After the shocking departure of Rafa Nadal on day-4 and the mere escape of Roger Federer from a huge upset on day-5 , Day-6 at Wimbledon 2012 was being thought of as one of the cool days without much shocking out-of-nowhere moments.
The first men's match on Centre Court was scheduled to be played between the former World No.1 and 2009 Wimbledon finalist Andy Roddick and the spirited Spaniard David Ferrer. Even before the match had begun, it was pretty clear that whoever would go on to win the match wouldn't be doing so in straight sets.After a steady start from both the players in the first set, Roddick took the lead and raced away with the set 6-2. David came back strongly in the second set and won it on tie-break 7-6(10-8). Ferrer continued to dominate in the third set and bagged it 6-4. In the fourth set, Ferrer maintained his form and didn't give the American any chance to get back in the match. Ferrer took the fourth set 6-3 and closed all doors for Roddick to move through to the next round.
The second men's match at Centre Court took place between the hometown hero Andy Murray and Marcos Baghdatis. Murray dominated Marcos in the first set and bagged it 7-5. Baghdatis replied strongly and clinched the second set 6-3.The two fought really hard in the third set but Baghdatis just failed to hold his serve when the score was 5-6 in Murray's favour. Murray gained energy from the crowd and after multiple "Come on!" shouts, started the fourth set in which he totally tore Baghdatis apart to seal his spot in the fourth round. Murray won the last set 6-1.
Another match sceduled for day-6 was between Marian Cilic and Sam Querrey. The match started at around 3 p.m. London time. At that point, nobody had thought that the match wouldn't end until after 9p.m. making it the second longest match in Wimbledon history.The match that lasted about 5 hours and 31 minutes ended with Cilic coming out victorious on fifth set tie-break 17-15. Cilic won the first set but then dropped two sets in succession, only to come back in the match and take it away 7-6(6), 6-4, 6-7(2), 6-7(3), 17-15 by winning the final two sets. Giant-killer Lukas Rosol also disappointed his fans on saturday when he lost to Philipp Kohlschreiber in straight sets 6-2 6-3 7-6(6).
Here are the highlights of the final set of Andy Murray's match against Baghdatis that took place on Day-6 :
Following are the main matches scheduled for Day-7(Monday) at Wimbledon 2012 :
Roger Federer (SUI)[3] v. Xavier Malisse (BEL)
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