Grosjean ready to halt Tim

"I will have to start very well and hit the ball very well at the beginning," Grosjean told reporters after completing a 6-2 4-6 7-6 7-6 defeat of the French Open champion in a match eld over from Monday evening.

"If Tim has a good start, you know, with the public behind him, he will have more confidence. I know everybody will be for him, he has a really good chance to win this year," he added. "I am really happy to play on Centre Court and I will just focus on my own game and won't think that I have Tim against me."

Grosjean, who beat Henman on the way to reaching the final at Queen's Club in the run-up to Wimbledon, knows what to expect from the crowd after losing to the Briton in the third round on Centre Court in 1999.

"The crowd then was all for Tim, but I didn't feel that everybody was against me," added Grosjean. "Tomorrow it maybe different but I will just focus on myself."

Henman, who has reached the semi-finals four times in the last five years, is bidding to become the first British player to win the men's singles since Fred Perry in 1936.