one set all. it had become a captivating final, right up until the deciding point in the third set. a private moment of triumph for ashleigh barty in front of the world. it took me a long time to verbalise the fact that i wanted to dare to dream and say i wanted to win this incredible tournament and being able to live out my dream right now with everyone here, it s made it better than i could ever have imagined. 50 years ago, another indigenous australian, the great evonne goolagong, won this title on this court. that s inspiration. i hope i made evonne proud. aww. you did, you did. all in all, on centre court, ash barty did everyone proud. joe wilson, bbc news, wimbledon. it s less than 2a hours until italy and england meet at wembley for the european championship final. both teams left their training bases and arrived at their respective hotels, close to the ground where the match will take place on sunday.
that s pliskova s husband. one set all. the deciding set was tight, but bartyjust had more. she d given up tennis for a while there d been pressures, expectations, injuries. now ashleigh barty was champion. a private moment of triumph in front of the world. it took me a long time to verbalise the fact i wanted to dare to dream it, and say i wanted to win this incredible tournament, and being able to live out my dream right now with everyone here, this has made it better than i ever could have imagined. 50 years ago, another indigenous australian, the great yvonne goolagong won this title on this court. that s inspiration. i hope i made yvonne proud. all in all, on centre court, ash barty did everyone proud. well, it s hours since ash barty won and there she is, still doing interviews. that kind of attention comes with being wimbledon champion. and it s just her first time.
number one. she took the first set. she the french open champion was on a 15 match run. she is 443 4 3. we have already had a great story here today. the first arab woman, north african woman to get this far at the championship. she knocked out the former french winner. she said she feels like she can reach the semifinals. it is the best she will have ever done at a grand slam. a great story for her so far. very quickly, on centre court, ijust want to let you know that novak djokovic is making things look very easy at the moment. he took the first set. very easily. is a little
details which matter. here s ash barty, the top seeded women s player, on centre court. look again. the design on her skirt carefully replicates and honours the dress worn by another indigenous australian, the great evonne goolagong, who first won wimbledon 50 years ago. history and progress. well, barty reached the third round with a straight sets win against anna blinkova. and in her own, calm way, she must have ambitions to be champion. it is important to stay balanced so it is important to stay balanced so i will mention in passing that 18 year old british player will be in action soon. roger federer is dominant over richard gasquet. if he does when he gets to play cam norrie. it is almost sunny, i think tonight we could be done before dark. perfect queue into the weather. time for a look at the weather
on centre court at the moment andy murray is playing his first match since 2017 in the singles. these are live pictures on bbc two, he is playing nikoloz basilashvili and it is tied, three games all in the first set. murray was moving well there, bearing in mind he has that metal hip now. it is still a huge ask for him, how far can he go here at wimbledon? he will still fancy his chances to get past the opening round here and the fans are watching on henman hill and of course on centre court, enjoying that one as murray looks to progress to the second round. rain kept us waiting on the outside courts. in the centre court, played it start more or less on time. there was a lovely moment before we had the match of the day. as part of a thank you day here at wimbledon, amongst the guests was dame sarah gilbert. all nhs staff