Murray had already progressed into the semi finals and didn’t need anything from the match. As he said yesterday “Any game you want to beat Roger Federer, its an honour to play him”.

The swiss player won the first set 6-4 in a tight opener where both players had break points. Murray came back and won the second on a tie breaker after being 5-2 up. The final set was a classic with both players breaking each others serve. Murray eventually broke the Federer serve for the final time giving him the match.

Murray’s serve and drop shot helped him to a comfortable victory. He went 4-0 up in the first set and got off the blocks very quickly. Simon did come back in the opening set, due to some errors from the Scot and powerful play from the French number 2.

Early in the second set Simon had 4 break points on Murrays serve but couldnt capitalise on them. Murray then closed the set out winning 6-2. The win puts the Dunblane player through to the semi finals of the tournament.

A MURRAY (GB) 12 v R NADAL (Spa) 2

3-6 2-6 4-6

After Andy Murrays famous comeback on Monday against Gasquet, Andy Murray was up against the awesome Nadal. It was back down to earth with a bang for the Scotsman who never got going in the match. This was due to him being tired from his early week excerpts, but was mainly due to Nadal who simply never let him get going.

Nadals shots were coming from all angles of the court with ferocious power. Murray had to work for nearly every point he made. As John Mcenroe said on the BBC’s commentary, “There is Federer and Nadal, there is Djokovic then there is the rest.” Today it was clearly evident there is a gap between the top 2 or 3, and the ‘rest’.

Murray can be immensely pround of his Wimbledon performaces though. He reached the quarter finals of a Grand Slam event for the first time in his short career. At only 21 there is certainly hope for tennis glory for the Scot. He made many fans from his epic comeback, and the future of British Tennis is in capable hands, in the name of Andy Murray.

Elena DEM’VA (Rus) 5 bt v Nadia PETROVA (Rus) 21

6-1 6-7 (6-8) 6-3

Similar to Andy Murrays eventual victory v Gasquet there was real psychological troubles in this match for both players. Dementieva like Gasquet, blew her fellow Russian away with stunning tennis and was odds on the progress into the semi final in straight sets.

However, clearly she thought she had made and could not serve the match out, at 5-1 up in the second set. It was only then, like Murray, Petrova started to play anything like the tennis she is capable of. She won next 6 games, then winning the tie breaker to make the match even at 1-1.

Her momentum was haulted in the deciding set by Dementieva, who finally overcome that barrier and won the set. The win now see’s her play the current champion, Serena Williams in the semi final.

Any Murray (Uk) beat Richard Gasquet (Fr)

5-7 3-6 7-6 (7-3) 6-2 6-4

The turning point seemed to be initiated by the crowd, with young French player complaining about the noise and chanting between points. Of course the crowd were then even more spurred on, in that the support for Murray was getting to him.

In the second set leading up to the 11th, Gasquet looked in total control and was cruising to victory then bang. Something seem to immediately loose his concentration. From then on, he didnt look anything like the player he was in the first set and games in the second. It really was quite a turn around. In the games leading up to the 6-5 lead in the 3rd set, Gasquet produced classy, world class tennis, with passing shots that looked so easy. He looked calm and in total control of proceedings.

Murray took full control of the match and won the  next 3 sets winning the match. It was sport at its best and with no UK participation the country is now again rejoicing sporting success. Success may be seen by some only by winning the Wimbledon competition, but for someone to produce such great entertainment, tennis and determination, its gives us British a lot of hope for future.

Murray will now play the recent French Open winner Rafal Nadal, who will provide a tougher test than Gasguet. However full credit go to both men in todays match, Gasquest took part Murray in the first 2 sets. Nadal and Federer will not have it easy in the next few years if these guys aged 22 and 21 respectively, repeat and improve on their great showings today.

This could develop to an interesting scenario with reports the Glazers having reportingly said “He can stay in the stands, he wont play”

The price?

A figure of 100M Euros - roughly £80M. This will be the highest ever transfer fee in football history if the deals progresses. It seems that the lifestyle, money and prestige of Real Madrid, has won over the star, who last season was without doubt the worlds best player.

Want to live like Cristiano Ronaldo?

Below is a bonus video of an Ronaldo trick whilst training for Euro 2008 with Portugal.