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This is a national programme. We are going to take you over to Wimbledon. | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
Brilliant! Irresistible. Majestic. In a class | :00:23. | :00:33. | |
of her own. Welcome to Wimbledon. After all the | :00:34. | :00:51. | |
excitement yesterday of Britain's Jo Konta going through to the | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
semifinal, well Andy Murray do the same? He is on Centre Court. This | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
happened a few moments ago, making the familiar walk-out to his | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
favourite court, Centre Court, and each huge operation awaits. -- huge | :01:07. | :01:24. | |
ovation. That was a few minutes ago. On Court One they walked out for | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
their men's quarterfinal match between you and will and Marin | :01:27. | :01:42. | |
Cilic. Gilles Muller against Marin Cilic. The winner of this match will | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
face the winner of the match on Centre Court. That is on the red | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
button. There is always such a great atmosphere at Wimbledon around and | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
the -- Andy Murray's matches. People here to enjoy the Wimbledon | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
experience and cheered on Britain's number one. They are on court. Some | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
query against Andy Murray. What percentage of people do not | :02:11. | :02:30. | |
change station? It seems like we go off... Is there a whole new | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
audience? No, I think a lot of people switchover. 7.5 million | :02:35. | :02:44. | |
watching Jo Konta yesterday. I only watch BBC One of the Tsonga. BBC Two | :02:45. | :02:53. | |
I am not watching! You cannot miss anything on the BBC. Andy Murray, in | :02:54. | :03:04. | |
for his eighth Wimbledon semifinal. He has won this twice, he has won | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
the Davis Cup twice, two Olympic golds and world number one. The | :03:10. | :03:21. | |
nominal. The only reason I hear any form or... Not growing... He is in | :03:22. | :03:30. | |
an era of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. There are | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
not many Grand Slams around when these guys are grabbing them. He has | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
had even nominal career. A skinny Wimpy kid from Scotland. The | :03:41. | :03:53. | |
nominal. The two big years he has had, the Olympics, it has taken so | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
much for him to get up to world number one last year and he has | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
suffered injuries and various things but he is a phenomenal athlete and | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
incredible competitor. He gets grumpy. To say the least. That works | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
for him. He has had an amazing career. To do what he did in Finnish | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
world number one last year, considering Novak Djokovic had all | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
four at the same time, is amazing. Looking back, we cannot be surprised | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
there was a let down. Add he got ill. Let down and things happen and | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
one thing leads to another so the fact he is here and playing as well | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
as he did is more of what we expect. He seems to be limping walking but | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
running full speed. It remains me of when I used to watch someone else. I | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
used to think of them he was tired in the warm up and then he would | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
speed around the court. If he is not 100% this is the type of guy you do | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
not want to play because he can take the racket out of your hands and he | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
has a lot to gain. Sam has not showed a lot of emotional intensity | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
over the years. A lot of coaches in America... Their years. It is lovely | :05:21. | :05:29. | |
because they are celebrating the pro tennis event for 50 years of the pro | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
tennis event. All of those who took part are being invited. Will Federer | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
break his record? He is the oldest finalist. I practised with him when | :05:44. | :05:52. | |
he was 4243 and I was 17 or 18 and he wore me out. -- he was 42 or 43. | :05:53. | :06:02. | |
He wore me out when he was 50 something. I played with Ken and | :06:03. | :06:13. | |
would leave on the same day. What? I was 12. They did a coaching clinic | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
and I was there. I have a photograph. He always said that Ken | :06:17. | :06:25. | |
was the toughest to play. They said that Lever on his best was difficult | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
but then you would have to think like an animal. If you played really | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
well you would get him and if not forget about it. We will reminisce | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
more another day but let us talk about Sam Querrey because he has | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
come through a couple of five set matches. | :06:48. | :06:57. | |
I Philip I am playing well. Mostly I am excited about how I have got | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
through these matches. My game is in good shape. Mentally you have to be | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
ready to go, just like physically. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has gone. Beaten | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
by the American who beat Novak Djokovic last year. Things just get | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
tougher here. A tremendous achievement for him. Back-to-back | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
five set matches. Andy Murray will have the crowd on St, nothing | :07:27. | :07:35. | |
against you. Exactly, he has the crowd no matter who he plays. He is | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
number one in the world and you have to play your best and talk things go | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
your way. Is there any way you can turn the crowd to get involved or is | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
it just head down and get on with your business? It is on display head | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
down, it is hard to try and turn an entire crowd. Hopefully I will make | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
a lot of first serves and play offensive tennis. He is one of the | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
good guys and playing great tennis, a big serve. Sort of like Milos | :08:09. | :08:19. | |
Raonic. You have to show the crowd that the good guys stuff is all well | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
and good but if you want to beat these guys, these are selfish men, | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
these champions, they take everything. You have to dig deeper | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
than anything in your life if you want to beat Andy Murray. Andy | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
Murray has a move up another gear. It is the business end of the | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
tournament. The first thing is to win but if he can get off in three | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
or four said that as a massive bonus for him at this stage of the | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
tournament. Winning is the first thing. He has to be able to move | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
some around enough to be able to find gaps and hit winners. That is | :08:58. | :09:07. | |
where Sam's weakness is. They have called time so we better get moving. | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
John McEnroe is off to the commentary box. | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
Andy Murray is on court. The chairman of the club is talking to | :09:19. | :09:27. | |
Rod Lever. 1954 his first final here. Phenomenal record here. To | :09:28. | :09:36. | |
play Jimmy Connors in the final in 1974, talk about spanning | :09:37. | :09:44. | |
generations. That backhand volley. Beautiful to watch. Still is. | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
Classic. Beautiful tennis player. Owen Davies. What a great mixed | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
doubles record he had. All in attendance for this quarterfinal | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
match. Delighted to welcome John McEnroe. Excited to be here. This | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
should be fun. The loan and American left. Play big, right? A lot of | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
upside. He is going to play big. Tight, understandably so. | :10:16. | :11:45. | |
Back-to-back quarters for him. What I would like to see from Sam | :11:46. | :12:12. | |
Querrey is that emotionally when he is out there he is going to say to | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
himself it is not good enough to get to the quarters, even though he has | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
done it twice, great effort, he wants more. That is what he has to | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
shall be bought here, especially his opponent. Physically imposing. | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
Served 99 aces so far in his first four matches. | :12:33. | :12:45. | |
Dodgy start so far. Murray has not lost to an Americans and 2011. Not a | :12:46. | :12:59. | |
good start. I am not sure he will tell Sam that. No. | :13:00. | :13:16. | |
His only loss, Andy Murray, to an American in these Grand Slam events, | :13:17. | :13:25. | |
the pinnacle of our game, 2009, semifinal. Right now knives have | :13:26. | :13:37. | |
gotten the way of Querrey's ability to play his game -- nerves have | :13:38. | :13:46. | |
gotten away. The defending champion and number one seed is going to take | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
advantage. Opening up the match for Murray. | :13:51. | :14:01. | |
His 100th ace keeps them in the game. | :14:02. | :14:14. | |
That is a hungry performance from Murray. A nervous one from Sam | :14:15. | :14:28. | |
Querrey. You can go an hour and a half and not have many break points | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
on these guys. You talk to a guy like some four hours to lead up to a | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
match like this, to get the good start, to get through the early | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
portions of the match and you just break the first two games. That | :14:48. | :15:01. | |
hurts. It is tough to lob the strawmen. Everyone, these giants out | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
there, participating in the men's quarters today. Novak Djokovic is | :15:10. | :15:26. | |
six foot two, Muller, these men, or more. He has tree trunks for legs, | :15:27. | :15:43. | |
Berdych. You could throw me -- Milos into that as well. Tyrannosaurus | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
legs. The sun makes an appearance just at the wrong time for Andy | :15:52. | :16:07. | |
Murray. Good job, Querrey. He has to attack that serve. It has to do more | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
with his backhand. He understands that. You know Murray is going to be | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
going after it. This is a really tentative tight | :16:18. | :17:18. | |
start from the American, Sam Querrey. Exactly what he did not | :17:19. | :17:27. | |
want to do. A rugged six minutes to open up the match. | :17:28. | :17:49. | |
Murray has not been serving massively during this tournament. | :17:50. | :17:58. | |
His average bead is 130 mph. That ace at 121, he has been keeping his | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
first serve percentage up. I am going to tell you that he has never | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
lost to anybody at Wimbledon less than number 19 in the wild. That was | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
in 2005. Unremarkable record. It certainly is. He knows his way | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
around the grass court better than anyone else with the probable | :18:27. | :18:34. | |
exception of Roger Federer. He utilises it to his advantage. He is | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
able to throw you off with the slice backhand. His defensive skills are | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
amazing. He has learned over the years to get more offensive. He | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
makes big guys work hard. I like the idea of taking a little off of the | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
first serve and getting the percentage up because the second | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
serve, if there is a weakness it would be that, and these guys can | :19:02. | :19:02. | |
attack. Strong representation in the Royal | :19:03. | :19:13. | |
Box today. The court is firm enough that a guy | :19:14. | :19:49. | |
who is 66 can let it bounce. It is easier to let it bounce once and | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
assess it and see where your opponent is a knock it off for a | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
winner. Sam is thinking, why did this not | :19:56. | :20:13. | |
happen the first service game? That is always nice, to get your | :20:14. | :21:06. | |
side of the scoreboard ticking over. He has kind of moved past the | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
unfortunate opening couple of minutes. It is extremely important | :21:10. | :21:21. | |
to stay positive. The aggressive on these serves here. | :21:22. | :21:53. | |
We all know and assume the longer the rally cause the less chance | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
Querrey has of winning it. He has to know that. | :22:00. | :23:17. | |
Tremendous player against a guy who is six six. Extremely difficult for | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
Sam to handle. It is another rule I think should be | :23:25. | :24:19. | |
changed. Putting it in the crowd... If you throw it up you have to hit | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
it, otherwise it is a fault, that is all I am saying. People should work | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
on that toss more. You have got your own academy and | :24:32. | :25:00. | |
you know the game. Look at Querrey's serves. 100 aces. What is good about | :25:01. | :25:12. | |
this? How tall the years. Look where he hits the ball from. Let us see if | :25:13. | :25:22. | |
that toss is still in the camera shot. It is. It is key for any | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
player to use their legs and generate additional strength. His is | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
pretty compact. His toss is not that far out in front of him so he is | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
relying on hitting a great winners, aces, unreturnable is serves rather | :25:39. | :25:47. | |
than moving forward. I wondered if he would be better getting a modern | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
front so he can easily get to the net behind the big serve of his. It | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
discourages him because he is concerned about his movement. The | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
tendency is to be complacent. You believe in hitting your shot. If you | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
are that big and had that that hard you are not going to get broken a | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
lot. Understandably the nerves got the better of him and that is why he | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
is down 4-1. Well handled by Querrey. Surprise | :26:21. | :26:45. | |
that Murray did not move forward sooner because once the ball dropped | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
below the net Sam does not have a lot of options and that was the best | :26:50. | :26:50. | |
of the lot. He handled it well. He is great at the lob but it is | :26:51. | :27:16. | |
tough going with guys this big. With a slice. That Timmy is not going to | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
work. 129 mph, his quickest 134 in his | :27:21. | :27:37. | |
previous four matches. You had to believe the weather | :27:38. | :28:09. | |
forecast today because it was pretty horrible this morning but it is | :28:10. | :28:22. | |
quite warm. Starting to settle in. The coach and courage that he is | :28:23. | :28:31. | |
starting to let go. Last game this one with the old tennis balls. They | :28:32. | :28:34. | |
will be just a little bit more fluffy. Slightly slower through the | :28:35. | :28:43. | |
air. Marginal differences. Sometimes presents the best opportunity for a | :28:44. | :28:44. | |
break. Yes. A fine start for the American. | :28:45. | :29:13. | |
Showing some good touch. As he starts to settle. Get the | :29:14. | :29:19. | |
butterflies out of the stomach. You can see the impact, the power he | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
has. That can be debilitating if you are playing him and he gets going. | :29:26. | :29:47. | |
Beautiful job moving in, taking the ball in the air before Sam Querrey | :29:48. | :29:53. | |
had a chance to recover. If your tennis coach tells you to | :29:54. | :30:08. | |
stop on a volley, tell him he's wrong, go through it. Or her. | :30:09. | :30:35. | |
I always thought there would be that brief split-second moment when you | :30:36. | :30:44. | |
want to stop and allow it to bounce, you will end up moving forward | :30:45. | :30:47. | |
because you built up a head of steam to get to that point. | :30:48. | :30:53. | |
If you've got hands like Murray you could do it either way, I suppose. | :30:54. | :31:08. | |
He's got to put more on his shots, Sam. That slice just floated. Murray | :31:09. | :31:15. | |
is doing a much better job keeping it low than Querrey on that | :31:16. | :31:17. | |
particular ball. We have had some dodgy weather here | :31:18. | :32:05. | |
but that seems to have cleared now, and it is maybe a little bit wet | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
underneath but it's the right place to be, Henman Hill today, wonderful | :32:10. | :32:16. | |
set stomach selection of matches, Raonic against Federer, the man he | :32:17. | :32:20. | |
beat in the semifinal last year, Gilles Muller and Marin Cilic | :32:21. | :32:26. | |
playing against each other, and Berdych versus Novak Djokovic and | :32:27. | :32:30. | |
there is seniors tennis, Junius Teniste Matt men's and women's | :32:31. | :32:34. | |
doubles and some Mixed Doubles taking place, I enjoyed watching | :32:35. | :32:38. | |
Martina Hingis play with Jamie Murray. The crowd on Henman Hill, as | :32:39. | :32:43. | |
often is the case. I sometimes whether someone is trying to pull | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
off a big upset who is going to be tighter, as we saw Querrey, have you | :32:49. | :32:56. | |
watched a lot of American football? Yeah you often see the teams map out | :32:57. | :33:00. | |
their first ten or 15 players, you would do that with your first | :33:01. | :33:03. | |
service game, this is what you would do with the first four, five, six | :33:04. | :33:07. | |
serves no matter what happens. You couldn't tell him that. Couldn't | :33:08. | :33:11. | |
follow a script for more than a shot or appoint or two. I hope Henri | :33:12. | :33:21. | |
Leconte stays there and fries in the sunshine, I'm playing him later on. | :33:22. | :33:24. | |
Have a couple of glasses of champagne. I have no doubt he will. | :33:25. | :33:39. | |
Maybe allow Querrey to calm down quicker if he knew exactly what he | :33:40. | :33:45. | |
was going to be doing early on. We are under the flight path today. | :33:46. | :34:05. | |
For a moment I thought Concord was back in service. | :34:06. | :34:14. | |
The next game is going to be interesting. | :34:15. | :34:48. | |
The moment of truth for both players. | :34:49. | :35:45. | |
Querrey is in the game. Sam has played a couple of long tough | :35:46. | :35:53. | |
matches, five sets, he beat Tsonga, Anderson. His legs don't seem to | :35:54. | :35:58. | |
have that spring yet. You hope he can find another gear if he really | :35:59. | :36:00. | |
wants to make this a match Both goes had opportunities to win | :36:01. | :36:37. | |
this point, that's for sure. Querrey will look back and say, why | :36:38. | :36:43. | |
did I go down the line on that one? Or why didn't he hit it harder? He | :36:44. | :36:48. | |
had an opportunity to do a number of things and unfortunately picked the | :36:49. | :36:51. | |
wrong one. Still maybe could have won it with that volley. | :36:52. | :37:28. | |
That's the best move he's made in the match, a good sign for Querrey. | :37:29. | :37:35. | |
Sprung forward after hitting that big forehand. Murray was keeping an | :37:36. | :37:40. | |
impeccable length on his ground strokes in this rally as well. As | :37:41. | :37:44. | |
soon as Querrey had the chance in he came. 30-30 after the longest rally. | :37:45. | :38:01. | |
That's the end of the first set, just less than half an hour. Murray | :38:02. | :38:41. | |
wins it 6-3, just the one break of serve in Murray's opening service | :38:42. | :38:46. | |
game. He'd like that one back. SUE BARKER: Winning the opening set in | :38:47. | :38:50. | |
just 28 minutes. We will be right back with this one but we will show | :38:51. | :38:54. | |
you the other quarterfinal on Court Number One. Gilles Muller, the | :38:55. | :38:58. | |
conqueror of Rafael Nadal, is up against Marin Cilic, the big server | :38:59. | :39:03. | |
from Croatia seeded seven at these championships and guess what, Muller | :39:04. | :39:06. | |
could be causing another shot here as well because he is | :39:07. | :39:19. | |
already a break-up against Cilic, 5-3. Cilic is yet to drop a set at | :39:20. | :39:23. | |
the Championships, maybe it will be here. This match will be on BBC Two | :39:24. | :39:26. | |
shortly. It is on the red button at the moment, the feature match, but | :39:27. | :39:29. | |
it will be on BBC Two shortly when we will take Andy Murray over to BBC | :39:30. | :39:32. | |
One. So that is what is happening over on Court One. Back we go over | :39:33. | :39:36. | |
to Centre. ANDREW CASTLE: Andy Murray looking at his notes once | :39:37. | :39:41. | |
again on Court, just little reminders of last-minute things? I | :39:42. | :39:46. | |
do have to be honest, I did that in the past and felt it was a good way | :39:47. | :39:49. | |
to keep your focus. Obvious things, the ball toss. Go to his backhand if | :39:50. | :39:57. | |
in doubt. Things of that nature but probably more focusing on himself as | :39:58. | :40:01. | |
opposed to tactical advice that he may have been given by his coaches. | :40:02. | :40:11. | |
Ultimately his experience, his pedigree, and his place in the game | :40:12. | :40:17. | |
won him that first set. Querrey got a bit too tight in the beginning. It | :40:18. | :40:21. | |
could be saying don't forget to pay the phone bill later on. I don't | :40:22. | :40:28. | |
think so. Here we go then. Important game, particularly for Querrey. | :40:29. | :40:33. | |
Better start already. His first service game from that end. | :40:34. | :40:53. | |
Moments were Murray has appeared to be moving a bit gingerly. | :40:54. | :41:10. | |
That move is an example where he seems to just sort of, well, maybe | :41:11. | :41:17. | |
looking at the score a little bit, let that go, not date particularly | :41:18. | :41:28. | |
deep for that ball. Smart tactic. Especially if you are hurting a | :41:29. | :41:33. | |
little. He talked about his record at Wimbledon, Andy Murray, tenth | :41:34. | :41:38. | |
consecutive quarterfinal at this slam, only Federer and Jimmy Connors | :41:39. | :41:43. | |
achieved that at the same slam. It was ten in a row for Federer and | :41:44. | :41:48. | |
Jimmy Connors in two different Grand Slams, a remarkable record of | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
consistency. Seeded one for the first time at the Championships, | :41:54. | :41:57. | |
Andy Murray, and will stay number one if he wins his match today, | :41:58. | :42:00. | |
whatever happens elsewhere in the tournament. | :42:01. | :42:17. | |
The second set is the inverse of the first set at the start. Five points | :42:18. | :42:24. | |
in a row for Querrey. Sam Hitchcott passing shot. The odds | :42:25. | :42:59. | |
are very small he's going to get back in. Sometimes I wish the | :43:00. | :43:03. | |
players would start to move back towards the ball, the other player | :43:04. | :43:05. | |
would see that and possibly tighten up on a volley like that. -- Sam hit | :43:06. | :43:13. | |
that passing shot. That is a heck of an angle, this guy is 6'6", if you | :43:14. | :43:18. | |
can get him reaching! Remarkably similar to the match they | :43:19. | :44:07. | |
played at the Australian Open this year. It was just under two hours. | :44:08. | :44:10. | |
Murray in straight sets. That's the ball he's got to give | :44:11. | :44:50. | |
himself more margin for, Querrey. That ball is skidding, you can't try | :44:51. | :44:54. | |
and hit that as hard as you can over the high part of the net. That will | :44:55. | :45:00. | |
not work very often, especially when you are 1-7 in lifetime against your | :45:01. | :45:07. | |
opponent. Mentally, how much does he believe he can do this. | :45:08. | :45:21. | |
See how Murray took the pace off a few ground strokes, it just unnerved | :45:22. | :45:28. | |
Querrey, he tightened up, almost had too much time to think about it. | :45:29. | :45:30. | |
Good move by Murray. Sometimes you get the same effect | :45:31. | :45:49. | |
hitting it soft as when you try and blow it by an opponent. Querrey's | :45:50. | :45:56. | |
serve is what is ultimately going to save him if he's going to do | :45:57. | :45:57. | |
something big here today. That's the first reaction we've seen | :45:58. | :46:19. | |
from Andy Murray, a first expression of frustration. That's a nice | :46:20. | :46:26. | |
opportunity for him. I'd like to see Sam doing some | :46:27. | :46:36. | |
serving and volleying. Murray is upset that he missed the forehand | :46:37. | :46:39. | |
that could have given him a few break points. | :46:40. | :47:05. | |
150 base for the tournament, a reminder that John Isner served 113 | :47:06. | :47:21. | |
in one match -- 105th ace. John Isner is the only other active | :47:22. | :47:25. | |
Americans have made a Grand Slam quarterfinal. Querrey has made two | :47:26. | :47:29. | |
in a row here. With got to get our act together. More guys in the top | :47:30. | :47:34. | |
50 but no superstars. In the states we have been growing accustomed to | :47:35. | :47:41. | |
success in the 70s, 80s, into the 90s, Sampras and what he did here. | :47:42. | :47:45. | |
It has been slim pickings ever since Andy Roddick won his loan Grand Slam | :47:46. | :47:52. | |
14 years ago. So we have been desperately searching for athletes. | :47:53. | :47:56. | |
Because you can see the game is being played at such a pace you'd | :47:57. | :48:00. | |
better be able to cover the court in an amazing way the way Murray does, | :48:01. | :48:07. | |
the way Djokovic does, Roger, Rafa. These guys are good athletes, don't | :48:08. | :48:12. | |
get me wrong, but you have to be just supreme to poke some of the | :48:13. | :48:15. | |
guys that play American football or basketball. Get them enticed. To | :48:16. | :48:22. | |
think it's cool enough to play this great game, and make it affordable | :48:23. | :48:23. | |
enough. Incredibly Muller has won that first | :48:24. | :48:49. | |
set. It was the talk of the locker room, Cilic's form coming into | :48:50. | :48:54. | |
today. Well, guess what, he's got his hands full. | :48:55. | :49:00. | |
That was the athleticism I was just talking about that saves him time | :49:01. | :49:13. | |
and again. This was outrageous, wasn't it? That was a bit of a | :49:14. | :49:17. | |
surprise, that was a lunch from Samba to get that ball up, down and | :49:18. | :49:24. | |
away from the big fellow takes this work here. You've got to have the | :49:25. | :49:28. | |
expression as well. I don't know, might as well. | :49:29. | :50:11. | |
Nestea. This is so beautiful for so many reasons. Mum appreciating that | :50:12. | :50:20. | |
one. It was gorgeous. He had to adjust, it came to his backhand side | :50:21. | :50:25. | |
and he came across the ball, that's the perfect delivery of the racket | :50:26. | :50:33. | |
head, take the legs off that. His previous opponent, Benoit Paire, | :50:34. | :50:34. | |
would have enjoyed that. Sam showing some good touch of his | :50:35. | :50:57. | |
own out there, as this match has progressed, finding his legs. He | :50:58. | :51:06. | |
seems to have gotten the nerves out of his system, now he's got to get | :51:07. | :51:13. | |
the intensity higher. Try to reach his first-ever semifinal of a Grand | :51:14. | :51:14. | |
Slam. Do not want to get careless against | :51:15. | :52:33. | |
a guy as good as Murray. Respecting Murray's movement, Murray Wallace | :52:34. | :52:37. | |
haring off after that ball on the backhand side. Is making Querrey | :52:38. | :52:41. | |
feel like he has to hit a better shot. Perhaps he has two. -- Murray | :52:42. | :52:47. | |
was haring off. Good hold ultimately. | :52:48. | :53:14. | |
Well, the second set is a lot more competitive than the first just | :53:15. | :53:19. | |
because of that one break of serve when Querrey was dealing with the | :53:20. | :53:23. | |
nerves. Two or three minutes can make a difference on a grass court. | :53:24. | :53:27. | |
Big Sam Querrey who beat Novak Djokovic last year in round number | :53:28. | :53:30. | |
three in strange circumstances, backed it up beating Novak Djokovic | :53:31. | :53:34. | |
to make the quarterfinal. He was two sets down. He is a fighter. It is | :53:35. | :53:42. | |
hard to know what he can do to change to bring himself into this | :53:43. | :53:45. | |
match as a factor. If you were coaching him what would you say to | :53:46. | :53:49. | |
him? Obviously the server is a big factor in terms of what particular | :53:50. | :53:55. | |
shot can keep him in the match. But to me, the emotional intensity, show | :53:56. | :53:58. | |
some more fight, some more grit, I would emotion, to me, to engage some | :53:59. | :54:04. | |
more people in the crowd to get more respect but that is not Sam's | :54:05. | :54:09. | |
nature. He is shy, he's from Santa Monica, he likes to hide under his | :54:10. | :54:14. | |
hat and do his own thing. He is an excellent player but if you want to | :54:15. | :54:16. | |
do something extraordinary on the skort and get your first-ever semi | :54:17. | :54:20. | |
of a slam you've got to get out of your comfort zone, to me. -- on this | :54:21. | :54:26. | |
court. At least a little bit. Two former champions at Queen's | :54:27. | :54:45. | |
Club, of course. Sam Querrey winning that event in 2010. Five times, Andy | :54:46. | :54:49. | |
Murray a champion. SUE BARKER: We are leaving this | :54:50. | :55:13. | |
match on Centre, but don't worry it continues now on BBC One. Andy | :55:14. | :55:16. | |
Murray's quarterfinal match is now being shown over on BBC One. But | :55:17. | :55:21. | |
it's a busy day on the show courts and over on Court Number One, the | :55:22. | :55:26. | |
first of the men's quarterfinals taking place, as we see Henman Hill | :55:27. | :55:30. | |
absolutely packed as it always is when Andy Murray is on Centre Court, | :55:31. | :55:35. | |
and of course after Jo Konta yesterday, what time this is for | :55:36. | :55:39. | |
British tennis. The British fans are thoroughly enjoying it. On Court | :55:40. | :55:43. | |
Number One is Gilles Muller, the conqueror of Rafael Nadal, playing | :55:44. | :55:48. | |
Marin Cilic and this is Muller a set point to break Cilic's serve for the | :55:49. | :55:52. | |
second time. That error from Cilic means that he has lost his serve and | :55:53. | :55:58. | |
that is the first set he has lost at these championships, so worrying | :55:59. | :56:02. | |
times for former US Open champion Cilic and she'll Mola just marches | :56:03. | :56:05. | |
on. We worried about just how tired he might be after 15-13 against | :56:06. | :56:12. | |
Rafael Nadal in the fifth set -- Gilles Muller. No sign of that so | :56:13. | :56:16. | |
far. It is on serve in the second set so let's join our commentators | :56:17. | :56:20. | |
on Court One, Peter Fleming alongside Matt Chilton. | :56:21. | :56:36. | |
Another loose one from Marin Cilic. It's been an issue for the Croatian. | :56:37. | :56:45. | |
Gilles Muller has made such a strong start, broke Cilic twice. Broke him | :56:46. | :56:53. | |
to win the first set, which meant that he served first at the start of | :56:54. | :56:58. | |
the second. Cilic playing catch-up here 1-2. 46 minutes played. Mixture | :56:59. | :57:05. | |
of overcast and bright sunshine. Cilic won't relish the fact that the | :57:06. | :57:27. | |
sun has come out again. It has been behind a cloud for a little while. | :57:28. | :57:31. | |
At this hour it is far more awkward for a right-hander Vanni | :57:32. | :57:32. | |
left-hander. It is taking an awful long time | :57:33. | :58:04. | |
between serves. He has a bug flying around. May be one of those killer | :58:05. | :58:14. | |
flying ants that forgot his day is done. That was his second serve. It | :58:15. | :58:23. | |
interrupted his rhythm between first and second serve. We see that so | :58:24. | :58:27. | |
often, players Chuck in a double fault when their rhythm is damaged. | :58:28. | :58:35. | |
30-30, 1-2. Is this another opportunity emerging for she'll -- | :58:36. | :58:39. | |
Gilles Muller. You know, we might see that quite | :58:40. | :58:55. | |
often in week one but it's a surprise to see a double fault, | :58:56. | :59:01. | |
regardless of the distraction in week two, because the guys get here | :59:02. | :59:07. | |
because their mind is serene, they don't get distracted that easily. | :59:08. | :59:14. | |
Clean winner from Marin Cilic, just to settle his nerves and he's firing | :59:15. | :59:21. | |
himself up as he looks up towards his coach, Jonas Bjorkman. | :59:22. | :59:30. | |
Yeah, double faults have been a bit of an issue for Gilles Muller in the | :59:31. | :59:37. | |
tournament. None in this match so far, though. 29 in the tournament, | :59:38. | :59:39. | |
Cilic has only served ten. But it's a philosophy. OK, that's | :59:40. | :00:08. | |
double fault number 30 but that's in four matches, so seven double faults | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
match, but let's forget he's played at | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
15-13 match, that this two there. He hits an aggressive serve so the | :00:26. | :00:34. | |
opponent cannot attack it so it is worth hitting a few doubles here and | :00:35. | :00:43. | |
there. Once again, terrific half-volley. He is very adept at | :00:44. | :00:52. | |
Catskill. -- at that skill. Looking for his 21st success in unbroken | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
service games, Gilles Muller, as he sends down ace number six. There is | :00:59. | :01:08. | |
his team watching on, what a week and a fortnight they have had. | :01:09. | :01:17. | |
Muller mentally is rock-solid. We have seen nothing but his poker | :01:18. | :01:27. | |
face. He just seems to go from strength to strength at the age of | :01:28. | :01:36. | |
34. He finishes that game with an ace. The routine continues. They are | :01:37. | :01:49. | |
rattling through this set and a half pretty quickly. She'll Muller, | :01:50. | :01:58. | |
despite the marathon match the other night with Rafael Nadal, pretty calm | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
and confident as the new balls are produced. Not for the next game, for | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
later. The line judges have various roles through the match. Getting the | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
ball is out of the tins being one of them. The psychology of a tennis | :02:16. | :02:24. | |
match is pretty fascinating because it is like boxing in a way in that | :02:25. | :02:34. | |
it is hand-to-hand combat. Not the physical great there is in boxing | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
but the way you handle yourself, the way you carry your body throughout a | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
match can impose itself on your opponent, and if a guy is fondling | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
his shoulders and looking up it will often give his opponent and | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
encouragement. Muller is just the opposite. He has got on with his | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
business and perhaps that is affecting Cilic adverts were at the | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
moment. Cilic normally bounces the ball a | :03:05. | :03:20. | |
few times for delivering his serve. That was close. No talent from | :03:21. | :04:20. | |
Cilic. -- zero challenge. More big serving. 126 mph down the | :04:21. | :05:06. | |
centre. All square in the second set. No | :05:07. | :05:28. | |
break points in the second instalment, yet we had just two | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
break points, both for Gilles Muller, in the first set, and he | :05:34. | :05:45. | |
took them both. They are all square on eight aces eight. | :05:46. | :06:01. | |
That is a great reach and a beautiful volley from Gilles Muller. | :06:02. | :06:12. | |
Yes, and Gilles Muller is the answer to everybody who say she cannot | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
serve and volley into David's game. He is proving them wrong, 11 times | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
in this match so far. There is another one. Did not have to play | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
the second half, just the serve. Charging through another service | :06:32. | :06:32. | |
game. That is a sensational points from | :06:33. | :07:16. | |
Gilles Muller. In absolute control. Yeah. A great description, really. | :07:17. | :07:47. | |
Muller in terrific balance forestry shot and he hits. That perhaps is | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
why he has been so accurate. He teased Marin Cilic with this lob. | :07:56. | :08:04. | |
Yeah. He is not the quickest guy. He would not confuse anyone. For one of | :08:05. | :08:14. | |
the game's best athletes. Or they could not be confused for one of the | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
best athletes. So it perhaps fits in that category, and yet because | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
Muller has been aggressive off of the ground and has taken the ball | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
early and he has looked in complete charge. | :08:33. | :08:54. | |
Quite a lot of frame on that shot. Yeah, he seems to mis-hit more balls | :08:55. | :10:28. | |
than most. A grasp of surprise around the | :10:29. | :11:02. | |
court. A big double fault from Cilic, his fourth. There is no doubt | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
that Gilles Muller has the support of the majority of the Court One | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
crowd. They would love to see him break again. | :11:16. | :11:31. | |
Sensational little sliced backhand winner. Muller has two break points. | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
Really nicely played. That is the shot that said the point up. This | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
one I was afraid he had it like that too why, perhaps it was going long. | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
No. He had a really meaty swing at that, | :11:48. | :12:22. | |
Muller, he fancied his chances of sending down a winner on the return | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
of serve. Yes, you jumped all over it. A little anxious perhaps. Still | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
break point. He struck it well. But of course | :12:32. | :13:18. | |
sometimes you have to take the good with the bad. | :13:19. | :13:32. | |
Cilic. That was an ace. He was heading off to play the next point. | :13:33. | :13:42. | |
It was called long. It will be checked by Hawk-Eye. Cilic has | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
challenged. He is wrong again. Loose from the Croatian. He is | :13:45. | :14:09. | |
annoyed with themselves. He has given Muller a third break point | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
opportunity in this game. Cilic has two challenges remaining. A little | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
surprising how errant he has been off of the ground today. | :14:21. | :14:38. | |
That one he enjoyed. So did the semifinalist Swede who is coaching | :14:39. | :14:53. | |
Marin Cilic. A couple of aces and Cilic holds. | :14:54. | :15:33. | |
And might we look back on that game as the turning point? Possibly. It | :15:34. | :15:41. | |
is the second grass court match in London and about three weeks between | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
these two. They played the semifinal at Queen's which Cilic won in three | :15:45. | :15:54. | |
sets. This one matters an awful lot more, for a place in the Wimbledon | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
semifinal. Something neither man has achieved. | :16:02. | :16:25. | |
Muller is moving round the court like a teenager. Once again, the | :16:26. | :16:37. | |
ground stroke was deep and did not allow Cilic to really rip it. | :16:38. | :16:52. | |
Nicely played that time, Cilic gained the initiative and never let | :16:53. | :17:52. | |
go of it. 120 mph. Muller has been economical | :17:53. | :18:20. | |
with the number of points he has lost on serve, just eight compared | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
to 24 Myron Cilic. An ace to conclude that game. Muller | :18:24. | :18:55. | |
is back in front, potentially a game away from taking the second set. | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
They are getting to the business end of the second set and we will be | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
right back with it. On Centre Court Andy Murray was a set and the | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
break-up against Sam Querrey but quickly broke once and then had a | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
set point to level the match. He did it in some style. Out of nowhere we | :19:18. | :19:25. | |
are level at one set all on Centre Court and Andy Murray has to dig | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
deep in his quarterfinal match. That was a short time ago and Murray | :19:29. | :19:37. | |
fights hard. He knows he has to get this match back in his favour. That | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
is on BBC One. Murray fighting hard on Centre Court. | :19:43. | :19:56. | |
That is the red button feature match. The ladies doubles | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
quarterfinal. Back we got to see Marion Cilic | :20:00. | :20:13. | |
serve to stay in the second set. I want one of those. You would look | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
lovely in those red and white stripes. It is likely barbershop | :20:21. | :20:29. | |
quartet. Marion Cilic Sturtevant Tuesday in the second set. | :20:30. | :21:13. | |
Muller saw quite a few of those type shots the other night against Rafael | :21:14. | :21:23. | |
Nadal who of course is the expert at hitting the short deep cross caught | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
off of the two-handed. Yeah. That was a decent serve but absolutely | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
ripped away by Muller. 123 mph, big ace to finish. Still no | :21:34. | :22:44. | |
breaks of serve in the second set. Jonas Bjorkman with the white cap | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
will be more content watching than he was in the opening set, which was | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
dominated by the man from Luxembourg. Got a line judge right | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
between the eyes. Another mishit. We talked about this | :23:03. | :24:00. | |
a while ago, the number of mishits by --, -- Cilic are stocking up. | :24:01. | :24:16. | |
Only 35% of the first serves have come back whereas 50% have been | :24:17. | :24:34. | |
returned. A collective gasp at around quarter number one. Only the | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
second double fault so far from Gilles Muller. A dangerous time in | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
the set. The tenth ace to follow. Just a tidy | :24:42. | :24:55. | |
things up. A roar from Cilic as he gets a break | :24:56. | :25:48. | |
point. The first break point of the match for Cilic. He is dancing on | :25:49. | :26:00. | |
the spot hoping to do some damage. Serve volley to the rescue for | :26:01. | :26:02. | |
Gilles Muller. Like clockwork. It was a good aggressive shot but | :26:03. | :26:51. | |
that sort of error gets into trouble. Made to the ball he have | :26:52. | :27:06. | |
made. Muller keeps his cool. And keeps himself out in front in the | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
second set. Cilic will serve next to stay in it once again. It is a | :27:12. | :27:23. | |
rather lovely day in south-west London. The outside courts and | :27:24. | :27:32. | |
caught two and caught the, the two newest of the show courts, two on | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
the right of your screen, three on the right, mostly hosting doubles | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
and juniors. A few sailboards out on the lake and Wimbledon Park as we | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
look out onto the London City landmarks. Lots of building work | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
going on there. It will not be long before another eight frames surround | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
Court Number One to continue with the construction of the roof. Eight | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
enormous cranes will be in place within a month of the Championships | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
finishing or thereabouts as the tidy things up over the next two years to | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
give us the second caught with a roof at the All England Club. -- | :28:14. | :28:25. | |
second court. One or two dark clouds above but it is bright and sunny at | :28:26. | :28:33. | |
the moment. Cilic served successfully to stay in the second | :28:34. | :28:42. | |
set and 4-5 and will try again. To take us potentially to a tie-break. | :28:43. | :30:18. | |
That's efficient from Marin Cilic and a tie-break will decide the | :30:19. | :30:28. | |
second set. Prior to this match Marin Cilic had not dropped a set | :30:29. | :30:32. | |
throughout the Championships. He's dropped one here. He's played a | :30:33. | :30:38. | |
couple of tie-breaks in the tournament so far. One against | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
Florian Mayer in round two and one against Johnson in round three. Won | :30:44. | :30:51. | |
them both. Muller has played two, won one and lost one. Over the year | :30:52. | :31:01. | |
the record is more interesting, Cilic, only seven in ten in | :31:02. | :31:09. | |
tie-breaks, Muller 16 - seven. That's dominant. Perhaps the man | :31:10. | :31:13. | |
from Luxembourg has a slight edge here. | :31:14. | :31:51. | |
Interesting. He was attempting one of those short backhand is inviting | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
Cilic into the net again. 13 aces in the match now for Marin | :31:56. | :32:48. | |
Cilic, 11 from Muller. He will hope for one or two more here. Behind in | :32:49. | :33:03. | |
the tie-break. Slower ball out wide, 102 mph. | :33:04. | :33:21. | |
In this situation I think you have to take away the slice serve from | :33:22. | :33:40. | |
Muller every time, he can ace you every time beforehand but don't | :33:41. | :33:49. | |
allow him to do it with his highest percentage serve. | :33:50. | :34:11. | |
The second serve coming in at 100 mph. It's not slow but it's not the | :34:12. | :34:35. | |
quickest we've seen this week. Muller jumping all over. Muller | :34:36. | :34:45. | |
relished that forehand winner. He is now favourite for a 2-0 lead. | :34:46. | :35:38. | |
So much variety on the Muller serve. Cilic is just left guessing every | :35:39. | :35:49. | |
time. Another slower ball, 104 miles per hour. He needs just two points | :35:50. | :35:51. | |
to seal the second set. What do you know? He hit the | :35:52. | :36:20. | |
difficult serve, Cilic was there waiting for it. | :36:21. | :37:03. | |
That's a good body serve on the second. Muller just unable to get | :37:04. | :37:10. | |
out of the way of it will stop slight mis-hit off the return | :37:11. | :37:15. | |
allowed the ball to sit in the middle of the court for Cilic. | :37:16. | :37:27. | |
Ace from Cilic to set up the break point. | :37:28. | :37:44. | |
Muller has been cool under pressure throughout. He needs a little bit | :37:45. | :37:52. | |
more of that temperament here. Defending this set point. Now, where | :37:53. | :37:59. | |
does he go? 285 and returned serves in the | :38:00. | :38:40. | |
championship so far for Gilles Muller. | :38:41. | :38:49. | |
He's just saved a set point. Can he generate one of his own here? 6-6, | :38:50. | :38:58. | |
6-6 in the tie-break. It is a tight second serve. It's a | :38:59. | :39:27. | |
double fault. And now Cilic has two opportunities with serve to wrap | :39:28. | :39:34. | |
this up. At 7-6 he's got a set point. Set point number two for the | :39:35. | :39:39. | |
Croatian. Oh! That is fantastic from Cilic. | :39:40. | :40:21. | |
His coaching team on their feet. Cilic takes the second set. | :40:22. | :40:34. | |
SUE BARKER: What a way to win it and a huge roar from Marin Cilic and | :40:35. | :40:44. | |
he's back in this, 1-1, on Court Number One. We will be right back | :40:45. | :40:47. | |
but we will show you what's happening elsewhere. When we were | :40:48. | :40:52. | |
last on Centre Court we showed you Murray had lost the second set but | :40:53. | :40:56. | |
he is up a break, breaking Querrey in the first service game of the | :40:57. | :41:00. | |
third set as he did in the first. That matches on BBC One, Murray | :41:01. | :41:05. | |
against Querrey is on BBC One. Over on 12, the feature match on the red | :41:06. | :41:11. | |
button, Kuznetsova and Mladenovic up against Renato Ibarra server and her | :41:12. | :41:23. | |
partner on the red button. A couple of results to bring you, Ken and | :41:24. | :41:28. | |
Neal Skupski were defeated by the number four seeds Kubot and Marcelo | :41:29. | :41:34. | |
Melo in three sets but it was really the first set tie-break when they | :41:35. | :41:38. | |
lost it, 13-11, tough to come back from. They still have had a good | :41:39. | :41:47. | |
Championships here. Here is a face to look out for in the future, Aidan | :41:48. | :41:52. | |
McHugh of Great Britain was out of the Boys' Singles, this is a | :41:53. | :41:56. | |
second-round match, and he put out a number six seed Marko Miladinovic of | :41:57. | :42:03. | |
Serbia. Well done to him. He is Andy Murray's regular doubles partner, | :42:04. | :42:06. | |
Andy Murray helping all the time and talking to him, no big celebration, | :42:07. | :42:09. | |
he's saying I want to go even further in this tournament, and who | :42:10. | :42:13. | |
knows how far he can go? Well done to young Aidan McHugh. That is what | :42:14. | :42:15. | |
has been happening elsewhere but back we go down to Court Number One. | :42:16. | :42:19. | |
1-1 it is. COMMENTATOR: Cilic will open the | :42:20. | :42:27. | |
serving at the start of the third set. | :42:28. | :42:37. | |
One hour and 31 minutes played. At least two more sets to come. | :42:38. | :43:18. | |
Now we will see just how much Gilles Muller still has in the tank. He has | :43:19. | :43:28. | |
shown no signs of fatigue so far. Yes. Prior to this match Cilic had | :43:29. | :43:35. | |
had just over eight hours on Court. Muller just under 13 hours. | :43:36. | :43:53. | |
First bit of serve and volley action from Marin Cilic. | :43:54. | :44:32. | |
131 miles per out. That's big from Marin Cilic, just short of his | :44:33. | :44:41. | |
quickest in this match, 132. Is fastest in the tournament just a | :44:42. | :44:42. | |
notch quicker at 133. In this third set it is Muller | :44:43. | :45:01. | |
having to play catch up. 0-1. So much more positivity and | :45:02. | :45:39. | |
aggression from Marin Cilic at the end of that second set and in the | :45:40. | :45:43. | |
early stages of this third. He's annoyed with himself. He was | :45:44. | :46:22. | |
the dominant force in that exchange, and then a loose point. The Cilic | :46:23. | :46:28. | |
camp lead on the left by Jonas Bjorkman. | :46:29. | :47:05. | |
He couldn't have walked over there and placed it any better the way | :47:06. | :47:11. | |
that serve was hit. He is pretty vocal at the moment, | :47:12. | :47:44. | |
Marin Cilic. We had nothing but silence throughout from his | :47:45. | :47:45. | |
opponent. It was a similar story in Muller's | :47:46. | :48:06. | |
match against Nadal, he was the quiet one and Nadal was anything | :48:07. | :48:07. | |
but. It was the quiet man who progressed | :48:08. | :48:13. | |
in the previous round. Muller happy to get off the mark. In | :48:14. | :48:39. | |
this third set it is 1-1. Jonas Bjorkman on the left with the | :48:40. | :48:45. | |
mirrored sunglasses, a semifinalist here in 2006, lost in the semifinals | :48:46. | :48:56. | |
to Roger Federer. Cilic has never been to the semis. He'd love to | :48:57. | :48:59. | |
match the achievement of his coach. He seems to be making good progress | :49:00. | :49:05. | |
at the moment after a difficult start. 1-1, 1-1. | :49:06. | :49:22. | |
He's on a hat-trick here. Two in a row, looking for the third. | :49:23. | :50:05. | |
Three in a row, hat-trick of aces from Marin Cilic, and all Muller is | :50:06. | :50:13. | |
doing is striding from one side of the court to the other. | :50:14. | :50:26. | |
Three aces and then a serve - volley winner, a fine game from Cilic. | :50:27. | :50:42. | |
Muller did a nice job of stopping the rot, if you will. Holding serve | :50:43. | :50:56. | |
pretty comfortably to start this third set. You get the feeling now | :50:57. | :51:05. | |
that both guys are in a pretty good serving rhythm and that it might | :51:06. | :51:12. | |
just be a case of biding their time. I mean, obviously they are going to | :51:13. | :51:16. | |
try their best to make inroads on the opponent's serve but I'm not | :51:17. | :51:22. | |
certain it's going to happen. This could just be 2-2, 3-3, 4-4 | :51:23. | :51:31. | |
tie-break. He won his first grass court tournament just prior to | :51:32. | :51:36. | |
Wimbledon in the Netherlands, beating Ivo Karlovic in the final. | :51:37. | :51:44. | |
The final with two of the oldest men in ATP history, 34-year-old Muller, | :51:45. | :51:46. | |
and 38-year-old Karlovic. Muller is serving, 1-2, third set, | :51:47. | :52:06. | |
1-1 here. Is that worth a challenge? I thought | :52:07. | :52:55. | |
that might have just grazed the line. No trips upstairs to Hawk-Eye | :52:56. | :53:00. | |
for Cilic, who has not had a good record with his challenges so far in | :53:01. | :53:03. | |
this match. Dow was just a tease of a volley, | :53:04. | :54:00. | |
wasn't it? Didn't hit it with any great power, just dropped it far | :54:01. | :54:03. | |
enough away from Cilic that he had to chase it wasn't going to be able | :54:04. | :54:05. | |
to do much with it. Two in a row serve-volley winners | :54:06. | :54:26. | |
from Gilles Muller. He's at 50%, 23 out of 46 first serves have been | :54:27. | :54:30. | |
combined with a volley. 26 service holds in a row for Gilles | :54:31. | :54:49. | |
Muller, including the final set of his marathon with Nadal. | :54:50. | :55:10. | |
Cilic got it done in the end. It's the most running Muller has done in | :55:11. | :55:17. | |
a while. Whereas Muller, in the first set and | :55:18. | :56:13. | |
a half, seemed to be all over Cilic's serve. He's put in not quite | :56:14. | :56:18. | |
so many returns of late. 124 mph that last delivery, Cilic | :56:19. | :56:31. | |
back in front, no breaks in this third set. The giant scoreboards on | :56:32. | :56:41. | |
number one Court Flash up the information from around the club | :56:42. | :56:46. | |
with what's going on on Centre and the other courts being used today. | :56:47. | :56:50. | |
There is doubles and junior action outside. | :56:51. | :57:00. | |
You can see the top left of the screen, Henman Hill is absolutely | :57:01. | :57:10. | |
ramped again today with Andy Murray inaction on Centre Court, not a | :57:11. | :57:22. | |
blade of grass to be had. That's the access to that part of the club, | :57:23. | :57:26. | |
Aorangi Terrace is its official name. They are right next to where | :57:27. | :57:37. | |
we are here. So often, if something exciting happens on the Centre | :57:38. | :57:41. | |
Court, we can hear the cheers from the Hill. The giant screen they are | :57:42. | :57:45. | |
watching on the hill is stapled to the side of number one court. | :57:46. | :57:59. | |
Will Muller continue this unbroken trend? It seems likely. 2-3. | :58:00. | :58:09. | |
That's an opportunity squandered. And he knows it. | :58:10. | :58:39. | |
Effortless backhand volley from the 34-year-old Gilles Muller. That | :58:40. | :58:48. | |
slice serve out why it does such a great job of taking Cilic off court, | :58:49. | :58:51. | |
he doesn't have to do anything more than just bunt it into the open | :58:52. | :58:53. | |
court. He uses that volley to great effect, | :58:54. | :59:19. | |
just drops it short, so he's unable to track it down, Cilic. He is | :59:20. | :59:22. | |
hoping for a deeper volley. One hour and 49 minutes in total. | :59:23. | :59:52. | |
Really good tennis so far, Gilles Muller looking to book his place in | :59:53. | :59:56. | |
the Wimbledon semifinals and play Murray or Querrey. Things started | :59:57. | :00:02. | |
well and then Cilic turned up. And he turned up the heat. Bright | :00:03. | :00:12. | |
sunshine on number one again now. Cilic with an extra issue with the | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
sun, serving from this end. 21 aces in the match, so far, from | :00:19. | :00:32. | |
Cilic. He is at 20 seconds, since the | :00:33. | :01:17. | |
previous point ended. His average time is 23 seconds between points, | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
so he is well over where he should be. No words of warning, so far, | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
from umpire Jo Garner. The first signs of a stumble, | :01:27. | :01:56. | |
potentially. He might give it longer between points here. On the regular | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
tour away from the majors it is a 25 second rule. It is difficult for the | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
players to change their rhythm. The umpires tend to be lenient over this | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
issue. That was well left. I think the rule | :02:11. | :02:26. | |
next year will change so it will be 25 seconds everywhere, which | :02:27. | :02:27. | |
probably makes sense. Getting along towards two hours | :02:28. | :02:59. | |
since the match began. It has been a very tight affair, as we expected it | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
would be. And perhaps Cilic with the slight advantage now, in that he he | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
is serving first, so not having to chase the score. | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
Of course, now, I mean, soon, each break point that Cilic house will be | :03:19. | :03:36. | |
a set point against Muller. -- that Cilic has. Look at that, you cannot | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
buy those in the shops. Home-made. Wimbledon made drinks arriving. She | :03:45. | :03:54. | |
has managed to make it back safely with refreshment. The only umbrellas | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
being used are parasols. Muller in difficult territory now | :04:00. | :04:14. | |
late in this third set. He remains unbroken since the start of the | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
final set, in his match with Rafael Nadal. | :04:20. | :05:49. | |
Yes, Muller there in plenty of time with the choice of shots to play. | :05:50. | :06:01. | |
With a sublime defensive backhand. The approach shot was deep and hard. | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
Muller used the power of Cilic's racket to block it back, keep it | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
low. Forcing the Croatian to volley up. | :06:15. | :06:29. | |
All square again. His crew, connections and coaches watching on, | :06:30. | :06:43. | |
hoping their man can reach is first Grand Slam semifinal. Cilic went all | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
the way at the US Open in 2014 and won the title. It's an big names, | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
Marcos Baghdatis, Kevin Anderson, Berdych. Federer in the semifinal, | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
and won the final in straight sets over Kei Nishikori. He became the | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
first Japanese player into a major final. | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
In fact, he won his last nine sets. Beating Berdych, Federer and Kei | :07:17. | :07:25. | |
Nishikori in straight sets. He was on fire. Beating Federer in straight | :07:26. | :07:33. | |
sets anywhere is something to celebrate. It does not happen too | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
often. Just tying the shoe laces, possibly | :07:37. | :07:49. | |
waiting for the aircraft noise to dissipate. | :07:50. | :08:23. | |
A real urgency about the point from Gilles Muller. The ninth game of the | :08:24. | :08:32. | |
third set. He thinks maybe this is an opportunity to strike for a break | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
of serve. Beautifully done from Cilic. The | :08:35. | :08:44. | |
angle made it impossible for Muller. Gilles Muller remains unbroken but | :08:45. | :09:49. | |
after the change of ends, there will be extra pressure, he will be | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
serving to stay in the set. SUE BARKER: Just over on Centre | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
Court, it is Andy Murray taking on Sam Querrey and we have been talking | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
about the hip and the problems he has had. This happened towards the | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
end of the third set, when Murray was serving and you can see he was | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
really in trouble. We will slow it down. You can see he really pulls | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
up. That is not looking good for Murray, but all I can say is that he | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
may be not looking good between the points, but he is still moving well. | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
A definite problem for Andy Murray, but he is battling on on Centre | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
Court and a short time ago he took the third set. 7-4 in the tie-break | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
and it is on serve in the fourth set so he is battling hard and that | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
matches on BBC One. On the red button, the feature match on Court | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
12. Kuznetsova and Kristina Mladenovic. They lost the first set. | :10:57. | :11:05. | |
That is the feature match on the red button. | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
Two hours of play and here is Muller serving to stay in this third set. | :11:14. | :12:19. | |
Muller is doing the basics, keeping Marin Cilic trapped behind his | :12:20. | :12:33. | |
baseline. Unable to dominate points with a foot inside his own baseline. | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
A tie-break in this set looks increasingly likely. | :12:41. | :12:56. | |
That has been a rarity, a double fault from Muller. | :12:57. | :13:09. | |
40-0 up, I guess that is the best time to serve a double fault. | :13:10. | :13:23. | |
And a puff of white as that one kicked up off the line. All square | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
again. The first set was rapid, 33 minutes. | :13:28. | :13:48. | |
The second set taking almost an hour and up to 34 minutes for the third. | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
Cilic still taking an awful long time to prepare as he gazed towards | :13:55. | :14:09. | |
his opponent midrib. -- made rhythm. 22 aces in this match so far. | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
Heading towards 100 for the tournament. 94 now. | :14:16. | :14:27. | |
He is settling into a nice serving rhythm now. | :14:28. | :14:48. | |
He did not use the serve-volley tactic in the first set but it has | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
become a more regular manoeuvre as the match has gone on for Cilic. | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
Mimicking what he has seen from his opponent. | :15:00. | :15:17. | |
Cilic in total control during the service game in this third set. | :15:18. | :15:29. | |
Muller will attempt to take it to a tie-break as he steps out to serve | :15:30. | :15:31. | |
next at 5-6. Hoping to record back-to-back wins | :15:32. | :15:53. | |
against top-10 opposition in a Grand Slam, for the first time after his | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
defeat by Rafa Nadal. Ending a ten match losing streak over top-10 | :16:01. | :16:10. | |
players. As you might expect in a match this close, Muller has won one | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
more points than Marin Cilic. Shade offered to the players out the | :16:13. | :16:36. | |
sit down as the afternoon temperature warms up. Much more | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
manageable in the second half of the second week than in the first seven, | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
eight days of the Championships. Muller serving to take us to a | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
tie-break. He saw it very early. He struck it | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
cleanly. Now, this is troublesome for Gilles | :16:57. | :17:32. | |
Muller. 31 service games without being broken, but at 0-30, Cilic is | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
beginning to think he could end that run. | :17:39. | :17:49. | |
This is a must make second serve. How daring will he be with it? | :17:50. | :18:09. | |
A shallow second serve. 102 mph, picked off comfortably by Cilic, who | :18:10. | :18:18. | |
now has three set points. Don't bet against Gilles Muller | :18:19. | :18:43. | |
squirming out of this one. So secure off the first volley. | :18:44. | :19:12. | |
Unbelievably cool. What a temperament, Gilles Muller. Two set | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
point saved. One more to defend. Oh, he has dumped it in the net and | :19:17. | :19:36. | |
Muller is broken, finally, as Cilic take the third set. | :19:37. | :19:52. | |
That has to be a gut-wrenching error from Muller. First serve, set up a | :19:53. | :20:04. | |
routine volley. It just caught the tape. | :20:05. | :20:13. | |
Cilic, first-served points won, 95%. He was not going to be broken. | :20:14. | :20:28. | |
Muller with no break points. That was that, that put the pressure on | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
Muller. And it took the one error together | :20:31. | :20:43. | |
with a couple of fine returns from Cilic, but he needed help and got it | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
with the volley error. Now, you would have to think, that Cilic has | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
the upper hand. His camp is pumped up. He is pumped up. Muller must be | :20:56. | :21:09. | |
fatigued just a bit. Cilic roaring like a lion after he won the third | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
set. He is back on his feet, ready to play. He is eager to continue | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
with Gilles Muller still in his chair. | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
Drama to conclude the third set. Muller broken at last. And Cilic | :21:29. | :21:39. | |
will serve first in set number four with new balls. | :21:40. | :22:19. | |
Cilic has to keep up the same levels of intensity with which he triumphed | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
in the third set. It was a skittish Cilic who dumped | :22:25. | :22:53. | |
serve twice in the first set. He appears a little calmer now. | :22:54. | :23:23. | |
That was a strange shot selection. Surprised he did not go crosscourt | :23:24. | :23:32. | |
because Muller's return was deep. A couple of unforced errors and 21 in | :23:33. | :23:41. | |
total for Cilic. Muller on his toes, waiting to pick the first serve. He | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
will get a second serve to look at now. | :23:46. | :24:29. | |
A slight stutter in that service game from Cilic, but no damage done. | :24:30. | :24:41. | |
That one flew off the Muller frame, sitting up kindly for Marin Cilic. | :24:42. | :24:59. | |
All is well for the Croatian, you get the feeling. Tension on the | :25:00. | :25:09. | |
Gilles Muller benches. Muller has now served 298 unreturned | :25:10. | :26:05. | |
serves in the Championships. 114 aces. And the serve-volley that cost | :26:06. | :26:17. | |
him the third set cost him a point there. He might be backing off | :26:18. | :26:27. | |
slightly from his serve-volley now. A couple have gone astray. | :26:28. | :26:37. | |
Beautifully struck return. More and more often, Cilic starting to time | :26:38. | :26:45. | |
his returns crisply. And that was one of the best returns | :26:46. | :27:07. | |
of the match from Marin Cilic. Break points. In the second game of the | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
fourth set. Cilic is fired up. Talking to | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
himself. Is this his big chance? Muller's first serve is one foot | :27:17. | :27:32. | |
wide. That was a chance. He had to reach | :27:33. | :27:55. | |
for it, but still, was in good enough position. Just inches wide. | :27:56. | :28:31. | |
Well watched. Muller thought about taking it mid-court, the overhead, | :28:32. | :28:39. | |
and then spotted it had a little bit of extra pace about it. Good | :28:40. | :28:40. | |
decision. Overhead from Muller. Saves a break | :28:41. | :29:26. | |
point on his way to a one all scoreline. Is He's not going to roll | :29:27. | :29:37. | |
over, is he? If he is fatiguing a little bit, he's not, he's not | :29:38. | :29:40. | |
showing it, readily. That's how tight it is. 101. 101 | :29:41. | :29:48. | |
points each. Muller's not convinced about that | :29:49. | :30:17. | |
one. It was called in. Will it be Cilic's 24th ace or will it be a | :30:18. | :30:27. | |
second serve? It's ace number 24. UMPIRE: Mr Muller has two chances | :30:28. | :30:33. | |
remaining. He's used his challenges sparingly, Muller. | :30:34. | :31:16. | |
Comes down from such a height. He's a big man, Marin Cilic. 6 feet 6 | :31:17. | :31:25. | |
inches tall. 1 meter 98. Muller doesn't like the one of that | :31:26. | :31:46. | |
either. UMPIRE: The ball was called in. | :31:47. | :31:52. | |
COMMENTATOR: Will he get this one right, Gilles Muller. Or will that | :31:53. | :31:57. | |
be ace number 26th for Cilic. No, it's a good challenge that time, | :31:58. | :31:59. | |
from Muller. Cilic holds, again. Leads the fourth | :32:00. | :32:43. | |
set. He leads by 2-1. SUE BARKER: We will be back with | :32:44. | :32:49. | |
this match. A story is brewing on Centre Court where Andy Murray has | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
dropped the fourth set, 6-1. Sam Querrey has won seven games in a | :32:55. | :32:59. | |
row. He now has two break points to go 2-0 up. Andy limping on every | :33:00. | :33:03. | |
point. He is struggling to get to the | :33:04. | :33:06. | |
balls. He is fighting out there. But at the moment it's all going one | :33:07. | :33:10. | |
way. Sam Querrey senses victory. That match is over on BBC One. | :33:11. | :33:18. | |
Fourth set took 22 minutes. Racing through, Querrey. We will see if he | :33:19. | :33:23. | |
can win this. A drop shot, and he has. That's one of them. That match | :33:24. | :33:34. | |
is over on BBC One. Is back we go to Court 1. | :33:35. | :33:41. | |
COMMENTATOR: Spectators coming in in large numbers following a late lunch | :33:42. | :33:46. | |
and refreshments. Movement around the court. The umpire asking them to | :33:47. | :33:51. | |
find their seats quickly or take any seat available. Gilles Muller | :33:52. | :33:56. | |
returning to serve. Saved a break point in his last service game. Is | :33:57. | :34:03. | |
the fatigue starting to creep up on him following the efforts of the | :34:04. | :34:11. | |
victory in the final set over Rafael Nadal. | :34:12. | :34:28. | |
Big serve. 121mph. Muller's quickest, 122 in this match so far. | :34:29. | :35:26. | |
So that's up near his top end. Oh. That's one to saviour for Marin | :35:27. | :35:42. | |
Cilic. 30-30 on the Muller serve. Yeah, he was at full stretch. | :35:43. | :35:49. | |
Perhaps, a slight miss-hit off the top, the bottom of the racquet. That | :35:50. | :35:55. | |
took a little speed off it. Perhaps kept it in court. | :35:56. | :36:04. | |
APPLAUSE Half-volley. Absolutely brilliant. | :36:05. | :36:18. | |
That's about as tough as they come. Perfectly placed. Nice technique. | :36:19. | :36:23. | |
Still a lot of life in those legs. APPLAUSE | :36:24. | :37:08. | |
Good anticipation. As if he was inside Cilic's head. | :37:09. | :37:19. | |
Two games all, no way past Gilles Muller there. | :37:20. | :37:25. | |
Not seen too many baseline exchanges. Just 11 strokes. I think | :37:26. | :38:09. | |
that came in the opening set. APPLAUSE | :38:10. | :39:02. | |
He does like to run around on to that forehand wing. That's where he | :39:03. | :39:08. | |
gets the pace and power. Yeah, he's got the bit between his teeth now. | :39:09. | :39:12. | |
He's a different guy from the guy who came out tentively in set number | :39:13. | :39:13. | |
one. That's going to hurt. That will make | :39:14. | :39:23. | |
Cilic sweat, 30-30. Muller stepped too far forward to | :39:24. | :40:21. | |
pick up that second serve. Yeah, it bounded off the court surface, | :40:22. | :40:24. | |
didn't it really? Vaulted up. Well that was ambitious. The ball | :40:25. | :40:56. | |
stayed low. Cilic at full stretch. Tried to hit it over the high part | :40:57. | :41:02. | |
of the net, with power. It was always going to be very difficult. | :41:03. | :41:09. | |
Cilic with plenty to think about here, 2-2, deuce. It's been a poor | :41:10. | :41:14. | |
game by his recent standards. Although that serve down the centre | :41:15. | :41:17. | |
was a monster. 129mph. Gets himself out of trouble. A | :41:18. | :41:48. | |
couple of free points. Umunna Cilic leads 3-2, fourth set, leads two | :41:49. | :42:05. | |
sets to one. -- UMPIRE: Cilic leads 3-2, fourth set, | :42:06. | :42:16. | |
leads two sets to one. COMMENTATOR: Got to the semi-finals | :42:17. | :42:21. | |
in the tournament that Muller won. He's been building slowly. It's a | :42:22. | :42:26. | |
slow burn on the grass for Marin Cilic this summer. As he attempts to | :42:27. | :42:35. | |
reach the Wimbledon semi-final. The winner of the Murray-Querrey match, | :42:36. | :42:40. | |
currently in its final set on Centre Court, awaits the winner of this | :42:41. | :42:44. | |
one. UMPIRE: Time. | :42:45. | :42:52. | |
Is COMMENTATOR: Yeah, and I would have | :42:53. | :42:57. | |
thought that up until now these players have no idea what's going on | :42:58. | :43:05. | |
on Centre Court. Should that match end before this one, the news will | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
flash on the scoreboard. That might make a few people think. Muller, | :43:10. | :43:16. | |
2-3, fourth set. Wow! Great wrong footing, first | :43:17. | :43:21. | |
volley. Loose. That was loose from Gilles | :43:22. | :44:10. | |
Muller. 22nd unforced error of the match. It's a tough watch for the | :44:11. | :44:15. | |
coaches. That's the loudest line judge at | :44:16. | :44:29. | |
Wimbledon. Cilic is on his toes. Can he | :44:30. | :45:05. | |
generate a break point here? This will be two. Can Muller find another | :45:06. | :45:07. | |
ace? That was a rather laboured first | :45:08. | :45:20. | |
serve. It was a big miss. Second serve at 15-30, has to make this | :45:21. | :45:22. | |
count. I don't think that's coming back. | :45:23. | :45:40. | |
And here are two break points for Marin Cilic. Beautifully played. | :45:41. | :45:47. | |
Beautifully disguised, delicate lob. Muller's in a whole lot of trouble | :45:48. | :45:55. | |
here, 15-40, 2-3. Come on! | :45:56. | :46:27. | |
APPLAUSE Throughout the week at Queen's Cilic | :46:28. | :46:34. | |
was hitting his forehand so aggressively, so perfectly. Perhaps | :46:35. | :46:38. | |
doesn't quite have that same confidence at the moment. That was | :46:39. | :46:42. | |
the joint longest rally of the match at 11 strokes. Still a break point | :46:43. | :46:51. | |
for the Croatian. This time, Muller finds a first serve. | :46:52. | :46:57. | |
APPLAUSE UMPIRE: Deuce. | :46:58. | :47:38. | |
COMMENTATOR: Oh, he's missed another straight-forward backhand. He can't | :47:39. | :47:44. | |
believe it. Yeah, it was very short. Oh, I see, | :47:45. | :48:00. | |
he tried the old lob wedge drop shot. Cilic-dipped it. | :48:01. | :48:12. | |
APPLAUSE Muller gets himself out of trouble. | :48:13. | :48:18. | |
Unbelievable strengthen of character from Gilles Muller. Is | :48:19. | :48:27. | |
UMPIRE: Three games all, fourth set. COMMENTATOR: Cilic had his chances. | :48:28. | :48:32. | |
Now, he has to put the disappointment behind him and get | :48:33. | :48:39. | |
back to serving cleanly. 26 aces in the match so far. 49 unreturned | :48:40. | :48:46. | |
serves. He has been on excellent form when serving. | :48:47. | :48:54. | |
Oh! Oh, that's going to hurt. That will sting. It's just a flesh wound! | :48:55. | :50:04. | |
This is the first serve that struck the line judge. | :50:05. | :50:14. | |
Cilic was quick to offer his apologies. | :50:15. | :50:54. | |
Very little change here on Court No 1. Service holds all round. Muller | :50:55. | :51:07. | |
next to step up at 3-4. Real pressure game, knowing if he's | :51:08. | :51:11. | |
broken, Cilic will serve for his place in the semi-final. Energy gels | :51:12. | :51:21. | |
going in. Lots of liquid as well. Finished late on Monday night, the | :51:22. | :51:24. | |
match with Nadal. Fifth sets. Had 36-hours or so to | :51:25. | :51:41. | |
recover. But now, of course, Muller up against the obvious scoreboard | :51:42. | :51:53. | |
pressure. And there's an echo around Court 1 as the Andy Murray score | :51:54. | :51:57. | |
flashed up on the scoreboard in here. So whoever wins this knows who | :51:58. | :52:05. | |
they are likely to be playing in the semi-final. That will be on Friday. | :52:06. | :52:17. | |
That will be on Centre Court. Will it be Muller or will it be Cilic? | :52:18. | :52:23. | |
Well, Cilic leads by two sets to one. On serve in the fourth. | :52:24. | :52:28. | |
Muller's turn to serve. 3-4. Delicate. | :52:29. | :53:06. | |
APPLAUSE Cilic showing his softer side there. | :53:07. | :53:13. | |
Yeah. Did a nice job of ghosting in. Got there very quickly as well. | :53:14. | :53:40. | |
Yep, Cilic had so much time to decide what to do and pick his spot | :53:41. | :54:13. | |
for the pass. Yeah. Terrific return at full | :54:14. | :54:23. | |
stretch. Muller could do nothing more than just pop it up. | :54:24. | :54:38. | |
Timely ace. 13 in total now in this match from Gilles Muller. Cilic, | :54:39. | :54:48. | |
double that. Oh! How about that from Marin Cilic? | :54:49. | :55:17. | |
APPLAUSE And that little bit of magic brings | :55:18. | :55:28. | |
Cilic a break point. And Cilic, more and more, starting to feel the | :55:29. | :55:30. | |
force. Second serve pressure here on Gilles | :55:31. | :55:41. | |
Muller. Oh, what a shot. | :55:42. | :55:58. | |
APPLAUSE Break point down. A rocket from | :55:59. | :56:04. | |
Muller. UMPIRE: Deuce. | :56:05. | :56:07. | |
COMMENTATOR: He just doesn't want to go away, does he? | :56:08. | :56:20. | |
UMPIRE: Advantage, Muller. COMMENTATOR: His volleying has been | :56:21. | :56:37. | |
so precise. Unfortunately, he will look at the one he missed at set | :56:38. | :56:43. | |
point on the third set Andrew that one. But the rest of them have been | :56:44. | :56:47. | |
sweet. He comes through another service game, saving a break point | :56:48. | :56:52. | |
along the way. Seven break points saved in this match, out of eight. | :56:53. | :56:58. | |
Thus far for Gilles Muller. You're right, he does not want to go away. | :56:59. | :57:03. | |
There's more mileage in this match. Well, the approach just didn't push | :57:04. | :57:56. | |
Cilic out of position enough. He was in good balance and ripped it. | :57:57. | :58:45. | |
Oh, that was perfecting by Gilles Muller. | :58:46. | :58:53. | |
Is there a little bit of momentum building once again for the man from | :58:54. | :59:00. | |
Luxembourg? Not happy about that miss, it was a | :59:01. | :59:24. | |
regulation forehand. UMPIRE: Mr Cilic is challenging the | :59:25. | :59:54. | |
call. Cilic thinks this might have just | :59:55. | :00:00. | |
clipped the line, but it was a correct call from the line judge. | :00:01. | :00:16. | |
Loose from Gilles Muller. Cilic a game away from a Wimbledon | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
semifinal. Muller will serve to stay in this match. Two hours and 50 | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
minutes on. The challenge for Gilles Muller is | :00:29. | :00:40. | |
that he has had just one break point since midway through the second set | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
and so the tide has well and truly turned. He did not convert that one, | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
by the way. Cilic has just pulled out some fresh | :00:48. | :01:11. | |
strings ready for this next game, looking for some extra fuel, as | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
well, from his connections. A new racket is ready to go. | :01:17. | :01:36. | |
This has been a compelling contest between these two. New balls. Hence | :01:37. | :01:46. | |
the fresh strings for Cilic. Muller serving to stay in the | :01:47. | :01:47. | |
Championships. Uh-oh. Muller's sixth double fault. | :01:48. | :02:10. | |
A tense time for his coaching team. UMPIRE: Mr Cilic is challenging the | :02:11. | :02:31. | |
call. Cilic seemed convinced it was longer and I think Muller thinks it | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
is long, he seems to be preparing for a second serve, but it was good. | :02:37. | :02:59. | |
Unbelievable reactions from Gilles Muller. He had to adjust after the | :03:00. | :03:09. | |
ball flew through the tape. So often today he has given us Johnny Mac | :03:10. | :03:18. | |
looks. He has been superb at the net. | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
Serving and volleying with unbelievable prowess, this | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
afternoon. It is a pretty impressive | :03:29. | :03:38. | |
percentage, 44 of 55. Sloppy, really, from Cilic. Muller | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
levels the scoreline again. Two hours, 54 minutes, it has been a | :03:47. | :04:47. | |
match you cannot take your eyes off for a second. | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
Unhappy with his choice of tennis balls. | :04:56. | :05:18. | |
Oh, yes, deep, perfect placement from Gilles Muller. | :05:19. | :05:32. | |
It is a very short take back on his backhand return. | :05:33. | :05:47. | |
He has missed that. Goodness me. Never got near it. Is this something | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
brewing for Gilles Muller here? UMPIRE: Time violation warning. I am | :05:54. | :06:25. | |
not surprised. That is the longest preparation we have seen from Marin | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
Cilic. He has been given the warning. | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
He needs to get this first serve in now. | :06:33. | :06:43. | |
It has dropped. A huge chunk of good fortune for Gilles Muller. Three | :06:44. | :07:03. | |
break points. Brilliant. Muller has got the break. | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
Muller will serve for the set. You have got to love this guy. He | :07:12. | :08:03. | |
just keeps fighting. He keeps fighting and keeps believing. He has | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
got to be fatigued now. Some part of him must be thinking a long way | :08:10. | :08:21. | |
back. To win these last two sets, but that voice, wherever it is has | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
been told, countless times, shut up, I am not having any of that. But he | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
keeps plugging away. Perhaps a touch of luck in the last return game, but | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
heap are -- he parlayed it. Just under three hours since this | :08:39. | :09:01. | |
match began. It deserves a final set. As Gilles Muller prepares to | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
serve for set number four. The Muller fans, on Centre Court, | :09:09. | :09:29. | |
are aroused again. He made a name for himself on the evening of the | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
marathon win over Rafael Nadal. The 15th ace for the 16th seed, who | :09:32. | :09:51. | |
is two points away from levelling this match. | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
UMPIRE: Let, first service. Exactly three hours since this | :09:55. | :10:32. | |
quarterfinal began and Gilles Muller has earned himself three set points. | :10:33. | :10:56. | |
Cilic is not finished with this set just yet. That first serve, it was | :10:57. | :11:39. | |
not the most powerful delivery he has shown today. That one just slid | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
in to make sure he made it. Will he serve and volley here? | :11:46. | :12:06. | |
We are into a fifth. They courageous fightback from Gilles Muller. And | :12:07. | :12:17. | |
this quarterfinal is going the distance. I think we have to chalk | :12:18. | :12:27. | |
it up to Muller's fighting instincts. He is going off to take a | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
break for a moment. First serves, dipped a bit. 63%. | :12:35. | :12:50. | |
Very respectable. Again winning the majority of his first serve points. | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
Cilic had four break points in the fourth set and failed to convert any | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
of them. And that was the difference. | :13:05. | :13:17. | |
Unbelievable self belief for Gilles Muller. He has put these guys | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
through the mill. He did the same on Monday, Wednesday afternoon, and a | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
repeat performance, we are into a decider. Muller comes within a set | :13:30. | :13:41. | |
of his first Grand Slam semifinal. He is going to make them wait. Marin | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
Cilic has wrapped himself in a towel to keep himself warm. It is not the | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
hottest day of the Championships, it is a little cooler this afternoon. | :13:54. | :14:04. | |
But still very comfortable for all concerned, spectators and players | :14:05. | :14:13. | |
alike. The sun has gone in and out. It is a bit hazy at the moment. But | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
the perfect environment for a deciding set. Will it be another | :14:19. | :14:28. | |
15-13 epic? The odds are against that, but... I think the chance for | :14:29. | :14:37. | |
a cliffhanger are pretty good. In 2012, Cilic played the second | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
longest men's singles match in Wimbledon history. We know the | :14:42. | :14:50. | |
longest, of course. He went 17-15. That was in the third round to | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
defeat Sam Querrey in five hours, 31 minutes. He is used to long | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
encounters and, of course, Gilles Muller had one of those a couple of | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
days ago in his match with Rafael Nadal. We are ready for the final | :15:07. | :15:15. | |
set. The Court One crowd settling, hoping the quality will be as good | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
as it has been throughout the first four. Cilic has the honour at the | :15:22. | :15:31. | |
start of the fifth and final set. No tie-break, remember. | :15:32. | :16:11. | |
Once or twice the backhand volley has let Marin Cilic town. But that | :16:12. | :16:19. | |
one was good enough. Muller climbed all over that short | :16:20. | :16:53. | |
second serve. He is not afraid to go for his shots. If the ball sits | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
there for him, he will take it on happily. | :16:58. | :17:26. | |
Muller did a lot of running during this point. Controlled from behind | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
the Cilic baseline. First game of the final set is a | :17:34. | :17:47. | |
service holds. I think we will see more and more in this final set, | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
Muller trying to shorten rallies and trying to be the aggressor. He does | :17:53. | :18:03. | |
not want to allow Cilic to move him side to side to side, as happened in | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
that last game. Cilic's turned to do some running. | :18:06. | :18:56. | |
East and west across his baseline. Three hours and eight minutes for | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
this match so far. Muller's legs have got to be feeling it. For hours | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
and 48 minutes on Monday, his victory over Rafa Nadal. | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
A terrific return. The serve exactly where Muller hope to put it. You | :19:14. | :19:25. | |
see, it came off the frame a bit, which pushed it closer to the line. | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
That was his 65th winner, 15 more than Muller. A good serve and a good | :19:34. | :19:43. | |
return. Now, Cilic is making a serious move. | :19:44. | :19:52. | |
That return was sent dipping towards Muller's tennis shoes. | :19:53. | :20:13. | |
Oh, fantastic! Well, the majority of the crowd are here supporting Gilles | :20:14. | :20:49. | |
Muller. But they had to applaud this little bit of genius from the | :20:50. | :20:59. | |
Croatian. The serve came in at 121. His quickest today was 122, so it is | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
more a case of Cilic getting in his eye, than Muller waning at this | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
point. UMPIRE: Mr Cilic is challenging the | :21:11. | :21:49. | |
call. I think it is a double fault. I think Cilic is already preparing | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
for the next point. That is his 100th ace of the | :21:52. | :22:08. | |
tournament. Muller can sense an opportunity. He | :22:09. | :23:43. | |
may be a break down, but mentally, he still believes. Still contesting | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
every point. Cilic produces ace number 29 in the | :23:50. | :24:07. | |
match. 101 for the tournament. Total points won. 137 plays 140. That is | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
how tight it has been. Cilic rubber-stamps the earlier | :24:12. | :24:20. | |
break. It is a bright, sunny afternoon in | :24:21. | :24:47. | |
Wimbledon now. The Centre Court roof has remained open. It was shut | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
yesterday for the first time during the Championships. You can see the | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
alleyways between the outside courts teeming with ground pass holders, | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
looking at some of the doubles and mixed doubles and the juniors. In | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
all the various walkways and stairwells that link between Centre | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
Court, the members' area and TV centre and then become to the north | :25:15. | :25:15. | |
end Number One Court, which is mid restoration. It will look like a | :25:16. | :25:34. | |
mini version of Centre Court when the roof is attached. It will be | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
ready in 2019 to keep the rain off and to ensure there are two courts | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
in use during the two weeks of the Championships. Cilic was just asking | :25:47. | :25:57. | |
Muller to wait. It is a long way back from here. | :25:58. | :26:25. | |
Stunning. He is on top of things now. That ground stroke did the | :26:26. | :26:38. | |
damage. Muller could do nothing more than drop short and see you later. | :26:39. | :26:47. | |
That is where they challenge, isn't it? I thought it could have been on | :26:48. | :27:00. | |
the line. We will see. It was just under the umpire's chair. There was | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
no overrule from Mr Garner. Painfully close. | :27:07. | :27:16. | |
That is why he is the lines man we are not. | :27:17. | :27:44. | |
Solid serving will stop just making sure of finding the target. 109 mph. | :27:45. | :28:26. | |
A misjudgement from Muller. Break point for Cilic to give him a 4-0 | :28:27. | :28:34. | |
lead. It was too long again and it is 4- | :28:35. | :29:18. | |
02 Cilic. The roar from the Croatian emphasised that, making Muller feel | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
even worse about how this final set has unfolded. Clearly, winning the | :29:23. | :29:24. | |
first set was Muller's last hurrah. This time going for the winners, | :29:25. | :29:41. | |
knowing that he does not have the legs to last into many rallies from | :29:42. | :29:42. | |
here on. Cilic almost there. 4-0. We have | :29:43. | :29:59. | |
talked about Muller's incredible mental resilience, but right now, he | :30:00. | :30:03. | |
has checked out of here. Surely there is no way back? | :30:04. | :30:13. | |
No way back assuming Cilic doesn't open the door. Of course Muller's | :30:14. | :30:19. | |
going to hang around and hope his opponent starts donating a few | :30:20. | :30:22. | |
errors, but it certainly doesn't look as though that's a possibility. | :30:23. | :30:31. | |
He keeps sending down the aces. 31 in the match. | :30:32. | :31:25. | |
Effortless power, with no real pressure from Marin Cilic. 127mph. | :31:26. | :31:40. | |
0-5. Yeah. We thought coming into this match that Gilles Muller would | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
need to get off to a good start. Would need perhaps to win it in | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
straight-sets. He did get off to a superb start. Had two break points | :31:50. | :32:00. | |
in the second set to go up 2-0. He wasn't able to capitalise on either | :32:01. | :32:04. | |
of those, and the match turned. Cilic started to gain a foothold. | :32:05. | :32:12. | |
When he won the second set and then the third, it always looked to be | :32:13. | :32:23. | |
rough sledding for this man. Well, he'll look back on his Wimbledon, | :32:24. | :32:28. | |
I'm sure, once the dust has settled, with pride. Particularly with the | :32:29. | :32:32. | |
win over Rafael Nadal. That was on Monday evening. He's had a fine | :32:33. | :32:43. | |
year, the best year of his career. 34 years old, father-of-two. -- 24. | :32:44. | :32:50. | |
Many more years ahead of him, I'm sure, but it's looking 99% likely it | :32:51. | :32:56. | |
will be Marin Cilic off to face Sam Querrey in the semi-final as Muller | :32:57. | :33:01. | |
prepares to serve to stay in the championships. 2-2, 0-5 in the | :33:02. | :33:05. | |
fifth. I wonder how many betting slips are | :33:06. | :33:19. | |
out there that show Querrey v Cilic in the semi-finals? A bit like | :33:20. | :33:22. | |
winning the Lottery. Tired looking shot from Gilles | :33:23. | :33:59. | |
Muller. No surprise, three-and-a-half hours almost out | :34:00. | :34:02. | |
here today. Nearly five hours on Monday night. | :34:03. | :34:40. | |
Muller will hope to win this service game and look... Make the scoreboard | :34:41. | :34:53. | |
look a little less untidy. UMPIRE: Game, Muller. New balls | :34:54. | :35:10. | |
please. COMMENTATOR: New balls for Marin | :35:11. | :35:16. | |
Cilic, he will serve for the match. UMPIRE: Cilic leads 5-1, final set. | :35:17. | :35:25. | |
COMMENTATOR: It's been a fine contest, much to enjoy. Gilles | :35:26. | :35:30. | |
Muller made his name here at Wimbledon on Monday night, many | :35:31. | :35:33. | |
occasional tennis watchers won't have known too much about him, but | :35:34. | :35:37. | |
would have been impressed by the way he overcame Rafael Nadal and were | :35:38. | :35:44. | |
here to watch and support him. But it's just about over, as Cilic with | :35:45. | :35:53. | |
new balls prepares to serve for a place in the Wimbledon semi-finals. | :35:54. | :36:24. | |
Another 11 stroke rally. That's still the longest number of shots in | :36:25. | :36:39. | |
the match so far. Yeah, hoping just to put it past Cilic, but from that | :36:40. | :36:42. | |
far behind the baseline, unlikely. COMMENTATOR: Strong from Muller. | :36:43. | :36:52. | |
APPLAUSE All Cilic could do was stand and | :36:53. | :37:36. | |
stare as this forehand went flying past. | :37:37. | :37:59. | |
131mph on the serve. No sign of tired shoulders from Marin Cilic, | :38:00. | :38:07. | |
he's still sending them in thick and fast. | :38:08. | :38:10. | |
32 aces in the match. 64 unreturned serves. | :38:11. | :38:20. | |
And a few double faults along the way. That's his ninth. | :38:21. | :38:35. | |
Ha, ha, ha! APPLAUSE | :38:36. | :39:13. | |
Wry smile on the face of Gilles Muller's coach. He wants to extend | :39:14. | :39:17. | |
the life of this contest a little further and has a break point. | :39:18. | :39:30. | |
UMPIRE: Deuce. COMMENTATOR: Ace number 33 deals | :39:31. | :39:34. | |
with that. Body serve. Muller's tired legs | :39:35. | :40:10. | |
couldn't get out of the way quick enough. So after three hours and 29 | :40:11. | :40:23. | |
minutes, on Court No. 1, Marin Cilic has match point. | :40:24. | :40:32. | |
Cilic is in the Wimbledon semi-finals! CHEERING | :40:33. | :40:44. | |
Gilles Muller's championship odyssey, which included victory over | :40:45. | :40:51. | |
Rafael Nadal and in four hours and 48 minutes, ends here at the hands | :40:52. | :40:56. | |
of the number seven seed. They are on their feet around Court 1. Cilic | :40:57. | :41:05. | |
will play Querrey in the Wimbledon semi-final. | :41:06. | :41:09. | |
APPLAUSE Yeah, we thought the way Cilic | :41:10. | :41:13. | |
played at Queen's, just a couple of weeks ago, that he might be a real | :41:14. | :41:19. | |
threat to go far in this event, and so it has proved. He has been, well, | :41:20. | :41:27. | |
rock solid from the baseline, behind serve. He's sprayed together enough | :41:28. | :41:34. | |
winning returns to be dangerous and, well, he must be the favourite in | :41:35. | :41:45. | |
Friday's semi-final. Cilic gifting his match towel to one of the | :41:46. | :41:49. | |
spectators, somebody who was in the front row o. I'm not sure if that | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
was a friend or somebody who was very supportive of him throughout | :41:55. | :42:00. | |
that match. Gilles Muller, they are both true gentleman these guys. | :42:01. | :42:04. | |
Muller rightly waiting for Cilic to pack his bags. They will walk off | :42:05. | :42:08. | |
court together. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Gilles Muller | :42:09. | :42:16. | |
has won an awful lot of admirers during his ten days at the | :42:17. | :42:22. | |
Championships. I think once he's got over the disappointment of the loss, | :42:23. | :42:28. | |
will look back favourably at his visit to Wimbledon in 2017. Marin | :42:29. | :42:34. | |
Cilic stops to sign all the tennis balls and programmes that are | :42:35. | :42:38. | |
offered to him on his way out of the court. What a year it's been for | :42:39. | :42:52. | |
Gilles Muller. Two tournament wins, Wimbledon quarter-finalist. They've | :42:53. | :43:00. | |
had excellent value for theirkm number 1 Court tickets together with | :43:01. | :43:07. | |
Novak Djokovic still to come against Tomas Berdych. Excellent day of | :43:08. | :43:11. | |
tennis out here. 3 hours and 30 minutes. It was a really enjoyable | :43:12. | :43:18. | |
match on quarter-finals day. It has been won by | :43:19. | :43:27. | |
He's talking now. You are through to the semi-final for the first time, | :43:28. | :43:39. | |
what does it mean? It means a lot. Amazing achievement. Three times | :43:40. | :43:43. | |
getting stuck and this is just amazing achievement of course. Today | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
was a really hard-fought battle. Gilles Muller played great tennis, | :43:49. | :43:53. | |
serving unbelievable today. I had to work hard until the end of the third | :43:54. | :43:56. | |
set to get a first break. I think it was just a couple of points deciding | :43:57. | :44:00. | |
the match. Really glad that I pulled it. You let out a roar and a scream | :44:01. | :44:04. | |
at the end of the match. Looked up to your team at the box. What were | :44:05. | :44:08. | |
you feeling at the moment? I was obviously focused really mentally to | :44:09. | :44:14. | |
get it over with. I mean, especially when thes matches are long you have | :44:15. | :44:18. | |
to keep your focus. It was a relief to finally do it. You lost the first | :44:19. | :44:22. | |
set, that was the first set you dropped at the tournament so far. | :44:23. | :44:25. | |
How did you gather yourself up for a fightback? Well, I kept my coolness. | :44:26. | :44:31. | |
Oil obviously played well until today and I knew that I'm going to | :44:32. | :44:37. | |
get in a good rit am. In the first set I wasn't serving as good as in | :44:38. | :44:41. | |
those first couple of matches. Gilles Muller returned well at the | :44:42. | :44:44. | |
beginning of the match. I tried to gather my thoughts and continue to | :44:45. | :44:49. | |
play good tennis. Were you aware of what was happening on Centre Court, | :44:50. | :44:52. | |
did you see the scoreboard to know what was happening in the Sam | :44:53. | :44:56. | |
Querrey v Andy Murray match? I saw at the end of the match that Sam | :44:57. | :45:01. | |
won, 6-1 in the fifth. Amazing achievement also for him. Definitely | :45:02. | :45:06. | |
great for both of us to reach the semis. You two of course played the | :45:07. | :45:11. | |
second longest match in men's history at Wimbledon, was it five | :45:12. | :45:15. | |
years ago, what can we expect in the semi-final? Hopefully not the | :45:16. | :45:21. | |
longest one EVER! Definitely Sam has amazing serve and plays really well, | :45:22. | :45:25. | |
especially this season. He had a lot of success and it will be a hard | :45:26. | :45:30. | |
one, tough one. I will get ready and back into my rhythm and try and play | :45:31. | :45:34. | |
good tennis. Good luck in that match. Well done today. Thank you. | :45:35. | :45:38. | |
SUE BARKER: I can tell you what we can expect a lot of aces and tie | :45:39. | :45:43. | |
breaks as Cilic takes on Querrey. He served 33 aces today, Marin Cilic. | :45:44. | :45:47. | |
I'm sure when he saw that scoreboard go over he felt this was a huge | :45:48. | :45:51. | |
opportunity. Look at that reaction when he won. The last four years at | :45:52. | :45:55. | |
Wimbledon he has lost in the last eight. He is through to his first | :45:56. | :46:02. | |
Wimbledon semi-final. In the centre of your picture he has been working | :46:03. | :46:05. | |
with imhad on the grass-court season telling him to be more aggressive, | :46:06. | :46:08. | |
go forward, he can win on this surface. He proved it there today. | :46:09. | :46:13. | |
He is through to the semi-final. Through to face Sam Querrey. That | :46:14. | :46:19. | |
will be on Friday. Talking of that match. We can show you what | :46:20. | :46:24. | |
happened. Here is Sam Querrey, match point, it was 6-1 in the fifth and | :46:25. | :46:30. | |
final set. That wasn't the story. Andy Murray hobbles up towards the | :46:31. | :46:33. | |
net. It went wrong for Murray in the third set. He couldn't move. He | :46:34. | :46:39. | |
couldn't push off. Serving serves about 80mph, 90mph. But don't take | :46:40. | :46:43. | |
anything away from Sam Querrey because he stayed focused. He played | :46:44. | :46:47. | |
a good all court game. He hit the big serves down when it mattered. He | :46:48. | :46:52. | |
has won and through to his first Wimbledon semi-final. Well done to | :46:53. | :46:57. | |
Sam Querrey. His first Grand Slam semi-final. A huge achievement for | :46:58. | :47:02. | |
him as well. After the match, he spoke to Lee about it. Slayer of | :47:03. | :47:08. | |
Wimbledon champions, last year it was Novak Djokovic, this time Andy | :47:09. | :47:12. | |
Murray. What an incredible performance, congratulations? Thank | :47:13. | :47:16. | |
you. I'm in shock myself. It the last point I was happy to hit the | :47:17. | :47:20. | |
serve. I'm thrilled right now. Andy took the first set in 28 minutes. He | :47:21. | :47:24. | |
looked like he was in discomfort after that, you never looked out of | :47:25. | :47:28. | |
it. You played incredibly well. What ultimately was the difference out | :47:29. | :47:31. | |
there today? You know, I didn't start my best, I kept with it. Kept | :47:32. | :47:36. | |
swinging away and found a groove in the fourth and fifth set. Everything | :47:37. | :47:41. | |
fell my way. You are the first American through to the semi-finals | :47:42. | :47:46. | |
of any Grand Slam since Roddick in 2009, how special does it feel that | :47:47. | :47:50. | |
you are the man to have done that? It feels great. It's a dream come | :47:51. | :47:56. | |
true. To be in the semi-finals and be at Wimbledon makes it even more | :47:57. | :47:59. | |
special. Important to enjoy the moment but not dwell on it too much, | :48:00. | :48:07. | |
in less than 24-hours you will be in your first Grand Slam semi-final. | :48:08. | :48:13. | |
Cilic and Muller are still fighting it out. What has been your biggest | :48:14. | :48:18. | |
moment? I will enjoy this longer and do the best I can to get ready for | :48:19. | :48:24. | |
the semis. Congratulations. SUE BARKER: Querrey into the | :48:25. | :48:39. | |
semi-finals on Court No1. , there will be Djokovic and Berdych. On | :48:40. | :48:46. | |
Centre Court, Federer leads 4 of-3. That is on BBC One. That match is | :48:47. | :48:50. | |
over on BBC One. Federer going well on Centre Court. Of course the big | :48:51. | :48:55. | |
story here at Wimbledon, Andy Murray is out. I talked about the hip | :48:56. | :48:59. | |
going. He was limping through the last three matches lost. The last | :49:00. | :49:07. | |
sets in less than hour. He went to his press conference. He spoke to | :49:08. | :49:13. | |
Claire. I'm sorry about that. I know you will want to pay due credit to | :49:14. | :49:17. | |
Sam Querrey and how he played out there? Yeah. I think, you know, it | :49:18. | :49:26. | |
was a tight match. The first few sets, you know, I had some | :49:27. | :49:28. | |
opportunities in the second set up at break. You know, Sam started to | :49:29. | :49:33. | |
play better as the match went on. He served, he served big. You know, he | :49:34. | :49:39. | |
was a lot more aggressive, you know, especially on the return games. I | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
think because he was serving better and getting more free points on | :49:44. | :49:47. | |
serve he was able to loosen up and go for shots a little bit more. And, | :49:48. | :49:55. | |
yeah, he dictated pretty much most of the match from the end of the | :49:56. | :49:58. | |
second set. So on the one side he is starting to play better and move | :49:59. | :50:03. | |
better on the other side you are starting to move with in theable | :50:04. | :50:06. | |
restriction. When did you first start to feel pain and lack of power | :50:07. | :50:14. | |
on your serve? I mean, look, I spoke about it before the tournament, my | :50:15. | :50:18. | |
hip has been sore most of the event. It was just, yeah, it was just it | :50:19. | :50:23. | |
was a little bit too sore today. At the end I was obviously struggling a | :50:24. | :50:27. | |
bit on serve. When you are playing a guy who serves huge himself and then | :50:28. | :50:32. | |
you are not getting many free points on your own serve, it's very | :50:33. | :50:36. | |
difficult - you're not dictating many of the rallies and then having | :50:37. | :50:40. | |
to do more and more moving. That was tough at the end. If it hadn't of | :50:41. | :50:46. | |
been Wimbledon, a normal tournament, would you have skipped it? I think | :50:47. | :50:50. | |
if it was any slam I would have... I gave myself a great chance to get to | :50:51. | :50:54. | |
the semis, I had an opportunity to, you know, win the match in | :50:55. | :50:57. | |
straight-sets today. I was up a set and break. Unfortunately didn't get | :50:58. | :51:02. | |
that. But, yeah, look I was obviously in good enough shape to | :51:03. | :51:06. | |
give myself a chance to go very deep in the tournament and, you know, | :51:07. | :51:11. | |
almost managed to get through to today. Any slam I would have, you | :51:12. | :51:16. | |
know, I would have taken that compared with, you know, how I was | :51:17. | :51:20. | |
feeling a few weeks ago before the tournament started. I would have | :51:21. | :51:24. | |
been out there for a slam, for sure. What is the plan now, in terms of | :51:25. | :51:29. | |
treatment and giving yourself time to get back to top shape? I sit down | :51:30. | :51:39. | |
with my team tomorrow and see, you know, obviously the US Open is six, | :51:40. | :51:43. | |
seven weeks away. So there's time there. So I'll sit down with my team | :51:44. | :51:50. | |
and come up with the best plan of action, you know whether that's | :51:51. | :51:56. | |
taking a bit of a rest, you know, or not we will have to wait and see. We | :51:57. | :52:02. | |
will do that tomorrow. It was a brave defence, I'm sorry it's over. | :52:03. | :52:05. | |
Thank you. SUE BARKER: Yes it didn't work out, | :52:06. | :52:10. | |
did, it the hip injury we talked about it the first week. It got a | :52:11. | :52:14. | |
lot worse today. He has a lot of time to recover now. I think it will | :52:15. | :52:18. | |
be quite some time before we see him back on a tennis court. They are | :52:19. | :52:22. | |
tricky injuries to get right. That is the big story here at | :52:23. | :52:27. | |
Wimbledon. The play goes on. On the outside courts. This third round | :52:28. | :52:33. | |
match in the Mixed Doubles on Court 2. Peers and Lisicki unseeded | :52:34. | :52:41. | |
against Demoliner and Martinez Sanchez. That will is our feature | :52:42. | :52:45. | |
match on the Red Button. What a shot that was. A couple of | :52:46. | :53:07. | |
results and news that Kuznetsova and Mladenovic have gone out. An upset | :53:08. | :53:12. | |
out on Court 12. No problems for the number two seed. That is what | :53:13. | :53:44. | |
happened on the outside courts. British hopes rest on Jo Konta on | :53:45. | :53:51. | |
court tomorrow to face Venus Williams. Let's look back to | :53:52. | :53:56. | |
yesterday and the epic match she won on Centre Court. It's a very special | :53:57. | :54:05. | |
day for Johanna Konta. Is it's extra special for British tennis fans. | :54:06. | :54:09. | |
They have waited 3 p years to be able to say that one of their own is | :54:10. | :54:16. | |
in the quarter-finals. Whenever you engage in one of these Titanic | :54:17. | :54:21. | |
tussles you always seem to have the belief. Wow! That's her trademark. | :54:22. | :54:27. | |
My trust in my own ability has got to be there. With situations and | :54:28. | :54:39. | |
moments like this it's more from experience than what I believe in | :54:40. | :54:44. | |
what I can a and cannot do. I have believed in my ability but I had to | :54:45. | :54:50. | |
have experience and time. Konta has to come from behind to win. I go | :54:51. | :54:56. | |
into every tournament, including the championships here in Wimbledon, to | :54:57. | :54:59. | |
be involved in the event until the very end. But I'm fully aware that | :55:00. | :55:06. | |
every single match I get to play will be a testing one and will | :55:07. | :55:10. | |
challenge me. Most standing. Look at that. Somehow Johanna Konta has | :55:11. | :55:18. | |
forced a final set. I don't take anything for granted. I demand of | :55:19. | :55:22. | |
myself my best effort and I demand of myself my full commitment to what | :55:23. | :55:26. | |
I do and then to make sure I prepare well. I do the best that I can out | :55:27. | :55:27. | |
there. # I rise up | :55:28. | :55:42. | |
# I rise unafraid # I rise up | :55:43. | :55:49. | |
# And I would do it 1,000 times again... . # | :55:50. | :55:54. | |
British tennis history is made. Winning that quarter-final match | :55:55. | :55:59. | |
means that you will be in the Top 5 of the women's rankings when they | :56:00. | :56:04. | |
are out next week. . I didn't know about that! OK. Thank you. | :56:05. | :56:10. | |
Congratulations. Thank you. When you add up these achievements do you pat | :56:11. | :56:15. | |
yourself on the back and go - well done? I don't... It's difficult | :56:16. | :56:23. | |
because, I guess, in both in the position we are in tennis things | :56:24. | :56:28. | |
move quickly. Before you know it the championships will be over and it's | :56:29. | :56:33. | |
the next event next week. Because thing are so fast moving it's almost | :56:34. | :56:39. | |
an art to reflect well and to acknowledge the good things that you | :56:40. | :56:43. | |
do. Actually it's something I work on to make sure I acknowledge the | :56:44. | :56:47. | |
good things I'm doing. I'll let you know after Wimbledon how my pat on | :56:48. | :56:56. | |
the back went, OK. SUE BARKER: She remained very | :56:57. | :57:05. | |
focused. Came tricky matches. She will be up against Venus Williams | :57:06. | :57:10. | |
and first on court is Garbine Muguruza, finalist here two years | :57:11. | :57:14. | |
ago against Magdalena Rybarikova. So many injuries out from the Tour | :57:15. | :57:17. | |
until February this year. She came back and through to her first Grand | :57:18. | :57:22. | |
Slam semi-final. Johanna Konta, what a story it is. She has improved and | :57:23. | :57:28. | |
improved with every year that went by. She hired a sports | :57:29. | :57:35. | |
psychologists. A lot of credit goes to her coach, who she has been with | :57:36. | :57:40. | |
for about a year now. He has certainly a lot of pedigrees. | :57:41. | :57:46. | |
Coached some of the best of the past. Let's's hear from Jo coach. He | :57:47. | :57:57. | |
has been talking to Jonathan. -- Jo's. | :57:58. | :58:01. | |
It's over. British tennis history is made. It's been 39 years since a | :58:02. | :58:11. | |
British woman can say, I'm a Wimbledon semi-finalist. What a | :58:12. | :58:16. | |
moment, a Wimbledon semi-final against a five-time champion for | :58:17. | :58:20. | |
your player. How exciting is it? It's very exciting moment in my | :58:21. | :58:25. | |
coaching career as well. Yeah. This is where we want to be. This is what | :58:26. | :58:30. | |
we're training for. Yeah, I believe it's going to be a fantastic match. | :58:31. | :58:35. | |
Let us look ahead. Venus Williams, 20 years ago she first played the | :58:36. | :58:40. | |
main draw at Wimbledon. One of the great stories of the sport, isn't | :58:41. | :58:44. | |
it, here she is in another semi-final? Yeah. Fantastic to play | :58:45. | :58:51. | |
against Venus now. Venus has a successful year this year. Where she | :58:52. | :58:55. | |
is playing she has had very good results. This will be a very big | :58:56. | :59:03. | |
test for Johanna. Semi-final Wimbledon, playing Venus Williams, | :59:04. | :59:09. | |
can't get much better. We know about Venus' strengths, they are obvious. | :59:10. | :59:13. | |
What about the weakness? What is the area to target? I don't think we can | :59:14. | :59:18. | |
speak about a weakness, a player like Venus doesn't have a weakness. | :59:19. | :59:24. | |
It's a few patterns. On big points few things we can expect. For | :59:25. | :59:28. | |
Johanna important to focus on her own strength. When you got the call | :59:29. | :59:33. | |
and the opportunity to coach Johanna Konta, did you believe then that | :59:34. | :59:37. | |
success at Wimbledon was possible? Yeah. Absolutely. I saw a great | :59:38. | :59:43. | |
athlete, that's for sure. I saw someone who was very professional | :59:44. | :59:49. | |
and very dedicated. I saw someone with a big presence on court, like | :59:50. | :59:54. | |
not afraid to fail or not afraid to lose. Some people have suggested | :59:55. | :59:58. | |
perhaps she could embrace the crowd a little bit more because it is such | :59:59. | :00:03. | |
an advantage having 15,000 people right behind you. Is that, for you, | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
an issue or would you rather her just carry on what she is doing? | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
It's notten issue, it's just - one thing is for sure she is enjoying | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
the support and feels energy from the crowd, that is for sure. She | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
probably is not expressing it as much as maybe people would like her | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
to do, but it's... She's still young in her career and it's something | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
that needs a bit of time for her, I think. But, yeah, she's very | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
comfortable in the zone where she is right now. At this moment I would | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
like her to stay in that zone. Is it possible that she'll be in the | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Wimbledon final on Saturday? For sure it's possible. 50/50 against | :00:48. | :00:57. | |
Venus. She has to play a good match. Unfortunately, we are also depending | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
on the level of Venus. Yeah, I give her a chance. She has to believe in | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
herself. I do believe in her and her team believes in her. So... What | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
will your final message be to her when she makes the walk from the | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
locker room to the court? Enjoy it. SUE BARKER: We will certainly enjoy | :01:13. | :01:24. | |
it. It promises to be a fantastic match, Venus against Jo Konta. She | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
has done well against the big servers here at Wimbledon already. | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
Huge occasion for Jo Konta tomorrow, second on centre. On Centre Court at | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
the moment, somebody who knows all about the big occasion. Playing | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
there is Roger Federer. Just a few moments ago, he is Roger with two | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
set points against last year's Ron-Robert Zieler Milos Raonic. What | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
a way to finish it off! -- runner up, Milos Raonic. That was just a | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
short time ago. As we go back live now, Roger has just broken Raonic in | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
the first game of the second set. Very much going his way on Centre | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
Court. That match is now live over on BBC One. But here we're going to | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
head over to quote number two for another of the men's quarterfinals, | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
sorry, Court Number One we're heading to four Tomas Berdych | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
against Novak Djokovic. The head-to-head is very much in favour | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
of Novak Djokovic. 25-2, and he has won the last 12. But there was a | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
worry about his shoulder. He had to be treated on court three times | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
yesterday against Mannarino. We have to keep an eye out and see if that | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
injury is OK. A three-time winner here. He is on court. Let's join our | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
commentators on Court Number One, John Lloyd and John Inverdale. JOHN | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
INVERDALE: With all due respect to all concerned I think it is fair to | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
say that not too many TV executives and advertisers the world over are | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
rubbing their hands at the prospect of a last four of Querrey, Cilic, | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
and Berdych. There was a lot of pressure, whether they are aware of | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
it or not. We probably know what we're going to get from Berdych. | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
Solid, big serving, systematic, control. From Djokovic, you know, | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
are we going to get the grumpy I went to arch from yesterday calling | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
for decking to put on Court Number One? How is his fitness, mind, body | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
and game? I suppose in many ways this match and its outcome hinges on | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
him, it's in his hands. We will see how mentally he is. If he's mentally | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
strong, he wins this match, no doubt about it. | :03:54. | :04:33. | |
APPLAUSE At what point in this match can you | :04:34. | :04:43. | |
inevitably tell the foetus, like Astori? Oh, that is a great story. | :04:44. | :05:46. | |
Well, some good hitting from the Cech. | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
He's level in the list of Czech players and the number of semifinal | :05:53. | :06:02. | |
Grand Slams they've got to. He is level on six with Janko Lish. They | :06:03. | :06:11. | |
are both a long way behind Ivan Lendl, but he would overtake Janko | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
Lish if you were to get through to the rich today. A bit of running | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
repairs to the racket. -- through Djokovic today. | :06:21. | :06:50. | |
That was a very tame second serve. I was going to say, 80 mph on the | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
second serve. That's the thing we have to keep our eyes open on the | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
server just to see if that is affected on the speed on his first | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
and second. We have seen how the physical state-of-the-art weeks on | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
Centre Court, as in Andy Murray, had a major effect of the outcome on | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
that match -- physical state of the athletes. So, Berdych goes long. | :07:14. | :07:25. | |
We'll get it out the way now... It is one of the great sporting greats | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
of all time, it is a cliche, -- sporting quotes. In 1980, after | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
having lost 16 consecutive times to Jimmy Connors, Vitas Gerulaitis beat | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
him at Madison Square Garden. And he walked into the press conference | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
straight after the match clutching a huge bottle of champagne, plonked it | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
down on the desk, and said, nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 times in a | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
row! And Berdych is in a similar situation here. Is he going to say, | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
nobody beats by 13 times in a row?! That is where he sits at the moment | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
with Novak Djokovic. CROWD GASPS | :08:04. | :08:43. | |
APPLAUSE He's still looking at his racket. | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
I thought in that first game, it was tape which they sometimes put on to | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
keep the weight in certain areas, but he's got about another 20 | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
rackets in the bag, I don't know why he's worried so much. | :09:00. | :09:27. | |
The trouble is, it's at times like this we all become sort of amateur | :09:28. | :09:37. | |
doctors, don't we, and muscle surgeons and things, we're looking | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
at Djokovic and saying, how much pain is eat... In? How is his | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
movement restricted? -- how much pain is he in. | :09:48. | :10:50. | |
That was a gigantic forehand. Berdych things, I've hit a good shot | :10:51. | :11:06. | |
there. Nope! How much bearing does the win- loss | :11:07. | :11:33. | |
record between these two have on this match, do you think? Huge. On | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
both sides of the net? Both sides of the net. | :11:42. | :11:53. | |
Yes, for Novak it is about styles, the tellers match. Novak knows that | :11:54. | :12:02. | |
his style, and Berdych's style just fits perfectly for his game. On the | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
other side of the match, Berdych is thinking, my game doesn't match up | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
to well. Well, is trying not to think that. | :12:12. | :12:29. | |
And if you haven't done your research on this, let me tell you | :12:30. | :12:45. | |
that if we look at it from Berdych's point of view, played 27, won two, | :12:46. | :12:55. | |
lost 25, relegated. Definitely relegated. | :12:56. | :13:20. | |
But he's playing well! He's playing well. He beat Dominic Thiem in five | :13:21. | :13:30. | |
sets, no mean feat. He has come through a lot of matches with tight | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
sets as well. He is very, very matched height and in match form. If | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
Djokovic is remotely vulnerable today, and Berdych is an especially | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
good form to take advantage of that. Agreed. | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
I do think, though, when you talk about five set matches, you know, | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
the starting matches, the first set, it is important. But best-of-3 sets | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
is much more important. I think in this, when you have a record like | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
this, the first set for Berdych is crucial. If he loses the first set, | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
mentally that is huge. Don't forget, he has got to a final | :14:08. | :14:32. | |
here, albeit seven years ago. Djokovic, three times the winner of | :14:33. | :14:33. | |
this title, 2011, 2014 and 2015. We did a Djokovic match on Centre | :14:34. | :14:56. | |
Court yesterday when he was having a hullabaloo with the condition of the | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
court. This court looks in better nick, doesn't it? Koumba Centre | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
Court, I think it does, too. -- Van Noy the Centre Court. I don't know | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
why that would be, but it does look better. | :15:13. | :15:40. | |
Oh! Well, the Djokovic forehand seems to be working very nicely, | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
thank you. First thoughts? Well, I was just | :15:45. | :16:01. | |
looking actually to see this that's an Djokovic's first serve there. To | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
me, it looks at the moment like he's a little bit careful on the first | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
serve. He doesn't seem to be exploding on it as much. He's not | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
got a huge serve, but I was just looking at that committee seems to | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
be moving fine on the ground strokes seem pretty good. -- amber ground | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
strokes. But if he is having any problems in his shoulder, one of the | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
big things is going to be his service power. It's like rubber, the | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
way he contorts his body sometimes to hit winners. If they had had | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
gluten-free indoor day, John, you would have been like that! His | :16:40. | :16:48. | |
fastest serve at the moment is 114, only two service game, that's quite | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
a way below his fastest serve during the tournament. Whether he's just | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
warming it up, not going for it fully at the moment, we'll see. That | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
would be one interesting thing just to look for. | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
Two of the 30 somethings in the last eight of the men's draw. Five out of | :17:06. | :17:13. | |
the eight. They are 30 and over. An indication of how the sport has | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
changed in recent years. We saw it so much with Andy Murray | :17:19. | :17:48. | |
early on. If you are favouring an injury, how is it to disguise that | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
from your opponent? Well, certainly not easy if it's the serve. | :17:55. | :18:11. | |
Berdych will feel, he'll feel the power coming on the serve. And if | :18:12. | :18:21. | |
Djokovic continues to be around that pace and doesn't go up, Berdych will | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
feel like you is going to get a lot more hits off the serve, there's not | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
going to be a any free points against him, which will be an | :18:35. | :18:35. | |
encouragement. That's baked! Well played. Unless | :18:36. | :19:40. | |
something explosive happens at the start of the match... -- that's big. | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
There's always a bit of a lull at the start of the second game on a | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
big day like today, especially following the five set quarterfinals | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
we just had. We're kind of in that situation at the moment, it's a | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
little bit more than sparring, but nobody's really going for the big | :19:58. | :19:58. | |
punches here. What do you make about Berdych's | :19:59. | :21:05. | |
movement on grass? I mean, that's the weakest part of his game, isn't | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
it? His defending is not the best. But for a big man, he moves pretty | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
well. APPLAUSE | :21:15. | :21:26. | |
Well, he's been made to move there. The first ace of the match. Perhaps | :21:27. | :21:56. | |
surprisingly, from Djokovic's racket. | :21:57. | :22:15. | |
Djokovic is a great athlete, isn't he? He's like a big cat, like a | :22:16. | :22:34. | |
Jaguar or eight Shuter or something like that. Whereas Berdych is kind | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
of an antelope, really. But if you come back to the record between the | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
two of them, how much can he, sitting there, not that he would be | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
thinking about it at the moment, but in the build-up to today, how much | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
will he have told himself, seven years ago I beat this guy in | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
straight sets here at Wimbledon, and that year I got through to the | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
final? Positive thinking. Endlessly, over and over and over again. Well, | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
I think that's his coaching team, that's exactly what they will be | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
reinforcing. That match, they'll throw away all the other stuff. | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
Obviously they'll say, what you need to do, and Berdych knows that. But | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
they'll just keep pumping that into him the whole time, you have beaten | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
him and you've beaten him on grass and you can do it against point but | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
the psychological aspect is so big. That's one of the reasons why I | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
think it does help to have a great player in your camp on these type of | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
occasions, like Agassi with Djokovic. You know, a player who's | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
been there and done it, they can tell you the things the night before | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
a match, it just little details that can help you psychologically. In | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
Djokovic's case here, under no circumstances, despite that record, | :23:47. | :23:48. | |
be complacent. No, not at all. APPLAUSE | :23:49. | :24:06. | |
Well played by Berdych. It's a delicate balance for Berdych. You | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
don't want to go to for outside of your sort of comfort zone, your | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
norm, so to speak. Having said that, with the record he's got, there's a | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
tendency to think, I have too. And then you make more errors. So it's a | :24:20. | :24:20. | |
really fine balance. What word would you use to describe | :24:21. | :24:48. | |
Berdych's game? Structured, perhaps. You came up with the first word, I | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
love the word you said, but I can't remember what you said now. Very | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
similar to structured. It's so great that I've forgotten it! It was a | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
great line. I thought, yes, I'll think of it in a second. I don't | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
want to say mechanical stop. Regimented? I think that's good. | :25:10. | :25:11. | |
Systematic. Well, that's good hitting from both | :25:12. | :25:57. | |
sides until Djokovic went long. Lots of rallies like that in the match | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
against Mannarino yesterday. And invariably yesterday Djokovic came | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
out on top. Different type of shot coming at him, though, with Berdych. | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
More top-spin, bounces up higher. Mannarino is very sort of flat | :26:13. | :26:13. | |
through the court. He's playing well, very well. | :26:14. | :26:27. | |
There's also a thing called tie-breakers as well. Worst case, if | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
he can hang in to get to that, anything can happen in a | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
tie-breaker. I just feel this first set is so crucial. | :26:37. | :26:58. | |
I don't think he's hitting his serve very hard at the moment, though. | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
He's not exploding on the serve. I don't think he's hit one above is it | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
114 at the moment? 105, that second serve. That's 113. | :27:11. | :27:21. | |
He would have been warmed up by now, so... | :27:22. | :27:35. | |
Good serve. If this continues with this first serve, you will see his | :27:36. | :27:43. | |
service percentage go up, because he's going to hit its lower, if it | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
looks like it, but he'll make sure he gets almost every first serve in, | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
it will be difficult for Berdych to get ahead in the rally. | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
It might be a bit too late for this game, but a warning shot across | :27:59. | :28:14. | |
Djokovic... 86% first serves in so far. | :28:15. | :28:44. | |
APPLAUSE Well, that second serve was only 84 | :28:45. | :28:54. | |
mph. Djokovic does not look happy. I think it's stating the obvious | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
there. His body language, his facial expressions... If we look at the | :29:00. | :29:02. | |
service action, are we able to discern anything from it in terms of | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
being different to what he would normally be doing? Not really, no. | :29:08. | :29:11. | |
He is not suddenly going to develop a hit with pain. He'll just know how | :29:12. | :29:20. | |
far or how fast to snap that wrist, how much to really put the strain on | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
it. The motion is so good he can hit it at any pace he wants. If that | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
soreness is stopping him from exploding on the first serve, which | :29:30. | :29:32. | |
it looks like it is at the moment, it becomes a different game now. It | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
becomes a gain of placement, getting every first serve in. He is doing | :29:38. | :29:40. | |
that very well serve. Berdych will cotton onto that got to take more | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
chances on the return of serve than he would normally. -- start to take | :29:46. | :29:51. | |
more chances. We talk about the racket speed, that is what enables | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
people to whack it down at 130 mph like Sam Berry was doing this | :29:57. | :29:59. | |
afternoon. If you don't want to impinge on your shoulder muscles, | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
that's where he's going to go much more top-spin serves and kick us out | :30:05. | :30:08. | |
wide and things like that. That takes the whole arm absorbing the | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
pressure as opposed to that sort of snap. Absolutely. He will be nice | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
and smooth but he just went snap it is hard. Everything will be in | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
control and he won't be taking too many chances. So far he hasn't hit | :30:22. | :30:23. | |
any big serves at all. When you are in a grand slam and you | :30:24. | :30:36. | |
have a day off, you have 24-hours arrest, more treatment. -- rest. | :30:37. | :30:55. | |
Great shot. That is a superb forehand. That is strength. The ball | :30:56. | :31:06. | |
looked like it was behind him. A fantastic return of serve. Just | :31:07. | :31:07. | |
brilliant. He is striking the ball so well at | :31:08. | :31:31. | |
the moment. He hits the ball pretty fat as well. A bit of an arc on the | :31:32. | :31:38. | |
forehand. But it goes through the court so quickly when he gets a hold | :31:39. | :31:40. | |
of it properly. You might know the answer to this. | :31:41. | :32:26. | |
We had black underpants gate out the court today with one of the young | :32:27. | :32:32. | |
guys, who sent off to change his underwear because it was against the | :32:33. | :32:33. | |
clothing regulations. The first double fault of the match. | :32:34. | :32:58. | |
I am just wondering if the yellow braiding on Burdick's Sheard | :32:59. | :33:05. | |
constitutes anything? -- Berdych. Probably. The underwear rule is so | :33:06. | :33:17. | |
ridiculous. You can't even wear coloured souls on your shoes. | :33:18. | :33:26. | |
Really? Who cares? All about the brand. And this match is | :33:27. | :33:33. | |
interestingly poised at the moment. He just soaks up pressure so well, | :33:34. | :34:05. | |
Djokovic. He is a master at it. The ball flooding at him. You think he | :34:06. | :34:10. | |
is in trouble. But he gets back there and put the ball back in | :34:11. | :34:17. | |
awkward positions all the time. It is so difficult to put a ball away | :34:18. | :34:24. | |
against him. This time last year, he arrived here as Master of the tennis | :34:25. | :34:31. | |
world. Four grand Slam 's. Now he has none. What do specifically | :34:32. | :34:39. | |
attributes that to? -- what do you specifically attribute that to? I | :34:40. | :34:45. | |
think that was all in the mind. I think after winning the French and | :34:46. | :34:50. | |
completing his grand slam, he was exhausted. In retrospect, he should | :34:51. | :34:56. | |
have done what Federer did, take six months off. Literally take six | :34:57. | :35:03. | |
months off and reboot. Of course, his sponsors won't allow that. Is | :35:04. | :35:11. | |
that something you would advise Andy to-do? I think he may have no choice | :35:12. | :35:13. | |
anyway. Big blow from Berdych. Open to court | :35:14. | :35:33. | |
up. -- he opened. I'm not sure the court was to blame. I'm not sure | :35:34. | :35:42. | |
either. Of course you blame something else. You look at the sun, | :35:43. | :35:46. | |
it is windy. Djokovic had a conversation with the crowd. I'm not | :35:47. | :35:48. | |
sure about what. Djokovic driving with the handbrake | :35:49. | :36:30. | |
on. But he is still leading. And Berdych will have two serve to stay | :36:31. | :36:39. | |
in this absolutely key first set. Djokovic is managing his game well. | :36:40. | :36:43. | |
He is definitely not serving near as big as he normally does. The | :36:44. | :36:50. | |
contortions he was doing yesterday, the trainer was getting him into a | :36:51. | :36:54. | |
pretzel positions. It was very worrying at one stage. Made of | :36:55. | :37:01. | |
rubber, so it was no problem. I think his biggest serve so far today | :37:02. | :37:07. | |
is 114. Because he has, come into the match with this shoulder injury, | :37:08. | :37:14. | |
is he allowed to have a medical time-out at any stage of the match, | :37:15. | :37:19. | |
to have manipulative work on it? I don't think he is alleged. I'm not | :37:20. | :37:24. | |
up-to-date. They seem to change the rules every three months. It seems | :37:25. | :37:27. | |
strange that you wouldn't be able to. At all these matters we keep | :37:28. | :37:40. | |
showing pictures of the boxes, the coaches, the girlfriends and the | :37:41. | :37:43. | |
families. In many ways it is easier being on the court. Up there you are | :37:44. | :37:56. | |
utterly helpless. The coaches can signal a bit. That is a very, very | :37:57. | :38:06. | |
calm Prensa rally from Berdych. That's Makombe Prensa. Even here, | :38:07. | :38:13. | |
Djokovic had no right to get that back. That is why he is so annoying | :38:14. | :38:19. | |
to play against. That was an easy ball. But its tires you out | :38:20. | :38:22. | |
eventually when they keep coming back at you. If you hit that hard, | :38:23. | :38:35. | |
it doesn't matter. I think he is deciding that he anything inside the | :38:36. | :38:40. | |
baseline he will try to do some severe damage to Djokovic, not | :38:41. | :38:43. | |
allowing the chance to do anything with the ball. Does Berdych want | :38:44. | :38:55. | |
short, sharp rallies? He is not the sort of player who takes silly | :38:56. | :38:58. | |
chances. But I think he will try to impose himself more than normal. He | :38:59. | :39:11. | |
will take ours like that all day from the Djokovic rally. I'm waiting | :39:12. | :39:20. | |
for Djokovic to have the first explosion like he did yesterday. | :39:21. | :39:24. | |
When he got verbal. He hasn't looked that way today. He has looked a | :39:25. | :39:31. | |
little bit flat. Yeah, that shook him from his lethargy. | :39:32. | :39:53. | |
Straightforward enough for Berdych. Five apiece. Novak right in front of | :39:54. | :40:10. | |
our commentary position. Shaking his head in that sort of, I'm not quite | :40:11. | :40:16. | |
sure what is going on here, kind of way. I don't know how I can impose | :40:17. | :40:20. | |
myself on this match any more than I can do at the moment. I know the | :40:21. | :40:37. | |
word. Quizzical. I'm going to write that one down, two! -- too. | :40:38. | :41:27. | |
There was the reaction after he missed the forehand, where he | :41:28. | :41:34. | |
straightened his arm. He was in a little pain. Ten unforced error is | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
in this set from Djokovic. They have all been similar shots. | :41:40. | :42:02. | |
Got it! He didn't do enough, did he? But still, a fabulous passing shot | :42:03. | :42:15. | |
from Berdych. Tuck shot from Djokovic. Studied right back to him. | :42:16. | :42:26. | |
A big point here. -- he stabbed it right back at him. | :42:27. | :42:56. | |
We keep saying that this first set could be absolutely key in | :42:57. | :43:03. | |
determining the outcome of this match, in which case Berdych may | :43:04. | :43:07. | |
live to regret that error at the end of that longest rally of the match | :43:08. | :43:09. | |
so far. And that one. So Djokovic hangs on, | :43:10. | :43:27. | |
which sounds ridiculous to say because he is leading 6-5. But you | :43:28. | :43:35. | |
almost feel like he is a wounded animal. There is no question his | :43:36. | :43:41. | |
serve is struggling. Having said that, I was just thinking, Berdych | :43:42. | :43:46. | |
might prefer him to go for first serves. It might push his first | :43:47. | :43:54. | |
serves down. They are firm enough in the corners that Berdych cannot | :43:55. | :43:58. | |
attack it. If he had some second serves to go out, perhaps he would | :43:59. | :44:02. | |
have a chance to get in the rally. At the moment Djokovic is managing | :44:03. | :44:10. | |
serve immaculately. Isn't that the virtue of being somebody who has | :44:11. | :44:13. | |
been there and done its money times before? There would have been so | :44:14. | :44:18. | |
many matches the former Djokovic has been injured, whether it is his | :44:19. | :44:23. | |
shoulder, hip, arm, leg. And he has had to manage that situation. There | :44:24. | :44:30. | |
is not one player in the draw who is 100% fit at the start or at the end. | :44:31. | :44:38. | |
It is all about that arm. The upper reaches of the arm. For the moment | :44:39. | :44:47. | |
it is all about Berdych. Serving to take us into a tie-break, if he can. | :44:48. | :45:15. | |
You never know. I saw Sam Querrey miss one from that position against | :45:16. | :45:20. | |
Andy Murray today. Djokovic rooted to the spot at the | :45:21. | :46:24. | |
back of the court. Berdych with three points to take us into an | :46:25. | :46:33. | |
opening set tie-break. One will do. No, it want! He just put it wide. | :46:34. | :47:22. | |
APPLAUSE Not a bad strike with a bad arm. He | :47:23. | :47:48. | |
bent that round. The final chance to take us to six each. | :47:49. | :48:00. | |
Berdych doesn't give much away on court, does he? | :48:01. | :48:16. | |
What a time for that. It is that old saying, net cord is even themselves | :48:17. | :48:25. | |
out during the match. That is nonsense. It is when they happen. | :48:26. | :48:41. | |
From 40-0 to deuce. That is brilliant. Brilliant. It has taken a | :48:42. | :48:47. | |
long while. That was his first ace this set. You don't feel like he is | :48:48. | :48:58. | |
clobbering it like not either. -- like normal. That was his 50th Acer | :48:59. | :49:05. | |
Wimbledon this year. Three in a row from Berdych ride on | :49:06. | :49:31. | |
the baseline. That one, ultimately, just a bit long. We're back to | :49:32. | :49:37. | |
deuce. I know it is very early to say this after just 45 minutes, but | :49:38. | :49:40. | |
this could be a defining moment in this match. | :49:41. | :50:00. | |
Hired a second serve. -- what a second serve. Who do you think the | :50:01. | :50:14. | |
crowd want to win? Novak. And a tie-break, you suspect, that | :50:15. | :50:41. | |
Berdych just has to win. Well, you would think so. If he had lost that | :50:42. | :50:47. | |
last game from 40-0, psychologically that would have been - I don't think | :50:48. | :50:52. | |
he would have recovered from it. Beautifully done. Fantastic strike | :50:53. | :51:12. | |
on the return and then lovely faint and a drop shot. So good. It has | :51:13. | :51:20. | |
been one pace in a lot of ways from Berdych in terms of what he has been | :51:21. | :51:24. | |
doing with his groundstrokes. There, the complete opposite. Lovely feel. | :51:25. | :51:28. | |
Soft hands. What a start to the tie-breaker. | :51:29. | :51:55. | |
Berdych is saying that Djokovic played the ball as it was and it was | :51:56. | :52:02. | |
out, and that was his point. The umpire is saying it was an immediate | :52:03. | :52:06. | |
call and it did impact on how Djokovic played the ball. | :52:07. | :52:17. | |
What are you doing? You guys have the same line for every single call | :52:18. | :52:19. | |
you are doing. I don't think he is right. That is | :52:20. | :52:33. | |
seriously animated for Thomas Berdych. And it is at moments like | :52:34. | :52:41. | |
this that that record, played 27, won two, maybe creeps through your | :52:42. | :52:46. | |
mind. Moments like that absolutely key to the direction of this set. | :52:47. | :52:48. | |
Unless you can do that. Was that the right call by the | :52:49. | :53:01. | |
umpire? The right call, I thought. It is only one point against the | :53:02. | :53:30. | |
serve at the moment. But it's Berdych with the nudge early in this | :53:31. | :53:32. | |
tie-break. Well, Djokovic has won the last 14 | :53:33. | :54:48. | |
sets that these guys have played against each other. He has won the | :54:49. | :54:54. | |
last 12 matches. Our both of those records about to come to an end in | :54:55. | :55:02. | |
the next couple of minutes? And with it, a definitive change in the | :55:03. | :55:05. | |
balance of power between these two today. | :55:06. | :55:33. | |
Djokovic talking to the umpire. I wonder if he is asking for a doctor, | :55:34. | :55:42. | |
or for some kind of physio at the end of the set. Yesterday we had the | :55:43. | :55:47. | |
doctor on court giving out various pills, which we assumed that the | :55:48. | :55:51. | |
time were for headaches. Actually, we were none the wiser. Confirmation | :55:52. | :55:55. | |
that somebody is going to be on court shortly. And then of course we | :55:56. | :56:01. | |
had the trainer on to manipulate the shoulder. We will see what happens. | :56:02. | :56:08. | |
Perhaps as soon as a couple of points' time. | :56:09. | :56:23. | |
This is a poor tie-breaker he has played here. | :56:24. | :56:50. | |
He got it. Nobody beats Thomas Berdych 15 sets in a row. And first | :56:51. | :57:19. | |
blood to Berdych. It is Novak in real bother? | :57:20. | :57:39. | |
I'm not sure he will carry on much longer if this doesn't improve. If | :57:40. | :57:48. | |
he can't serve - that last first serve was about 90 mph. He is just | :57:49. | :57:55. | |
barely throwing it in. You can't win the tournament playing like this. No | :57:56. | :58:02. | |
way. I wonder how much now, and it is easy to be wise after the event, | :58:03. | :58:06. | |
you never quite know every action and every decision has a | :58:07. | :58:12. | |
consequence, put him not playing two nights ago, an extra 24-hours on | :58:13. | :58:17. | |
that shoulder, if he had an injury, might have put him a better position | :58:18. | :58:27. | |
today. Etc etc. Of course. Two days in a row. The only one in the draw | :58:28. | :58:32. | |
who has had to do it. If that injury was already there when he walked on | :58:33. | :58:36. | |
court, which presumably it was, he had to play two days in a row. The | :58:37. | :58:40. | |
work yesterday was done on his shoulder at the top end of the | :58:41. | :58:46. | |
bicep. Is that a medical phrase? Anyway, this is at the bottom end. | :58:47. | :58:54. | |
This is more elbow. Yeah. There is the proof of what you were saying. | :58:55. | :59:00. | |
82% first service for Djokovic. He is just throwing them in. You can | :59:01. | :59:06. | |
see he normally wins a high percentage on the first service | :59:07. | :59:11. | |
points when he gets them in. 69% is OK but it is below normal. Berdych | :59:12. | :59:18. | |
has been 91% on his first serve. Unforced errors is pretty good for | :59:19. | :59:24. | |
Djokovic. The winners, 44 Berdych. This, obviously, this work that he | :59:25. | :59:30. | |
is getting now, and I presume he will take some pain killers, if it | :59:31. | :59:34. | |
doesn't improve, I don't see the point in going on. | :59:35. | :59:49. | |
SUE BARKER: It is not looking good for Novak Djokovic. We will keep you | :59:50. | :59:59. | |
up-to-date on that. This match will continue on the Red Button. We're | :00:00. | :00:04. | |
heading over to Centre Court to see Federer against Milos Raonic. A | :00:05. | :00:12. | |
repeat of last year's semifinal. Roger Federer has just held on a | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
mammoth game where Raonic had many break points. Federer is leading by | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
two sets. It is level in the third set. | :00:27. | :01:14. | |
MARK PETCHEY: It was almost a bit flat at the end of the second set, | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
but that's not the case, as we move towards the end of this third set. | :01:23. | :01:52. | |
You obviously don't remember your match against Richard Krajicek, | :01:53. | :02:10. | |
Boris? BORIS BECKER: No. Apologies, I read the wrong line. | :02:11. | :02:38. | |
Thomas Muster. It gets better! He literally sprinted to the net | :02:39. | :03:12. | |
trying to take the ball early, but to no avail. His box are losing | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
their minds, slowly but surely. Oh! | :03:21. | :04:02. | |
APPLAUSE Lightning swiped from Federer after | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
the turn. That is something that Raonic perhaps could learn from. | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
Taking the ball early and stepping in. | :04:14. | :04:32. | |
But the effort from Raonic. He's really played a lot better in this | :04:33. | :04:55. | |
third set -- gutsy effort. He hung in there well. | :04:56. | :05:20. | |
One thing that has been noticeable is the lack of pace on his second | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
serve. He was averaging 109 mph coming into this match on his | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
second. Today he is 101. Last year when he played Federer he was up | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
112. New kind of deal with the predictability going into the | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
backhand side he is allowing himself to get dictated to off the second | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
serve rather than being the one who is dictating to Federer with that | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
shot -- you kind of feel that with the predictability. | :05:50. | :06:21. | |
It seems like he was listening to you, Petch! This one was hit with | :06:22. | :06:34. | |
much more authority. If Raonic wants to stand a chance of prolonging this | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
match... Well, for the neutrals that was the | :06:37. | :07:06. | |
best portion of the match so far. Plenty of intrigue in what was | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
unfolding in front of us. Up until now, it's been fairly one-way | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
traffic for Federer. But Raonic certainly coming to the party. Later | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
the party, but he's made entrance, finally. TIM HENMAN: You feel there | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
are moments when he has been able to impose himself on the game. Whereas | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
in the first set, it was just Federer from start to finish. He was | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
dictating, more aggressive, had Raonic on the back foot. Certainly | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
in that game at 3-4... Raonic upped the intensity. And you've got to | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
give a bit of credit to the Canadian. He is maybe not the most | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
talented, his style looks a bit awkward. But effort level is | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
absolutely 100%. He does whatever he can, what's within his powers. | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
SUE BARKER: Well, they are just coming out to play here on centre. | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
We are briefly going to go back to Court Number One. This was a moment | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
ago. That was 3- 02 Berdych. Djokovic shakes his head, no, I | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
cannot continue like this. He knows he would not be competitive in this | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
match. He has had the train on, he hasn't been at his best. How sad to | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
see this -- he has had the trainer on. A shoulder injury yesterday, and | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
an elbow today. Another injury and another retirement here at | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
Wimbledon. It is Tomas Berdych who goes through to the semifinal to | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
face the winner of the match we are watching on Centre Court. It is | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
another sad retirement here at Wimbledon. Back we go. | :08:46. | :09:26. | |
APPLAUSE MARK PETCHEY: Simple and efficient | :09:27. | :09:36. | |
hold of serve, unlike the last time, for Federer. It gives him one last | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
chance to break the Raonic serve before he potentially will take it | :09:41. | :09:41. | |
into a tie-break. BORIS BECKER: The shade is slowly | :09:42. | :09:59. | |
creeping onto the court, making it more difficult for the players to | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
see the ball quickly, especially when you are an Federer's side, the | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
sun is very low. TIM HENMAN: I suppose the lines are | :10:06. | :10:38. | |
there to be hit. Federer finding them Prydie consistently. Look at | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
this, just aiding that ball away. -- finding them pretty consistently. | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
You call it a masterclass, by the master himself. | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
He hasn't missed many poor shots in the match. But at 0-15, Federer was | :10:58. | :11:19. | |
like that one again. -- would like that one. | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
APPLAUSE Raonic does the best he can. | :11:24. | :11:50. | |
Well, for this set and the next one it may well be Raonic's best chance | :11:51. | :12:17. | |
of claiming them on the tie-break. He is at least guaranteed that | :12:18. | :12:29. | |
opportunity, leading 6-5 here in the third. But so often we see top | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
players producing their best in tie breakers. He cannot be assured of | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
getting the run of the green as well in the tie-break. He will be looking | :12:38. | :12:47. | |
to try and get a break here. He had his best chance the last time | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
Federer served from this end. But by owners is on the court. There is the | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
Berdych upside of Novak Djokovic. Remember, the winner of the Federer- | :12:58. | :13:10. | |
Raonic match is playing Tomas Berdych in the semifinal on Friday. | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
I'm sure both players have seen that as well. An interesting moment in | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
the match. Federer is sticking to his winning | :13:21. | :14:27. | |
formally -- formula. Making the Canadian run. | :14:28. | :14:36. | |
CROWD GASPS APPLAUSE | :14:37. | :15:29. | |
Well, it's rare that he even finds the backhand on the return of | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
Federer. But even then, the winner comes from | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
that side from the Swiss superstar. And we are at a tie-break. | :15:37. | :15:48. | |
UMPIRE: Both players receive one additional challenge. Ball boy, get | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
the ball, please. Thank you. Raonic has kept his nose in front in | :15:53. | :16:26. | |
this third set. He needs to keep his nose in front in the tie-break. | :16:27. | :16:51. | |
Mis-hit return, misdirected forehand, though, from Federer. And | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
it is a mini-break from the Canadian. For the first time, | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
there's a little bit of hope. Couldn't have asked for more of | :17:01. | :17:41. | |
himself there. He did take a risk on this forehand down the line. We | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
talked about that, you've got to hit close to the line. If you want to | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
win a point against Federer. And that is some forehand from | :17:53. | :18:35. | |
Federer! Because that was well played from Raonic. Excellent that | :18:36. | :18:45. | |
throughout the rally. -- excellent depth. Yes, you couldn't do much | :18:46. | :18:46. | |
more. Federer was ready for it. CHEERING | :18:47. | :19:11. | |
That is the first point that Federer has taken off the Raonic serve when | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
he's gone after the forehand side on the Gs in the entire set. And he | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
catches it absolutely flush --, deuce. You can't fault Raonic there. | :19:21. | :19:30. | |
He hit his spot. Federer way outside the doubles lying. Back on serve. -- | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
the doubles line. He had to be vigilant after the | :19:34. | :19:52. | |
forehand, Federer, couldn't quite get enough on it. It was a little | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
lower than he would have liked, the first shot. No mistaking the winning | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
volley. No mistake who the crowd want to win this match. | :20:02. | :20:11. | |
It has certainly come alive in the last 15-20 minutes. The quality has | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
improved, the atmosphere has improved. | :20:18. | :20:32. | |
Well, it's Federer that uses the Borlee serve to great effect there. | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
-- by Bolieve serve. Following it up with a nice backhand | :20:37. | :20:46. | |
drop shot. Oh! Oh, my goodness! UMPIRE: Mr | :20:47. | :21:26. | |
Raonic challenging the call. The ball is called in. The scary thing | :21:27. | :21:35. | |
was, Raonic was covering the line. But Federer has managed to hit | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
around the outside of this ball and bend it back onto the line. | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
Raonic needed to stop the rot there. Five points in a row for Federer, | :21:47. | :22:21. | |
CHEERING Well, Michelangelo is best | :22:22. | :22:30. | |
remembered for the work that he did on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
This man's best work will probably be remembered here on the hollowed | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
turf of the Centre Court. We witnessed one of the best forehands | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
he's ever struck. He's now got two match points. | :22:41. | :22:55. | |
CHEERING And he's through to his 12th | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
semifinal here at Wimbledon! He has so many records, so many | :22:59. | :23:13. | |
numbers by his name. But that is the most in the Open Era ahead of Jimmy | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
Connors now. He is virtually ahead of everybody in every category. He | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
is simply one of the best of all time. | :23:23. | :23:34. | |
For me, the reaction on match point tells me a lot about how he felt | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
with regards to this match, this opponent. The history of 12 months | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
ago, that he knew that Raonic was a dangerous opponent with a serve like | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
that. And from 0- three in that third set tie-break to win the next | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
seven of eight points... He feels good about this match and good about | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
his chances. Moving forward. Well, he'll be aware of cause of who | :23:58. | :24:09. | |
he plays in that semifinal, because it flashed up on the screen here on | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
Centre Court. Tomas Berdych of course through with the retirement | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
of Novak Djokovic. But he had to get past the man that put him out of the | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
semifinal stage last year, and he did so in straight sets. It seems | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
straightforward over the first couple of sets, but then things got | :24:29. | :24:30. | |
a little tricky, and he was certainly tested. | :24:31. | :24:52. | |
What a year it has been. Better than anybody, I'm sure, could have | :24:53. | :25:00. | |
scripted, even the most die-hard Federer fan. After stopping a year | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
early in 2016 to get himself fit and healthy, he came so quickly out of | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
the in Australia, and he is continuing his charge in the middle | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
part of the season, having taken the clay-court part of the season off, | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
what a great decision that is looking like right now. Certainly a | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
lot of people were questioning it at that time. Having spoken to him, he | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
said, I've only won the French once in 18 attempts. I think I'll save my | :25:32. | :25:33. | |
energies for the grass. Well, he's certainly been saving his | :25:34. | :25:45. | |
energy, hasn't he? He has yet to drop a set. Through to the | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
semifinals here. Energy won't be a problem. And normal motivation. | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
There's the score, -- nor will motivation. And he will be chatting | :25:59. | :26:06. | |
with Lee McKenzie. Roger, yet again, due to congratulations. Your 100th | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
match at Wimbledon ends in victory. An excellent performance for a big | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
Master? Absolutely, I can't believe it, 100 matches is Inglot. Very | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
happy that my body kept me going over all these years -- is quite a | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
lot. It was a perfect setting, beautiful weather, the crowd was | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
into it, the Mexican wave, an Wimbledon Centre Court you don't see | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
that every day. It was great. I'm so, so happy to be in another Sehmi | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
here. Your body has kept you going. Everybody has been talking about the | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
four pillars of men's tennis, you are the last man standing because | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
Novak Djokovic has retired injured, Andy Murray is out and traffic is | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
not here. A different complexion than we thought maybe just ten days | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
ago -- Rafa is not here. Probably, but we knew that the danger was | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
there for anyone of us. I hope Novak is OK with his injury, because I saw | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
that he retired. Rafa fought till the very end of -- and Andy wasn't | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
looking very good with his injury, I hope they will recover for the time | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
of the American summer and play their hearts out over there again. | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
Rafa, I'm convinced he will be back very strong. It's unfortunate that | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
they don't go on, but there's other great stories in the tournament. I | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
predicted that Cilic could have a deep run at Wimbledon, and he is | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
proven to do so. Gilles Muller was incredible, and Murray by Djokovic | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
here last year. -- Querrey eat Djokovic. He is a good friend of | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
mine. It is nice to see different guys, maybe, but I'm happy that my | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
dream run continues, and we'll see what happens next. Everybody is | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
talking about the type of tennis you're playing. It looks like | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
perfection, sublime. When you come off court, do you see it is sublime | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
tennis what does Roger Federer think he still needs to be working on | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
Basilica you can always play better but you can definitely play much | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
worse. You feel the same everyday. Can conditions changed. Maybe not as | :28:07. | :28:13. | |
hot and crisp and fast as the first week. You adjust to the conditions. | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
As I go to work, you know, just produce the best every single day. | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
You have to make sure that your average is as high as possible every | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
single day, and I'm doing a great job this week. Another good day in | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
the office, well done. Thank you. SUE BARKER: I'm sure he is happy. He | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
was tested in the third set tie-break, down 3-0, but from there | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
he got better and better. He was unplayable. I don't care who wins | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
down the other end of the net, that was a superhuman performance from | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
Roger. He has won back his 100th match year and reached his 12th | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
Wimbledon semifinal, he is on for a record eighth title. The records | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
keep tumbling for this great champion. And he is through to the | :28:58. | :29:03. | |
semifinal yet again. And everyone coming out of Centre Court, they | :29:04. | :29:06. | |
have seen something truly special. You think you're going to see tennis | :29:07. | :29:10. | |
played at the highest quality, but that was even better than that. | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
Roger was just so good today. Well, Roger was wishing that Novak is OK. | :29:16. | :29:18. | |
The sad news coming from Court Number One is that Djokovic has been | :29:19. | :29:26. | |
forced to retire. Novak lost the first set tie-break to Berdych. But | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
it really dominated this tie-break. You can see that his heart really | :29:31. | :29:33. | |
wasn't in it, Djokovic. He called to the umpire, who called for the | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
trainer halfway through the tie-break. The trainer came on | :29:38. | :29:40. | |
court. When he was playing yesterday, it was the shoulder. This | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
is further down. There is obviously quite a few problems going on with | :29:45. | :29:48. | |
the Novak. More than elbow and forearm problem. The train was on | :29:49. | :29:53. | |
court. He tried to battle on. But this was the shock that put him down | :29:54. | :29:57. | |
3-0. And you can see that he was just in so much pain. When you're in | :29:58. | :30:05. | |
that much pain, it is pointless to the semifinal, so he walked up. No | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
player likes to do this, to end on a retirement. Certainly a great | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
champion as well. He did retired ten years ago in a semifinal against the | :30:16. | :30:19. | |
dull. But it is certainly not the way he wants to go out -- against | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
the Bell. Andre Agassi very sad to see that as well. Novak Djokovic out | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
of the Championships as well. So, it really has been a dramatic day here | :30:29. | :30:31. | |
at Wimbledon, not what we expected when we arrived here this morning. | :30:32. | :30:35. | |
On Centre Court it was Andy Murray's turn to suffer an injury. The injury | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
we've been following for the past three weeks, the hip injury, Murray | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
losing in five sets to Sam Querrey, who certainly played a fantastic | :30:45. | :30:48. | |
match, in the middle of the third set Murray was limping. He was only | :30:49. | :30:54. | |
58 minutes, the last two sets. Take nothing away from this man, Sam | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
Querrey, he played the match of his life, through to his first-ever | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
Grand Slam semifinal. And he played a magnificent match, but it was very | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
sad to see and is struggling with his serve, struggling with his | :31:07. | :31:09. | |
movement, and limping out of Wimbledon. | :31:10. | :31:15. | |
After the match he spoke with Clare Balding. | :31:16. | :31:20. | |
Andy, I'm sorry about that. You will want to pay due credit to Sam | :31:21. | :31:23. | |
Querrey and how he played out of there. Yeah, I think it was a tight | :31:24. | :31:33. | |
match, the first few sets. I had some opportunities in the second | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
set, up a break. But some started to play better as the match went on. He | :31:38. | :31:44. | |
served big. He was a lot more aggressive, especially on the return | :31:45. | :31:48. | |
games. I think because he was serving better and getting a lot | :31:49. | :31:53. | |
more free points on serve, he was able to loosen up and go shot a | :31:54. | :32:00. | |
little bit more. And yeah, he dated -- dictated pretty much most of the | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
match at the end of the second set. He was starting to play better and | :32:06. | :32:08. | |
move better, you were starting to move with noticeable restriction. | :32:09. | :32:12. | |
When did you first start to feel pain and lack of power on your | :32:13. | :32:20. | |
serve? Look, I spoke about it before the tournament. My hip has been saw | :32:21. | :32:26. | |
most of the event. Yeah, it was a little bit to sort today. In the end | :32:27. | :32:32. | |
I was struggling a bit on serve. When you are playing a guy who | :32:33. | :32:35. | |
service huge himself, and you are not getting many free points on your | :32:36. | :32:40. | |
own serve, it is very difficult. You are not dictating many rallies. You | :32:41. | :32:45. | |
are having to do more moving and that was tough at the end. If it | :32:46. | :32:50. | |
hadn't been Wimbledon, if it had been a normal tournament, would you | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
have skipped it? I think if it was any slam I would have... I get | :32:55. | :32:59. | |
myself a great chance to get to the semis. I had an opportunity to win | :33:00. | :33:04. | |
the match in straight sets. I was up a set and they break. Unfortunately, | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
I didn't get that. I was in good enough shape to give myself a chance | :33:10. | :33:13. | |
to go deep in the tournament. And almost managed to get through today. | :33:14. | :33:24. | |
Any slam I would have taken that compared to how I was feeling before | :33:25. | :33:28. | |
the tournament started. I would have been out there for a slam, for sure. | :33:29. | :33:34. | |
What is the plan now in terms of treatment and giving yourself time | :33:35. | :33:38. | |
to get back to top shape? I will sit down with my team tomorrow and see. | :33:39. | :33:45. | |
Obviously the US Open is six, seven weeks away. There is time. I will | :33:46. | :33:53. | |
sit down with my team and come up with the best plan of action. | :33:54. | :34:01. | |
Whether that is taking a bit of a rest or not, we have to wait and | :34:02. | :34:06. | |
see. But we will do that tomorrow. It was a brave defence. I'm sorry | :34:07. | :34:08. | |
it's over. Thank you. Yes, it was. This was | :34:09. | :34:16. | |
just a short time ago. Andy leaving along with Josh Murray, part of his | :34:17. | :34:22. | |
management team. No relation. You see him limping out of Wimbledon. | :34:23. | :34:28. | |
Very sore. Hip injuries are very difficult to cure. I have a horrible | :34:29. | :34:32. | |
feeling we may not see him back on the tennis court for some time. That | :34:33. | :34:38. | |
was the news from earlier. An injury for Andy, an injury for Djokovic as | :34:39. | :34:43. | |
well. But Federer has gone marching on. We have seen Querrey go through. | :34:44. | :34:48. | |
We know he will need Marin Cilic, who came through in five sets | :34:49. | :34:54. | |
against Gilles Muller, the man who put out Rafael Nadal. That is what | :34:55. | :34:57. | |
it means to him to be in the world and semifinal, the first time he has | :34:58. | :35:00. | |
been in the women's and semifinal. He has lost at the quarterfinal | :35:01. | :35:06. | |
stage for the last four years. He is always dangerous in a Grand Slam. A | :35:07. | :35:13. | |
huge serve. Big forehand and backs -- backhand. It means a lot to him | :35:14. | :35:17. | |
to be through. Knowing this is a huge opportunity as the draw is | :35:18. | :35:22. | |
opening up. His coach absolutely delighted with how he came back in | :35:23. | :35:26. | |
that match. Let's hear what he had to say | :35:27. | :35:32. | |
afterwards. Many congratulations. You are through to the semi final at | :35:33. | :35:35. | |
Wimbledon for the first time. What does that mean to it means a lot. | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
Absolutely amazing achievement. I was three times getting stuck in the | :35:40. | :35:46. | |
quarters. This is just amazing, an amazing achievement. Today was a | :35:47. | :35:51. | |
really hard-fought battle. He played great tennis. He was serving | :35:52. | :35:55. | |
unbelievable. I had to work hard until basically the end of the third | :35:56. | :35:59. | |
set get a first break. It was just a couple of points deciding match. I'm | :36:00. | :36:06. | |
glad I pulled it. You let out a scream at the end of the match. What | :36:07. | :36:12. | |
were you feeling? Obviously I was focused mentally to get it over | :36:13. | :36:16. | |
with, especially when these matches are quite long, you have to keep | :36:17. | :36:20. | |
your focus. It was just a relief to finally do it. Speaking about | :36:21. | :36:24. | |
keeping your focus, you lost the first set, the first one you had | :36:25. | :36:27. | |
dropped in the tournament. How did you gather yourself for a fightback? | :36:28. | :36:32. | |
I kept my cool. I played well until today. I knew I was going to get in | :36:33. | :36:38. | |
a good rhythm. I wasn't serving as good in the first set as in the | :36:39. | :36:43. | |
first couple of matches. He returned really well. I tried to gather my | :36:44. | :36:49. | |
thoughts and continued to play good tennis. Were you aware of what was | :36:50. | :36:53. | |
happening on Centre Court? Did you see the scoreboard? I saw it at the | :36:54. | :37:01. | |
end of the match that Sam won. Amazing achievement for him. | :37:02. | :37:07. | |
Definitely from -- great for both of us might to reach the semis. You | :37:08. | :37:15. | |
played the longest match in Wimbledon history five years ago. | :37:16. | :37:18. | |
What can you expect in the semifinal? Hopefully not the longest | :37:19. | :37:24. | |
one! Definitely Sam has an amazing server and plays really well, | :37:25. | :37:28. | |
especially this season. A lot of success. That will be a hard one. I | :37:29. | :37:33. | |
will get ready and get back into my rhythm and try to play good tennis. | :37:34. | :37:36. | |
Good love. Well done. Thank you. When we started the | :37:37. | :37:44. | |
championships we expected the top four to go through to the | :37:45. | :37:49. | |
semifinals. This is what we have. Sam Querrey against Marin Cilic and | :37:50. | :37:51. | |
Roger Federer against Thomas Berdych. Between them they hold 19 | :37:52. | :37:57. | |
grand slam titles, Federer has 18 of them. Overwhelming favourite, I | :37:58. | :38:05. | |
think it is fair to say. Let's reflect on what has been a dramatic, | :38:06. | :38:09. | |
momentous day. Boris Becker is with me. We talk about Andy Murray. He | :38:10. | :38:14. | |
battled hard on that court but it was obvious halfway through the | :38:15. | :38:24. | |
third set that he was struggling? Remarkable that he carried on. On | :38:25. | :38:31. | |
the Sunday before the championship, that is when he green-lighted his | :38:32. | :38:34. | |
participation in the tournament. He was struggling. He would never admit | :38:35. | :38:38. | |
it but he was struggling. The first week was pretty smooth until the | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
Fognini match. He was about to go into the fifth set. He won the last | :38:44. | :38:47. | |
five games. He had the weekend off. On Monday he looked pretty good. | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
Losing the second set after being a break up, that cost him. That was | :38:53. | :38:58. | |
the key. If he had got the first couple of set might have gone | :38:59. | :39:02. | |
through. Not going five. Not going five. I believe Sam Querrey sensed | :39:03. | :39:08. | |
the moment. Andy didn't have the power on the serve. Especially on | :39:09. | :39:12. | |
the forehand. Players watch each other to see when one is struggling. | :39:13. | :39:17. | |
Within the rules. Ultimately you want to win the match. Credit to Sam | :39:18. | :39:22. | |
forgiving is focus on doing the right thing. He has really improved | :39:23. | :39:26. | |
this year. We have always talked about his big serve. But more than | :39:27. | :39:29. | |
that today, he was great from the back of the court. Since he beat | :39:30. | :39:36. | |
Djokovic last year, which I remember in a different position, I have | :39:37. | :39:41. | |
great respect for the American. He was always talented and powerful. | :39:42. | :39:45. | |
Sometimes he didn't give it all. He has had a tremendous season. He won | :39:46. | :39:51. | |
earlier in the year. He is not just a serve -- serve, one shot type of | :39:52. | :40:00. | |
player. He plays with his heart on his sleeve. Moving Murray all over | :40:01. | :40:04. | |
the place. Mixing it up. He is hitting the ball so well. That is | :40:05. | :40:09. | |
what you have to do when you have an injured opponents down the other | :40:10. | :40:12. | |
end. You have to stay focused. He certainly moved him around. This was | :40:13. | :40:17. | |
an incredible point to give him the double break in the fifth. He knew | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
how important this point was. Yes, you are playing the defending | :40:23. | :40:25. | |
champion. Querrey did the right thing. Moving around. He wants to | :40:26. | :40:32. | |
the point. He was going to make it as difficult as he could for Murray | :40:33. | :40:36. | |
to win the point. He sees that physically he was struggling. Murray | :40:37. | :40:41. | |
has to get back. He has two diagnosed how bad it is and how long | :40:42. | :40:45. | |
the break will be. We have seen before hip injuries are not easy to | :40:46. | :40:51. | |
get rid of. Yeah. I'm not sure whether he is fully aware yet of | :40:52. | :40:55. | |
what is going to happen. He needs to be 100%. It is no good friend to | :40:56. | :41:00. | |
play 75%. He may be good enough to come to the quarters. Easy number | :41:01. | :41:04. | |
one player in the world. He wants to win tournaments. With his injury and | :41:05. | :41:09. | |
his limitations in movement, that is the key phrase game. Needs to get | :41:10. | :41:15. | |
fit 100%. Before he plays in tournaments again. Bad news for Andy | :41:16. | :41:21. | |
Murray but not good news for Novak Djokovic. We saw a shoulder injury | :41:22. | :41:25. | |
yesterday but an elbow injury today. It must have been a sad sight for | :41:26. | :41:30. | |
you. I know you are not working with him and immoral but supporting him. | :41:31. | :41:35. | |
Yes, it may be started from the neck. It moves down the arm. He has | :41:36. | :41:39. | |
not played a lot of matches this year. He played at Eastbourne to get | :41:40. | :41:45. | |
himself ready for grass. That is when you want to get yourself into | :41:46. | :41:48. | |
form and not spend too much energy. Maybe there was too much for his | :41:49. | :41:54. | |
arm. He didn't have the day off like everybody else yesterday. He had a | :41:55. | :41:57. | |
pretty quick win against Mannarino but he still played. You can see | :41:58. | :42:04. | |
here, he is only playing at half pace. He is not putting anything | :42:05. | :42:09. | |
into it is -- into his shots. It is always sad, but you have to detect | :42:10. | :42:13. | |
your body. If you do not feel you can win three sets, you are going to | :42:14. | :42:19. | |
risk making that injury worse. Most players have niggles and pains. | :42:20. | :42:24. | |
There is nobody in the second week was 100% healthy. He is an | :42:25. | :42:28. | |
experienced player. He knows how bad the injury is. He knows best whether | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
he can continue or not. He has won this tournament before. After the | :42:33. | :42:38. | |
match, Novak Djokovic went back to the pressroom. He clarified is a | :42:39. | :42:45. | |
clue what the injury was. It's not a shoulder, it is the elbow | :42:46. | :42:52. | |
that keeps bothering for a year and a half. It is unfortunate that I had | :42:53. | :43:00. | |
to finish Wimbledon Grand Slam this way. If someone feels bad about it, | :43:01. | :43:08. | |
it is me. But you know, I tried. I tried. What I could do from | :43:09. | :43:14. | |
yesterday to get it in the condition where I am able to play. I was able | :43:15. | :43:22. | |
maybe for 30 minutes to play with some pain that was bearable. Let's | :43:23. | :43:30. | |
put it that way. All the treatment and medication couldn't help. The | :43:31. | :43:37. | |
serve and forehand or the shots were I could feel it the most. | :43:38. | :43:45. | |
There was really no sense. It is another blow for him. It has been a | :43:46. | :43:51. | |
disappointing year. If you think about dominating by a mile last | :43:52. | :43:56. | |
year. Nowhere near the form. Yes, physical injury is a part of it. | :43:57. | :44:03. | |
Yes, the race for number one last year. They went back to scheduling | :44:04. | :44:07. | |
this year. But it is a gruelling season. It is a gruelling tour. If | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
you are not 100% fit, everybody will chase you, everybody will take the | :44:13. | :44:18. | |
extra 10% to beat Djokovic, to beat Murray. That is the other problem | :44:19. | :44:22. | |
they have. When they are 100% fit everybody wants to beat them. Spas | :44:23. | :44:27. | |
Thomas Berdych was concerned, he knew how important the first set | :44:28. | :44:32. | |
tie-break was. You can always sense when a player is injured, can't you? | :44:33. | :44:39. | |
Very much so. Thomas is a veteran. He is a Wimbledon finalist before. | :44:40. | :44:45. | |
They have played 26 times. His record wasn't the best. He has | :44:46. | :44:49. | |
beaten him on grass before. If there is one surface where he has a | :44:50. | :44:53. | |
chance, it is grass. It has proven to be right. Always hard to beat. He | :44:54. | :45:00. | |
is a big hitter. Poking of big hitters, Marin Cilic, that roar at | :45:01. | :45:05. | |
the end of the match. Finally he is knocking at the door. It is so | :45:06. | :45:10. | |
frustrating for a player that talented. Always to follow the same | :45:11. | :45:15. | |
hurdle. It was a huge mental relief. I am sure all the pressures of now, | :45:16. | :45:19. | |
he is in the semifinal against Querrey. You sure the pressure is | :45:20. | :45:25. | |
off? I think it is less than before because reaching the semifinal is | :45:26. | :45:29. | |
already a big achievement. For both players it is a huge opportunity to | :45:30. | :45:34. | |
go down in the history books. He is always dangerous. He has got the big | :45:35. | :45:38. | |
serve. Yunus Bjorkman is making him be more aggressive. Very much so. He | :45:39. | :45:45. | |
was a winner at the Queen's Club. He is a natural on grass. He moves | :45:46. | :45:55. | |
well. He is a big hitter. You mentioned 19 grand slams, 18 by | :45:56. | :45:59. | |
Federer but one by Cilic. He has won one already. As far as his game | :46:00. | :46:04. | |
goes, he has got such a big wingspan. He is hard to pass. Yeah, | :46:05. | :46:10. | |
he has a big authority on the court when he is playing well. For a big | :46:11. | :46:16. | |
guy, he gets to a lot of balls. His footwork is excellent and he plays | :46:17. | :46:20. | |
with emotion. That is so important in the later stages of the | :46:21. | :46:23. | |
tournament. He has got the full package. I think he is proving a | :46:24. | :46:31. | |
point to himself. I think that is what the reaction was about. He | :46:32. | :46:34. | |
wants to be a grand slam champion. That is what he will be remembered | :46:35. | :46:40. | |
for. Absolutely. In practice sessions, what motivates you? What | :46:41. | :46:44. | |
stimulates you? Where do you want to leave your mark to the different | :46:45. | :46:48. | |
slams. What is the most important one? It is Wimbledon. We have just | :46:49. | :46:53. | |
been watching the sublime Roger Federer. Just how good was he? A | :46:54. | :47:00. | |
masterclass. I can't believe he is playing the top level at 35. | :47:01. | :47:03. | |
Everybody thought last year was maybe the last one we have seen from | :47:04. | :47:08. | |
him. He was injured in the knee. We had to take six months off. Fast | :47:09. | :47:13. | |
forward and he is the dominating player not only at Wimbledon but | :47:14. | :47:17. | |
throughout the year. Remarkable. I don't know how he does it. The way | :47:18. | :47:21. | |
he is playing, it is better than ever at 35. He is more aggressive | :47:22. | :47:28. | |
than recent years. He has two. Tennis is changing every 1824 | :47:29. | :47:32. | |
months. Whatever was good ten years ago is not good and immoral. | :47:33. | :47:36. | |
Opponents read your game, you have two improved consistently. The fact | :47:37. | :47:42. | |
that he has improved all aspects of his game. He has improved his | :47:43. | :47:47. | |
backhand. He is a natural at the net. His footwork... We could go on | :47:48. | :47:53. | |
and on. This guy is one of a kind. We talk about the big service. His | :47:54. | :47:59. | |
placement is so good. He mixes it so well. You can't redid. No, it is a | :48:00. | :48:08. | |
technique. He uses little effort to win service games. He has the slice, | :48:09. | :48:15. | |
he has the kick, he hates it onto body. He uses all six spots where he | :48:16. | :48:22. | |
is supposed to serve. He does it during the whole match. That is | :48:23. | :48:26. | |
frustrating for his opponent. You don't have many opportunities to | :48:27. | :48:30. | |
break his serve. When you look at who is in the semifinals, everybody | :48:31. | :48:35. | |
will say, shall we give him the trophy now? He is clear favourite | :48:36. | :48:42. | |
but he knows better. The strength in depth? Absolutely. The others are on | :48:43. | :48:47. | |
top of their form. The pressure is on the man from Switzerland. As far | :48:48. | :48:52. | |
as we're concerned, will we be talking about tomorrow? Jo Konta! | :48:53. | :49:00. | |
Yes Boris, absolutely! Thank you for coming in. Lovely to get your | :49:01. | :49:05. | |
thoughts on the semifinals. Yes, we will be talking about Jo Konta | :49:06. | :49:09. | |
tomorrow. She is second on Centre Court against Venus Williams. What a | :49:10. | :49:13. | |
test against the five-time Wimbledon champion. Somebody who knows all | :49:14. | :49:18. | |
about the big occasion. It will be interesting to see how she copes. | :49:19. | :49:25. | |
Garbine Muguruza, former finalist, against the fairy tale story of the | :49:26. | :49:31. | |
championships, Magdalena Rybarikova. She was injured. She only came back | :49:32. | :49:35. | |
on the tour in February and she is in the last four. That is tomorrow. | :49:36. | :49:40. | |
But now we're heading out to court number two to see the defending | :49:41. | :49:44. | |
champions in the mixed doubles. Henry continent and Heather Watson | :49:45. | :49:50. | |
against Ivan Dodig and Mercer. They have just taken the first set. | :49:51. | :49:59. | |
Let's find out more about it as we join Sam Smith and Nick Mullins. | :50:00. | :50:07. | |
APPLAUSE It has been a mightily impressive | :50:08. | :50:10. | |
performance from the defending champions. Heather Watson lost our | :50:11. | :50:15. | |
first service game. Dodi gone the other side of the net served for the | :50:16. | :50:23. | |
first set at 5-4. He was broken. Continent and Watson took a Donnie | :50:24. | :50:33. | |
tie-break. This is Dodig and murders. A combination of Croatian | :50:34. | :50:36. | |
and Indian. It has been interesting watching | :50:37. | :50:56. | |
this one. Merz and Dodi gave more powerful team all round. But they | :50:57. | :51:02. | |
don't have that chemistry of Watson and Kontinen. | :51:03. | :51:18. | |
Two break points at the start of the second set. The defending champions | :51:19. | :51:25. | |
looked as if they missed a little sharpness in the first few games. | :51:26. | :51:28. | |
They have got better and better as every game has rolled by. | :51:29. | :51:55. | |
Kontinen is ranked number one in the doubles charts. The world's best | :51:56. | :52:03. | |
player in this format of the game. She has chosen well, Heather Watson, | :52:04. | :52:15. | |
in this year's championship. There were too good for everybody else | :52:16. | :52:18. | |
last summer, the defending champions. | :52:19. | :52:46. | |
The two of them back a year on from their day of days and Centre Court. | :52:47. | :52:57. | |
They are looking to do it again. It is indefinable but there is a | :52:58. | :53:02. | |
chemistry that is hard to put your finger on. Yes, I think it has a lot | :53:03. | :53:08. | |
to do with Kontinen. He is so chilled, so relaxed. He is quite | :53:09. | :53:13. | |
extravagant in some of the shots he plays. He is a showman. Flair at his | :53:14. | :53:19. | |
best. That keeps Heather super relaxed. She feels as if she can go | :53:20. | :53:25. | |
after her shots. He let her take responsibility. It seems to work. | :53:26. | :53:45. | |
One feature of the first set, Dodig and Mirza are not getting enough | :53:46. | :53:49. | |
first serves in. Kontinen playing his second visit to | :53:50. | :54:17. | |
this court today. He was on here first thing in the men's doubles | :54:18. | :54:25. | |
with his partner, John Peers. They won their game in the fifth set. And | :54:26. | :54:32. | |
he is playing so far like he has not needed a map to get around this | :54:33. | :54:37. | |
place. He knows it well. Is serving is outstanding. I watched them in | :54:38. | :54:42. | |
previous round. You just couldn't lay a hand on him. | :54:43. | :54:54. | |
Well, I'm sorry, he says. None of us believe it. He just dragged it down. | :54:55. | :55:10. | |
You can see how far he fell left when he hit that Jokanovic. -- shot. | :55:11. | :55:50. | |
Sagna Mirza is 30 now. Once a top 30 singles player. It is doubles that | :55:51. | :56:07. | |
pays the bills these days. That is the most famous woman in India! She | :56:08. | :56:14. | |
has not had the electricity bill coming through the post box and | :56:15. | :56:19. | |
thought, oh no, that is going to be a stretch! She has been great for | :56:20. | :56:29. | |
the sport back home. She bases her self in Hyderabad largely. She has | :56:30. | :56:37. | |
raised the levels of tennis there. She is one of the big superstars. | :56:38. | :56:43. | |
And that was as straightforward as it gets. | :56:44. | :56:51. | |
UMPIRE: New balls, please. Kontinen and Watson may be the | :56:52. | :57:04. | |
champions but it didn't impress the seedings committee. | :57:05. | :57:15. | |
They beat the 13th seeds in the second run. They are yet to drop a | :57:16. | :57:23. | |
set. They are kind of picking up where they left off last summer. | :57:24. | :57:33. | |
Yes, it was a French ship and a duo that build through the rounds. There | :57:34. | :57:35. | |
were quite shaking in their opening match. I was lucky enough to follow | :57:36. | :57:40. | |
them pretty much all the way through. There was no sign in even | :57:41. | :57:47. | |
the first match, the second match, they would be the champions. It just | :57:48. | :57:51. | |
sort of unfolded in front of us. They smiled. Henry hit massive | :57:52. | :57:58. | |
service, a few crazy shots. It was a dream for both of them. Next up, | :57:59. | :58:09. | |
Heather Watson. British number two these days, behind Jo Konta. New | :58:10. | :58:15. | |
balls. A brick of serve in the second set. 2-1. | :58:16. | :58:27. | |
One of the reasons that Heather's singles has become more buoyant than | :58:28. | :58:36. | |
it was a few months ago is her first serve accuracy has improved. There | :58:37. | :58:38. | |
seems to be more pop on it as well. I remember asking them after they | :58:39. | :59:09. | |
won Lasher, who is the boss? They both looked at each other. The way | :59:10. | :59:15. | |
Kontinen looked at Heather, I think Heather is the boss! | :59:16. | :59:32. | |
Continent and Watson have done a very good job of neutralising both | :59:33. | :00:26. | |
the returns of their opponents, particularly Sania Mirza, | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
particularly off the forehand wing, easier to deal with. Done it very | :00:33. | :00:33. | |
well. Ahead courtesy of the early break in | :00:34. | :00:45. | |
the second set. Her mum has been leading by applause | :00:46. | :01:00. | |
all evening. It looks a lovely evening, and it is a lovely evening, | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
but there's a bit of a chill in the air. | :01:05. | :01:14. | |
Even though Dick, the 32-year-old Croat from Zagreb. -- Ivan Dodig. | :01:15. | :01:27. | |
He's a grant from champion, winner of the men's doubles at the French | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
Open a couple of years ago now -- he is a Grand Slam champion. He and his | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
partner outlasted the Bryan brothers. | :01:37. | :01:46. | |
A couple of years before that, success on court. They had been | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
runners-up to be American twins here at Wimbledon. He has been a | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
Wimbledon finalist. This might, having been a really | :01:56. | :02:07. | |
good singles player, he is now a fully road-tested the Bulls star. -- | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
doubles star. Well, I'm not surprised he's the | :02:11. | :02:36. | |
world is best, because he's got unbelievable power. And then the | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
softness, the vision and the imagination to play such difficult | :02:41. | :02:41. | |
shots. He will have played on a lot of | :02:42. | :02:51. | |
quick courts through the winter, back in Finland, in doors. Wonderful | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
reactions. UMPIRE: Mr Dodi challenging the | :02:55. | :03:08. | |
call, the ball was called out. -- Mr Dodig. | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
These two have twice come close to winning a Grand Slam in tandem, but | :03:14. | :03:54. | |
not quite get over the line yet. They lost a Championship tie-break | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
in the first sat 10-8, and at the start of this year they lost to | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
Abigail Spears and Juan Sebastian Cabal. In Melbourne. So they are | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
pushing. It would come as no surprise if they ended up winning | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
this, the fourth seeds, but they are going to have to come from behind | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
your. They are very good, but the blend of skills is not quite doing | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
it for me at the moment -- from behind here. I thought Dodig would | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
be more in charge at dominating this match. | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
There's still plenty of time, though. Watson and Kontinen with a | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
double break would make us rest a lot easier. The shadows and then on | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
Court Number Two. -- are lengthening. The six foot to frame | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
of Henri Kontinen of Finland prepares to serve. | :04:56. | :05:25. | |
APPLAUSE It is a tennis career for Kontinen | :05:26. | :05:34. | |
very much based on playing this sport alongside somebody else. He's | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
never been higher than 120 in the singles. Injury helped him start to | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
zone in on the doubles. He had one or two injury problems and thought, | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
it would be better to play alongside somebody else. | :05:49. | :06:09. | |
She got herself in such a muddle with her signals then! It's such a | :06:10. | :06:19. | |
difficult serve to return. If you watch Kontinen, he's almost got that | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
kind of double jointed salt so much older or something, the way that he | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
leans back and puts himself in that position. -- double jointed shoulder | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
or something. You can't get any clues from the racket face where he | :06:35. | :06:35. | |
is going. That's some flexibility that most of | :06:36. | :06:46. | |
us don't possess. And then he's got this wonderful kind of Leo Goosen | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
whip with the racket, a fantastic snap as well. -- a last zoo whip. | :06:53. | :07:08. | |
And you do find the kind of fiendish angles in this version of the game, | :07:09. | :07:32. | |
Sam, that you just don't find on this single is called. | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
-- singles court. Once again, serving. | :07:37. | :07:50. | |
Big reaction from both of them here. They know they could do with another | :07:51. | :08:08. | |
break. It's the Watson serve up next. | :08:09. | :08:17. | |
She served tremendously well, but she was broken in her third game of | :08:18. | :08:25. | |
the match. Also, it's the last roll of the dice for Mirza and Dodig, | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
they will be targeting it. How can somebody seemingly so casual | :08:28. | :09:30. | |
playing doubles tennis from another planet?! This was sewed up by | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
Heather's brilliant backhand. She got so good. Kontinen has the | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
licence to do whatever he wants, but look how he disguised his body as | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
well. And he avoided the bag. Freedom and fun, that is Henri 's | :09:43. | :10:07. | |
tennis motto. Not quite so much smiling on the other side of the net | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
at the moment. For this pair, it's a very serious business. | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
Sharpe from Dodig. Business still to attend to. | :10:19. | :10:34. | |
Ivan Dodig has a good story to tell, the story of his life, as he | :10:35. | :10:44. | |
struggled to establish himself as a youngster on the tennis circuit. He | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
recalled nights where he couldn't afford a hotel. He slept as a guest | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
in bus stations, airports. And in the back of his car, which I think | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
was his favourite spot. But it's a struggle. And we too easily lose | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
sight of that sometimes when watching players on a stage like | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
this. So many of the players who are not from Grand Slam countries, they | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
are not well funded. Croatia has a lot of talent, and there are so many | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
Croatians that unless they are signed to a sponsor or picked up by | :11:17. | :11:25. | |
a big Academy, like some from that part of the world, there could be so | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
many more Croatian tennis players actually out there if they were | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
properly funded. Tell us the story of how he had to walk three hours a | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
day -- he tells the story, he had to leave at 6am to get there from 9am, | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
and then that three or walk on the way home, that's dedication. -- | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
three old walk. Right now, it's all about Heather Watson. A smile still | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
on her face, despite the pressure she must be fuelling. This is so | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
good for her. In singles, this is the moment where Heather can just | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
tense up a little, not let that go through. -- not let that on. | :12:01. | :12:11. | |
If she can replicate these situations in a less extreme | :12:12. | :12:19. | |
circumstance with some support on the court, it's going to help her | :12:20. | :12:20. | |
singles. That was not far away, Sam. Well, | :12:21. | :13:21. | |
one of the reasons he missed was because there was a wonderful move | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
off the ball from Henri Kontinen. He just sort of pushed Dodig wide with | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
that return. You've got to keep this serve away from the Mirza forehand. | :13:33. | :13:42. | |
Excellent! 108 mph. It is a big serve from Heather. She has added a | :13:43. | :13:59. | |
few more mph, and that serving accuracy has been a revelation this | :14:00. | :14:00. | |
grass court season. Well played, Heather Watson! With a | :14:01. | :14:15. | |
little bit of work from Henri Kontinen. And they are one game away | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
from taking their place in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon, the | :14:20. | :14:20. | |
defending champions. The scoreline might look | :14:21. | :14:54. | |
comfortable, but it's very important for the defending champions when | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
these two work really hard in the service game, just to keep applying | :14:59. | :14:59. | |
the pressure. Oh, no! I think we're going to have | :15:00. | :15:17. | |
to have another look at that to believe that it happened! Heather | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
can't believe it, is neither can her mum. | :15:24. | :15:36. | |
Henry's top ten of show tunes, that has to be at number one -- Henri. | :15:37. | :16:18. | |
Haven't got the sack numbers, but the backhand wing is Heather Watson | :16:19. | :16:34. | |
has been a vital component. She has won so many points for her team on | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
that side. They need at least one more game to | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
sort this one out. Ivan Dodig holding his nerve. And | :16:43. | :16:58. | |
holding his serve, despite some extra terrestrial brilliance in the | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
middle of that game from the Finn. This will be worth watching again. | :17:04. | :17:15. | |
Oh! It's actually a really, good Boys' Singles play at -- he was a | :17:16. | :17:25. | |
good Boys' Singles player. He was a runner-up and beat Bernard Tomic in | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
the semifinal. Before eventually losing to Grigor Dimitrov in the | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
final. But that was something else. Right, down to business, however. | :17:33. | :17:51. | |
You won't get shots as good as that to get into the quarterfinals, | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
but... They need some brilliance here. The defending champions for a | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
place in this year's quarterfinal. CROWD GASPS | :17:59. | :18:19. | |
He's not the only genius on the court! | :18:20. | :18:28. | |
Well, there's been a sharpness about these two this evening. | :18:29. | :18:42. | |
APPLAUSE Honestly, Sam, this has been so much | :18:43. | :18:51. | |
fun. This is one of those that you could do with five sets for. The | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
serve is just extraordinary. It is a very unusual action, the way that he | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
lays his head back, lays his body back, and the racket sort of comes | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
from by high him. He has got a superfast arm. | :19:07. | :19:22. | |
And you look at the kind of realisation with the defending | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
champion, there's been so much tension, hasn't that, with Mirza and | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
Dodig. They've not really released themselves out here. | :19:32. | :19:46. | |
Just making sure that they get the code right. | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
And again! Completely bemused now! I think she's going right, maybe. | :19:55. | :20:05. | |
UMPIRE: Mr Dodig challenging the call. Right baseline. The ball was | :20:06. | :20:16. | |
called out. If the Croat isn't right, then we've got two match | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
points. And he's not right by a long way. UMPIRE: Mr Dodig and miss Mirza | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
have one challenge remaining. The evening balm for British tennis, | :20:28. | :21:42. | |
at the end of what's been a tough game. No more Andy Murray, but | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
hopefully lots more Heather Watson. In tandem with the genius that is | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
Henri Kontinen, the defending champions,,! Into the quarterfinals. | :21:54. | :22:04. | |
This was a serious, serious test. But the crowd have really enjoyed | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
the Heather and Henri show, and they continue with us for the rest of the | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
week. H squared, quite a partnership. Absolutely magnificent. | :22:14. | :22:24. | |
Not just Kontinen with some tennis genius out here, Watson as well. | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
There are three -- three wins straight sets. | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
SUE BARKER: Yes, they are enjoying another fantastic run through these | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
Championships. The defending champions through to the next round. | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
And isn't it lovely and so enjoyable to watch the mixed doubles here late | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
in the evening after all of the drama of the singles on the show | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
court. Everybody enjoying that match out Court Number Two. Isn't that a | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
fabulous shot? What a lovely evening it is here as well. We have a lot to | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
look forward to. Coming up next at 8pm, Clare Balding with Today at | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
Wimbledon. I'll be back tomorrow at 12:30pm on BBC Two. And 145 on BBC | :23:06. | :23:14. | |
One. We will be looking forward to this, the order of play on Centre | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
Court on Lady semifinals they... First up it is Garbine Muguruza | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
against Magdalena Rybarikova, what a story that is. Muguruza is a former | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
finalist here. And then the lady with the most experience of this | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
Championship, Venus Williams, five times the champion. She is up | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
against items number one, Jo Konta. That is tomorrow on Centre Court. -- | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
Britain's number one. We are going to head to Court Number One, the | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
British pair of Jocelyn Rae and Ken Skupski. We join it where they are | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
just two points from losing this first set. Our commentators, Peter | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
Harder a Matt Chilton. COMMENTATOR: Oh, that is a terrific | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
return to set up... Set point for the second time. They have been | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
round the houses are bit here. Deuce three times. Jocelyn Rae serving. | :24:14. | :24:22. | |
Set point, the Russian Belarussian combination. Nearly punctures that | :24:23. | :24:23. | |
volley to seal the opening set. 45 minutes it took. Max Mirnyi and | :24:24. | :24:40. | |
Ekaterina Makarova had a break. They were pegged back. Max Mirnyi is | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
unhappy about something. He is in conversation with the umpire. There | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
are one or two calls that he was unsure. He didn't use his challenge. | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
The walk-out challenge is available to the players out here, of course. | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
They have plenty to be proud of, the Brits, in that opening set. | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
Understandably it was a nervous start from them. They were always | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
playing catch up. But they did such a good job from 5-2 down to get back | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
to 5-2, almost broke the Makarova serve. Just the last couple of | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
games, the big points just went the way of the Belarusian- Russian | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
pairing. The stats are pretty good for the Brits, they'll be happy with | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
that. They're not doing enough behind the first serve. Max Mirnyi | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
and Makarova are able to read their service. It doesn't really tell by. | :25:28. | :25:36. | |
Read. It was a slow start, a few nerves being on this court for these | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
two. After going 5-2 down, they settled and played some stunning | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
doubles. They are enjoying themselves. They have been laughing | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
and joking at the changes of ends and the sit downs. I think it's | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
important to do that. You know, it's not often in their career that they | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
will have got out here on Court Number One, a show court. Neal | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
Skupski, Ken's brother. He was in the men's doubles earlier on today. | :26:10. | :26:17. | |
Max Mirnyi will serve at the start of the second set. He and Ekaterina | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
Makarova having taken the first. He has got a decent first serve, | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
probably the biggest first serve that Jocelyn Rae will face here at | :26:27. | :26:36. | |
Wimbledon. Makarova just shuffling across to the centre of the court. | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
Both pairs with a left-hand- right-hand combination. She had a | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
bit of a dip in form, didn't she, when they were 5-2 up, but she's | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
found her game again. This really lively net play. | :26:52. | :27:05. | |
Just long. Skupskis challenging. I think that's probably... Oh, he's | :27:06. | :27:17. | |
changed his mind. A bad idea, but he decided against it. The umpire, | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
Pascal Maria. Oh, you've got to credit Jocelyn Rae | :27:21. | :27:48. | |
just forgetting that fast serve bags, 121 mph. -- or betting that | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
fast serve back. It was a mis-hit, but she did well to just get a | :27:55. | :27:56. | |
bracket to it. -- a bracket to it. Oh, straight up the player. I hope | :27:57. | :28:16. | |
she's all right. -- straight at the player. I'm sure Jocelyn Rae has had | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
worse. It actually hit her hand, her left hand. Good to see that she's | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
smiling. Apology from Max Mirnyi. But he | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
certainly gave it plenty. Mirnyi and Makarova take the opening | :28:32. | :28:42. | |
game of the second set. 49 minutes of play. It looked like | :28:43. | :28:53. | |
it would be a runaway first set for a for a while for Mirnyi and | :28:54. | :29:02. | |
Makarova. They weren't originally scheduled to be playing on Court | :29:03. | :29:06. | |
Number One. But because of the Djokovic retirement and the need to | :29:07. | :29:08. | |
keep the spectators entertained, they sent this match out to Court | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
Number One. Delightful for the players and spectators to get a bit | :29:14. | :29:16. | |
of British interest in some mixed doubles. Just 20 minutes or so for | :29:17. | :29:28. | |
Skupski and Rae to settle down in this big arena. Nice play. It's not | :29:29. | :29:34. | |
just a big arena, it's a big court. That's the thing that can sometimes | :29:35. | :29:41. | |
affect players. Skupski turned out a hot streak at the back-end of that | :29:42. | :29:47. | |
first set. He started enjoy himself. And he has served well. | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
Not quite matching Mirnyi's 125 mph, but he's been up there. 118 his | :29:52. | :30:00. | |
quickest serve so far. Didn't really do up this with the | :30:01. | :30:18. | |
first volley. They dug it into the surface too much. Allowed Mirnyi to | :30:19. | :30:22. | |
play on forehand and from there it was going to be difficult for Rae. | :30:23. | :30:35. | |
Good serve out wide. Moving away, a big lefty swinger from Kent Skupski | :30:36. | :30:44. | |
That was only 86mph. That shows what you can do with that. | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
Lots of chat ever between the players on both side of the court | :30:50. | :31:13. | |
before they line up for the next game. It will be Makarova's service | :31:14. | :31:19. | |
game now. Dropped in the crowd I'm afraid. | :31:20. | :31:53. | |
Hence the groans. Catching hasn't been great this Wimbledon. | :31:54. | :32:02. | |
Must be the heat. Good serving this game from | :32:03. | :32:12. | |
Makarova. Yes, 103mph on the serve. Gave them | :32:13. | :32:16. | |
the early advantage in the point. It was deep into the box too, so not a | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
lot of time for Rae to get that one out in front. Good hand skills from | :32:23. | :32:26. | |
Skupski, with the long levers all over the net again. | :32:27. | :32:44. | |
Tightly matched here in this second set, third game, going to Mirnyi and | :32:45. | :33:21. | |
Makarova. It's a fine evening above London. We can take a little look | :33:22. | :33:27. | |
outside. Powerful lens across to some of the landmark, you can see | :33:28. | :33:34. | |
the London Eye and the shard. So-called Walkie-talkie which I | :33:35. | :33:38. | |
think is officially called 20 Fenchurch Street or something like | :33:39. | :33:42. | |
that. Panning across the lake in Wimbledon park and the disputed golf | :33:43. | :33:48. | |
club. Will it be extended or will the club pay them off? It is all to | :33:49. | :33:54. | |
be discussed and there is Henman Hill, a little depleted in numbers | :33:55. | :33:58. | |
now. But still plenty of people out there watching the big screen, which | :33:59. | :34:00. | |
is on the side of Court Number One. Now they have seen themselveses on | :34:01. | :34:14. | |
the hill, that is the view from, our camera just above the pond. | :34:15. | :34:25. | |
Lots of excitement out there, they have had a good day despite the lack | :34:26. | :34:30. | |
of success for Andy Murray. Maybe Skupski and Rae can restore the | :34:31. | :34:36. | |
British success rate here today. Rae to serve, 1-2. | :34:37. | :34:42. | |
How's that lob somebody in oh, perfect. | :34:43. | :34:52. | |
Good footwork from Rae and excellent racket head control, too. | :34:53. | :34:56. | |
Got herself back behind the ball with time and brushing up the back | :34:57. | :34:58. | |
of the ball to generate top-spin. Slightly tangled up with her feet | :34:59. | :35:15. | |
there, Makarova. She is going forward for the return with the body | :35:16. | :35:19. | |
weight and Skupski with a good deep volley. Turning backwards very | :35:20. | :35:21. | |
quickly. Lob return of serve. | :35:22. | :35:40. | |
That shot, for my, it is one of the toughest shots to execute in sport. | :35:41. | :35:54. | |
The chipped lob volley return. Did that one beautifully, did the bell | :35:55. | :35:58. | |
Russian. Right down the line for a winner. | :35:59. | :36:06. | |
Taking her chances there, Makarova. This was a sweet strike, talked | :36:07. | :36:10. | |
about her getting her body weight forward and her previous return, you | :36:11. | :36:13. | |
can see she is going forward again, almost a full swing. | :36:14. | :36:54. | |
She's done it again. Twice in the game. | :36:55. | :37:01. | |
This one was tougher, on the backhand side so it is harder to | :37:02. | :37:06. | |
pass here. Percentage serve from Rae down the tee, not a lot of space | :37:07. | :37:11. | |
there to get it past Skupski but she found it. | :37:12. | :37:28. | |
Rae getting plenty of power op these serves, 107mph, that delivery. | :37:29. | :37:39. | |
Just a little quicker than her opposite number. | :37:40. | :37:52. | |
So well there, Rae to keep cons train, it looked like Skupski was | :37:53. | :37:58. | |
going to take that first volley. Great focus from the 26-year-old. -- | :37:59. | :38:06. | |
concentration. He is the oldest player on court at | :38:07. | :38:13. | |
40. He used to be known as the beast of Belarus, more for his size than | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
anythingel. Not quite so beastly these days. | :38:18. | :38:29. | |
As he approaches middle age. Ball thats for Max Mirnyi. Two fames | :38:30. | :38:35. | |
all and they lead by a set to love. -- games all. Right past the | :38:36. | :38:41. | |
outstretched arm of Makarova. That is a delightful return of receive | :38:42. | :38:46. | |
from Jocelyn Rae. She has got better and better as it continues, angle | :38:47. | :38:51. | |
her body to create the angle. Wonderfully controlled. | :38:52. | :39:15. | |
Doing a great job of making it tough Makarova and Mirnyi. | :39:16. | :39:25. | |
An hour of play. Good entertainment. A decent number | :39:26. | :39:30. | |
of spectators inside number one court. | :39:31. | :39:33. | |
Miles an hour in a bit of bother here, love 30. | :39:34. | :39:40. | |
118mph, down the centre with the ace. It was him that was broken out | :39:41. | :39:44. | |
of the duo in the first set. Two break points for the British | :39:45. | :40:08. | |
pair t wildcards into the mixed doubles draw. | :40:09. | :40:31. | |
Took the pace off the ball there with that serve, Max Mirnyi and then | :40:32. | :40:38. | |
swerved away from Jocelyn Rae. The rain of yesterday has | :40:39. | :41:23. | |
disappeared. It has been bright and clear for the men's quarterfinals in | :41:24. | :41:27. | |
which there were three of the Big Four in action. Safe to say it has | :41:28. | :41:34. | |
been a topsy-turvy day, we will have much to discuss in the company of | :41:35. | :41:41. | |
Boris Becker and John McEnroe. Join me from 8 on BBC Two. | :41:42. | :41:51. | |
So the early break in the second set to Skupski and Jocelyn Rae from | :41:52. | :41:55. | |
Great Britain. Who would have thought it would be | :41:56. | :41:59. | |
miles an hour they have broken twice in this one. | :42:00. | :42:05. | |
-- Mirnyi they have broken twice in this one. | :42:06. | :42:12. | |
An hour and three minutes played. Skupski will hope to consolidate | :42:13. | :42:16. | |
that break of serve now. 3-2. Two or three teemses this this match | :42:17. | :43:01. | |
now Skupski has produced a moment of brilliance and this was one of | :43:02. | :43:05. | |
those. This was out of this world. Look at the hand skill, he is almost | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
leaning away but still able to control it. | :43:10. | :43:12. | |
Great balance. Rapid fire, service hold from Ken | :43:13. | :43:56. | |
Skupski. Four games to two. He is thriving out there. | :43:57. | :44:08. | |
Well, the British pair clear favourites now to take this second | :44:09. | :44:10. | |
set. Can they break Makarova? What a shot from Jocelyn Rae? It's | :44:11. | :44:35. | |
all been about Skupski for the last ten minuteses or so but Rae getting | :44:36. | :44:43. | |
in on the action. Mirnyi did not expect thisment. | :44:44. | :45:08. | |
Or so but Rae getting in on the action. | :45:09. | :45:11. | |
Mirnyi did not expect this.. Mirnyi's pride taking a beating. He | :45:12. | :45:15. | |
has been found out time and time again. Down the line for a winner. | :45:16. | :45:17. | |
Beautiful stroke. About Skupski for the last ten | :45:18. | :45:50. | |
minutes or so but Rae getting in on the action. | :45:51. | :45:51. | |
Mirnyi did not expect this.. Mirnyi's pride taking a beating. He | :45:52. | :45:54. | |
has been found out time and time again. Down the line for a winner. | :45:55. | :45:56. | |
Beautiful stroke. Neighbour plaster has come off his | :45:57. | :45:57. | |
heel and moved into his sock. Took its time but it did find the | :45:58. | :46:09. | |
service box. He hasn't missed much, Skupski. | :46:10. | :46:31. | |
Maybe got bait overexcited on that forehand. | :46:32. | :46:45. | |
Encouragement from Ken Skupski to Jocelyn Rae. Second serve from | :46:46. | :47:09. | |
Makarova. Is She's put it away, well played. | :47:10. | :47:14. | |
Another break point. It is just inside. That is a great | :47:15. | :47:44. | |
shot from the Russian. Rae was predicting that Makarova was | :47:45. | :47:48. | |
going to go up the line here, so this has to be oh so tight to the | :47:49. | :47:51. | |
line. It was exactly that. Skupski was running himself ragged. | :47:52. | :48:19. | |
Premet Taited move. In the end it backfired because it put Rae off. -- | :48:20. | :48:25. | |
premeditated. The winner of this match will play Jamie Murray and | :48:26. | :48:30. | |
Martina Hingis in the quarterfinals. That would be quite a line up, if it | :48:31. | :48:32. | |
is Rae and Skupski in particular. Makarova, despite being in trouble | :48:33. | :48:42. | |
on that service game has hell it together, following the change of | :48:43. | :48:47. | |
end, Jocelyn Rae will serve for a 5-3 lead. | :48:48. | :48:55. | |
They are experienced these two, when you look at what they have done in | :48:56. | :49:02. | |
Grand Slam tennis, ten Grand Slams to miles an hour's names. He won the | :49:03. | :49:06. | |
mixed here with Serena Williams back in 1998. | :49:07. | :49:12. | |
Makarova has won two women's doubles titles. In the Grand Slams. Never | :49:13. | :49:18. | |
here in Wimbledon though. Did win the mixed at the US Open, Bruno | :49:19. | :49:25. | |
Suarez back in 2012. So it was going to be a big ask for Rae and Skupski | :49:26. | :49:29. | |
being the wildcards, but you have to say they have done a brilliant job. | :49:30. | :49:43. | |
It hasn't looked like the pair... They have raised their game on Court | :49:44. | :49:52. | |
One. British pair's connections sits | :49:53. | :49:55. | |
above the score board there, can they take it along and win this | :49:56. | :50:05. | |
second set, 4-3 in front. At the moment very few unforced | :50:06. | :50:10. | |
errors coming from Skupski and Rae. They are playing the percentages and | :50:11. | :50:14. | |
playing really solid doubles. There has been a couple of flashy shots in | :50:15. | :50:17. | |
there too. Giving very little away. That was a decent return right at | :50:18. | :51:21. | |
the feet of Jocelyn Rae. A long way down, he is -- she is | :51:22. | :51:23. | |
tall. Taller than Ken. First set is important for Rae. Now | :51:24. | :51:41. | |
Skupski dictates and dominates at the net. | :51:42. | :51:55. | |
Max Mirnyi is really having an off day with the service return. | :51:56. | :52:06. | |
Weave not seen very much in the way of spectacular from the bell Russian | :52:07. | :52:11. | |
here tonight. He has been broken. Hope to break him again now, and | :52:12. | :52:14. | |
take this second set. 3-5. Belarussian here tonight. He has | :52:15. | :52:52. | |
been broken. Hope to break him again now, and take this second set. 3-5. | :52:53. | :52:55. | |
A great move by Skupski, wanting to get forward, wanting to get on top | :52:56. | :52:58. | |
of the point. These are the type of misses you | :52:59. | :53:01. | |
don't mind, if you are doing the right thing. | :53:02. | :53:26. | |
Ian here tonight. He has been broken. Hope to break him again now, | :53:27. | :53:30. | |
and take this second set. 3-5. A great move by Skupski, wanting to | :53:31. | :53:32. | |
get forward, wanting to get on top of the point. | :53:33. | :53:34. | |
These are the type of misses you don't mind, if you are doing the | :53:35. | :53:36. | |
right thing. That the best service game Max | :53:37. | :54:12. | |
Mirnyi has thrown in for a while. After this break, change of ends | :54:13. | :54:15. | |
Italy be Ken Skupski attempting to serve it out and take to us a third | :54:16. | :54:19. | |
and final set. -- it will be. | :54:20. | :54:30. | |
Tactical discussions going on, what is characterised their performance | :54:31. | :54:35. | |
has opinion their sheer enjoyment of being out here, there has been lots | :54:36. | :54:38. | |
of smiling and laughter. It is about trying to get the right balance. You | :54:39. | :54:42. | |
want to have fun and as you can see, they are in a lot of discussion. You | :54:43. | :54:47. | |
want to stay relax. You want to stay loose. You also want to enjoy the | :54:48. | :54:51. | |
moment, as I said before, it is no often these will will get the chance | :54:52. | :54:57. | |
to play on such a great court. You have to stay focussed and focus on | :54:58. | :55:01. | |
the job in hand. I am sure they are discussing a few bits and pieces | :55:02. | :55:05. | |
here. Skupski has been excellent on serve | :55:06. | :55:09. | |
so far, but as we same Mirnyi came out to serve it out at 5-4 and got a | :55:10. | :55:15. | |
little shaky. I am sure the British fans will be hoping that is not the | :55:16. | :55:20. | |
case with Skupski this time round, in the second set. | :55:21. | :55:34. | |
Younger brother Neil in the stands. Ken, serving for the set. | :55:35. | :56:20. | |
A bold second. That was quicker than his first serve. | :56:21. | :56:38. | |
That one kicked off the line, a big puff of white. | :56:39. | :56:47. | |
It grips it a bit, you often see players swing early. That is what | :56:48. | :56:58. | |
happened with Mirnyi there. Here are two set points for Skupski | :56:59. | :57:00. | |
and Rae. So we are tied at one set all. We do | :57:01. | :58:03. | |
have to Leigh it. If you want to continue watching it is the featured | :58:04. | :58:07. | |
match on the Red Button and Claire will update the result in Today At | :58:08. | :58:13. | |
Wimbledon. It has been a dramatic day, but looking ahead to tomorrow, | :58:14. | :58:19. | |
lady's semifinals day. Muguruza versus Rybarikova and the five time | :58:20. | :58:23. | |
champion Venus Williams up against Johanna Konta who has not looked as | :58:24. | :58:27. | |
though she is a player shouldering the burden of expectation then a | :58:28. | :58:30. | |
lovely mixed doubles match to look forward to as well. That is | :58:31. | :58:35. | |
tomorrow, we will be on the air at 12.30 on BBC Two, but stay tuned, | :58:36. | :58:39. | |
because today at Wimbledon is next and there is is a lot to discuss. | :58:40. | :58:41. | |
Bye. | :58:42. | :58:43. |