Day 5 Round up Church Road, London Middlesex England

Twenty-four hours after Wimbledon had welcomed the Queen through its gates, tennis' own version of royalty - Roger Federer - was the star attraction on Day Five of the Championships as the Swiss continued his bid for a record-equaling seventh singles title on Centre Court.

The top seed had huffed and puffed his way through five sets in the first round but this time needed just three. In truth, Frenchman Arnaud Clement was no match and the 16-time Grand Slam champion will be back on Monday after a routine 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 victory.

While Federer goes on to meet Austrian Jurgen Melzer, probably the tastiest men's fourth round meeting was confirmed when Lleyton Hewitt and Novak Djokovic moved alongside one another in the draw. Third seed Djokovic dropped just nine games against Spain's Albert Montanes, while "Rocky", as Hewitt is known, delivered a killer blow to Frenchman Gael Monfils' title aspirations with a focused 6-3, 7-6 (11-9), 6-4 success.

All eyes were back on marathon man John Isner, who returned for his next match less than 24 hours after finishing his 11-hour epic with Nicolas Mahut. Despite a decent night's sleep, the 6ft 9in American was running on fumes on Court 5 and after featuring in the longest ever match exited the Championships in double quick time, winning just five games against Dutch former Junior Wimbledon champion Thiemo De Bakker. "It was brutal," was the American's assessment, who promised journalists he would be occupying his time with "anything but tennis" over the next few days.

Fifth seed Andy Roddick continued his passage to a potential fourth men's singles final, but needed four sets to get past talented German Philipp Kohlschreiber in the last match on Centre. The American will next play Chinese Taipei's Lu Yen-Hsun, who made history by becoming the first man from his country to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam when his opponent, Germany's Florian Mayer, retired with Lu ahead 6-4, 6-4, 2-1.

Other notable men's results saw in-form Czech Tomas Berdych, the 12th seed, scramble past Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin 6-4 in the fifth, while Paul Henri Mathieu made it seven Frenchmen in the third round - an Open era record - by outlasting 13th-seeded Russian Mikhail Youzhny in five.

The Belgians stole the limelight on the women's side, with comeback queens Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters both winning to set up their 25th meeting on Monday. Both were untroubled during third round matches, Henin breezing past 12th-seeded Russian Nadia Petrova 6-1, 6-4 and Clijsters seeing off another Russian, Maria Kirilenko, 6-3, 6-3.

Should either of them get their hands on the trophy though it's likely they will have to get past five-time ladies champion Venus Williams, and she marched into week two by dismantling 26th seed Alisa Kleybanova from Russia 6-4, 6-2 to set up a meeting with unseeded Australian Jarmila Groth.

Others who'll be needing to extend their hotel bookings for another week include the fourth seed from Serbia, Jelena Jankovic, who blew away 28th seed Alona Bondarenko 6-0, 6-3 to set up a meeting with Russian Vera Zvonareva. Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova and Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli also won and will meet for a place in the last eight.

If we needed yet more proof that parenting does little damage to your game, 1999 champion and mum-of-two Lindsay Davenport was back on court at Wimbledon for the first time for two years. In her first professional match since the 2008 US Open, she teamed up with fellow American Bob Bryan for a first round mixed doubles victory that finished at just after 8.30pm. Here's hoping baby daughter Lauren gives mum a bit of a lie-in on Saturday.