The first week is completed and Andy Murray continues to evolve into mint condition and still Wimbledon has not had to close its expensive new sliding roof over Centre Court. This is becoming the nation's waiting game.

I thought they had got it wrong. Around tea time on Saturday murky clouds were hovering and there were occasional flashes of lightning in the distance. I said to myself that they will close the roof now to make sure that Murray's match against the Serb Viktor Troicki is not interrupted by rain and delayed while the roof is closed.

I was wrong and they got it right - the match was successfully completed. A good call that one.

As we begin the second week the only Murray thought that causes me unease is the form of Leyton Hewitt. The two of them could wee meet in the semi-finals - that would be Ashes stuff wouldn't it.

However, let us, like Murray, take it one day at a time. That first means the business-like Stanislas Wawrinka, who is the 19th seed, in the last 16. Wawrinka is always talked about as Roger Federer's Swiss team-mate when it comes to playing Davis Cup matches, but he did beat Federer this spring on clay in Monte Carlo. So Murray is into class opposition from here on in.

Federer himself opens proceedings on Centre Court on Monday afternoon in a repeat of the recent French Open final against Swede Robin Soderling.

There is also a juicy one up on Number One Court as well. The holder Venus Williams, left knee heavily taped, is up against Ana Ivanovic. Ivanovic catapulted to number one in the world and then almost as quickly nearly disappeared.

On Saturday Venus won 6-1 6-4 against a busy little scrapper from the Canary Islands by the name of Carla Suarez Navarro who had famously beaten Williams in the second round in the Australian Open in January. Suarez Navarro seemed at first overawed by the whole Centre Court experience especially with all those famous Olympic athletes sitting in the royal box. Then Venus lost her intensity and became sloppy. When the Spanish girls realised that one tennis court is the same size as another one she worked her way back into the game but the leeway was too much.

As for Ivanovic who beat Samantha Stosur, she is benefiting from the temporary help of a sort of flying doctor. My old chum Darren Cahill is one of a couple of former players who have got together to offer this temporary service to players and the idea is catching on.

I know I have gone on about this a bit, by that I mean the LTA doing more for the game at the grass roots and club level. The great Christine Truman told me about what is happening at the club where she is president. A lady by the name of Alison Bell has left them £87,000 for the development of local youngsters taking up tennis. Christine told me how they have drawn up a five-year plan funded by this extraordinary legacy. I love that one.

My final note is that crowd attendances have increased every day so far, among them three all-time records for those particular days. There were 12,000 people in the queue before breakfast time an official told me. I did chance a view on day one that tennis was in a golden era. I may just be right - that would be a first!