WIMBLEDON: Day 6

All yesterday offered was window of about one hour and twenty minutes to play. For the Beeb with substantially more hours to fill, there was court after court to visit, hoping that no-one would complain that the higher the court numbers got, the more it was filler. Poor BBC, poor Wimbledon. Saturday is the day people have an afternoon free and the rain foils everyone. I was happy to watch the initial filler - young! Virginia Wade looks a lot like Claudia Black, colouring and features wise.

The Mauresmo match was watchable because they both came into the net, although it was a comfortable victory. I saw the end of Sharapova's match, I couldn't see an umpire or refferee being brave enough to turf her off when she had match pints. Ivanovic's game was boring, until she sat down because it was slippy and you knew it was going to rain. Then I started to get irritated because I wanted to know for certain if the live tennis was over for the day.

Andy Roddick is getting a lot of coverage on the Beeb thanks to the Jimmy Connors connection, while Murray and Butorac seem to have adapted quickly to the level of press interest. They seem to be getting more relaxed interview by interviwew. I tried reading Richard Williams's piece on Henin in yesterday's Guardian, but it was unbelievably snobby and classed women into talentless princess lookalikes and plain but brilliant women. !!!???

I am wearing tights. In July.