COURT REPORT

LEFTY LE SAUX IN THE BOX

FORMER Chelsea defender Graeme Le Saux and England cricket captain Alastair Cook were among the guests in the Royal Box on Centre Court. Le Saux (right) is a member of the exclusive All England Club and plays tennis lefthanded with an impressive forehand.

SUPPLY AND DEMAND

BY 8am, there were already more than 1,000 people in the queue for today’s play, exceeding the amount of Centre Court and No 1 Court tickets. It forced the All England Club to urge fans not to join the queue for ground admission until early this morning.

DOUBLES TROUBLES

WIMBLEDON is unique in being the only Grand Slam to have bestof-five-sets men’s doubles matches but we are yet to see one this year after officials reduced secondround matches to best of three, as they did in the first round, due to the weather-imposed backlog.

SHOULD HAVE GONE TO...

STAN WAWRINKA was left gesturing that he needed glasses after challenging a Juan Martin del Potro (left) serve which landed well inside the box. It was not quite as bad as Marat Safin’s memorable challenge of a Roger Federer serve here in 2008 which was almost half a metre in. It puts certain on-court tantrums into perspective.

SMITH’S BALANCING ACT

LEON SMITH has taken up a job as the performance director of Tennis Scotland. The 40-year-old will still continue in his roles as Davis Cup captain and head of men’s tennis at the LTA. Smith (right) will announce on Tuesday the British team to play Serbia away in the quarter-finals.

ISNER SERVES UP A FEAST

BIG-SERVING American John Isner hit 43 aces as he beat Australian qualifier Matthew Barton to reach the third round. Each set predictably went to a tiebreak with the No 18 seed winning 7-6 (8), 7-6 (3), 7-6 (8) to set up a clash with No 12 seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Yesterday’s win took his ace count at this year’s tournament to 76.