Attend an evening with Andre Agassi

Oh dear, our man of the moment seems to have changed his mind. After all Andy Murray said about conditions under that roof, he has now decided he likes it .... quite a lot. Murray suddenly popped up on his Twitter account to tell his fans: "I loved playing under the roof even if you've read different! The atmosphere was amazing, just very humid."
This is the same Andy Murray who, immediately after his marathon five-setter with Stan Wawrinka, complained about the humidity, the heat, the light and the lack of advance notice that the roof would be on. Apart from that, it was obviously great.
Centre Court atmosphere 'terrifying,' says Richardson
Bumped into Gary Richardson, the BBC's after-match reporter, who still has stars in his eyes after the night of the roof. The match finished so late that the Beeb had to abandon its usual format of waiting for Murray to come off court to be ushered into a little side room to be interviewed - particularly as Murray - to his massive credit - insists on signing as many autographs as he can before he leaves the court.
So Richardson was catapulted onto the hallowed turf of Centre Court to get Murray immediately the match finished at 10.38pm. And he told me it was awe-inspiring. "The noise and the crowd were absolutely shattering," he said. "I have no idea how the players get the nerve even to just hit a ball in that environment, never mind play tennis they way they do. Terrifying."
The huge Williams family album
Also bumped into Richard Williams, father to the most successful sporting sisters on the planet. He had just watched Venus squashing somebody and then dashed across the courts to see Serena, trademark cheroot dangling from his lips and massive camera in hand. In fact, he watches very little tennis, just his girls. He must have a squillion pictures of them by now. Must be some family album the Williams family have at home on the coffee table.
And this is Serena winning at Wimbledon ... oh, and this one is a picture of Venus winning at Wimbledon .... oh, look, a picture here of Serena winning at Wimbledon. Think we will pass on the chance to have a peek. Thanks anyway.
Fat chance for rest of women against Venus and Serena
Difficult to argue, though, that Venus and Serena are not head and shoulders above the rest here. I remain amazed at the number of female tennis players who look absolutely nothing like international athletes, never mind tennis players. Few seem muscled up and plenty look as though they have been at the pies.
Not Venus, though, who was reminded that she is a grande dame of the circuit, starting her career 15 years ago. She remembered her first tournament in Oakland in the USA and how she was so nervous at the knock-up before the start that she could barely lob the ball. That was the least of her problems - she checked into her hotel, laid her tennis kit on her bed and then set off for the tournament without it.
So is women's tennis more sex than sport?
The trouble with women's tennis - apart from the fact that 128 of them turn up at Wimbledon and somebody called Williams wins - is the hypocrisy. There was a sharp intake of breath when Michael Stich, the 1991 winner here now a BBC pundit, said what most of us think and that women's tennis was more sex than sport.
Good Lord, we all said. Wash your mouth out with soap. There was even more tut-tutting when the match between Gisela Dulko, the admittedly pulchritudinous Argentian, and Maria Sharapova was listed as the Battle of the Babes. That simply showed a lack of respect.
So Dulko goes out of the tournament and couple of days later, she has her kit off and her pictures on a tabloid newspaper website. Sigh. Good-looking girl, though.
Poor punditry the final straw
Actually, starting to think the sex thingy was the most interesting thing Stich has said all week. Saw him on the telly this morning and he was asked who he thought would make the final.
"Well, a final is a final," he intoned. Umm, very illuminating. That's what highly-paid pundits are for.
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