Dear, dear, dear. If this keeps up, I am going to have to invest in a camp bed. Especially if that young Murray is going to insist on finishing all his matches in the middle of the night. Gosh, it went on and on and we sat, fingers poised over laptop keys wondering exactly which story we were going to file: glorious Murray wins thriller, hopeless Murray loses thriller, or no result in thriller and we all come back and do it all over again tomorrow.

Anyway, by the time Murray had clinched it, deadlines were running out, hearts were racing and we just made into the first editions. (Judging by the average age and corpulence of the hacks in the press room, one more night like this and we will need a coronary care unit on standby.) Then, we had to wait more than hour for Murray to turn up for his press conference. When he did, he was gobbling sushi (pretty impressive with chopsticks) in front of slavering hacks, many of whom hadn't eaten for hours. By the time I got back to the digs at about 11.30pm, there was no food or drink. Well, crisps from a vending machine was the best dinner on offer and there was no red wine. Apparently, red wine is a mystery object at the Holiday Inn Express. So off to bed without so much as sniff of a celebratory Cabernet Sauvignon. Dear, dear, dear.

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Back to tall women at Wimbledon. Or lack of them. Blimey, but the tall people of the world came out in droves after I blogged about the Amazonian stature of some of Wimbledon's top women players. And then look what happens: Maria Sharapova, Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic - the top three seeds - all dispatched by shorties. Tamarine Tanasugarn, the 5ft 5in Thai girl who beat Jankovic, was saying, though, that size is now an issue and she feels tiny in the dressing room up against the long legs and muscles around her.

But it didn't stop her on Monday - or the lovely little Zheng Jie giving Ivanovic a pasting. Jie, or Zheng - can never work out which way the Chinese name thing works - says she is 5ft 5in but looks tiny. Full of steel, though, and she has been one of the highlights of the tournament so far.

And by the way, a mention of the comment posted by Nicole of London, who so rudely accused me of sounding both "ridiculous and short" after reading that blog about the Amazons. Heavens to Betsy, young lady, wash your mouth out with soap. In the event, I am only occasionally ridiculous but always short. So you were almost right.

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We all took to the feisty conqueror of Sharapova, Alla Kudryavtseva, even though none of us can either spell her name or pronounce it. Remember Kudryavtseva (by the way, I am cutting and pasting the name to save time) had a dig at Sharapova's status as a fashion icon, criticising her designer outfit and saying that it only inspired her to beat her fellow Russian. Well, she has changed her mind now and decided that she didn't really mean it. Kudryavtseva now reckons it was all just a joke and she doesn't want to be "the bad one" in the girls' locker room. Or maybe she just found out there are generous clothing sponsors out there to be had when you start winning at Wimbledon. Ooh, such cynicism.

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Rafael Nadal says in his exclusive blog for The Times how the Spain team at Euro 2008 had inspired him here at Wimbledon. Doesn't seem to have had the same effect on his countryman, Feliciano Lopez, in spite of winning an epic five-setter on Monday against Marcos Baghdatis, the tenth seed. Lopez was happy his country won but added: "Spain don't make me win. Once we are on court, we don't have any support from them." Oh, right. That's that, then.

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Incidentally, the umpire for that Lopez-Baghdatis clash (finished 8-6 in the fifth) was a certain James Keothavong, brother of Anne, the British women's No 1. So that was at least one Brit other than Murray on court.

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All eyes on Sotheby's tonight where John McEnroe, now a fixture in the BBC commentary box, and Tatum O'Neal, his ex-wife, have put a painting of them by Andy Warhol up for auction. They think it could fetch as much as £250,000, which the couple want to donate to the charity, Habitat for Humanity. But they are not alone for Martina Navratilova, a Wimbledon legend and here for the fortnight, is donating some of the funds from a sale of her personal art collection to the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. So, good news all round.