this | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
year. Swan... She is the junior of the year, just | :24:52. | :25:13. | |
lovely, that is one of those matches that I am going to be catching up | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
on. And also, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, against Gasquet, anything left in | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
the tank? They have not played since 2013. Thank you for joining me. We | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
have got some action, to go to at the moment. But we can also show | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
you, what is happening elsewhere. This is Court number 18. | :25:35. | :25:47. | |
Vandeweghe on the red button. And the scale and open champion, Kerber, | :25:48. | :25:57. | |
already a break up. But we are going to go to the match that we're | :25:58. | :26:06. | |
talking about. Radwanska, against Cibulkova. We can join the | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
commentators. Early stage of the first set. Court three. Radwanska | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
serving. Another example of the punishing | :26:18. | :26:42. | |
forehand, Cibulkova just moves the seat -- feet beautifully. Incredibly | :26:43. | :26:50. | |
alert. Such a good sense of urgency. Half chance here. This is always an | :26:51. | :27:45. | |
enjoyable match up. Played so many times. It is almost a contrast, the | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
aggressiveness of Cibulkova, even although she is only 5'3. And the | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
crafty Radwanska. Got down low, Radwanska. Cibulkova | :27:58. | :28:16. | |
taken out of the court. Plenty of space. But sometimes, the easiest | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
shots are the hardest. Fabulous touch. Both these two using | :28:23. | :28:54. | |
that drop shot. Cibulkova, with a couple of incredible drop shots | :28:55. | :29:00. | |
already. It is not often, you see Radwanska not able to track | :29:01. | :29:01. | |
something like that down. One way traffic so far. Cibulkova | :29:02. | :29:41. | |
breaks early, first set on court three. That there is is her fiance. | :29:42. | :29:51. | |
The supposed to be getting married this weekend. But if things go | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
according to plan, they have said they are going to put things back, | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
by one week. I think she would be fine with that. | :30:01. | :30:32. | |
Cibulkova has just looked so short already. Moving well, she always | :30:33. | :30:38. | |
does that she is just looking to attack. Very accurate, playing with | :30:39. | :30:44. | |
a lot of confidence after taking the title at Eastbourne. | :30:45. | :31:02. | |
Both of these two not afraid to come to the net. Close out the point. | :31:03. | :31:13. | |
Apply pressure. Half chance here for Radwanska. | :31:14. | :31:38. | |
A little spin from Cibulkova and Didcot Radwanska off-guard, the | :31:39. | :31:52. | |
slice, different changes of pace, so much more effective on this surface, | :31:53. | :31:55. | |
they stayed download, get eccentric. The intensity is just so impressive. | :31:56. | :32:28. | |
That is a lot of power. A little dynamo. She gets down so well. | :32:29. | :32:34. | |
Quickly up to that swing volley. APPLAUSE | :32:35. | :33:00. | |
She is a little pocket rocket, doesn't she? Just explodes up the | :33:01. | :33:08. | |
ball, using her legs to create the power, bending, exploding out and | :33:09. | :33:09. | |
forward. A fine comeback. 0- 30 down. She has | :33:10. | :33:45. | |
built a healthy lead in this first set. | :33:46. | :33:55. | |
Dominika Cibulkova on an eight match winning streak on grass, we talked | :33:56. | :34:03. | |
about how impressive she was at Eastbourne, winning the title. She | :34:04. | :34:09. | |
is growing in confidence as 2016 progressed, 38 at the start of the | :34:10. | :34:15. | |
year, 19th seed here and the way she dispatched Eugenie Bouchard in the | :34:16. | :34:19. | |
last round has caught everybody, they are looking at this and her and | :34:20. | :34:23. | |
thinking this is the one we should be keeping an eye on. Exactly, you | :34:24. | :34:29. | |
say Ni Bouchard to guide Johanna Konta in great fashion. -- Eugenie | :34:30. | :34:38. | |
Bouchard. Cibulkova who lost earlier than expected at the French, took a | :34:39. | :34:43. | |
little time off, a little vacation. A holiday in Greece with the man in | :34:44. | :34:51. | |
your picture, just a moment ago. It is rare that they get that kind of | :34:52. | :34:57. | |
time but... They found a pool and a beach and a Villa and they found the | :34:58. | :35:03. | |
sunshine! It looks as if it is having an extremely positive effect, | :35:04. | :35:09. | |
certainly when it comes to results! Radwanska in trouble, serving at | :35:10. | :35:10. | |
1-4. Radwanska has too maintained that | :35:11. | :36:16. | |
first service percentage. Her third game serving but she is down at 38%, | :36:17. | :36:25. | |
her average would be around 70%, she has a second serve liability. Just | :36:26. | :36:29. | |
wide... You get the sense her job right now | :36:30. | :36:39. | |
is to make Radwanska play. The errors are coming off the racket of | :36:40. | :36:42. | |
her opponent. Perfect point. Punishing, punishing | :36:43. | :37:16. | |
forehand and backhand, she is targeting that Radwanska backhand a | :37:17. | :37:22. | |
lot. But so aggressive, pushing Radwanska act behind the baseline, | :37:23. | :37:26. | |
Jebel Colbert is on the baseline, bullying her around. Radwanska | :37:27. | :37:34. | |
cannot produce her magic. -- Cibulkova. Kick of frustration. | :37:35. | :37:58. | |
Radwanska, I would think she has to start changing the pace a little, | :37:59. | :38:04. | |
not all eligible Colbert to hit every ball at waist level. Low | :38:05. | :38:08. | |
slices, angles... Radar letting her down. She needs | :38:09. | :38:31. | |
her temperament now, more than ever. Getting through an extremely | :38:32. | :38:32. | |
difficult second round match. That is more like it! Much more | :38:33. | :38:47. | |
positive point from Agnieszka Radwanska. That second round match | :38:48. | :38:54. | |
she was down three match points late in the third set, the third match | :38:55. | :39:01. | |
point was a net cord hanging and it finally dribbled onto the other | :39:02. | :39:02. | |
side. The server is now beginning to | :39:03. | :40:06. | |
crumble. Cibulkova's eyes light up when she sees that second serve. | :40:07. | :40:08. | |
Break point here, 5-1. Better served! | :40:09. | :40:29. | |
APPLAUSE The first serve in, better velocity, | :40:30. | :40:35. | |
great accuracy, little slice to swing away from Cibulkova. | :40:36. | :40:52. | |
Listen to her! You can hear her breathing as well, when she ran up | :40:53. | :41:07. | |
to that shot. Great intensity. Dominika knows how important this | :41:08. | :41:09. | |
game is. Double break... The second big chance... So much | :41:10. | :41:58. | |
energy pre-return and that is celebrated on the return of serve | :41:59. | :41:59. | |
motion. Uncharacteristic from Dominika | :42:00. | :42:52. | |
Cibulkova, she held the top, Radwanska. Sign of nerves from | :42:53. | :43:02. | |
Cibulkova, quick mistakes in the last three points. | :43:03. | :43:08. | |
Healthy crowd here on Court Number Three. | :43:09. | :43:31. | |
Yes... Just about good enough. These two played each other at Eastbourne, | :43:32. | :43:40. | |
a match Cibulkova won a couple of weeks ago. You wonder how much that | :43:41. | :43:46. | |
plays on the mind? It has to play on the mind, because of how recent it | :43:47. | :43:49. | |
was and it was their only crosscourt meeting, laid three times this year, | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
all three going to three sets, Cibulkova winning two. | :43:55. | :44:16. | |
Counterpunching here from Radwanska. It's just managing to hold back the | :44:17. | :44:26. | |
tide from the other side of the net, continuing to ask the questions. | :44:27. | :44:34. | |
These two are so different emotionally. Cibulkova so pumped up. | :44:35. | :45:02. | |
That makes it interesting. Another contrast between the two. Aga walks | :45:03. | :45:10. | |
very slow between points, very tranquil demeanour. | :45:11. | :45:44. | |
That forehand is her salvation at the moment. | :45:45. | :45:50. | |
One shop that I remember Cibulkova getting to the finals of the | :45:51. | :45:58. | |
Australian a couple of years back, it was heard down the lines, so spot | :45:59. | :46:00. | |
on. Just grabbed the line, that | :46:01. | :46:16. | |
Radwanska shot. Hanging tough. Dominika trying to challenge. The | :46:17. | :46:33. | |
chair umpire saying no, she played that point. | :46:34. | :46:45. | |
One of the most experienced umpires on the tour in the chair today. | :46:46. | :47:10. | |
She has done it! The body language speaks volumes. | :47:11. | :47:24. | |
SUE BARKER: 5-2 in the opening set but Radwanska has a habit of coming | :47:25. | :47:32. | |
back. This is a long way from over, we will be back with that shortly. | :47:33. | :47:38. | |
Andrew Castle said he was looking forward to seeing Katie Swan played | :47:39. | :47:43. | |
but it hasn't ended well for her. A point to be broken, she is not | :47:44. | :47:47. | |
moving very well... And at that point she called the trainer to the | :47:48. | :47:51. | |
court for a problem with her right leg. And I think she knows that her | :47:52. | :47:57. | |
Wimbledon Championships are over. She was forced to retire because she | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
could not put enough weight on it, could not move around the court, a | :48:03. | :48:07. | |
teenager with a huge future, she will be a big star for British | :48:08. | :48:11. | |
tennis and you do not want to be injured at that young age. Huge | :48:12. | :48:15. | |
disappointment for Katie, forced to withdraw from the Championships in | :48:16. | :48:20. | |
the junior event, but keep an eye out for her, she will be a star of | :48:21. | :48:22. | |
the future. Back we go. COMMENTATOR: Aga Radwanska serving | :48:23. | :48:36. | |
to stay in the first set, the number three seed, going to have to use | :48:37. | :48:42. | |
every ounce of that resolve of Hirst which she has become famous for | :48:43. | :48:47. | |
here. She often gets herself in scrapes but she has a history of | :48:48. | :48:51. | |
getting out of them. She does, and she has the more difficult time with | :48:52. | :48:55. | |
players that hit with power, it doesn't afford her time to create | :48:56. | :49:01. | |
her magic. She cannot match their power. | :49:02. | :49:11. | |
Right on the line, but shot from Radwanska. Forcing Cibulkova | :49:12. | :49:17. | |
backwards instead of forwards. Cibulkova pressing just a little too | :49:18. | :50:16. | |
much, it's always difficult to find that fine line, going after your | :50:17. | :50:17. | |
shots but keeping the mistakes down. All about the return of serve that | :50:18. | :50:34. | |
time. Radwanska, so good at diffusing power and deflecting | :50:35. | :50:37. | |
shots, even that was too much. The depth of ball striking from | :50:38. | :51:14. | |
those two, really impressive. It's not that bad, it's not that | :51:15. | :51:32. | |
bad. Probably filled with nerves. And trying to look town-mac two. -- | :51:33. | :51:41. | |
calm. She should have really done more | :51:42. | :51:59. | |
with that, that second serve came to her at 68 miles an hour. | :52:00. | :52:08. | |
She is hanging on, Agnieszka Radwanska in that first set but for | :52:09. | :52:18. | |
how much longer? Looked like a nervous drop shot to me from | :52:19. | :52:24. | |
Cibulkova, a little bit of a bailout, hitting the middle of the | :52:25. | :52:25. | |
net. Such depth. She is not holding back | :52:26. | :52:59. | |
here, is she? Keeping the foot firmly on the throttle. You see | :53:00. | :53:06. | |
Cibulkova smelling the balls, she does that for good luck! | :53:07. | :53:27. | |
Just made it! A punch of delight, she knows that she is two points | :53:28. | :53:37. | |
away. Radwanska hit the approach up the middle, tried to take the angle | :53:38. | :53:40. | |
away from Cibulkova, she was up to the task. | :53:41. | :53:52. | |
UMPIRE: time violation, warning, missed Cibulkova. | :53:53. | :53:59. | |
Cibulkova gets another one, she will lose a first serve. She will have to | :54:00. | :54:11. | |
start the point with a second serve. With two set points, she held her | :54:12. | :54:36. | |
nerve well, she could have been easily rattled by the warning. A | :54:37. | :54:40. | |
feud deep breaths. A cry and she takes the first set, | :54:41. | :54:57. | |
she has been all authority, all conviction. Are we on for a shock | :54:58. | :55:02. | |
here on Court Number Three, Cibulkova takes the first set. | :55:03. | :55:13. | |
SUE BARKER: Martina Navratilova is turning 60 this year. She is an | :55:14. | :55:19. | |
inspiration and if I was an inspiration to her, she has been one | :55:20. | :55:24. | |
to me. Defecting to America she transformed the sport. Everyone has | :55:25. | :55:28. | |
a lucky break in life, she was mine. Martina for ever will be the best | :55:29. | :55:34. | |
singles and Mixed Doubles player, and all-round great athlete. So | :55:35. | :55:41. | |
wonderfully joyous when she won. Eight Pioneer, an activist, and | :55:42. | :55:42. | |
icon... That documentary on Martina will be | :55:43. | :55:56. | |
shown tonight at 10:45pm and in Wales it will be shown at 11:40pm, | :55:57. | :56:02. | |
that documentary on the life of Martina, from Czechoslovakia to | :56:03. | :56:06. | |
becoming a great champion. Let's show you what's happening elsewhere, | :56:07. | :56:15. | |
magic Monday, here is an estate Pavlyuchenkova taking the opening | :56:16. | :56:18. | |
set from Coco Vandeweghe on who looked so impressive on Centre Court | :56:19. | :56:23. | |
with a big grasscourt game but the 21st seed, taking the opening set. | :56:24. | :56:29. | |
Already a break of serve up in the second set, that match on the red | :56:30. | :56:34. | |
button. And the Australian Open champion and surely curb has taken | :56:35. | :56:40. | |
the first set against Misaki Doi, these two met in the opening round | :56:41. | :56:47. | |
of the Australian Open, Misaki Doi had a match point, Angelique Kerber | :56:48. | :56:54. | |
went on to say that, in charge today, 1-0 up in the second, that | :56:55. | :57:02. | |
match is online. COMMENTATOR: she will take it. | :57:03. | :57:07. | |
Cibulkova did a good job getting out of the way of that ball, did not | :57:08. | :57:14. | |
want to step on it, 7-7 in the third, she stepped on a ball similar | :57:15. | :57:18. | |
to this and... Finished the match but was not moving well. | :57:19. | :57:48. | |
Using the angles again beautifully, Cibulkova. Hitting the ball on the | :57:49. | :57:52. | |
rise. Timing impeccable today. That was too good. | :57:53. | :58:19. | |
APPLAUSE Deuce on that serve, 103 miles an | :58:20. | :58:24. | |
hour. Great composure from Radwanska. The fastest of the match | :58:25. | :58:32. | |
for Radwanska, the fastest of the tournament for her, 105. | :58:33. | :58:38. | |
APPLAUSE Mixing it up nicely, that time, the | :58:39. | :58:45. | |
slice doing all the work. First case of the match. | :58:46. | :58:51. | |
Continuing to hit within three feet of the lines, Cibulkova. | :58:52. | :59:44. | |
I think Radwanska feels the need to up the anti, just a bit, go for a | :59:45. | :59:54. | |
little more. Good game to win. Has to hang tough, | :59:55. | :00:51. | |
find a way. One of nine junior Wimbledon | :00:52. | :01:20. | |
champions in this year's field, but after the Bouchard defeat the only | :01:21. | :01:30. | |
one left. She has come so close, heartbroken 2012, against Serena, | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
semi finalist here. Does she have the game to go all the way? I think | :01:38. | :01:48. | |
if the draw opens up, she has an advantage, she loves this surface. | :01:49. | :02:32. | |
Has enough whip that time! Just to bring the ball down. Just such | :02:33. | :02:45. | |
tremendous speed from Cibulkova. Point. Fantastic Radwanska, doing | :02:46. | :03:13. | |
brilliantly to get that back, but the movement from Cibulkova, | :03:14. | :03:23. | |
extraordinary. This ball was dying. Radwanska, impressive from an | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
awkward position but Cibulkova, such finesse, meeting that look easy. -- | :03:33. | :03:42. | |
making. Down the line again. It is one of her favourites. The food | :03:43. | :03:53. | |
work, -- footwork, so impressive. Getting enough room from the shot | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
when she strikes it. She has not dropped a set in the | :03:59. | :04:35. | |
Championships, so far. Bundle of energy. Some players look at their | :04:36. | :04:49. | |
racket between points. But this one, incessant. And her opponent, feeling | :04:50. | :05:00. | |
that energy. Everybody knows that Cibulkova is back to being | :05:01. | :05:11. | |
dangerous. 2015, after Antwerp, surgery, out for four months. But | :05:12. | :05:28. | |
Cibulkova has come back, Eastbourne, took a while to get that movement | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
back. The confidence. But it is on display today. | :05:34. | :05:56. | |
Pace of this game going one way. Number three seed unable to find an | :05:57. | :06:10. | |
answer. That ball checked, hit the line and | :06:11. | :06:31. | |
bounced up. It is tough to adjust the swing path, mid swing. | :06:32. | :06:40. | |
Out. The break for Cibulkova, controlling the energy of the match. | :06:41. | :07:02. | |
We have got a very cross-court, backhand, drop covered on the BBC. | :07:03. | :07:12. | |
You can watch action from up to 15 court, on the website, and the app, | :07:13. | :07:22. | |
on mobile, console. The waiting is over! Use the red button, and on | :07:23. | :07:33. | |
Freeview, and you will get the choice of an extra 15 matches, via | :07:34. | :07:46. | |
cable. It is a beautiful day, day eight of the Championships, court | :07:47. | :07:56. | |
three between Radwanska and Cibulkova, the Eastbourne champion, | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
everything seems to be shining for her at the moment. May not be | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
getting married this weekend! But will over the next couple of weeks! | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
Has the break in the second set! Now he's smiling. Maybe not! Range of | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
emotions here. Radwanska, a little rattled. Rarely | :08:26. | :09:04. | |
see that. Trying to figure out how to mute the power. | :09:05. | :09:53. | |
on target. Radwanska not as much time to dictate. Can have a lapse or | :09:54. | :10:34. | |
two. What a point! Coolness from | :10:35. | :11:57. | |
Radwanska. Breaks back. Level terms, set two. First game, you felt | :11:58. | :12:11. | |
Radwanska. Was holding the strings, pushing Cibulkova around. Side to | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
side, forward. So good at soaking up pressure, | :12:17. | :12:51. | |
Radwanska. Cibulkova was throwing everywhere. You have got to be | :12:52. | :13:01. | |
thinking, keep them deeper, can Cibulkova sustain this level? | :13:02. | :13:11. | |
These two trading punches, toe to toe. The movement, for Cibulkova, | :13:12. | :13:57. | |
getting around the ball... Incredible shoulder turn, coiled | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
then uncoils together. Like a spring. Turning the ebb and flow | :14:00. | :14:09. | |
back in her favour. Right on the front foot. Hit the hour mark. | :14:10. | :14:28. | |
Too ambushes. The # Ambitious. | :14:29. | :14:51. | |
That was too simple. Just good anticipation, from Cibulkova. She | :14:52. | :15:10. | |
knew where Radwanska was going to hit it. Radwanska, six tenths at the | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
net today. Even hits the shots out, pumping the | :15:16. | :15:35. | |
legs! I think she was trying to say she needed better footwork. A little | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
too close. Good game to win. She has been | :15:39. | :15:57. | |
pushed and pulled but hanging in. On serve. Second set. Just such a | :15:58. | :16:10. | |
gritty competitor. On Court Two, Kerber serving for the match. Just a | :16:11. | :16:22. | |
couple of match points, oh no! 5-1 up. Fourth seed. The highest rank in | :16:23. | :16:31. | |
the bottom half of the draw. And in this one, Coco in trouble, that is | :16:32. | :16:45. | |
on the red button. And if you are just coming in, this is the | :16:46. | :16:57. | |
disappointing news, about Swan, been forced to retire, having the | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
problem, with legs, getting the trainer on the court, it looks as | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
though it could be shin splints, something like that. Just could not | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
carry on, absolutely devastated that Wimbledon is over. But we are going | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
to see more of her, huge talent, Katie Swan. Remember the name. | :17:23. | :18:06. | |
Fantastic return of serve. Weight through the ball. Radwanska has | :18:07. | :18:15. | |
lifted her game. About 25% more power. We are hoping the grey skies | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
stay away. We have had of you! It is so did a good, the continually | :18:24. | :18:42. | |
control the tempo. Cibulkova, that is the demand on her. | :18:43. | :19:10. | |
Such control. Such conviction. Cibulkova, two feet inside the | :19:11. | :19:25. | |
baseline. And Radwanska, just constantly being pushed five feet | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
behind. Gives angles to Cibulkova. That is another reason, why | :19:30. | :19:49. | |
Radwanska has been effective, on this surface, hits flat, skoots up, | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
heavy top-spin. Court three. Not a million miles | :19:56. | :20:40. | |
from Centre Court. Players' balcony. Grab a bite to eat. That is in the | :20:41. | :20:50. | |
court, emerging, and Court One, the hill full to the rafters. | :20:51. | :21:03. | |
Uncharacteristic errors from Radwanska. Definitely rattled a bit | :21:04. | :21:16. | |
by Cibulkova today. Put over conflict zone -- oat of comfort | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
zone. Not even the net on her side today. | :21:21. | :21:47. | |
She had that unbelievably favourable net cord in the second round. Facing | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
match point. But she needs all the help that she can get. And more | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
energy, as well. Been with her since 2011. In the | :21:59. | :22:33. | |
shades and the tshirt. Such a pivotal game right here. | :22:34. | :23:11. | |
Hanging in the balance... If Cibulkova couldn't get the break, or | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
Radwanska hold on. Wii has not had many challenges | :23:17. | :23:44. | |
today so far. Such a key point. You can understand using Hawk Eye this | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
time. Fabulous hitting. Fabulous resolve | :23:48. | :24:35. | |
from Cibulkova. And the movement, from both, extraordinary. Cibulkova, | :24:36. | :24:44. | |
taking the chance, leaving cross-court open. | :24:45. | :25:16. | |
Now she has got to dig deep, into that resolve and experience. This is | :25:17. | :25:34. | |
a huge moment. Break here, and she's firing her way to the quarter | :25:35. | :25:49. | |
finals. Broken! Cibulkova, carrying on her fantastic form on grass. Just | :25:50. | :26:00. | |
two games away from the quarterfinals. We're going to leave | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
that much, it is going on to the red button. Before we go to Centre | :26:04. | :26:17. | |
Court, Pavlyuchenk has gone through, on court 18. Through to face Serena | :26:18. | :26:36. | |
Williams, or Kuznetsova. Going through against the 27th seed. And | :26:37. | :26:46. | |
no problems for the Australian Open champion, Kerber, just 64 minutes, | :26:47. | :26:55. | |
against Doi, troubling her, and she remains the highest ranked seed in | :26:56. | :27:05. | |
the bottom half. She is going to the upper gets Halep, or Madison Keys, | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
in the next round. We talked about, at the start of the programme, just | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
how busy the date is going to be, and we're going to Centre Court, | :27:20. | :27:27. | |
buzz around here. Magnificent order Rockley, Andy Murray against | :27:28. | :27:38. | |
Kyrgios, Serena Williams, against Kuznetsova, but Roger Federer, one | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
of the arguable all time greats, 17 titles. He has made Centre Court his | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
home. I do not believe that. Unbelievable. | :27:49. | :28:11. | |
What a point. Vintage Federer. Phenomenal. Championship number | :28:12. | :28:25. | |
seven. Just what a player, really... But it is going to be tough, against | :28:26. | :28:36. | |
Steve Johnson, of the dated states. Before we talk about Roger Federer, | :28:37. | :28:39. | |
and Steve Johnson, we have got to talk about Andy Murray, and Kyrgios. | :28:40. | :28:52. | |
Here's near the top of the food chain. Explosive, and unpredictable, | :28:53. | :29:00. | |
forehand, big shot, and the backhand is flat. Andy Murray definitely the | :29:01. | :29:07. | |
favourite, he has won the match as previously, but Kyrgios is | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
dangerous, seemingly maturing, not too quickly... He does seem to be | :29:13. | :29:20. | |
dangerous. Playing well? Yes. And he has got the track record, an grass, | :29:21. | :29:28. | |
defeating Rafael Nadal. And some serious headphones! That is | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
potentially trying to keep them focused, he could possibly need more | :29:34. | :29:39. | |
than headphones, but he has got the firepower, saw accurate, and when | :29:40. | :29:42. | |
you play somebody who just returns so well as Andy Murray, you have got | :29:43. | :29:49. | |
to come to the big stage, but I think Andy Murray is going to come | :29:50. | :29:56. | |
through. Nick was adamant. He beat him. But a set off him at the US | :29:57. | :30:05. | |
Open. This is somebody who has number one potential. If he puts it | :30:06. | :30:11. | |
all together, it is a chance for him to take a step forward. But I think | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
Andy Murray is going to handle this. That is for later. This is Roger | :30:17. | :30:19. | |
Federer and Steve Johnson. What a reception for both players. | :30:20. | :30:42. | |
Roger Federer is a favourite or around the world. He has looked very | :30:43. | :30:45. | |
good in the first three matches but he has not really been challenged, | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
has he? He hasn't. When you look back at the nature of this | :30:51. | :30:53. | |
tournament, when you have Sunday off, it is a tournament of two | :30:54. | :30:57. | |
halves. You need to get through the first week, and then when you get to | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
the second Monday, you start again. Federer was very fortunate in the | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
top half of the draw, alongside Djokovic, the defending champion. He | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
played Monday, Wednesday, Friday, so he has totally been unaffected by | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
the rain delays and the disruption for players coming back on Sunday. | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
He will be delighted with where he is at right now. He hasn't really | :31:22. | :31:26. | |
been tested, as you say, and he will have to up his game in the second | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
week if he is going to progress to the finals. That is imported, | :31:30. | :31:33. | |
getting the schedule right. He has had a bad back for most of the | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
season but he never talks about it so we don't know how bad but it will | :31:38. | :31:44. | |
have helped. Certainly. He did not come in with his normal match play | :31:45. | :31:48. | |
for the first half of the year. He was diminished in terms of match | :31:49. | :31:56. | |
play but his game does not seem this diminished on this surface. His | :31:57. | :31:59. | |
movement is confident and he will need it again Steve Johnson, who has | :32:00. | :32:04. | |
a nice serve. Roger is in perfect shape as we start the second week. | :32:05. | :32:10. | |
Johnson won in Nottingham and is coming in with a bunch of wins on | :32:11. | :32:14. | |
this surface, which gives you confidence. It certainly does. He | :32:15. | :32:19. | |
will have built on the first week. The matchup will be interesting. Jim | :32:20. | :32:24. | |
is Davis Cup captain in America and knows his game well. From what I | :32:25. | :32:29. | |
have seen, he likes to chip his backhand a lot and Federer is | :32:30. | :32:33. | |
comfortable moving forward and to serve and volley, so it will be | :32:34. | :32:36. | |
interesting to see if Federer can target that. If you are just | :32:37. | :32:39. | |
chipping the return all the time, you have to be very accurate to keep | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
the ball low otherwise there will be some easy put away volleys. Jim will | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
tell us more about this man in a moment. Who is Steve Johnson? Jamie | :32:49. | :32:50. | |
Baker has more. Job done! Steve Johnson is through | :32:51. | :33:02. | |
to the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the very first time at Wimbledon | :33:03. | :33:05. | |
but the question is what can he do on the grass courts to really affect | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
the seven time champion? When players come up against the top | :33:11. | :33:14. | |
three all four guys in the world, we see it so often, especially on | :33:15. | :33:19. | |
grass, that it is so important that they stay with them in the sets. | :33:20. | :33:24. | |
Really ask questions, especially of Federer on this occasion. How will | :33:25. | :33:28. | |
Johnson do that? In terms of his service games, it is about two | :33:29. | :33:33. | |
things. He has a big first serve, 130 mph in him easily, but can he | :33:34. | :33:38. | |
get enough into court to dictate the points? Federer will make a lot of | :33:39. | :33:51. | |
balls of those big first serves but the main weapon in Johnson's game is | :33:52. | :33:54. | |
his forehand. It is so good because he can play it from anywhere on the | :33:55. | :33:56. | |
court. Roger Federer has had a straightforward route through to the | :33:57. | :33:59. | |
fourth round this year. On top of this, we have seen him play less | :34:00. | :34:01. | |
matches coming into the tournament this year. A fewer injuries, which | :34:02. | :34:05. | |
has not been the case in the past. On the other hand, Johnson won the | :34:06. | :34:08. | |
warm up event in Nottingham, so he is feeling great on the grass. The | :34:09. | :34:12. | |
serve and forehand are working so this could be the biggest test for | :34:13. | :34:21. | |
Roger Federer so far. SUE BARKER: He beat the baby Federer in the last | :34:22. | :34:25. | |
round and now he has the main man. It is the perfect warm up for him, | :34:26. | :34:30. | |
playing somebody who plays so similarly to Roger Federer. Beauty | :34:31. | :34:36. | |
at a decent level compared to Grigor Dimitrov. This player has no | :34:37. | :34:41. | |
experience on Centre Court, playing Roger, but nothing to lose. It is | :34:42. | :34:45. | |
all up sides for him, all experience for him. He knows he is the big | :34:46. | :34:50. | |
underdog, but he has the chance to come out and show what he can do and | :34:51. | :34:54. | |
he is looking forward to it. He said he had no fear and he was just going | :34:55. | :34:58. | |
to take his chances and not think about who is at the other end of the | :34:59. | :35:02. | |
court. That is an important point when you are coming onto Centre | :35:03. | :35:06. | |
Court, which Roger has made his home over the last 12 or 15 years. You | :35:07. | :35:10. | |
have got to make sure that you play the ball and not the man. As you | :35:11. | :35:15. | |
say, with his game, the one question we have with Federer is how much | :35:16. | :35:19. | |
matchplay he has got. He is almost trying to play himself into form | :35:20. | :35:23. | |
during this tournament. Johnson has really played some good tennis and | :35:24. | :35:26. | |
he feels comfortable on this surface. He had a heavy serve and a | :35:27. | :35:31. | |
good forehand and he will go out there with the right attitude of | :35:32. | :35:35. | |
nothing to lose. He has a lot to gain. And the 4th of July, he is on | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
an Serena Williams is on and you never know! As far as countries are | :35:40. | :35:46. | |
concerned, he is just about to go on court, Sam, that is his coach, so | :35:47. | :35:56. | |
where will Craig be? I think Craig is probably here but he will be | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
dashing back and forth. It is unusual to share coaches. Yes. Great | :36:01. | :36:06. | |
has been with Steve for a couple of years and Sam just joined in the | :36:07. | :36:11. | |
last couple of months. But I don't see Craig. This seat is available | :36:12. | :36:16. | |
for him. The guy with the maroon shirt on the right is Peter Smith, | :36:17. | :36:23. | |
Steve's college coach at the University of Southern California in | :36:24. | :36:27. | |
Los Angeles. He is one of the most decorated college tennis players in | :36:28. | :36:31. | |
history. That is du's valour to the left in the Black cat, who is a | :36:32. | :36:38. | |
tennis coach. -- Steve's father in the black cap. And we took lessons | :36:39. | :36:46. | |
on him when Steve was just toddling around the court, so that is good | :36:47. | :36:50. | |
pedigree. When Sam Quek rebates Djokovic, the crowd went wild, and | :36:51. | :37:00. | |
he lost his focus and lost the point. Stefan Edberg has worked with | :37:01. | :37:06. | |
Roger for so many years and he is sitting beside Roger's mother. They | :37:07. | :37:10. | |
are all in the box and they are ready to go, so we have to be ready | :37:11. | :37:15. | |
to go. Tim and Jim, thank you. Play is about to get. They join Nick | :37:16. | :37:17. | |
Mullins the commentary box. The roof is open. The sunshine is | :37:18. | :37:35. | |
extraordinary. It is dry for the time being. This is the magician | :37:36. | :37:41. | |
getting us under way at the start of the second week. | :37:42. | :38:50. | |
I do believe that is the first time Roger Federer has served a double | :38:51. | :38:54. | |
fault in these championships. He has been busy making Centre Court | :38:55. | :39:21. | |
his home again this fortnight, after three wins in the first week. Not | :39:22. | :39:33. | |
having any trouble so far. Written's Marcus Willis, then Dan Evans, who | :39:34. | :39:41. | |
he saw off in straight sets. -- Britain's Marcus Willis. So what can | :39:42. | :39:46. | |
Steve Johnson do? He has never hung around this long at a Grand Slam and | :39:47. | :39:49. | |
here he is on Centre Court against Federer. | :39:50. | :40:09. | |
Jim, from your point of view, Steve has been a member Jill Davis Cup | :40:10. | :40:19. | |
team, if you are going to concoct game plans against Roger Federer, | :40:20. | :40:22. | |
what would you say to him? Just a bit of background on Steve's | :40:23. | :40:35. | |
game in general, he started off on taught using a two-handed backhand | :40:36. | :40:44. | |
Brian Emily. -- primarily. His coach Craig got hold of him and they made | :40:45. | :40:49. | |
a huge adjustment. He virtually only hit slice. So he is a very different | :40:50. | :40:54. | |
player on tour. Slices are about 90% of his rally backhands. He missed so | :40:55. | :41:02. | |
many with two hands. His forehand is great and so is his serve. He needs | :41:03. | :41:08. | |
to get the serve plus one. First serves in play, first ball forehand, | :41:09. | :41:18. | |
and then pray. That is what Roger wants to do as well but it is more | :41:19. | :41:26. | |
important for Steve. It is all about his serve and forehand. Will he look | :41:27. | :41:32. | |
to get forward much and finish the point at the net if he gets the | :41:33. | :41:37. | |
chance? Yes. He will use the forehand to get into the net if he | :41:38. | :41:41. | |
can. And I beg you to stop interrogating me! They were easy | :41:42. | :41:50. | |
questions! It is someone who I haven't seen play a great deal, if I | :41:51. | :41:56. | |
am honest. Johnson has had some very good wins, including Grigor Dimitrov | :41:57. | :42:06. | |
in the last round. He certainly has grass court form and I am interested | :42:07. | :42:09. | |
to see if he can have an impact against the seven time champion. He | :42:10. | :42:16. | |
has never played better on grass than how he is playing right now. He | :42:17. | :42:24. | |
beat Richard Gasquet at Queen's. It has been quite a turnaround for | :42:25. | :43:29. | |
Steve Johnson in this grass court season. He lost in the first round | :43:30. | :43:33. | |
of the first grass court event that you played this year to the 170th | :43:34. | :43:41. | |
ranked player in the world. He happens to be one of our promising | :43:42. | :43:46. | |
young Americans. It was devastating for him. He was gutted. When he came | :43:47. | :43:56. | |
to Queen's and he got Richard Gasquet in the first round, that | :43:57. | :43:58. | |
turned everything around for him. We will have a look at the | :43:59. | :44:21. | |
statistics of Steve Johnson. SUE BARKER: We will be right back on | :44:22. | :44:25. | |
Centre Court in a moment but there is so much happening on this busy | :44:26. | :44:31. | |
Monday. Anna Radwanska, she was a break down in the second set, but | :44:32. | :44:36. | |
she has just broken back. Cibulkova is serving for the match. That | :44:37. | :44:44. | |
matches live on the red button. And here is Andy Murray and he will be | :44:45. | :44:48. | |
live on BBC One later on Centre Court. He has raced through his | :44:49. | :44:53. | |
opening week and he has looked so good but now it really does get | :44:54. | :44:57. | |
tough. He has a very difficult opponent in Nick Kyrgios. An | :44:58. | :45:01. | |
important day. And Nick is on the practice courts as well looking very | :45:02. | :45:08. | |
good against Feliciano Lopez. He has such magical hands, a big serve and | :45:09. | :45:12. | |
a big forehand, certainly the weapons to worry Andy Murray. But | :45:13. | :45:16. | |
does he have the experience and the big occasion experience as well? We | :45:17. | :45:22. | |
will find that out later on BBC One, the third match on Centre Court. | :45:23. | :46:08. | |
A tough start to 2016 for Steve Johnson. Six wins against 14 losses | :46:09. | :46:15. | |
before he got in form at Queen's. The only success he had this year | :46:16. | :46:40. | |
was on the doubles court with Sam Querrey, winning a title. They call | :46:41. | :46:48. | |
them Quonson, by the way! That victory and not in Nottingham | :46:49. | :47:24. | |
was his first ever singles title. -- that victory in Nottingham. He is | :47:25. | :47:30. | |
enjoying 2016, including doing things he has never done previously. | :47:31. | :47:36. | |
Craig, his coach, bottom right. The seven time former champion going | :47:37. | :48:35. | |
for a record-breaking eighth. One thing is for sure, whatever happens | :48:36. | :48:38. | |
to Roger Federer between now and next Sunday, he will not be beaten | :48:39. | :48:40. | |
by Novak Djokovic. A sniff from Steve Johnson on | :48:41. | :49:28. | |
Federer's serve. Catching Federer off guard with a two-handed | :49:29. | :49:29. | |
aggressive return. Change of pace. Not the fastest serve, but pinpoint | :49:30. | :49:45. | |
accurate. Interesting tactic from Federer. | :49:46. | :50:48. | |
When he knows his opponent is going to be chipping the backhand return, | :50:49. | :50:51. | |
to go to the forehand on the first serve. | :50:52. | :51:03. | |
Steve is not afraid to chip the forehand return. He has done it 50% | :51:04. | :51:09. | |
of the time en route to this match but he keeps you honest because the | :51:10. | :51:15. | |
top-spin is not as predictable as the backhand. | :51:16. | :51:35. | |
He is certainly getting some good acceleration on the slice backhand. | :51:36. | :51:44. | |
Quite a long swing. But it is effective. | :51:45. | :51:56. | |
Federer dropping shots like that is like Picasso dropping his | :51:57. | :52:01. | |
paintbrush. We have to look twice and see if it happened. | :52:02. | :52:22. | |
Four serves on break point that Federer has gone to the forehand. | :52:23. | :52:34. | |
The one advantage of going for the forehand side is it opens up the | :52:35. | :52:38. | |
backhand for the next shot. SUE BARKER: Dangerous game for Roger | :52:39. | :53:09. | |
Federer but he holds. We had off now to Agnieszka Radwanska, who is | :53:10. | :53:17. | |
playing Cibulkova. She is leading 5-4. It was a 3-set match when they | :53:18. | :53:22. | |
met at Eastbourne last week, which Cibulkova won. She will have to go | :53:23. | :53:26. | |
to three sets to win this one because Agnieszka Radwanska is back | :53:27. | :53:30. | |
in this match having taken the match 7-5. That is on the red button. And | :53:31. | :53:39. | |
not so good for Kei Nishikori, he is down against Marin Cilic. He has | :53:40. | :53:45. | |
called for his trainer and we wonder if it is the rib injury that caused | :53:46. | :53:53. | |
him to pull out of matches recently. He pulled out last year of Wimbledon | :53:54. | :54:00. | |
because of an injury. Not going well for Kei Nishikori and I wonder if he | :54:01. | :54:04. | |
will continue in this match. We'll keep you up with that. . Back to | :54:05. | :54:06. | |
Centre Court. Johnson is doing OK, as high as he | :54:07. | :54:18. | |
ever has been in the rankings, 29th. This is the biggest stage of his | :54:19. | :54:22. | |
career so far, Centre Court. Against Roger Federer. | :54:23. | :55:10. | |
It is a quizzical look on Federer's face. He is trying to work out what | :55:11. | :55:17. | |
he is dealing with. Johnson's style is unusual. You have to shift gears | :55:18. | :55:25. | |
when you play Steve Johnson because when you hit it to his backhand, it | :55:26. | :55:29. | |
is so different than what comes off the forehand. When you hit it off | :55:30. | :55:34. | |
his forehand, you are on your heels. I have been on the other side of | :55:35. | :55:41. | |
that forehand, and it is a monster, but it is a little different of his | :55:42. | :55:47. | |
backhand. I think Roger will work it out eventually but it may take him | :55:48. | :55:48. | |
some time. Only serving at 47% first serves. He | :55:49. | :56:02. | |
needs a big one here. You have to check that he is running | :56:03. | :57:13. | |
on his feet like normal people because when he moves like that he | :57:14. | :57:15. | |
looks like he is on rollers. The first significant blow delivered | :57:16. | :57:39. | |
by the Swiss. There is quite often a significant breeze on Centre Court | :57:40. | :57:42. | |
coming from one way or the other and Federer has the breeze behind him. | :57:43. | :57:46. | |
Serving uphill into the wind, you have got to make first serves. In | :57:47. | :57:57. | |
the last service game, Johnson didn't do that. | :57:58. | :58:18. | |
What a shot! A bullet from Stevie J down the line. His racket is so | :58:19. | :58:28. | |
loosely strung it doesn't take much for him to generate power. Cold | :58:29. | :58:34. | |
winner. 0-30 all of a sudden. Just explain to the uninitiated. The | :58:35. | :59:15. | |
looser the strings, the more the ball comes off, like a trampoline. | :59:16. | :59:20. | |
More power. You can be more aggressive and generate pace, but | :59:21. | :59:23. | |
when you are struggling with confidence you feel like you don't | :59:24. | :59:24. | |
have the control. You will probably vary your spin | :59:25. | :59:37. | |
tension depending on the ball. At Wimbledon, the ball is quite heavy | :59:38. | :59:40. | |
and he will be stringing a bit looser to give yourself more help | :59:41. | :59:42. | |
with the racket. Tim talked about the wind at | :59:43. | :00:19. | |
Federer's back. That can make its challenging for Federer to play | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
aggressively when Johnson is keeping the ball solo. He had to be careful | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
that the wind doesn't blow the ball long on his ground strokes. | :00:28. | :00:43. | |
What have you got, Jim? What have I got? I have a little Federer | :00:44. | :00:55. | |
Hawk-Eye. He has been pretty predictable with his first serve, he | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
has hit four down the tee in the ad court but he has been primarily | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
targeting the forehand wing in the deuce side. Trying to open up the | :01:07. | :01:15. | |
court. I'm surprised he's going so often in the tee in the ad court. I | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
would have thought he might try to serve a bit more out wide and | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
perhaps serve and volley a bit on the backhand wing knowing it is a | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
bit more difficult for Steve to hurt him. Certainly when you know your | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
opponent, and for me being a serve and volley back in the day, when you | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
knew your opponent was going to chip the return, if you get in nice and | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
tight you know you will have the opportunity to be aggressive on the | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
first volley. Interesting to follow that for the rest of the match, | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
whether Federer starts varying his serving tactic, going to the | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
backhand a little more. That is a good service placement. Six or seven | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
feet above your head would be perfect! | :02:02. | :02:14. | |
Everybody thinks that logo on the cap is for Roger but it is actually | :02:15. | :03:22. | |
for Robert! 12 T-shirts around said the court | :03:23. | :03:40. | |
that actually says Robert on them. -- one or two. | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
That is unstoppable. Johnson gets what he wants, a first ball forehand | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
on the return of serve but Federer is so quickly around, look at the | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
footwork, he leaps into it, poetry in motion. | :04:02. | :04:12. | |
UMPIRE: Mr Johnson is challenging the call. The ball was called out. | :04:13. | :04:46. | |
Steve Johnson is hoping for some help otherwise that first set has | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
just gone. That first set has just gone. | :04:52. | :05:10. | |
You have to of my Steve Johnson. He is the type of player, you get the | :05:11. | :05:19. | |
impression looking from a distance, he makes the absolute most of what | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
he has. He is not blessed with the supra talk talents of eight Roger | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
Federer put hear the pips squeak. -- supernatural talents. He was a | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
practice partner in 2011 on the US Davis Cup team. We were in Texas | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
playing Spain, we had a celebration at Andy Roddick's house because it | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
was the 4th of July. We decided to do a tradition, a hot dog eating | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
contest with our practice partners and communications director! The | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
contest was set, who could eat five hotdogs with buns the fastest. There | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
was a bit of a wager going on and we all thought the communications | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
director had a bit more room in his belly, let's say, than the players! | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
Steve thoroughly thrashed the field and it was clear to me he would be a | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
very successful professional at that point because he was still in | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
college! When you can dominate with someone with as much experience as | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
Tim Curry, our communications director, has, at eating hot legs, | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
you'd know you are onto something. -- hotdogs. I always knew that Jim | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
had the ability to spot potential and that just confirms it. | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
You just have to ask the right questions, Tim. How else do top | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
athlete judge themselves these days? Hotdogs. | :07:02. | :07:11. | |
That jacket was something else, we might need to have another look at | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
that. I'm also interested to see the | :07:15. | :07:40. | |
improvement Johnson has made with his end of year ranking. He asked | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
just gone up and up since he got a ranking in 2007. APPLAUSE | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
Nicely played. 29 in the world now, do you think he | :07:55. | :08:03. | |
could be top 20? Yes, I do. It's great to see Federer up and | :08:04. | :08:28. | |
running again at a Grand Slam, no sign of the back twinge that kept | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
him away from Roland Garros or the knee injury that brought an abrupt | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
end to Melbourne. That is that jacket, it really is something else. | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
A ridiculous injury after he lost to Djokovic, I'm sure a lot of you know | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
about it but he heard a click in his knee when he was running the bath | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
for his daughters and it kept him out for a couple of months. But he | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
is looking sharp. It has been eight difficult year for | :08:55. | :09:49. | |
Roger Federer as a result of that. His initial plan because of the | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
Olympics... Who is that? Ian Poulter. You remember him from the | :09:54. | :10:02. | |
Ryder Cup? Dominating the Americans? He lives in my neighbourhood in | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
Orlando. Anyway, Federer was going to take two months off after Indian | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
Wells and not play any warm up tournament on Clegg and just go from | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
Roland Garros to the US Open with the Olympics in between but he had | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
to change that -- on clay. With the injury, he added some tournaments to | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
get some matches he had missed. And from Johnson's point of view, he | :10:28. | :10:46. | |
has not made the best start but Federer has played very well. Is it | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
time to look at plan B or is it more about doing plan a bit better? I | :10:52. | :11:01. | |
think it is executing a bit more. At 2-2, he was the one who had chances | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
in the first set, he had three break points and Roger saved them all and | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
he has not lost a game since. -- plan a is what he brings to the | :11:09. | :11:31. | |
table. He could serve and volley some. He has not done much of that | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
yet. What would you suggest? Put your | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
coaching hat on. I like his game style and the | :11:41. | :12:02. | |
weapons he has. He has too tried to get more first serves in and look to | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
dictate with his forehand but I would like to see him finishing a | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
few more points at the net and being a bit more proactive. He was looking | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
to serve and volley there. The more time you give Federer at the | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
opportunity to use the skills he has got, the more running you are going | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
to do. APPLAUSE | :12:23. | :12:40. | |
He is just one of those players, he has opponents rifling through plan | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
B, C, B, D. And he has more options than the other man by and large. | :12:48. | :12:57. | |
That was Peter Smith they just showed, who is the men's tennis | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
coach at the college Steve Johnson played so successfully at, USC out | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
in Los Angeles. Right now, nothing is coming easy | :13:10. | :13:32. | |
for Steve Johnson, that was another scrap to hold onto a service game. | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
And the first game he has won in a while so it must feel good. | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
Peter Smith his college coach just flew in for this occasion. | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
Is that standard procedure? He doesn't worry about the early | :13:52. | :14:00. | |
rounds, flies in for Centre Court? Pretty much, it is a bit like what | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
the Federer family used to do in Australia, they would go to New | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
Zealand for the first week of the tournament and then rock up for | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
second week! A nice little holiday while everybody else is grinding it | :14:13. | :14:13. | |
out. But Craig Boynton is definitely | :14:14. | :14:26. | |
watching Sam Querrey play right now because he is not here. He is | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
missing some sweetness from Roger Federer! Stefan Edberg just lent | :14:35. | :14:42. | |
across and said, I taught him that! One of the shots we will remember | :14:43. | :15:43. | |
for a long time from that man. Let's look at where Roger has been | :15:44. | :15:56. | |
hitting his return to how aggressive he has been. Look how far inside he | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
is, the blue dot indicate a second serve. It looks to be about four | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
feet inside the line and you can see how aggressive he has been on them. | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
The first serves he has taken a bit more time because it is coming with | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
a bit more pace from Steve Johnson but particularly looking at the top | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
left-hand corner, those two blue dots, how far he is going inside to | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
get them, and that is because Johnson kicks the second serve so | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
much so he has to get it early otherwise it will be up over his | :16:29. | :16:29. | |
shoulder and unplayable. Going back to that beautiful | :16:30. | :16:46. | |
backhand volley that just sashayed across the net, if you are ever | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
lucky enough to watch Roger Federer practice, it is the kind of shot he | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
does all the time in practice, he just gives the impression he just | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
loves the game, the sport, seeing what his body can do and what he can | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
do with his racket and it is moment like that, you hear him chuckling on | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
the practice courts like that with little shots like that. | :17:12. | :17:22. | |
The money is a bonus when you have the talent Roger Federer has but he | :17:23. | :17:30. | |
just luxuriates in that God-given ability. He does and he has worked | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
incredibly hard and we see his attacking attributes but in eight | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
point like that we also see how good he is at defending. -- in a point. | :17:39. | :17:47. | |
He picked the right way to hit the backhand down the line and get the | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
opportunity to move forward. As soon as Federer has neutralised | :17:50. | :18:15. | |
the point with the return of serve, they are both on the baseline and | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
when he gets the opportunity to move forward, he will target that | :18:21. | :18:21. | |
backhand time and time again. APPLAUSE | :18:22. | :18:49. | |
The thing with having such a big forehand is that you can back it up | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
and up because they had to respect your power but if you can also have | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
finesse, that is a great option that he needs to deploy. Federer can | :19:00. | :19:01. | |
defend but he can't be everywhere. It's funny, Federer hated the drop | :19:02. | :19:20. | |
shot but he finally conceded and started to use it the year he won at | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
Roland Garros and it helped him quite a bit but he just didn't want | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
to play it himself, he had an allergy to it! | :19:30. | :20:29. | |
The first major signpost in this second set as Michael McIntyre | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
watches on. Federer almost invited Johnson to | :20:34. | :21:06. | |
come forward on that break point, he played the short return. Johnson hit | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
a good approach to be fair but Federer went straight back at him | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
with the fast forehand and he couldn't handle the volley. Both | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
breaks of serve have come of that same play, Federer going right | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
through the middle of the court with Johnson at the net, Johnson trying | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
the drop volley and missing it. And in terms of front runners, there | :21:26. | :21:33. | |
are not many better than Federer. Just deciding whether to engage | :21:34. | :21:57. | |
seventh gear! Steve Johnson might be thinking, you | :21:58. | :22:12. | |
are finding sixth right now, Roger! Enjoyed his 18th Wimbledon. His | :22:13. | :22:37. | |
debut was back in 1999, I wonder who remembers his first round defeat to | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
Jiri Novak. We should not bypass 2001! I think | :22:43. | :22:57. | |
he played his first match on Centre Court. Against? He beat Pete | :22:58. | :23:10. | |
Sampras. Just checking. And how many more will we see? That is one of the | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
parlour games these days. How many more times will he grace this court | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
and this championship? Long ago he said that this year was a year he | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
was targeting to try to get to his fifth Olympics and to play in Rio. | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
He is playing at such a high level now, it does not seem like there is | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
any call for him to stop or slow down. | :23:36. | :24:46. | |
Federer largely in cruise control but Steve Johnson still swinging | :24:47. | :25:26. | |
away. Let's see what he can connect with. Federer with the break at 4-2. | :25:27. | :26:50. | |
SUE BARKER: So it is all going Roger Federer's waits at the moment. We | :26:51. | :26:59. | |
are going to leave this match on BBC Two but if you want to continue | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
watching it is on BBC One right now -- Roger Federer's way. Dominika | :27:05. | :27:16. | |
Cibulkova was up break up but Radwanska has broken back but as you | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
can see, she is in trouble on serve again at 0-30 serve a tight match on | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
court number three which you can watch on the red button. Kei | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
Nishikori on Court Number Two has decided he had had enough. What a | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
sad end to his Wimbledon challenge, he was forced to pull out last year | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
because of a calf injury but we think it is a recurrence of his rib | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
injury that forced him to pull out of the match in Halle. His team told | :27:45. | :27:52. | |
him he could not go on committee only won seven points in the first | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
set and he could risk further injury so a wise move to pull out because | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
he did not look like coming back to win the match so Marin Cilic will go | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
through to the quarter final once again but a sad end to the challenge | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
of Nishikori. We are heading out to Court Number One to see Madison Keys | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
who has come back and taken the first set on the tie-break and has | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
break point here against Simona Halep, the number five seed so we | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
can join Jo Durie and Chris Bradnam for this one. | :28:25. | :28:32. | |
Buttler and Madison Keys builds on the momentum. | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
CHRIS BRADNAM: It was very comfortable until Ball, Halep broke | :28:39. | :28:50. | |
and served for the first set and had set point but it is not looking good | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
right now. JO DURIE: And it has affected her, she had four set | :28:57. | :29:02. | |
points and lost them through a double fault and missed | :29:03. | :29:06. | |
opportunities so Halep might still be pondering that. | :29:07. | :29:16. | |
And I think Keys has been pretty restrained. She has hit some big | :29:17. | :29:23. | |
shots but has often observed that big kick out wide on this side of | :29:24. | :29:25. | |
the court. -- kicker. She has had real problems | :29:26. | :29:36. | |
when she had moved up to the net, getting the point won. She really | :29:37. | :29:43. | |
has, quite a few opportunities to volley and she has pushed a few of | :29:44. | :29:46. | |
them. Challenged that instantly. Very few challenges in the match. | :29:47. | :29:54. | |
That one caught the line. She is not happy. I don't think it | :29:55. | :30:10. | |
is worth arguing, she won't get anywhere. First serve again. | :30:11. | :30:30. | |
Again. That must be what we have seen already in the opening set. She | :30:31. | :30:37. | |
has really missed some howlers and then others she has pushed and let | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
Halep back in. A horrible height. Not a smash, and not easy to hit | :30:43. | :30:44. | |
that. I have to say, I feel very nervous | :30:45. | :31:22. | |
every time Keys goes to the net. I am not sure what she is going to do. | :31:23. | :31:29. | |
She has won half, seven from 14, but Halep has not won at the net yet, | :31:30. | :31:32. | |
and she has a similar problem. Well, there you go! Much calmer. Got | :31:33. | :32:13. | |
the right action on the volley, came across it. | :32:14. | :32:22. | |
UMPIRE: Game, Mace Miss Keys. An impressive scoreboard on | :32:23. | :32:40. | |
Independence Day for the American number three. Three still left in | :32:41. | :32:43. | |
the draw, with the Williams sisters of course. Keys's coach looked like | :32:44. | :32:51. | |
he was trying to get her going. I don't think she has jogged around | :32:52. | :32:55. | |
and looked energetic enough on the return of serve. I think she could | :32:56. | :32:56. | |
be more threatening. Great length, or is it? I thought | :32:57. | :33:19. | |
that was in. It looked inside the line. | :33:20. | :33:27. | |
16 winners, 23 unforced for Keys. Always interesting to watch. Such a | :33:28. | :33:55. | |
powerful player. She chose the hardest shot. That | :33:56. | :34:14. | |
bounced so low and it is a very high part of the net. | :34:15. | :34:37. | |
UMPIRE: Game, Miss Halep. New balls, please. | :34:38. | :34:47. | |
Second love hold for Halep, and that was an important one at the end of | :34:48. | :34:57. | |
the last set. She is back on track. Not a particularly great game by | :34:58. | :35:01. | |
Miss. Maybe she has pulled Halep back into this. We have been | :35:02. | :35:07. | |
watching a lot of Halep this year and it is up and down emotionally | :35:08. | :35:12. | |
with her sometimes. She had her coat come on court in the WTA event, when | :35:13. | :35:17. | |
your code is allowed to come on. He is very calm and talks through the | :35:18. | :35:23. | |
process of playing. I think she gets too down on herself at times. All | :35:24. | :35:31. | |
the players in the women's game, we talk about the consistency of | :35:32. | :35:35. | |
staying up there. She made the final of the French and the WTA finals and | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
we thought she would be the next big Challenger to Serena Williams. | :35:40. | :35:52. | |
Fabianski net a retired. -- Pennetta retired. | :35:53. | :36:29. | |
Oh, dear. I never thought I would see Madison Keys play a moon ball on | :36:30. | :36:36. | |
a grass court. Funny how she tucks her skirt in | :36:37. | :36:44. | |
like that. It is just what she does. It is the first kicker she has | :36:45. | :37:26. | |
missed. Second double fault. She has hit that kicker served so well | :37:27. | :37:32. | |
today. I am amazed how high it bounces. | :37:33. | :37:44. | |
Chance to get the break back. Keys has just gone off the boil a bit. | :37:45. | :37:57. | |
Quite big reactions from Keys throughout the whole of this match. | :37:58. | :38:32. | |
She is feeling it at times. Another break point. It is the one we have | :38:33. | :38:42. | |
seen, and to use it on the first serve, as well. So nice to have a | :38:43. | :38:48. | |
server like that and she can change it, she has the skill to do it. | :38:49. | :39:05. | |
It is as though she is trying to hand this game to Halep at the | :39:06. | :39:09. | |
moment. Good switch. Is that a royal wave? | :39:10. | :39:18. | |
Must have seen you in the box! There have been so many let calls in | :39:19. | :39:57. | |
this match so far. It's just holds the ball up enough to interrupt your | :39:58. | :39:58. | |
rhythm. Keys really let Halep off the hook. | :39:59. | :40:30. | |
A pretty dreadful game. The last shot in particular. She got it all | :40:31. | :40:32. | |
wrong and she knows it. Halep has weathered a bit of a | :40:33. | :40:46. | |
storm. Back to 2-2. To good. 82 mph, right in the hit | :40:47. | :41:16. | |
zone, that serve, and boy, did it get it? | :41:17. | :41:35. | |
Just enough pace off the court. Halep likes the down the line | :41:36. | :41:40. | |
backhand. Amazing service speed, 87 mph, just | :41:41. | :41:57. | |
making sure she gets it in. Really racking up the unforced | :41:58. | :42:30. | |
errors. Up to 31. Halep up to eight. Always going to be interesting | :42:31. | :42:32. | |
watching this, the winners as well. Halep challenging the call. The ball | :42:33. | :42:56. | |
was called out. I don't think so. She gave it an anxious look as soon | :42:57. | :42:58. | |
as she hit it. Well directed from Halep. She takes | :42:59. | :43:29. | |
the pace off the ball and she adds spin and she is very accurate. | :43:30. | :43:44. | |
Wonderful. Trusting herself still. She hits big off both sides, Keys, | :43:45. | :43:58. | |
and it is hard to spot which direction it is going in. | :43:59. | :44:22. | |
Another break point. Three from four converted. | :44:23. | :44:47. | |
Yes, that is the one she has been searching for. Just makes Keys run | :44:48. | :44:54. | |
more. She can be very hard on herself, | :44:55. | :45:34. | |
Keys. She has had quite a few coaches in the last year or two. The | :45:35. | :45:42. | |
latest has added more spin, more margin. | :45:43. | :46:06. | |
An interesting stage in the match for Madison Keys. Does she continue | :46:07. | :46:26. | |
to grow as big as she has been at the moment? She is losing that | :46:27. | :46:33. | |
battle. Does she continue to trade more? It is not in her psyche. I | :46:34. | :46:38. | |
actually think she is not going big enough. I think she is being a bit | :46:39. | :46:44. | |
content. When you get tight across the shoulders, you cannot swing as | :46:45. | :46:47. | |
you would like to across the ball. I think she is trying to get the ball | :46:48. | :46:52. | |
in. There is more top-spin on it. She is on a grass court and she has | :46:53. | :46:57. | |
got a big game. She is going to miss some, yes, but where is the threat | :46:58. | :47:01. | |
to Halep at the moment? She is missing them but she isn't hitting | :47:02. | :47:05. | |
them that hard at the moment. Interesting. This matchup is very | :47:06. | :47:11. | |
interesting. Halep is so good defensively and moves brilliantly | :47:12. | :47:16. | |
and she gets a lot of awkward balls back for Keys to deal with. They | :47:17. | :47:24. | |
split their two previous matches a couple of years ago, Sydney and | :47:25. | :47:28. | |
Rome, hard court and clay-court obviously, and this is the first on | :47:29. | :47:32. | |
grass. Madison Keys won in Birmingham and she pulled out of | :47:33. | :47:36. | |
Eastbourne to rest the right shoulder. Halep withdrew from | :47:37. | :47:39. | |
Birmingham because of Achilles problems at the first part of the | :47:40. | :47:43. | |
year. First grass court tournament for her. She has got through to the | :47:44. | :47:51. | |
fourth round very comfortably, Halep. Her first real big test. | :47:52. | :48:16. | |
Wow. Great athlete. That was unexpected but she used the pace. I | :48:17. | :48:30. | |
love Keys's reaction. She applauds her opponent, which is nice to see. | :48:31. | :49:00. | |
Scotty Burns on the left, the trainer for Keys. | :49:01. | :49:15. | |
Well done in the end. She is moving better. Definitely. Keys has | :49:16. | :49:29. | |
improved her movement. That will feel good, putting a volley away. | :49:30. | :49:57. | |
UMPIRE: Game, Miss Keys. An important hold for Keys. I wonder if | :49:58. | :50:10. | |
the tactic at the beginning of the match was for Keys to plug in a bit | :50:11. | :50:13. | |
more and then she missed so many volleys that she got frightened of | :50:14. | :50:20. | |
doing it? But now she is doing it so much better. | :50:21. | :50:26. | |
Huge. Yes, that is the one that Keys pounces on and suddenly it is it so | :50:27. | :50:58. | |
much harder. -- hit harder. Getting the consistency back. Going | :50:59. | :51:18. | |
for it much more as well. She has listened to you! | :51:19. | :51:38. | |
APPLAUSE Look at their faces. You can just | :51:39. | :51:54. | |
hear the difference. The sound of the ball off the racket. Tremendous, | :51:55. | :52:02. | |
great timing. That is a full swing. Three more break points. | :52:03. | :52:26. | |
It is lovely movement first of all from Halep and nice soft hands on | :52:27. | :52:30. | |
the racket to get that angle. SUE BARKER: The fightback from | :52:31. | :53:16. | |
Halep. We are going to leave this match because we are going to | :53:17. | :53:20. | |
another thrilling fourth round match at the moment. You can follow it on | :53:21. | :53:25. | |
the red button. On Centre Court, Roger Federer is in action, two sets | :53:26. | :53:31. | |
to love. Steve Johnson has just broken back. That match is going | :53:32. | :53:37. | |
well on BBC One. We are heading out to court number three, a real | :53:38. | :53:40. | |
roller-coaster of a match. Six games all in the third and final set | :53:41. | :53:46. | |
between two of the toughest competitors on the tour. Agnieszka | :53:47. | :53:49. | |
Radwanska and Cibulkova. Tracy Austin and James Burridge are | :53:50. | :53:54. | |
commentating. We are being spoiled rotten on court | :53:55. | :54:09. | |
three. Both pairs have had a match point each. Friends and family can't | :54:10. | :54:19. | |
bear to watch. The hitting of these two players is of the highest | :54:20. | :54:20. | |
quality. My goodness me. How can you possibly | :54:21. | :54:44. | |
hit a drop shot like that going backwards at this stage of the | :54:45. | :54:51. | |
match? And from behind the baseline. They don't teach you to do the drop | :54:52. | :54:56. | |
shot like this. That took nerves of steel. Incredible. | :54:57. | :55:20. | |
What has been so fantastic about this match in the late stages is | :55:21. | :55:40. | |
that these points have been won and not lost. The quality has been | :55:41. | :55:41. | |
exceptional. She had five break points in the | :55:42. | :56:09. | |
last service game, Agnieszka Radwanska, and she couldn't close | :56:10. | :56:14. | |
the deal. Now she has one. Not brave enough to sneak back into his seat! | :56:15. | :56:24. | |
Oh, yes! This time she only needed one. UMPIRE: Game, Miss Cibulkova. | :56:25. | :56:36. | |
Come and join us. She needs your support! | :56:37. | :56:46. | |
Agnieszka Radwanska has been here before. In the second round she | :56:47. | :56:55. | |
saved three match points and got away with a net call on the third | :56:56. | :57:00. | |
and then her opponent had that dreadful ankle twist, but she has | :57:01. | :57:05. | |
prevailed, not just this year but on so many occasions. Agnieszka | :57:06. | :57:11. | |
Radwanska somehow finds a way with a variety of changes of spin and | :57:12. | :57:16. | |
paste. Tracking that extra ball down. Tremendous defence. Never | :57:17. | :57:21. | |
seems to panic, terrific demeanour. By contrast, on the other side, | :57:22. | :57:27. | |
Cibulkova, she has got the fire in her belly. She plays with such | :57:28. | :57:33. | |
urgency. Terrific footwork. She rarely takes anything off any shot. | :57:34. | :57:41. | |
All out aggression. Over an hour ago she broke and was serving for the | :57:42. | :57:57. | |
match at 5-4. She had a match point. Agnieszka Radwanska came back in the | :57:58. | :57:58. | |
second set. Here she is again, serving for the | :57:59. | :58:02. | |
match. Still hiding, still praying. They | :58:03. | :59:23. | |
are supposed to get married on the weekend. Out! Miss Cibulkova is | :59:24. | :59:35. | |
challenging the call. The ball was called out. | :59:36. | :59:50. | |
30-0 back to 30-30. This is when she needs to summon all that resolve and | :59:51. | :59:54. | |
strength. What are shot! And what a time. We | :59:55. | :00:38. | |
could be here all day! Tomasz Wiktorowski has seen that time and | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
time again. The magician, the Ninja, so many nicknames for this young | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
lady. She's done it again! Down but not | :00:49. | :01:28. | |
out yet. Just improvises so well, whatever she needs to do to get that | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
ball back, the flexibility. She just got so low, even Radwanska | :01:32. | :01:54. | |
could not scoop that one back. She didn't really need to go for | :01:55. | :02:44. | |
that shot then. I just wonder if fatigue is setting in for both | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
players. They have both been pushed and these are all out sprints for | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
two hours and 49 minutes. Cibulkova not bouncing around quite as much as | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
she was. It was incessant jumping. What a time for a double. Her second | :02:58. | :03:10. | |
of the match. The forearms tightening. The mind | :03:11. | :03:26. | |
going crazy. What is it like for the coaches watching? | :03:27. | :03:46. | |
Yes! APPLAUSE The perfect point from the | :03:47. | :03:55. | |
Cibulkova, always looking for the forehand. Dictating with the inside | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
out and terrific footwork for the winner, inside in. Another break | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
point. She has had so many over this match. Agnieszka Radwanska once | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
again, that first serve. The variety in this game, look at | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
that for break point saved, 15! 21 altogether she has faced. And you | :04:25. | :04:45. | |
can add one more to the list. Again, the return of serve was rifled right | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
back down at her feet. It looks as if she is gasping for air, | :04:53. | :04:53. | |
Cibulkova. She is getting there. What fabulous, | :04:54. | :05:29. | |
fabulous fight from these two players. How much have they got left | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
in the tank? Cibulkova breaks 8-7, she leads. | :05:37. | :05:50. | |
SUE BARKER: We will be right back in this match in just a moment to see | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
her serve for it but let's take you back to Court Number One and the | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
match you were watching earlier to tell you that Simona Halep has | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
broken to take that second set so it is now 1-1 and if you want to watch | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
that, it is on the red button. Roger Federer is on Centre Court which is | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
the match on BBC One. Here on BBC Two, we are heading back to court | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
number three. JAMES BURRIDGE: This is a fantastic | :06:19. | :06:29. | |
advertisement for women's tennis, one of the matches of the | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
Championships. Every point here is being won, not lost by an unforced | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
error or a mistake. They are taking the match to each other. We are | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
almost approaching three hours here on court number three. Dominika | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
Cibulkova serving for the match for the third time. | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
Neither player is able to just serve their opponent off the court. Like | :06:57. | :07:22. | |
Serena Williams did the other day in that last game when she came up with | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
three aces in the final game against Christina McHale. Both of these | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
players had to work for every point and outmanoeuvre their opponent. | :07:34. | :08:09. | |
That is phenomenal! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
Lie down! Who can blame her? Every inch of physical and mental power | :08:18. | :08:25. | |
won at that point. And you can excuse that kind of | :08:26. | :09:09. | |
error. Who can last at this level of attrition? | :09:10. | :09:56. | |
-- what a shot. Agnieszka Radwanska is weathering the storm. But I think | :09:57. | :10:12. | |
she is having to deal with a hurricane here. 21 shots. Where are | :10:13. | :10:21. | |
they finding these physical reserves? | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
Time violation. She has had this problem throughout the match. I just | :10:29. | :10:39. | |
had a bad toss. That is the third time this has happened. | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
I think that is a very tough call. You have around 20 seconds between | :10:47. | :11:00. | |
each point. And repeatedly we are seeing the ball toss going wrong on | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
the first serve. The umpire has called her up on it, twice, that is | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
the third time. Second serve. Mr Radwanska is challenging the | :11:12. | :11:32. | |
call. The ball was called out -- Miss Radwanska. Apparently that | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
wasn't much longer than 20 seconds. Another match point goes begging. | :11:41. | :12:02. | |
She has to challenge this. And once again, the forehand to the | :12:03. | :13:22. | |
rescue. Can she summoned enough for one more point? -- summon. She had | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
dictated the tempo, the energy, the atmosphere. | :13:31. | :13:49. | |
Third time lucky! The pocket rocket is through to the Wimbledon | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
quarterfinals! . -- a sensational match. Standing | :13:58. | :14:14. | |
ovation and in matters like this it is just a shame there is a winner | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
and a loser. Dominika Cibulkova can believe it but take nothing away | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
from the performance of the number three seed, Agnieszka Radwanska. She | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
gave her all, she gave her everything, but it is the lady with | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
the beaming smile who can toast a sensational victory. | :14:38. | :14:47. | |
Agnieszka Radwanska leaves the stage. She came through one of these | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
in the second round, winning it 9-7 against Ana Konjuh. This time it is | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
the number 19 seed who prevails but that was one of the standard matches | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
of these championships. The 56th winner. It is at least three hours | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
and Cibulkova comes through. She was brave, after not being able to | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
finish it in the second set, missing out on a match point, tremendous | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
resolve and resilience to final thing -- finally finished it deep in | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
the third set. 84 minutes, that third set. Fantastic performance, | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
fantastic player, Dominika Cibulkova cannot quite believe it and I'm not | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
sure court number three can either. SUE BARKER: And no surprise, a | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
standing ovation for both players in that match. What a treat for the | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
crowd. They could not have wished for more. It had everything but most | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
of all it had high-quality tennis. A wonderful match from the two players | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
and a wonderful advert for women's tennis and it is Cibulkova who goes | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
through. She is getting married on Saturday but she might have other | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
plans! Meanwhile, over on Centre Court, Roger Federer has just gone | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
through against Steve Johnson in straight sets. It was vintage | :16:15. | :16:22. | |
Federer, 6-2, 6-3, 7-5. The family and the fans are delighted, he is so | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
popular here and I am sure he will be delighted with how we played, | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
putting aside a very difficult opponent who has been in form on the | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
grass courts, winning at Nottingham and a couple of rounds at Queen's | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
and also putting at Grigor Dimitrov in the last round but it was one-way | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
traffic on Centre Court as Roger Federer marches through to another | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
quarterfinal. Serena Williams will be next on Centre Court against | :16:48. | :16:56. | |
Svetlana Kuznetsova. We are heading back to Court Number One. Simona | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
Halep is 2-1 up in the third set against Madison Keys so let's rejoin | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
Jo Durie and Chris Bradnam. CHRIS BRADNAM: Simona Halep is | :17:05. | :17:17. | |
battling well, saving four break points at 3-3 in the second set and | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
she has marched on since. Five minutes ago, you thought that | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
Madison Keys had whacked herself with her racket and she has been | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
hobbling since. It was when she was serving. After the points finished, | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
she had limped a little bit and it is obviously troubling her. I don't | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
quite know what she did. She is using a lot of drop shots, as if to | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
say that she cannot trust her leg. Was it her right knee? No, her left. | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
I think it is the left. There have been some strong reactions so it is | :18:00. | :18:08. | |
obviously hurting. Please, 1-2, final set -- Keys. | :18:09. | :18:37. | |
She could do with a few more of those serves, just to save herself | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
from moving at the moment. Oh dear. She is trying her best to | :18:42. | :19:51. | |
defend but Halep is very clever. Obviously if your opponent is | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
injured you want to find out what is going on. It must bring back rubble | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
memories for Keys, she had to retire here in the third round two years | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
ago when her left thigh let her down -- horrible memories. | :20:07. | :20:17. | |
We have seen a lot of that this year from Halep, very emotional. She | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
knows, she must have seen Keys hobbling around at the back of the | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
cord so she knows this is a huge opportunity. -- the back of the | :20:30. | :20:38. | |
court. She is unable to push off on the left leg as well. Why not have a | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
time-out? The trainer is there. And nearly all players have done it, | :20:44. | :21:02. | |
if it is on the serve, the follow-through, you can whack your | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
racket on the leg and that hurts. It hurts like mad. But the choices now, | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
she has to hit the ball hard and true if she does not want to run. | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
It is like she cannot really put her weight on it. | :21:22. | :21:41. | |
Particularly on the left side, the backhand side, it seems as if it is | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
hampering her. I think Keys is going to be getting | :21:47. | :22:14. | |
a lot back cans. -- backhands. Another love game on serve for | :22:15. | :22:35. | |
Halep. Nudging that scoreboard, pressure | :22:36. | :22:49. | |
building on Keys for all sorts of reasons here. | :22:50. | :23:00. | |
It is the back of her leg. White has she not got a trainer out there? | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
That looked like a hamstring problem. -- why. It is crazy, even | :23:08. | :23:17. | |
if you just get it taped up. And to take an anti-inflammatory. This is | :23:18. | :23:19. | |
very strange. It seems worse on the backhand. She | :23:20. | :23:31. | |
is definitely not pushing up off the serve as much as she would like to. | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
But no, she hasn't called the trainer, she is going to carry on. | :23:39. | :23:54. | |
At the other end, Simona Halep is bouncing around. An hour and three | :23:55. | :24:07. | |
quarters, 2-3, final set. Just didn't get up to it. | :24:08. | :24:35. | |
And now the pressure on every forehand to make its mark. Just | :24:36. | :24:45. | |
makes no sense white she would not have taken a medical time-out -- | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
why. Superb. She is virtually playing | :24:49. | :25:05. | |
this match on one leg now. She is still pretty good! Yes, rotates off | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
the other knee into that one. APPLAUSE | :25:11. | :25:37. | |
Really that was a desperate tactic by Keys with the drop shot. Two more | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
break points. The left leg is now staying on the | :25:43. | :25:58. | |
ground, there is no launch pad on the serve. Just the tiniest little | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
jump. And the break gifted as a result. | :26:04. | :26:19. | |
I'm afraid so. How upsetting for Madison Keys. Because this match was | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
finely balanced. She looks close to tears. She had to pull out two years | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
ago. And Halep hasn't got to do anything | :26:30. | :26:43. | |
special now. She has seen it all, she will just make it awkward now. | :26:44. | :27:02. | |
Heads down, she is not even looking at Keys. | :27:03. | :27:11. | |
Too good. It has got to be short and sweet from here on in. It has to be. | :27:12. | :27:24. | |
It was a very good return and she was quickly up to the next ball. And | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
if it was cramped, she could still have the trainer on at the sit down. | :27:30. | :27:49. | |
She is dangerous right now, Keys, even more so. As soon as she can get | :27:50. | :27:58. | |
a chance. It is actually hard for Halep as well, how hard does she hit | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
it? Does she go for any chances? Try to get her opponent on the move? | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
Unlucky. Perfect serve, as cruel as that sounds. | :28:11. | :28:21. | |
It is just landing on the leg looks like agony. | :28:22. | :28:35. | |
Hit the line and is checked and it is at ace and it is 5-2, final set. | :28:36. | :28:46. | |
Still the trainer is not rushing on to help Madison Keys. Obviously she | :28:47. | :28:52. | |
has to ask for the trainer, which she hasn't done so far. Why, I don't | :28:53. | :29:00. | |
know. Just some advice, some taping, some help. | :29:01. | :29:10. | |
She is deep in thought. The trainer is there on the left, Lindsey Bauer. | :29:11. | :29:23. | |
Or the primary health care provider as they are called these days. | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
And Thomas Hogstedt. A lot of wise heads. But still no call for the | :29:29. | :29:38. | |
trainer. It is difficult to understand. I just don't get it but | :29:39. | :29:44. | |
there you go. Halep is just trying to keep in her own bubble. | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
It is almost sympathetic applause from the crowd as they come back | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
out. Madison Keys serving to stay in the | :29:55. | :30:05. | |
match. Will it make Halep nervous? She must | :30:06. | :30:53. | |
be thinking, why does Madison not have the trainer on? Nice gentle | :30:54. | :31:10. | |
ball. She has to get Keys moving. 32nd winner. 46 unforced errors. And | :31:11. | :31:22. | |
another. You can understand that error now. She has no choice, but to | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
go for that from every single ball. She asks the question, and that was | :31:27. | :31:57. | |
a nervy forehand from Halep. She could not get the racket through. | :31:58. | :32:12. | |
Sixth Wimbledon. Semi two years ago the best effort. Keys read the | :32:13. | :32:21. | |
serve. Right behind this ball. Cannot get any strength, from the | :32:22. | :32:38. | |
leg, it would seem for the backhand. Halep has to do this, she has to be | :32:39. | :33:02. | |
ruthless. This is big. Either match point or | :33:03. | :33:34. | |
30-30. Well in. Out! Delight for Halep. Second | :33:35. | :34:56. | |
quarter final at Wimbledon. But you have got to fuel for Madison Keys, | :34:57. | :35:04. | |
she was virtually on one leg. -- feel. Second time in three years | :35:05. | :35:16. | |
injury has got the better of the American, an Independence Day, what | :35:17. | :35:23. | |
Halep has got to the quarterfinals. I think she is relieved from this, | :35:24. | :35:35. | |
Keys was hitting it beautifully, but you could see just how pampered she | :35:36. | :35:44. | |
was. She is going to play Kerber in the quarters. -- hampered. Semi | :35:45. | :36:01. | |
finalist here. Lost to Bouchard two years ago. That is going to be | :36:02. | :36:07. | |
tough, against Kerber, the student open champion. I think they are all | :36:08. | :36:14. | |
going to be difficult, from now on, she will be pleased to get through, | :36:15. | :36:20. | |
against a difficult opponent. Halep, she had those four set points, in | :36:21. | :36:31. | |
the opening set, got through it from a set and 2-0 down. Good comeback, | :36:32. | :36:40. | |
for the Romania number one. An hour, 56 minutes. Much to ponder. You have | :36:41. | :36:50. | |
got through to the next round. Madison seemed to have an injury. | :36:51. | :36:55. | |
What could you notice? Thank you. It was a tough match. I know her, she | :36:56. | :37:04. | |
is strong, and the serve is difficult, I do not know what | :37:05. | :37:08. | |
happened, I just wanted to focus. You just have to concentrate on what | :37:09. | :37:14. | |
you are doing. And she seemed to have a real strain. We were | :37:15. | :37:21. | |
surprised she did not call the trainer. I did not notice. I had the | :37:22. | :37:30. | |
chance to finish the opening set, I just wanted to be aggressive, and | :37:31. | :37:37. | |
finish the match. You did that well. A set down. She seemed to be in | :37:38. | :37:43. | |
charge. You showed good mental strength. She dominated the second | :37:44. | :37:51. | |
set, 2-0, it was tough, but I just wanted to stay strong, mentally, and | :37:52. | :37:56. | |
I was fighting for every ball. You continue to make progress. How close | :37:57. | :38:02. | |
are you to your best tennis? I think I am close to the base level. If you | :38:03. | :38:08. | |
prepared, I am confident, I am happy to be on the court, without | :38:09. | :38:11. | |
injuries, I am just looking forward to the next round. Well played. | :38:12. | :38:21. | |
Thank you. That is interesting. She has had injury problems, left leg, | :38:22. | :38:30. | |
achilles, taking her out of Birmingham, and nasal surgery. I | :38:31. | :38:36. | |
think that explains why she was not interested about Madison and those | :38:37. | :38:40. | |
injury problems. She was not interested. I do not care! It's me! | :38:41. | :38:52. | |
Quite right. She had to run. Hang in. She had to run. Hang in. I | :38:53. | :38:56. | |
thought Madison was playing some good tennis. And it was a sigh of | :38:57. | :39:09. | |
relief. Nothing better. Just look at that. And she will play Kerber | :39:10. | :39:23. | |
tomorrow. Happy with that. Madison was expected to go even farther amid | :39:24. | :39:28. | |
competition, but Halep goes through. Before we go to Court Number Two, we | :39:29. | :39:34. | |
can update you on some results. Shvedova has put out Safarova, 6-2, | :39:35. | :39:49. | |
6-4. Going to meet Serena Williams, -- Venus Williams, or Suarez | :39:50. | :40:00. | |
Navarro. And Querrey, marching on, after despatching Djokovic, no | :40:01. | :40:10. | |
defeating Mahut, the first American at the quarterfinals of the Grand | :40:11. | :40:17. | |
Slam, 2011. Since here he is, match point. Querrey, obviously thinks | :40:18. | :40:37. | |
this is in. Another chance! An ace. That is the match. What a way to | :40:38. | :40:48. | |
end. Querrey marches on, we are going to be | :40:49. | :41:00. | |
seeing Raonic in just a moment, that there's Serena Williams, but Raonic, | :41:01. | :41:13. | |
in trouble, he has dropped serve against Goffin. We can join Peter | :41:14. | :41:21. | |
and Andrew. Goffin has just broken serve. Big point. | :41:22. | :41:35. | |
Three straight points for the Belgian. Raonic has made some | :41:36. | :41:46. | |
unforced errors, uncharacteristic, perhaps overthinking this. That was | :41:47. | :41:58. | |
mental, more than anything else. Backs up the break of serve. Hold of | :41:59. | :42:07. | |
his own. New balls. It has been fascinating, but Goffin has been | :42:08. | :42:14. | |
able to read the Raonic serve wait nobody else so far. | :42:15. | :42:27. | |
Being down a break will almost help Raonic relax, 60% first serves in. | :42:28. | :42:37. | |
Not good enough. If the Canadian, that is the brain | :42:38. | :43:05. | |
trust, chatting away, catching up... Or not! Chewing away! They were when | :43:06. | :43:11. | |
John arrived! Sealing his energy, getting ready to | :43:12. | :43:57. | |
serve for the first set. It can happen like that, when a player is | :43:58. | :44:10. | |
down a break, pressure is off. Lose serve again, on your way to losing | :44:11. | :44:14. | |
the set. You can almost get into the good rhythm, and it looked as though | :44:15. | :44:22. | |
Raonic relaxed, some good serves in that game. Day eight of the | :44:23. | :44:35. | |
Championships, normally it would be seven, but it was people's Sunday | :44:36. | :44:42. | |
yesterday, the competition catching up, it was an absolute feast of | :44:43. | :44:50. | |
tennis. John has broadcasting commitments, almost more of a | :44:51. | :44:58. | |
consultant, or Raonic, and Riccardo is in the team as well. By all | :44:59. | :45:08. | |
accounts, John has slipped in seamlessly with that situation, | :45:09. | :45:13. | |
getting along well, and everybody in the camp has been excited by his | :45:14. | :45:15. | |
contribution. Deep serve. Hit the line. Checked up | :45:16. | :45:35. | |
a little. Unable to change direction, this is | :45:36. | :46:28. | |
smart, from the Belgian number one. Such a good control. The court, dry. | :46:29. | :46:35. | |
Brown. That makes it slippery. Another cross-court pass. Great joy | :46:36. | :47:26. | |
from those. Set to the Belgian. Goffin takes the opening set, still | :47:27. | :47:50. | |
a long way to go. We will be back with that. This is Andy Murray, on | :47:51. | :47:56. | |
the practice courts, getting ready for his encounter, against Kyrgios, | :47:57. | :48:07. | |
he has been sailing through the opening matches, but taking on the | :48:08. | :48:13. | |
difficult and dangerous opponent, Kyrgios, Kyrgios took 16 from him, | :48:14. | :48:21. | |
at the U.S. Open. But 4-0 in Murray's favour. This is Nick. Just | :48:22. | :48:30. | |
moments ago. Court 18. Watching Hewitt. He does not look as though | :48:31. | :48:37. | |
he is going to be worried, about going onto Centre Court, heater. | :48:38. | :48:48. | |
Very relaxed. -- later. Watching doubles with the Hewitt family. This | :48:49. | :48:58. | |
was Court Number Two, Chang, telling Nishikori that he cannot continue. | :48:59. | :49:04. | |
He was 6-1, 5-1 down to Cilic. You can see how reluctant he was, to go | :49:05. | :49:13. | |
up and she can't. -- shake hands. He is so disappointed because he had to | :49:14. | :49:17. | |
pull out of Wimbledon, last year, it is so sad to see him and the | :49:18. | :49:24. | |
challenge like this. Cilic goes through, Nishikori goes out. This is | :49:25. | :49:32. | |
what he had to say. It started at Halle, the scene injury, and it has | :49:33. | :49:45. | |
been not well these two weeks. It has got worse. Rib area? Every | :49:46. | :50:00. | |
point, it was getting worse. I didn't want to but I had to retire. | :50:01. | :50:08. | |
That injury, causing problems for him again. How sad for him to go out | :50:09. | :50:12. | |
of the Championships like that. Before we go back to Court Number | :50:13. | :50:17. | |
Two, on Centre Court, Serena Williams has started against | :50:18. | :50:23. | |
Kuznetsova, on serve, 2-1. On BBC One. And her sister, on Court Number | :50:24. | :50:34. | |
One. Warming up, leg strapped, she has had that since last autumn, and | :50:35. | :50:41. | |
taking on Suarez Navarro, hoping for an easier passage to the | :50:42. | :50:44. | |
quarterfinal, if you want to watch that, it is on the red button. That | :50:45. | :50:49. | |
is what is happening elsewhere. We can go back to Court Number Two. | :50:50. | :50:53. | |
15-30 on the Raonic serve. Goffin must have read that. With the | :50:54. | :51:27. | |
toss? Going back over the head of Raonic. Stepped left. Pummeled it. | :51:28. | :52:19. | |
That is a nice way to dig yourself out of trouble. Five aces. Not much | :52:20. | :52:33. | |
return. Tells you about how Goffin is reading that. Would normally | :52:34. | :52:37. | |
expect to be a double figures. Beautifully constructive point, | :52:38. | :53:03. | |
until that moment. The game that Goffin broke, 3-3, | :53:04. | :53:42. | |
first set, the body serve Raonic served was 140mph! Into the right | :53:43. | :53:52. | |
hip! Goffin, able to get it all the way, but Raonic has had his serve | :53:53. | :54:08. | |
dealt with, as well as anybody. This is the Queen's finalist, a set and a | :54:09. | :54:12. | |
break up on Andy Murray before losing in three. | :54:13. | :54:25. | |
Of course, what happened to Raonic, during that against Andy Murray, a | :54:26. | :54:39. | |
set and 3-0, perhaps his serve became more conservative, instead of | :54:40. | :54:52. | |
hitting the site claims, it was -- the sidelines, it was a foot | :54:53. | :55:04. | |
once the ball... Gets put into play... Players in the back-court, | :55:05. | :55:15. | |
even terms, Goffin is going to get at least 60% of those. | :55:16. | :55:30. | |
He gets two more balls, more secure, quicker, able to close the net down. | :55:31. | :57:35. | |
He had set it up beautifully. Really played that well. Short ball. Jumped | :57:36. | :57:43. | |
on that. Aired slightly. Both of them, tested as the wind | :57:44. | :58:09. | |
picks up. Court Two. Skies more grey than they were. Ribery expecting | :58:10. | :58:19. | |
this, but still, Raonic cannot break through. Full house. It is certainly | :58:20. | :58:24. | |
darker than it was at the start. Raonic 2-1 up in the second set, | :58:25. | :00:27. | |
2014 Wimbledon, the joint rest grandson finish, lost to Roger | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
Federer, wasn't ready to go any further in terms of real belief, now | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
that has changed at the Australian Open this year semifinal once again. | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
First Canadian man to reach a Grand Slam semifinal back in 2014. We are | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
enjoying this match as the juniors are taken place, the second week, | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
Venus Williams on Court Number One, Serena on Centre Court, just an | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
extraordinary story, the two all the women left in the women's draw. 11 | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
championships between them plus all the success, three Olympic golds | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
together including here in 2012. Against that backdrop we come to the | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
back of the club. Court Number Two which is the lowest playing surface | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
of all of them, it is a bowl here. 15-20 feet or so, below the surface | :01:24. | :01:33. | |
of the adjoining courts. If you walk around you expect 500 seats in here, | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
instead you get 4000. You have got to think that some | :01:36. | :03:51. | |
point Raonic as to make that shot, just put it back in play. Start the | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
rally again. Was not that far out of position. | :03:59. | :04:26. | |
Very well played, fine rally. Chipping and changing direction | :04:27. | :04:35. | |
trying to change pace and come to the net. And you will just has the | :04:36. | :04:46. | |
answer and Goffin has had all the youngsters so far. Still the only | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
break of serve in the first set. Tennis is so often about playing | :04:50. | :05:13. | |
percentages and clearly the simple way of looking at it, if you are in | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
balance and in great position, take the ball on and be aggressive but if | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
you are not and you are off-balance, put it back and start again. If you | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
try to go for a winner when you are out of position or off-balance, you | :05:32. | :05:32. | |
will miss most of them. Simple. He has had joined with that every | :05:33. | :06:20. | |
time Raonic tries to come in, he gets past across court. Right from | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
the first point of this match. From that position, hitting the inside in | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
forehand, if you will, if that is not a winner, it is a loser because | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
you don't have time to get across to cover the crosscourt return. Tying | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
morning. -- time morning. Another mistake, but again it is | :06:41. | :07:19. | |
Goffin making Raonic get that extra ball and these returns of serve are | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
not easy, this was 136 mph first serve, Goffin not only laid a racket | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
on it but got an effective return with it. | :07:31. | :07:52. | |
It is a break that was entered and looks like Raonic's errors are down | :07:53. | :08:04. | |
to David Goffin's perfect game plan. If you're attracted that attends | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
tournament together in these countries, it would be as expensive | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
as the players. I keep wanting to call this man Goffin but it is with | :08:16. | :08:28. | |
the French pronunciation. Carole King was performing tapestry in Hyde | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
Park yesterday. There was play here yesterday, so I had no chance of | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
going there. Sold out. Nice. Classic album. One of the all-time greats as | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
a song called it too late. -- it's too late, which is getting familiar | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
to Raonic, doesn't look like he has got the ability to change his | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
tactics here. One thing he has to change immediately is start serving | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
for the lines because it doesn't matter if you hit it 150 mph, a guy | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
who returns as well as Goffin is going to put the ball back into play | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
if it is in reach. If he gets his racket on it, he is going to put it | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
in and once he starts to rally like that, he is the boss. 120 mph serve | :09:22. | :09:40. | |
that hits the service line is usually not coming back. | :09:41. | :10:25. | |
APPLAUSE That is a start, a really solid | :10:26. | :10:57. | |
return serve by the Canadian. Quickly takes charge. B that is mum, | :10:58. | :11:07. | |
Milos Raonic's. No Raonic is constructing the sort | :11:08. | :11:26. | |
of points that he wants to play. That is his dad, Dusan, came over | :11:27. | :11:36. | |
from Montenegro for job opportunities as an engineer. | :11:37. | :12:27. | |
That is another one. Just fading away when the ball went above the | :12:28. | :12:42. | |
confines of this bowl, caught two, the wind just picking up. Pushing it | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
into the tramlines, two break points squandered. | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
APPLAUSE He will not hit many harder than | :12:57. | :13:11. | |
that. Decent speed for him, it is the accuracy that has been lacking. | :13:12. | :13:22. | |
Raonic really frustrated. Venting his frustration is just a bit. That | :13:23. | :13:40. | |
is one of the things that John McEnroe was hoping he would do, | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
hoping he would let his frustrations out a little bit, but he was | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
bottling them up too much. Big points, Goffin winning half of them. | :13:52. | :14:02. | |
Raonic has lost most of his serve. Subtle differences. | :14:03. | :14:12. | |
That said he was winning half of them? He out of five. -- five out of | :14:13. | :14:22. | |
five. If Raonic is going to turn this | :14:23. | :15:15. | |
around he has to start serving like that a lot more often. 126 but | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
cosied up right next to the centreline. | :15:23. | :15:49. | |
David Goffin is bidding to end an eight match losing streak against | :15:50. | :15:58. | |
top ten players in major championships, and to breakthrough, | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
coming off a quarterfinal at the French Open, lost to Dominic Thiem, | :16:04. | :16:11. | |
who is going to go places. After that victory, career-high ranking of | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
number 11 and he is playing with confidence and trusting himself. | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
Just as we saw the wind coming from the West and affecting Raonic's lobs | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
and there is a bit of moisture in the air, you wouldn't call it rain | :16:27. | :16:35. | |
just yet, more than a missed and I imagine it would be enough for | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
Pascal Maria to say just stay in your chair at the moment. Goffin is | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
asking the question. You have got some seats in the back of the | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
jackets. As the line judges bent forward to get a better angle on the | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
line, it does not give at the back, that is quality work. Good bit of | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
tailoring. Sporting this year's design. | :17:07. | :17:16. | |
It has been a year that you wouldn't turn up to Wimbledon without | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
checking the forecast. Just as it was in Paris, never her more | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
complaints in my life about the weather during the French Open. | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
Freezing cold during the Italian Open as well. Play continues. 4-3 in | :17:35. | :17:43. | |
the second set and a set up. Raonic taking his frustrations out | :17:44. | :18:03. | |
on the ball man. That time Goffin perhaps guilty of | :18:04. | :18:25. | |
just not doing enough with the approach. Interesting, trying to get | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
the Canadian off-balance. Very difficult ball to defend when | :18:32. | :19:04. | |
it is not moving through the court at all. | :19:05. | :19:19. | |
APPLAUSE The ability to change the pace and | :19:20. | :20:06. | |
changed the direction. Really gorgeous player to watch, David | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
Goffin. Less than six feet tall, not the biggest game in the world, | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
knocking on the door of the top ten Andy has really opened up obviously | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
with Novak Djokovic going out, the winner of this to play Sam Querrey. | :20:22. | :20:36. | |
-- and the draw. I'm sure a lot of the purists will hope that Goffin | :20:37. | :20:45. | |
goes through. A matchup between the two Giants, Querrey and Raonic, both | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
at least six foot five. Once again, Raonic having to dig the | :20:53. | :22:26. | |
ball off his shin tops. Goffin making Raonic's serve looked like a | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
pea shooter. What a way to lose your server and | :22:30. | :23:32. | |
lose the set. Two set leave and this would have surprised some. David | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
Goffin, just an hour and a quarter played here on Court Two, a surprise | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
to some but just knew that Goffin was going to present a stern test | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
and go on to play Sam Querrey. Pick that at the start of the tournament. | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
Roger Federer against Marin Cilic in the bottom half of the draw and | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
those matches taking place at the All-England Club today and some | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
junior tennis taking place and some doubles. Johnny Mary, they are | :24:08. | :24:17. | |
wildcards this year. Against Cuevas and Granollers. 13-12 up, fifth set, | :24:18. | :24:30. | |
three match points on court seven. Also the doubles is back to best of | :24:31. | :24:32. | |
five sets. When the rain was around last week, | :24:33. | :24:46. | |
the matches went back to best of three. Still, Raonic not very | :24:47. | :24:57. | |
effective when coming forward. That is costing him in his ability to | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
impose himself on Goffin. Right now, I think both players are thinking, | :25:03. | :25:11. | |
what has he got? If he doesn't a sneak -- ace me,, he can't win the | :25:12. | :25:20. | |
majority of the points against me and on the other side of the coin, | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
Raonic not been able to impose himself with any kind of returning | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
consistency. How many break points has he had? He has had four break | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
points, failed to convert any of them. Two in each set, the news if | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
you are a Raonic supporter is not great, Goffin has won his last five | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
five set matches, stretching back over two years. In the driving seat | :25:50. | :26:03. | |
at the moment. Raonic has gone off court. Trying to pull himself | :26:04. | :26:11. | |
together really. The court coverage is, did you ever have a go at that? | :26:12. | :26:21. | |
No. They train pretty hard and there are some tournaments where they | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
never do any work at all, they just sit there on one of the things they | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
tried to do, they try sometimes to put the ball for the ball goes off | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
at it very really works because they are so unbelievably disciplined. | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
Rigorous selection process but all this lot no doubt going back to | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
university comes temper. " Covers need a lot of stamina. Those caught | :26:49. | :27:00. | |
covers. Doing the job and post job it is great at both ends. | :27:01. | :27:08. | |
The second Thursday of the Championships is when the court | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
coverage people go out and if you want to see some ashen faces, Friday | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
morning would be the time to have a look at them. | :27:22. | :27:31. | |
Friday, a long way away for the loss Raonic, try to get a foothold in | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
this match and keep himself in the tournament. It is time for Milos | :27:37. | :27:45. | |
Raonic to show us something, show us something a little special because | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
clearly conservative is not going to get it done today. | :27:49. | :28:29. | |
He was the hot man on tour at the start of this year, he won matches | :28:30. | :29:12. | |
before coming up against Andy Murray in the semifinal of the Australian | :29:13. | :29:20. | |
Open and was 2-1 up and had a little injury to the leg, fatigued. | :29:21. | :30:23. | |
For the competition, 84%. Today, and the previous matches, just seven out | :30:24. | :30:37. | |
of ten. That is significant. And then the second serve, just not able | :30:38. | :30:44. | |
to get that back into play. Of course, Raonic was not against | :30:45. | :30:48. | |
Goffin, in those matches. Raonic, his opponents so far, the | :30:49. | :32:01. | |
27th seed, Jack Sock, he has not lost a set, so far before coming | :32:02. | :32:09. | |
into this much. Coming down the centreline. | :32:10. | :32:52. | |
Opponents from the past, basically have said I am going to come to the | :32:53. | :33:02. | |
net, 15 times, and if you can get past me, a lot more than that. If | :33:03. | :33:15. | |
you can get past me, that is too good, that can be yours. It is | :33:16. | :33:22. | |
mentally tough, to continually passed someone, putting pressure on | :33:23. | :33:30. | |
you. Possibly, that could take its toll, on Goffin today. | :33:31. | :34:15. | |
You cannot do that. It is the second serve, 89 miles an hour. He gets | :34:16. | :34:29. | |
just some movement, on the second serve. | :34:30. | :34:43. | |
That is nicely played. He was closing the net down quickly. He | :34:44. | :34:50. | |
needed to do that. And he waited just one second more, had he done | :34:51. | :34:55. | |
that, Goffin would have been there. How was that? They said it was good, | :34:56. | :36:41. | |
and Raonic has had a look at this. Positive it was long. And he was | :36:42. | :36:50. | |
correct. That is why it is so important. It could be deuce, | :36:51. | :37:01. | |
without that. He has never come back from two sets down. I know it is | :37:02. | :37:06. | |
still early, but we have had plenty of six, when Raonic goes ahead and | :37:07. | :37:11. | |
wins this, but to come back, it would be quite something. It would | :37:12. | :37:22. | |
be almost the start of the second phase, of his career. When he | :37:23. | :37:32. | |
watches himself, -- launches himself, from a pretender, to the | :37:33. | :37:43. | |
contender. Still so many things, you feel Raonic could improve. We have | :37:44. | :37:51. | |
seen so many implemented, the new coaching team that he has got | :37:52. | :38:01. | |
together. Only 25 years of age. And this, looking at that logically, how | :38:02. | :38:08. | |
many years of improvement left? Rest should, of all of the play-offs,, | :38:09. | :38:19. | |
Raonic is totally vigilant, going towards the end of finally winning | :38:20. | :38:29. | |
this thing. Not somebody who avoids learning new things. He has got the | :38:30. | :38:52. | |
98 squealer inch racquet. -- square. That is a heavy weapon, for Raonic. | :38:53. | :39:39. | |
That's serve, it was not in the corner, it was at the hitting zone. | :39:40. | :39:48. | |
Not good enough. That could be a surprise, for | :39:49. | :40:08. | |
Raonic, because so often, that serve, 141 miles an hour, it just | :40:09. | :40:19. | |
never comes back. It must be a shock to the system, to come up against | :40:20. | :40:26. | |
somebody like Goffin, who essentially, can get it back into | :40:27. | :40:27. | |
the court. It is certainly raining, they are | :40:28. | :42:03. | |
not going to go all the way back, to the changing rooms, they have some | :42:04. | :42:07. | |
little changing rooms, going to the main concourse. But they are going | :42:08. | :42:14. | |
to need to hurry up. That came out of the blue. The staff, at the | :42:15. | :42:27. | |
quarters, not on the court. I do not know if they are going to try to | :42:28. | :42:36. | |
cover the court, or not. It looks as though it would be a good idea. | :42:37. | :42:53. | |
Two, with the Road running alongside that, and some of the courts, with | :42:54. | :43:16. | |
the junior singles, and the doubles taking place today, you can see | :43:17. | :43:27. | |
still some way going on. -- play. I am sure we will be back. Play | :43:28. | :43:40. | |
suspended. It is a surprise. Raonic was looking in such good form, but | :43:41. | :43:44. | |
certainly getting himself back into this. The rain has been falling at | :43:45. | :43:51. | |
Wimbledon, hopefully it is going to blow over quickly. But they are also | :43:52. | :43:56. | |
going to be causing the roof on Centre Court. We will be able to | :43:57. | :44:01. | |
bring you some tennis. Serena Williams is going to be back, to | :44:02. | :44:07. | |
continue against Kuznetsova. That is the story. The roof is closed. They | :44:08. | :44:15. | |
will be walking out, on just a few minutes. That is going to be an BBC | :44:16. | :44:26. | |
One.. But Tomic, up against the man who put out Del Potro, we can join | :44:27. | :44:32. | |
this one from the start. This is the start that you do not | :44:33. | :44:49. | |
dream of it. -- about. That is going to put him at his. -- | :44:50. | :45:32. | |
ease. This is what Pouille is going to be looking for. He is fantastic, | :45:33. | :45:40. | |
incredibly patient. Just going to wait to pull the trigger. | :45:41. | :45:59. | |
I was going to say, that had been nicely covered, but he could not get | :46:00. | :46:08. | |
that back. Tomic should have got that, he should have cut the angle | :46:09. | :46:19. | |
off. Going down the line. But it was just too weak, in the end. | :46:20. | :47:11. | |
That was Pouille's way of displaying, the backhand that Tomic | :47:12. | :47:21. | |
had played. It is break point. He has taken that, Tomic has got the | :47:22. | :48:13. | |
break. Strong staff from the young Australian. It was erratic, from | :48:14. | :48:24. | |
Pouille, but you can't have how flat he can get that forehand. I am sure | :48:25. | :48:34. | |
we will talk more about the erratic mental attitude he can have, towards | :48:35. | :48:41. | |
the game, on occasion, but you do not get to the stage of Wimbledon | :48:42. | :48:46. | |
without being tough. One of the most talented on the tour. | :48:47. | :48:55. | |
The two talents, of Australian tennis, Tomic and Kyrgios, have got | :48:56. | :49:08. | |
similarities. And possibly, attitudes to match. | :49:09. | :49:27. | |
That is beautiful, from Micro two. -- Tomic. Getting defence, into | :49:28. | :49:40. | |
attack. Brilliant stretching, on both sides. And then getting it down | :49:41. | :49:46. | |
the line, when Pouille came to the net. He has got everything that he | :49:47. | :49:50. | |
wants to use. But I like that, Pouille not been | :49:51. | :50:08. | |
put off from coming to the net. He has taken to these courts, at | :50:09. | :50:13. | |
Wimbledon, he does not have much grass pedigree, but he has been | :50:14. | :50:25. | |
doing well. By contrast, Australians, coming up from junior | :50:26. | :50:35. | |
tennis, one grass, down the other end of the court but instantly | :50:36. | :50:44. | |
challenging. Certainly, that was close enough, to ask the question. | :50:45. | :51:00. | |
No! It looks as though he was deliberating, what to do with that, | :51:01. | :51:14. | |
and it is the tactic, the drop, I think this could have been caught by | :51:15. | :51:21. | |
the wind. Possibly, going folder on the court than the Frenchman thought | :51:22. | :51:22. | |
it was going to. Looking foolish. That was wasteful from Tomic. Again, | :51:23. | :52:47. | |
Pouille showing good aggression, with the serve, not scaled to come | :52:48. | :52:48. | |
to the net. -- scared. This backhand, flat as a pancake. It | :52:49. | :53:20. | |
is so difficult, for the amateurs to control those, but Tomic, such good | :53:21. | :53:21. | |
control. Something, for Pouille, on the | :53:22. | :53:48. | |
scoreboard. We mentioned, he was disappointed, at Roland Garros, and | :53:49. | :53:58. | |
then, the unlucky loser from qualifying. But this is his best | :53:59. | :54:03. | |
effort to Grand Slam far. Also, having the good run at Miami. This | :54:04. | :54:10. | |
could possibly be his break-out season. This is that, for Pouille. | :54:11. | :54:22. | |
He was good, at the juniors, not even at junior Wimbledon, however, I | :54:23. | :54:27. | |
believe, so some could see him as a possibly wait developer. At 49 -- | :54:28. | :54:40. | |
But 49 in their 30s... 22, that is still young. And he is in good | :54:41. | :54:48. | |
hands. And of course, the French always produce good young players. | :54:49. | :54:56. | |
And that young man, spearheading the next generation. | :54:57. | :55:03. | |
It is good French representation, at this stage, of the competition. 16 | :55:04. | :55:22. | |
Frenchman, who started the opening round, in the Men's Singles. | :55:23. | :55:36. | |
It is a little bit of an opening, for Pouille. | :55:37. | :56:01. | |
That is such a good second serve. It was good disguise. A lot of arm, MS | :56:02. | :56:19. | |
action. -- in this action. He just makes that look simple. | :56:20. | :56:30. | |
The French support, making themselves heard. | :56:31. | :57:09. | |
Three aces. Two of them, almost identical. Right down the T. | :57:10. | :57:31. | |
He has say that again, Tomic. Just trying to fire himself up. That is a | :57:32. | :58:01. | |
good sign. He is up for the fight. Nor break back for him, Tomic moving | :58:02. | :58:55. | |
on. I was mentioning, he is one of the four Frenchman, but now just | :58:56. | :59:05. | |
three, Mahut has lost. That was the man who put out the defending | :59:06. | :59:13. | |
champion, has conquered. I thought that could be difficult for him, | :59:14. | :59:15. | |
somebody like Mahut. It is an indication, of just how | :59:16. | :59:28. | |
good Querrey has been. That is a good result. | :59:29. | :59:40. | |
Some raised eyebrows, when Mahut was drawn on court 18. And Isner, last | :59:41. | :00:00. | |
week. Whatever week it was. It feels as though we have been here, for | :00:01. | :00:06. | |
some time. You had the day off yesterday, what are you talking | :00:07. | :00:14. | |
about? That is just lovely touch, from the Frenchman. He has always | :00:15. | :00:27. | |
been having the same is, -- these signs, lovely hands. | :00:28. | :00:54. | |
It is an exhibition of how much skill he has so far, on the | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
forehand. At the moment it is just that very first game that has let in | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
down. We are leaving this match from | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
earlier today because the good news is that no club on court, players | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
back on and on Court Two, Milos Raonic and David Goffin just about | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
to get their match underway yet again, so let's go back, Goffin -- | :01:26. | :01:35. | |
2-0 up but a break down in the third set. Let's join Peter Fleming and | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
Andrew Castle. No more than 18-20 minutes since they came off. | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
COMMENTATOR: Players would have stayed up here rather than going to | :01:45. | :01:53. | |
Centre Court, fourth round match. Trying to find out early what to | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
Katie Swan, she had a wildcard into the Ladies' Singles and was unable | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
to advance but a great experience back to the juniors. From Bristol, | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
no based in Wichita, Kansas. Time to head back out onto court, | :02:06. | :02:23. | |
old tennis balls to warm up with between Goffin and Raonic and now | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
the match balls go back again. There is a bar just beneath Court Two in | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
the corner. In front of the hospitality positions and everybody | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
suitably refreshed and heading back in, Goffin would love not to have | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
been a break down, Peter Fleming. Absolutely, interesting to see if | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
either player comes back with a slightly different remit. They will | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
have had time to meet up quickly with their camp Raonic had secured a | :03:00. | :03:11. | |
break early in this first set. Just keep doing what you are doing. | :03:12. | :03:31. | |
Maybe the word was attacked more, take every opportunity to try to | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
punish your opponent. That hurts because it was a great | :03:36. | :03:56. | |
second serve from Goffin yet Raonic returned with interest and then | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
missed the easy one. Reminded me of Lleyton Hewitt, who | :04:00. | :04:45. | |
was so adept at sliding the ball up the line. That was class. | :04:46. | :06:09. | |
Cut out the mistakes, a clear piece of advice for Raonic making too many | :06:10. | :06:19. | |
mistakes but with this set with natural assets and threatening shots | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
that he has, with John McEnroe, Carlos Moya Everything seems to be | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
in place but do more to get Judy win, be more aggressive and if that | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
doesn't work be more aggressive. It would be foolish to think he can | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
start shipping and moving the ball around the court. | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
Let's face it, first things first, he is not a genius, he will not be | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
able to play like Jonny law, he understands that, he is not him to | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
do all these crazy intuitive things -- he will not be able to play late | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
John McEnroe. And yet, he is a power player, just | :07:03. | :07:21. | |
needs to make that connection between aggression and | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
inconsistency. It's the sort of exchanges that | :07:25. | :09:10. | |
Goffin was winning in the first two sets. | :09:11. | :11:15. | |
UMPIRE: New balls, please. Good, positive restart for the Canadian. | :11:16. | :11:30. | |
First nervous game back was a possible banana skin. John McEnroe, | :11:31. | :11:38. | |
he says it is inspirational to have him on board, he said you can't keep | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
Raonic off the practice court, 18 hours a day. He said nothing feels | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
more powerful than your own game, to know what you are dealing with. He | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
would have gone out and competed with him, come on, bring it, let's | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
see what you've got. We are going to leave Court Two to | :12:01. | :12:51. | |
rejoin Venus Williams on Court One. You can continue watching this one | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
on the red button. We will keep you up-to-date on BBC Two. Back we go to | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
Court One, the players have completed their warm up, Venus | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
Williams against Suarez Navarro. First set tie-break, Venus leading | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
4-2. far as this first set is concerned. | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
It is sudden death. It has been a slow comeback to form | :13:14. | :13:29. | |
for Venus Williams, all over the place to begin with but when they | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
resume now, she leads 4-2. Williams using all her reach there, | :13:33. | :14:18. | |
terrific response after being dragged out wide. So much better | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
movement out to this wide ball, there is the early preparation and | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
gets behind that ball, able to strike through the court and Navarro | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
a little bit late. The two service points could do the job. | :14:37. | :14:47. | |
Four set. Such a difference for Venus when she gets the first serve | :14:48. | :15:04. | |
into play. Not as high a percentage as she would like, down at 59%. | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
The second serve has been very hittable. | :15:13. | :15:28. | |
She was pretty sure, Suarez Navarro was going down the line, her weight | :15:29. | :15:37. | |
was firmly on the right foot. She has a very versatile wrist, Suarez | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
Navarro, she can go back to the ball with the beautiful top-spin and | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
under slice it and here she gets right round the outside of that | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
ball. Catches Venus in no man's land. | :15:54. | :16:04. | |
There is the first set, it felt so unlikely after the first ten minutes | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
but she has used all of her inexperience to get back on track. | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
Huge sighs of relief because it really didn't look likely. One of | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
those days when the syndrome she suffers with was having a real | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
effect. But she was keeping her strength under wraps and she found | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
it when she needed it. She was a different player at the end of the | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
first set to the player who stepped out onto court, incredibly sluggish, | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
a little bit late getting across to some of the wide balls. Her coach is | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
such a rock in her life and I'm sure he played his part when they went | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
for the rain delay. Let's take a look at the first set summary. | :17:00. | :17:13. | |
The second serve points won has to go up, have a she missed the first | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
served it was under threat than under attack. Absolutely neck and | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
neck in terms of the error count. Nothing really to choose between | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
them as far as the stats are concerned. But it was an undulating | :17:32. | :17:40. | |
set, that is for sure. Mentally you would think that Venus, having got | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
the first set under your belt, it enables you to loosen up and Open up | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
your shoulders a little bit and play with a little bit more freedom. It | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
will be the Spaniard to begin the second set. | :17:56. | :18:25. | |
Hard tennis is so much more consistent now than when we started. | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
Got a bit more intensity about it and for much of the first set, Venus | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
Williams not afraid to go into the backhand side, the main strength of | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
Suarez Navarro. If you can break down the strength, you have mentally | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
got them. Did it get the line, she has a look up. Umpire is saying, | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
don't get involved, it probably did. What was interesting, seeing where | :18:55. | :19:10. | |
she was positioning herself for the serve out on the deuce court. | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
Serving from much further into the centre of the court, trying to get | :19:16. | :19:16. | |
more angle. Grinding mistake out of the | :19:17. | :19:41. | |
backhand. Yes, she is really hammering away at that backhand at | :19:42. | :19:42. | |
the moment. She needs to gather herself | :19:43. | :20:09. | |
together, Suarez Navarro, things looking tricky. | :20:10. | :20:35. | |
she is having a challenge and I think it is very close, right down | :20:36. | :20:51. | |
below us. Close it is, but out it was. | :20:52. | :21:30. | |
That was a bit tempting, that second serve, Venus stepping right inside | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
the baseline to attack it. Trying to take it on the top of the bounce. | :21:38. | :22:03. | |
She is a game down, I wonder if she will be told at some stage that her | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
sister has made it through to the quarterfinals, Britos set against | :22:10. | :22:18. | |
Kuznetsova, 7-5 but has won the second in a rush. Did the big day | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
for her daughters. New racket coming out, some fresh | :22:22. | :22:32. | |
strings, will give her an extra bit of pop on that serve. | :22:33. | :23:15. | |
How well Suarez Navarro hits the backhand, will probably define this | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
match. I think you are right and she is having to get her body weight | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
going backwards on these backhands, being pushed quite far behind the | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
baseline, she wants to be on that front foot. That looked like it was | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
over the baseline. Looks like one of mine! The racket face was Open to | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
the sky as she came through. Should have made it. On the back | :23:40. | :24:00. | |
foot. Second serve which was 73 mph. Interesting because when you look at | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
the second serve it doesn't do as much damage as you would expect that | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
it does have quite a bit of movement when it hits the court, its wearers | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
left our right so not quite as easy to attack as it looks. | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
That the pedigree backhand that may well change this match. Not a bad | :24:19. | :24:31. | |
tactic, drawing Venus Williams in, doesn't do enough with the approach | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
shot and you can see she is balanced when she hits that on the front | :24:37. | :24:37. | |
foot. That is the trademark. She does take a risk, Venus Williams | :24:38. | :24:56. | |
on serve. And that didn't do enough, got up but Suarez Navarro quite | :24:57. | :24:58. | |
comfortable with the reply. What a super shot that was into the | :24:59. | :25:34. | |
corner. She really got hold of that sliced | :25:35. | :25:45. | |
backhand, didn't she let a knife to a crosscourt and got that ball to | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
stay very low. Yes! Just when Suarez Navarro | :25:49. | :26:06. | |
starting feel optimistic, Williams with one of her best shots of the | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
match. That is the sort of power that Venus brings out onto a tennis | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
court, anything that sets up mid-court, between hip and shoulder | :26:17. | :26:18. | |
height, she will bobble that up. Variety of backhands, Williams | :26:19. | :26:45. | |
wasn't sure her shot was going out but confirmed that it was. I think | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
it is a great tactic for Suarez Navarro to really makes the pace and | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
rhythm with the sliced backhand interspersed with the top-spin and | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
gives Venus are different rhythm out here. | :26:57. | :27:31. | |
Must be quite dusty outside because you would feel the effects in this | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
pretty enclosed court. Speedy serve, 109 mph. Smack on the | :27:38. | :28:11. | |
line. It felt bigger than that, it seemed to really take off through | :28:12. | :28:13. | |
the grass. Disappointing game for Suarez | :28:14. | :28:23. | |
Navarro because she was so close to a breakthrough there. | :28:24. | :28:40. | |
She has not always got hold of those balls and she has tried to sliced | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
them and something she has got it just right. | :28:47. | :29:29. | |
Got away with at that time. On the back foot, defence, Venus Williams | :29:30. | :29:37. | |
but putting the ball quite short in the middle of the court. Big gust of | :29:38. | :29:44. | |
wind and it might have affected the final shot. | :29:45. | :30:52. | |
Well guessed. And Williams goes into the lead. Some of the best of | :30:53. | :31:07. | |
Williams in that game. She is definitely starting to flow a little | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
bit better and starting to get her game together out here. But I am not | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
100% convinced with some of the point play and the construction of | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
points. She intersperses it a little bit with a bit of erratic play. But | :31:22. | :31:27. | |
when she got on the front foot and looked to get to the net and come | :31:28. | :31:31. | |
forward, even that last ball was not the most impressive of approach | :31:32. | :31:35. | |
shots. I was not sure whether she was going for a drop shot, actually. | :31:36. | :31:41. | |
It is not coincidence she has started all her matches rather | :31:42. | :31:45. | |
sluggishly and has worked through a process and by the end of it she has | :31:46. | :31:48. | |
looked pretty good. Not the old Venus Williams. It might be | :31:49. | :31:55. | |
happening here. She does not panic, she does not appear to get flustered | :31:56. | :31:59. | |
these days, she just plays in the moment and waits to see what happens | :32:00. | :32:04. | |
and how matches unfold, but always tries to do the right things | :32:05. | :32:08. | |
tactically. She has great coverage at the net. She really backs herself | :32:09. | :32:17. | |
up when she is there. It is her 90th Wimbledon. Five times champion. In | :32:18. | :32:30. | |
2008 she beat her sister. It would be some achievement for Bean is to | :32:31. | :32:36. | |
make the quarterfinals this year. She is looking good on the | :32:37. | :32:37. | |
scoreboard. Again Suarez Navarro not able to do | :32:38. | :33:10. | |
anything with the serve. 83 miles an hour. It was dipping by the time it | :33:11. | :33:14. | |
got to her. An opportunity there. Even that type | :33:15. | :33:31. | |
of play is doing the right thing, coming in off the short ball, | :33:32. | :33:38. | |
attacking her opponent. It was not the greatest of volleys, but it is | :33:39. | :33:42. | |
asking questions of Suarez Navarro to come up with a poorly shot. -- | :33:43. | :33:47. | |
volley shot. She had a long, hard look down at | :33:48. | :34:13. | |
the line. She was not sure whether it would be called out. It is so | :34:14. | :34:18. | |
important she gets consistency. Umpteen times she has had to stoop | :34:19. | :34:34. | |
further than she thought. Be serving from Venus Williams. That | :34:35. | :35:03. | |
is three games on the spin now. The Spaniard has really got to get | :35:04. | :35:35. | |
it together if she is to make it through to the quarterfinals of the | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
only slam. That comes from nowhere. Just when | :35:40. | :35:54. | |
you think she has really got her game together. That is thrown in. A | :35:55. | :36:02. | |
shake of the head from Venus, not happy with that one. I always think | :36:03. | :36:10. | |
she does not let that kind of thing affect the next run of play. She is | :36:11. | :36:12. | |
very quick to put it behind her. Just like that. And 84 mph serve, | :36:13. | :36:29. | |
but it came back even quicker. Great footwork, getting out of the way of | :36:30. | :36:33. | |
the ball and meeting it out in front. | :36:34. | :36:44. | |
She takes a big step into her service motion. | :36:45. | :37:00. | |
It almost gets her rhythm going on that serve. The Davis Cup captain, | :37:01. | :37:11. | |
Conchita Martinez, a former champion here. | :37:12. | :37:20. | |
The serve out wide did the job. But it is still 3-2 Williams. She needs | :37:21. | :37:34. | |
a lot more consistency, Suarez Navarro. Again littered with errors. | :37:35. | :37:40. | |
We know she is capable of sparkling play. She is number 12 in the world. | :37:41. | :37:45. | |
She has been as high as number six in the world, but she has got to put | :37:46. | :37:50. | |
it together now, otherwise time is running out. She has got to create | :37:51. | :37:56. | |
more doubt down at the other end of the court as well. I feel as if her | :37:57. | :38:03. | |
game is interspersed with errors itself. There were a few half | :38:04. | :38:07. | |
chances she will be disappointed she was not able to capitalise on. Those | :38:08. | :38:12. | |
are those half chances you have to take because they will not be | :38:13. | :38:18. | |
presented to you many times. Williams has also fluctuated in this | :38:19. | :38:22. | |
match. When she has been good, she has been very good. Most of the time | :38:23. | :38:28. | |
she has benefited from the mistakes of Suarez Navarro. But she could get | :38:29. | :38:32. | |
a hot streak and this match is all over. It is difficult to get into | :38:33. | :38:44. | |
Venus's head. With some players you feel like you are making an impact | :38:45. | :38:49. | |
than the other end, but with Venus she is very composed down the other | :38:50. | :38:52. | |
end of the court. I am not sure the ball toss was in | :38:53. | :39:11. | |
the right place. Even that one was sitting up and | :39:12. | :39:35. | |
inviting, mid-court. Those are the half chances she needs to take more | :39:36. | :39:37. | |
advantage of. Suarez Navarro is challenging. She | :39:38. | :41:17. | |
has already lost one challenge. She has moved across as if she is not | :41:18. | :41:23. | |
sure about this challenge. She is moving back again. | :41:24. | :41:40. | |
You could feel that one coming. When there is a challenge it is | :41:41. | :41:48. | |
unsettling and there is a delay between the first and second serves. | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
The first double fault of the match by either player. | :41:54. | :41:59. | |
Something distracted her, again another gust of wind. | :42:00. | :42:17. | |
That ball got very low. You can see her jacket, the wind rustling her | :42:18. | :42:29. | |
jacket. It is not helping. The second serve was 70 miles an hour | :42:30. | :42:33. | |
and bat shot was a whole lot quicker. It is still break point. | :42:34. | :42:54. | |
It is over. Boy, oh boy, that was lucky. No wonder they are smiling. | :42:55. | :43:08. | |
She is back in the set. Venus just dropped off, she did not get enough | :43:09. | :43:12. | |
first serves into play and started to chase balls. Suarez Navarro is | :43:13. | :43:19. | |
starting to get Venus a little bit more on the run now. | :43:20. | :43:30. | |
That was an excellent first serve. You could see it swinging away from | :43:31. | :43:36. | |
the reach of Venus. No compromise. She can sometimes | :43:37. | :44:11. | |
make the game looks so ridiculously easy. Standing at about one foot | :44:12. | :44:17. | |
inside the baseline, taking the ball on the rise and swatting it away. | :44:18. | :44:34. | |
She moved in again for the second serve and she got what she wanted. | :44:35. | :44:50. | |
It is quite intimidating. Both of the Williams sisters stand inside | :44:51. | :44:57. | |
that baseline and take the ball so early. Even on the first serve she | :44:58. | :45:04. | |
is threatening it as well and that is drawing out the errors on the | :45:05. | :45:05. | |
first serve. Again the ball was looping high, but | :45:06. | :45:28. | |
she deals with high ball so well. I think Suarez Navarro would prefer to | :45:29. | :45:35. | |
have more. Around shoulder height. She wraps the racket face around the | :45:36. | :45:37. | |
ball. He has called it a fault. I was not | :45:38. | :45:54. | |
sure about that. It looked like it was long. It is an overruled. You | :45:55. | :46:07. | |
have got it wrong. That is unusual. Is that a yellow card for him? | :46:08. | :46:24. | |
Sweet. She has responded so well to getting broken. So come on that | :46:25. | :46:38. | |
passing shot, did not panic at the side of Suarez Navarro at the net, | :46:39. | :46:40. | |
she took her time. A sloppy shot. You do not have much | :46:41. | :47:28. | |
time to react when Serena returns it like that. | :47:29. | :48:00. | |
It was a sitter and she missed it. Venus is in front once more. | :48:01. | :48:17. | |
Venus looks very vulnerable when she is trying to pick up those sliced | :48:18. | :48:24. | |
backhand and they are so low to the ground and she has to stoop down. | :48:25. | :48:29. | |
When she slices her own backhand, it sits up in the middle of the court, | :48:30. | :48:34. | |
it does not knife through the court like Steffi Graf used to do it. But | :48:35. | :48:40. | |
even when she has done that Suarez Navarro has missed on the next shot. | :48:41. | :48:46. | |
I am sure she is pretty frustrated with some of the chance she has had. | :48:47. | :48:53. | |
This just sat up so invitingly. And that is her reaction. She should | :48:54. | :49:00. | |
have broken her. She had two great chances. She has more opportunities | :49:01. | :49:08. | |
on that second serve when Venus has not made her first serve, which has | :49:09. | :49:15. | |
been often in the match. The second serve is setting up right into the | :49:16. | :49:18. | |
middle of the box and it is not doing anything and she does not have | :49:19. | :49:22. | |
to move too much to hit that second serve. And yet there is a little | :49:23. | :49:29. | |
kink when it bounces left or right and she has not been able to | :49:30. | :49:34. | |
capitalise on it. Venus is a break in front, she was gifted it really. | :49:35. | :49:44. | |
At ground level you can see it. It is not so easy to do something with | :49:45. | :49:46. | |
it. Petr Prevc forehand, within an inch | :49:47. | :50:35. | |
of the line. -- eight horrific forehand. | :50:36. | :51:07. | |
It is late to find some real form from Suarez Navarro, but it is not | :51:08. | :51:43. | |
too late. The job is not done yet. Giving her a note of encouragement. | :51:44. | :52:19. | |
Yes! Venus is getting noisier and noisier, but getting what she wanted | :52:20. | :52:32. | |
in the end. You just feel her stress levels are going up quite a bit, but | :52:33. | :52:37. | |
this one just holds that body position, playing it with the open | :52:38. | :52:40. | |
stance, staying low. So, Williams within a game of the | :52:41. | :53:08. | |
quarterfinal. It would be an amazing story, at the | :53:09. | :53:26. | |
age of 36, back inside that top ten after everything she has had to cope | :53:27. | :53:30. | |
with health-wise. What an achievement. | :53:31. | :53:44. | |
She lost the point, but see how quick she was across there. She has | :53:45. | :53:52. | |
moved better as this match has gone on. | :53:53. | :54:23. | |
She is still lifting occasionally, Venus. That looping ball did | :54:24. | :54:32. | |
nothing. It just seems to sit there, it does not come through the court, | :54:33. | :54:37. | |
nothing on it, no stress for her opponent, she can do what she wants | :54:38. | :54:39. | |
with that ball. The first double fault of the match | :54:40. | :54:57. | |
for the Spaniard. She had plenty of time to wake up | :54:58. | :55:49. | |
the options. I wonder whether she caught out of | :55:50. | :56:05. | |
the corner of her eye that Venus was already moving crosscourt in order | :56:06. | :56:06. | |
to cover that one. Suarez Navarro stays in the match. | :56:07. | :56:25. | |
Clinging onto a thread. How Williams would love to serve at | :56:26. | :56:41. | |
her best because then there is no answer. I just would not be too | :56:42. | :56:47. | |
confident of anything happening, even right now. This is where we | :56:48. | :56:53. | |
will find out where her confidence really is and because that first | :56:54. | :56:56. | |
serve percentage has been dropping as the match has worn on. Down at | :56:57. | :57:04. | |
56% now. If she does not get the first serve into play, she might be | :57:05. | :57:14. | |
in a bit of trouble. 78 mph, the average, you can attack that. Suarez | :57:15. | :57:20. | |
Navarro has been fluctuating in her success rate when she has attacked. | :57:21. | :57:30. | |
But she needs it here. If she can break back and Nick the set, who | :57:31. | :57:33. | |
knows what will happen in set number three. Venus has been kept on court | :57:34. | :57:42. | |
for a lengthy times in her second and third rounds. But right now the | :57:43. | :57:49. | |
36-year-old American on Independence Day is serving for the match and a | :57:50. | :57:52. | |
place in the quarterfinals. Given a little bit of a helping | :57:53. | :58:30. | |
hand. At her best she makes those with | :58:31. | :59:08. | |
some comfort, but she has been far from her best today. | :59:09. | :59:31. | |
Well played. What a confidence shot that was from the five times | :59:32. | :59:38. | |
champion. So good! | :59:39. | :00:30. | |
CHEERING APPLAUSE | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
A magic way to finish the match! She is back in the big time at | :00:34. | :00:45. | |
Wimbledon and we missed her! On July the 4th, she makes it through to the | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
quarterfinals. It was not venous at her best but it | :00:49. | :01:00. | |
was very good. That is a lovely smile and she is getting a massive | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
standing ovation on Court Number One, very popular winner out here. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
You are right, she did not play her best tennis but it was good enough | :01:10. | :01:18. | |
to get the job done. Huge relief. There was trouble, she was not | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
fluent, started slow, looked sluggish, the wind was a factor. We | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
will find out later how much of a factor it was. But she got it done. | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
After going two breaks down in the first set, she turned it around. And | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
was the better player in the second. Suarez Navarro was disappointing. I | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
think she'll be disappointed with some of the opportunities she had at | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
certain moments, she needed to take advantage of some points and wasn't | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
able to. Maybe some sluggish unforced errors from her but what a | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
happy Venus Williams and lovely to hear the crowd cheering and getting | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
a standing ovation. One for the oldies, the oldest woman | :02:03. | :02:14. | |
in the draw at the age of 36. She makes it through. | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
It has been a good year for her, back in the top ten, she has won a | :02:21. | :02:29. | |
title, her 49th title. And now she is into the quarterfinals at | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
Wimbledon, beaten in the first round of the Australian Open, got to the | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
last 16 at Roland Garros and into the last eight. She is on the up. | :02:38. | :02:47. | |
So there is confirmation. One hour and 35 minutes, Venus Williams | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
through in straight sets. She is courtside with Lee McKenzie. | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
Congratulations, through to the quarterfinals, some tough matches to | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
reach this point, today was another one. Yes, she played so well. You | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
know, the first set was really... Exciting and then... When the rain | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
came it was very emotional for me because of the last much. I was | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
like, not again, please, God... Or do some time is a fickle thing. Was | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
the rain frustrating for you I did it give you a chance to regroup, you | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
came back strong on the tie-break. It was hard, I came out on court, I | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
was dismayed, the last match I was pumped but it is emotionally | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
draining. I tried to stay focused, she gave me a feud points and help | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
me to get through. The crowd were fantastic, you had and they had to | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
sit out on the rain but they were there giving you a standing ovation. | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
They love you here. How much you enjoy this Wimbledon experience and | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
are you starting to surprise yourself again? The crowd, it's such | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
an honour to do this job because I love it and I get to work outside | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
and get a lot of sunshine. Who could beat that? For all the players, they | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
are here for all of us, it's an honour for all of us, we feel good | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
out there, am I surprised myself? I have been in this position before, | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
the first time that you win, no one big shoe. The last time that you | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
win, nobody picks you, you always have to pick yourself and believe in | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
yourself. Putt-macro pics you. You continue playing well, we will try | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
and work in the sunshine. Thank you. SUE BARKER:. What an | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
amazing record, her 19th appearance at Wimbledon, through to her 12 | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
quarterfinal, the last time she was in the quarterfinals was in 2010 and | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
she is a five-time champion. That showed with the ovation she got on | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
Court Number One, everyone appreciating this great champion, | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
still loving the game and able to produce magical tennis. The family | :05:00. | :05:08. | |
are happen. Venus Williams, great champion, through to the | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
quarterfinal. We know who she will play. Yaroslava Shvedova, up against | :05:12. | :05:21. | |
Lucie Safarova from the Czech Republic. Shvedova who loves the | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
grass courts, 6-2, 6-4, she goes through. That will be the match in | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
the last eight tomorrow. It has been a good day for the Williams family. | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
On Centre Court Serena Williams was 5- or down in the first set and 19 | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
games in a row. Asserting her authority, she had her game face on | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
on Centre Court, coming through, coached alighted, hitting partner | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
delighted, she came through a tough one, 7-5, 6-0, the second set was | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
also arena. She went up some gears on Centre Court. Note big smile from | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
Serena, work to do. Angelique Kerber who defeated Serena | :06:04. | :06:13. | |
in the Australian Open final is through. A wonderful point, let's | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
enjoy it. Moving her opponent around the court and showing us how to | :06:19. | :06:19. | |
finish a rally. And that is the way to do it. No | :06:20. | :06:31. | |
wonder she is happy with that and happy with the result. Defeating | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
Misaki Doi 6-3, 6-1, the highest seed left in the bottom half. | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
Tomorrow, the number four seed will play the number five seed, Simona | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
Halep, who came through against Madison Keys, struggling with an | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
injury towards the end of the match, Simona Halep came through. She is | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
delighted with that. She will play and surely Herbert tomorrow. -- | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
Angelique Kerber. Seven time champion Roger Federer | :07:01. | :07:09. | |
was in imperious form on Centre Court today. Good in the first week, | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
certainly improving on that, everybody delighted with that, | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
Centre Court crowd rising to him, putting away a very tricky opponent | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
in Steve Johnson who has proved himself on grass courts but this is | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
the court Roger owns, he loves it, they love him and he will have | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
enjoyed it today. Roger is back to his best, through in straight sets. | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
The slamming Sam Querrey, called Hawk-Eye, he wants an ace, wants to | :07:40. | :07:48. | |
finish it in style, up against Nicolas Mahut... Hoping that the | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
ball is wide but it is confirmed... So another ace for a Sam Querrey, | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
another one to add to his tally, conqueror of Novak through in | :08:02. | :08:02. | |
straight sets. But some very disappointing news to | :08:03. | :08:15. | |
bring you for Kei Nishikori. The number five seed. Michael Chang his | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
coach on for many games, they are saying please, do not go on, | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
trailing Marin Cilic 6-1, 5-1, you see how reluctant he is to come up | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
to the net and shake hands, he wants to carry on. The rib injury he | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
sustained, a freak injury, came back and he had the trainer on the court, | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
could not carry on, reluctantly deciding to call today. How sad, he | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
had to pull out of the Championships last year the cause of our Kath | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
injury, not a happy place for this talented player. Sad to see him go | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
but the former US Open champion Aaron Cilic is through and will take | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
on Roger Federer. -- Marin Cilic. Lead should you what is happening. A | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
match we are looking forward to. Andy Murray versus Nick Kyrgios, | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
that is going with serve. And it is on BBC One. This is a match that we | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
showed you the start of you on BBC Two, that has gone into the fifth | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
set, in for a thriller, on the red button, Bernard Tomic up against | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Lucas Pouille from France, two seeded players battling it out on | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
Court Number 12. But it is the two we are heading to, this is going the | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
distance. Into the fifth set, on serve, Milos Raonic come 1-2 in the | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
third and final set up against David Olson, what a comeback from him, | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
dropped the opening two sets, let's join the commentators, Peter Fleming | :09:55. | :09:55. | |
and Andrew Castle. -- David Goffin. COMMENTATOR: a | :09:56. | :10:08. | |
battle of wills out here. Both players trying to impose their game | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
and personality on each other deep into the fifth set, often opening | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
the decider with an ace, held to a zero. Both players are upping their | :10:16. | :10:24. | |
intensity and footwork in the last 5-10 minutes, over the course of the | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
fifth set, Raonic has never come back from 2-0 sets down and Goffin, | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
two and a quarter years since he lost a fifth set, he has won his | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
last five, fascinating to watch these players, going after it, going | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
after a real prize. A quarterfinal with Sam Querrey. They would | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
probably go into it both as favourites, open to discussion. New | :10:51. | :10:51. | |
balls. A little bit of magic to start the | :10:52. | :11:22. | |
game from Raonic. I'll say! Known for a spectacular winners of the | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
backhand wing, that was like in the Dow! | :11:28. | :11:37. | |
Magic! The backhand side, what I game versus. What a game to remember | :11:38. | :12:25. | |
for Milos Raonic, the second serve landed on the service line and... | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
Raonic did ever so well to get it back into court. Nice finish. | :12:32. | :13:18. | |
It has been another feature of this match, the Goffin passing shot. Nice | :13:19. | :13:29. | |
rack work. Talk about pulling a rabbit out of your hat. He was in | :13:30. | :13:31. | |
all kinds of trouble. Well! Absolutely fracking that | :13:32. | :14:09. | |
forehand, there is the break. Raonic doesn't lose too many sets from a | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
break-up. He has announced his arrival. Two or | :14:12. | :14:22. | |
three years ago, Milos Raonic, everyone waiting for him to take it | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
a further step, we thought it might happen at the Australian Open, he | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
won in Brisbane, that is before the Australian Open, made the semifinals | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
of the Grand Slam championship winning nine matches to start the | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
year before losing to Murray. 2-1 sets up, leg injury kept him out for | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
some weeks, came back, playing very well since. We are beginning to see | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
the finished article. Or close to it. Well... Probably not even close | :14:49. | :14:57. | |
to it at close... Closer... Yes, I think he can improve a lot more. Are | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
a lot of things he doesn't do perfect like but, you know, he is | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
one of those guys who keeps packing away, working hard. And I think | :15:07. | :15:14. | |
well... His team hopes that the addition of Johnny Mac over the last | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
month has helped him. In situations just like this, to dig deep, get a | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
little bit more emotional. When it is required. | :15:26. | :15:47. | |
140 miles an hour on the delivery. So often, Raonic has just come a | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
little conservative and that as allowing players to play with him, | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
get the ball back into play. Those last two Serbs are the guy who | :15:59. | :16:11. | |
believes that he is going to wrap an ace or at least overpower the | :16:12. | :16:11. | |
opponent. He almost mishit the first serve, | :16:12. | :16:48. | |
went into the bottom of the net, what does he do? An hundred and 28 | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
miles an hour. Goffin barely flinched. | :16:54. | :17:03. | |
That is a serving display, the like of which... Four straight points to | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
back-up the break. It is blustery out there now. Not | :17:10. | :18:41. | |
easy. Cries from the supporters of David | :18:42. | :19:36. | |
Goffin. Marching around the court with purpose. A break down. You know | :19:37. | :19:45. | |
what? If Raonic is going to serve these 120 mile an hour balls, there | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
is nothing Goffin can do so... The ball is very much in Raonic's court. | :19:50. | :19:58. | |
No signs of nerves at all, strangely, neither of these players | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
have played a five set match at Wimbledon, one of the great tests. | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
In these times of diminishing attention spans, Wi-Fi, 3G, the best | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
of five sets, calls for it to go down to the best of three, I love | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
that. It is what separates the grand slam tournament is from the rest, | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
it... A five set and counter... Demands somewhat more. Of the best | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
players. And it separates the best from the rest. | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
What has Goffin got left? Milos Raonic serving 4-3, but said. Lucky | :20:40. | :20:57. | |
net cord, to get onto the line. He is not going to get blown away in | :20:58. | :21:30. | |
this game, it seems. He has made it! I think he left it, | :21:31. | :22:07. | |
yes. He may be left it because he wasn't certain he could make it on | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
the ball, but this situation, if the ball is going to be close, you have | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
to hit it, you have an open court. Given the care of that reply | :22:16. | :23:09. | |
deserved, Raonic, nice finish. That is well held, you see the | :23:10. | :24:11. | |
animation we have never seen before from Raonic. Driving through this | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
fifth set. Goffin with chances in that game. | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
Now he must just hold and ask the question of the Canadian in the next | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
game. SUE BARKER: 5-4, Raonic, due to | :24:30. | :26:29. | |
college is, we have to leave this match, we are bringing you the Andy | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
Murray, Nick Kyrgios match on BBC Two. We will show you what happens. | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
We will update you on the progress of this match, huge apologies that | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
we have to leave it at such a crucial stage but we are heading | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
into Centre Court. The favourite for the championship, Andy Murray is up | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
against Mick Kyrgios, five games all, Murray serving. Let's join our | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
commentators John McEnroe and John Inverdale. | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
COMMENTATOR: Kyrgios chipping and charging. Ivan Lendl used to do that | :27:07. | :27:18. | |
on occasions. That is proper play, when a guy is trying to squeeze for | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
word, cut you off, not give you options. Here comes Kyrgios, having | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
to try that drop volley again. Right here. Not a whole lot Murray could | :27:29. | :27:36. | |
do. That is the right way, especially if he is to gain his | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
racket on it, trying to go for it. If you are going to do that, | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
absolutely what a player like him should do. Why did more players not | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
do that? Personally I have no idea, players have a tendency in doubles, | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
do get extremely close to the net, I would think, get them to rethink | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
things and back off... Not as much an issue obviously in singles, they | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
do not come in as often as they used to. | :28:06. | :28:39. | |
Of course this match has been sailing on serenely and suddenly | :28:40. | :28:46. | |
Kyrgios is serving to stay in the first set. | :28:47. | :28:52. | |
Is this when Murray ups the ante a bit? Of course, every top player | :28:53. | :29:02. | |
sets his vulnerability and a player feeling pressure, at the end of | :29:03. | :29:05. | |
said, it's only natural is going to happen. | :29:06. | :29:11. | |
That is a spectacular pass. But Kyrgios, why did he hit an approach | :29:12. | :29:28. | |
like that, it gave him time to line that up. Murray says thank you very | :29:29. | :29:30. | |
much. He needs some big serves here. That is such a smart play by Murray! | :29:31. | :29:50. | |
At the key moment, the first time the questions were asked of | :29:51. | :29:57. | |
Kyrgios... Murray makes him play like that. Here are. Almost | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
unforeseen, Andy Murray, three points for the first set. | :30:03. | :30:19. | |
That was quite long. He has saved one break point. 129 miles an hour. | :30:20. | :30:42. | |
Kyrgios had said two set points. He had the opportunity to get it back | :30:43. | :31:27. | |
to deuce, but that error at the net is first blood to the favourite for | :31:28. | :31:33. | |
the title. SUE BARKER: And the crowd rises to Andy Murray. What a game to | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
finish off and he takes the opening set on Centre Court. We will take | :31:38. | :31:42. | |
you back to Court Number Two and when we left it Milos Raonic was | :31:43. | :31:47. | |
coming out to serve for the match and that is how he finished it off, | :31:48. | :31:54. | |
6-4, and so coach McEnroe will be delighted with that one. It is the | :31:55. | :31:59. | |
first time he has come back winning from two sets down. Milos Raonic is | :32:00. | :32:05. | |
through to the quarterfinals at Wimbledon once again. A big win from | :32:06. | :32:10. | |
the big Canadian and the crowd thoroughly enjoying that five set | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
thriller out there. So, that is what has been happening out there and on | :32:16. | :32:20. | |
Henman Hill it is busy once again because our man Andy Murray is on | :32:21. | :32:25. | |
court. He is up against Kyrgios on this magical Monday, which it always | :32:26. | :32:31. | |
is here at Wimbledon. Everyone enjoying the tennis and the British | :32:32. | :32:34. | |
fans enjoying that first set from Andy Murray. That we go. Well, | :32:35. | :32:46. | |
coach, congratulations. He has got a great team around him. Credit to him | :32:47. | :32:51. | |
because the pressure was on. He was the favourite to get to the semis | :32:52. | :32:57. | |
and he felt he was not playing very well. Carlos Moya who has been with | :32:58. | :33:01. | |
him most of the year has done an excellent job. It is good when you | :33:02. | :33:05. | |
come back and pull it out. 7-6, 6-7, 7-6. You focus especially | :33:06. | :33:43. | |
early on in games at the tail end of the set. | :33:44. | :34:02. | |
That is beautiful play by Murray as Kyrgios tumbles to the turf. | :34:03. | :34:15. | |
The truth is that Kyrgios finds himself in a good position, but you | :34:16. | :34:25. | |
cannot let a guy is good have a line that open. Moving towards the centre | :34:26. | :34:28. | |
to me was a mistake. Kyrgios would be well served to | :34:29. | :34:47. | |
flatten out more of these forehands, get the ball to penetrate more. | :34:48. | :35:13. | |
Nicely for Murray at the start of the second set. Tell us, because | :35:14. | :35:24. | |
Murray has such a rich variety of shots, Kyrgios's position at the net | :35:25. | :35:28. | |
may not have been good, but how do you know which way Murray is going | :35:29. | :35:37. | |
to go? Welcome you do not know. What are the odds? How difficult would it | :35:38. | :35:42. | |
be if I stand here? But the problem he got into was the approach shot. A | :35:43. | :35:50. | |
guy like Murray, this good, you cannot afford to put the ball there | :35:51. | :35:51. | |
against him. He is a great player and also a | :35:52. | :36:05. | |
great athlete. He is so quick off the mark. There is no question about | :36:06. | :36:11. | |
that. It used to be that you needed to be fairly small, six feet or | :36:12. | :36:16. | |
under. Now you have to Andy Murray at six feet three moving, and | :36:17. | :36:20. | |
Djokovic, better than anyone. Igloo at him in and he knew the lob | :36:21. | :37:00. | |
was coming. You knew it, Kyrgios knew it. | :37:01. | :37:22. | |
At 5-5 and deuce, it is ill-advised. Luckily the ball stays low on grass. | :37:23. | :37:36. | |
That was not really a hot dog, it was more like a triple latter. 132, | :37:37. | :37:42. | |
ace number six. It is also worth a that if Murray | :37:43. | :38:00. | |
was to win this, he would be making his ninth appearance in the | :38:01. | :38:06. | |
Wimbledon quarterfinal, the same as Pete Sampras. Becker has made 11 and | :38:07. | :38:12. | |
Federer has made 14. That was well built. Much better | :38:13. | :38:37. | |
technique. He got Brownlow and he used his legs properly on that | :38:38. | :38:41. | |
volley. That was a really good job by Kyrgios. | :38:42. | :38:46. | |
Mentioning Federer I almost wish they could sell tickets, there was a | :38:47. | :39:00. | |
pupil's Sunday, I wish they could sell tickets to Roger Federer's | :39:01. | :39:05. | |
post-match conference. You mean all the different languages? All the | :39:06. | :39:14. | |
languages. And at the end of it you feel you have learned something. You | :39:15. | :39:21. | |
feel your life has been enriched in some way or another. He gives tens | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
of thousands of press conferences and he still keeps giving. It is | :39:26. | :39:27. | |
extraordinary. He will be around a couple of more | :39:28. | :39:47. | |
years. Murray knew that he could and should have done better with a | :39:48. | :39:54. | |
forehand. Kyrgios looks like he has got a little sense of urgency to | :39:55. | :39:56. | |
find his way in this match. You can probably hear the silence. | :39:57. | :40:32. | |
The crowd is enthralled by this. Much better from Murray. Kyrgios had | :40:33. | :40:53. | |
to go for that. Because of it he was out of position. | :40:54. | :41:00. | |
That was a Murray style return from Kyrgios, really deep. He flattened | :41:01. | :41:26. | |
that forehand out which is what Kyrgios needs to do a bit more | :41:27. | :41:28. | |
often. The crowd have taken the early | :41:29. | :41:50. | |
warning from the umpire to heart, not to get involved in this match. | :41:51. | :42:05. | |
That was an unusually loose forehand from Murray. I thought he would have | :42:06. | :42:12. | |
challenged the serve which was very close. | :42:13. | :42:52. | |
That ball did not come up at all. This is why the drop shot is so | :42:53. | :43:06. | |
important here at Wimbledon. It takes a player out of their comfort | :43:07. | :43:10. | |
zone, which nowadays is the baseline. It does not come up above | :43:11. | :43:18. | |
the net, so it makes Kyrgios hit up on the ball. It makes the neck shot | :43:19. | :43:22. | |
a whole lot easier if you hit the drop shot well. | :43:23. | :43:35. | |
What was that? I don't know why he gave up on that point. This is why | :43:36. | :43:46. | |
he is not in the top ten yet, with shots like that. Why has he not got | :43:47. | :43:54. | |
a coach? Should he have a coach? Who would it be? Someone like Pat Cash | :43:55. | :43:58. | |
would be able to get in his head, somebody who knew about moving | :43:59. | :44:02. | |
forward, somebody from the same country. I thought that he thought | :44:03. | :44:07. | |
initially that forehand before that was out. I do not know if that was | :44:08. | :44:15. | |
all he needed to do, but so what? Why would you stop playing in the | :44:16. | :44:20. | |
event it was called in. I did not hear any call, no call was made. You | :44:21. | :44:26. | |
are right, that is what happened, he thought his forehand was out. Does | :44:27. | :44:32. | |
it have to be an Aussie? No, of course not. There will be plenty of | :44:33. | :44:36. | |
people out there lining up to work with Kyrgios. We know there are | :44:37. | :44:41. | |
tremendous upside. At the moment he does not want to buy in and he does | :44:42. | :44:46. | |
not want to listen. He has got to respect that person. They have to be | :44:47. | :44:53. | |
on the same page. He does not quite seem ready for it. But I think he is | :44:54. | :44:58. | |
close. I believe with the right people around him he will be in the | :44:59. | :45:01. | |
top ten by the end of the year. No outbursts as yet from Kyrgios. | :45:02. | :45:20. | |
And Murray is very disciplined at the moment. That was 109 miles an | :45:21. | :45:26. | |
hour. There was a lack of discipline there | :45:27. | :45:47. | |
because he should have taken the volley in the air. By letting it | :45:48. | :45:52. | |
drop it allowed Murray time to run and get to it. He did not have to | :45:53. | :45:59. | |
play that shot like that. He did not have to do that either. That goes | :46:00. | :46:02. | |
without saying. He did not have to do that either. | :46:03. | :46:17. | |
That is a real shriek of frustration. He knows he has been | :46:18. | :46:22. | |
the architect of his own potential downfall here. | :46:23. | :46:40. | |
The Australians still in the tournament, Bernard Tomic, it is 7-7 | :46:41. | :46:56. | |
at the moment. But here it looks like Kyrgios is on the edge of | :46:57. | :46:58. | |
disaster. Bernard Tomic is playing Lucas | :46:59. | :47:20. | |
Pouille of France. It has been going on for three and a half hours or so. | :47:21. | :47:24. | |
We are just about approaching the hour mark here on the Centre Court. | :47:25. | :47:29. | |
Another break point for Andy Murray which could be very influential in | :47:30. | :47:33. | |
deciding the outcome of this match. Not an exuberant fist pump from | :47:34. | :47:56. | |
Murray, just a job well done fist pump. | :47:57. | :48:08. | |
Not surprised when that ball came back. Murray intensity and teases | :48:09. | :48:20. | |
you and to delay shoe comic he goads you, that is the word used earlier | :48:21. | :48:21. | |
on. Can you coach concentration? I think | :48:22. | :48:48. | |
you can. You can get people to figure out | :48:49. | :49:20. | |
ways when they go on these walks to get their concentration that. | :49:21. | :49:32. | |
Ever since he missed that volley, he has not been the same player. His | :49:33. | :49:40. | |
level has really dropped, his intensity. He looked like he had | :49:41. | :49:46. | |
something going and that game he played on serve was pretty brutal. | :49:47. | :49:58. | |
Murray is in cruise control currently. | :49:59. | :50:23. | |
That is not an armed forced error. Murray is in control. | :50:24. | :50:34. | |
SUE BARKER: He certainly is. We will be right back on Centre Court. The | :50:35. | :50:42. | |
crowd is enjoying British success there and they are out on the Hill | :50:43. | :50:48. | |
as well, which is absolutely packed, as it always is for Andy's matters. | :50:49. | :50:54. | |
But we have some sad news. Earlier we saw Kei Nishikori go out of the | :50:55. | :50:59. | |
championship because of a rib injury and I am afraid Richard Gasquet was | :51:00. | :51:05. | |
really struggling. He pulled his back in the short and a few moments | :51:06. | :51:08. | |
later he decided it was too painful and he could not carry on. What a | :51:09. | :51:14. | |
shame because we were so looking forward to this match. There's | :51:15. | :51:18. | |
wonderful entertaining player up against another, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. | :51:19. | :51:21. | |
That was going to be an absolute treat, but I am afraid his back | :51:22. | :51:29. | |
injury has ended Richard Gasquet's hopes here and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga | :51:30. | :51:31. | |
goes through and will play the winner of this match on Wednesday. | :51:32. | :51:45. | |
JOHN INVERDALE: He is texting in the Royal box. You are told very | :51:46. | :51:55. | |
specifically not to text in the Royal box. You would like that, he | :51:56. | :51:57. | |
is your kind of player. Right now he is not even on the | :51:58. | :52:13. | |
court mentally. He has snapped. How long will it take for him to get | :52:14. | :52:15. | |
back? Murray is just rubbing it in. If you just blinked, Kyrgios had | :52:16. | :52:47. | |
already served his first serve and his second and a double fault and he | :52:48. | :52:51. | |
is falling apart in front of the Centre Court crowd at the moment. | :52:52. | :53:04. | |
Kyrgios is ready to serve and Murray is still taking a towel. | :53:05. | :53:18. | |
Murray is turning the screw in a big way. But Kyrgios has thrown it away. | :53:19. | :53:48. | |
That is exactly right, it is a shame when he does this, to see this. It | :53:49. | :53:52. | |
makes no sense whatsoever. Talk me through the rally. That | :53:53. | :54:32. | |
rally was basically I am just going to come in and .1 way or another. | :54:33. | :54:40. | |
Murray is trying to add insult to injury by throwing up the lob at him | :54:41. | :54:46. | |
to really infuriate him to quickly complete the set. | :54:47. | :55:00. | |
The funny thing is he is competing harder now at 5-1 down. He checked | :55:01. | :55:13. | |
out at 2-1 down and 15-40. That is what was so inexplicable | :55:14. | :55:26. | |
when we watched Sam Querrey and Novak Djokovic. In the second set | :55:27. | :55:32. | |
Djokovic tapped out, like we are watching Kyrgios. It must happen to | :55:33. | :55:42. | |
some players on occasions with the roller-coaster and the circus that | :55:43. | :55:47. | |
goes around the world week in and week out. Sometimes you must be on | :55:48. | :55:57. | |
the court and think, I really do not know if I can be bothered to play. | :55:58. | :56:02. | |
Your mind can play for tricks and make you lose sight of how lucky you | :56:03. | :56:04. | |
are and be doing what you are doing. Although I must say I have never | :56:05. | :56:23. | |
seen Federer or Rafael Nadal completely checkout. That is the | :56:24. | :56:31. | |
difference. We are talking 17 Grand Slams, 14. That is the fifth ace | :56:32. | :56:38. | |
from Andy Murray. It means very swiftly he is on the cusp of a two | :56:39. | :56:50. | |
set lead. More swiftly than he could possibly imagine. Murray is two | :56:51. | :57:01. | |
thirds of the way there. SUE BARKER: And that set took just 26 minutes. | :57:02. | :57:06. | |
Now just one set away from a quarterfinal. We do know the winner | :57:07. | :57:12. | |
of this will face Jo-Wilfried Tsonga because this is sadly what happened | :57:13. | :57:15. | |
on Court Number One with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga leading 4-2. Richard Gasquet | :57:16. | :57:23. | |
is really struggling. He feels his back and his back has gone. Back | :57:24. | :57:28. | |
injuries are awful for tennis players, it affects every part of | :57:29. | :57:32. | |
your game. He knew immediately in this best of five set match there | :57:33. | :57:38. | |
was no way he could carry on. They are great friends, the French number | :57:39. | :57:43. | |
one and the French number two. It is a sad way to see this end. | :57:44. | :57:47. | |
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga would not want to go through this way either. Sadly | :57:48. | :57:52. | |
Richard Gasquet waved goodbye to Wimbledon. That could be a long | :57:53. | :57:58. | |
injury for him. We wish him well. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is through to the | :57:59. | :58:01. | |
last eight to face the winner of this one. | :58:02. | :58:06. | |
JOHN INVERDALE: The way it is going at the moment, there is only going | :58:07. | :58:11. | |
to be one winner of this. It is amazing going back 20 years Britain | :58:12. | :58:17. | |
did not have a player in the last eight at Wimbledon. Quarterfinal, | :58:18. | :58:28. | |
semifinal, semifinal, runner-up winner, quarterfinal, semifinal, | :58:29. | :58:33. | |
that is Murray's Wimbledon is met. He has reached the quarterfinals of | :58:34. | :58:46. | |
his last 20 tournaments. It shows how incredibly dedicated and | :58:47. | :58:49. | |
consistent he has been and how willing he has been to try to figure | :58:50. | :58:51. | |
out a way to make himself better. He's extremely respected in the | :58:52. | :59:02. | |
locker room for what he does to get the most out of his game. We have | :59:03. | :59:13. | |
had one match that has come back from two set down. That was Milos | :59:14. | :59:21. | |
Raonic beating David Goffin. I think the odds are against a repeat of | :59:22. | :59:26. | |
that. Yes, Milos Raonic was the favourite | :59:27. | :59:31. | |
in that match, the bigger hitter and more accomplished on grass. Murray | :59:32. | :59:37. | |
is a Wimbledon champion. He is thankful he was given the second set | :59:38. | :59:41. | |
and he did not have to stress at all. Kyrgios will play better now in | :59:42. | :59:44. | |
this set. It must be hard sitting in the | :59:45. | :00:06. | |
Kyrgios box match after match. He often gets angry with his box. I | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
have seen him throwing his brother out, insisting that he leaves. Part | :00:12. | :00:24. | |
of the reason is they want him to show more dedication and an effort. | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
That would help. He has got to take responsibility for what is going on. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
He is doing a lot of talking to the box right now. It is tough enough to | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
beat Murray. You mention his consistency. You have got to have | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
laser-like focus. He could have won it three times, | :00:46. | :01:17. | |
Kyrgios, but he won it in the end. He certainly does, but Kyrgios... | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
Making a type of run, only natural that Murray would let down a little | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
bit, Kyrgios trying to get some respect. | :01:29. | :01:47. | |
A tremendous shot. At least he is playing hard again. Woken up from | :01:48. | :02:00. | |
his funk. Look at the face of Kyrgios, he knew that was close to | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
being an absolute blinder! That is ridiculous from Murray. | :02:03. | :02:42. | |
Especially considering that when Kyrgios had his forehand, he | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
literally sprinted back towards the net, he knew Murray was going to hit | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
the shot and he still couldn't get there. What do I do? He says to the | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
nonexistent coach... How brilliant was that from Murray | :02:54. | :03:40. | |
as well? Did that go over the roof? I can't see but I knew it was hit so | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
well that Kyrgios deliberately hit it into the stands, he did not try | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
and get this in the court. That may have gone out! An unsuspecting | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
person in one of the corridors outside... Where did that come from? | :03:55. | :04:04. | |
Pouille has just beaten Tomic, 10-8 in the fifth. | :04:05. | :04:28. | |
It is sad day for five setters. There it is again. Amazing variety | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
from Murray. We talk about Kyrgios, but Murray... Just fantastic to | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
watch. He has got everything, obviously, he has Kyrgios on his | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
heels, that is for sure. Just burning his rock shot. -- this drop | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
shot. Again, not the wrong idea, just | :04:54. | :05:04. | |
executing it, it's too short. That is an amazing angle. | :05:05. | :05:41. | |
APPLAUSE Kyrgios doesn't know what hit him | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
right now. Look where he is. He has got to move over. That is the easier | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
shot for Murray to hit, crosscourt. He gets flat-footed all too often. | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
When Kyrgios has been in a hole in this tournament, he serves doubles. | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
But the fact that Murray is down the other end... Is nullifying that | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
serve to some extent and then he does that... That is what happened | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
at the end the first set. This might be handing the match to Andy Murray | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
on a plate. Three break points. He sure needs those big serves right | :06:25. | :06:34. | |
now. -- calmness. That is better from | :06:35. | :06:59. | |
Raonic... I mean, Kyrgios! He figured out a way back. Certainly | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
doesn't look likely fought Kyrgios. Doesn't look like he's going to make | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
a two 7pm right now. APPLAUSE | :07:09. | :07:21. | |
Cheering-macro first-time Andy Murray has let a has let a shriek, | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
he senses he is almost there. Into another quarterfinal. Kyrgios is | :07:26. | :07:39. | |
really on the ropes. Let's give credit to this guy, obviously. He | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
has gotten in his head... It doesn't look like Kyrgios really wants to be | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
out there. The thing with Murray... He adds more as the match goes on. | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
The players, his opponent feels even more pressure. Kyrgios is out there, | :07:57. | :08:07. | |
he hasn't bothered to sit down at the change of ends, he... On the | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
basis, I will play another 3-4 games. Did you notice for he was a | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
couple of hours before the match? Yes, he was watching Leighton Hewitt | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
play doubles. Does that seem like a good use of your time for a guy | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
playing number of them. Before he played Raonic he did not go into the | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
locker room at all. He turned about Queen's Club, went into the players | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
lounge, heard his name called and booked on court and played. And | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
lost. A little bit different. The lounge is arguably that... Than the | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
locker room at Queen's Club but that is another day to get into that | :08:53. | :08:53. | |
discussion! Almost made it! Total giveaway. You | :08:54. | :09:25. | |
can see the drop shot Kyrgios is going to hit a mile away, unlike | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
Murray. More strategic, less predictable. Less obvious. | :09:31. | :09:47. | |
He is taking Kyrgios totally out of it. The movement, the defence... | :09:48. | :09:59. | |
Just driving Kyrgios mad. I am sure those big sporting stars in the | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
Royal Box, full of admiration for the way Murray is doing a very | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
clinical job. All those golfers up there... This | :10:06. | :10:29. | |
is a second-round four under par-macro... That is about right! | :10:30. | :10:45. | |
The other thing as well, of course... | :10:46. | :11:01. | |
Another bit of unnecessary showboating. But actually, Kyrgios | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
could have won that point. You should have one, no question, didn't | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
use his legs at all, he would have won it. We have been playing an hour | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
and 23 minutes, Murray has played three matches so far, three straight | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
sets wins, only losing three service games, he hasn't played a lot of | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
tennis, to get to the quarterfinal. Is that remind you of another | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
player? Federer is in exactly the same boat. | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
We will give him that one. That time he took the ragged with two hands | :11:37. | :12:13. | |
and the skies did much better, moving forehead, looks like he is | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
going to hit the two hander and takes off one of his hands, that | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
made a lot of sense. That is a beautiful shot. Do you | :12:20. | :13:00. | |
know what he was saying? Could you hear him? What he was whining about. | :13:01. | :13:09. | |
He is talking about the score. Probably! | :13:10. | :13:34. | |
Wide! By hook or by crook. Kyrgios won that match, they are feeling a | :13:35. | :13:45. | |
little bit happier in the Kyrgios box. | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
We keep talking about Murray and his variation of shot that he has at his | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
disposal and the great thing is, it is almost solely that he seems to | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
make the decision about what option to take. Well, it seems like he has | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
got more time than his opponent. I think his balance is awesome but | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
also his footwork, that is what separates Murray, Federer... They | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
put themselves in a position where they have some options, more than | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
opponents. You see a guy mentally lazy out there. That he is playing. | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
Not this guy. He is sharp as can be, played plenty of tennis this year, | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
knows what it is like to play on grass, played at Queen's Club, | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
unlike Djokovic. He has had plenty of match play, perfectly content | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
with blowing these guys out in three sets, saving it for when he needs | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
it. John, I saw you in Paris and Timmy, it looks like it caught up to | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
him in the final, he had to play to five setters... The mental | :14:54. | :15:01. | |
exhaustion, meeting Radek Stepanek in the first round, lifting himself | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
out of the mire, two weeks later, the rain delays, mentally and | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
physically exhausted. He played a great first set and didn't have | :15:11. | :15:20. | |
anything left. He is going to have plenty left the way it is playing | :15:21. | :15:21. | |
out. Generally too short. Not doing | :15:22. | :15:45. | |
enough with it. Not just control, complete control, | :15:46. | :16:23. | |
four points from a 4-2 lead. The full repertoire on show here on | :16:24. | :16:36. | |
Centre Court. I think it's fair to say the crowd a little disappointed | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
by this in terms of a contest, they were expecting this to be a | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
barnstorming, swashbuckling encounter, but it's been a bit of a | :16:48. | :16:55. | |
damp squib so far. Murray has just pricked the Kyrgios balloon. So | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
true, taken him completely out of the match. Seems to be not under any | :17:01. | :17:10. | |
stress at all, considering who he is up against, that is pretty | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
impressive. SUE BARKER: at this point, with | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
Kyrgios very unhappy, we are leading the match on BBC Two, it continues | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
on BBC One. If you want to continue watching, switch over to BBC One, we | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
are leaving, we will bring you another fourth round badge, taking | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
place on Court Number 12 between Bernard Tomic, the 19th seed from | :17:35. | :17:36. | |
Australia, Lucas Pouille from France. 7-7 in the fifth and final | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
set, Tomic serving, the commentators are Andrew Cotter and Dan Lobb. | :17:44. | :17:52. | |
COMMENTATOR: Quite a weapon! A rapier like | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
backhand. No... He has just missed it. Great | :17:58. | :18:22. | |
defence from fully, tried to turn it into attack. Just dragged it wide, | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
it was there for the taking. Just millimetres end, these missed | :18:30. | :18:45. | |
shots, from both players. Tommy's team have different rules. | :18:46. | :19:37. | |
The score horse rolls onto 8-7 in his favour, Stewart is the | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
cheerleader, on his feet, giving him the fist pumps. Whereas dad, John... | :19:41. | :19:50. | |
Look about. Body language. Everything crossed. He stopped, | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
cheering, Andrew. I think he is asking Leighton to go and get some | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
more chewing gum. It looks like his trainer has nicked it! | :20:04. | :20:11. | |
A view fanatics in here. The lucky fanatics, I said lucky... Those with | :20:12. | :20:21. | |
greater credentials are on Centre Court, but I think anyone would like | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
to be out here, watching this match, because it is on a knife edge. And | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
once more, Lucas Pouille serving to stay in the match. | :20:32. | :21:09. | |
Must be the hardest job in the world, being a coach, our father... | :21:10. | :21:38. | |
Watching... It is done with the beautiful | :21:39. | :22:13. | |
indifference and casual air. Just had a swing, didn't he? | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
Might have a swing again on the second serve. | :22:22. | :22:29. | |
You are absolutely right. And now... He might start to get a little bit | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
more interested. He is proving he has an excellent | :22:36. | :23:02. | |
tennis brain. It is one thing to stay cam, cool and collected in | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
these situations, quite another to play the right shots at the right | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
time. And that one just swatted down rather freely. | :23:13. | :23:44. | |
That was a rather tired looking first serve. He overcooked the | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
second. This is the first game I am starting | :23:48. | :24:03. | |
to think, yes, he is tiring now. Brilliant from Lucas Pouille. He is | :24:04. | :24:27. | |
closing in, Tomic in real trouble again. So much easier said than done | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
to say, you have got to step in and go for it. Quick as you like, he is | :24:36. | :24:37. | |
up to serve again. Once more, Tomic saves himself. 21 | :24:38. | :24:57. | |
break points. Lucas Pouille has had, in this matter, converting four of | :24:58. | :24:59. | |
them. Tomic as to do it again. He has done it! As soon as he hit | :25:00. | :25:15. | |
it, he knew, Lucas Pouille will serve for a place in the | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
quarterfinals. But is there more to come from this match? Great | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
excitement, ebbs and flows. Deep breaths now for Pouille, just | :25:25. | :25:37. | |
an extraordinary match. Incredible, as the French would say! OK... Tomic | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
did not do enough with that approach shot, he is definitely a tired | :25:45. | :25:52. | |
player. But... So much a wonderful, full swing at such a crucial time. | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
That is the key. It is staying positive, making sure that the | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
racket head speed as they threw the ball. Now, to try and avoid the | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
tightening up. That tension, the pressure of serving, 22-year-old, | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
for a place in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon, never been beyond the | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
second round of a Grand Slam before here at Wimbledon. | :26:19. | :27:11. | |
Staying strong to the end, Lucas Pouille. No mistakes. | :27:12. | :27:24. | |
And with aces Labour 26 he brings himself to three match points. | :27:25. | :27:39. | |
He has done it, Lucas Pouille moves through to the quarterfinals of | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
Wimbledon. And Tomic is gone. CHEERING | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
Great talent of the Australian not enough against this rising French | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
man. Who moves through to the last eight. A win for him and four-day | :27:56. | :28:04. | |
match, what a way to do it. SUE BARKER: the crowd enjoyed that | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
out on Court Number 12, Puig rose through to face either Tomas Berdych | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
or Jiri Vesely, that match on Court Number Three. We are ending coverage | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
on BBC Two, coverage continues on BBC One, over on Centre Court, Andy | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
Murray, the world two is about to come out and serve for the match | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
against Nick Kyrgios. That match on Centre Court, we will be following | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
that over on BBC One, also keeping an eye on Jiri Vesely against Tomas | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
Berdych. A busy day here at Wimbledon, all fourth-round matches | :28:41. | :28:43. | |
being played, on Centre Court and Henman Hill, all eyes on the British | :28:44. | :28:50. | |
number one, the world two, Andy Murray. Goodbye for now. | :28:51. | :29:01. | |
You're going to have to keep your head down, Michael. No! | :29:02. | :29:03. | |
Kielys are going to be on the warpath. | :29:04. | :29:06. | |
Are you going to let them get away with that, too? | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
No-one will thank you for ratting on a colleague. So I turn a blind eye? | :29:12. | :29:15. |