Having yet to drop a set at this year's tournament, defending champion Serena Williams (right) takes on Russian 25-year-old Vera Zvonareva in the women's singles final
Going after her fourth Wimbledon singles title, Williams lays down an early marker in the contest by impressively serving out the first game to love
Undeterred, the 21st seed and massive underdog holds her serve and manages to match her opponent in the early stages of the match in front of an encouraging Centre Court crowd
However, with more and more shots coming back at her, the Russian's resistance gets broken in game eight to leave Williams serving for the set
The American duly closes out the first set 6-3 and then immediately breaks again at the start of the second as things begin to unravel quickly for Zvonareva
Sensing victory, the world number one piles ever increasing pressure on to the Moscow-based player and breaks again in the fifth game to move into an almost unassailable position
An increasingly frustrated Zvonareva manages to avoid another break but fails to prevent the inevitable three games later when a smash seals a 6-3 6-2 win for Williams after 67 minutes of play
The victory gives Williams her second Grand Slam title of the year and 13th of her career, while Zvonareva is left to focus on winning the women's doubles title later in the day with Elena Vesnina
Next on Centre Court is the men's doubles final where unseeded pair Jurgen Melzer and Philipp Petzschner plot victory over 16th seeds Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau
The Austrian-German double act sweep to a 6-1 first-set win and then take the second by a 7-5 margin as an upset looks increasingly likely
The third set goes the same way as Melzer and Petzschner wrap-up a 6-1 7-5 7-5 win to claim their first Grand Slam doubles title
Philipp Petzschner (left) and Jurgen Melzer pose for the obligatory celebration pictures with their trophies
In the boys' doubles semi-finals British pair Lewis Burton and George Morgan beat Peter Heller and Kevin Krawietz in a two-hour, 37-minute epic, winning the final set 15-13
Also making a good showing on Court 5 are fellow British boys doubles pairing Liam Broady and Tom Farquharson winning their first set against Russians Mikhail Biryukov and Alexander Rumyantsev 6-0
Broady and Farquharson drop the second set on a tie-break but win the decider 6-4 to set up an all-British final in a vintage year for the nation's juniors alongside Tara Moore, Laura Robson and Oliver Golding
Back on Centre Court as the shadows draw in Vania King and Yuroslava Shevdova take the first set on a tie-break against the Russian pair of Elena Vesnina and singles finalist Zveronova
The American and Kazakhstani break their opposition twice in the second set as the tired Zveronova tries to put her earlier defeat behind her
Yuroslava Shevdova (left) and Vania King delightedly hold up their trophies to the evening crowd on Centre Court in the final match of the day
Victory also means defeat for someone else and Vera Zvonareva is consoled by Elena Vesnina at the end of the match - Zvonareva's second Centre Court defeat of the day
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