VENUS, SERENA IN BOTH FINALS

Venus and Serena Williams swept through to the final of the ladies doubles with an emphatic 6-1 6-2 victory over Cara Black and Liezel Huber at Wimbledon.

The sisters, who meet in Saturday's singles final, showed no sign of fatigue en route to a 61-minute win.

Black and Huber fought off several match points before finally succumbing to their opponents' power.

Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs will form their final opposition after wining the second semi-final.

The Australian pair overcome the second-seeded Anabel Medina Garriques and Virginia Ruano Pascual 6-7 (3-7) 6-4 6-2.

After losing the opening set on a tie-break, Stosur, who was beaten by Ana Ivanovic in the third round of the singles competition, and Stubbs found their service range and eventually wore down their Spanish opponents.

MURRAY IN LAST 16

The British number one, Andy Murray will face Stanislas Wawrinka in Monday's fourth round after winning a comfortable 6-2 6-3 6-4 win against Viktor Troicki in one hour 36 minutes on Centre Court.

Murray broke for the first time at 3-2 and Troicki crumbled, losing seven games in a row as the world number three almost toyed with his opponent.

Murray faced one break point in the entire match, saving it with an ace.

The match was played under leaden skies, but despite thunderstorms in the Wimbledon area, the rain never came - and Centre Court's new roof is still awaiting its competitive debut after six days of action.

"Obviously I wanted to finish the match as quickly as possible," said the 22-year-old. "It would have been a nice bit of history, but I wasn't that worried by it."

Murray pleased with opening week

The roof was immediately shut after the players went off, whereupon Murray told BBC Sport he felt he had not peaked yet.

"I have to give myself an A for coming through the first week," he said. "Today was very good. I felt a little bit uncomfortable at the start, but after the first set I started to feel more comfortable.

"I've got to be happy with the first week - I felt better and better with every match. But I'm going to have to play better next week if I want to come away with the title."

Murray's hopes of making his second Grand Slam final received a boost later on Saturday when Fernando Gonzalez, his conqueror at this year's French Open and a possible quarter-final opponent here, was beaten in five sets by Juan Carlos Ferrero.

But on this form, Murray has no-one to fear.

Troicki had won just one game in his last encounter against Murray at the Miami Masters, a tournament the Scot went on to win.

Murray consider this match to be far better than the previous one in this tournament and it will be a good sign for the forth coming matches.

CRACKLING FIRST ROUND IN WIMBLEDON

Wimbledon has been so beautiful this year as a new retrackable roof has been covered in the centre court during rain. The centre court looks too good for the spectators to watch on. The crowd were also too good and pretty decent as well. Andy Murray being a local player won his first round against American Robert Kendrick 7-5, 6-7(3), 6-3, 6-4 on Tuesdaay. The match seems to be so exciting as Murray being a local player. If Murray win this wimbledon then he will be the first player in Britain since 1936 to win a wimbledon. Nadal feels that his opponent came so vigourous and Murray stayed calm and took the pressure off from him.

Fifth seed Juan Martin del Potro made a mockery of his supposed lack of grass-court prowess by hammering experienced Frenchman Arnaud Clement 6-3, 6-1, 6-2 in the first round.

Del Potro, who has won only two matches in two previous visits to Wimbledon, put Clement out of his misery when the Frenchman ballooned a forehand long after 1 hour, 37 minutes on Court 1. He will face 2002 champion Lleyton Hewitt of Australia, a 6-4, 6-1, 6-1 winner over American Robby Ginepri, in the second round.

MARIA SHARAPOVA COMEBACK WOULD BE STRONG ON WIMBLEDON

Maria Sharapova came back after a nine month injury break. She will come back in the next month's Edgbaston Classic. She is really excited about getting back on the grass court again. She always get great support from Birmingham crowd and she has won twice. She feels nice to come back so early for her wimbeldon return.

She knew that it is going to be tough as she may lost her form. But I feels that she would have gained extra power because of her rest.
The 22-year-old Russian, who owns three Grand Slam singles titles, made her singles comeback on Monday in Warsaw after recovering from a shoulder injury. The Wimbledon warm-up tournament begins on June 8.

FANTASTIC PLAYING CONDITIONS INSIDE RETRACTABLE ROOF IN WIMBLEDON

Wimbledon has picked up its grace as thr retractable roof on completion in centre court. The system worked perfectly and the legends played on the centre court after a very long interval. The roof has been in operation from sunday officially and it takes around 10 minutes to complete the whole ground and it takes another 30 minutes for maintaining the playing environement inside the roof.

Graf said it is really nice to play in the closed environment and it increase the pressure. It will be definite treat for the crowd when two tough players play all round the ground. On sunday Tim Henman and Kim clijsters were facing Agassi and Graf in the doubles and they also play singles match. To kick off the event, the sliding roof slowly started unfolding with a soft whirring in an afternoon ceremony as British singers Faryl Smith and Katherine Jenkins sang "Amazing Grace" in the center of the court.

The guest Boris Becker were given with a fine applausing as the game progresses. There were 15,000 spectators enjoying alroung the ground. As the two-parted roof closed without a hitch, it was greeted by a thunderous applause.


Then shortly after the tennis began, as if on cue, it started to rain. Not that anyone inside the stadium noticed. In the match agassi defeated Henman 6-4 , graf lost to Kim clijster 6-4 , in the doubles agassi , graf lost to Henman and kim clijsters . Everyone were aware that it is definitely going to be a treat for the audience as the match progresses.