By Caroline Cheese BBC Sport Online at Wimbledon

Wednesday's Wimbledon diary

Lovers of pony-tails everywhere will be relieved that Xavier Malisse has had to renege on a bet after reaching the semi-finals.

The Belgian pledged to chop off his trademark locks if he reached the semi-finals and one journalist was ready with the scissors at his post-match news conference.

"I'm sorry I can't do it," he said.

"My manager says it's part of my image and I can't do it. We'll think of something though - maybe I'll colour it or something."

Good to see the mercurial Malisse has not quite put his hair-raising days behind him.

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Henman pledge

Tim Henman has promised to make the trip out to Henman Hill on Sunday should he become the first British player for 25 years to win a title at Wimbledon.

Henman has promised to visit his fans on the hill

The fans' favourite was asked whether he had ever considered going to thank the hardy souls who populate the hill behind Court One despite the rain and some tentative performances from their idol.

"Hopefully they'd be pleased to see me," he said, hesitantly.

"When I look at my life in tennis, the fact that I've been coming here since I was five, and now to be in a position where they've kind of named the hill after me, that's pretty cool."

Henman then pledged to visit the fans on the hill with the trophy on Sunday - whether he will be joined by a cross-dressing Pat Cash is another matter.

Wedding bells

Justine Henin was understandably disappointed about losing in the semi-finals of Wimbledon, but she still has plenty to look forward to this year.

She and fiance Pierre-Yves Hardene are to tie the knot on 16 November.

The pair have been together since 1998, although Pierre-Yves is rarely present at 20-year-old Henin's matches, where long-time coach Carlos Rodrigues is the Belgian's principal supporter.

Henin, who prefers to let her tennis do the talking and is notoriously coy about her private life, would only comment: "I think it's a good thing, that's it."

Sour grapes

Nicolas Lapentti wasted little time in unleashing a scathing attack on the All England Club's Order of Play Committee after his agonising five-set defeat to David Nalbandian.

The two surprise quarter-finalists were relegated to Court 2 for their clash while star names Lleyton Hewitt, Tim Henman and the Williams sisters hogged the stadium courts.

"I'm disappointed I made it so far in a tournament like Wimbledon and I'm going to say some day: 'Well I made it to the quarters at Wimbledon but I never got to play in Centre Court'," he said.

"Maybe they're still upset we beat them in Davis Cup a couple of years ago."

Lapentti was of course referring to one of the worst results in British tennis history when Ecuador defeat Great Britain on the newly opened Court One at Wimbledon.

Bogdanovic out

Alex Bogadanovic's bid for the boy's singles title came to an end on Thursday after a close match against Alexander Skrypko.

The British ninth seed went down 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-4) to the Belarussian at the second-round stage.

He was joined on the sidelines by David Brewer who, despite earlier beating Raphael Durek to reach the third round, lost out to Australian fifth seed Tod Reid later in the afternoon.

And just to complete the misery for British fans, Alice Barnes was knocked out of the girls' singles, leaving Henman the sole survivor in Wimbledon singles competition.