Murray has spoken of his desire to inspire those coming through

Frenchwoman wins major at 47th attempt as ‘smiling assassin’  Lisicki dissolves in tears

Young pretender loses in semi-final, leaving Matthews still the last British boy kin

World No 2 defeats the Pole 6-7 6-4 6-4 6-3 despite roof closure controversy and will face Novak Djokovic in the final

The British youngster played Murray's semi-final opponent in the first round

Only eight of top 16 men and women made quarter-finals but that is a tremor not an SW19 earthquake

Marion Bartoli of France eliminated the last U.S. player at Wimbledon on Tuesday, reaching her third Grand Slam semifinal by beating Sloane Stephens 6-4, 7-5 in a rain-interrupted, break-filled match.

There is a new contender for the list of famous Belgians. To Eddy Mercx, Audrey Hepburn, Rene Magritte and, of course, Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin, may soon be added the bespectacled 27 year-old Kristen Flipkens, who will tomorrow play in a Wimbledon semi-final.

Amid the chaos and the carnage elsewhere, the top half of the men's draw is the only element that has shown some respect for the form-book. By the end of manic Monday, the four seeds due to reach the quarter-final had all done so.

Laura Robson’s winning run may have come to an end at this year’s Wimbledon, but the 19-year-old could see a staggering boost in earnings off the court to more than £1 million after a “vital” tournament.

David Ferrer the fourth seed has found the going tough so far, and looked in for another long match when he dropped the first set against Ivan Dodig of Croatia. But in drawing level and then racing through the third and fourth sets he became the first man into the quarter-finals, by 6-7 7-6 6-1 6-1.

Djokovic v Haas

The Way I See It: The real story of British tennis was on Monday, when six Britons fell

Laura Robson will become the first British woman in almost three decades to reach the quarter-finals of Wimbledon today if she beats Estonia's Kaia Kanepi.