Review Wimbledon

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

On behalf of the All England Lawn Tennis Club,

may I offer you a very warm welcome

to the first day of The Championships 2016.

Wimbledon is unique.

Wimbledon is extraordinary.

For most, Wimbledon is the finest.

Game, set and match, Djokovic.

Serena Williams to serve.

When you do come here, you are in the pursuit in greatness.

Because that's what Wimbledon is,

it's about being the best in the world,

it's about being the best of the best.

I felt that I was more comfortable

with everything on the court than the opponent.

You just feel like this is my place, this is my home.

I was a bit petrified, my legs were wobbly and shaky.

The pressure seemed to be a lot greater here.

But there's nothing like walking out on the Centre Court of Wimbledon,

that's for sure.

Game, Murray!

There was a lot at stake ahead of the 130th Wimbledon Championships.

With a first Roland Garros victory fresh in his mind,

a self-assured Novak Djokovic arrived at Wimbledon

halfway to achieving the calendar year Grand Slam.

The defending champion was seeking a third successive triumph,

and fourth in all, at the All England Club.

-DJOKOVIC:

-The situation this year is quite different from previous years

because I'm coming in with a Roland Garros title

for the first time and that gives me, obviously, a lot of confidence.

I'm at the peak of my career at the moment.

Hopefully, can still keep going.

I see still a lot of room for improvement.

You obviously will not know exactly how you feel

until you start to play.

Three years have passed since a British man won Wimbledon.

The 2013 champion, Andy Murray, has not won a Grand Slam title

since he defeated Djokovic in straight sets.

Will his decision to rehire Ivan Lendl

help to bring him a second Wimbledon title?

-MURRAY:

-The time that I spent with him beforehand was very good

and I don't feel any added pressure working with him again.

I think, you know,

it gives actually a bit of extra confidence

because I know the last time we worked together,

it was very successful.

I trust in what he says and enjoyed having him back as part of the team

and hopefully, I can have a good run here.

Canada's Milos Raonic had also recruited a renowned major winner

to advise him on the fine art of grass-court tennis.

-JOHN MCENROE:

-This guy's got one of the biggest games in the sport

and obviously, his serve is huge.

And I think he's got some good skills at net.

It's not like Milos Raonic is serving and volleying all the time,

but he's doing it enough, I think.

It's important to get in these great returners' heads

that they're not quite sure what you're going to offer up.

25 years ago, Germany's Michael Stich was the Wimbledon champion.

I think the mental part of those champions that have been there,

that have experienced everything - loss, winning, big moments -

I think that's what you can bring to the players and just tell them

to really believe, and on grass, you have to take your chances, as well.

It's not just like playing at the baseline,

you have to be a little bit more flexible,

a little bit more creative, and I think that's what all those guys -

Boris, John, Ivan -

I think that's what they have brought to that generation,

to not just be fit and strong, they're all great tennis players,

but just be a little bit more creative.

In 1991, Stich beat Boris Becker on the world's greatest tennis stage.

Have a lovely day!

Enjoy the sunshine.

On day one of The Championships,

the compatriots took their seats as Novak Djokovic

began the defence of his title.

This Centre Court is the only one in the world where you walk on

as a player and you feel that 130 years of history,

you feel like all the other players that have played there before,

they have won the title, and you feel the Lavers,

the Rosewalls, and all those guys and that is so special.

The world number one had not lost a Grand Slam match

in more than 12 months.

So the task for the British wild card, James Ward,

ranked 177 in the world, was formidable.

Ready for play, first set, Novak Djokovic to serve.

Game, Djokovic.

Game, Djokovic.

The Serb won the first nine games

before his opponent featured on the scoreboard.

CHEERING

Djokovic closed out victory with an ace.

Game, set and match, Djokovic.

-DJOKOVIC:

-The first part of the match was almost flawless,

so I'm very pleased with the way I've started Wimbledon.

There are far worse places to be stuck,

but for almost a year, Serena Williams hadn't moved off 21 majors,

losing the last two Grand Slam finals to first-time major winners.

When I see her do really well, when she's at her best, there is a look,

you know, the body language is there that looks like, "I'm ready,

"I'm happy, I'm ready to go."

I'm not seeing that and you need to be really together

and happy enough on the court

to make it happen. And if you're not, the other kids

have played you a few times, the other players,

they start to realise, "I have nothing to lose."

It starts to become a problem but these players work hard.

So, would the defending champion equal Steffi Graf's open-era record

of 22 majors and achieve parity with the German

on seven Wimbledon titles apiece?

Serena Williams was taking inspiration from history.

-SERENA:

-When I'm walking down those corridors,

you think of different moments that you've had

and the different moments that you've won or didn't win.

And I try not to focus on those moments because I try to create

a new moment every time I walk out there.

Day two, the defending champion brushed aside

qualifier Amra Sadikovic from Switzerland,

but as the 1999 champion Lindsay Davenport observed,

Serena still had room to improve.

Game, set and match, Ms Williams!

Next on court, an all-British affair.

Andy Murray, the second-best player in the world,

faced his good friend Liam Broady.

Andy Murray to serve.

Ready, play.

He showed no mercy, with a match time of under two hours,

prompting discussion of the so-called Lendl effect.

Game, Murray.

The Scot's uncompromising coach always stresses the importance

of the big kill.

Timing is everything in life,

and Andy Murray's appeared to be ticking along perfectly.

He had match point wrapped up just minutes before the heavens opened

and play was suspended.

The following day, while the rain dampened spirits outside,

the crowds under the Centre Court roof were buoyed

as Roger Federer began his second-round match.

His opponent was ranked 772 in the world.

The seven-time champion versus Marcus Willis,

a tennis coach from Wokingham.

It's all just been incredible and a bit of a blur!

He makes you play his class.

He put me under the cosh, he came out firing.

Game, Federer.

I played a good point, where I lobbed him,

so I can say I lobbed Roger Federer!

I did enjoy myself, even though I was getting duffed up.

I loved every minute of it - well, not the duffing bit, but...

I loved being there, I loved getting stuck in, fighting hard,

the whole experience was incredible.

Next up for the Briton, a club match in Coventry -

which, by the way, he won.

Garbine Muguruza offered a fine challenge to Serena Williams

in the Wimbledon final in 2015.

Her recent defeat of the world number one in Roland Garros

has underlined her obvious star quality.

A four-time major winner knows the path ahead

will be paved with great expectations.

Once you win once, then that's when you realise that everybody

is going to think that you now have the pressure that you have

to win more, so it's going to be very interesting to see

how she handles that because now she is one of the favourites

after Serena, to keep winning and doing well.

After a close three-set contest in the first round

against Italy's Camilla Giorgi,

Muguruza struggled in round two against Slovakia's Jana Cepelova.

Game and first set, Miss Cepelova.

The world number two had been outplayed by an opponent

ranked 122 places behind her.

The Spaniard appeared emotionally and physically defeated.

Honestly for me, I just had it very clear

that it was going to be a rough tournament for me

after winning a Grand Slam and coming here.

Everybody, like, looking at me but honestly, not really.

I know all the matches are very tough,

nothing's going to happen if I lose today.

It's normal, it's part of the game.

Hopefully, I lose less matches but there is not any drama.

Stan Wawrinka's Wimbledon ambitions are such

that he hired the 1996 champion Richard Krajicek

as a grass-court consultant.

When he hits a good shot, he does tend to come in after it,

so not after the serve, but after maybe a good forehand or a backhand.

Also, in that way, you put more pressure on your opponent.

You make the court shorter for yourself

but also put pressure and play a little mental game with him,

so, hopefully, it will help him to better his best here,

which is quarterfinals, but let's take it one match at a time.

A tough one now against Del Potro.

In round two, Wawrinka faced the big man from Argentina

who was on the comeback trail.

Juan Martin Del Potro had lost over two years out of the game

with a wretched wrist injury.

20 years ago, Krajicek's firepower

had ended Pete Sampras' three-year unbeaten stretch at Wimbledon.

In 2016, Wawrinka was not faring so well.

The former US Open champion rolled back the years

to end the challenge of the number four seed.

Game, set and match, Del Potro.

Ladies and gentlemen, play is suspended.

While the rain wreaked havoc with many matches on day five,

36-year-old Venus Williams and her sister Serena

tiptoed their way past stubborn younger opponents.

On Court One,

Venus faced 19-year-old Daria Kasatkina from Russia.

They walked on and off court multiple times,

even after a downpour,

when the five-time champion was at match point in the third set.

When play resumed, she lost that match point,

but clung on to win 10-8 in the decider.

Meanwhile, under the protection of Centre Court's retractable roof,

younger sister Serena came through a tense, emotional match

in which her mood was often as dark as the threatening skies outside.

She clawed her way to survival

to defeat her compatriot Christina McHale.

Game, set and match...

Afterwards, the defending champion described her warrior mode

as "playing for my life".

Djokovic had a fight on his hands.

On day six, he returned to the All England Club two sets down

against the big-hitting American Sam Querrey

after their match was suspended on Friday when the heavens intervened.

Ladies and gentlemen, play is suspended.

There were echoes of Djokovic's trial against another huge server,

South Africa's Kevin Anderson, in 2015,

in a match which required him to fight back from two sets down.

Querrey had overwhelmed his opponent in the opening two sets.

On the resumption, Djokovic took the third with ease.

Would the Serb's recovery continue?

The charging American demonstrated there was more to his game

than pure firepower.

When defending his title in 1987,

Boris Becker lost to the unseeded Australian Peter Doohan.

His charge had won 16 consecutive matches at the All England Club.

It seemed this was being brought to a stunning end by a player

who had never reached a major quarterfinal.

In a match frustratingly played out over five rain-interrupted chapters,

it was the 6'6" laid-back American who held his nerve

to triumph over the holder of all four major titles.

Just congratulations to Sam, he played a terrific match.

He serves very well, as he usually does,

and I think that part of his game was brutal today.

Well done, he just overpowered me.

-QUERREY:

-He made me earn it, he is not a guy that goes away.

He came out and made me win those big points and, you know,

probably not the best he's ever played,

but not the worst he's ever played.

You know, he's still number one in the world and the best out there,

so he'll move forward.

I saw you practising this morning on Court 14

and you didn't seem yourself.

What were you thinking this morning?

I just said, I don't want to talk about it.

The world number one's 30-match winning streak

at the majors was over,

as well as any chance of a calendar year Grand Slam.

I think Novak was in a place nobody's been, really,

since Rod Laver in '69.

You can compare his dominance to Pete Sampras and Roger Federer

in recent years, but those guys didn't have all four slams

at the same time.

The way he's succeeded in recent years

is by changing the paradigm a bit.

Being able to recover, re-centre,

get through tough matches, and he's had a few.

And so, I think, in that sense, nobody expected him to lose.

Andy Murray was the runner-up to Djokovic at the Australian Open

and Roland Garros this year.

During a rain-interrupted match against the Australian John Millman,

he received confirmation there would be no repeat of that result

in eight days' time.

The announcement did not disrupt the second seed, who made it through

to the fourth round without the loss of a set.

What happened to Novak today is irrelevant to me

during today's match. I need to win my match today,

and I did a good job of that.

Middle Saturday at The Championships is traditionally the day when

the Royal Box is full of sporting legends.

A three-times Wimbledon singles champion took time off from

commentary duties to take his reserved seat for the first time.

Well, I had been up there a couple of times picking up a doubles trophy

but never to actually sit and watch a match.

Sitting next to Billie Jean King, I got the running commentary

that I was missing by not doing the match myself.

John McEnroe enjoyed a brilliant performance from the Romanian

Simona Halep, seeded five,

who progressed through to the second week together with third and fourth

seeds Agnieszka Radwanska and Angelique Kerber.

After a maddening week of wet weather and interminable rain delays

causing a backlog of matches, the All-England Club decided

play would take place on Middle Sunday

for only the fourth time in the history of The Championships.

On behalf of the All England Lawn Tennis Club,

may I offer you a very warm welcome to Middle Sunday of

The Championships, 2016.

It had been a quarter of a century since the Club had first thrown

its doors open on its traditional rest day.

On a first-come, first-served basis,

22,000 tickets were sold online in 27 minutes.

It would be fantastic if we get all the matches played today, because

if we do, we will be on schedule, and that will be a great relief

not just to the referee, but to organisers behind the scenes.

If we get a full day's play today, I am sure there will be

a great atmosphere and we will be back on schedule,

and it makes Middle Sunday well worthwhile.

Matches began at 11:30am on Centre Court.

Time.

Italy's Roberta Vinci and Coco Vandeweghe from the United States

kicked off proceedings.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga had never lost a five-set match at Wimbledon.

He fought his heart out against the record-breaking marathon man

John Isner to continue his unblemished run.

The Frenchman survived a match point at 15-16 in the final set,

before beating the American 19-17.

After the shock departure of Djokovic, Serena Williams'

continued journey at The Championships was no surprise.

She recorded her 300th Grand Slam match win on the eve of her

300th overall week as the world number one.

Tomas Berdych faced a German teenager hailed as the future

of men's tennis. 19-year-old Alexander Zverev

defeated Roger Federer in Halle in preparation for The Championships.

But the big Czech was in supreme form,

and clinched his place in the fourth round.

Good effort, Whiley. That's it, put it away.

Well done, Whiley.

Jordanne Whiley is Britain's most successful female wheelchair player.

The world number three has won six Grand Slam doubles titles with her

partner, Yui Kamiji, from Japan, and is the defending US Open

singles champion.

I wanted to actually be a coroner, so I was studying forensic science

at college, and it wasn't until I got back from Beijing when I

had to make the decision to quit academic studies or go on to be

a professional tennis player, because I couldn't keep up both,

so I made the decision to do tennis.

Wheelchair tennis has been played at The Championships since 2001.

We've had the wheelchair doubles event, which has grown in popularity

with the players and spectators, and really, being an Olympic year

as well, it was a good opportunity now to expand that

into a singles event.

Number eight will be Jordanne Whiley from Great Britain.

Wimbledon is really special for us - to be able to showcase our sport

to the highest level in the singles event is just absolutely fantastic.

I'm here to win.

Before the wheelchair competition started,

the quarterfinals took centre stage.

Venus and Serena Williams were on the bill, 16 years after they first

achieved the feat. They faced Yaroslava Shvedova

and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova respectively.

Simona Halep was drawn against Angelique Kerber,

and Dominika Cibulkova, who beat Aga Radwanska,

faced Elena Vesnina.

-Out!

-Game, set, and match, Miss Kerber.

Game, set, and match, Ms Williams.

Game, set, and match, Ms Vesnina.

Game, set, and match, Miss Williams.

Could the Williams sisters roll back the years?

Kerber and Vesnina would have to halt their progress.

The last time Marin Cilic played Roger Federer, in the 2014 US Open,

the 17-times major winner recalled he had been brushed off the court

in straight sets. It was men's quarterfinals day

at The Championships, and the seven-times champion was losing

two sets to love, and faced two break points

against an inspired opponent.

But this was Wimbledon Centre Court. This was Federer's domain.

Game, Federer.

Cilic was broken in the next game, and Federer served for the set.

With Djokovic on the sidelines, this may have been

Federer's last realistic chance of winning another major title.

In the tenth game, Cilic sniffed a decisive opportunity.

He was one point away from ending Federer's dream of

a record eighth Wimbledon title.

As well as Cilic played, he couldn't make the decisive kill.

He couldn't win THE point.

5-5. The world number three's Wimbledon hopes were still alive.

But the following game, Federer stumbled once more.

Cilic reached a second match point.

Could the Swiss maestro serve up something really special?

Advantage, Federer.

Federer had pulled off the great escape on Centre Court in 2010,

against Alejandro Falla, and in 2012 versus Julien Benneteau,

but Cilic reached 7-6 in the tie-break - his third match point.

The Croatian had been hitting winners for most of the match,

but again, he couldn't return a second serve.

7-7.

Federer earned his first set point.

It was Cilic's time to hold on.

At 10-9, Federer had another chance to level the match.

Game, and fourth set, Federer. Seven games to six. Two sets all.

From then on, he never trailed.

Of his 27 aces, 14 came in the final two sets.

Game, set, and match...

Make that 15.

It was one of the greatest Wimbledon comebacks.

Roger Federer had reached his 11th semifinal at the All England Club.

At no stage did Federer panic.

He knew he was up against it.

When you are down match point at 4-5, 5-6,

and in the fourth-set tie-break, you are having to roll the dice.

But to come through a five-set epic like this, he will have a day off

to recover, and it will be interesting to see how he responds

in the semifinals.

It was an emotional win.

Always when you come back from two sets to love,

but because of the season that I've had, it's wonderful, and

this one is definitely huge, because it's Centre Court at Wimbledon.

Without a coach or a grass-court win ahead of The Championships,

Tomas Berdych ended the run of the Frenchman Lucas Pouille to reach the

last four for a second time.

Milos Raonic beat Sam Querrey.

Big serves were expected to feature, but the Canadian also served up

an impressive display of attacking net play.

Andy Murray had been sailing through the draw without dropping a set.

He played extremely well when he had to,

but he did not have to very often.

Then he ran into Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Set point to the Frenchman.

6-6.

8-7.

A first set point slipped through Murray's hands.

A second and third followed.

He earned a fourth.

After 76 minutes, the second seed was a set to the good.

Murray ran away with the second in just 26 minutes.

Game, Murray.

Game, Murray.

Game, and second set, Murray.

Did Tsonga have the powers of recovery?

Game, Tsonga.

The Frenchman had beaten Murray on two occasions

in 14 previous meetings. Taking the third set,

he seemed recharged, and was raring to go in the fourth.

Game, Tsonga.

Twice, he was broken by his nemesis.

Twice, he broke back.

In the ninth game, he drilled a backhand -

that famously unreliable backhand - and passed a charging opponent.

He served out to force the match to a fifth set.

Game, and fourth set, Tsonga.

But that was when the 2013 champion took charge,

breaking Tsonga at the first opportunity.

The crowd loves a good five-set rollercoaster ride,

and roar their approval, as their man took command.

Game, Murray.

Murray served for a place in the semifinals

for a seventh time at SW19.

Game, set, and match, Murray.

You know, today was a tough match, but, you know, it would have

been easy to have gone very down on myself in that fifth set after,

you know, the way the fourth set ended.

It definitely tested a lot today, and it was probably the

hardest match to come through, so I'm hoping that it helps me

the next couple of rounds.

The weather at Wimbledon had been cool and calm for much of the second

week of The Championships, but Serena Williams blew away

Elena Vesnina in only 48 minutes in the first of the women's semifinals.

Game, set, and match, Miss Williams.

She moved one match closer to Steffi Graf's tally of 22 major titles.

Angelique Kerber had long admired her idol, Graf, and now had a chance

to emulate her. 20 years had passed since the German last lifted

the Venus Rosewater Dish. Kerber defeated Venus Williams,

and advanced to her second Grand Slam final.

In Australia, she outclassed Serena Williams in a magnificent display of

hard-court tennis, but this finale would be a different encounter,

played on a surface favoured by the American.

I will try to go out there like in Australia to believe in myself going

out there and trying to play my game.

I know that I have to play my best tennis to beat Serena,

especially here in Wimbledon.

Day 11. A seven-time champion and the home favourite would play

back-to-back on the Centre Court.

What could they conjure up in the semifinals?

It was pretty magical.

First of all, any time you have Roger Federer and Andy Murray

playing back-to-back on Centre Court,

it's going to be a great day for the fans.

I think there hasn't been much of a question about Federer's skills.

The question has been more about his body, and I think he had as many

questions as we did, and I think he answered a lot of those questions.

He didn't know the answers in the way that we didn't either until

he got through that match.

For Andy, bringing Lendl back into the camp helps him

in a couple of ways.

One, I think it silences a lot of the negativity that he tends to show

on the court, he's less apt to talk negatively when Ivan is up there,

which is a good thing for Andy.

He's better off channelling that energy elsewhere.

The second thing is his forehand is more aggressive when Ivan is in the

camp. Ivan seems to enforce that aggression from Andy and that forces

him to be a better player, and with Novak out of the way,

I certainly think he has a great look at The Championship.

As Roger Federer walked onto Centre Court to play his

40th Grand Slam semifinal, the Swiss would have history - and the crowd -

overwhelmingly in his favour.

Two years ago, Federer dismantled Milos Raonic at the same stage

of The Championships.

At one set apiece, the Canadian was under pressure on his serve.

Game, Federer.

Two games later, the third seed took command.

Game, and first set, Federer.

It is the first time since 2000 Federer hasn't won a title

before Wimbledon, but coming back from three match points

against Cilic was a very good indicator where his game was at.

Ahead of the match, Raonic said he would strive to take away rhythm

and timing from his opponent.

When Federer seemingly looked in control late in the fourth,

the pattern began to change.

Game, Raonic.

Federer, 5-6 down, but 40-0 up.

40-15.

40-30.

Deuce.

A series of service errors stacked up,

then a net-rushing Raonic turned the screw.

Advantage, Raonic.

Federer found some answers.

Deuce.

Advantage, Federer.

But Raonic returned with interest, and one point later,

a drilled backhand pass sent the match into a decider.

Game, and fourth set, Raonic.

It appeared Federer's fourth set disaster was playing on his mind.

If he recalled last year's semifinal against Andy Murray,

he would have remembered a flawless performance.

This time, he simply couldn't cross the finish line, in a match where

he had largely been the better player.

Raonic had a break point in the fourth game.

The intensity of the battle required an extraordinary moment

to break the deadlock.

Game, Raonic.

Four games later, victory was just a point away.

Game, set, and match, Raonic.

Milos Raonic had reached his first major final.

After ten previous successes, Roger Federer had lost in

a semifinal at the All England Club for the first time.

You're playing who Roger is today,

not who he's been the past few years.

So you try to focus in on that and on what you need to do

and try not to spend too much time and attention thinking about him,

because especially for myself, I got to always worry about myself first.

It goes both ways. I feel I lost it and he won it, for sure.

It's one that clearly hurts, because I felt that

I could have had it. So close. It was really so, so close.

I did a lot of things well.

The attitude got me in the match and I think that's what made the biggest

difference. I was quite vocal, but I was always positive,

and I was always looking for a solution.

Net play appeared to be the order of the day for Tomas Berdych

ahead of his semifinal against Andy Murray -

a good strategy for a player heavily reliant on thundering groundstrokes.

Murray, the clear favourite,

had allowed Berdych just one set in their last four encounters.

Game, and first set, Murray.

The Scot was ruthlessly efficient in the first set.

In the second, the pattern continued.

The Czech followed up his powerful groundstrokes with frequent dashes

to the net, but they were rarely effective.

Game, and second set, Murray.

Mission accomplished, Murray would face a Canadian Grand Slam debutante

in the final, rather than a serial major winner from Serbia.

I thought I played pretty... pretty good today.

I didn't give up too many errors, made it very difficult for Tomas.

I never take it for granted, I know how difficult it is to make

the final of these events, and how hard they are to win.

Could 34-year-old Serena Williams

level Steffi Graf's open era record 22 Grand Slam titles?

Could she grasp the Venus Rosewater Dish for a seventh time?

A nine-time champion knows how with age the bar is raised

higher and higher.

The pressure definitely builds as you get older,

and also the sport just means more, so the wins are greater,

but the losses are greater and you have that much more on the line.

You saw it with Roger Federer.

You know, he got nervous and

we all do because we care so much

that it can get in the way sometimes.

So that's what makes Serena's winning in her 30s that much

more amazing - that she's won, I think, nine Grand Slam titles

after the age of 30. That's ridiculous, really.

In 2016,

28-year-old Angelique Kerber joined that elite group of major winners.

Physical athletes are a dime a dozen.

What people don't realise is it's the heart and the mind, you know,

and the emotional aspect of a person that makes the difference.

What makes a great, great champion is having their head,

heart, and their guts. When they have all three working together.

The great ones have the three out of three, just constantly.

I think that's part of being a champion.

First set, Miss Serena Williams to serve.

Ready.

Play.

The first point of the match suggested the contest would be a

high-quality shoot-out, as it had been in Melbourne.

Could the American avenge her defeat to the left-handed German?

In the ninth game, under pressure,

Williams, the greatest server in women's tennis,

fired a potent strike straight down the T.

Advantage, Miss Williams.

The only break of serve in the first set came as Kerber was trying to

force a tie-break.

The fourth seed threw everything she had at Williams,

but the American's aggression proved telling.

Game, and first set, Miss Williams.

Time to reflect on three failed attempts in the last 12 months

to win a 22nd major.

Williams was one set away from another piece of history.

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Unperturbed, Kerber cast aside the first-set disappointment.

Worrying a legend is one thing. Beating her is another.

Deuce.

Advantage, Miss Williams.

With 16 previous Wimbledon campaigns behind her,

Serena Williams knew experience provides a potent advantage

in pressure situations.

Game, Miss Williams.

She had waited a year for this moment, and suffered some surprising

setbacks along the way, but at last,

Serena Williams could put all that behind her.

Game, set, and match, Miss Williams.

A seventh Wimbledon crown, a 22nd Grand Slam title.

This fortnight I've definitely felt ownership of Centre Court.

I just felt so comfortable out there and growing up you never think about

winning this many titles, so I just think it's really just a great

opportunity for me and I just feel so honoured to be the one doing it,

but it's been a wonderful journey that I'm so proud to have been on.

The other champions in 2016.

The Williams sisters captured a sixth doubles title together.

The men's doubles was won by French duo

Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert.

Finland's Henri Kontinen and Britain's Heather Watson

are the mixed-doubles champions.

More British success -

Gordon Reid and Alfie Hewett won the men's wheelchair doubles.

Reid doubled up, winning the singles competition.

Jiske Griffioen from Holland is the women's wheelchair champion.

Jordanne Whiley will have to wait another year for success

in that event.

But with her partner, Yui Kamiji, they captured their third

-wheelchair-doubles title at the All England Club.

-..6-2, 6-2.

The quiet of Wimbledon's Centre Court is impossible to describe.

You have to be there to feel the echoes of champions in every corner.

In every place, the greats of the game have sat and wondered.

Andy Murray was playing better tennis than ever.

The rehiring of Ivan Lendl had sharpened his attention

and strengthened his mind.

He's just so totally focused on what he's got to do now.

I think that's the big difference Lendl has made,

and Andy and has talked about it himself -

he said having Lendl around gives him that confidence.

You know, Lendl, you see him,

he's such a strong character and he's

had such a fantastic record himself.

He knows what it's like to win Grand Slams,

he knows what it's like to lose Grand Slams as well,

and I think Murray's benefited a lot already.

Murray's playing better than anyone has in this tournament.

I mean, his movement is unbelievable, and it seems like

he's gotten better as matches have gone on, quicker, hitting harder,

offering up more things, to confuse you.

To me, you have to try to take the racket

out of a guy like that's hands.

Milos Raonic carried that huge responsibility.

He had enlisted voices of reason to help fine-tune his game

for the lawns of SW19.

Is Milos Raonic the favourite?

Obviously not. He's going to have to play the match of his life to win.

The great and the good gathered for the 130th men's singles final.

Coach John McEnroe was calling the match for the American broadcaster

-ESPN.

-Murray has done everything to try to bridge the gap with Djokovic.

That's really what Milos Raonic is trying to do with Murray.

If you asked me six or eight weeks ago when people started talking

to me about Milos, how many guys can win Wimbledon, actually win it,

it would be, like, five or six guys, and he was one of those guys.

Murray had been a championship match contender in every other Grand Slam

of 2016.

Djokovic was the victor on both those occasions,

and with the world number one eliminated,

the Scot had created the best opportunity to capitalise at SW19.

He hassled Raonic into misjudgement to make the first decisive move.

The plan was working.

Forcing the Canadian from corner to corner,

the Scot was utterly in control.

Game, and first set, Murray.

When the two players met in the Queens final,

for the first set and a half, Raonic displayed great composure.

On this occasion, it was Murray who was carefully constructing points

and confusing his opponent.

There were glimpses of the serenity Raonic displayed against

Roger Federer. Deep into the second set,

the influence of his new coach was clear.

But Murray did not allow his opponent to maintain a rhythm.

With Lendl in his corner, his calm was rarely ruffled.

After Murray made the first mini break in the tie-break,

the result was never in doubt.

Game, and second set, Murray.

This major final was Murray's first against an opponent

that was not Djokovic, Federer, or Nadal.

In his sixth Wimbledon campaign, Milos Raonic is part of a new

tennis generation starting to make its mark.

But Andy Murray had played some of the best tennis of his life

during The Championships, and his focus had been unwavering.

From the moment he won his first match,

for the loss of only nine games,

the world number two looked like a man on a mission.

Game, set, and match, Murray.

Victory for Andy Murray on the most famous stage in tennis

was even sweeter second time around.

It's taken a lot of hard work, determination and mental strength

as well, because, you know, I'd lost a few Slam finals this year already,

and was coming in as favourite for the match today for the first time,

as well, and managed to handle the pressure well.

In 2013, I was just so stressed and relieved, and, you know, I maybe

didn't enjoy it as much but I feel a lot calmer, a bit more content,

happier this time around, so it was good.