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and Marin Cilic will walk out on centre court in 10 minutes' time | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
to contest the men's singles final here at Wimbledon. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
It's one of the biggest days in world sport, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
so not surprisingly, the tension is high. | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Simple, everyday. Ordinarily, in tennis, like music. It facilitates | :00:14. | :00:23. | |
everything. It transfers power. Electricity. Like a nerve, it | :00:24. | :00:42. | |
pulses. Release. Mike vein, it carries lifeblood to the heart of | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
the game. To the present - and the future. 1889, and William Renshaw | :00:48. | :00:56. | |
wins his seventh Wimbledon title. 111 years later, in 2000, the | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
American Pete Sampras wins his seventh Wimbledon title. 2012, | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Switzerland's Roger Federer wins his seventh Wimbledon title. This trio | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
entwine. Stretch the timeline to today, and | :01:12. | :01:28. | |
just one has the chance to break the tie. But it is a fine line, because | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
standing in his way is the former US Open champion Marin Cilic. A man | :01:33. | :01:41. | |
hoping to strike his own cord. But with 18 Grand Slam titles and | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
counting... Who would bet against the greatest of all time... Becoming | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
the greatest of all time, here? COMMENTATOR: That is extraordinary! | :01:51. | :02:08. | |
Pure genius! Brilliant! I love that! Probably the greatest champion of | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
all time! Roger Federer is the man who, more than any other, knows how | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
to break the tape. And thanks to Boris, | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
Mac and Pat for that. So, can Roger put the "eight" into | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
"great", and make history today? So, in draw order, it's Cilic | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
against Federer ? Cilic has one Grand Slam title, | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
the 2014 US Open. And this is what they're playing | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
for - the Challenge Cup. It's made of silver gilt, | :02:45. | :02:53. | |
stands 18 inches high, As for the matter of prize money, | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
the winner will walk And looking ahead after the men's | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
final, there's a cracking mixed doubles final ? and it includes | :03:03. | :03:12. | |
a battle of Britain, as number one seeds Jamie Murray | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
and Martina Hingis face defending champions Henri Kontinen | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
and Heather Watson. It is an unbelievable feeling here, | :03:19. | :03:36. | |
almost every seat is taken, it must bring back memories for you, Boris? | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
Lots of memories, I was just thinking about how it was like when | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
I was 17 and 18, just those minutes before the final, when you want to | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
sink into the ground you're standing on because of the nerves. And Tim, | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
you were talking about Cilic, now, let's dissect Roger Federer, and you | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
have been talking about his serve putting people under pressure? | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
Again, Federer's is not the fastest serve, he's not serving the most | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
number of he's a, but it is the accuracy and variation. You can see | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
him here, down break point in the third set against Berdych. I mean, | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
that is just perfection in terms of hitting the spots and the corners | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
of. This is where Boris and Andrew and myself were having a guessing | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
game as to where he was going to serve, and we all got it wrong! I | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
said he was going out wide, and he went straight up the middle! It is | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
the foundation. He hits the spots to get himself out of trouble. Here, | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
you can see the accuracy. Those green areas are within 2ft of the | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
line. That's probably a bit generous for Federer, but you can see how | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
accurate he is. And the serve is really important, Boris? It is the | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
foundation of the game, and it puts a whole a lot of pressure on the | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
returner, because he knows, if he loses his serve, Roger is going to | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
hold, and win a set. The ball boys and girls coming out, everyone is so | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
excited, giving them a round of applause. And for the rest of the | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
tournament, we start at one o'clock, today, starting at two o'clock gives | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
people a bit of extra time to finish their lunch and their pins and | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
champagne. It is, the expectation is... There's your old sparring | :05:25. | :05:34. | |
partner, Boris! My old friend! And Chris Evert watching as well, the | :05:35. | :05:35. | |
place is full of former champions. So, the scene is set in this | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
special anniversary year. In 1927, the BBC produced | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
their first radio 80 years ago, the first television | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
pictures were beamed from here, and 50 years ago, the first colour | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
programme in the UK and Europe The BBC and Wimbledon is a special, | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
unique partnership, steeped in history, and always looking | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
to the future. It was a family tradition, Wimbledon | :05:57. | :06:18. | |
is sort of our Super Bowl. You could feel the tradition, the magic thing, | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
inside those gates. Walking through the gates, everything was so new. I | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
was in awe of the whole place, it was just amazing. Loved the court, | :06:29. | :06:37. | |
loved the atmosphere of the place, the ball, it was different. | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
Everything I am his because of these courts. I came here for one reason | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
only, to try to win Wimbledon. The waiting is over! It would be another | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
dream come true. The most beautiful thing is going to happen to someone | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
today. I think that's what is so special about this tournament, the | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
history and the tradition, the champions that have gone before. | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
Very much so. All these legends have played on this court. It really | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
changes your life, once you're called the Wilden champion, doors | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
will open that you never knew existed. And here is Marin Cilic, | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
passing on the very heavy tennis bag! I'm not sure what they carry in | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
there, their racquets, but our whole lot more as well. A lot of racquets, | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
a few changes of shirts, maybe another pair of shoes as well. | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
Different from any other match. Most matches, you walk onto the court | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
carrying your bag and your racquets, but here, it is down to the ball | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
boys and ball girls. It is quite away from the locker room is, these | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
men have worked a lot and played a lot over the last two weeks, so it | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
comes in handy! Did you ever talk to your opponent in the locker room? | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
Always try to avoid that. This little bit, just before you come | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
out, there's the awkward feeling when you look at each other, then | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
you don't, you do not get into deep conversation. The locker room is | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
down the corridor, down the stairs is the warm-up area. I saw Federer a | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
bit earlier, doing his stretches of. Coming out of the locker room now. | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
Getting ready to go out. Getting ready to go, and so they now do that | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
long walk, and Cilic looking at some of the great champions on the walls. | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
Going just past the members' balcony as well. In some ways, not carrying | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
your bag, you get used to it, it is almost like a comfort blanket? Yeah, | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
it is a new feeling, but Cilic, he must have been watching Federer, | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
because he won it seven times! It can be intimidating. Yes, it is a | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
nerve-racking time, the hour before must feel like four hours. Certainly | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
the minutes before, you're really ready to go, the match has been | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
called, the referee says, you're on. It is a long walk, as Boris said. I | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
think both players will be keen to get out on the grass, get a racket | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
in their hand and start hitting some balls. Just going past some of the | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
guests that will be going into the Royal Box. Just on the right is | :09:29. | :09:38. | |
where the trophies are. The famous Kipling saying, and out past the | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
honours board. A new experience for Marin Cilic, but Roger is looking so | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
relaxed, just another match. But it doesn't get easier, the importance | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
of it, you know how much it means to you. Obviously, he's in his 11th | :09:54. | :09:54. | |
final. TIM HENMAN: Standing ovation, and | :09:55. | :10:48. | |
they haven't even hit a shot! It never happened to me! | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
BORIS BECKER: I get goose bumps watching, talking about it, I get | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
excited. Imagine what these two players must feel. That is the Duke | :11:00. | :11:10. | |
and Duchess of Cambridge taking their seats. All you respect to | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
Marin Cilic, he has earned his place in the final, but I think that | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
standing ovation was for Roger Federer. I think when he left | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
Wimbledon last year, everybody wondered whether that would be the | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
last time we would see him because of his knee injury. Very much so, I | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
think he would be the first to admit that he was not sure whether he | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
would come back or not. All the scheduling at the beginning of this | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
year has really worked out. He's the first one to leave his chair. Time | :11:39. | :11:47. | |
for the coin toss. In this year's men's singles final, it is the turn | :11:48. | :11:56. | |
of Place To Be. They have asked 11-year-old Lucas to do the coin | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
toss. It provides emotional and therapeutic services in schools | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
across the country, helping children to deal with bereavement and family | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
breakdown. It is a charity of which the Duchess of Cambridge is patron. | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
Interesting, making Federer wait a little bit. You would never have | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
done something like that, Boris. Never! I don't think it is going to | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
bother Roger anyway, is it? Gentlemen Hawk-Eye, as usual, when | :12:25. | :12:43. | |
you challenge, say something. This is hence, this is tales. | :12:44. | :12:54. | |
SUE BARKER: Big moment for Luca. Who's going to go home with a | :12:55. | :13:07. | |
magnificent photo to put on his bedroom wall. You can see how tall | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
Marin Cilic is, he is so much bigger than Federer. Cilic is 6ft 6ins, | :13:13. | :13:21. | |
he's got long arms and legs. That's why he can served so well, because | :13:22. | :13:31. | |
of the height. And we talked about Roger's injuries last year, but | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
Marin Cilic is saying this is the first time in six years that he has | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
been injury-free. It is always a challenge for the players. If you | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
said to the 128 men and 128 women at the start of the tournament, who is | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
100% healthy? You would not get many people raising their hands. It's | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
what you have to deal with, the stresses and niggles. But when you | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
get into the latter stages, playing best of five set matches, you've got | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
to be able to manage that. I think it was amazing that this time last | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
year, Federer was pretty much on one leg and he still should have got | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
through to the final, he really had an opportunity against Raonic. That | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
was when the questions started, is he going to be able to recover from | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
this? And he ended up taking six months off, and from January this | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
year, the rest is history. He has not clocked a set, and he did not | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
even drop a set in Halle, either. He's sublime at the moment, and the | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
question is, is he the best ever? I think so, because the competition | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
gets better every year. In order to stay on top, you have to improve | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
every year, therefore, my vote goes to Roger. This guy, Marin Cilic, | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
players fear him? TIM HENMAN: I think there is an | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
element of unpredictability. He's a bit erratic. He has had some poor | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
losses in the first five months of the year. But when he gets confident | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
and aggressive, that's when he's very, very dangerous. We saw it in | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
2014 when he won the US Open. That helps him here, having been in a | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
Grand Slam final before. And we saw how well he played at Queen's, where | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
had match points in the final against Feliciano Lopez. He would | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
have been disappointed to lose that, because Queen's in its own right is | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
a big tournament. He talked about it coming into this event, how he had | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
form and confidence and grass court tennis under his belt, and now he's | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
through to another final. And Tim has been talking about the | :15:34. | :15:49. | |
Cilic serve, the aces. A lot of cheap points. Yes and we don't count | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
the error causing the great serve. The opponent gets a look at the | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
serve. And it has to be strong. He is looking incredibly comfortable on | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
the grass. He is getting Bert and better with every round. Do you | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
think the first set is key? I think Federer is a good frontrunner, if he | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
gets up, the chances of Cilic coming back in four or five are less. If | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
you look back 10-15 years ago, if you were 6'6" you were abnormal in | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
terms of height and nine times out of ten you weren't a great mover but | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
now the big guys, Querrey the same and Cilic move incredibly well. | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
It'll give him the wingspan to return serve and the height to hit | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
the big, booming serve. He has had 14-and-a-half hours on court, | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
Federer nine hours and a tough match against Giles Muller but talking | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
about Federer, at the Australian Open when he came back, even he said | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
he didn't know you what to do but he won the three five-set matches. He | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
had been off for six months. He was talking about whether or not he | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
would be good enough. What an incredible six months he has had. | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
The whole year was geared towards Wimbledon. He wanted one more crack | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
at it. I don't think he was convinced he was in such good form | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
entering the tournament and now, six matches later, one more to go. Its | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
all about history as far Roger is concerned. He wasn't won since 2012. | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
And that's not good enough in Roger's book. Anyhow spoke to him in | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
the clay court season and asked him about his decision. He said in all | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
due respect I have won the French once, but at Wimbledon on grass, to | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
be seven and make it jump to eight is massive. He wanted to focus his | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
attention on to this event. He put himself right in the box seat for | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
the final. Now he has to deliver one more performance. 29 Grand Slam | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
finals. When we saw him here as a junior, he was good but, it is | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
incredible figures. Yes and counting. When he first played in | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
the Centre Court, peating Pete psalm -- beating Pete Sampras and nobody | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
knew he would have so many wins and into so many finals, the number is | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
mind boggling. The next gen coming up and a 35-year-old dominating | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
tennis, who would've thought that. He has been voted for 14 years in a | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
row, the most popular player. The crowds are going to be on Federer's | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
side. How do you see it going? I think Federer will pick it up but | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
maybe in four or five sets. I have to agree Federer in four. We have to | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
g players at the chair and time for Boris and Tim to make their way to | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
the commentary box and I hand over to Andrew Castle for this men's | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
final. ANDREW CASTLE: What anticipation | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
here. Centre Court full and here come our two finalists. | :19:14. | :19:32. | |
Hugh Grant and Chris Kermode, executive chairman and President of | :19:33. | :20:55. | |
the ATP. That was a bit tight. His first forehand of the match | :20:56. | :21:11. | |
wasn't brilliant. Bounced it before the net. Easy one there and put | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
himself in a spot of bother. As much as you can practise in the | :21:15. | :21:58. | |
days before, you cannot practise how it feels to be in a Wimbledon final. | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
Both players are nervous. Federer in his semifinal put Berdych | :22:02. | :22:43. | |
under a lot of pressure early on, electing to receive. It's paying off | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
here. He would've taken an opportunity to get to deuce and at | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
least threaten this Cilic serve. TIM HENMAN: On the line and directed | :22:51. | :23:12. | |
beautifully into Federer's body. That will be a relief for him and | :23:13. | :23:55. | |
his supporters' box. Friends, relatives and coaches all up there, | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
bound to be nervous, and so, too, Federer with a couple of misses that | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
you might not have expected. This is not necessarily going to be a | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
triumphant three-set victory for Roger Federer. You can't take | :24:12. | :24:12. | |
anything for granted. Well, that will bring joy to his | :24:13. | :25:28. | |
heart. The first serve repelled. I think he can turn around to, can't | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
he? A couple of dodgy forehands in the first game but that one really | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
executed, aggressive and early. Cilic will return the Federer serve | :25:38. | :25:56. | |
back more than any other player in the tournament. Roger knows that. | :25:57. | :26:14. | |
Which is Swiss German for ""Let's go." That's in the very first | :26:15. | :26:26. | |
service game. That's what is going on underneath this very calm | :26:27. | :26:28. | |
exterior. So held up there by the ball girl, | :26:29. | :26:48. | |
collecting the ball and makes his first double. | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
Only his 11th in the tournament in six previous matches. | :26:53. | :27:09. | |
UMPIRE: Mr Federer challenges the ball call on the right. The ball was | :27:10. | :27:20. | |
called in. If it is in, does he get the point or play a let? It is in, | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
they'll probably play two. UMPIRE: Let, first service. | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
Cilic not affected by that at all. There is a problem with the rule in | :27:32. | :27:38. | |
tennis. The call came after Cilic hit. Or barely hit the return. So | :27:39. | :27:46. | |
Federer will feel he had to win that point twice. | :27:47. | :28:12. | |
Both players taken to deuce in the opening service games. Federer can | :28:13. | :28:21. | |
exhale a little bit. But even after just eight minutes of the first set, | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
you can feel the intensity of both players. | :28:28. | :30:41. | |
The court was watered last night, after a very late-night finish, the | :30:42. | :31:03. | |
ball might be staying a bit lower than we have seen in this | :31:04. | :31:14. | |
tournament. It is a pretty damp day, humid, the board is not fly through | :31:15. | :31:17. | |
fast. Another hold for Cilic. ANDREW CASTLE: It was a very | :31:18. | :31:43. | |
late-night for the ground crew here. The doubles last night was | :31:44. | :31:47. | |
absolutely spectacular, if you missed it, too bad. Lukasz Kubot and | :31:48. | :31:52. | |
Marcelo Melo coming through a hard five setter. That was followed by | :31:53. | :31:57. | |
the women's doubles, which finished an awful lot quicker. This court | :31:58. | :32:04. | |
obviously gets chewed up just behind the baseline, just where they land | :32:05. | :32:08. | |
on serve. You can see those patches, it has always been thus, and every | :32:09. | :32:13. | |
year, it wears slightly differently. You're going to get a couple of | :32:14. | :32:16. | |
bounces which are not perfect on a grass court, it's part of the deal. | :32:17. | :32:21. | |
And there is no doubt, when you look at those worn patches these days, | :32:22. | :32:24. | |
with players coming to the net far less frequently, behind the baseline | :32:25. | :32:37. | |
is going to take a hammering. Grant just taking on towel due to -- | :32:38. | :32:50. | |
duties, actually. BORIS BECKER: If you're up at the | :32:51. | :32:53. | |
old footage, the courts look far worse. I think overall, the courts | :32:54. | :32:55. | |
are in fantastic shape. That's going to be one of the key | :32:56. | :33:24. | |
shots in the game, Cilic's return on the Federer serve, especially on the | :33:25. | :33:25. | |
second serve. We always talk about how Federer | :33:26. | :33:55. | |
likes to make a fast start, get the early break, but it's check that's | :33:56. | :33:58. | |
posing a few problems. He doesn't serve many double faults, | :33:59. | :34:51. | |
Federer, he's served 12 in the tournament, two today. He's focusing | :34:52. | :34:58. | |
on pressing a bit harder on the second serve against an opponent who | :34:59. | :35:01. | |
he feels threatened by on the return. | :35:02. | :35:09. | |
And we have our first break point of this 2017 final, and it's Cilic's. | :35:10. | :35:40. | |
Jonas Bjorkman with the Hatton there. He likes that play. If you | :35:41. | :35:58. | |
see a second serve on a big point, climb on it, go for it. You've got | :35:59. | :36:05. | |
to make it! Put the ball back into play, at least! | :36:06. | :36:29. | |
Amazing how, even in the fourth game, these little points here and | :36:30. | :36:34. | |
there can have a huge impact on proceedings. | :36:35. | :36:39. | |
Roger Federer, hugely experienced, but it doesn't count for too much | :36:40. | :37:04. | |
when you have to go out there and do it again and again and again. | :37:05. | :37:08. | |
Sometimes he says he wants to go out there and lay as if he had no | :37:09. | :37:11. | |
experience at all, go out and play with the freshness of an | :37:12. | :37:15. | |
18-year-old, who hasn't made all those mistakes. | :37:16. | :37:40. | |
Since being break point down in the previous game, Federer has won four | :37:41. | :38:02. | |
straight points. It seems like Federer is slowing down the pace in | :38:03. | :38:03. | |
the last couple of rallies. No wonder the court has worn out, | :38:04. | :38:21. | |
he's bouncing the ball so many times, isn't he? | :38:22. | :38:31. | |
Oh, slimmed down, Cilic, and Federer manages to scamper across himself! | :38:32. | :38:41. | |
That could have been nasty for Marin Cilic, and Federer just managing to | :38:42. | :38:55. | |
get it up and over the net. Actually, is left him quite a lot to | :38:56. | :38:56. | |
do, didn't it? Federer just happy to get it back. | :38:57. | :39:25. | |
Taking the pace off it, forcing Cilic to generate the pace himself, | :39:26. | :39:28. | |
and he didn't look comfortable on that forehand. Six straight points | :39:29. | :39:31. | |
to Federer. And the pressure tells. First break | :39:32. | :39:40. | |
to Federer. Marin Cilic is not getting enough | :39:41. | :41:30. | |
first serves in, notably on that break point, but in previous games | :41:31. | :41:41. | |
as well. Perhaps a sign of nerves. Having had that break point, what | :41:42. | :41:46. | |
disappointment, almost got back into it, Tim? He did, he had a bad spell | :41:47. | :41:54. | |
there, losing six points in a row. Look where Federer is looking to | :41:55. | :41:57. | |
take the return, stepping in, looking to control it when he gets | :41:58. | :42:03. | |
the opportunity. A bit like when the opening goal goes in in goal, where | :42:04. | :42:09. | |
previously in not much was going on, Boris? At the start of the match, | :42:10. | :42:13. | |
it's always important to get your nose ahead a little bit. It's funny, | :42:14. | :42:22. | |
he looks up to him so much, but he's in the opposite coaching box to Ivan | :42:23. | :42:35. | |
Lubicic. I just feel conditions are a lot slower today. Federer likes to | :42:36. | :42:39. | |
win the points a lot faster, especially on the serve. | :42:40. | :43:05. | |
UMPIRE: Correction, the ball was good. Replay the point. It looks | :43:06. | :43:17. | |
pretty fast to me out there, Boris! Excellent overall from the umpire, | :43:18. | :43:23. | |
the first men's singles final for him. | :43:24. | :43:32. | |
It feels like Cilic wants to go for a bit too much now, slightly | :43:33. | :43:59. | |
overhitting the groundstrokes. Matches within matches, Federer, ten | :44:00. | :44:41. | |
of the last 12 points, from break point down. About to go up 4-2. | :44:42. | :45:02. | |
The former Swiss Davis Cup captain in there, and Ivan Ljubicic there, | :45:03. | :45:10. | |
the physical trainer and Miirka his wife and his agent. The normal crew | :45:11. | :45:17. | |
in the front row. Mum and dad here, too. I wonder if the two sets of | :45:18. | :45:27. | |
twins will make an appearance, if he wins today? | :45:28. | :45:32. | |
Federer had a little bit more freedom on the shot. He can break up | :45:33. | :45:37. | |
and take more chances. This time Federer from the serve, | :45:38. | :47:11. | |
went one step earlier, and the return went out. Beautiful. | :47:12. | :47:40. | |
Well, it was in the semifinal with Tomas Berdych, he was trying to make | :47:41. | :47:48. | |
this shot for about an hour. One was terrible. This ranges in now T | :47:49. | :47:53. | |
hardly got to the service line, one of the ones with Berdych but this | :47:54. | :47:57. | |
was perfection. He got the right club there? A 56 degree wedge? A lob | :47:58. | :48:01. | |
wedge. A bit of backspin. Physical felt like Cilic had a | :48:02. | :48:29. | |
chance it steady the ship up, 40-0 on serve. Back it deuce. -- back to | :48:30. | :48:33. | |
deuce. Cilic a little indecisive here. | :48:34. | :48:53. | |
Could've taken the ball out of the air. | :48:54. | :49:05. | |
UMPIRE: New balls, please. Federer leads 4-3, first set. Well, a bit of | :49:06. | :49:21. | |
sporting history for Marin Cilic as far as Croatia is concerned. Goran | :49:22. | :49:26. | |
Ivanisevic of course the winner in 2001. We won't talk about that and | :49:27. | :49:30. | |
the French Open champion in 1997 but nobody in Croatia has ever won two | :49:31. | :49:36. | |
of these major Championships. Others playing under the Yugoslav flag, | :49:37. | :49:41. | |
were also finalists. Pilic, as well, who I know you know well, Boris but | :49:42. | :49:47. | |
on the verge of his own sporting history, Marin Cilic. How do you | :49:48. | :49:52. | |
think he has settled, Boris? I think Federer is in better shape for the | :49:53. | :49:56. | |
moment. But the last service game was a bit more convincing even | :49:57. | :50:01. | |
though he had let a 40-0 slip back to deuce. They are having new balls | :50:02. | :50:05. | |
now, I think the slower conditions affect the Cilic game more than | :50:06. | :50:10. | |
Federer. They are eyes only for each other, there, the Duke and Duchess. | :50:11. | :50:22. | |
A beautiful royal box. Rod Laver, Michael McIntyre, Hugh Grant, Eddie | :50:23. | :50:28. | |
red main. Quite an occasion out There and Stefan Edberg there, with | :50:29. | :50:36. | |
his wife. A former champion here. So, serving with new tennis balls, | :50:37. | :50:39. | |
4-3. Federer playing with a bit more | :50:40. | :51:28. | |
freedom, unshackling his ankles and arms. | :51:29. | :51:42. | |
He is ranked world number 5 at the moment, despite being Australian | :51:43. | :51:47. | |
Open champion. Really hasn't played that much tennis. He did the | :51:48. | :51:55. | |
sunshine double. What is that, oh, Roger, greatest of all time." He | :51:56. | :52:03. | |
took the entire clay season off, came back and played Stuttgart. Then | :52:04. | :52:13. | |
won hchl alle, for the ninth time. . -- then won Halle, for the ninth | :52:14. | :52:16. | |
time. Without dropping a set. Chill has had a good grass court | :52:17. | :52:32. | |
season, having match point at Queen's Club against Lopez. | :52:33. | :54:12. | |
I did see one empty seat, it's up by gangway 311, but I haven't seen any | :54:13. | :54:23. | |
others. 14,999 in here. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :54:24. | :54:37. | |
Ripped it across court. And that gives him set point. 34 | :54:38. | :54:42. | |
minutes played. The fist one was speedy. The second one... | :54:43. | :55:10. | |
A good serve from Cilic. He not only wants Federer to serve for the set | :55:11. | :55:21. | |
but if he were to lose this set, it would be better to be serving first | :55:22. | :55:25. | |
in the second. The serve percentage is not as good | :55:26. | :55:52. | |
for Cilic as it has been in the tournament, just about 50%. Even | :55:53. | :55:57. | |
worse on the second serve. Under the pressure. | :55:58. | :56:03. | |
UMPIRE: Let, first service. Cilic hasn't served an ace yet, | :56:04. | :56:12. | |
which indicates that Federer is seeing the direction that Cilic | :56:13. | :56:13. | |
wants to serve, early. UMPIRE: Game and first set, Federer. | :56:14. | :56:35. | |
36 minutes it's taken. Roger Federer takes another step towards history. | :56:36. | :56:45. | |
Of course, he is going for his eighth Wimbledon title. His 19th in | :56:46. | :57:00. | |
total. That would match Helen Wills Moody a great start of the '20s and | :57:01. | :57:07. | |
'30s. The break was key. Federer got there first but Cilic had his | :57:08. | :57:12. | |
chances as well, it has to be said, Tim? He did early on but on the | :57:13. | :57:19. | |
left-hand side, Cilic in the serving categories, less than 50% of first | :57:20. | :57:23. | |
serves going in. Coming into this match he was high 60s. Federer | :57:24. | :57:26. | |
getting too many looks at second serves. And we saw there, as Cilic | :57:27. | :57:33. | |
returned to his chair having lost the first set, he gave his racket a | :57:34. | :57:39. | |
massive smack on the chair. He is obviously frustrated with his | :57:40. | :57:43. | |
performance. And looking to try and show a little bit of emotion to get | :57:44. | :57:48. | |
back into the match. The first set is over, you can press the reset | :57:49. | :57:56. | |
button. It was a bit of an ordeal most of the time for Cilic. A couple | :57:57. | :58:00. | |
of misses early on which unsettled him. Yeah, you can tell the occasion | :58:01. | :58:06. | |
has got to him. So far he is playing in not a free and relaxed way. In | :58:07. | :58:13. | |
the first couple of games. Maybe it is good for him to get the | :58:14. | :58:17. | |
frustration and nerves out. He is not moving his legs and arms. He | :58:18. | :58:20. | |
almost looks like he is intimidated by the final. Bjorkman there, who | :58:21. | :58:28. | |
lost to his charge's opponent in the 2006 semifinal. I talked to Jonas | :58:29. | :58:35. | |
about that match because I was on the receiving end of a lesson from | :58:36. | :58:42. | |
Federer a couple of years prior to that. He said he was coming off the | :58:43. | :58:47. | |
court playing the best tennis of his life. He lost 2-0 in two and he said | :58:48. | :58:51. | |
he played well. -- He lost to love in two. Now | :58:52. | :59:08. | |
Federer wants to keep the momentum on his side. | :59:09. | :59:41. | |
Well, that will keep the momentum, won't it? Federer was serving 66% | :59:42. | :59:52. | |
first serves in for the tournament. Today 75% first serves. Finding the | :59:53. | :59:54. | |
mark. Peaking at the right time. That's what's been so amazing over | :59:55. | :00:14. | |
the years with this man, producing his best at the most important stage | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
of the tournament. The crowd would like to see a match here, Cilic is | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
going to have to up his game, or he's going to get thrown off this | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
Centre Court fairly fast. The first stage is to hold. | :00:29. | :00:44. | |
And his very first ace of the match here we go. 144 three is the fastest | :00:45. | :00:54. | |
this tournament. BORIS BECKER: That's what he needs - | :00:55. | :01:45. | |
quick points on his serve, to make this match competitive again. | :01:46. | :02:38. | |
He's falling apart a bit. TIM HENMAN: Not always easy when | :02:39. | :02:48. | |
you're a big man, if you're a bit nervous, one thing which does not | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
always work is your footwork, making those small steps. | :02:52. | :03:00. | |
ANDREW CASTLE: He's got to get those size 14s moving. | :03:01. | :03:17. | |
That's away as well, and this is difficult now, difficult to watch, | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
in some ways. A set and a break. It reminds me a little bit of the | :03:24. | :03:43. | |
women's final yesterday, where the first set was close, and then all of | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
a sudden, one of them starts swimming away. This man has been | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
hearing 11 times, he knows exactly what it feels like, on the winning | :03:57. | :04:06. | |
end and on the losing end. Now, he speeds up the game, he keeps the | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
points short. He sees that Cilic has made 13 unforced errors, he's got | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
the momentum, he wants to put his foot on the accelerator. | :04:17. | :04:58. | |
He needs to win these, doesn't the? He needs to win those exchanges. | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
Points won on second serve will be crucial today, because that | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
indicates who is winning from the back of the court. And the news on | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
that front is bad for Cilic. There's another important step that | :05:13. | :05:39. | |
goes with that Eddie Betts first serve percentage. If you're serving | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
on a very high level, you don't have to hit many second serves a. This | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
doesn't look promising. The tournament doctor and | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
physiotherapist are out there with him, and he seems to be very | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
emotional. The supervisor is there. He's clearly in terrible shape here, | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
and I had no idea that this was an ongoing situation, which it appears | :06:13. | :06:37. | |
to be. We hope he's OK. He had along four-setter with Sam Querrey, he had | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
a day to recover yesterday, but obviously, it was not enough, it | :06:41. | :06:51. | |
seems. I saw him holding his leg a couple of times in the first set, | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
and he did slip over at one stage. 14.5 hours on court is a lot of wear | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
and tear. Vincent, on the right-hand side, is his agent. We would hate | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
final to finish this way. We remember another shortened match | :07:10. | :07:28. | |
that he played in the Queen's final in 2012 against David Nalbandian. | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
You may remember David now banned in kicking one of the hoardings at the | :07:37. | :07:47. | |
side and striking the line judge. So, the medical team, the | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
supervisors, the tournament referee, it appears to be something that | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
everybody knew about. Federer is ready to play. | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
Wonderful scenes, the crowd is giving Cilic a standing ovation. | :08:01. | :08:33. | |
Federer obviously observing the situation. I'm sure he doesn't know | :08:34. | :09:13. | |
what's going on with Cilic. Is it possible that he just took | :09:14. | :09:52. | |
such an emotional hammering in that first set and was just disappointed? | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
You can react in all sorts of ways, I wouldn't have thought so, but... | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
It must be physical, mustn't it? Groundstrokes, down in speed. You | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
can get quite wound up over the course of six matches and two weeks | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
when you're trying to achieve a career ambition. No hint of an | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
injury, and they didn't stay there for the medical time-out. | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
BORIS BECKER: On this Centre Court, you have to show your true | :10:25. | :10:50. | |
character. Oh, that will do! And that's what you've got to do to get | :10:51. | :10:59. | |
out of a service game! Serve-volleying a lot, keeping the | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
points short, demonstrating a lovely touch there. He found some dexterity | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
as well, with a bit of luck, he'll be OK. He's bouncing up and down | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
like he means it now. So, as we continue to monitor what | :11:15. | :13:18. | |
the problem is with Marin Cilic, we have just had a medical team and the | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
referee and the supervisor all out at the same time, let me get a | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
couple of silly numbers out of the way on the Roger Federer career. He | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
played his 42nd Grand Slam semifinal against Tomas Berdych on Friday. | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
This is the 29th time that he's been in a Grand Slam final, he's won 18 | :13:39. | :13:52. | |
of those. And he's lost ten. The only person who has managed to best | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
him in one of these finals, the only three players are Novak Djokovic and | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
del Potro. It is an amazing record. It's very difficult to tell now what | :14:01. | :14:24. | |
was going on with Cilic, there was no medical time-out. Maybe he has | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
just gone through an emotional roller coasters, that's what this | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
court does to you come there is no hiding place! You can't say, I don't | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
feel so good! Millions of people all over the world are watching right | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
now. Everybody in Croatia are on their feet! You want to make all of | :14:41. | :14:55. | |
these people proud of you. And he should, he's done so well so far. I | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
just hope for him that he gets back into the swing of things. | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
Looks like he's recovered a little bit. Got his feet on the ground | :15:05. | :15:15. | |
again. Dad Robert in the front row and mum | :15:16. | :15:51. | |
Lynette right behind him. Must be so proud. | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
They weren't so proud when he used to throw his racket around in junior | :15:59. | :16:08. | |
tournaments, until he calmed down a bit. They said he was a family | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
embarrassment and they weren't going to drive him around! | :16:14. | :17:11. | |
Federer not letting Cilic have anything to hold on to in this | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
second set. He looks all sweet and neat and | :17:16. | :17:44. | |
tidy, doesn't he, Roger Federer? But as a competitor, I wouldn't say he | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
is second to none but him and Nadal, Djokovic, Murray, they will not let | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
an opponent who is suffering away. And that sounds rude, but it is the | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
nature of the sport. There is one winner and one loser, you don't have | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
draws in tennis. UMPIRE: Mr Federer challenging the | :18:05. | :18:17. | |
call on the left, far side line. The ball was called out. | :18:18. | :18:29. | |
Mr Federer has two challenges remaining. Federer will be awhich | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
are that he just has the one break of serve between him and Cilic at | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
the moment. Two would mean the set, pretty much. | :18:42. | :18:52. | |
The fastest serve of the match, 135 miles per hour. Federer, sticks out | :18:53. | :19:01. | |
a racket and comes out with interest. -- 134. The fastest serve | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
of the tournament. Cilic just walking around in front | :19:05. | :19:36. | |
of our commentary box, the one thing you would say, at times in his | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
career, how well he has dealt with the nerves, looking completely lost | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
out there. UMPIRE: Let, first service. | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
His opponent not helping things. Well, whether or not he needed a | :19:53. | :20:10. | |
doctor, medical attention and the referee and supervisor, we really | :20:11. | :20:19. | |
cannot tell, he started crying just a few minutes ago. It is a horrible | :20:20. | :20:29. | |
situation, you want the ground to open up and swallow you in | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
situations like this. Very, very difficult. He is getting hammered, | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
bottom line, he is getting hammered. Hour played and about to go two sets | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
down. Set point set set for a 2-0 sets | :20:40. | :20:58. | |
lead. UMPIRE: Game and second set, Federer. And that's that. | :20:59. | :21:07. | |
New balls, please. Well, the doctor and physio are out once again. | :21:08. | :21:27. | |
Earlier on this year, he came back from 2-0 sets, he has done it a few | :21:28. | :21:37. | |
times in his career. He did it against a Polish player. But to come | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
back on Centre Court against Federer from two sets down, would seem | :21:43. | :21:43. | |
unusual. He is clearly upset, still. And somebody diligent and marvellous | :21:44. | :22:03. | |
has just handed me a piece of paper. Thank you very much. The last time | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
we saw a retirement - anti-inflammatories going in - a | :22:09. | :22:16. | |
retirement in the final of Wimbledon was 1911, Herbert Roper Barrett | :22:17. | :22:25. | |
retired after Anthony Wilding. . Bet you didn't know that, Tim? ? Well, | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
if you had asked me I would have told you. I didn't need anyone to | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
tell me Well, maybe that's the reason why the front foot kicked up. | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
That's not unusual, tennis players' feet are some of the most horrible | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
things on earth. Second serve points won, Federer, | :22:45. | :23:03. | |
100%, Tim? Again, we pointed out Cilic's problems with his serve in | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
the first set. We have to highlight Federer's sensational display. Eight | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
out of ten first serves finding the mark. When it goes in, 86% of those | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
points are won, and 100% behind the second serve. | :23:20. | :23:33. | |
A number of times this week when players have had their niggles and | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
pains. Obviously nobody wants to talk about it. But nowadays we see | :23:41. | :23:50. | |
it. UMPIRE: Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Cilic is receiving a medical | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
time-out. Well, one of the features at the first week of the | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
Championships was when a player said he took a medical time out as a | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
matter of strategy. He said the match was not going his way, he went | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
into the press conference afterwards and admitted that but when that | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
happens, you should keep quiet about it but no suggestion at all other | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
than Marin Cilic is injured and possibly extremely upset. And | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
Federer won't back off, even for a second here. The doctors working on | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
him. And another Dr Watching on. David Tennant. Not in the Royal Box. | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
We will find later on who the 13th Dr Who is going to be. It might be a | :24:35. | :24:43. | |
female. We will see. That's after this men's final. Now most viewers | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
are probably surprise to see ankles and feet like that but I promise | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
you, 80% of the players have their feet and ankles taped up and... | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
Boris, we have a member of the committee here, we must ask him what | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
we are going to do with guys who go out on the court because the prize | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
money that is so sensational. There are some guys who went out on the | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
court in the first week and they were taking first-round prize money, | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
Djokovic and Federer played opponents who didn't look like they | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
were going out there with a chance of winning, ?35,000 to lose in the | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
first round what are we going to do? Not looking like they had a chance | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
of winning and not looking like they had a chance of finishing the match. | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
It is something that is going to be trialled on the tour, where a couple | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
of times a year where if you are on site and you get injured beforehand | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
you can take a portion of your prize money and pull out so you can let a | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
lucky loser take your place so we can have a competitive match. But it | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
is almost like the Grand Slams have been a victim of their own success. | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
They have built up the prize money on left-hand side of the draw, to | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
support the men and women trying to further their careers. It is not | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
cheap travelling around the world to pay your way, but not good for the | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
tournament when you have six or seven people pull out and don't | :26:25. | :26:26. | |
compete the matches. And we televised the qualifying for | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
Roehampton, which I hope we will do again. If you want to see energy, | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
dedication and commitment, it was on hand there. Any of them would've | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
been happy to have taken these ailing players' position on the | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
tour. There we are the Duke and Duchess there. The Duchess the | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
patron of the All England Tennis Club, taking over that position from | :26:50. | :26:51. | |
the Queen. UMPIRE: Time. Everyone hoping that Marin Cilic is OK. Well, | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
if you need an explanation of what went on, he has a problem with his | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
foot and couldn't walk on it. The last time somebody managed to | :27:04. | :29:12. | |
come back from two-sets down in a Wimbledon final to win, it was in | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
1927, the year of the first BBC Broadcast. Let's just hope for the | :29:19. | :29:25. | |
sake of the final and the spectators that it'll be more of a match now. | :29:26. | :29:41. | |
Exactly the piece of grass where Marin Cilic fell over. We talked | :29:42. | :30:08. | |
about Cilic's return position coming into this match. He's standing a lot | :30:09. | :30:17. | |
further back and then being very aggressive. The problem when you | :30:18. | :30:23. | |
stand a long way back, it gives your home and the opportunity to get | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
closer to the net if they serve and volley. | :30:27. | :30:45. | |
The Cilic forehand is always the week 01. He takes more chances on | :30:46. | :31:01. | |
it. -- always the weaker one. It's good to let it out. Focus on tennis | :31:02. | :31:09. | |
again, and concentrating on putting the ball in play. | :31:10. | :31:33. | |
A certain amount of turmoil in the Croatian's head. He's a bit | :31:34. | :31:43. | |
embarrassed. Only one hour and 11 minutes, and he's disappointed with | :31:44. | :31:44. | |
himself so far. But that's in the past. You can only | :31:45. | :32:00. | |
change the present. Federer doesn't make it easier for | :32:01. | :32:13. | |
him, obviously. You feel at this stage, every point | :32:14. | :33:24. | |
is hard to come by for Cilic. Trying to keep himself in this third set | :33:25. | :33:25. | |
and the match. May be the best shot of the match so | :33:26. | :34:07. | |
far. He got his man. A couple of gutsy Quins, better | :34:08. | :35:08. | |
points from Cilic. 0-30 to 40-30. -- a couple of gutsy points. | :35:09. | :35:28. | |
Those size 14s just don't want to move. | :35:29. | :35:55. | |
And Federer doesn't make it easier for you. Getting the ball back in | :35:56. | :36:43. | |
play, making his opponent always get one more shot. | :36:44. | :37:10. | |
Oh, he can't do anything, can he? He has only made 40 out of 71st serves, | :37:11. | :37:17. | |
so many unforced errors... Centre Court against Federer in a | :37:18. | :37:31. | |
Wimbledon final, it's too much of an ask at the moment for Cilic. | :37:32. | :37:36. | |
Many a player has stepped out on the grass courts of Wimbledon, the | :37:37. | :37:53. | |
Centre Court, and found it difficult. | :37:54. | :38:23. | |
Six foot six, stretch the arm up, get up there, smack it, and then sit | :38:24. | :38:39. | |
down 2-1 up. Yes! Good boy. What a relief! | :38:40. | :38:47. | |
Rod Laver. All of these great champions looking on. This man won | :38:48. | :38:55. | |
or four Grand Slam championships in the first year, first as an amateur | :38:56. | :39:01. | |
in 62, then professional in 69. He won 11 Grand Slam championships, but | :39:02. | :39:05. | |
he was denied five full years of winning more slams. He would have | :39:06. | :39:09. | |
picked up 21 Grand Slams. They were all on grass those days. Roger | :39:10. | :39:17. | |
Federer is the first to admit that Rod Laver, had he been playing for | :39:18. | :39:21. | |
those five years, he'd have probably reached 18 or 19. Stefan Edberg with | :39:22. | :39:32. | |
six, Roger Federer now on 18. The most of any player, Margaret Court | :39:33. | :39:40. | |
with 24. They' -- there was Steffi Graf in 88, and the Olympic gold | :39:41. | :39:48. | |
medal in Seoul. We could the German slam -- the golden slam. It's very | :39:49. | :39:55. | |
difficult to compare generations. Obviously, we call Roger Federer the | :39:56. | :40:04. | |
gold. We mention what Labour in the same breath. -- Rod Laver. | :40:05. | :41:21. | |
Cilic can't get it going. He can't get any rhythm on the return. Too | :41:22. | :41:27. | |
many unforced errors, even on Federer's second serve. We see him | :41:28. | :41:33. | |
dancing around at the back of the court. | :41:34. | :41:43. | |
You normally see that at the beginning of the match, when you are | :41:44. | :41:48. | |
trying to get your feet working, but less likely to see it in the third | :41:49. | :41:50. | |
set. The first thing that those is the | :41:51. | :41:58. | |
movement. -- that goes. Is it me or is it getting a little | :41:59. | :43:09. | |
darker? I'm afraid to say that the weather forecast isn't great. But | :43:10. | :43:15. | |
lets see what happens. You never know, with these forecasts. Rain | :43:16. | :43:22. | |
delays against a Croatian! Of course! Happy memories. | :43:23. | :43:34. | |
Not to worry, we have a roof now the matches. | :43:35. | :43:53. | |
Just towards the end of your career, it slowed down. | :43:54. | :44:35. | |
The first serves is improving a little bit. A couple more free | :44:36. | :44:44. | |
points. He needs every one of these just to make it a match. | :44:45. | :45:26. | |
I don't think he has any idea where his forehand goes. I hate to say it. | :45:27. | :45:37. | |
He has had it hitting the net quite a lot today. | :45:38. | :46:00. | |
Plenty of opponents, as we were saying, found it difficult going in | :46:01. | :46:08. | |
the final. Tomas Berdych came n having beaten, Djokovic and Federer | :46:09. | :46:12. | |
in 2010 and looked a little overawed in his final against Rafael Nadal | :46:13. | :46:21. | |
but Leighton Hewett in 2002, that was embarrassing for Nalbandian that | :46:22. | :46:24. | |
year, there is nothing embarrassing to get to the Wimbledon final but to | :46:25. | :46:32. | |
be that one-sided, you feel disappointed. I remember Nalbandian | :46:33. | :46:37. | |
was allowed to practise on Centre Court leading up to one final. He | :46:38. | :46:45. | |
hasn't played on it. But it didn't seem to be much difference. Quickly | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
beaten. Have you ever had a final when you came off and went - that's | :46:51. | :46:55. | |
no good Well the last four, all of them weren't that good but I had | :46:56. | :46:59. | |
never a final that was straight sets, easy. But we keep saying it, | :47:00. | :47:11. | |
it is, on Sundays, this court, the Wimbledon final, it is a frightening | :47:12. | :47:14. | |
place. There is no two ways about it. You | :47:15. | :47:21. | |
either love it or you don't. This scenario we have seen before, | :47:22. | :47:59. | |
Cilic works so hard to hold serve. Saved break points, 50 seconds | :48:00. | :48:02. | |
later, Federer at 40-0. A reminder that the mixed doubles | :48:03. | :49:33. | |
final follow this men's singles final. | :49:34. | :49:47. | |
Jamie Murray playing with Martina Hingis, and Heather Watson on the | :49:48. | :49:57. | |
other side. Two two Britons. UMPIRE: Mr Cilic challenges the | :49:58. | :50:04. | |
call. The ball was called out. Call stands. Mr Cilic has two challenges | :50:05. | :50:07. | |
remaining. You just knew it. Federer had gone | :50:08. | :50:31. | |
the wrong way. And if the rain is going to come, it needs to come | :50:32. | :50:39. | |
quickly for Marin Cilic. As Roger Federer closes in on Championship | :50:40. | :50:40. | |
number 8. And another forehand error hits the | :50:41. | :51:15. | |
net. Federer, two games away, two sets a and a break up in this | :51:16. | :51:20. | |
Championship match of Wimbledon 2017. | :51:21. | :51:27. | |
Well, let's see what is going on with the weather outside. It is | :51:28. | :51:33. | |
certainly clouding and at the moment heavy cloud. A few spots on the | :51:34. | :51:39. | |
camera lens. You can see the rain coming down in the distance. Marin | :51:40. | :51:46. | |
Cilic could be six or seven or eight minutes away from losing this match. | :51:47. | :51:51. | |
Incidentally, let me update you on some juniors here. The Spanish | :51:52. | :51:57. | |
player has won the junior boys' single. A great effort. Four players | :51:58. | :52:03. | |
have gone on from the junior Championship to win the senior | :52:04. | :52:13. | |
Championship, Borg, Edberg Cash and the man in your picture. No | :52:14. | :52:18. | |
guarantee of success if you win it, but it is likely. So Fokina has | :52:19. | :52:33. | |
beaten Geller. What is this man thinking right now? Roger? Yes. Hold | :52:34. | :52:40. | |
serve. One at a time. Collect the cheque. | :52:41. | :52:44. | |
It looks inevitable at the moment, but he has to get the job done. 4-3. | :52:45. | :53:00. | |
It's been a long time since he lifted this trophy, in his term, | :53:01. | :53:08. | |
five years. Connor s had to wait eight years when his two | :53:09. | :53:13. | |
Championships. -- between his two Championships. | :53:14. | :53:38. | |
Some subtlety at last from Marin Cilic, it comes off. But it only | :53:39. | :53:48. | |
brings him back to 30-15 down. Up 6-3, 6-1, 4-3, you know, still, | :53:49. | :54:17. | |
how intensed and focussed Federer is. And you've got to be. So much | :54:18. | :54:30. | |
can happen on the way to holding. A year ago he lost his Championship, a | :54:31. | :54:35. | |
heart broken man. -- he left this Championship, a heart broken man. | :54:36. | :54:39. | |
Everybody doubted him - is he ever going to come back? Is he going to | :54:40. | :54:46. | |
come back playing well? Well, 12 months later, he is answering | :54:47. | :54:48. | |
everybody. Cilic had 30 aces coming in here. | :54:49. | :55:25. | |
That's only his third of the match. I think all Cilic can do at this | :55:26. | :56:25. | |
point - ask the ultimate question. UMPIRE: Game, Cilic. New balls, | :56:26. | :57:21. | |
please. Oh, Federer would've loved that. He knew it was coming, the new | :57:22. | :57:29. | |
balls. That's what he was after. That's why he changed his racket. | :57:30. | :57:33. | |
Knowing he would be playing for these new tennis balls. Saving them | :57:34. | :57:37. | |
for the Championship. How does that feel? A beautiful ring. He had to | :57:38. | :57:46. | |
wait five long years. Grass was his likely surface to win the majors. He | :57:47. | :57:52. | |
has won seven. He is on the verge of history. No man has won eight titles | :57:53. | :57:55. | |
here. That's the one. The trophy will be presented, | :57:56. | :58:10. | |
perhaps, after this next service game from Roger Federer, who | :58:11. | :58:13. | |
attempts to win Wimbledon number 8, without dropping a set. In the | :58:14. | :58:19. | |
Australian Open he achieved that in 2007 but never at Wimbledon. This is | :58:20. | :58:28. | |
the moment he finds the most fragile today. He is human. There is a | :58:29. | :58:32. | |
beating heart underneath. He does feel the occasion now. Cilic has | :58:33. | :58:39. | |
forgotten to take out a new racket, as is his want when the new balls | :58:40. | :58:46. | |
come into play. Concentration has been difficult for him today. So, | :58:47. | :58:51. | |
here we go then. Federer serving for the Championship. | :58:52. | :58:58. | |
The vulnerability that Boris Becker was talking about. He has hardly | :58:59. | :59:31. | |
missed one of those for the previous hour and 39 minutes. | :59:32. | :59:48. | |
Just thinking and taking it point by point. | :59:49. | :00:51. | |
When Cilic has got the ball into play in this game, he's won the | :00:52. | :01:04. | |
point. What a player! What a champion here | :01:05. | :01:33. | |
at Wimbledon, the first man to win eight championships. Yet another | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
extraordinary performance. This one was a bit of a procession. But he | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
didn't drop a set throughout Wimbledon. | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
Fitting that it was ace number eight in this final match to bring him his | :01:49. | :02:10. | |
eighth championship. Great players watching on, and they shake their | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
heads in disbelief at the standard he produces. | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
And isn't it absolutely amazing, bats, right after Rafa Nadal wins | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
the French Open for the tenth time without dropping a set, this partner | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
of his that has elevated the game, Roger Federer, now wins a | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
record-breaking eighth Wimbledon. There is a lovely symmetry. Who | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
writes these boys' scripts? It's unbelievable. Six months ago, as you | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
said -- if you set to the tennis fraternity, that Federer was going | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
to come back, only play two slams and win them both, you get pretty | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
long odds. One feels for Marin Cilic. Very much so. He should be | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
proud of his performance. He played extremely well. Obviously today, | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
maybe too much for the occasion, but nothing wrong. One day, you will be | :03:10. | :03:19. | |
holding up these trophies. I think the children have made an | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
appearance, and that always delights Roger, of course. Yet they are, Mila | :03:23. | :03:31. | |
and Charlene will be nine this month. Leo and Lenny just turned | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
three and it looks like they have got matching blazers and white | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
trousers, dressed to impress. Two girls and two boys here to watch the | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
old man playing a bit of tennis on a Sunday afternoon. He's going to get | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
emotional on us again, isn't he, Roger? Do you remember when he first | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
won this, with victory over mark Philippoussis in 2003? You see how | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
tightly wound tennis can be, when he first won it. Thoughts go back to | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
his first coach, Peter Carter, taken in a car accident, and how much he | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
contributed to Roger's game and his personal and emotional development. | :04:18. | :04:26. | |
Time now for the trophy presentation for the gentleman 's singles, please | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
welcome onto Centre Court, the president of the All-England tennis | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
club, his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, and Martin Corrie, president | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
of the Lawn Tennis Association. First, please show your appreciation | :04:37. | :05:16. | |
for the. -- for the umpire. Damian | :05:17. | :05:31. | |
Demoussoir. And next, the Championships referee, | :05:32. | :05:48. | |
Andrew Jarrett. Now, the runner-up. Marin Cilic. | :05:49. | :06:14. | |
CHEERING And the Wimbledon champion of 2017, | :06:15. | :07:01. | |
Roger Federer! CHEERING | :07:02. | :07:31. | |
Marin, I think everybody feels for you. It's never easy playing with an | :07:32. | :08:01. | |
injury, but you bravely battled on. That's what I did throughout my | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
career, never gave up when I started a match. That was my idea today. I | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
gave my best, and that's all I could do. | :08:11. | :08:10. | |
CHEERING I can see that it's obviously very | :08:11. | :08:26. | |
emotional for you but just come on behalf of everybody, what a | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
wonderful tournament you've had, and you can be so proud of that. | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
Definitely, an amazing journey here. I played some of the best tennis of | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
my life, and I want to thank my team. | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
APPLAUSE And, of course, to all my fans in | :08:42. | :08:57. | |
Croatia. It was really tough today, and I gave it all. I'm hoping for me | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
that I'm going to come back here and try it one more time. I'm sure you | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
will. Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, Marin Cilic! | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
First of all, a comment about Marin, because obviously really tough. | :09:15. | :09:32. | |
You've played with injuries. To do it on such a big occasion, it's so | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
hard to take. It's cruel sometimes, but he fought well, and he's a hero. | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
Congratulations on a wonderful tournament, Marin. And you should be | :09:43. | :09:52. | |
really proud. This is such a special occasion, to play in a finals, and | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
it's as good as you can get. A wonderful tournament. Sometimes you | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
just don't feel great in the finals. It's cruel, but be proud of | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
yourself, and I hope we can play down the road some better ones. Well | :10:05. | :10:14. | |
done. For you, Roger, a great tournament, and it's been a great | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
year since you took six months. You seem to be getting better and | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
better. I've got to take more time off! I'll be gone for the next six | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
months. I'm not sure if it's going to work out this fantastic every | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
time I come back. Better than holding the trophy and winning | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
today, I guess, is just being healthy. It feels great at it means | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
the world to me. We worked so hard last year. To be back here, feeling | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
great and holding a trophy now, and the tournament that I played, not | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
dropping a set, it's magical. I can't believe it yet. | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
CHEERING It's too much, really. Now, we have | :10:53. | :11:02. | |
to talk records, because you won your first Grand Slam here. Over the | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
years, you've been breaking other champions' records, but now you have | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
your own record. The eighth Wimbledon title, the only man in the | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
history of Wimbledon to ever win it eight times. Yeah, it's... | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
CHEERING Yeah, I mean, I guess again it's | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
disbelief, that I can achieve such heights. I wasn't sure if I'd ever | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
be here again in another finals, after last year, and I've had some | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
tough ones, losing to Novak in 14 and 15. But I was believed I could | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
maybe come back and do it again. If you can believe, you can go really | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
far in your life, and I did that and I'm happy that I kept on believing | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
and screaming. And here I am today. It's fantastic. -- believing and | :11:54. | :12:03. | |
dreaming. And I know what it means to you also to play on this court. | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
It means the world to you, and the fans have showed their appreciation | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
for everything you've done over the years. Such a special court. So many | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
legends have marked this court, the women's game, the men's game, | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
doubles, mixed, you name it. To be here today with Marin and | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
celebrating tennis, in a way, it's very special. From day one to finals | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
day, Centre Court is always packed, and we the players appreciate that | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
so much. It's a dream to play gay, and I hope it wasn't my last match | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
and I hope I can come back next year and tried content for the title. -- | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
it's a dream to play here. When you won in 2012, your girls were there. | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
Now your boys are there. I know! They have no clothes what's going | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
on. -- they have no clue. They think this is probably a nice playground, | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
but it's not quite like that here. Hopefully one day they'll | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
understand. But it's very special. And do your girls enjoyed watching | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
you play? They enjoyed watching a little bit. They come for the | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
finals, I guess! But it's a wonderful moment for us as a family, | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
and I'd like to thank my team. Everybody is amazing. To Marin's | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
team as well, you guys worked so hard. But this one is for us. Thank | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
you, everybody. Thank you, Switzerland. And we say thank you to | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
you as well. Ladies and gentlemen, Wimbledon champion Roger Federer! | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
CHEERING COMMENTATOR: And the two girls are | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
probably slightly offended, because they know exactly what's going on, | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
but the boys clearly don't. Wonderful. The traditional photo | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
call taking place in front of the royal box. And a couple of layers of | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
photographers behind a rope. And these are the pictures that will be | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
beamed out around the world. They go around so quickly now, this | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
wonderful image. Not hard to see why this is the world's most marketable | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
athlete he speaks so well, and he plays so beautifully. Records seem | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
to fall every time he to the court. Who would have thought the | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
floodgates would open here at Wimbledon, in terms of his success? | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
-- every time he to the courts. He beat Bjorkman and Sampras in 2001 on | :14:46. | :14:53. | |
this very court. The match against Sampras heralded the start of | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
something special. But he lost in the next year in the first round. | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
Seeded in the top ten. From that point on, Philippoussis and Andy | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
Roddick on two occasions, Rafa Nadal and Murray at all succumbed to this | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
man. Only Djokovic has beaten him in the final. Djokovic and Nadal in | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
2008, one of the greatest matches of all time. -- of all time. Marin | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
Cilic has nothing to be embarrassed about. He's been outplayed by quite | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
possibly the best male player that has ever lived. His parents are | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
bound to be very proud of him. But this is Roger's stage, as so often | :15:38. | :16:03. | |
in the past. He must have a house to keep them all in, he has won so many | :16:04. | :16:11. | |
tournament titles, 93 in total. Over $90 million in prize money, probably | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
ten times that in endorsements. The chairman of the All England Club is | :16:16. | :16:25. | |
with Marin Cilic. A player who has won and lost many times himself, so | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
he will understand. It's a men's tournament which looked | :16:28. | :16:43. | |
like Roger Federer's to win or lose for some time as leader after Andy | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
Murray was unable to give of his best. Djokovic retired against Tomas | :16:47. | :16:57. | |
Berdych. And really, he does conduct affairs. Michael great musician, | :16:58. | :17:08. | |
it's remarkable to see how many people succumb to this man is | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
tennis, it is a devastating thing to watch, because it is a devastating | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
thing to watch, because it rather beautiful at the same time as being | :17:18. | :17:18. | |
quite violent. And he now joins Helen Wills Moodie, | :17:19. | :17:45. | |
who was such a global celebrity at 19 Grand Slams. Records continue to | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
tumble, slightly ominous the fact that he said he was HOPING to be | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
back next year! We very much hope that he IS! Steffi Graf has won 22 | :17:57. | :18:09. | |
Grand Slams, Serena Williams 23, and she will surely be back after the | :18:10. | :18:20. | |
birth of her first child. Martina Navratilova was playing out on | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
court, still loving the game in the seniors doubles, and Chris Evert | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
meanwhile looks on. As Roger Federer pulls one ran slam ahead. It's not | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
just about the records, though, it's the joy with which he goes about his | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
business. Generous words for Marin Cilic, this year's beaten finalist, | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
joining a long list of others. So, there we are a, a reminder that | :18:41. | :19:00. | |
as this court gets a little bit of a clean-up job done, and they replaced | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
the net with the doubles met, I will remind you that the mixed doubles | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
final is ahead, and it's going to be a good one. Jamie Murray and Martina | :19:10. | :19:26. | |
Hingis, seeded number one. After an hour and 41 minutes, the agents, the | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
parents, Mirka, who has been alongside what a for so many of his | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
triumphs. And, you know, he has only lost a couple of matches this year. | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
Tommy Haas in Stuttgart and one in Dubai. That's it. He's winning | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
everything, again, he's 35 and shouldn't be! He could be playing in | :19:50. | :19:58. | |
the seniors events here! It was up this point last year that he took | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
six months off after losing to Milos Raonic, just to rest his injuries | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
and freshen up. He said he was playing well, rested and confident | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
ahead of his semifinal. Well, he certainly was. Andy Murray, unable | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
to defend the Championship, or actually give his best in sets four | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
and five, despite trying in determined fashion. Andy Murray, we | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
await news and hope that he's going to be OK going forward. Medical | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
tests no doubt being carried out on him. Andy Murray remains the world | :20:33. | :20:40. | |
number one player as far as the computer is concerned civil Roger | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
Federer has won two of the first three Grand Slams this year. Once | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
again it's Roger Federer as champion of Wimbledon, also the Australian | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
Open champion, Rafa Nadal winning a tenth at the French. A feast of | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
tennis this year for that great champion to enjoy, Rod Laver. And | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
that's it from the men's singles Championship at Wimbledon. Marin | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
Cilic did not really do himself justice out there, we will find out | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
more about that, as we celebrate the one and only Roger Federer. | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
SUE BARKER: An eighth Wimbledon title, the record of being the first | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
man to hold eight in the history of the Championships is not lost on | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
Roger. That's what drives him now, the pursuit of glory, to break these | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
records. And this is his home, Centre Court - he loves it and we | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
love watching him out there. Roger Federer, champion yet again. His | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
eighth Wimbledon, his 19th ran slam title. Tim and Boris have made their | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
way up from the commentary box. Probably not the match we expected | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
and maybe not the way Bodger would have liked to have won it, but you | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
have to feel sorry for Marin Cilic? That's right. It will be interesting | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
to hear what he says after the match. At this moment in time, if I | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
had to guess, I think he was overcome with the emotion of the | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
whole event. Laying six matches to get through to the final, there's | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
obviously the big build-up, and he's played some great tennis, to play | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
Federer in a Wimbledon final is the ultimate challenge, and I felt, for | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
the first 10-15 minutes, we have a real match on our hands, he had | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
break point, he was aggressive from the baseline. He was looking to take | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
his opportunities, and then suddenly, within about ten minutes, | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
Federer got the break point and the break of serve and started to run | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
away with things. In the second set, to see him breaking down at the | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
change of ends, it was sad to see other book it was tough to watch. | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
And when he finally got the trainer out, Boris, it was obviously an | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
injury that he has carried onto the court, and that's awful? Yeah, Marin | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
Cilic is one of the most respected players in the locker room, he never | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
retired from the match, he finish it. He found a way to finish but it | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
was heartbreaking. He was crying. The whole of Croatia was crying with | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
him at that moment. You wanted to see a proper match, because he had | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
played so well in the Championship. Roger, of course, wanted to win the | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
match, but not like this. He wanted to have more of a proper match. | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
Let's take a look at some of the points. We noticed that about | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
halfway through the first set, he wasn't hitting the ball as hard, | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
about six miles per hour less, and he stopped moving? That's it. He was | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
gesticulating about his footwork or lack of it. When you're a big guy, | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
suddenly when you're nervous, the footwork can struggle. He wasn't | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
making those little small adjusting steps that you need on any surface, | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
let alone a grass court. The unforced errors went up. He hit a | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
good serve there and looked to dominate the point, but just finding | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
the net. More and more errors came, especially from the forehand side. | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
At this stage in the match, he was just making life more and more | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
difficult for himself. Another one here, at 15-30 in the third set, | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
already down two sets. It will be interesting to see and hear what he | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
has to say after the match. But there's no doubt he will be bit | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
silly disappointed with his performance. And how emotional he | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
was as well. When he sat down, I think it all poured out, because he | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
just knew, I'm not going to win this match playing this way? No, he | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
really wanted to hide. Wimbledon is the loneliest face in the world if | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
you are in that state of mind. It is very sad to see. But there's no | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
hiding place. Eventually you have to continue on your own merit. He got | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
the doctor out I will be interested to find out what they were | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
discussing. But I felt that he really hurt his foot, a big list, | :24:57. | :25:07. | |
early in the first set. There is not much the doctor can do. He will have | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
a super trainer in his team who will have done everything to make that as | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
good as it could be, and I think that is what hit him - I have given | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
myself every chance to make this injury work, and it hasn't worked. | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
That's right. You're looking over your shoulder for your team-mates, | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
but you're playing an individual sport, you're playing against | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
Federer, that's man combat. Was always going to be very difficult, | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
because you've got to have that clarity of thought. If he's | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
struggling with an injury, if he's really emotional on the court, then | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
the last thing he'll be able to think about is where he is going to | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
hit his spots on the serve, how he is going to control things from the | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
back of the court. And it went very quickly. The first two sets were | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
done in the. You can't just leave the court to slow things down. | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
Before he was able to regroup at the start of the third, the damage had | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
been done. You know what it's like to be the champion, to have that | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
lovely walk around the court and let the fans take your photo, it must be | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
the proudest moment? It is great and I think it is important. Because | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
ultimately, we play for the fans, we don't know who's watching at home, | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
we can only feel the atmosphere on Centre Court. Those people coming to | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
support you, they deserve that moment and it is a wonderful | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
tradition at this tournament. And also, this means so much to Roger, | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
because that was in some ways his motivation to come back, to try and | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
break these records? Yeah, and for me, his clarity of thought, the | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
decisions that he's made going back 12 months ago, his knee obviously | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
wasn't right when he lost in the semifinals, he consulted with his | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
team and spoke to the doctor and they said, you need three months to | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
get this right. He said, well, three months is going to take me post-US | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
open, I might as well write a whole year off to give myself a chance. | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
And then he comes back, hits the ground running to win Australia, | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
Indian Wells and Miami as well. But then to say, no clay-court season, | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
people were questioning that. The difference between one or two French | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
opens, and the difference between seven and choke Wimbledons is | :27:25. | :27:33. | |
absolutely massive. You could say, you're putting all your eggs in one | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
basket, but it has worked out quite well! We were waiting for Roger to | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
appear, but he has to do the interviews for the other nations, | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
and he speaks so many languages, that he has been in the for many | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
minutes, but you can't tie of this, can you? I think the chairman was | :27:51. | :27:53. | |
going to make sure that he had a chat as well! I think the press | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
conferences now will last longer than the match! He wants to give | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
everybody that time! Those are the moments you dream about as a little | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
boy. When you grow up, I'm sure he had his heroes winning Wimbledon, | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
and one day, to have your name One-time on the board is | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
life-changing, to have it eight times, I can't even imagine what | :28:20. | :28:22. | |
it's like. Pointing out William Renshaw, Goran Ivanisevic, the only | :28:23. | :28:30. | |
Croatian to have won the Championships before. Thanks for | :28:31. | :28:37. | |
reminding me of that, Sue! I think the chairman was just pointing out | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
that it's William Renshaw who was the other man to have seven titles, | :28:42. | :28:54. | |
along with Pete Sampras. This is where the history of Wimbledon comes | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
out, which Hameed metres not happen at the other Grand Slams, the | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
routine that they have here, the honours board as you walk on and | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
then you go up to meet even the Royal Box, and then out to display | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
the trophy to the fans outside. Very much so, and the Royal Box is called | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
so because you have royalty sitting there, and that's what makes the | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
tournament so prestigious, so special. All the Majors are | :29:21. | :29:26. | |
important. But this is, we call it the big daddy of them all. It | :29:27. | :29:34. | |
certainly is! And voted by the public, for the 14th consecutive | :29:35. | :29:37. | |
year, the most popular player on tour. This is not just the British | :29:38. | :29:43. | |
public, its global. It is amazing. It is incredible to see him when he | :29:44. | :29:46. | |
plays around the world, because innocence, every game is a home | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
game, because the support he has is absolutely incredible. I think | :29:52. | :29:59. | |
that's Mirka. And his mother's there as well. They're very much a team, | :30:00. | :30:07. | |
Tim? They are an amazing team and it's a big entourage, with four | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
children travelling around the world, the coach, the trainer. It | :30:13. | :30:16. | |
really is a team effort. And don't forget Dad as well! At the end of | :30:17. | :30:22. | |
the day, he wants to be able to focus on his preparation and | :30:23. | :30:25. | |
performance, and he couldn't do that without all the support of his team. | :30:26. | :30:35. | |
It is a really good point. Roger says, if Mirka gets tired of | :30:36. | :30:43. | |
travelling, Roger will stop. Manuel Santana, Rod Laver, who has a very | :30:44. | :30:44. | |
close bond with Roger Federer. Everybody wants to shake his hand. | :30:45. | :31:01. | |
We saw is Royal Highness, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
Roger always talked about how Stefan Edberg inspired him as a youngster. | :31:07. | :31:16. | |
Yes, he definitely brought another attacking element to his game, | :31:17. | :31:21. | |
looking to get the net a bit more. Tim Phillips, the former chairman, | :31:22. | :31:25. | |
and his wife Elizabeth. Everybody wants to congratulate him. We saw | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
just going out of the picture Tony God 's his agent and friend. Is that | :31:31. | :31:36. | |
the easiest job in the world? Yes, it's important that people know | :31:37. | :31:45. | |
that. Stefan, give it back! Stefan helped him a lot. In some ways, he | :31:46. | :31:51. | |
wanted him to come forward and be more attacking, as he was. He was 14 | :31:52. | :31:57. | |
or 15 when he played the final against Novak. -- it was 14 or 15. | :31:58. | :32:05. | |
We always felt that Roger in the last couple of years was playing too | :32:06. | :32:08. | |
much from the baseline, and Stefan Edberg convinced him, such a good | :32:09. | :32:13. | |
volley, why don't you take advantage of it? Who's that, Tim? It's my mum | :32:14. | :32:22. | |
and dad, crashing the action! They know him well as well. We just saw | :32:23. | :32:29. | |
Roger Taylor. Everybody just wants to say well done to this great | :32:30. | :32:34. | |
champion. This is a historic moment, but it's the moment that's going to | :32:35. | :32:37. | |
delight the fans. They had a long wait. | :32:38. | :33:00. | |
Another beautiful piece of tradition. And look at the fans the | :33:01. | :33:08. | |
other side, trying to get through, and they are being stopped. I've | :33:09. | :33:13. | |
never seen Wimbledon so busy. Maybe the weather or something, coming to | :33:14. | :33:17. | |
see a little bit of history made, but thousands of people in the | :33:18. | :33:23. | |
grounds. A lot of people have been watching on the hill and some of the | :33:24. | :33:27. | |
outside courts. I think they used the screens to let people watch the | :33:28. | :33:32. | |
action on Centre Court. When you see that many people coming out to get a | :33:33. | :33:36. | |
glimpse of the champion, it's definitely a special atmosphere. And | :33:37. | :33:43. | |
it's wonderful that come on court, he said he wants to come back. And | :33:44. | :33:48. | |
you just have a feeling he may come back even better. Last year we were | :33:49. | :33:52. | |
not so sure, this year it's convincing. He finished the | :33:53. | :33:56. | |
tournament is on his own terms. Tennis needs him for a couple more | :33:57. | :34:00. | |
years. He is so invested with the game. He has the biggest following | :34:01. | :34:07. | |
of any sportsman in the world, not just tennis. He talked about his | :34:08. | :34:11. | |
family, and you've been around the house ear. He is a dad. Yes, he is. | :34:12. | :34:20. | |
It's amazing how he's able to keep the balance, because he also knows | :34:21. | :34:24. | |
he's got to make sure he's doing all the necessary things and, as you get | :34:25. | :34:28. | |
older, it doesn't get easier. But the attention to detail with his | :34:29. | :34:33. | |
training, the stretching, to make sure that when he's on court he is | :34:34. | :34:37. | |
able to move as fluidly as he does, it's going to be interesting, I | :34:38. | :34:40. | |
think. We've reflected on the previous 12 months. Waving as he | :34:41. | :34:46. | |
goes back to the locker room. It's going to be interesting to see what | :34:47. | :34:50. | |
happens in the next 12, 24 months, even the next 36. How long is he | :34:51. | :34:57. | |
going to... Again, the popularity with all the staff around the | :34:58. | :35:03. | |
courts. Mary Joe Fernandez there. And their children. | :35:04. | :35:15. | |
I think we have two players watching this secretly somewhere, one is | :35:16. | :35:20. | |
called Murray, one is called Djokovic. Last year, it was the | :35:21. | :35:26. | |
other way round. I believe these players take it as an incentive and | :35:27. | :35:30. | |
a motivation to come back. He's not going to let us go any further. | :35:31. | :35:35. | |
That's for sure! Roger is in the safety of the locker room with his | :35:36. | :35:42. | |
eighth Wimbledon title. Well done, Roger. Today has been all about the | :35:43. | :35:46. | |
numbers game, with Roger Federer creating history and putting eight | :35:47. | :35:49. | |
into great, but the question now is, who is number 13? | :35:50. | :35:59. | |
BIRDSONG AND FOOTSTEPS . | :36:00. | :36:31. | |
There you go, Jodie Whittaker, the 13th Doctor Who. That's just been | :36:32. | :36:57. | |
announced. It's all about numbers here. We've talked about Roger | :36:58. | :37:03. | |
Federer with his 19th Grand Slam title, his eighth Wimbledon title. | :37:04. | :37:06. | |
We've still got tennis to come on that famous court, with a wonderful | :37:07. | :37:10. | |
mixed doubles match to look forward to, with British players on either | :37:11. | :37:14. | |
side of the net, Jamie Murray and his partner, Martina Hingis, the one | :37:15. | :37:17. | |
seed up against Henri Kontinen and Heather Watson. That will be in | :37:18. | :37:22. | |
about 20, 25 minutes. There will be a bit of a break. I mean, I'd love | :37:23. | :37:31. | |
to talk to you about the mixed doubles, because it's lovely for | :37:32. | :37:34. | |
British tennis, but will the crowd know who to cheer for? I thought you | :37:35. | :37:41. | |
were going to ask me about Doctor Who and I was nervous! It's a great | :37:42. | :37:44. | |
way for the tournament to come to a conclusion. Hingis and Murray, a new | :37:45. | :37:53. | |
championship. They party dropped games. Yes, they've been impressive. | :37:54. | :37:58. | |
And it's good to see Kontinen and Watson back in the final. Should be | :37:59. | :38:03. | |
a good atmosphere. I enjoyed playing it and I love watching it talking | :38:04. | :38:10. | |
about Roger Federer and how good he was, he faced a break point, and | :38:11. | :38:16. | |
then he saved that. He was just playing some superhuman tennis in | :38:17. | :38:21. | |
that first set. After the first ten, 15 minutes, where he was finding his | :38:22. | :38:26. | |
feet, he started to relax and get his arms moving. Then there is no | :38:27. | :38:29. | |
stopping him. He started control Centre Court, controlling the tempo | :38:30. | :38:37. | |
of the rallies. Running from left to right, and the outcome became | :38:38. | :38:41. | |
obvious. He seemed to be hitting the ball harder and harder. One thing | :38:42. | :38:47. | |
he's been doing on passing shots is not always looking to go for the | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
winner with the first shot, especially against a big player. | :38:53. | :38:57. | |
He's going straight down the middle. For some of these guys, it's much | :38:58. | :39:03. | |
simpler to lunch to the side rather than get out of the way. You see the | :39:04. | :39:08. | |
way he has picked his way through the draw, playing five tie-breaks | :39:09. | :39:13. | |
and winning them all. When it's been tight, he's been able to raise his | :39:14. | :39:16. | |
level. The standout moment was against Milos Raonic, and he hit | :39:17. | :39:24. | |
five forehand winners. I thought Berdych deserve a lot of credit and | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
he played fantastic tennis with no real reward. He hung in and was able | :39:29. | :39:36. | |
to impose her game. But Federer dextran gears. He has only lost two | :39:37. | :39:45. | |
matches and, in those, he had match points. This is almost superhuman. | :39:46. | :39:50. | |
We can't emphasise enough the very fact of the record he's broken. | :39:51. | :39:55. | |
Talking about tough competition, he is pretty much younger, everybody is | :39:56. | :40:01. | |
pretty much younger than him, but he finds ways to win and do it | :40:02. | :40:05. | |
consistently, week in, week out, on every surface apart from clay. You | :40:06. | :40:12. | |
think, where is he going to go now? We thought it was impossible to get | :40:13. | :40:17. | |
a team, but now he has done 18 and 19 back-to-back. Will it be 20? You | :40:18. | :40:25. | |
wouldn't bet against it. How difficult is it to maintain that | :40:26. | :40:31. | |
level year after year? We are going to back to the early 2000s. I think | :40:32. | :40:37. | |
his wife and kids and the family background is his supporting base. | :40:38. | :40:40. | |
He couldn't do what he does without them, and he is the first to embrace | :40:41. | :40:46. | |
that. Maybe the struggle with some of the other players if they are | :40:47. | :40:50. | |
trying to please everybody, but Roger has found the perfect timing, | :40:51. | :40:54. | |
when he is a tennis player, when he is a family man. That is the real | :40:55. | :41:00. | |
reason he is still so successful. We have seen how much effort the | :41:01. | :41:03. | |
players have to put in with training, we've seen it with Murray, | :41:04. | :41:09. | |
Djokovic, Nadal told how does Federer find the time? He is putting | :41:10. | :41:14. | |
as many hours, if not more. Sometimes when Federer goes out on | :41:15. | :41:20. | |
court, he makes it look so easy. The technique is effortless. People take | :41:21. | :41:22. | |
for granted the training that he does. He is as meticulous. At the | :41:23. | :41:29. | |
age of 35, he knows what works for him. I have seen him around the | :41:30. | :41:33. | |
locker room is, doing the different exercises for his lower back, which | :41:34. | :41:37. | |
he can struggle with. You can also struggle with his shoulder, with all | :41:38. | :41:40. | |
of the serving. Fundamentally, I think Boris is right with the family | :41:41. | :41:44. | |
live, but also he loves what he does. When he's out on court, when | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
he's practising... I saw him practising with Berdych. He was | :41:50. | :41:52. | |
having so much fun out there. This is his hobby, not his job. If it | :41:53. | :41:59. | |
stays this way, there is no reason why he can't keep playing. I don't | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
want to put a time frame on it. We were talking about the Olympics in | :42:04. | :42:06. | |
Rio, oh, he's going to stop after that. Well, I think we need to check | :42:07. | :42:11. | |
where the next few Olympics are going to be! Won in 2012 here, so to | :42:12. | :42:19. | |
go so long without a Grand Slam title, it would be very easy to walk | :42:20. | :42:25. | |
away. I think he had serious doubts he could win one, let alone two | :42:26. | :42:30. | |
more. The question is, ultimately, how much do you love your sport, how | :42:31. | :42:35. | |
much do you love to compete, how much do you love the lifestyle? If | :42:36. | :42:39. | |
that's in place, the results will come. It's all based on a healthy | :42:40. | :42:43. | |
body, but it's what he loves doing. That is why it is out on the | :42:44. | :42:46. | |
practice court, and why he enjoys these moments. That's how many | :42:47. | :42:51. | |
victories, and some really close ones will remember the Andy Roddick | :42:52. | :42:56. | |
won? He only broke him in the last game, the only break of serve in the | :42:57. | :43:01. | |
match. One of the time I remember speaking to Andy Roddick, they had a | :43:02. | :43:05. | |
rain delay and they walked back to the locker was 1-1, and Roddick was | :43:06. | :43:10. | |
following Federer and he looked at Roger and he said, after two sets, | :43:11. | :43:14. | |
he wasn't sweating. Roddick said he had gone through about four shirts | :43:15. | :43:19. | |
at that stage and he was totally psyched out afterwards, but he's | :43:20. | :43:21. | |
come through some unbelievable matches. In 2008, when he lost to | :43:22. | :43:27. | |
Rafa Nadal, that was one of the best matches I've ever seen. But to be in | :43:28. | :43:33. | |
11 Wimbledon finals and come out on top eight times is impressive. We've | :43:34. | :43:37. | |
looked at that statistic, now lets see him in action with his eight bit | :43:38. | :43:43. | |
we set Wimbledon. -- with his eight victories at Wimbledon. Arguably the | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
greatest champion of all time. Roger Federer takes another step | :43:49. | :44:06. | |
towards history. Santana, Rod Laver, who has a very | :44:07. | :44:24. | |
close bond with Roger Federer. The first man to win eight | :44:25. | :45:08. | |
Championships... His appearance may have changed but one thing remains | :45:09. | :45:12. | |
the same, his greatness. He has a love affair with Centre Court in the | :45:13. | :45:15. | |
same way that you did, Boris, it is a special place to play? We have | :45:16. | :45:21. | |
seen it with Cilic, it can eat you up alive. You need to be | :45:22. | :45:29. | |
comfortable. Either you're believing something you can't really believe, | :45:30. | :45:34. | |
or it's the opposite effect, very few players have really dominated | :45:35. | :45:38. | |
the Centre Court, like Federer, like Sampras, like Bjorn Borg, at times | :45:39. | :45:43. | |
like Nadal, and I had a good match or two on it as well! It is the most | :45:44. | :45:47. | |
intimidating court I have ever played on. And I think for most | :45:48. | :45:52. | |
people as well. But for Roger, you just feel that his love for this | :45:53. | :45:57. | |
club and this tournament, you won him to keep coming back, because | :45:58. | :46:01. | |
you're a long time retired. Definitely. He spoke to you about | :46:02. | :46:05. | |
some of his most amazing memories, and eight goes back to the juniors | :46:06. | :46:09. | |
when he won and was receiving the trophy on Centre Court. It is | :46:10. | :46:16. | |
amazing and important to look back, I think, here we are in 2017, it was | :46:17. | :46:21. | |
interesting seeing those pictures of him, we see players getting bigger | :46:22. | :46:23. | |
and stronger, and if anything, Federer looks leaner now in 2017 | :46:24. | :46:28. | |
than he did perhaps in his early days, and that's a reflection of how | :46:29. | :46:33. | |
meticulous his training is. I think it's also important to reflect and | :46:34. | :46:37. | |
remember on a couple of dodgy jackets that he had as well! You're | :46:38. | :46:41. | |
not talking about the white one, that was magnificent?! Well, that's | :46:42. | :46:47. | |
debatable! Can he come back and win it again, you have already set he | :46:48. | :46:53. | |
can win the US Open? Why not, he's the master of scheduling, he makes | :46:54. | :46:56. | |
his own schedule and he earns the right to do so. He's got to be very | :46:57. | :47:01. | |
careful now what he plays in the summer. Obviously, he wants to be in | :47:02. | :47:07. | |
top shape in the Open. He will probably do the O2 in November, and | :47:08. | :47:13. | |
then he'll be thinking, what are my priorities in 2018, and he will be | :47:14. | :47:17. | |
planning out exactly what's best for him. Aren't we lucky to have been | :47:18. | :47:21. | |
around in this Irrawaddy what a wonderful champion he is. Thank you | :47:22. | :47:25. | |
both of you for your comments throughout the Championships. We've | :47:26. | :47:31. | |
got the mixed doubles final coming up two Brits involved. But first, | :47:32. | :47:35. | |
we're going to look back to yesterday, and it was Garbine | :47:36. | :47:41. | |
Muguruza winning her first title here, defeating five-time champion | :47:42. | :47:44. | |
Venus Williams. After the match she came up here to talk to me. | :47:45. | :47:57. | |
ANDREW COTTER: Challenge. It might end this way... So, we look to the | :47:58. | :48:10. | |
screen, if it is long, Garbine Muguruza is the champion. And what a | :48:11. | :48:20. | |
victory for Garbine Muguruza! She is the Wimbledon champion, and tiers of | :48:21. | :48:29. | |
despair a couple of years ago, as she lost to Serena Williams, but | :48:30. | :48:32. | |
overwhelming joy in our. She is the champion. | :48:33. | :48:40. | |
Has it sunk in yet? Well, now that I see the images, not really. I can't | :48:41. | :48:45. | |
believe that I was there a few hours ago, it is incredible. It was a | :48:46. | :48:52. | |
shame, in a way, the Hawk-Eye challenge, but you knew it was out, | :48:53. | :48:56. | |
didn't you? Kind of! I wasn't sure if I should challenge. Yes, it was a | :48:57. | :49:02. | |
weird way to end it, but it was good! And you must realise that the | :49:03. | :49:07. | |
crowd have really taken you to their hearts with the manner in which you | :49:08. | :49:13. | |
play. Yes, I felt that support and I felt it two years ago as well. For | :49:14. | :49:17. | |
me to play in such an incredible environment, it's so exciting. You | :49:18. | :49:22. | |
didn't feel like running up to the box, like Pat Cash used to do? Not | :49:23. | :49:27. | |
really. I was so shocked. I'm like, sit down, don't move, just breathe | :49:28. | :49:33. | |
and enjoy the moment, and I will see my team after. I have interviewed a | :49:34. | :49:37. | |
lot of champions on court, and I can always tell, you don't really know | :49:38. | :49:41. | |
what has happened, it is too difficult to take it in? It is, | :49:42. | :49:44. | |
because it's so hard to achieve that. It's just a few people in the | :49:45. | :49:49. | |
world that can play a final, and to hold that trophy, it's a dream come | :49:50. | :49:53. | |
true, literally. These will be lovely images for you to remember. | :49:54. | :49:57. | |
You're walk increase of the court, and then you do something with your | :49:58. | :50:04. | |
trophy... And then we're going to take you behind the scenes, lovely | :50:05. | :50:08. | |
photos. I have seen on your Twitter feed, you have already got a photo | :50:09. | :50:14. | |
of that? Yes! It is a lovely moment, taking it around the Centre Court. | :50:15. | :50:19. | |
It is, it's only Wimbledon, and it feels good to show the crowd, and | :50:20. | :50:23. | |
the crowd show their appreciation also. I don't know anyone has done | :50:24. | :50:28. | |
that before. I think I've seen it before, actually. I wish I could | :50:29. | :50:33. | |
keep it, it's a beautiful trophy! And how did this feel, it was | :50:34. | :50:40. | |
special? It is, because I have to put my name here, and to see it come | :50:41. | :50:45. | |
true, it's incredible. You said, you don't want to look at the roll of | :50:46. | :50:48. | |
honour, it almost makes you nervous? Yes. It is so emotional. I realised | :50:49. | :51:02. | |
everybody was clapping and welcoming you, and I was like, oh, my god, I'm | :51:03. | :51:07. | |
playing the final, it's happening! And look at the amount of people who | :51:08. | :51:12. | |
were out there? I know, it's incredible, I was like, what should | :51:13. | :51:17. | |
I do?! It is lovely, I've noticed that they took the trophy away very | :51:18. | :51:25. | |
quickly, that's a shame! I know! I think it is the most beautiful | :51:26. | :51:32. | |
trophy in sport. It is, it is a special, it's gold and silver. You | :51:33. | :51:39. | |
looked quite emotional with the fans. I'm always emotional with the | :51:40. | :51:47. | |
fans, because they're what you pay for. That's my fitness coach, Jim | :51:48. | :51:52. | |
always so excited! That's the doctor who was helping me. All my team was | :51:53. | :52:02. | |
here, my manager... And we were all saying, where is Conchita Martinez? | :52:03. | :52:14. | |
And there she is! It was a fantastic moment, previous champion, and now, | :52:15. | :52:20. | |
new champion. You have only been working with Conchita for a short | :52:21. | :52:23. | |
time, what has she brought? A lot of calmness and experienced. It's very | :52:24. | :52:30. | |
hard for me, especially, because I get super nervous for the Grand | :52:31. | :52:33. | |
Slams, I take them very seriously, have someone coming you down, who | :52:34. | :52:37. | |
tells you you're doing good, for real, because she has the | :52:38. | :52:39. | |
experience. If she says you're ready, because you're ready. So I | :52:40. | :52:45. | |
was confident. But your parents, where were they? They were at home. | :52:46. | :52:50. | |
I think they get nervous if they go to the court. I cannot watch a | :52:51. | :52:56. | |
match, even, so imagine family! But you had a lot of supporters, and the | :52:57. | :53:01. | |
king of Spain was there, you got to meet him after? I know, first-time. | :53:02. | :53:08. | |
And actually, I didn't want to look to the Royal Box. I was like, don't | :53:09. | :53:18. | |
look. I looked afterwards! And in the background, you can see Arantxa | :53:19. | :53:23. | |
Sanchez-Vicario as well. Yes, I always see her, she's so nice, and | :53:24. | :53:26. | |
she gives you a lot of tips, it's incredible. Did you get other | :53:27. | :53:30. | |
messages from other players and Spanish players? I got one from | :53:31. | :53:35. | |
Rafa, a really nice message and a lot of people but I did not have the | :53:36. | :53:39. | |
time yet to read them! It's going to be hard to answer all of them, but I | :53:40. | :53:44. | |
felt a lot of support! And you held your nerve, that first set of it was | :53:45. | :53:49. | |
so crucial, so tight? Very crucial. We both know that that set was going | :53:50. | :53:56. | |
to control a little bit the match. I was happy that I stayed strong, just | :53:57. | :54:05. | |
waiting. This was a 19 stroke rally, do you remember much about it? I do. | :54:06. | :54:10. | |
I felt like I had to go for it, I had to be solid and show no | :54:11. | :54:16. | |
weakness. You say you go for it, we worked out on the stats that you | :54:17. | :54:20. | |
were hitting the ball five miles per hour faster when you were break | :54:21. | :54:24. | |
point up or down, is that just adrenaline? No, I think when you're | :54:25. | :54:33. | |
nervous, you cannot doubt. You've got to go for your shots and not | :54:34. | :54:36. | |
wait for mistakes. Maybe the racket was talking there! It is easier said | :54:37. | :54:49. | |
than done! Yes! We were thinking, in the second set, what was going | :54:50. | :54:52. | |
through your mind as you were racing away, game after game? I was | :54:53. | :54:57. | |
thinking, keep doing the same, try not to destruct... Every ball, every | :54:58. | :55:04. | |
point, every shot, go for it. Take the highway, like we say in Spanish. | :55:05. | :55:10. | |
I'm here, I feel confident, I'm not getting out of here. Absolutely. | :55:11. | :55:15. | |
It's lovely, you came here two years ago, and I remember the on Centre | :55:16. | :55:21. | |
Court. So, you have felt the other side, does that make this victory | :55:22. | :55:24. | |
even more special? Yeah. I know what it's like to lose. It's completely | :55:25. | :55:30. | |
different. Losing a Grand Slam final, or winning. I was like, this | :55:31. | :55:36. | |
year I have to do something to change that. I'm super proud, | :55:37. | :55:41. | |
because it's a great feeling, because you never know if you're | :55:42. | :55:45. | |
going to have the chance again to play a Wimbledon final. I have the | :55:46. | :55:48. | |
trophy now! Was Wimbledon something you grew up watching? Yeah, | :55:49. | :55:56. | |
actually. I grew up watching Venus and Serena play, I said it in the | :55:57. | :56:00. | |
ceremony and everybody started to laugh, but that was the perfect | :56:01. | :56:04. | |
final for me. A lot of incredible moments, and Rafa also. They only | :56:05. | :56:09. | |
laughed because you're so young! And you've beaten Serena and Venus in a | :56:10. | :56:15. | |
Grand Slam final, I think you're the only person to have done that. I | :56:16. | :56:19. | |
didn't know that. I only play the Williams sisters in the final! Beat | :56:20. | :56:30. | |
the best! I know it's the champions dinner tomorrow, and I think you | :56:31. | :56:33. | |
were asked about who you would like to dance with, I think they've | :56:34. | :56:37. | |
stopped the dancing now. Oh really? You can ask! Not really, if it's not | :56:38. | :56:46. | |
necessarily! I'm a little bit shy! You only have to go up and do a | :56:47. | :56:50. | |
little interview now. So you can put your dancing shoes away! Well, we'll | :56:51. | :56:58. | |
see! Anyway, congratulations, a wonderful final and all the best for | :56:59. | :57:02. | |
the future. Great personality and a huge star. Wonderful for the women's | :57:03. | :57:09. | |
game, a new Wimbledon champion here. But a familiar face with the trophy | :57:10. | :57:14. | |
today, the great man himself, Roger Federer, defeating Marin Cilic, an | :57:15. | :57:20. | |
injured Marin Cilic, in three sets. This is how he sealed his record | :57:21. | :57:24. | |
eighth Wimbledon title. Quite fitting that it was done with an | :57:25. | :57:35. | |
ace. For Roger, another ace and he collects another Wimbledon trophy, | :57:36. | :57:39. | |
obviously, feeling for his opponent, Marin Cilic was injured and was not | :57:40. | :57:42. | |
at his best. Very emotional on court. But for Roger and his team, | :57:43. | :57:53. | |
which we just saw... He is the man at the helm, and everybody on Centre | :57:54. | :57:56. | |
Court standing to appreciate what he's done, not just today but over | :57:57. | :58:01. | |
the years. Since he first came here, winning the junior title. Walking | :58:02. | :58:07. | |
onto Centre Court, hoping to do exactly what that man did and come | :58:08. | :58:11. | |
here and win the title. Well, now, he's done it a record eight times. | :58:12. | :58:18. | |
And the applause just didn't stop on Centre Court! Shortly afterwards he | :58:19. | :58:22. | |
went outside to show the trophy to the public. And here he is making | :58:23. | :58:27. | |
his way up from the warm-down area. It doesn't even look like he's had a | :58:28. | :58:33. | |
match! The fans know that this is an opportunity, because Roger is making | :58:34. | :58:39. | |
his way over to the players' lawn, to meet up with his family and | :58:40. | :58:44. | |
friends. And then he'll have to go off to do his media duties, and that | :58:45. | :58:52. | |
will take some time as well. Everyone wanted to say well done to | :58:53. | :59:01. | |
this great champion. So, off he goes for his media duties. But here at | :59:02. | :59:06. | |
Wimbledon, a Lott has been happening elsewhere, and we can bring you | :59:07. | :59:08. | |
up-to-date with that right now. Great great news for Britain in the | :59:09. | :59:14. | |
ladies wheelchair doubles, because Jordanne Whiley and her partner Yui | :59:15. | :59:22. | |
Kamiji have taken it in three sets, 6-0 in the final set. Amazing, | :59:23. | :59:25. | |
because they had not played together since last year. And their opponents | :59:26. | :59:34. | |
with a silver medallists at the Paralympics last year, and De Groot | :59:35. | :59:36. | |
actually won the singles yesterday. So that was a thrilling victory for | :59:37. | :59:40. | |
Jordanne Whiley and Yui Kamiji, their fourth and second if the | :59:41. | :59:45. | |
modern title. And afterwards, they spoke to Clare Balding. | :59:46. | :59:52. | |
This is by far the most special for me, because I've been eight -- out | :59:53. | :59:59. | |
that eight months with injury, I haven't played for a year, and I | :00:00. | :00:03. | |
tried my hardest. They were such a strong team. I'm so happy. We can | :00:04. | :00:14. | |
see how thrilled you are. Yui, how are you feeling, and how special is | :00:15. | :00:23. | |
this moment? Sorry. I'd like to thank Jordanne for playing with me | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
again, and congratulations to Marjolein Buis and Diede De Groot, | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
and thank you to the audience for being here with us. Yes. | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
APPLAUSE They did, they were cheering for | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
you. I think all of us will remember the shout of, Yui, throughout what | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
you are eight arrested partnership. What is the secret to you getting | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
back that you are a horrific partnership. | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
I try my hardest for Yui, and that's what makes us such a special doubles | :01:01. | :01:10. | |
partnership. You make it as well. Very special to watch. Last word, | :01:11. | :01:19. | |
Jordanne, on the heart of both of you, who would like to thank? | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
Largely all of the crowd. It picks us up around the court. It means a | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
locked us for to be here. Thank you to my family who came out the | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
coaches up there, my boyfriend and my coach over there. Thank you to | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
everybody in the stadium. Congratulations, Yui Kamiji and | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
Jordanne Whiley! Emotional scenes out on court number | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
three, but well done to Jordanne Whiley and Yui Kamiji. Fourth time | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
here at Wimbledon. Elsewhere, the singles title went to Stefan Olsson, | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
conceded at the Championships. He put out the top seed, Gordon Reid, | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
in the opening round. He came through in a marathon 7-5 in the | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
third set against Gustavo Hernandez, the 23-year-old who had won the | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
Australian Open and was runner-up at the French Open. A first Wimbledon | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
title for Stefan Olsson. Emotional scenes in the wheelchair final. And | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
the Boys' Singles final, we've seen Roger Federer. Here's a look into | :02:26. | :02:35. | |
the future. It was won by an 18-year-old from Spain, winning 7-6, | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
6-3. He was on an 11 match winning streak, the opponent, until today, | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
and he was also going to be in the final of the Boys' Doubles the | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
trophy went to Spain. won by... 6-4, 6-3 vote of no | :02:50. | :03:15. | |
celebration for the United States today. They won the girls singles | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
but runners-up today. The new girls doubles champions. | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
They are still sitting on the hill, and British interest in the mixed | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
doubles coming up. We are going to Centre Court in a moment, but a | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
short time ago that players made their way onto Centre Court. They | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
all know this place so well. They've all won the mixed doubles title | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
here. Lets hear the welcome. CHEERING | :03:47. | :03:55. | |
I say that they've won the title, Gus Jamie Murray, of course, won the | :03:56. | :04:05. | |
title a few years ago with Jelena Jankovic, and Martina Hingis has won | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
so many titles, too many to mention. They are the top seeds, the | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
superpowers in this. Everybody predicting they would be the | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
favourites, but they are up against the defending champions, Henri | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
Kontinen and Heather Watson. We can sit back and enjoy this one. Mixed | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
doubles is so entertaining. Lets join Sam Smith and John implied -- | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
John Inverdale. There have been times in recent | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
years when the mixed doubles final has been something of an | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
afterthought after an epic men's bottle, and it has sometimes been a | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
confrontation between pairs you are occasionally barely household names | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
in their own house, but not today. This match has the feel of an | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
Olympic closing ceremony, virtually. Party time, happy faces, with some | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
of the best smiles in this sport. Two British players, one on this | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
site, a man who is effectively in this country Mr doubles. Jamie | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
Murray. The semifinal which featured Heather Watson and Henri Kontinen | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
was like a pantomime. There were people chanting marriage proposals | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
from the crowd, all sorts of shenanigans. This is a great way, | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
after hundreds of matches at Wimbledon 2017, which began two | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
Mondays ago, when Andy Murray walked onto the Centre Court to defend his | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
singles title, it ends with his brother on Centre Court, trying to | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
win a mixed doubles title, ten years after winning it with Jelena | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
Jankovic. They are playing the defending champions, Henri Kontinen | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
and Heather Watson. Sadly, having not been named the new Doctor Who, | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
Sam Smith is here. Looking forward to this? Very much so, and egging | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
each basket. Henri and Heather, at times, are | :05:54. | :06:40. | |
like a comedy duo, but Henri is good for Heather. He doesn't put any | :06:41. | :06:41. | |
pressure on her. That rally features the first volley | :06:42. | :07:12. | |
from Martina Hingis. I think I know what you're going to say. In the | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
preceding round, Sam offered to give me a pound for every volley that | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
Martinez the guests missed in the match, and -- that Martinez will -- | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
that Martina Hingis missed in the match, and she didn't miss any. I'll | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
donate a pound to a tennis charity every time Martina Hingis misses a | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
volley. We'll see where we are at the end of the match. Or a smash. | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
You are throwing a smash into the mix as well. You can tell it's the | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
end of term here, goodness me. Easy enough for the Finn. Not too | :07:49. | :08:09. | |
many Finns have made it onto the big stage in tennis. No. Is it's not a | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
big game there? Does the weather play the part? I think that other | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
sports dominate. Obviously the weather is a major issue. I would | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
imagine that Henri has got Finnish Sports Personality of the Year | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
wrapped up. Don't ask me who the other nominees are. A few Formula 1 | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
drivers. Apart from that. A lot of people, especially tennis | :08:37. | :08:54. | |
fans, talk about graduating their life through the names of tennis | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
players at Wimbledon, the heroes they go along with. I remember the | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
Agassi- Sampras Iran, all of that. It's amazing to think it's ten years | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
since Jamie won this. -- the Agassi- Sampras era. | :09:10. | :09:20. | |
And it is amazing to think, in that intervening period, what his brother | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
has achieved. And what he's achieved. | :09:27. | :09:38. | |
What a fantastic pick-up from Jamie Murray. He has the most brilliant | :09:39. | :09:47. | |
hands. But also what you have to remember is everything that Jamie's | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
achieved, it's been trained by this man. We'll talk about him a bit more | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
later. Is the cheering for that. I don't | :09:56. | :10:08. | |
know which side the crowd on today. I think it's a win-win situation. | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
Perhaps Sarah involvement with Martina over the years might sway | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
it. -- perhaps their involvement. Heather might get her smile that in | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
a moment. It's a battle of the smiles. Martina has a serious smile. | :10:29. | :10:37. | |
A pound. Was that a miss? OK, I'll speak to her afterwards. OK, one. | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
I've got a little chart. Murray hung in the air for ages | :10:46. | :11:06. | |
there. That was a beautifully clean strike. There are a couple of things | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
they have to sort out here. A bit more tricky, because Heather isn't | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
serving and volleying, so Henri really has to cover that line. | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
Because she's not serving and volleying, he hasn't got so many | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
options to poach. He can anticipate a crosscourt ball or react to a | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
ball, but they can't really plan anything out. But they can in the I | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
formation. I think she'll probably go down the T. That's the smart | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
place to serve. A signal behind the back there. | :11:51. | :12:02. | |
They have to remember that Murray and Hingis play to clearly defined | :12:03. | :12:17. | |
fashions. With the I formation, most of the time you play down the alley. | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
It's the best place to return to the majority of the time. | :12:24. | :12:38. | |
A gallant effort at retrieving by Heather. But this is the first break | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
point of the match. I thought Jamie was going to poach a | :12:44. | :13:18. | |
couple of times, and then a decisive intervention at the net. First break | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
of serve. And these two pairs have had very different passages to this | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
final. The top seeds, I'm sure you know, had a draw, and it looks like | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
the top seeds are at the top in a tennis championships, and they wind | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
their way to the final. Straight sets all the way through. But | :13:40. | :13:49. | |
Heather and Henri, in the middle of the draw, not seeded, working their | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
way in a zigzag kind of fashion towards the end, with a couple of | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
very tight 3-set matches in the quarters and semis. They've played a | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
lot more tennis together, but having said that their opponents are a much | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
more established there. They play in very different ways. Heather isn't | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
serving and volleying. They are more instinctive, with great chemistry | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
that's pulled them through a couple of those tight matches but I've | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
never quite sure what they're going to do. On the other side, Murray and | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
Hingis play defined patterns. You know exactly what they're going to | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
do at any given time. They are so good at maximising their court | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
coverage. They are more scientific, the way they go about their doubles. | :14:34. | :14:58. | |
That ball kept very low. Just watch Jamie, he's going to move on their | :14:59. | :15:13. | |
hit here. He knows where Martina is serving, so he's going to move in | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
two different places, depending on where she serves. He is a real | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
jack-in-the-box. Bat second serve from Martina | :15:26. | :16:31. | |
Hingis, at 68mph. People at home are saying, I serve like that. | :16:32. | :17:12. | |
My favourite ever film. Love, actually. I know it's naff, but it's | :17:13. | :17:28. | |
wonderful. Henri has a huge serve, and it's | :17:29. | :18:00. | |
very difficult to read. A lot of the men have problems returning it. | :18:01. | :18:30. | |
Coached by Chris Eaton, British player, who went to school just down | :18:31. | :19:00. | |
the road from Wimbledon here, just like Tim Henman did. That was almost | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
Federer-esque. But the ball went long. | :19:08. | :19:45. | |
Kontinen was the runner-up in the boys singles here nine years ago, | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
when he was beaten by Grigor Dimitrov. Kontinen got to around 200 | :19:54. | :20:03. | |
in the world before deciding to concentrate on doubles. What about | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
that service action? SAM SMITH: Well, is just | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
extraordinary, because he lays his head back on the left side, and the | :20:11. | :20:21. | |
arm goes back so far behind him, you don't get to see the racket because | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
it's beyond 180 degrees. He must have double jointed shoulders or | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
something, because I can't think of another player who serves like that. | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
Is extraordinary. And that serve is going to be a big feature of this | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
final. He may be finish to, but who lives just over the road, in Estonia | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
- ever been there? I haven't but I always wanted to go on a Baltic | :20:50. | :21:00. | |
cruise. So if I do, I will jump off at Talinn. I recommend it, but go in | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
midweek. Don't go at weekends! There will be big discussions here about | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
Heather's return, her backhand return of serve is as good as anyone | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
Sheila, it's a real menace. Try and stay away from that, go really wide | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
on her. If Kontinen has a double jointed | :21:22. | :21:47. | |
shoulder, I almost feel that Jamie almost has a double jointed wrist | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
when he plays volleys like that. Fantastic touch. | :21:53. | :22:48. | |
Never in doubt on the Hingis overhead. And this is a good game. | :22:49. | :22:57. | |
Yeah, it's really smart tennis from Jamie. First of all, straight back | :22:58. | :23:06. | |
at Heather, really putting Heather on the defence, she hasn't got any | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
angle to work with. Really straightforward service game. | :23:10. | :23:23. | |
Great shot. What touch. It is worth saying, if Kontinen's serve is | :23:24. | :23:39. | |
almost unbreakable, this is the game that Hingis and Murray are looking | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
to get at. What is very helpful in this | :23:45. | :24:10. | |
matchup, though, Heather is serving the best we've ever seen her. It's | :24:11. | :24:19. | |
got a few more mph on it, and the accuracy, which has really helped | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
her singles in the last couple of months, that accuracy. And she'll | :24:23. | :24:32. | |
need that out there today. Henri is going to tell her where to serve the | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
second serve, and then, where he's going to move to. Jamie Insall him | :24:38. | :24:46. | |
moving, though. That lady you saw on that shot, that's Heather's mum | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
Michelle. One of the more the brilliant tennis parents. | :24:54. | :25:14. | |
Henri, what are you doing? Can't keep saying "you"! Well, he's just | :25:15. | :25:32. | |
trying to do way too much here. Great hands from Andy Murray, that | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
ball was going straight at him. -- Jamie Murray. Break points again. | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
Well served, Heather. Now, I think they're very worried | :25:42. | :26:02. | |
about this Hingis return. What she doesn't like is the kicker out wide. | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
We'll see what they're planning here. | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
You called it, Sam. Inside-out forehand, Murray at the net, break | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
of serve. Martina hit that ball pretty hard, | :26:21. | :26:37. | |
it has to be said, but it was the advent of the super big hitters that | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
effectively spelt the end of her time as a force in the game in | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
women's singles? And be she could do nothing about it, she managed to | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
hold off Venus and Serena when they were in their teens. And there was | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
Davenport as well. She won her first junior slam at 12, at 22 she had | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
already been a full-time professional, really, for ten years. | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
And then with the advent of the power game, she came in the gap | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
between Steffi Graf and Monica Seles and the Williams sisters and | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
Davenport, an week in, week out, she just couldn't manage it. Her | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
standards were to win slams, she also got a nasty foot injury which | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
people must remember. She did win many, many titles, which is not bad. | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
If she played in the singles here, let's just say they gave her a wild | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
card, how far might she have got in the modern game? Would she have won | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
a couple of rounds? It would depend who she got, but she's a wonderful | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
tennis player. I think everybody believes she's not only | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
invitational, particularly myself after my experience a few years ago. | :27:49. | :27:55. | |
What was that? It was the year that she played with Anna Kordic over, so | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
big crowds as well. Martina for me is a tennis genius, she knows where | :28:01. | :28:08. | |
you're going, before you do. And the score, or have you forgotten? Well, | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
we were vaguely competitive! We hit the ball at Anna quite a lot, who | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
clearly hadn't practised in a few years! But it was an extraordinary | :28:22. | :28:30. | |
feeling. You hit the ball and Martina had already moved into the | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
space, almost when you were contacting the ball - she was just | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
telepathic. And at the time, we thought, this is ridiculous. | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
Martina, you should be playing in the ladies doubles, not the | :28:46. | :28:47. | |
invitational, please leave us alone! She's great! I was about to say, | :28:48. | :28:58. | |
Jamie Murray is one of the game's great volleyers. And then two in a | :28:59. | :29:05. | |
row. This is still a big deal for him, look how tight he is on the | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
net. Actually it's a pretty good idea to go at him, because he always | :29:10. | :29:12. | |
has to move to the right or the left. Depending on where Martina | :29:13. | :29:20. | |
serves. Heather bluetit that as hard as she | :29:21. | :30:11. | |
possibly could. -- Heather hit that. I'm not sure Jamie Murray wasn't | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
facing the wrong way was the the most important thing is that he was | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
Faison. That gives him a chance. -- he was based on. That has been | :30:21. | :30:26. | |
trained by Louis Cayer eight, who has been firing thousands of balls | :30:27. | :30:32. | |
at him from close range. That was fantastic. That was watching a | :30:33. | :30:38. | |
batsman fending off the most venomous fast ball. | :30:39. | :31:43. | |
He's served 54 aces in this tournament so far. That's a big | :31:44. | :32:11. | |
weapon in a mixed doubles tournament. I'm just amazed at this | :32:12. | :32:13. | |
upper body rotation. That's long. So Heather and Henri live to fight | :32:14. | :32:28. | |
one more game, at least. In this opening set. If we go back to this | :32:29. | :32:35. | |
serve again, because I can see you are fascinated and bemused by it, is | :32:36. | :32:37. | |
it the body rotation and the contortion, if you like, that's | :32:38. | :32:44. | |
captivating new? It's just the position that he gets into, what we | :32:45. | :32:51. | |
call trophy position, where his left arm is extended and his shoulder... | :32:52. | :32:54. | |
I'll tell you exactly when. When he gets there. He seems to get it so... | :32:55. | :33:02. | |
I'm so far behind him. I'm not sure how you get a read on his racket | :33:03. | :33:07. | |
placement, which is the clue you are looking for. It's almost like a golf | :33:08. | :33:14. | |
swing. He's keeping his body still, but he's taking the shoulder | :33:15. | :33:16. | |
rotation, it's so key, so far behind. He would be good on the shot | :33:17. | :33:26. | |
put the hammer, he'd be terrific. There was a great Finn, whose name | :33:27. | :33:39. | |
is... Or the javelin. It will come to us. That's why I'm so fascinated. | :33:40. | :33:43. | |
Ring in now. Ari Vaartonen, was that his name? | :33:44. | :33:58. | |
I'll look it up on the Internet. To save all of you at home looking | :33:59. | :34:42. | |
up on your electronic devices who the famous Finnish person was, Sam | :34:43. | :34:51. | |
is doing it right now. There was a great 5000 metres and 10,000 metres | :34:52. | :34:53. | |
runner in the early 70s. Positive from Kontinen. That was a | :34:54. | :35:08. | |
wonderful pick-up from Murray midway through the rally. But that loose | :35:09. | :35:22. | |
volley from Hingis, she whacked the grass in disgust, it allowed | :35:23. | :35:24. | |
Kontinen to do that. Still haven't quite got on top of | :35:25. | :35:45. | |
these Kontinen - Watson returns. They have done a good job, the | :35:46. | :35:49. | |
defending champions, getting the return is really low, forcing Murray | :35:50. | :35:50. | |
to hit up. That simple put away from Jamie | :35:51. | :36:08. | |
Murray gives them set point. And it might signal a shift in the | :36:09. | :36:21. | |
way the crowd respond. First set. It goes to the British- | :36:22. | :36:56. | |
Swiss combination. I suspect the crowd now will switch their | :36:57. | :36:59. | |
attention to Heather, because they want to see three sets. But a richly | :37:00. | :37:08. | |
entertaining 30 minutes of mixed doubles, as we draw towards the | :37:09. | :37:11. | |
conclusion of this year's rumbled on. Have you got the answer? I | :37:12. | :37:21. | |
haven't. -- this year's Wimbledon. I've been handed a piece of paper. | :37:22. | :37:26. | |
Forget electronic devices. I've been handed a sheet of paper that says | :37:27. | :37:39. | |
Arto Haakonen. 1984, javelin in Los Angeles. I think his best friend was | :37:40. | :37:51. | |
Ari Vatanen. He drove there to watch him. Hard to see too much of what | :37:52. | :38:02. | |
Kontinen and Watson have done wrong out there. It's been superhigh | :38:03. | :38:07. | |
quality from Murray and Hingis, and that's without putting too many | :38:08. | :38:13. | |
first serves in. They haven't had to head to the charity box for their | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
serving. She making life quite difficult overall. Very solid. They | :38:18. | :38:24. | |
had a real crack at the Kontinen and Watson second serves when they have | :38:25. | :38:29. | |
a chance. It's been Heather's serve that's been under the real pressure. | :38:30. | :38:36. | |
And she will start this second set. I'll be amazed if she does. Well, | :38:37. | :38:44. | |
the blog is by her name. They've moved the blob. They put a white dot | :38:45. | :38:56. | |
in the person who is going to on the scoreboard. For that reason. -- they | :38:57. | :39:06. | |
put a white dot by the person who is going to serve on the scoreboard. | :39:07. | :39:45. | |
Beautifully played. It just sat there, asking to be hit, and boy, | :39:46. | :39:50. | |
did he hit it! This is Henri all over. A little | :39:51. | :40:05. | |
extravagant. Is eye on the ball. Look at, write to the last moment. | :40:06. | :40:14. | |
This is a pair who haven't played much together. | :40:15. | :40:22. | |
Henri is in charge. He's directing operations. Henri said, regular, and | :40:23. | :40:33. | |
Heather set, what do you mean? But it worked. | :40:34. | :40:53. | |
Jamie has been returning with so much variety. He's been lobbying | :40:54. | :40:56. | |
Heather, chipping as well. All these guys' semifinals were on | :40:57. | :41:09. | |
Friday, so a lot of people watching today, because of work, will not | :41:10. | :41:13. | |
have seen too much mixed double action. Why is Jamie playing in a | :41:14. | :41:18. | |
deuce court, when he's a left-hander? | :41:19. | :41:31. | |
That rally was all about Heather Watson but, in the end, that | :41:32. | :41:40. | |
forehand goes long. I mean, traditionally, he'd play in the left | :41:41. | :41:46. | |
court. So then you've got a big forehand on the right side, a big | :41:47. | :41:51. | |
forehand on the left side. He's more comfortable on the right, and | :41:52. | :41:53. | |
Martina definitely wants to play on the left. Another big serve, 120 | :41:54. | :42:06. | |
mph. And it wouldn't take very much for this to swing the other way. It | :42:07. | :42:11. | |
really wouldn't. Don't really feel that any one player is completely | :42:12. | :42:15. | |
dominated. But Jamie Murray, I must say, has really got in there I line. | :42:16. | :42:22. | |
So tough when an opponent does that, because you start to question your | :42:23. | :42:24. | |
returns and overthink things. They are using up a lot of energy trying | :42:25. | :42:27. | |
to neutralise Jamie. . At the moment, but he was world | :42:28. | :42:55. | |
number one doubles player, Jamie, last year. I remember Jamie right at | :42:56. | :43:03. | |
the start of his career, before he won here in the mixed doubles. He | :43:04. | :43:10. | |
was going well, but not well enough. I remember bumping into Judy down at | :43:11. | :43:14. | |
Eastbourne and she said, well, I'm just going to have to go and get | :43:15. | :43:17. | |
Jamie the best coach in the world, which was Louis Cayer. That's all | :43:18. | :43:23. | |
there was for it. And you wonder why Jamie and Andy have done so well. | :43:24. | :43:29. | |
And some of those Saturday afternoon Davis Cup doubles will live in the | :43:30. | :43:33. | |
memory long after both of them have hung up their rackets. Good volley | :43:34. | :43:40. | |
from Hingis. Mentioning Judy Murray, who was here watching Jamie play | :43:41. | :43:44. | |
today she did say in an interview, I think it was on Radio 5 Live the | :43:45. | :43:50. | |
Sunday before Wimbledon began, about two weeks ago today, that she was | :43:51. | :43:53. | |
sure that Andy and Jamie would play doubles here once before they | :43:54. | :43:57. | |
retired, and that would be a full house on Centre Court, no question. | :43:58. | :44:22. | |
Everything Jamie does looks so crisp. But I can't emphasise enough, | :44:23. | :44:27. | |
when he gets a serve and volley, he knows exactly where he's going to | :44:28. | :44:32. | |
serve, exactly whether volley is going, exactly where the put away | :44:33. | :44:35. | |
is. He is happy to play terribly instinctively. It's all to a set | :44:36. | :44:46. | |
pattern. What a pick-up. What a fantastic volley from Jamie Murray. | :44:47. | :44:52. | |
I was going to pick you up on that, saying, you can have a regimented | :44:53. | :44:56. | |
way of playing, but the one thing you don't know is where the opponent | :44:57. | :45:00. | |
is going to put the ball. But he knew, when he was pulled wide in the | :45:01. | :45:04. | |
alley, is option was a short crosscourt forehand volley, and he | :45:05. | :45:10. | |
knew that, and he knew had to exit it. All Cayer has done is get | :45:11. | :45:16. | |
natural talent into a -- is to hone natural talent into a precise | :45:17. | :45:23. | |
doubles playing machine. We have set it on every Watson service game, but | :45:24. | :45:26. | |
this is the target for Murray and Hingis. | :45:27. | :46:20. | |
Well, this is the most straightforward service game but | :46:21. | :46:27. | |
Heather has had so far in this match. | :46:28. | :46:46. | |
Great combination there between Finland and the Channel Islands. Not | :46:47. | :47:00. | |
rev countries you immediately paired together, but they're doing all | :47:01. | :47:06. | |
right at the moment. And you can see they're really having a good time | :47:07. | :47:10. | |
Fish what's so funny, how these teams come together is often | :47:11. | :47:14. | |
complete chance, or total serendipity. Heather actually had a | :47:15. | :47:25. | |
joke with Henri's coach, who happens to be Chris Eakin, and it happened. | :47:26. | :47:30. | |
Had Martina not found Jamie, and she was reluctant to do so, because as | :47:31. | :47:36. | |
you said earlier, she probably felt that Jamie's focus would be on the | :47:37. | :47:41. | |
men's doubles, if she didn't press that dial, then neither team, she | :47:42. | :47:47. | |
wouldn't be here with Jamie, and Heather and Henri wouldn't be here, | :47:48. | :47:51. | |
either. It's extraordinary, it's really random in the mixed doubles. | :47:52. | :47:57. | |
Which be a source of inspiration to any club players who are listening | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
to this at the moment. Who asks who, dare I ask them? Even at the top | :48:03. | :48:07. | |
level. Yeah. You might have thought Martina Hingis would not be too | :48:08. | :48:14. | |
nervous to phone up Jamie. I think she's the boss of this couple now, | :48:15. | :48:20. | |
though oh! Well, he's cross about that one. The | :48:21. | :48:46. | |
roof remains open, as you can see, despite the threat of showers in the | :48:47. | :48:58. | |
last hour or so. The roof had to be shot last night to allow the men's | :48:59. | :49:07. | |
doubles to finish. It feels like it finish to in the early hours of this | :49:08. | :49:09. | |
morning. There's all sorts of movement on | :49:10. | :49:24. | |
both sides of the net there. They work well together, don't they? | :49:25. | :49:53. | |
Instinctively, they're so good with their positioning and how they cover | :49:54. | :50:00. | |
the court. They almost don't really need to discuss things, because they | :50:01. | :50:05. | |
both know whether serve should go and where Jamie should move to. That | :50:06. | :50:15. | |
point before was finished off with the most ludicrously effortless | :50:16. | :50:18. | |
volley from Murray at the net. JOHN INVERDALE: Good, keep shot from | :50:19. | :50:39. | |
Heather Watson there. And the Hingis serve, under threat. | :50:40. | :51:02. | |
SAM SMITH: As soon as possible under threat, they go for the percentage | :51:03. | :51:07. | |
plays. I'm actually just trying to see how | :51:08. | :51:55. | |
many other players from the Channel Islands have actually competed on | :51:56. | :51:58. | |
the world stage. And it's a very short list. Well left. | :51:59. | :52:17. | |
I think the tennis playing resources are so limited there. Do the Channel | :52:18. | :52:28. | |
Islands not play...? You were talking about Jamie playing in | :52:29. | :52:34. | |
county tennis earlier on, I think he played for the Highlands of Scotland | :52:35. | :52:38. | |
or whatever, to the Channel Islands not get amalgamated with Hampshire? | :52:39. | :52:40. | |
Hampshire and Isle of Wight. It's not exactly tennis central, is | :52:41. | :53:04. | |
it, the Channel Islands? If you think about it, where all he's | :53:05. | :53:09. | |
players are from, even Martina Hingis, before Martina Hingis, | :53:10. | :53:13. | |
tennis was not a big sport in Switzerland. They have all come from | :53:14. | :53:18. | |
little areas where you would not expect. It's a big area, Finland. | :53:19. | :53:31. | |
But I know what you mean! Finland's one of those countries, you look at | :53:32. | :53:35. | |
on the map, that is huge! It's just, there's not much, too! Areas with | :53:36. | :53:47. | |
not many tennis clubs, let's put it like that! He's got a big week | :53:48. | :53:53. | |
ahead, the Open coming up. Live coverage Radio 5 Live, every hour, | :53:54. | :53:57. | |
every day. And you will be listening, Sam, I know you're a big | :53:58. | :54:02. | |
fan. I will be listening. If I have any thoughts, I will text you. I | :54:03. | :54:07. | |
don't have a direct line! And it's nice for these four players, to have | :54:08. | :54:12. | |
this honour full Centre Court. In recent times, because we've had so | :54:13. | :54:17. | |
many men's singles finals which have gone on a very long time, it has | :54:18. | :54:21. | |
meant that sometimes, the mixed doubles final has been a bit of an | :54:22. | :54:27. | |
afterthought, with dusk coming in and some people saying, should we go | :54:28. | :54:31. | |
and watch this, or should we go home? But this is an integral part | :54:32. | :54:36. | |
of the afternoon's entertainment following the 3-set victory for | :54:37. | :54:39. | |
Roger Federer over Marin Cilic earlier on. People are very engaged, | :54:40. | :54:44. | |
and they would love, no disrespect to Jamie and Martina, but they would | :54:45. | :54:52. | |
love the Finnish-Guernsey connection to win this set and take us into a | :54:53. | :54:54. | |
decider. That was a good lob from Kontinen. | :54:55. | :55:28. | |
Yeah, they've got to try and do something different here, maybe go | :55:29. | :55:30. | |
at Martina a little more. Hingis and Murray have done a very | :55:31. | :56:40. | |
good job of neutralising Henri out here, hasn't been able to get on his | :56:41. | :56:44. | |
forehand. He was running through his service game easily, but that's been | :56:45. | :56:58. | |
about eight. -- about it. We keep saying what a good doubles player | :56:59. | :57:03. | |
Henri Kontinen is, you may not be aware, he was a Grand Slam winner | :57:04. | :57:06. | |
this year, with John Peers, in Melbourne. He is right at the top of | :57:07. | :57:09. | |
the men's game at the moment. Well played, Heather finishing off | :57:10. | :57:41. | |
Henri's work. This is what they haven't let him do for most of this | :57:42. | :57:45. | |
match, just over 50 minutes, let him really get hold of a forehand. | :57:46. | :57:58. | |
And a break point now for Kontinen and Watson. It doesn't take a lot in | :57:59. | :58:59. | |
mixed doubles, just a couple more second serves for the defending | :59:00. | :59:02. | |
champions to look at, and they've got a chance here. | :59:03. | :59:14. | |
That was a big serve. Perfectly placed. | :59:15. | :59:39. | |
That was a monstrous return, even the deft hands of Jamie Murray | :59:40. | :59:51. | |
couldn't deal with that. So, break point again. Will Murray swing it | :59:52. | :59:57. | |
out wide again? Great serving again. These days, | :59:58. | :00:21. | |
just resets so quickly. What they return from Heather on the | :00:22. | :01:14. | |
backhand that was! That's why you have to be so accurate. Its | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
world-class, when Heather can get hold of it, and they've done a good | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
job of stopping them, but he wasn't quite accurate enough. And that's | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
what happens. She's seen about, what, two or three of them in this | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
final so far. He'd served so many serves out wide. | :01:32. | :02:16. | |
Much to the amusement of his coach, he bashed that down the middle. | :02:17. | :02:33. | |
I think we've gone through the whole of Wimbledon without using the | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
time-honoured phrase, the vital seventh game. As this is the last | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
match of Wimbledon, I think it ought to get an outing here and there. | :02:44. | :03:03. | |
It's also the last game with the old balls. | :03:04. | :03:27. | |
I'm afraid Jamie is two steps ahead of everybody else on this court. | :03:28. | :04:01. | |
Beautifully played, Kontinen. Jamie was cross with the execution of that | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
lob, but it was beautifully put away. | :04:09. | :04:32. | |
Agonisingly, just out of reach of the Finn. | :04:33. | :04:43. | |
And so, this may well prove to have been crucial. | :04:44. | :04:54. | |
Heather would just love Henri to take the return if he possibly can. | :04:55. | :05:14. | |
Saying to her, come on, you need a first serve, if you can. | :05:15. | :05:25. | |
A shriek from Heather says it all. A big break for Murray and Hingis. A | :05:26. | :05:40. | |
set and a break, and the number one seeds are eyeing this mixed doubles | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
title. All it is, just watching Henriette Heather, but strategically | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
they are making a few mistakes. They went I formation and Heather served | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
down the T, which is Hingis's best return. I don't think it really | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
works. You've got to serve out wide. For me, Hingis and Murray have got | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
the tactics right. They are serving in the right places at moving in the | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
right areas. That's why, unless Henri Candy inspired here, and he's | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
had a pretty long tournament... -- unless Henri Candy inspired. | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
I think he was into seven hours at the semifinals. It was an epic men's | :06:31. | :06:40. | |
doubles tournament, because their match, which the top seeds lost, and | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
their opponents eventually won it last night in a ridiculous match | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
which lasted five hours, and they had put the roof at 13-11 in the | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
fifth, but Kontinen and his partner lost their semifinal 9-7 in the | :06:58. | :06:58. | |
final set. Here is Hingis, to turn the screw. | :06:59. | :07:12. | |
Martina has got her wonderful hairbands in. | :07:13. | :07:30. | |
Can you buy those in the shop? I'm sure you probably can. I brought my | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
own from Switzerland. So a single game is all they need | :07:38. | :08:33. | |
now to be mixed doubles champions this year. | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
Very impressive from Hingis. That's the reason she's won 22 Grand Slam | :08:40. | :08:49. | |
titles. Putting in a love service game at just the right time. | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
That was a beautiful first serve from Kontinen. 80 mph. It crawled | :08:56. | :09:07. | |
over the net, in his terms, but perfectly placed. | :09:08. | :09:17. | |
We've all been there. We've all been for the intercept and felt the ball | :09:18. | :09:48. | |
going further and further and further away. | :09:49. | :10:38. | |
Well, they are still smiling. But they know they've got to come up | :10:39. | :10:58. | |
with something pretty special in the next game if it isn't to be game, | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
set and match for the last time on Centre Court at this year's | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
Wimbledon. And I always think this kind of moment, for all the of this | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
match, there's something rather sad about it, isn't there? Two Mondays | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
ago, there were hundreds of players but, since then, most of them have | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
been knocked out and scattered to the four corners of the Earth. Some | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
of them are playing a different tournaments. They fed hundreds of | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
matches. But over the last two weeks they've given us a magnificent soap | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
opera worthy of any East End is that culminates in today. In one more | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
game, if this goes according to plan and Jamie Murray does what he wants, | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
that will be exempt Wimbledon 2017 will be just a memory. It's almost | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
like the last day of school. And we have to wait another 50 weeks to do | :11:53. | :12:01. | |
it again. So, will this be the last game on Centre Court for this year's | :12:02. | :12:02. | |
Wimbledon? Not if Henri has anything to do with | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
it! They didn't spend much time that the | :12:09. | :12:48. | |
change of ends discussing what to do, but I think they just decided, | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
OK, lets just wham it at Martina and see what happens. | :12:54. | :13:15. | |
Just long. You could see Heather thought she might just have landed | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
it on the baseline. -- landed it. I wonder if they'll start taking it | :13:24. | :13:34. | |
to Heather's forehand. The crowd chanting for more. A few | :13:35. | :14:05. | |
more shots like that from these two and we'll have some more. | :14:06. | :14:20. | |
Now, do they go for Heather's forehand? They've been burned so | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
many times off the Watson backhand. They live dangerously, these two! | :14:27. | :14:50. | |
But those two chances to break back have been and gone. And Jamie and | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
Martina know a couple more points here and the job will be done. This | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
time, Jamie will go for his favourite serves. | :15:02. | :15:11. | |
Great shot from Henri Kontinen, that's fantastic! If you're going to | :15:12. | :15:24. | |
use some flight and a softer shot, you try and go around your opponent, | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
and that's exactly what Henri Kontinen did. So, pressure back on | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
the Murray serve again. There was an acrobatic return from | :15:32. | :16:07. | |
Watson. But a pretty emphatic put away from Hingis. | :16:08. | :16:32. | |
Match point for Jamie Murray and Martina Hingis. And Centre Court, | :16:33. | :17:11. | |
which began with one Murray two Mondays ago, and all the drama in | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
between, ends with another Murray. Jamie, and Martina Hingis, are mixed | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
doubles champions for 2017. And a standing ovation, after an hour and | :17:24. | :17:34. | |
a quarter, a hugely enjoyable way to round off this year's Championship. | :17:35. | :17:46. | |
SAM SMITH: Yeah, it is a fitting finale, and it's such an important | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
part of the Wimbledon programme and a great way to bring down the | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
curtain on Wimbledon 2017. And I bet Martina is very pleased she's picked | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
up the phone a couple of weeks ago, because it's all ended in a rather | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
wonderful match. Judy Murray happy, too. 50 grand each for Jamie and | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
Martina, but I'm not sure they will be thinking about that. It's about | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
playing on this court, on this occasion, on this stage. Other Grand | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
Slams have rather throw the mixed doubles away nowadays. Roland | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
Garros, it sometimes feels they play the final of the mixed doubles at | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
Faure on Thursday, because it almost seems it doesn't matter at all. But | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
here it is still an integral part of the schedule, and you can see how | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
happy Jamie Murray is as well. Ten years on from him winning this for | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
the first time, with Jelena Jankovic. When he had to pick up the | :18:39. | :18:46. | |
phone to ask HER to play with him, ten years on, Martina Hingis having | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
run HIM up to say, can I play with you, he's champion once again. And | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
that's 23 Grand Slam titles for Martina Hingis. And counting. And | :18:57. | :19:06. | |
what skill out there. A lot of strategy from these two, almost | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
invisible, because they do it bond anyone who does anything to this | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
level, there is a lot of hard work behind it. And I have to say, will | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
also defence from Heather and Henri. I don't think they would have | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
expected to come through here unseeded, and this is a really good | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
launch pad for Heather on the back of the singles, it's been a long | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
fortnight. It has been a long few weeks. We were at Eastbourne, where | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
Heather played some fantastic tennis, and we've seen a completely | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
different Heather Watson in the last few weeks, and it's up to her to | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
carry that forward as she goes to America, ultimately to the US Open | :19:44. | :19:52. | |
and beyond. Yes, she'll be in the main draw of the US Open, and every | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
time you can play matches under this kind of pressure, it will stand you | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
in good stead. That was a long time ago, that match on that T-shirt! | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
We're going to have the presentation of the mixed doubles. And we're also | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
going to have a presentation for the boys singles, which took place | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
earlier on today. And I'm assuming that both of these presentations are | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
going to happen as always, in the Royal Box, as Jamie Murray starts | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
handing out the contents of his kitbag. Undoubtedly, one of the | :20:29. | :20:40. | |
great memories of this championship will be Kim Clijsters handing out | :20:41. | :20:49. | |
some of her kit to a rather large gentleman, and asking him, after he | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
had given her some stick on one of the outside courts, to show her how | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
to do it. If you haven't seen it on YouTube yet, have a look, it's | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
hugely entertaining. So, first to leave the arena, Heather and Henri. | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
They won it last year, finalists this year. I'm sure they wouldn't | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
mind coming back for more of the same in 12 months' time. And there | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
are the new champions, Jamie Murray and Martina Hingis. | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
Jamie, actually, is a great advert for doubles, isn't he? For the wider | :21:31. | :21:41. | |
constituency of tennis, most club players don't tend to placing goals, | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
for reasons of availability, time, competition, whatever. Most tennis | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
players, wherever in the world, will tend to play doubles. He's a | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
fantastic ambassador for the game, in a way that British tennis has not | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
had someone like that for a long time. And don't forget, Jamie | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
Clapham though he was a junior, was an excellent singles player, he was | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
the best in the world when he was 11 or 12. Is singles career did not | :22:08. | :22:17. | |
quite pan out. And also the same for Henri, he was extremely good, a | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
finalist here in the juniors as well. It shows you can still go out | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
and earn a living and have a wonderful career and win Grand Slam | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
titles. Not a bad way to spend your life. Four and four looks | :22:31. | :22:32. | |
straightforward, but it wasn't, really. It was very, very tight, | :22:33. | :22:41. | |
from start to finish, and there were big opportunities for Kontinen and | :22:42. | :22:50. | |
Watson, but in the end, it wasn't meant to be ensured the presentation | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
will now take place in the Royal Box. Trophies will be presented by | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, President of the All England Club. | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
Ladies and gentlemen, the mixed doubles runners-up, Heather Watson | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
and Henri Kontinen! That beaming smile of Heather | :23:07. | :23:33. | |
Watson. And a great ovation for the runners-up this year. | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
And 2017 mixed doubles champions, Martina Hingis and Jamie Murray! | :23:39. | :24:04. | |
JOHN INVERDALE: And so, one Murray at least holds up a trophy at | :24:05. | :24:18. | |
Wimbledon this year. And I'm sure his brother was watching somewhere, | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
and is thrilled that his elder brother is a champion once again | :24:25. | :24:26. | |
hear. Both Jamie and Martina, looking to | :24:27. | :24:50. | |
their boxes, on the right-hand side of the Royal Box. Ladies and | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
gentlemen, the boys' singles runner-up, Axel Geller. Who actually | :24:54. | :25:15. | |
in one match, bang it down a spoke of 135mph, in the juniors! | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
Argentina, a rich history when it comes to tennis, obviously. It could | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
be that he's going to be a big player - big being the operative | :25:24. | :25:32. | |
word on the senior stage! And the 2017 Wimbledon boys singles | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
champion, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina! The first Spaniard to win | :25:36. | :25:44. | |
the boys' singles here for 50 years, since the summer of 1960s seven. And | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
there have been some great champions in the intervening period, including | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
Ivan Lendl, Pat Cash, Stefan Edberg, Gael Monfils, or Dimitrov... And 19 | :25:57. | :26:05. | |
years ago, when Pete Sampras was beating Goran Ivanisevic in the | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
men's final, Roger Federer held that trophy aloft. Will YE be men's | :26:10. | :26:20. | |
champion in the years to come? And what a weekend for Spanish tennis. | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
Garbine Muguruza yesterday. And maybe this is a sign of things to | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
come in the future, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain. And he | :26:28. | :26:39. | |
did it without dropping a set. Ladies and gentlemen, that brings us | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
to the end of the Championships 2017. We hope you have had a | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
fantastic day. Have a safe journey home. Thank you and good evening. | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
The announcement is made, and we all shared a silent tear as we bid | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
farewell to the Centre Court, and the sporting attention shifts to | :27:00. | :27:07. | |
royal Birkdale, where the open Championship begins this week. | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
Actually, Jamie Murray is such a good golfer, he could almost play in | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
the Open, doesn't he play off two or something? Yes! What are we all | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
going to do on Monday morning, John, when the tennis is over? That is | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
always the sense you feel after a fortnight like this, after two weeks | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
sitting glued to your television, what on earth are you going to do | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
tomorrow morning? Well, before that, you're going to have to hear one | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
more post-match interview. Martina, Jimmy, congratulations, a wonderful | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
performance. It is a novelty for us to see a British player on either | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
side of the net in a Wimbledon final, what was it like to be part | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
of? It was bit strange jest. I guess the crowd was a bit split. But it | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
was a great success for British tennis to have two guys in the | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
final. It has been a great week, we played a lot of amazing tennis, | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
especially in the final, we knew we would have to play a really good | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
match if we wanted to have a chance to win, and we were able to do that. | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
Martina, it has been a momentous day for Switzerland as well, Roger | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
winning, and you now, both of you defying age? Yeah, not bad for us! | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
I'm really happy that I contacted Jamie before Wimbledon started. I'm | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
really happy how we played and performed. You talk about one | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
British is going to win Wimbledon this year, and I was hoping it was | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
going to be Murray! Well, that's how it proved! And Jamie, your first | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
mixed doubles title for ten years, how does it compare? I had kind of | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
forgotten, to be honest, what it felt like the last time! But this | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
was pretty sweet, huge thanks to Martina, because I would not be | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
standing here if it was not for her, because I wasn't going to play. When | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
she texted me, it was an easy decision, she's such an amazing | :29:02. | :29:04. | |
player. Really excited to have the trophy again. He's a very wise man | :29:05. | :29:08. | |
to accept your invitation, most definitely! Wide eyes in the locker | :29:09. | :29:17. | |
room, jumping at the chance! It is where we get to interview people | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
with the trophy in hand. Might we see you here next year again | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
possibly? Well, I hope so, next to Grand Slam coming up, so we have to | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
talk about that, and we will go from there. It is always nice to defend a | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
title! We hope we see that. Congratulations, enjoy the | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
celebrations tonight, both of you. Thank you. Thank you. | :29:41. | :29:51. | |
I'm sure we will see them on the court again, maybe get other Grand | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
Slams, but hopefully at Wimbledon as defending champions. Louis Cayer | :29:58. | :30:03. | |
must be delighted. Jamie Murray, what a doubles player, and Martina | :30:04. | :30:06. | |
Hingis, winning her 18th Grand Slam doubles title. Well done to them | :30:07. | :30:12. | |
both. This appointment for Heather, but she played well, and they | :30:13. | :30:15. | |
defended their title very well. -- disappointment. So that's the final | :30:16. | :30:21. | |
match played here on the Centre Court at this year's Wimbledon, but | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
what a Wimbledon it's been. Earlier, we look forward to Roger Federer | :30:27. | :30:29. | |
etching his name in the Wimbledon history books again, reading for his | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
eighth Wimbledon title. That was the motivation that inspired him to | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
return to the tour and come back here and play on his beloved Centre | :30:40. | :30:43. | |
Court and lived at trophy again. And he did that today, against Marin | :30:44. | :30:44. | |
Cilic. This is match point. What a player! What a champion here | :30:45. | :31:00. | |
at Wimbledon. The first man to win eight championships. Yet another | :31:01. | :31:06. | |
extraordinary performance. This one was a bit of a procession, but he | :31:07. | :31:14. | |
didn't drop a set throughout Wimbledon. | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
STUDIO: What a wonderful family celebration it was. His children | :31:20. | :31:23. | |
came to see him win that match alongside his wife, Mirka. His | :31:24. | :31:30. | |
parents and his agent were there. Very much Team Federer on tour | :31:31. | :31:33. | |
today, and it's important to him to have his family with him every time | :31:34. | :31:38. | |
he plays. The great Rod Laver, who has won Grand Slam twice, he was in | :31:39. | :31:44. | |
the royal box. He and Roger are very close. He's a big supporter of | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
Roger, and Roger was inspired by Rod Laver and so many great champions | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
from past is continuing, and Roger lifting the trophy again, a record | :31:55. | :31:59. | |
eighth time, the first player in the history of the game to win that | :32:00. | :32:05. | |
trophy eight times. Five years after his last Wimbledon title, he's | :32:06. | :32:08. | |
lifted the trophy. Phil Jones has been looking at where Federer stand | :32:09. | :32:12. | |
in the history of great Renaissances. | :32:13. | :32:18. | |
It hardly seemed possible that vintage Federer might only be at its | :32:19. | :32:27. | |
delicious best in its 36th year. Holding aloft a record eighth | :32:28. | :32:35. | |
Wimbledon 's men's singles title, but so right in age, at least in | :32:36. | :32:39. | |
sporting years, is to boldly underline the word legend. The | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
achievement will echo long throughout the corridors of | :32:44. | :32:45. | |
greatness, a never to be forgotten, I was there when moment for the Jack | :32:46. | :32:52. | |
Nicklaus, winning his sixth masters at the age of 46. It's Muhammad Ali | :32:53. | :32:59. | |
beating undefeated George Foreman in the rumble in the jungle in 1974, | :33:00. | :33:10. | |
aged 32. He was tired. I said, man, this is the wrong place to get | :33:11. | :33:15. | |
tired. It's Lester Piggott, winning his record ninth derby at age 40 | :33:16. | :33:27. | |
seven. -- aged 47. And it's Pele, inspiring the great Brazilian team | :33:28. | :33:34. | |
to lift the World Cup in 1970. Game, set and match, Federer! It bears | :33:35. | :33:42. | |
repeating. Roger Federer's record eighth Wimbledon crown makes him the | :33:43. | :33:50. | |
oldest man in the open era to win the men's singles say, aged 35. A | :33:51. | :33:53. | |
rare and special vintage. The likes of which we may never taste again. | :33:54. | :34:00. | |
The first man to win eight championships. | :34:01. | :34:07. | |
And what a year it's been for Roger, here celebrating with the fans | :34:08. | :34:13. | |
outside he's only lost two matches this entire year, and he had match | :34:14. | :34:16. | |
point in those. Roger Federer, waving to the fans, giving them | :34:17. | :34:22. | |
their photo opportunity. They can see this great legend of the game, | :34:23. | :34:26. | |
and aren't we privileged to see him playing at Wimbledon. Waving to | :34:27. | :34:30. | |
those around the corner. The great man, Roger Federer. 19th Grand Slam | :34:31. | :34:36. | |
title, a record eighth here at Wimbledon. But this is the happy | :34:37. | :34:41. | |
side of winning a Wimbledon title. Unfortunately, there always has to | :34:42. | :34:45. | |
be a loser as well, and how sad it was for Marin Cilic. These were the | :34:46. | :34:50. | |
scenes early in the second set. He came on court with an injury, and it | :34:51. | :34:53. | |
got worse. This is the frustration of a player knowing he can't give | :34:54. | :34:58. | |
his best in a Wimbledon final. It was a blister on his foot. Emotional | :34:59. | :35:03. | |
scenes for Marin Cilic. That is the other side of the sport. But we have | :35:04. | :35:07. | |
to applaud Roger Federer, because we have seen history made yesterday, | :35:08. | :35:12. | |
with Roger Federer kissing that trophy once again, in front of all | :35:13. | :35:16. | |
of his family. It was a family day out for the Federer family on Centre | :35:17. | :35:22. | |
Court. We do have more tennis coming on BBC Two, and the great man, Roger | :35:23. | :35:26. | |
Federer, will be in the studio shortly for a chat. I'd like to take | :35:27. | :35:31. | |
this opportunity to thank all of the hard-working and dedicated BBC staff | :35:32. | :35:35. | |
behind the scenes who have worked to make the programme great. 140 years | :35:36. | :35:42. | |
after the first winner, Garbine Muguruza and the record-breaking | :35:43. | :35:44. | |
Roger Federer have hedged their names in Wimbledon history. Bye-bye. | :35:45. | :35:54. | |
-- have etched. It's like the beginning of a fantastic holiday, | :35:55. | :35:55. | |
isn't it? They've done it. Hewitt and Gordon | :35:56. | :36:55. | |
Reid, Wimbledon champions once again. | :36:56. | :37:14. | |
Physically, Andy Murray is not right. | :37:15. | :37:20. | |
Venus Williams, who is back in the Wimbledon final after so many years. | :37:21. | :37:29. | |
For Johanna Konta, it aims here. The double champion is beaten here. | :37:30. | :37:34. | |
Jamie and Martina Hingis are mixed doubles champion. Brilliant from | :37:35. | :37:44. | |
Cilic. Of the best of all time. Take a deep breath, focus, then it's time | :37:45. | :37:51. | |
to take the walk. It's not over till it's over. First point to God | :37:52. | :38:07. | |
Muguruza. -- to Garbine Muguruza. It is Garbine Muguruza who is the | :38:08. | :38:12. | |
Wimbledon champion. You stop and look around, take all of this in, if | :38:13. | :38:19. | |
you do that, it's too late. Roger Federer takes another step towards | :38:20. | :38:25. | |
his green. -- his dream. What a player! The first man to win eight | :38:26. | :38:29. | |
championships here at Wimbledon. Join us live, and follow | :38:30. | :38:40. | |
the world's wildest animals... ..across the most | :38:41. | :38:45. | |
challenging of terrains... | :38:46. | :38:49. |