It was a cat and a cat game.

The cats howled and screamed at the centre court last night when Serena Williams and Elena Dementieva were involved in the slug fest to make it to the finals of Wimbledon Ladies. It was so intense that both players couldn’t stop grunting although a lady spectator pleaded sitting in the first row with her hat on that read “No Grunting Please”.

At the grandest of the stages, it was nothing short of a spectacle. The match was like watching a Quentin Tarantino movie. It was full of fast paced action, suspense thriller and burst of emotions in the best three sets of grueling ladies tennis match witnessed so far at SW19 in a long time. It sure will qualify easily to go down as one of the best ladies matches played ever.

Elena Dementieva pushed Serena Williams to the hilt. Stretched her from corner to corner, made her run from baseline to the net, asked her questions, make her earn her points in the match. Serena was not given any freebies as her previous opponents did in this year’s campaign. She surely had an easy run till she came up to meet the Olympic gold medalist last night.

Serena dropped her first set of the tournament and was seen vulnerable at times. She had to come up with something extra ordinary to save couple of match points against her in the third and she did come up with a winner in one of the most extra ordinary rallies we have seen in a long time. Serena won in the end proving experience is the ingredient required and not the exuberance.

That said, Elena proved how difficult she can be and made Serena look struggling till the end. If there was anything that separated both players, it was that rally which Serena won when it mattered in the third. That’s it. It was that close.

In the end, when Serena won the semis 6-7, 7-5, 8-6 to set up a date with her sibling yet again in the finals, Elena walked away winning more friends, supporters and admirers world over.

I don’t know whether Elena won a supporter in Vijay Amritraj as he was throughout the match, kept cheering the Williams; both the Williams on court as well as those Williams in the box often coughing away on the microphone under the influence of anti-histamine scaring his colleague Alan Wilkins.

But Elena did win yours truly with a magnificent display of tennis shots throughout the match.

My money is on Murray.

It’s been 73 excruciatingly painful long years Britain has waited to see one of its sons win the Wimbledon. Last time that happened was when Fred Perry won it in 1936.

I guess it’s time for Britain to go insane. On Monday, when Wimbledon commences, Brits will be standing behind this young Scot named Andy Murray to cheer their hero who just proved that he can by winning the warm-up grass event at Queen's. Andy Murray made his intentions clear by conquering the Queens and ended up as the first British player to win it after 71 years.

To me, the havoc is inevitable. In two weeks time, Murray will be plastered on every tabloid front page, be discussed by TV pundits, be written by tennis writers, figure on the primetime news and get discussed and analyzed in pubs and bars. Hopefully, he won't let his countrymen down.

Some think Andy Murray drives people mad. So what? I like his rage and I want him to win. Britain needs a player who can spit fire on fire and none other than Andy Murray fits that bill. He’ll pose Djokovic a big challenge, make The Fed desperate to win his 15th, and with Rafael Nadal the No.1 withdrawing from the fray because of his knee injury, stars are aligning themselves nicely for the young Scot.

If anyone who can put an end to Britain’s long wait, it is Andy Murray. 73-year wait for a local tennis hero to win their own tournament? It’s an agonizing wait.

The British deserve a champion because they are such wonderful spectators. Wimbledon's crowd is by far the best tennis has ever seen, their behavior undoubtedly shows a fine appreciation of the game. Murray should win because he's interesting, a somewhat angry young man with a game of delightful calmness. When he won at Queen's last weekend, British press stated he did not smile for the photographers as if he wanted to have his last laugh here.

Andy Murray has unveiled his retro look with his new monogrammed Fred Perry outfit for this year's Wimbledon. In celebration of the centenary year of Fred Perry's birth, Murray has had a hand in the design of the outfit. It combines elements of the classic Fred Perry look from the 1950s and 1960s. May be this furthers inspires The Scot to do what no British tennis player has done in the last 73 years.

May be the time has come for the Brits to praise their hero and even the statue of Fred Perry may put down its racket to join in the applause.