Jack Sock, doubles partner Vasek Pospisil can’t overcome slow start at

“It was a long day”, the flushed 25-year-old allowed.

That it was. Two matches, 10 sets.

It was Serena’s 15th win in 26 of the Williams sisters’s professional matches.

In between: on the bike, stretching, a recovery shake, ice bath. He’s played a lot of tennis here with three five-setters.

I would guess so.

Andy Murray is through to the quarter-finals of Wimbledon after a 7-4 6-4 5-7 6-4 win against the hard-hitting Ivo Karlovic on Monday. They went down 8-6 in the final set. In the locker rooms, players can’t help but glance at matches as they wait to play, but most avoid watching loads of tennis, especially during tournaments. Fifteen of those sets have come since Saturday.

Tasked with ending the Swiss’ attempt to become the oldest Wimbledon champion in the Open era is Frenchman Simon.

Murray said he hopes Pospisil’s fatigue comes into play. He had lost five of them.

2012 Wimbledon champion Andy has been in fine form during the grass court season, having won his fourth Queen’s Club title prior to this year’s Wimbledon.

Asked to explain what that entails, he couldn’t exactly put it in words: “Just focusing on the mental side”, he said.

Indeed the last time he dropped his serve was in his opening-round win over Philipp Kohlschreiber at the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, more than 100 service games ago.

Andy Murray is ranked 3rd in the world with 7,450 points and he is 2,215 points below Roger Federer.

In the second set, Pospisil managed a few break opportunities, but couldn’t convert, and he jumped out to a lead in the tiebreaker before a costly wobble.

The third set proceeded in a similar fashion: both men controlling their serves and another tiebreaker looming.

The 29-year-old, a semi-finalist in 2007, will face either third seed Stan Wawrinka or Belgium’s David Goffin for a place in the last-four after winning a last-16 clash at the majors for just the third time in 19 attempts.

That’s how long Vasek Pospisil spent on Court 12 Monday-which he doubtless never wants to see again.

When did his breakthrough come? Just have a full day of rest tomorrow.

“I think it’s great, obviously I’ve seen it around when Tim (Henman) was playing and I was playing”, Bjorkman said.

He ended a nation’s tennis drought by winning Wimbledon in 2013, beating Novak Djokovic in the final, but past year was knocked off by Grigor Dimitrov in the quarters as he continued to work his way back from back surgery. “I was serving well and I made the right adjustments tactically on the return”.

“The last couple of weeks, I have been working to be more clutch mentally and, you know, in big moments”.

“This year is a good breakthrough for us”. The most recent meeting was in this year’s Indian Wells Masters.