By Alex Perry BBC Sport Online at Wimbledon

Amelie Mauresmo was clearly delighted after her impressive quarter-final win over Jennifer Capriati.

She was more than happy to field questions in English in her post-match news conference, and answered them all with confidence.

But she was flummoxed by one particular question.

"How important has your partner's support been?" asked one reporter only to be greeted by a look of confusion from Mauresmo.

"What, my ex-partner, you mean?" she eventually replied to the general amusement of the press pack.

Tour of duty

BBC Sport Online shared a taxi to SW19 with a soldier who was spending the fortnight helping out on Centre Court.

There are many members of the armed forces who have been detailed to help out at Wimbledon, and it is a job which they clearly enjoy.

"I'd rather be checking bags than checking caves for al-Qaeda," the soldier told us.

He, like many of the others, had just returned from a stint in Afghanistan, and a couple of weeks watching tennis seems like the least they deserve.

Still no equality in tennis

Martina Navratilova's fitness, even at the age of 45, shows few signs of diminishing.

But even her powers of recuperation were tested by the frequent rain breaks in her and Todd Woodbridge's mixed doubles match against Jonas Bjorkman and Anna Kournikova.

"I thought one more warm-up and I'll be too tired to go and play,'" said Navratilova after her match.

On a more serious note, Navratilova said she felt Anna Kournikova had been treated harshly by the press after her first-round defeat in the ladies' singles.

The nine-time Wimbledon champion said that Pete Sampras would never have been asked the sort of questions Kournikova had to face.

"You do not treat men the same way you treat women," said Navratilova.