ATPWorldTour.com takes a look at the news and talking points at The Championships on Tuesday.

What The Papers Are Saying
Forget The Ivy, a London restaurant where you are guaranteed to spot celebrities. Wimbledon village has its own eatery which is regularly frequented by tennis players at The Championships. The Guardian reveals under the headline ‘The Takeaway of Wimbledon Champions’ that, “Mimom Rahman, [is a] waiter and top tennis celeb spotter at the Rajdoot Indian restaurant,” is the place to go. “Not that he's particularly bothered, because over the 30 or so years it's been in business, the Rajdoot has become one of the prime eating spots for the tennis crowd during Wimbledon fortnight. Rahman shows me the restaurant's autograph book: the Williams sisters, Andy Roddick, Lleyton Hewitt, Andre Agassi, Lindsay Davenport, Steffi Graf, Maria Sharapova ... no Tim Henman? Rahman shakes his head. Sorry, I say, I forgot we were talking stars. How about Andy Murray? ‘No, but we've had his mum.’” The newspaper also reveals that Roger Federer ordered takeaway three times last week. “All takeaways get a 10% discount,” Rahman said. “But I do deliver to him in person and everyone else has to collect. I just wanted to meet him.”

Andy Roddick, a two-time runner-up at the All England Club, is bracing himself for a battle against 2002 champion Lleyton Hewitt in the quarter-finals on Wednesday. The Sun writes that the American sixth seed “insists his recent record of four wins against the Aussie counts for nothing”. Roddick said: “You can't get on top of a guy like Lleyton. It's a fight with him whenever. No one has ever been silly enough to take him lightly. You can get on top of a lot of guys; get into their game - but not him. I'd never take him for granted. I have so much respect for him.” Roddick went on to insist that he doesn’t care how loud Hewitt’s Fanatics are “as long as they respect the players.”  Roddick practised with Tommy Haas on Court 16 Tuesday, a rest day for the men’s singles players.

The Daily Mirror informs Roddick, should he get knocked out before the semi-finals that, “No.1 80s crooner Rick Astley, the star turn on Roddick's iPod, is playing the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen on Friday. It's just a thought, A-Rod.”

Andy Murray hasn’t reached the final of The Championships, but The Daily Express writes that Wimbledon officials are considering the option of opening up Court Two to Andy Murray fans on Sunday should the Scot make it to the final. “Currently only 6,000 people are granted entry on final day with the capacity of the Aorangi Terrace area restricted to 4,000 by police. However, the inclusion of screens on Court Two would allow an extra 4,000 supporters to be on site.” Murray, who meets Juan Carlos Ferrero in the quarter-finals on Wednesday, is attempting to become the first British man since Henry "Bunny" Austin in 1938 to reach the Wimbledon final and the first since Fred Perry in 1936 to lift the title.

The much-missed defending champion Rafael Nadal might have pulled out due to double-knee tendinitis on the eve of The Championships prevented him from defending his Wimbledon title this year but it has not stopped the Mallorcan recuperating on the golf course. Nadal, a keen right-handed player and regularly partner of Sergio Garcia in pro-am events, has been left out of Spain’s squad to face Germany in the Davis Cup quarter-finals next week.

Andy Murray has made Centre Court his home, playing 14 of his 16 matches on the main show court. The Independent was informed by one of its readers, Bernard Andrews, that the ground Centre Court was built on was the site of the Murray publishing dynasty. “It was the site of a mansion built by John Murray III. Murray III considered calling his house Murrayville, before he settled on ‘Newstead’. In the summer of 1892, the Murray mansion was occupied by John Murray IV and his family, including his brother, Hallam. John IV and Hallam fell out, John IV moved and Hallam made alterations including adding ‘stabling for half a dozen horses, a tennis court, and even a lake.’ Hallam sold the house not long after the First World War. It was soon demolished, to make way for a tennis club, which in 1922 became the All England Club of today."

Headline Of The Day
‘Waw ‘N Peace’ screams The Sun. “It was tennis – but unlike anything anyone has ever seen at Wimbledon before. Long after normal chucking-out time, long after the grounds are normally empty except for the next day's cleaners, Andy Murray and Stanislas Wawrinka were still hard at it. The 15,000 inside the space capsule of Centre Court and the other thousands up on Henman Hill were having the night of their lives as an epic marathon headed for its conclusion. In the end Muzza stumbled to victory at 10:39pm - to end Centre Court's longest night after an amazing three hours and 57 minutes of battle.”

Murray Mania
The morning after the night before… sub editors in the British press have been creative in their choice of headlines following Murray’s five-set epic win over Wawrinka. 'Fright Night (The Daily Mail), 'Triumphant Murray Boils With Anger' (The Times), 'Murray Fights Into The Night' (The Independent), ‘Night Stole Day But Did Not Claim Murray’ (The Daily Telegraph) and 'Murray Lights Up Wimbledon' (The Scotsman).

The Sun writes, “Stanislas Wawrinka did his utmost to eliminate the last remaining British player from Wimbledon but ultimately the 15,000 inside centre court and thousands more in the darkness on Henman Hill celebrated victory for Murray.” The Daily Mirror called Murray ‘Cinderella Man’ for his efforts. “Exhausted Murray sank to his knees after burying the decisive forehand winner which provided the final flourish to the greatest game ever seen on the famous strawberry fields.” [Editor's note: Anyone recall the Nadal-Federer Wimbledon final last year?]
 
James Lawton, the chief sports writer of The Independent revelled in Murray’s win. Under the headline ‘Journey to the brink reveals a winner's competitive edge’, Lawton writes “Tim Henman was the gallant fighter. Murray is the man who suggests he might just find a way to win, any way required.”

The Guardian pointed out that the BBC was forced to scrap its television schedule, including the main news programme. “The All England club will deny it, but this is the future of serve and volley. Even the BBC news got shunted aside as Britain's No1 and his uber-stubborn opponent smashed the record for a Wimbledon finish, which stood at 9.49pm. Now we know: the roof was built not to keep the rain out but to keep the excitement in, until 10.39pm, if necessary. Wimbledon is now barely distinguishable from the US and Australian Opens.”

Simon Barnes, the chief sports writer of The Times, writes “What a feat this was. If there is a better match in these championships, one must be at courtside. A five-set win over Roger Federer in the final on Sunday and the nation is likely to go into overdrive." As the Daily Mail points out: “This was a night that might, just might, have changed British sport.”

Interestingly, a number of British newspapers have reported that Murray was critical of the new roof, saying conditions had been difficult. “It’s very, very heavy. It’s sweating a lot. Both of us were trying to get white towels from the locker room because my hand was drenched at the end, it was like I had been in a bath. That kind of slowed it down a lot and I struggled to serve because the ball wasn’t coming off the strings that well. I got very few free points off my serve. I like playing indoors but when you have not practised or played a match under a roof on grass you don't know what to expect.”

Quote Of The Day
“I am sure there were some transport difficulties but we kept the park and ride open,” said Ian Ritchie, the chief executive of the All England Club, with a degree of understatement. Approximately 19,000 fans experienced severe delays in getting home, after the Murray-Wawrinka match that ended at 10:39 p.m. local time on Monday.
 
Match Of The Day
Ninth seed and recent Roland Garros finalists Wesley Moodie and Dick Norman beat Romanian duo Andrei Pavel and Horia Tecau 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-7(6), 14-12 in four hours and one minute on Court No. 2 for a place in the quarter-finals. Moodie and Norman hit 130 winners, including 32 aces, and committed 21 unforced errors. The deciding set took 91 minutes. Moodie won the 2005 title with Stephen Huss.

Upset Of The Day
Simon Aspelin and Paul Hanley, who reached the Casablanca final in April on their team debut, caused an upset in the third round of The Championships on Tuesday beating seventh seeds Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram 6-2, 6-7(3), 7-6(5), 6-7(2), 6-3 in three hours and 28 minutes. The match resumed at 2-2 in the fifth set, after being suspended due to bad light on Monday.

Statistic Of The Day
Viewer ratings grew from four million at the start of Murray’s fourth-round match against Wawrinka to 11.8m in the final 15 minutes when the nation saw Murray secure his place in the quarter-finals with a 2-6, 6-3, 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 win. Last year 10.5m tuned in to watch Murray’s five-set thriller against Richard Gasquet and 7.7 million saw him knocked out in the quarter-finals against Rafael Nadal. Last year’s four hour and 48 minutes final between Nadal and Roger Federer recorded an audience of 13.1m.