Baghdatis takes to grass

Marcos Baghdatis had never won a match on grass until one month ago and had responded to a first round defeat to Romanian wild card Andrei Pavel in Halle by insisting: “Grass is for playing football”.

But Baghdatis has quickly come to appreciate the finer points of a surface which is no longer his least favourite, after a captivating Wimbledon quarter-final win over Lleyton Hewitt.