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I walked through the gates at just before 8am, with the usual scanning of the badge and bag check from the security guards, and was in the office a few minutes later.

Our base at Wimbledon is underground in the Broadcast Centre, and some of our production staff are stuck there throughout the fortnight, but thankfully I spend most of my time on-court in commentary boxes.

Producer Chessie Bent was already hard at work when I arrived so I slipped into one of the studios to dial into the Breakfast Programme.

Fans will be out in force again on Henman Hill for Murray v Nadal. Photo: Getty Images

Moments later I was live on-air, chatting to presenter Shelagh Fogarty about Andy Murray, Rafa Nadal and all things tennis.

Editor Steve Rudge appeared shortly afterwards and we had a brief chat to go over the previous day's output and make some plans for the day ahead.

Then it was off to a meeting with the ATP, the governing body of the men's tour, because is in town.

He's keen to develop relationships with the key tennis journalists, hence the proliferation of (excellent) morning pastries, and our link with the ATP is vital in terms of covering sport all year round.

From there, it was straight to yet another meeting - this time the AGM of the . We have a membership of about 50 tennis journalists and we work together for better working conditions and on other such issues.

When that wound up it was straight to the roof garden to join Richard Bacon for the start of 5 Live's Wimbledon coverage at midday.

Our guests before the women's semi-finals included Maggie Maleeva, Lindsay Davenport, Pat Cash and cricketers Graeme Swann and Jimmy Anderson. It's quite fun seeing all these personalities come and go, I just sit there and speak when I'm spoken to.

At 12.30pm it was time to head to the box on Centre Court to prepare for commentary.

We "split sets" on semi-final day (we have six commentators and it's only fair to share the matches around) meaning that Russell Fuller started the Pironkova v Zvonareva match with me coming in for set two.

I was working with Annabel Croft and Judy Murray - two of my favourite summarisers - and it was a decent set as which eventually took her into her first major final.

Once the match ended - and this was the most surprising bit of the day - I was told I could go home.

Normally, my day ends somewhere between 9pm and 10pm, and on one day in the first week, I finally checked out of the building at gone midnight. There are late reports to be filed, interviews to be done, blogs to be written.

Thankfully, on Thursday I could get on the train, where I'm now writing these words, and see my family for the first time in a while before preparing for a big day on Friday - a British player in the men's semi-finals at Wimbledon for the second year in a row.

I'll be back on air at 7.35am, and I can't wait.

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Key figures in British tennis have tried to get hold of the 'High Performance Mission 2012' document, leaked to 91Èȱ¬ Sport last month, but to no avail.

The governing body insists the target-related document is still in draft form. So, for the benefit of those who would like to be closer in the loop, "operational objectives" include:
"No compromise approach", "inter-disciplinary planning" and "functional player support".

Presumably someone somewhere knows what that means.

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The climax to the men's tennis season will once again be held at London's 02 Arena this November with organisers promising a few tweaks.

The evening singles matches at the will be brought forward by 45 minutes to ensure a slightly earlier finish for spectators. But the singles final, on Sunday 28 November, will move back to 5.30pm to avoid a clash with the afternoon football.

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, the brilliant American doubles player, explained why specialists often win the day over teams of singles players during an entertaining appearance on 5 Live.

"I welcome singles players into doubles because we can beat them", she said. "What we tend to do is just hit the ball at the player at the net." Simple but effective.

Liezel is supporting the charity which attempts to make wigs for underprivileged children with medical conditions involving hair loss.

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Spotted at Wimbledon; a high-powered gathering of British tennis stalwarts locked in conversation outside the press room. Going by recent comments in the press, it's hard to know who out of David Lloyd, Mark Petchey and David Felgate is most aggrieved at the current running of the game in Britain...