Wimbledon live: big names return to fore as Roger Federer beats Arnaud Clement

8pm: The Williams sisters take the tie-break 7-2. And Roddick finally finishes off his match, 7-5 6-7 6-3 6-3.

7.56pm: The Williams sisters are in a second set tie-break against Timea Bacsinszky and Tathiana Garbin. Elsewhere, Xavier Malisse and Kim Clijsters have beaten Filip Polasek and Chia-Jung Chuang 6-3 6-4. And Andy Roddick is serving for the match.

7.41pm: Patrick Kidd refuses to let a good pun die: “Tomas Berdych, the No 12 seed, has survived a scare against Denis Istomin from Uzbekistan, winning in five sets 6-7, 7-6, 6-7, 6-3, 6-4. Istomin had put out two big names in Stanislas Wawrinka and Rainer Schuettler, but Berdych finally gets past him and looks as if he will play Victor Hanescu, of Romania, in the last 16. Hanescu won the first two sets of his match with David Brands, the world No 98 from Germany, and is in a third tie-breaker. A good time to reuse a joke from Simon Barnes earlier in the week about hayfever sufferers. Today, Berdych was our anti-Istomin.”

7.34pm: Murray and Robson lose the first set to Andre Sa and Vera Zvonareva, who break on the British man’s serve to take the final game.

7.28pm: Liezel Huber and Bethanie Mattek-Sands have beaten Lucie Safarova and Aleksandra Wozniak 6-1 6-1, so Jocelyn Rae and Heather Watson can play their doubles match against seventh seeds Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs on Court No 5.

7.23pm: Tomas Berdych is through, beatingr Denis Istomin 6-7 7-6 6-7 6-3 6-4. Roddick leads 7-5 6-7 6-3 against Kohlschreiber now.

7.13pm: And Marray and Smith have won! They’ve beaten Dick Norman and Yanina Wickmayer 6-3 3-6 7-5.

7.10pm: Unforgiving analysis from Patrick Kidd: “I watched the last two sets of Federer’s match against Clement on Centre. He looks a lot better than he did in the first round but this is not the Federer of old. A few too many forehands clipped the net and failed to go over, a few too many backhands strayed into the tramlines. That said, when he pulled off something special it was wonderful to see and his serve remains a big weapon. Clement had nothing to him, I’m afraid. He has been around a long time and reached the quarters here once, but he is not much of a threat now. Fed now plays Jurgen Melzer in the last 16.”

7.09pm: Junior Wimbledon begins on Monday, and young Laura Robson, a former champion, has confirmed she’ll compete. She’ll be the eighth seed and will play Japan’s Risa Ozaki in the first round.

The 16-year-old, who has concentrated this year mainly on boosting her senior ranking, which currently stands at 234th, will be joined in the girls’ singles by fellow British players Katy Dunne, Lucy Brown, Tara Moore, Jennifer Ren, Francesca Stephenson, qualifier Natalie Beazant and 14-year-old Eleanor Dean.

James Marsalek, the surprise winner of the AEGON International at Roehampton today, Oliver Golding, qualifier Lewis Burton, Tom Farquharson, Ashley Hewitt, Liam Broady, Luke Bambridge, George Morgan, Kyle Edmund and Jack Carpenter are the home entrants in the boys’ event.

7.05pm: Hutchins and Keothavong exited so quickly I didn’t even notice them start. They’ve lost to David Marrero and Alexandra Dulgheru, 6-4 6-4.

6.58pm: The Williams sisters have taken their first set 6-1.

6.52pm: Ah, next on Centre are Jamie Murray and Laura Robson in the mixed doubles. This should be interesting. They’re playing Andre Sa and Vera Zvonareva.

6.48pm: All square on Court 1 - Kohlschreiber has taken the second 7-6.

6.46pm: Marray and Smith have lost their second set, 6-3 - exactly the same score as they won the first by.

6.41pm: Game, set and match Federer, 6-2 6-4 6-2, and that was a relatively easy win for him - the most comfortable he’s been this year.

6.38pm: Julian Muscat reports: “Generous words from Thiemo De Bakker, who benefited from John Isner’s exertions over the previous three days to reach the third round at Wimbledon for the first time. De Bakker knew on Wednesday that he would be playing the winner of the Isner/Mahut match. Asked if he had sympathy for Isner’s plight, he replied: ‘Of course. I think when people at home just saw the score, 70-68 in the fifth, they probably thought it was a mistake. It’s pretty sick [to have] to play for 11 hours. I was lucky that I had to play Isner next.’”

6.23pm: Latest news for tomorrow’s schedule - Centre: Serena/Cibulkova, Nadal/Petzschner, Murray/Simon. Court No 1: Soderling/Bellucci, Sharapova/Strycova, Querrey/Malisse.

6.21pm: Marray and Smith took the first set of their match 6-3. Good work from them.

6.18pm: Someone left over from the Hewitt match is now singing, “Let’s go, Roger, let’s go!” Clement is now sporting a purple headband.

6.13pm: Federer takes the second set 6-4.

6.12pm: Spare a thought for poor John Isner, who tweets: “sitting on the couch finally resting and really worn out.”

5.57pm: Glancing over at the game on Centre Court, it seems Arnaud Clement has changed his headband. He began with a red one; he’s now wearing a blue one. Wonder whether John McEnroe likes that one just as much.

5.53pm: Jonathan Marray and Anna Smith are on court in their mixed doubles - they’re playing the Belgian pair of Dick Norman and Yanina Wickmayer. Delgado and Goodall have lost in straight sets in the men’s doubles, 6-3 6-4 6-4.

5.49pm: Roddick takes the first set 7-5.

5.45pm: Alyson Rudd reports: “What makes the forthcoming match between Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin so compelling was the question asked of Venus Williams. ‘Obviously because they’re Belgian,’ she said.” The lady has a point. Can you tell her she left her phone behind?

5.40pm: The Williams sisters are about to appear on Court No 2, taking on Timea Bacsinszky and Tathiana Garbin in the ladies’ doubles. Meanwhile, Florian Mayer’s just retired against Yen-Hsun Lu, having been 6-4 6-4 2-1 down.

5.36pm: Federer’s wrapped up the first set with aplomb, 6-2.

5.35pm: Fabulously, Venus Williams appears to have lost her phone. The official Wimbledon twitter informs her: “You left it in the main interview room. Lleyton Hewitt has it if you’re looking.”

5.34pm: Make that four games all for Roddick and Kohlschreiber.

5.32pm: Federer is cruising against Clement, 5-1; last year’s runner-up Roddick is having a rather tougher time against Kohlschreiber but is leading 4-3.

5.31pm: Jurgen Melzer, the 16th seed, has beaten Feliciano Lopez 4-6 6-3 6-2 6-4.

5.28pm: By the way, Andy Roddick’s under way in his match against Philipp Kohlschreiber over on Court No 1.

5.15pm: Delgado and Goodall are two sets down, losing the second 6-4.

4.57pm: Roger Federer and Arnaud Clement are about to begin their match now. John McEnroe informs us that he likes Clement because he wears a headband.

4.51pm: Venus is through to the fourth round, 6-4 6-2 against Russia’s Alisa Kleybanova.

4.45pm: Game, set and match Hewitt - 6-3 7-6 6-4. Monfils double-faulted on the last point. Ouch.

4.41pm: But Hewitt gets himself out of trouble as his fans continue singing between points.

4.38pm: “ALLEZ!” shouts Monfils as he moves to break point against Hewitt.

4.35pm: Hewitt and Monfils are four games all in the third set.

4.34pm: Delgado and Goodall are 4-1 down in the first set against Bhupathi and Mirnyi.

4.08pm: Aw, nice quotes from Kim Clijsters on her previously fractious relationship with compatriot Justine Henin: “I think we’ve definitely grown up.We’ve had great times together playing Fed Cup and just messaging each other on phones, teasing each other. It’s fun and relaxed. I think that’s how I would have liked it to have always been.”

4.01pm: And Hewitt takes the second set. Gael Monfils had his chances but didn’t take them. Venus, meanwhile, has stepped up her game and won the first set 6-4. Delgado and Goodall are about to start their men’s doubles match on Court 6. And Paul-Henri Mathieu has beaten 13th seed Mikhail Youzhny 6-4 2-6 2-6 6-3 6-4.

3.46pm: Into a second-set tie-break on Centre with Monfils and Hewitt. “Here we go, Lleyton, here we go!” chant his fans.

3.44pm: Venus Williams is making hard work of this first set against Alisa Kleybanova, who’s the 26th seed. They’re locked at 4-4 in the first set.

3.40pm: Jelena Jankovic is in a good mood, as well she might be. She said: “I’m happy with the way that I’m playing in this moment, especially today, in that first set I played really well. That’s the game I would like to play. That’s the real me.

“That’s something that I was working on for a while: trying to play more aggressively, serving well, and playing very well in the returning games and coming to the net. I think I did overall pretty well today. I hope I can continue like that.”

3.28pm: Djokovic is through, 6-1 6-4 6-4, against Spain’s Albert Montanes.

3.27pm: And it’s a blister on his little toe that’s keeping him out of the doubles. Alyson Rudd reports: “John Isner said he felt delirious when playing out his epic match and you might perhaps wonder how anyone could continue to engage in a top-level game of tennis when out of touch with reality. On the other hand, top players suffer a sense of the bizarre every time they face the press. How odd must it feel to be sat on a podium being asked if it is your big toe or little toe that has a blister and what your shoe size happens to be. By the way, it is Isner’s little toe on his left foot and he takes a size 15.”

3.25pm: Note and respect the physical damage John Isner has incurred in the name of Wimbledon. I think this is probably playing down his injuries - or at least they’ve not kicked in properly yet. He said: “I actually didn’t even warm up for my match today. I was in the training room trying to get ready and getting my feet taped up, getting my shoulders loosened.

“But when I went out there and hit that first serve and it didn’t have much behind it, I knew I was in for some trouble. On top of that, I’m playing a really good player who’s on top of his game. So bundle those up together, it wasn’t a recipe for success.

“My neck was a little stiff. So on the serve, I couldn’t really look up as much as possible and turn like I wanted to on my forehand side.”

3.18pm: Some suspiciously Antipodean-sounding voices are singing, “If you all love Lleyton clap your hands!” on Centre Court. Seems to be doing the job - he’s about to break Monfils.

3.12pm: Patrick Kidd reports: “Not quite a perfect day for our near neighbours in the Belgo-Russian clashes of the day. Clijsters and Henin beat their Russian opponents but Yanina Wickmayer has just lost 6-4 6-2 to Vera Zvonareva. Wickmayer is a promising 20-year-old who reached the US Open semis last year, but she is still finding her feet on grass. Looked ropey in Eastbourne last week and despite being seeded No 15 has probably done well to reach the third round here.”

3.05pm: Lleyton Hewitt wins the first set against Gael Monfils, 6-3.

3.02pm: Ooh, another possible injury here - Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria’s recorded a victory after her opponent, Regina Kulikova of Russia, retired. Pironkova was already leading 6-4 2-0, mind.

2.44pm: Julian Muscat writes: “From Court No 1. Albert Montagnes, the Spanish clay-court specialist, is more in the mood to entertain the crowd than apply himself to the dirty business of winning. He’s going for broke with his shots against the Serbian No 3 seed, Novak Djokovic, and making more errors than winners. Just a case of Djokovic administering the last rites now.”

2.30pm: Jankovic wins, two sets to love, 6-0 6-3.

2.26pm: Patrick Kidd writes: “Just been watching Henin on Centre against Nadia Petrova. These two are old sparring partners, having played 15 times before (13 of them won by Henin). It was not much of a contest today. Henin won the first 6-1 and while Petrova got a break in the third game of the second set, Henin was back on level terms at 3-3 with a backhand passing shot. Serving to stay in the match at 5-4 down, Petrova went to 15-40 with a double-fault and lost to a deep backhand shot from Henin.

“Petrova is one of the women’s tour’s biggest servers, but Henin looked the more powerful player today and she now goes into an enticing fourth-round game with Kim Clijsters, her compatriot. There were three Belgians in today’s third round, all drawn against Russian opponents. With Clijsters and Henin through, that leaves Yanina Wickmayer to make it a perfect day, but she is trailing by a break in the first set to Vera Zvonareva.”

2.25pm: Latest news from Wimbledon: “No doubles for @JohnIsnerTennis & @samquerrey - they’ve withdrawn from today’s match v Michal Przysiezny & Dudi Sela @Wimbledon.”

2.19pm: And Justine Henin is through 6-1 6-4 against Nadia Petrova.

2.12pm: Hutchins and Kerr are out, straight sets 7-6(2) 7-6(5) 6-3 to the eleventh seeds from Spain, Robrego and Granollers.

2.09pm: We resume and Jankovic’s thigh is strapped up.

2.04pm: Jankovic has got the trainer on. That’s not good. A medical time-out is called.

1.56pm: Jelena Jankovic has taken her first set against Alona Bondarenko 6-0.

1.52pm: Laura Dixon is inspecting the queues: “Stewards down at the less glamorous end of the Wimbledon complex say that around 500 people have already set up camp to wait for tickets tomorrow - most of them hoping to get for a ticket for Andy Murray’s third match. Despite the heat (“Oh my God, is it really going to get to 30?!” one woman said), spirits are high. One steward said the numbers were much higher than normal. One man in the queue has camped out all week to see every match of the Scotsman. He’s front of the queue for tomorrow. Murray fever begins, it seems.”

1.50pm: Petrova edges 2-1 in front in the second set against Henin. Marion Bartoli has comprehensively beaten Greta Arn 6-3 6-3.

1.47pm: By the way, Isner didn’t hit a single ace in that three-set match against De Bakker. Perhaps he’d used them all up.

1.35pm: Game and first set Henin, 6-1.

1.30pm: And it’s all over. The official Wimbledon twitter congratulates his efforts: “Thank you for everything @JohnIsnerTennis - you’ve done yourself proud @Wimbledon. Congrats De Bakker 6-0 6-3 6-2 winner 2day.” Our own Neil Harman adds: “Isner loses 6-0, 6-3, 6-2 and receives a quiet, respectful ovation. Good on De Bakker, he cannot bring himself to exclaim victory because it undoubtedly feels a little hollow. Isner gave everything but his legs just would not move. Now for doubles!”

1.24pm: Isner’s now 4-2 down in the third set, and desperately trying to stretch out his legs.

1.22pm: Patrick Kidd writes: “Good news for France, to make up for the football. They have qualified an Open Era record six men for the second round and Paul-Henri Mathieu, who has won the first set of a delayed second-round game with Mikhail Youzhny today, could make it seven. Germany is the second most-represented nation in the men’s third round with five players, which equals its Open Era record. Britain has one, which is par for the course.”

1.14pm: Eighth seed Kim Clijsters has wrapped up the second set and beaten 27th seed Maria Kirilenko 6-3 6-3.

1.10pm: Patrick Kidd yawns: “Rather a dull Royal Box today after Her Majesty yesterday and “Sir” Brucie the day before, but here are some of the names who stand out: Michael Lynagh, former Australia rugby fly half; Sir Keith Mills, Air Miles and Nectar card supremo and big cheese in the Olympic 2012 and 2018 World Cup campaigns; Giles Clarke, chairman of the ECB; Geordie Greig, Editor of the Evening Standard; Etienne De Villiers, former chairman of the ATP, and Supreme Court Justice Lord Mance. Told you it wasn’t that exciting.”

1.05pm: Bless teenagers. Laura Robson frantically tweets: “Just heard that [Marat] Safin is currently in the player restaurant for lunch. Cue me running from my house suddenly desperate for some food.”

1.03pm: Time for some Centre Court action as Justine Henin faces Nadia Petrova. Talking of the doubles, Julian Muscat has a correction to make: “An important correction: Mahut and Clement actually lost the opening set of their doubles match last night. They are playing the British pairing of Colin Fleming and Kenneth Skupski.”

1.02pm: Isner loses the second set. If he had a white flag I’m fairly sure he’d be waving it. And remember he has doubles to play later. Neil Harman notes: “Must be particularly eerie for John Isner who is in terrible trouble against Thiemo de Bakker of Holland on Court No 5. The big man is struggling with the after-effects of the three-day marathon and received lengthy treatment after losing the first set 6-0. What is weird is that the umpire of his court is Mariana Alves of Portgual but on the adjacent court you can hear the dulcet tones of Mohamed Lahyani calling the score. Lahyani was the man who sat in the chair for 11 hours and five minutes and he’s back out there again for the first match, too.”

1pm: Oh, and Anne Keothavong has beaten me to announcing today’s mixed doubles action, as she tweets: “Looking forward to some mixed dubs action with Ross later. Wish Glastonbury wasn’t always during Wimbledon, envy my friends who are there!” Jamie Murray and Laura Robson are also playing tonight, against Andre Sa and Vera Zvonareva, and so are the ladies’ doubles pairs of Jocelyn Rae and Heather Watson, against Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs (which will be a heck of a job), and Elena Baltacha and Olga Savchuk of Russia against fourth seeds Gisela Dulko and Flavia Pennetta.

12.58pm: Ross Hutchins and Jordan Kerr have lost their first set against Tommy Robredo and Marcel Granollers, 7-6. Messrs Delgado and Goodall are third up on the same court (5) later on.

12.46pm: Isner gets his first game on the board and the CROWD GOES WILD. Kim Clijsters is one set up against Kirilenko, and Marion Bartoli is a set up against Greta Arn.

12.42pm: Isner looks utterly miserable. I suspect if I were in his position I’d be considering if it was really worth having been through that three-day purgatory.

12.38pm: He’s on his feet again. And is broken again.

12.34pm: Good afternoon, everybody - Carrie here to take you through to close of play this evening. Isner’s still prone on the court, the poor mite.

12.30pm: It has taken De Bakker 16 minutes to win the first set against Isner. The American already has the trainer on for a medical time out. He is getting a neck massage and it looks as if he is about to drop off to sleep. And who can blame him. Is he going to give up the first two sets and hope for a second wind? Extreme measures may be required.

12.29pm: Before their match Thiemo De Bakker was looking forward to see how John Isner shaped up for their second-round match. “I’m curious,” the Dutchman said. “Hopefully, he’s a little tired.” Well, he wasn’t disappointed. De Bakker has raced into a 5-0 lead in the first set.

12.26pm: Julian Muscat writes: Isner may be taking all the plaudits after his victory but let’s not entirely forget Nicolas Mahut. His was the greater effort, since he doesn’t have Isner’s pounding service - which is delivered from a great height. The American won literally hundreds of free points with it. Good luck to Isner today, but don’t forget that while he rested after their epic concluded yesterday, Mahut was back on court last night in tandem with his French compatriot, Arnaud Clement. Glad to relate, Mahut and Clement won the first set - in a tiebreak, naturally - before play was suspended due to bad light. The pair are due back out as the fourth match on Court No 18. Allez!

12.14pm: Robin Soderling has got his Friday planned: “Another sunny day in Wimbledon,” he tweets. “Gonna get some practice in and then celebrate Midsummer’s Eve with the Swedes.” Mmm, dancing round the maypole.

11.58am: Whoaa! Laura Dixon, one of our reporters at Wimbledon, has just reminded us that not only is King Kong Isner playing Thiemo De Bakker in the singles today, he is due up in the doubles as well: “You might have thought that a three day, multiple record-breaking match in the heat of SW19 would be enough of a marathon for any tennis player. But the American returns for not one, but two matches. Man of steel.”

11.41am: There was never any doubt that Mohamed Lahyani, the chair umpire for the Isner-Mahut match, was going to last the distance. “I travel economy,” the 44-year-old Moroccan, who lives in Sweden, said. “Seven hours sitting still on court is nothing.

“I didn’t get a chance to feel tired, I was gripped by the amazing match and my concentration stayed good - I owed that to the players, their stamina was breathtaking and their behaviour exceptional.

“I think the longest match I’ve ever chair-umpired before was five and a half hours long.”

His career is going to be a breeze after this.

10am: Good morning and welcome to our coverage of Wimbledon on the fifth day of the championships.

Roger Federer continues his defence of his Wimbledon singles title this afternoon. The Swiss meets Arnaud Clement, of France. However, the preceding tie on Centre Court could be the game of the day as Leyton Hewitt, of Australia, takes on France’s Gael Monfils. The pair are seeded 15 and 21 respectively.

What’s the betting that John Isner loses in straight sets to Thiemo De Bakker in the first match on court 5 today? He must have arms and legs like cement after his epic against Nicolas Mahut. Jamie Murray has a hunch what the players might have felt like after losing his doubles match yesterday in five long sets.

Novak Djokovic, Andy Roddick, Serena Williams and Justine Henin return to singles action in what promises to be another thrilling day at SW19. Stay with us for news, views, images and tidbits from around all the courts as our correspondents file throughout the day.