Andy Murray in 4th round of Wimbledon

Andy Murray didn't just defeat beat Marcos Baghdatis, he beat the mayor of Merton. The local borough’s 11pm curfew snapped down halfway through the final game of his 7-5, 3-6, 7-5, 6-1 victory but he narrowly made it through this unprecedented race against time.Like Cinderella trying to find the way home before her carriage turns back into a pumpkin, Murray rushed through the final set in just 29 minutes to squeak through into the fourth round. Never before has a tennis player gone up against the clock in the same way.Murray may hate being called a drama queen, but there’s no doubt he’s a magnet for drama. At the final changeover, he didn’t sit down in an effort to get the job done before the guillotine fell. In the end, the match finished at 11.02pm, beating the record of 10.58pm set by Novak Djokovic two years ago.“They [the tournament organisers] did a good job,” Murray said afterwards. “It said on the screen even if it hasn’t finished it can’t go past 11pm. I broke and then I thought we were done. I didn’t sit down at the final change of ends. I don’t know what the rules are, whether the tournament gets a fine or whatever, because it hasn’t happened before.”The Centre Court roof has been a curiosity in the three years since its introduction in 2009, but this summer it has become almost as much a participant in the drama as the players.There have been a number of judgment calls made by the referee’s office, and not all of them have turned out ideally. Such, for instance, as the decision to play the entirety of Friday under the roof because of the threat of rain, even though the outside courts were carrying on quite happily.

Ferrer,Tsonga,Del Potro,Fish,Schiavone,Shevodova,Vinci in 4th round of Wimblidon

David FERRER beat Andy RODDICK 2-6, 7-6, 6-4, 6-3He's holding a couple of hours Andy Roddick, David Ferrer then climbs into the chair. Yet the Spaniard, seeded No. 7 in the tournament, had not entered the field in the best way: First batch at a net benefit of Roddick 6-2 and game that seemed would be channeled to the path of an American very agile even in displacements. The watershed of the race, however, where Ferrer on September 2, just ahead of a break, do you recall at 4-4 and drag to the tie-break: here, Ferrer, cancels his service on a ball sets to Roddick and then closes 10 points to 8. Bingo. From that moment the Valencian can not find the key in response to the services of Roddick and, simultaneously, the U.S. loses the physical reaction that was shown in the first two sets. The result is that Ferrer carries away so the third, fourth and the passage of the turn. For him now to be the challenge with Del Potro.Interesting game.

Joe-Wilfried TSONGA beat Lukas LACKO 6-4, 6-3, 6-3There was no precedent between the two: Joe-Wilfried Tsonga opens the record by beating Lukas Lacko without hesitation, number 60 of the ATP ranking, Mardy Fish to reach the second round of the Championships. First three service games without conceding 15 for Lacko, but in the fourth Slovak concentrates a double fault and two unforced errors to give the break to Tsonga, good at putting your feet in the corridor to the winner with straight lungolinea. French enough to defend a break point with the first heavy (and successful) to win the first game: the second will have a very similar scenario with a break at 2-2 - Tsonga good to wait for the error Lacko harassment with the slice - and at 5-4. Third set with fast rosters until 4-3, when the second of Lacko Tsonga attacks and break-point on the exchange asleep before closing the charging straight ahead.Tsonga lands to the second week on the fields of the All England Club after beating a former number 1 (Lleyton Hewitt) and sold one set to the Spaniard Garcia-Lopez: The explosive curtain on the tournament is Nadal for French - the fifth head series - an opportunity too great to at least try to repeat last year's semifinals.

Juan Martin del Potro beat Kei Nishikori 6-3, 7-6 (3), 6-1Vince convinces Juan Martin Del Potro who rule without too many problems the Japanese Nishikori.If Del Potro in the first set maintains the increased speed of the ball in trade (6-3), second in the Argentine ran into one of his usual steps vacuum which could lengthen his game is not much: the giant of Tandil in fact, after escaping up a break once in the opening set, do not lose your head after you close an easy fifteen allowing Nishikori to put a super part that allows you to drag the game until the tie-break. And there Del Potro is lucky in the first 4 points in fact, the Argentine has helped to 2 times from tape instead of pushing the Japanese a 2-2 4-0 states that triggers the classic "click" the switch Del Potro's head, and from that moment the fact seeded No. 9 in the tournament sticks with the service and with a partial 5 straight games to 1 which effectively condemns Nishikori. In the third set it is just below the Japanese and, very quickly, bowing to the law of the jungle.

Mardy FISH beat David GOFFIN 6-3, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (6)Mardy Fish is back. Now it's really official. The U.S., after the problems of heart, was to return to Wimbledon and after the first few turns rosewater now faced an obstacle very gentle: David Goffin.And the test was passed with flying colors. Fish, seeded No. 10 in the tournament, has played a great match percentages really pulling out by applause, an example of all? 56 winners and only 18 unforced errors. Goffin, for its part, has however confirmed to be a really good player (for later this year, if it goes on like this, to get into the top 40) and has paid only little experience in playing key points: the unfortunate approach Network dul 6-6 in the first tie-break and altrattanto squandered the advantage (4-1 to 4-5) in the second. Fish flies still deservedly in the second round where he will find the winner of the match between Lacko and Tsonga.

Philipp Kohlschreiber beat Lukas Rosol 6-2, 6-3, 7-6And as often happens in court, after the company, the hero greets the tournament. It ends in the third round of the adventure Death of Nadal, Lukas Rosol, who against Kohlschreiber is unable to replicate the day of grace against the Mallorcan and lived in Germany for 3 sets gives "easy easy". The game, in fact, there is only the third where the ceko can drag Kohlschreiber at the tie-break but there, in the end, you must inchianare for eight points to six. For German, the second round, there is the AmericanBrian Baker in his challenge to beat third-round 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 French Paire 

OTHER RESULTS

Francesca SCHIAVONE beat Klara Zakopalova 6-0, 6-4Francesca Schiavone reaches the revelation of Italian tennis, Camila Giorgi, in the second round of Wimbledon women's draw by beating Klara Zakopalova, 30, number 30 of the WTA ranking. Czech undertone: we left in the fourth round of Roland Garros, when he snatched the only set of the tournament winner Sharapova then before the surrender, and in the semifinals on the grass of Eastbourne, but today the Zakopalova never entered into the game , undergoing the changes of a Schiavone finally breaks free. Francesca shuffles the cards with a court order to leave the czech very diverse, particularly marked on Italy's slice, without points of reference for its predominantly offensive game. The first set is a monologue in 22 ', in accordance with the Zakopalova found a bit' of pace from the baseline, but just a break point at 3-3 (closed with a superb backhand volley from the halfway line) for deciding ' meeting in just over an hour. Schiavone in the second round awaits the winner of the match between Varvara Lepchenko and Petra Kvitova: the first has eliminated Francesca a month ago at Roland Garros, the czech, seeded No. 4, is the reigning champion of the Championship.

Yaroslava Shvedova beat Sara ERRANI 6-0, 6-4Sara Errani, must yield to a great Yaroslava Shvedova, after the quarter-finals by qualifying at Roland Garros, explodes his hammering on the grass courts of Wimbledon by making its first illustrious victim (the Italian was seeded number 10 the Championship) with a severe 6-0, 6-4. In the first set an amazing thing happens, because Shvedova scored 24 consecutive points in 15 minutes signing the golden set that in tennis history has only one year (but masculine), because the company made only against the United States Bill Scanlon Marcos Hocevar February 22, 1983 at the tournament in Delray Beach, Florida. What's more, the Errani, in addition to not score in the first game, one mistake is not forced to validate the 14 winners of Shvedova unplayable. The second set is more balanced, because Errani is the first to forget the dramatic 15 0/24 in the first game and suffered tears to the service Shvedova, but must immediately give the break / back to 0. At 3-3 to Win earns two break-point - the Shvedova fixed with two aces, a second, and two first heavy - and saves in a game later, but the Italian still loses the last game against the beat a player who, despite the 65th position in the WTA rankings, the grass has dominated in just 54 minutes with 6 aces and 35 winners.

Roberta Vinci b. Mirjana Lucic 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-3)Finally, Roberta Vinci, the Italian most "herbivorous", reached the knockout stages for the first time in its seventh final participation in the Championship by beating Croatia's Mirjana Lucic, semifinalist in 1999 and returned ten years later at higher levels. It takes two tie-break to decide on a very balanced match with only two breaks in the first set and a statistical inversely proportional, because if Lucic makes so many winners, but so wrong (31 unforced errors), the Vinci closes fewer points (22 winners ) but it fails very few (10) delight with the backhand volley. Win the victory of the closing program of the third round draw female allows Italy to become the nation represented in the second round with three tennis players (along with Giorgi and Schiavone Salento) against the two Russian (Sharapova and Kirilenko) and Germany ( Lisicki and Kerber).