Saturday, 1:03 p.m. ET: After rain suspended play for non-Centre Court matches, play resumes. Roger Federer takes a 3-0 lead on Santiago Giraldo in the Centre Court match, and ESPN moves to Serena Williams’s match against Alize Cornet at 2-1 in the first set.
1:15 p.m. ET: With Serena rolling to the first set, 6-1, ESPN goes back to Federer-Giraldo at 4-2, 30-0.
1:17 p.m. ET: ESPN goes to Serena-Cornet, with Cornet having held serve to start the second set.
1:20 p.m. ET: Serena loses serve to fall behind 2-0 in the second. ESPN gets back to Federer as he tries to serve out the first set at 5-3.
1:23 p.m. ET: Federer serves out the set. ESPN gets back to Serena’s match.
1:35 p.m. ET: ESPN catches the first-set tiebreaker between Milos Raonic and Lukasz Kubot.
1:42 p.m. ET: After a brief feature on Maria Sharapova, ESPN shows Serena’s match at 2-5 in the second set while interviewing Sharapova. The Serena match is shown with a large box, while the Sharapova interview is shown in a smaller box.
1:43 p.m. ET: ESPN goes exclusively to a Sharapova interview, ditching the large box with Serena’s match going on live.
1:45 p.m. ET: ESPN goes back to Serena’s match.
1:54 p.m. ET: ESPN misses the first two points of the third set of Serena-Cornet.
2:15 p.m. ET: ESPN shows the second-set tiebreak between Raonic and Kubot, starting at 4-2 (Raonic). This is during a changeover in Serena-Cornet, so live action there wasn’t being sacrificed in order to show the Raonic-Kubot breaker.
2:19 p.m. ET: ESPN goes to commercial after the end of the Raonic-Kubot tiebreaker, instead of going straight to Serena-Cornet. THIS represents a sacrifice of live tennis, unlike the previous move noted at 2:15.
2:22 p.m. ET: After a brief look-in at Serena-Cornet, ESPN catches the tail-end of the match between Eugenie Bouchard and Andrea Petkovic, with Bouchard serving at 5-4, 30-0, two points from the match.
2:25 p.m. ET: Bouchard is taken to deuce. ESPN goes back to Serena, who faces break point at 2-2, 30-40.
2:26 p.m. ET: Serena saves the break point. ESPN goes back to Bouchard-Petkovic at a second deuce point in their 5-4 game of the second set.
2:27 p.m. ET: ESPN goes back to Serena-Cornet.
Approx. 3:05 p.m. ET: An important and anticipated match between 2008 French Open champion Ana Ivanovic and 2013 Wimbledon finalist Sabine Lisicki begins. ESPN goes to the studio for discussion and analysis.
3:20 p.m. ET: With Ivanovic and Lisicki having played three games, ESPN continues to talk in studio without showing live tennis.
3:22 p.m. ET: ESPN goes to the match between Madison Keys and Yaroslava Shvedova, with Shvedova serving at 5-6, 40-0, in the first set.
3:32 p.m. ET: The Keys-Shvedova tiebreaker ends, and ESPN goes to the fourth set of a match between Kei Nishikori and Simone Bolelli, instead of the Ivanovic-Lisicki match.
3:40 p.m. ET: ESPN cuts out of match point for Bolelli (during the actual point, it must be stated, not before the point began) to show Serena Williams’s post-loss press conference.
3:43 p.m. ET: ESPN gets back to Nishikori-Bolelli on a large screen while showing the Serena presser on a smaller screen. Nishikori saved that match point (which went unseen) and gained an early lead in the tiebreaker.
3:47 p.m. ET: Nishikori wins the fourth-set tiebreaker, and ESPN goes to a studio interview with Roger Federer.
Approx. 4 p.m. ET: ESPN goes back to Keys-Shvedova midway through the second set.
4:17 p.m. ET: ESPN cuts away to show match point between Tommy Robredo and Jerzy Janowicz. ESPN did well to get an elevated camera on that outer court. The camera clearly wasn’t in a normal position, but the network found a way to get a picture for that match, an impressive feat.
4:19 p.m. ET: Robredo wins. ESPN goes back to Keys-Shvedova, the final match of the day.
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