Andy Murray has a first Wimbledon final in his sights as he prepares to meet Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the semi-finals. Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian
Andy Murray has a friend in Tim Henman, linked as they are by a common burden not entirely of their own making, and their conversation in a quiet corner of the All England Club before the Scot plays Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the Wimbledon semi-finals on Friday could help him rewrite a chapter of tennis history. Murray, for the fourth year in a row, is two wins away from the prize that has eluded everyone from these islands for 76 years.
Henman is anxious not to intrude. He maintains he was never interested in coaching Murray and has enormous respect for the man who took up the job six months ago, Ivan Lendl. Old Stone Face, inscrutable behind his dark glasses in Murray's box as all around him go crazy, has given the world No4 an edgier, more switched-on mien, noticeably at these championships, where Murray's eyes have blazed in adversity and when going for the kill.
