Day Nine: Our man blogging on Wimbledon

The argument will always rage as to whether male and female tennis players should have the same prize money, particularly as the latter play the best of three sets not five.

But no-one could argue with the quality of tennis yesterday, as the women's quarter-finals saw some of the best tennis of the championships.

We have some incredible young girls being coached by us at Telford Tennis Centre and I hope all of them will have been watching the likes of Sabine Lisicki.

She tormented Kaia Kanepi with a stunning inventiveness in her game. Drop shots from the back of the court, wild changes of pace on serve and short balls then hard driven backhands.

Lisicki was almost like a spin bowler in her approach as she tried to wheedle out point after point. And it worked - Serena's conqueror now going on to face Agnieska Radwanska in the semi-finals.

Radwanska played some epic tennis too in her defeat of China's hero Li Na, the three-set thriller finally being decided on an eighth match point.

Sloane Stephens, the American often likened to the Williams sisters, will be disappointed in her loss to Marion Bartoli, as will Petra Kvitova who somehow conspired to lose against the unfancied Kirsten Flipkens.

Now all eyes turn to the men's quarters today with Andy Murray back in action against the dangerous Fernando Verdasco, while Novak Djokovic takes on the lofty Thomas Berdych.

Both need to be on their guard, especially as they've been relatively untroubled so far.

There will be a battle royal as David Ferrer takes on Juan Martin del Potro while, in the final last eight clas,h the relatively unknown Lukasz Kubot faces 24th seed Jerzy Janowicz.

Yet while the big guns steal the limelight at the All England Tennis Club today, spare a thought for some of the emerging talent.

There were impressive wins for Britain's Kyle Edmund and Johnny O'Mara, although they now face each other in round three of the boys' singles.

Maybe a Wimbledon title isn't just down to Murray after all?

Neil Devereux is part of the First Point Tennis Aacdemy. He's an LTA Level Five Master Performance coach.