LONDON (Reuters) – Dealing with screaming fans jostling for photos and autographs is part of the job for Wimbledon’s serial winners, but it would seem some are being asked to practice a little more than others.

A wet and windy Court Two was chosen as the fitting venue for four-times Wimbledon champion Serena Williams to face Kazakh Yaroslava Shvedova on Monday, but before that battle could commence another one was already brewing in just getting there.

LONDON (Reuters) – Dealing with screaming fans jostling for photos and autographs is part of the job for Wimbledon’s serial winners, but it would seem some are being asked to practice a little more than others.

A wet and windy Court Two was chosen as the fitting venue for four-times Wimbledon champion Serena Williams to face Kazakh Yaroslava Shvedova on Monday, but before that battle could commence another one was already brewing in just getting there.

LONDON, July 2 (Reuters) – Dealing with screaming fans
jostling for photos and autographs is part of the job for
Wimbledon’s serial winners, but it would seem some are being
asked to practice a little more than others.

A wet and windy Court Two was chosen as the fitting venue
for four-times Wimbledon champion Serena Williams to face Kazakh
Yaroslava Shvedova on Monday, but before that battle could
commence another one was already brewing in just getting there.

LONDON (Reuters) – Four-times champion Serena Williams dug deep on Monday to book a place in the Wimbledon quarter-finals, seeing off ‘golden-set’ challenger Yaroslava Shvedova 6-1 2-6 7-5 just in time before the rain came back down at a gloomy All England Club.

Kazakhstan’s Shvedova, who became the first player to win a set at a grand slam without dropping a point in the previous round, troubled the American as the dark clouds gathered above Court Two but was undone by a late flurry of pace and power.

LONDON, July 2 (Reuters) – Four-times champion Serena
Williams dug deep on Monday to book a place in the Wimbledon
quarter-finals, seeing off ‘golden-set’ challenger Yaroslava
Shvedova 6-1 2-6 7-5 just in time before the rain came back down
at a gloomy All England Club.

Kazakhstan’s Shvedova, who became the first player to win a
set at a grand slam without dropping a point in the previous
round, troubled the American as the dark clouds gathered above
Court Two but was undone by a late flurry of pace and power.

LONDON (Reuters) – Kim Clijsters reached the last 16 at her farewell Wimbledon on Friday when Russia’s Vera Zvonareva was forced to retire through illness trailing 6-3 4-3 in their third-round match.

Belgian Clijsters, the former world number one who will retire after the U.S. Open in August, dominated the 12th seed who left the court for treatment after a respiratory infection made it difficult for her to breathe.

LONDON, June 29 (Reuters) – Kim Clijsters reached the last
16 at her farewell Wimbledon on Friday when Russia’s Vera
Zvonareva was forced to retire through illness trailing 6-3 4-3
in their third-round match.

Belgian Clijsters, the former world number one who will
retire after the U.S. Open in August, dominated the 12th seed
who left the court for treatment after a respiratory infection
made it difficult for her to breathe.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Heather Watson bowed out of Wimbledon to whoops and cheers on Friday as the home hope’s fairytale run was ended in clinical fashion 6-0 6-2 by world number three Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland.

Ranked 103rd in the world, Watson had captured the nation’s attention by becoming the first British woman to reach the third round at Wimbledon in a decade but a more aggressive style which had brought success this week proved ineffective against an accurate and controlled Radwanska.

LONDON, June 29 (Reuters) – Britain’s Heather Watson bowed
out of Wimbledon to whoops and cheers on Friday as the home
hope’s fairytale run was ended in clinical fashion 6-0 6-2 by
world number three Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland.

Ranked 103rd in the world, Watson had captured the nation’s
attention by becoming the first British woman to reach the third
round at Wimbledon in a decade but a more aggressive style which
had brought success this week proved ineffective against an
accurate and controlled Radwanska.

LONDON, June 29 (Reuters) – Britain’s state-owned Royal Mail
posted a first profit in four years at its core
letters and parcels business, helping its annual earnings more
than quadruple as the group shapes up for privatisation.

The postal operator, which is edging toward a sale or
flotation in early 2014, said on Friday it made a group
operating profit after modernisation costs of 211 million pounds
($327.18 million) in the year to March 25, up from 39 million
pounds a year earlier.