By Georgina Chang

IT WAS certainly an emotional week here at Wimbledon. And I saw the ruthless and magnanimous sides of the media.

After his fourth-round winning match that lasted for hours under the Centre Court roof, the local press suggested that Andy Murray "boils with anger" in the heat of the playing conditions.

What Murray actually said was: "It's very heavy and very humid. Sweating so much. Trying to get towels from the locker room because your hands were drenched. It was like I'd been in a bath."

Apparently, we media folks are really wolves, and we create sensational headlines out of an innocent remark.

To further clarify matters, Murray tweeted later that evening: "I loved playing under the roof even if you've read different! The atmosphere was amazing. Just very humid."

It's great that he can tell the fans what he feels directly. In his early days, his dry sense of humour was often misunderstood by the press and the public.

Now, he even gets to thank Pizza Express restaurant for serving up pizzas for him, even though they were already closed when he placed his order.

Meanwhile, Stanislas Wawinkra was in tears after his tough, heartbreaking five-set defeat by Murray.

Yet, an insensitive journalist asked him why his nose was so red.

The poor guy muttered that it was because of irritation from the new towels. I heard "Rudolph" being bandied
about as a nickname for him.

Ana Ivanovic got far better treatment.

She was also in tears when she had to retire with a thigh injury.

She had initially obliged Serbian TV broadcasters with an interview, but the reporter noted her watery eyes and trembling lips, and he decided to do the gentlemanly thing by letting her go off.

My eyes welled up a bit too when I realised that Justin Timberlake was here at Wimbledon and that I had missed getting his picture.

It's becoming stars galore, with Kate Winslet, Ewan McGregor and basketballer Dirk Nowitzki all turning up to get some TV time for themselves.

More famous faces were expected over the finals weekend and I set up camp by the Centre Court entrance and waylaid them for pictures.

After all, I, too, am a hard-nosed journalist.

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