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This is a national programme. Now we're going to take you over to | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
Wimbledon... That is perfect. Irresistible. | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
Majestic. Superb. COMMENTATOR: Konta serving for the | :00:21. | :00:47. | |
match. It's over. British tennis history is | :00:48. | :01:00. | |
made. It's been 39 years since a British woman can say," I'm a | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
Wimbledon semifinalist." He reverberate and is still echoing | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
here at Wimbledon. Yesterday, the number six seed became the first | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
British woman to reach a Wimbledon semifinal the 39 years, since | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
Virginia Wade. 7.5 million of you at home watched the drama unfold on | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
centre court. Today, he bat on passes to the men and their | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
quarterfinals, the last eight includes Britain's defending | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
champion Andy Murray, seven times champion Roger Federer, and | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
three-time winner Novak Djokovic. They're proven form here makes them | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
favourites to go through. But as we saw with Rafa, upsets do happen. | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
Welcome to day nine for more Midsummer sporting magic. | :01:51. | :02:10. | |
Painfully easy right now. He is purring. Wow. Precision and power, | :02:11. | :02:21. | |
absolutely rips the living daylights out of it. Charges into the | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
quarterfinals of Wimbledon. Roger Federer does it again, a tenth | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
consecutive quarterfinal at the championships Andy Murray. | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
SUE BARKER: What a day we had yesterday, and we can expect more | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
patriotic support out on Centre Court today. First up, it is Andy | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
Murray, the defending champion taking on the big server from | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
America, Sam Querrey, who put the defending champion out here last | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
year. A repeat of last you's semifinal, Milos Raonic won that. On | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
Court number one, starting at 1pm, Gilles Muller, conqueror of Rafa | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
Nadal, up against Marin Cilic, and Tomas Berdych takes on Novak | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
Djokovic. In their head-to-head, Djokovic has won the last 12. That | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
is the quarterfinals on the show courts today. Ten is underway | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
already on the outside courts. If you want to watch, you can on Court | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
12. You can watch the quarterfinal of the men's doubles. That is on the | :03:26. | :03:34. | |
red button. We have made our way to the top of Henman Hill. All we have | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
heard is champagne corks, and Andy Murray has joined me. The crowd here | :03:44. | :03:51. | |
on Henman Hill, John McEnroe, and the Queen of Wimbledon, for us, | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
Virginia Wade. APPLAUSE You embarrass me. The 40th | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
anniversary of your win. You were in the Royal box yesterday, but 40 | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
years is something to celebrate. It is. Any anniversary is worth | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
celebrating. If you champagne corks going. It is fun to have an | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
anniversary. When you think about it, when I won, it was a big | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
anniversary that year. It adds to the colour and motivation, to | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
everybody's mood. Here we are again. We are showing some of it. I | :04:26. | :04:36. | |
remember the last point, certainly. Although the way we hit the ball | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
seemed so much slower, it looked like I was moving around OK. It | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
appeared the men and women were in slow motion, because 40 years ago | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
happened to be my first Wimbledon. I know! I recall in the semifinal... | :04:52. | :05:01. | |
The two of you. Don't go there! You were supposed to play in the final. | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
You bring up my worst nightmare every single year. Do you know what | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
makes it worse? I played her a few weeks later, do you know what the | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
score was? I won 6-1, 6-0. That is why it was my worst nightmare. I had | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
to do a documentary the Dutch television. And I was doing press, I | :05:22. | :05:32. | |
didn't see your match. They asked me, weren't you sorry it wasn't an | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
all British final? To be diplomatic, I said, no. Because then it will | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
have been difficult. If if I was honest, I would have said I feared | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
you. Thank you, Virginia! It was one of your best years. It really was. | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
But for you, you were a qualifier and you make it through. I think I | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
have still won more matches than anyone else and not won the | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
tournament. But that was my first match I ever played in the semis on | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
centre court. I was trembling, my legs were shaking. Jimmy Connors | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
wouldn't acknowledge my existence in the locker room. It was memorable | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
and my life, needless to say, changed after that. I am proud to | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
say, 40 years later, I see Virginia quite a bit in New York. She comes | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
to my club and I see her on the court. She loves to get out there. | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
It is a wonderful thing. Here we are, 40 years later, it has taken a | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
while, but maybe now a British woman and man can win in the same year. | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
Virginia had a great seat yesterday. We will talk about the men's | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
quarterfinals in a moment. But we will look back at Jo Konta's amazing | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
win when she booked her place in the last four. | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
It's a very special day for Joanna Konta. | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
It's extra special for British tennis fans, they have waited 33 | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
years to be able to say that one of their own is in the quarterfinals. | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
Whenever you engage in one of the titanic tussle is, you always seem | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
to have the belief. My trust in my own ability has got | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
to be there. With situations, and moments like | :07:22. | :07:34. | |
this, it is more from experienced than necessarily what I believe I | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
can and cannot do. I believe I needed to accumulate experiences and | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
time. That's a magnificent tie-break from | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
Simona Halep. Konta has got to come from behind to win. | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
I go into every tournament to be involved in the end or the very end. | :07:53. | :08:01. | |
But I'm fully aware that every single match I will get to play will | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
be a testing one, and will challenge me. | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
Most standing. Look at that. Somehow, Jo Konta has forced a final | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
set. I don't take anything for granted. | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
By the mind of myself my best effort. And I demand of myself my | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
best effort to what I do, and make sure I do the best that I can out | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
there. British tennis history is made. | :08:28. | :08:51. | |
The first British woman since 1978 to reach the semifinals of | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
Wimbledon, and now, winning the quarterfinal match means you will be | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
in the top five in the women's rankings when they are out next | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
week. I didn't know that! OK! Thank you! Congratulations. When you | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
top up all the achievements, do you ever pat yourself on the back and | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
say, well done? It's difficult because, I guess, in | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
both a fortunate and unfortunate position that we are in tennis, | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
things move very quickly. Before you know it, the Championships will be | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
over and it is the next event next week. In that sense, because things | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
are so fast moving, it's almost an art to reflect well, and to | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
acknowledge the good things that you do. Actually, it is something I work | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
on to make sure that I act knowledge the good things I am doing. I will | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
let you know after Wimbledon how my pat on the back went, OK? | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
Users and he deserves a pat on the back. That is for sure. | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
She seems very composed. Unbelievably composed. What I really | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
like is she really played each point almost the same. If she loses a | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
point, she doesn't fret about it. She gets on with the next one. She | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
talks, too. You hear people that talk the talk but don't bully. She | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
talks the talk and believes. I have to say, it was compelling stuff. She | :10:22. | :10:32. | |
held her nerve. I have talked to sports psychologists and | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
psychiatrists, too. It didn't work with me. Why all of a sudden, this | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
amazing change has taken place. She played 4-5 Wimbledon Raw and won one | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
match. Now she is going all the way. She stayed true to her game plan | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
even when it got tight. She really got my attention at Eastbourne two | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
years ago when she got to the final. People said she was so good, but her | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
forehand gets shaky under pressure. Not a sign of that. She was very | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
determined. I am so pleased for her. I couldn't be happier for her. I am | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
worried she is getting so much pressure put on her. You think of | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
the year I did well, that is when you were taking most of the | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
pressure, because you were the great, white hope. Kristina was | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
there, Martina and everybody. Now we are saying, Jo has such a good | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
chance to win. As long as she is not listening... It is a shame that the | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
two Brits we are talking about are going to lose to two Americans. In | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
your dreams! It is going to be eight tough next 24-hour was, I feel. | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
Venus is tough. This is the quarters, how do you deal with it? | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
Do you not read the papers, do you embrace it or what? You had to | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
embrace it, and celebrate for a bit. You have too enjoyed the | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
exhilaration, then get right down to work. I would have somebody else | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
read the newspapers for you. I wouldn't set eyes on them. It is | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
good to read these papers today. I would get somebody else to read | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
them, and tell you which ones to read. All good, right? Billie Jean | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
used to cut out the articles about Martina, because you didn't want to | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
read them, good or bad, to remain focused. It is hard. I tried that a | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
couple of times, don't read what they are writing. I am not in the | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
same situation as Jo was. Did you see the papers today? It is hard, | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
even in the locker room, your alleged friends... I feel for what | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
they said about you? I'm, like, sorry. Even if people have it cut | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
out, they have other ways of getting it. Social media, online, you can go | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
on and on. The pressure and expectation. As far as playing Venus | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
Williams, the two matches she has struggled with is Vekic and Garcia. | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
This is a similar player with more experience. Absolutely. Venus is | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
looking remarkably good. She is playing, to me, we have watched her | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
so many years, and it used to be that she had a big game, huge serve, | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
but she is playing a more thoughtful game. A really mature one. I enjoy | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
watching her more now than when she was young and a little green around | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
the edges still. Obviously, when the tournament started and we got word | :13:47. | :13:54. | |
that this was a major distraction, and you were wondering why she was | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
here, and if she can handle this, as time has gone on, it appears that | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
what happened was a horrible, freak thing. It wasn't her fault. I think | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
that was able to relax everyone, including herself, even though it is | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
still terrible. And then I think to myself, she is the best grass court | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
player out of all of these players, she has been there and done this the | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
most. It isn't if she hasn't had a good year. In Australia, she got to | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
the final and her sister beat her. She had a decent run in the French, | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
so why isn't she the favourite to win this? I know. In some ways, she | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
is. At this end of the tournament, a lot of it is experience, having been | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
there before. That is absolutely true. Winning is a habit. The more | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
matches you win, the more you know how to think in crucial points. I | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
think Venus is on top of her game, actually. Physically, I think Jo | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
might have the edge on her. But Venus makes up with the extra reach | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
she has. Arms and legs going on forever. Jo might be a wee bit | :15:03. | :15:11. | |
tired. That was quite a tough match. Physically and emotionally, she is | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
in tiptop shape, no question about that. She dug in, and that was two | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
hours and 40 minutes earlier in the tournament. She has had some close | :15:21. | :15:29. | |
matches. Someone natural, especially if things don't go well in the | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
beginning, it will be a tall order to beat Venus. We offered to sing on | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
Jo, in the other semifinal, Magdalene by Rarick over -- | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
Rybarikova, incredible. She has played so well. Talk about somebody | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
going under the radar. On the other hand, on the other side of the net, | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
she has Muguruza, who has also gone under the radar. People forget she | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
was in the final of Wimbledon last year. She won the French, I mean she | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
is not anybody to sniff at. I think she prefers not having all the | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
pressure on her. When she, when Muguruza is expected to win, that is | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
when she crumbles a little bit. Everyone prefers not to have all the | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
pressure on them. I had picked Pliskova, she positioned herself, | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
figured out how to utilise the strengths in her game. And I | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
thought, the pressure got to her. Maybe it did a little bit, but who | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
is this person that played her? As the tournament has gone on, I'm | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
like, wait a second. This isn't just about her playing poorly, this is | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
about Rybarikova stepping up, and she can really play on this surface. | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
She dominated Vandeweghe. Surprisingly. Surprisingly easy. | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
Also, when Muguruza is playing freely, she is difficult to beat on | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
this surface. There are a couple of players on the women's side who hit | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
the ball so hard and so cleanly, of course, Ostapenko is one, playing | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
Venus yesterday, that was difficult for her. It was her first match ever | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
on Centre Court. She won the juniors. Next year, she will be | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
ready for that. Boy, does she hit a super forehand, a bit like yours, | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
actually. Thank you, Virginia. You can come on this show any time you | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
like. I usually get ganged up on! I always say that! Anything else you | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
would like to say? ! No! We don't talk about that or the serve. How | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
were you in the Royal box? You had the best seat in the House. If you | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
want to watch tennis. I suggest the front row in the middle of the court | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
hind. Win Wimbledon, and you can maybe get a seat in the front row. | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
How can we get there? That is a different story. I had my first trip | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
in 39 years last year. Second row. I think we can manipulate that a bit. | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
Lovely to see you, Virginia. Thank you very much. You are staying | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
there. Pat Cash will join us in a moment. I wonder what has happened | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
to the weather. Arriving this morning, it felt like winter. Let's | :18:18. | :18:18. | |
find out with Carol. It was chilly this morning and a | :18:19. | :18:27. | |
cold northerly breeze. As we go through this afternoon, we are | :18:28. | :18:29. | |
looking at some sunny spells developing more than we currently | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
have, and with the breeze dying down, it will feel pleasant, highs | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
of 22 or 23. Into the evening, it should stay dry with sunny spells, | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
and with a light breeze again feeling very nice. As we head into | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
tomorrow. A lot of dry weather to start the day, sunshine from the | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
word go. Fairweather cloud developing through most of the day, | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
but not much more than that. Temperatures up a notch on today, 24 | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
Celsius. All in all, very nice. But the pollen level is back up again | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
and is high. SUE BARKER: I have a bone to pick. | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
Yesterday, when we carried on working, where did you go? We saw | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
shots of you sitting alongside Judy Murray, watching Jamie's mixed | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
doubles match. There you are. Getting very excited. What were you | :19:20. | :19:27. | |
talking about, all things Strictly? Strictly. I have never seen Jamie | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
played before and he won. It was brilliant. You looked like you | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
enjoyed it. You sent me a text in the evening to meet for a drink. I | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
had to decline, but remember, after you finish breakfast tomorrow, we | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
are meeting for breakfast. I am looking forward to that, Sue. I | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
heard a birdie tell me that you are buying. Not again! We will see... | :19:50. | :20:00. | |
Thank you, now Pat Cash is here. First of all, disappointment for | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
Coco Vanderweghe, what happened? Coach? Where do you want to start, | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
nerves primarily. The good thing with her is, we sat down last night | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
and we had a very frank conversation, probably the most | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
frank she has ever got from any of her coaches in her life. We were on | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
the practice court, and we will be there in half an hour for a couple | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
of hours. Andy Murray will have to win without me. And we are moving | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
forward. We have a good game plan. She brought me in for this, the game | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
plan was to get it so she can compete, and be ready for a Grand | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
Slam. Had she won yesterday, she would have been challenging for a | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
Grand Slam, but it wasn't to be. In the back of my mind, it was weird. | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
As a coach, I have always wanted to improve and get better. I couldn't | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
touch anything, because we are in the middle of Wimbledon. We can't | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
fix any of these things. I am seeing it, and I am going, I want her to | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
win, but as soon as she loses, we can get on the practice court. It is | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
really good signs. Good luck with that. It is men's quarterfinals day. | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
First, let's look at the draw as it stands at the moment. At the top is | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
the defending champion, world number one Andy Murray, up against Sam | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
Querrey. Gilles Muller, who put out Rafa Nadal, against Marin Cilic. | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
Milos Raonic against Roger Federer. We will start with Federer and | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
Raonic. A repeat of last year's semifinal, you were the coach in the | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
chair that date. What went wrong then? Nothing. That was the biggest | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
win of his life. He needs to bring some emotional intensity. He has | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
developed a way to handle his nerves, and stress, and what people | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
expect from him, and what he expects from himself, which by the way is | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
quite a bit. He has gone out there and laid it on the line, which I | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
give him credit for. He wants to be the best in the world and is doing | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
what it takes, not trying to sneak in the back door. When you have | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
these four guys to content with, the top guys, that is a statement, to | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
say that you belong in the same breath, and someday you will be | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
number one in the world. The fact he was able to step it up and play with | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
a lot of heart, I think he understands that that is what he | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
needs to do. I said, listen, you understand there is not a single | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
person in the stands that wants you to win. Most of your box wants you | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
to win. I think all of them. But other than that, you are not going | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
to get support. But if you show fight and hunger, and you show how | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
much you actually do care, because I know you care, they will respect | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
that. Yeah. It won't be quite as one-sided. He was able to do that. | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
Roger is in a way better place than last year. He is a guy that has had | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
a lot of injuries. He has missed four events, pulling out in the | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
quarters or semis. He missed a couple, pulled out of a view, didn't | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
play. In the last couple of months, he has pulled out while being in the | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
tournament. I am happy to see me lost is able to go the distance, | :23:28. | :23:36. | |
which was an important ask for him. I said to him, "Listen, this guy is | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
going to blow by you, in terms of his aura, and this guy..." He will | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
be number one in a couple of years, this guy, but it is not yet. You | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
have got to say, "Not yet." You had to dig deep and do that. I give him | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
credit that he did that. Times that by 2-3, and you may be able to deal | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
with this guy again. This will be a tall order. But he is one of the few | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
guys that can take the racket out of your hands. In terms of the service, | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
the service is a huge thing. What can he do? Nobody has been able to | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
get near Federer's serve. Roger, as we have seen in the tournament, has | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
passed 10,000 aces in his career. It is underrated how awesome his serve | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
is. But you had to make this guy work as much as possible, obviously. | :24:33. | :24:41. | |
I think he is human, I believe... If you had told me, after watching the | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
lost in the semis, beat Roger, when he limped off, clearly the need | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
affected him in the fifth set, not playing a tournament the six months, | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
he went back to Australia and won 3 five set matches. Against Nadal, the | :24:59. | :25:07. | |
roughest customer he has had to deal with, I would have said, you are out | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
of your mind. He isn't human, you are right! The pressure is off Milos | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
. I know he was a finalist last year. If he doesn't win this, he | :25:20. | :25:28. | |
will drop six, seven, to ten. He will be further out of the picture. | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
Everyone respects and loves Roger, I do as well, for the other guys, this | :25:34. | :25:41. | |
is a big, big match for the lost Raonic. It would turn around his | :25:42. | :25:50. | |
last 12 months. Let's move into Berdych. Does he have enough variety | :25:51. | :26:01. | |
to have any effect on Djokovic? He hits the ball as clean as anybody on | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
the tour. He is a big serving guy. Today is a tricky day. A bit of | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
Ruiz, blowing on Court One. No roof. The ball is all over the place. That | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
is not necessarily going to help the guy with the big ball toss. Berdych | :26:20. | :26:30. | |
will play as Berdych does. He comes out and hit it hard. Comes to the | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
net occasionally. From time to time, he is a bit slow. But Djokovic, I | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
don't know where he is at. He played OK yesterday. He got past Mannarino. | :26:41. | :26:52. | |
With Novak, mentally, obviously, we discuss that, where is his head at? | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
Physically, he called the train are three different times during that | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
match. Yes. If you said to me before that... This is something he had an | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
issue with last year. It has been an ongoing problem and it has reared | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
its ugly head. I would say, Berdych, the way he hits the ball. If your | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
arm is hurting, you don't want to play him. I don't know if this is a | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
figment of his own imagination, maybe it goes away in one day, which | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
would seem improbable if you are hurting, and all of a sudden, the | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
next day better. I would say Berdych has no chance of beating him. The | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
head-to-head is pretty 5-2. Djokovic has won the last 12. If there was | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
ever a time, if he watches Novak play, he is sitting and shaking out | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
his arm for two thirds of the match. I thought he hit the ball great. He | :27:50. | :27:58. | |
lost about 5% on his serve. He is not hitting the ball as big. | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
Mannarino is a nice player, hits a ball around. That will test him now | :28:04. | :28:13. | |
for sure. He is getting his arm manipulated and loosened up. I | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
wasn't eavesdropping after the match, but going through the locker | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
room, I could see his team around and concerned. He was describing, | :28:23. | :28:30. | |
something wasn't right. They were, like, "OK, OK." It is none of my | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
business, really. But there is concern around him. He had the train | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
on, he took some pills. He may be felt disorientated. I wasn't nosy, | :28:41. | :28:47. | |
not that nosy, so I realised what they were concerned about, it may be | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
wasn't his shoulder. Did you offer a massage? I got out of the way, that | :28:53. | :28:59. | |
was the best thing I could do! The other quarterfinal is Gilles Muller | :29:00. | :29:02. | |
against Marin Cilic. Gilles Muller, what a win that was. He has beaten | :29:03. | :29:10. | |
him before here. That, to me, Muller, by far and away, nothing is | :29:11. | :29:13. | |
even close. The fact he was able to win that after having lost the third | :29:14. | :29:20. | |
and fourth set, Nadal on a roll, maybe he would keep it going. Then | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
you think that Nadal will get to him. He saved four match points, I | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
think, 15-40, the crowd is going nuts. The fact he could win that | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
from there, it shows how tough a customer he is on that court. To me, | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
I would be worried. The guy is 34, not as old as he used to be in | :29:42. | :29:47. | |
tennis, you can recover. How many hours is it? Less than 48 hours. | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
Cilic is real fresh. He is playing really well on the grass. It is a | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
tall order to go from the high of Nadal, and the physical beating he | :29:58. | :29:58. | |
took, and turn around to beat Cilic. I spoke to Younus Bjorkman after the | :29:59. | :30:12. | |
match. Two and to the last round. He said I have never seen him hit the | :30:13. | :30:15. | |
ball like that off the ground, phenomenal the way he is playing. He | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
will also disrupt your rhythm. He will serve and volley. These massive | :30:21. | :30:30. | |
left-handed serves. Even though he has beaten Rafa Nadal, you have to | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
favour Cilic, fresh. Talking about guys and people maturing at | :30:36. | :30:42. | |
different rates, some play unbelievable at 17 and other players | :30:43. | :30:48. | |
still going great in their 30s. Muller is a great example, it is a | :30:49. | :30:53. | |
great story to see guys do that. We were not playing at that age. I made | :30:54. | :31:00. | |
it to a few months before my 34th birthday and I thought that was | :31:01. | :31:05. | |
pretty good. To see these guys, you think, you sort of wish we knew what | :31:06. | :31:12. | |
they know now. Maybe we did and were not as willing to implement it. | :31:13. | :31:20. | |
You need trainers rather than musicians to hang out with! It is | :31:21. | :31:25. | |
time to move. We are on the countdown to go to Centre Court. | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
There is one match we have not talked about. The winner of that | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
match, Muller and Cilic, will take on the winner of Andy Murray against | :31:36. | :31:42. | |
Sam Querrey. Andy was on court on Monday, playing Benoit Paire, and | :31:43. | :31:45. | |
after the match he dropped into the studio. COMMENTATOR: The waiting is | :31:46. | :31:54. | |
over, Andy Murray is Wimbledon champion. He is there, Wimbledon | :31:55. | :32:03. | |
champion, again. Over my career I have played my best | :32:04. | :32:08. | |
tennis on Centre Court and had some of my best memories from the | :32:09. | :32:13. | |
Olympics and two titles and the final against Roger which was tough | :32:14. | :32:18. | |
but one that I remember very well. I love the conditions here. It showed | :32:19. | :32:24. | |
in the results. You face Sam Querrey, who you have met a number | :32:25. | :32:29. | |
of times and have beaten him in straight sets here a few years ago | :32:30. | :32:33. | |
and at the Australian Open. You seem to like playing a big server. Or, | :32:34. | :32:40. | |
you do well against them. It is always difficult, you have to be | :32:41. | :32:47. | |
focused. I need to make sure I am concentrating all of the time. And I | :32:48. | :32:54. | |
don't give them chances, against big servers, generally, when they are | :32:55. | :32:58. | |
ahead, they are good front runners so try not to give them too many | :32:59. | :33:02. | |
leads. Scheduling is an issue. A lot of the women have said they have | :33:03. | :33:08. | |
been on outside courts. Angelique Kerber, Muguruza. Jelena Ostapenko | :33:09. | :33:15. | |
had not been on a show court. It is tricky to solve. I do not think it | :33:16. | :33:23. | |
is that difficult. I just think they should maybe start matches earlier | :33:24. | :33:28. | |
on Centre Court and Court Number One. Then it is easy to fit two men | :33:29. | :33:35. | |
and two women, if you start at 11, 11:30am, when they do on the outside | :33:36. | :33:39. | |
courts, that would make things easier. Just having a little bit | :33:40. | :33:47. | |
more time would allow them to fit more matches on to the Stadium | :33:48. | :33:51. | |
courts. I wonder whether the grounds men would think centre and one are | :33:52. | :33:58. | |
the only two that have to be played on all days of the tournament so | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
putting in another three hours of play, it may affect it as it goes | :34:04. | :34:06. | |
through the second week maybe. Yes, that is possible. They are the ones | :34:07. | :34:15. | |
who would know best. If the scheduling is an issue, something | :34:16. | :34:23. | |
people want to see changed, that is something Wimbledon have to look at. | :34:24. | :34:30. | |
I have been lucky that I have got to play my matches on the Centre Court. | :34:31. | :34:35. | |
I am obviously very happy and pleased to do that. If people would | :34:36. | :34:43. | |
rather I play more on the outside courts and switch the scheduling | :34:44. | :34:48. | |
around, that is something that has to be looked at. You are going well | :34:49. | :34:52. | |
and Konta is going well and your brother knows how to pick mixed | :34:53. | :34:58. | |
doubles partners. Martina Hingis. I think it was Martina that asked him. | :34:59. | :35:06. | |
To play. He is lucky. She is one of the best doubles players in the | :35:07. | :35:10. | |
world and her record in mixed doubles is phenomenal. When the men | :35:11. | :35:17. | |
are serving to her, she uses pace well and has great timing and a | :35:18. | :35:22. | |
great eye, so hopefully they have a good run. Your mother hinted maybe | :35:23. | :35:26. | |
one day you might claim here with Jamie in the doubles. I would love | :35:27. | :35:33. | |
to. -- you might play here with Jamie in the doubles. Maybe when I | :35:34. | :35:36. | |
have done with playing singles and hopefully that is not for a long | :35:37. | :35:41. | |
time. It would be easier to do it while I am still playing singles, if | :35:42. | :35:46. | |
it was not best-of-5 in the doubles. The older I get, playing a best-of-5 | :35:47. | :35:52. | |
singles potentially followed by a best-of-5 doubles, I am not sure I | :35:53. | :35:56. | |
would cope these days. I would love to do that. We played the Olympics | :35:57. | :36:03. | |
together and represented our country in Davis Cup and played great | :36:04. | :36:07. | |
matches but never have played at Wimbledon and I would love to do | :36:08. | :36:11. | |
that before we finish. I know your family would love to see that. As | :36:12. | :36:16. | |
your mother forgiven the comment about her cooking on BBC Breakfast? | :36:17. | :36:21. | |
I cannot remember. You said her cooking was awful. You were asked to | :36:22. | :36:26. | |
grade your grandmother, wife and mother in cooking, and you dismissed | :36:27. | :36:33. | |
Judy straightaway. Yes, I have not spoken to her about it but I have | :36:34. | :36:37. | |
told her over the years, that when we were younger and she said, I | :36:38. | :36:42. | |
never had time to cook, I was so busy. We used to get ready meals, a | :36:43. | :36:49. | |
microwave... She did not cook loads of good stuff for us. She always did | :36:50. | :36:58. | |
good deserts. But yes, never the healthy stuff. You have saved | :36:59. | :37:03. | |
yourself. I know your grandmother is wonderful anyway, but how is Sophia? | :37:04. | :37:12. | |
It must be nice to go to your own home, playing Wimbledon. She is | :37:13. | :37:18. | |
great, growing up quick. All parents say that and I was like, that is | :37:19. | :37:23. | |
ridiculous. Time goes the same always. But she is growing up quick. | :37:24. | :37:30. | |
She is 17 months. This time of the year is great. We get to hopefully | :37:31. | :37:37. | |
be at home six, seven weeks in a row, and obviously days like today, | :37:38. | :37:43. | |
she will be in bed about now, having her bath, so I get to see her in the | :37:44. | :37:50. | |
morning when I leave. It is great to get to do that for a consistent | :37:51. | :37:54. | |
period. The rest of the year we do not get that and it is another | :37:55. | :37:57. | |
reason why I enjoy this part of the year so much. | :37:58. | :38:03. | |
It was great to chat to Andy on Monday with his comments on the | :38:04. | :38:07. | |
scheduling of men's and ladies' Detective is strong. And he walks | :38:08. | :38:13. | |
out on Centre Court shortly and we are on our way there right now but | :38:14. | :38:18. | |
how is he looking after a day of rest? Lee McKenzie earlier was | :38:19. | :38:21. | |
joined by Leon Smith on the practice courts to watching it. | :38:22. | :38:26. | |
I am delighted to say Leon Smith joins me and all the talk getting | :38:27. | :38:32. | |
into Wimbledon was about Andy and whether he would be fit enough. Now | :38:33. | :38:36. | |
he is at this stage she must be delighted with the way he has | :38:37. | :38:40. | |
progressed so far? Definitely, he is experienced enough to know you do | :38:41. | :38:44. | |
not always come into the Championships feeling 100% and I do | :38:45. | :38:49. | |
not think it was different to Paris where people questioned his form and | :38:50. | :38:52. | |
the amount of Tennessee played and he worked his way through the draw | :38:53. | :38:59. | |
well on probably his weakest surface, then you come to the grass | :39:00. | :39:03. | |
of Wimbledon, he is at home, has his team around him. He might be walking | :39:04. | :39:07. | |
funny and everybody is studying bat, but when you watch the points and | :39:08. | :39:12. | |
when he is in play, he is moving well. Sam Querrey is dangerous. He | :39:13. | :39:17. | |
put out Novak Djokovic last year but Andy has had the upper hand on many | :39:18. | :39:21. | |
occasions, how big a danger Will he be today? I am not saying there are | :39:22. | :39:29. | |
no expectations on him. He is laid back, he has a huge serve, which is | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
why he beat Novak last year and he has the weapons to hit through. But | :39:35. | :39:41. | |
if you have a seven and one win loss record, there is a story about the | :39:42. | :39:46. | |
match ups and Andy can take away his strength, the serve, which creates | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
pressure on Sam in his service games. As long as Andy serves well, | :39:52. | :39:56. | |
I think the record will remain intact. You are keeping an eye on a | :39:57. | :40:02. | |
junior. I have seen Andy hitting with Adie quite a lot and he does | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
give a lot back to British tennis. Behind us, there are two Glasgow | :40:08. | :40:12. | |
boys playing in the junior event and Aidan, coached by my brother Toby | :40:13. | :40:16. | |
the last seven years and Andy has been terrific with them. It would be | :40:17. | :40:22. | |
easy to hit with older guys in the Championships, but he has been | :40:23. | :40:26. | |
hitting with Aidan and others and they get on court with Andy, Ivan. | :40:27. | :40:30. | |
It gives everyone confidence and is a good way to prepare for the junior | :40:31. | :40:35. | |
event and Jamie Murray has taken a deed to the preseason training camp | :40:36. | :40:45. | |
in Florida and took into Monte Carlo so a lot of give back from the | :40:46. | :40:51. | |
Murrays. He does help youngsters at home and in Miami. Centre Court is | :40:52. | :40:57. | |
getting ready for the first quarterfinal today and it is Andy | :40:58. | :41:04. | |
Murray against Sam Querrey. We have come down here from Henman Hill. | :41:05. | :41:10. | |
Matt has been saying about Sam Querrey today. I said the Americans | :41:11. | :41:23. | |
would ruin the party. I am not sure about that. Neither am I! Andy was | :41:24. | :41:34. | |
in a sticky situation against Fabio Fognini, in which Fabio Fognini | :41:35. | :41:40. | |
imploded. There was a situation where he could have forced five | :41:41. | :41:45. | |
sets. At the time, Murray sneaking out of the fourth set could have | :41:46. | :41:53. | |
been the best thing. The extra stress on the hip. Also, my biggest | :41:54. | :42:02. | |
concern, Andy has not really got any players who have given him rhythm. | :42:03. | :42:07. | |
Fabio Fognini a little bit but Benoit Paire, Dustin Brown, Bublik. | :42:08. | :42:18. | |
They have not given him rhythm. Having said that, he will not get it | :42:19. | :42:25. | |
today. He does not want it! If he gets through and then faces somebody | :42:26. | :42:31. | |
like Cilic, that is a worry, but one step at a time. One of Sam's biggest | :42:32. | :42:37. | |
beings is his serve and one of Andy's best things is his return and | :42:38. | :42:42. | |
it should neutralise. Murray has got to be aggressive and if he is not, | :42:43. | :42:49. | |
Sam will get around enough forehands. He has to open up the | :42:50. | :42:55. | |
backhand and come in some of the time and attack the weaker side of | :42:56. | :42:58. | |
Sam Querrey but if he starts pushing the ball around... I saw Sam briefly | :42:59. | :43:07. | |
yesterday. I can promise you, and I am not coaching him, we talked about | :43:08. | :43:14. | |
the laser cup coming up in September. Hopefully like a Ryder | :43:15. | :43:21. | |
Cup event -- Laver Cup. He does not want to let Andy get into a rhythm. | :43:22. | :43:26. | |
If he does that, forget it, he has no chance. He has two utilises | :43:27. | :43:32. | |
weapons. The forehand, the serve. Like Novak, the big issue is Andy | :43:33. | :43:38. | |
rose to 100% to use his physical attributes and skill to track down | :43:39. | :43:43. | |
enough balls. We have got to change channels. We are moving from BBC One | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
and will start up on BBC Two in a moment and we will hear the rest of | :43:49. | :43:54. | |
the answer on BBC Two in a moment. From Centre Court, goodbye. | :43:55. | :43:56. |