Jamie Murray loses out in five-set doubles thriller

Whilst Andy was earning plaudits for his professional tennis and bowing in front of the Queen on Centre Court his brother Jamie came close to pulling off a major shock in the first round of the men's doubles.

Jamie Murray and his partner Jonny Marray (no relation) went agonisingly close to causing a major upset pushing the number one seeds into five sets and briefly threatening a doubles version of that famous longest match in history as the set entered its 28th game.

The home pair eventually went down 6-3 6-7 (2-7) 7-6 (8-6) 6-7 (2-7) 15-13 to two-time defending champions and top seeds Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic.

After coming from a set down twice, Murray and Marray then broke their opponents when they served for the match in the fifth set before their resistance was finally ended.

Murray - a former mixed champion at Wimbledon back in 2007 - did well to stay in the match for so long. Finally it was a forehand winner from Nestor that broke the Marray serve to put the double Wimbledon champions into the second round.

The home pair was cheered on by a partisan crowd but the authorities surely missed another trick by putting this game on court number six where there are virtually no seats.

In fact it was pretty much standing room only for spectators wedged in the walkways that double as vantage points.

Staging this match on such a graveyard court was about as sensible as sticking the hero of the first week John Isner on court five today.

Fellow Britons Chris Eaton and Dominic Inglot will now hope to go one better when they meet the number one Canadian-Serbian pairing in round two and get a chance for some British revenge.

The nail-biter of the day in the ladies doubles featured fifth-seeded Americans Liezel Huber and Bethanie Mattek-Sands up against Britain's Sarah Borwell and another American, Raquel Kops-Jones.

Borwell and Kops-Jones had taken the opening set on Centre Court the previous evening but the final stages of the contest went the way of the favourites who came through 6-7 (1-7), 6-3, 7-5.

But there was better news for Britain's Elena Baltacha who put her disappointing first record exit in the ladies singles behind her to win her ladies doubles tie with Olga Savchuk.

Today sees Britain's Ross Hutchins team up with Australian Jordan Kerr against the Spanish number 11 seeds Marcel Granollers and Tommy Robredo.

Also in the men's doubles Brits Jamie Delgado and Joshua Goodall have an even stiffer task when they line up against number four seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi.

And one match that will certainly draw a partisan crowd will be when Jamie Murray teams up with Laura Robson in the mixed doubles later in the afternoon.