Make or break time for Henman

NOT for the first time, three-time champion John McEnroe sees him as favourite but this week it looks like now or never for Tim Henman.

It's 67 years since a Briton held the men's singles trophy at Wimbledon and it feels like even longer to home fans caught lingering over the faded black and white pictures of a long-trousered Fred Perry landing his third consecutive title.

The game of today is light years removed from the one that Perry played he would have been equally astonished by racquets producing serves at around 230kph as by prizemoney for the men's champion equivalent to some 20 years worth of an average salary in a mainstream occupation.