Did you hear the story of the very special Wimbledon strawberries? In the early hours of Tuesday morning an articulated lorry en route from the Kent to SW19, carrying enough strawberries for a day's consumption at the All England Club, was stopped by police. A number of officers boarded the lorry to make sure that there was nothing suspect amongst the punnets and once satis"ed that Al-Qaeda hadn't tampered with the goods, they proceeded to give the strawberries a police escort to their "nal destination. The cream, we've been informed, didn't get quite the same treatment and as one wag in the Wimbledon press centre offered during the week, it turned a little sour because of it. Boom. And boom.

An interesting little story reaches us from a mixed doubles match late last week. The British pair of Jamie Delgado and Anne Keothavong were facing Severine Bremond and Fabrice Santoro from France but far from being worried about their opponents, the home duo were probably more worried about what they'd face from each other on court.

You see Delgado and Keothavong had been having their own mixed doubles competition off court in the form of a long-term relationship but having entered themselves at Wimbledon, they broke-up before the tournament began. Fair play to them for at least taking to the court together but the former couple's 6-1, 6-3 defeat to the French duo finally put an end to the on-court segment of their relationship.

Game, set and match, as they say.

'C'MON TIM', WILL YOU GIVE US ALL A BREAK

Last week we had a go off the Centre Court spectators who shouted every variant of Tim Henman's name while the English man was playing but at least those people were shouting when he was actually on-court. The jolly pranksters have, taken to shouting "C'mon Tim" during crucial breaks of play in other Wimbledon matches. It's even less funny and less clever than their previous crimes.

EVIDENCE OF FOUL PLAY ON THE COURTS OF SW19

It's been a week of gamesmanship at the Championships. Of course it's been of the mild variety, there's no diving or eye-gouging in this part of the world, but it's been noticeable all the same. Rafael Nadal, for one, was spitting feathers at the behaviour of his third round opponent, Richard Soderling. The Swede began to mimic Nadal's slow play . . .checking every ball thoroughly before serving, wiping himself with a towel after every second point, fiddling with his shorts . . .midway through the game and while the Spaniard's little tics might be annoying, at least he does them for his own reasons, not just to annoy someone else.

The toilet-break has also been used strategically. Serena Williams was jogging on the spot on Monday when she asked the umpire if she could go to the toilet during her game against Daniella Hantuchova, but when she was told that she'd have to wait until before one of her service games, and not one of her opponents, her need seemed to evaporate. Magic, just like Serena's recovery from the calf tear that's been doubted by many this week. She's tried every trick in the book this week but it still didn't do her much good.

MOUTHING OFF "I may have exaggerated a bit when I said that 80 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs. What I meant to say was 75 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs."

Richard Krajicek from way back in 1992. We just wonder if he's changed his views that much since his sister Michaella, who got to the Ladies Singles quarterfinals at Wimbledon this year, decided to become a professional tennis player. Or is she just in that other 25 percentile Richard?

"My career is actually more stellar than Stich's so he can say whatever he pleases. I've never been overdramatic in my whole career."

Serena Williams denies accusations from former Wimbledon men's champion, Michael Stich, that she played up the calf injury picked up against Daniella Hantuchova on Monday.

We think Michael Stich is a very brave man.

"We've been stuck in a locker room for nine hours a day and he's been chilling out taking the double decker red bus tour thing."

Andy Roddick second guesses what Roger Federer has been up to in his six days off this week WIMBLEDON BY NUMBERS 54 The number of games in the final set of the Marcelo Melo and Andre Sa versus Paul Hanley and Kevin Ullyett men's mixed doubles match. Melo and Sa, from Brazil, finally won the deciding set 28-26 in a match that lasted five hours 58 minutes 7The number of restarts due to rain in the Nadal and Soderling (right) third round match. The players warmed-up on Saturday and finished on Wednesday 175 The total number of matches interrupted by rain at Wimbledon over the past two weeks