Wimbledon 2010: Serena Williams defeats Vera Zvonareva to win women's final

Not long after the BBC’s live broadcast of the women’s final, they replayed some of the match, and watching the second showing felt very much like sitting through it the first time: you knew who the champion was.

This was the most predictable of Wimbledon finals. The best period of the match for Vera Zvonareva was in the warm-up, as it was only then, during the exchange of three-quarter-strength forehands, that she was able to stay with Serena Williams on Centre Court. Once the umpire had called “play”, and Williams was clouting the ball through the grass, this was not a real contest, the Californian winning 6-3, 6-2 in just over an hour.