While Roger Federer cruised into the last eight at SW19, Rafael Nadal was knocked out by 16th seed Gilles Muller, losing 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 15-13 Muguruza fights back to knock out No1 seed Kerber Muller beats Nadal in five-set thriller Murray hobbles to straight-sets win over Paire Konta first British woman in Wimbledon quarter-finals for 33 years 9.55pm BST Video highlights from a thrilling at Wimbledon here: 8.46pm BST Related: Rafael Nadal loses thrilling Wimbledon five set epic to Gilles Müller 8.44pm BST Well, that’s all from me today. What a day of tennis. What a ending. Gilles Muller will sleep well tonight. Rafael Nadal probably won’t allow himself any sleep until the US Open. Thanks for reading, emailing...
The champion cut an awkward, pained figure on Centre Court on day when the All England Club’s quiet grandeur was an expression of something unshakeableAnd breathe again. Public concern at the state of Andy Murray’s hip injury has been a prominent note in the build-up to Wimbledon this summer. Pray for Andy, one newspaper urged on the eve of the championships, calling for a collective effort of psychic will to ease that troubling joint, save the British summer and all the rest of it.In the event Murray cut an awkward, pained figure through his two hours on Centre Court, dragging those bulked-up ankles across the turf like a pedigree shire horse, wincing up at his coach and apparently in a...
There is no cause for alarm after the world No1 pulled out of a pre-Wimbledon exhibition tournament but he, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic are all feeling physical pressureOn the face of it, Andy Murray’s withdrawal from an exhibition at the Hurlingham Club in London on Tuesday, citing a sore hip, is no cause for great alarm and of a piece with his season, indeed his career.He will, he says, play on Friday. However, taken cumulatively, the defending champion and world No1 will be at least mildly disturbed his body is aching in more places than he might have anticipated. Since his heroic charge over the closing stages of last season to rip away Novak Djokovic’s top ranking...
A worrying air of caution has returned to Andy Murray’s game but the world No1 often been at his best when fighting against the odds and it is not too late to get things in order for the French OpenIt is easy, and dangerous, to underestimate the depth of Andy Murray’s dilemma after another unexpected setback in his meandering season: bundled out of the second round of the Italian Open he was defending for the first time. He is, after all, still No1 in the world.But check the descent. This time last year Murray, who had not long become a father for the first time, was driving Novak Djokovic to distraction on Campo Centrale, ignoring a steady Sunday afternoon drizzle...
Tennis used to be dominated by players in their twenties but the resurgence of the Spaniard and Swiss shows this is the generation of the thirtysomethingThere was a moment in Rafael Nadal’s semi-final victory against Novak Djokovic at the Madrid Open on Saturday when it appeared as though the Spaniard had stepped into a time machine. After a prolonged and gorgeous thrash‑metal riff of a rally, Nadal suddenly turned the volume down from 11 to one. From the baseline he opened his racket face, chopped down hard, and then skipped and whooped as the ball fizzed over the net, embraced the red clay and died.That drop shot, under extreme pressure, brought up match point. Moments later he had secured his...