Yesterday saw what many of the neutrals knew was going to happen, Andy Murray losing to Rafal Nadal in the semi-finals. All the hype surrounding Murray started after he won Queen's against Tsonga and it finally ended yesterday. Although it nearly wasn't the case, Murray did actually take the first set 7-5 and made the world sit up an take note. But from there Nadal just blew Murray away by making no unforced errors on his way to taking the second set 6-2. Nadal then took the third set by the same margin before finishing Murray with a 6-4 win in the fourth set.
Although Nadal will be in the final, he won't be world number one regardless of the result. That is because Novak Djokovic has also made it into the final after beating Tsonga. It also took four sets but Djokovic went 2-0 ahead after winning the tie-break 7-4 in the first set and winning 6-2 in the second set. Tsonga battled back and won a monumental tie-break 11-9 in the third set to prompt questions of a comeback like in the quarter-finals. But it wasn't to be as Djokovic took the fourth set 6-3 to mark his place in the final.
The women's semi-finals took place on Thursday with the final today. Sharapova took on Lisicki and the German wildcard went 3-0 ahead in the first set before Sharapova fought back to win 6-4. Sharapova is still yet to drop a set in this tournament as she took the second set 6-3 and is the favourite to win the title, seven years since her last victory at Wimbledon.
Sharapova's opponent will be eighth seed Kvitova who will be only the fourth female Czech to make it to the final. She played fourth seed Azarenka in the semi-final but Kvitova blew her away in the first set 6-1. Azarenka fought back to take the second set 6-3 to take it to a deciding set. But Kvitova took the final set 6-2 to book her place in today's final.
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