Wimbledon 2009

Venus Williams kamshinda kwa set 2 kwa 0 Ana Ivanovic SRB (13)
Serena Williams mpaka sasa anaongoza kwa set 1kwa 0
Roger Federer (1) mpaka sasa anaongoza kwa set 2 kwa 0 dhidi ya Soderlin.
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Baada ya game ya Federer itafuatiwa na game ya Andy Murray.


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ROGER FEDERER Ameshinda kwa set 3 kwa 0 dhidi ya Soderling wa sweden

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S.Williams leads D.Hantuchova 6-3 4-1

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Serena Williams ameshinda kwa set 2 kwa 0 dhidi ya D.Hantuchova

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Ana Ivanovic may have had worse days at the office than this, but not many. The 12th seed was all but blasted off No.1 Court in the first set by the tournament favourite and defending champion Venus Williams in their fourth round match.

And at the start of the second, Ivanovic received prolonged treatment to an injury. She tried valiantly to continue but, sobbing with pain and disappointment, was forced to admit that she could not.

The pity was that it all started so optimistically for Ivanovic. She came on court with the same light strapping to her right knee which has been in place throughout the tournament, and she seemed untroubled by it. Williams had by far the heavier strapping on her left leg, which appeared after her second round match last week.

In the opening game, Williams’ serve – the key to her grasscourt game, of course – was not quite in gear. The 21-year-old Serb was attacking brightly, and with a challenged linecall she brought up two break points. The first was wasted tamely, and ominously Venus saved the second with an unreturnable serve. But Ivanovic sent over a delicious dropshot for a third chance to break, and came close to making a lovely running forehand pass down the line – but the net denied her, and ultimately the five-times Wimbledon champion held.

Keen to set the record straight, Venus at once went on the offensive herself, and an unforced backhand error gave her the break that had eluded Ivanovic. From there it was downhill for last year’s French Open champion. Williams made short work of another break. Ivanovic had her chances but made errors at exactly the wrong time. Her first serve percentage was very good, but she was not converting it into points won.

When she managed to get on the scoreboard at 5-1 the crowd gave her a sympathetic ovation but, to a champion’s ears, sympathetic applause is not exactly the sweetest sound. Williams wrapped up the set in 30 minutes – her 30th consecutive victorious set at Wimbledon – and it was difficult to remember that Ivanovic is an ex-world number one.

There was no visible moment when Ivanovic sustained her injury. She delivered an ace to save break point in the opening game of the second set, after which she put her hand to her groin and winced.

With the score at deuce, she asked umpire Carlos Ramos to call the trainer, and walked gingerly back to her chair, appearing on the brink of tears. A 10-minute period of treatment followed, when a heavy strapping was applied to the inside of her left thigh.

Play resumed and gallantly she managed another winning point, although she was clearly crying. She served out the game but was overcome with pain and, sobbing, was forced to concede the match.

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Bingwa namba moja duniani kwa wanawake D.Safina yuko Centre court dhidi ya A.Mauresmo live BBC 1

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Dinara Safina ameshinda kwa set 2 kwa 1 dhidi ya Amelie Mauresmo

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A.Murray leads S.Wawrinka 2-6 6-3 6-3 5-7 6-3

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Lleyton Hewitt, the 2002 Wimbledon champion, turned around a two-set deficit to reach his first Grand Slam quarter-final in three years. Having struggled through the first two sets against Radek Stepanek, he came back reinvigorated after a medical timeout, and even a break for rain could not stop him. Stepanek had injury problems of his own, and Hewitt emerged victorious 4-6, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 after two hours 54 minutes.
The first two sets were not the match many were expecting from this encounter. Hewitt, now 28, arrived on No. 2 Court yet to drop a set in his previous three matches, with an encouraging Queen’s campaign behind him in the build-up to this tournament. Moreover, the only Australian man to have made the main Wimbledon draw knew he could depend upon the usual highly visible and vocal Australian support at courtside.

Stepanek, seeded 23, had endured two draining five-setters in his second and third round matches. During his win over David Ferrer on Saturday, he received prolonged treatment and took to the court today with his left knee lightly taped.

And yet it was Stepanek who started the match full of energy. He was finding wonderful angles, now with a lunging backhand, next with a flick of the wrist on the forehand, and he broke Hewitt for 2-1. The Australian got it back on serve, but Stepanek moved clear again. Hewitt showed typical spirit in saving four set points but a fifth proved too much.

Hewitt soon ran into trouble again in the second, and as before a break came for 1-2. Again he had chances to break back, but this time could not do it. Worse, Stepanek secured the double break for 4-1, whereupon Hewitt asked umpire Jake Garner to call for the trainer. In a medical timeout, Hewitt received treatment to the inside of his left thigh, which is of course the leg he drives off for almost every shot.

“You can still do it, Lleyton!” called Australian voices from the crowd. But Stepanek served two love games to close out the set 6-2 – although they were punctuated by a love game from Hewitt. Perhaps that gave him encouragement. He seemed to be moving stiffly, but in the third set his play was unrecognisable. Newly energised, as light rain began falling on a humid afternoon, Hewitt forced his way to a 4-0 lead before the rain became heavier and play was suspended.

The Australian supporters were in fine voice when play resumed 48 minutes later, singing: “We’re going to win 3-2!” It was too soon to tell if Hewitt’s momentum had been halted by the rain but he served out the set 6-1. But there was a fair indication at the start of the third that the impetus was still with him, when he broke Stepanek immediately.

In a lengthy third game Hewitt broke again after which it appeared that the noisy Australian supporters were asked by officials to be perhaps a little less unbridled in their enthusiasm. At 5-2 it was Stepanek’s turn to call the trainer, who applied a much heavier strapping above the Czech’s left knee. But it could not stop Hewitt taking the set 6-2.

At the changeover, the trainer gave Stepanek lower back massage, and applied more tape to his knee. Nonetheless, Hewitt broke to love at the start of the deciding set. He took the double break for 5-2, and when victory came he did his best to thank all his noisy supporters individually, handing out as many towels and wristbands as he could find.

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The first match to be played in its entirety under a closed roof at Wimbledon turned out to be a classic as well as a marathon as Andy Murray staged a dramatic recovery to defeat Stanislas Wawrinka in five sets, 2-6 6-3 6-3 5-7 6-3, and gain a place in the quarter-finals for the second successive year.

It took him just under four hours of draining commitment against a dogged and occasionally inspired opponent before, as his final forehand winner sped clear of Wawrinka's flailing racket, he fell to his knees in a mix of relief, joy and exhaustion. As he said immediately after the match, a deep sleep is now very much in order before he returns on Wednesday to face Spanish wild card Juan Carlos Ferrero in the quarter-final.

The 3rd seed, under relentless pressure to become the first British player to win the Wimbledon men's crown for 73 years, had been in serious trouble early on against Wawrinka, the 24-year-old Swiss Davis Cup player who is seeded 19th.

These two men are good friends and regular practice partners, but there was nothing friendly about the fashion in which Wawrinka went after Murray in that opening set, serving brilliantly and hammering ground strokes which reduced Murray to frustration.

Murray was broken in the very first game and, to the dismay of the packed Centre Court, surrendered serve again as Wawrinka surged into a 4-0 lead. There was no reprieve as Wawrinka served out the set in 34 minutes and again launched into the Scot's serve in the second set. Perhaps the crucial moment of the match came in the fifth game of the second set, with Murray fending off a couple of break points and taking a massive boost from the upsurge of crowd support.

Two games later Wawrinka called for the trainer, although he had not appeared in any obvious distress, and had his left thigh massaged. The treatment and delay may have alleviated any hurt, but it only served to inspire Murray. As the Swiss serve began to lose its pace and bite, the Scot pounced.

He reached break point twice and the second time made it count as Wawrinka sent a backhand out of court. Serving out for the set to level the match was no problem with Murray in this mood and he clinched it with his second ace.

The third set was a virtual repeat for Murray. Having fought off three break points in the fifth game, he immediately broke the Swiss, who put an easy forehand volley wide. Though he was not serving anywhere near his best at this stage, Murray was getting by on a rich mix of grit and skill and when he took the third set the momentum was clearly with him.

Wawrinka took a toilet break in order to regroup and it seemed to do the trick. He was a threat to the Murray superiority in the fourth set, missing break points in the seventh and ninth games before capturing the Murray serve to lead 6-5. Before long, he had leveled a gripping match which was now being played under lights. The record for a late Wimbledon finish had long ago been shattered.

Could Murray hold on in the fifth set? The crowd hoped so and Murray clearly thought so, going 3-0 ahead. But back came Wawrinka to level at 3-3 and at this stage the match could have swung to either man. In the end it fell Murray's way as, to a constant uproar, he had the Swiss on the defensive and broke for a 5-3 lead on his third break point.

It was a nerve-racking time to serve out for a place in the last eight but Murray was up to it. That his nerves were also up to it was shown by the exquisite drop shot which put him two points from the match. He got to match point on a ball which clipped the baseline and then came that winning forehand.