A round up of today's other stories in brief...
BBC KEEP RIGHTS UNTIL AT LEAST 2014
WIMBLEDON HAS made a number of new marketing and commercial deals with television stations to take them through, in some instances, for five more years.
The new agreement with the BBC, which should please those with terrestrial television only, covers 2010 to 2014 inclusive.
They have also firmed up deals with NBC, renewed until 2013; ESPN, until 2013; The Tennis Channel, a new partner, until 2013; NHK - renewed until 2010; and continued agreements with a number of major European markets that extend to 2010.
CELEB SPOTTING
THE PRESS room at Wimbledon is situated along a wide boulevard which just about everyone walks past at some stage during their stay at the championships.
During the long five-setters some people take to looking out the window to see what famous people walk past. Wimbledon is a celeb magnet.
This week footballers Peter Beardsley and Teddy Sheringham were spotted as well as Alec Steward, the formula one legend, and ramp model Grace Jones of Conan the Destroyer fame.
Next week the golfers are expected to arrive as the Open approaches.
YOUNG GETS OLD
WHO SAYS tennis isn't a young man's game? At 15 years old Donald Young was regarded by many in America as the greatest player of his age the US had produced.
Two years later at 17, an article about him appeared in the New York Times titled "Prodigy's End". Young did the double in America of lifting the under-16 Orange Bowl then the Easter Bowl 18 crown - a feat not even John McEnroe or Pete Sampras achieved; he was the first American to win the Junior Australian Open; he was the youngest year-end world number one in junior tennis (aged 16 years and five months); he won the junior Wimbledon title last year, the first American to do so since Scott Humphries in 1994.
Young is in the strange position of rebuilding his reputation while simultaneously building a career. Yesterday he lost in four sets to compatriot Jesse Levine.
PARKING PREMIUM
THIS WEEK Wimbledon locals were caught trying to flog forged parking permits to tennis fans on eBay. Council officials issued residents with two passes so they would not be swamped by visitors. But the passes were easily photocopied and one seller offered 17 of them on the sales website, while another asked for €75 a pair. The council have since sent out more detailed permits
TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT
JOHN MCENROE was talking to Sue Mott and Tim Henman on camera at the side of Centre Court just prior to the Andy Murray match last night.
Looking Mott in the face and speaking deadpan he said: "When you get this close you could delude yourself . . . like Tim did for the last couple of years." Ouch.
