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By Piers Newbery BBC Sport at Wimbledon

1349: You know something important is about to happen when I get booted into touch, although this time it coincides with news of free orange squash in the press room, so I will hand you over to Caroline Cheese for the penultimate time - ever - to take you through the ladies' singles final.

1341: You thought British interest was over for another year at Wimbledon? You were mistaken. Lewis Burton & George Morgan have just got under way in the first boys' doubles semi-final (against some Germans) on Court Five, with Liam Broady & Tom Farquharson to follow in the second (against some Russians). Defeat is simply not an option.

5 live's Jonathan Overend on Twitter: "Hilarious. Up on the roof with Hingis and Kournikova, live on 5live right now. IBM teenage boys taking a coincidental break... suffice to say they are all trying to look cool and failing."

1334: A few basics for you - Serena Williams has beaten Vera Zvonareva in five of their six meetings, but they haven't played each over for over two years. Zvonareva's only win came on hard courts in Cincinnati four years ago and she is appearing in her first Grand Slam final, compared to Serena's 16th. Victory today will take the American past Billie Jean King into sixth place in the all-time list with 13 Grand Slam singles titles.

1324: "I've always thought Vera's one of the most instinctive players off the ground but her serve is a bit of an issue," says Virginia Wade. "I've always thought in that situation you've got to let the other player win their serve and you concentrate on winning yours. She's finally come of age, maybe the fact she's had some injuries has kept her fresh, and maybe beating the Williams sisters in the doubles could help her this afternoon."

1320: Following that important security announcement, which was only made because of the clear afterthought in brackets, we can look forward to this afternoon's big match. Former champions Virginia Wade and Lindsay Davenport are out on Centre Court now. "Zvonareva's earned her place here," says Davenport. "It's obviously a tough match-up for her with Serena, who's only lost serve three times in the tournament. Vera's got to hang in there and not let Serena build up a lead too early. Vera hits her groundstrokes so well and redirects pace, but she doesn't want to get pushed back too far behind the baseline. And when she sees a second serve, she has to take advantage."

From Pavlos on gate 1 via text: "Please say hi to cheesey, i was the security guard who scanned her in this morning :) absolute legend (as are you piers)."

1310: Bjorn Borg is asked on BBC News 24 whether Andy Murray can ever win Wimbledon: "Absolutely, Andy's been in two Grand Slam finals and in the match against Nadal I thought Andy played well, but Nadal played his best match of the tournament. Andy has everything in his game and he's going to win a Grand Slam tournament. I would not be surpsirsed if he becomes world number one. He's working hard, he doesn't have any real weaknesses, so he just has to keep going."

1302: For anyone worried that Tomas Berdych might have thought, "Stuff practice, it's only Rafa, I'm staying in bed," I can allay those fears by telling you that he's on Court 11. From this distance it looks lke he's practising with Mansour Bahrami, but I doubt it. He hasn't laughed once.

1258: Out on Court 17, Rafael Nadal is thumping forehands at some other poor soul - can't quite make out who today's lucky victim is but we're on the case. I do recognise Uncle Toni, who stands on the baseline presumably telling Rafa to keep doing whatever it is he's doing. And a quick manual refresh should bring actual moving pictures to the top of your page, if you're in the UK. If not, you should be outside doing something cultural anyway.

1252: Alex Kay in the Daily Mail has painstakingly deconstructed Nadal's win, saying: "Obviously, Murray was not outclassed by Nadal - but the Spaniard found his best tennis when it mattered most." And Martin Samuel in the same paper captures the mood of many by suggesting there was not much the Briton could have done, saying: "It must be a desperate feeling to know your best is not good enough and Murray was confronted with that grim reality on more than one occasion on Friday."

1245: The ladies' singles final will get under way at 1400 BST, and you are clearly already in the best position to follow it. TV coverage starts on BBC One and HD at 1300 BST, before flicking over to BBC Two at 1435 BST, while 5 live gets going from Centre Court at 1335 BST. Stay right where you are for live video streaming (UK only) and some Caroline Cheese text chat when play begins.

1240: Chapter Two of the press round-up, and Simon Briggs in the Telegraph draws a parallel between Murray and Stevie G, Lamps, JT et al: "While the vicissitudes of Britain's sporting summer may be demoralising for the general public, the travel agents must enjoy it. At this rate, the whole of Britain's sporting elite will soon be clogging up the beaches of Sardinia."

5 live's Jonathan Overend on Twitter: "Totally drained today, energy sapped by the fine margins which split sporting winners from losers. so so close. not far away. Onwards... "

1227: A quick glance at Court 11 tells me that Vera Zvonareva is also practising at the moment, and is currently doing a lot of volleying. There is also action on Court 12, where Dutchmen Jacob Eltingh & Paul Haarhuis attempt to bring more sporting glory to their nation against Goran Ivanisevic & Cedric Pioline. And on Court 14, the wheelchair doubles continues with Stephane Houdet & Shingo Kunieda bidding to add the Wimbledon title to their wins at the Australian Open and Roland Garros earlier this year. Houdet is the world doubles number one and singles number two, and Kunieda is the world singles number one and doubles number two. Neat.

1219: As I promised/warned, we'll be picking through the bones of yesterday's second men's semi-final, which saw Rafael Nadal demonstrate exactly why he's already an all-time great, and exactly what Andy Murray will have to do to win a Grand Slam title. The Sun can't leave England's footballers alone with the headline, "Now you know how we felt all week Andy....", and Charlie Wyett adds, "There will be those in the 'Anyone But Murray' camp who will have been delighted with this match, believing the Scot is going down the same path as Tim Henman who lost four SW19 semis and failed to win a Grand Slam. Yet Murray, having reached two Slam finals, remains agonisingly close."

Lindsay Davenport on Twitter: "Wimbledon finals day. When you are not competing, you get a much better sense of the occasion and the glory that is Wimbledon."

1214: Smith is teaming up with fellow Brit Anne Hobbs to take on Czech/Hungarian duo Helena Sukova & Andrea Temesvari, and after both pairs lost their opening two matches, this one is all about Group A pride. Meanwhile, Serena Williams is practising in front of a predictably large crowd on Court 16.

1210: There's already all sorts going on around the grounds, and what's this on Court 18? Is it Rafa in those piratas and the headband? No, it's Britain's very own Sam Smith preparing for her Invitational Doubles by knocking up with a ball boy. The young fellow is tiny and looks very nervous. "Dodgy backhand," says my evil sidekick Caroline Cheese. "He needs to work on that."

Brad Gilbert on Twitter: "SW is playing to good at the moment, been a great run by Vera it ends hard today over under 6 games for Vera, doubles she can win for sure."

1204: The Voice of Wimbledon predicts "a warm, dry day ahead at 26C - we could see a little more cloud but it's worth having plenty of sunblock, water and some head protection." Good old VoW, I hope he gets to see a British Wimbledon winner one day, even his memory of 1936 must be starting to fade.

1200: Good afternoon, and welcome to a bright and sunny finals weekend at Wimbledon. With fixed grins in place and memories erased, we look forwards, onwards, upwards.... OK, we might look backwards for a bit at yesterday's events but today is really all about Serena Williams v Vera Zvonareva in the ladies' singles final.

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