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It was the Romanian’s fourth consecutive win against Sch?er.Ranked No 191, Pavel has been hampered by wrist and back injuries this season, and gained entry to the tournament with a protected ranking of 44. That’s what really killed it.”Roddick, who has served brilliantly this week, reached the semi-finals with a 7-5, 7-6 win against Jonas Bjorkman, of Sweden. Henman broke to love for 5-1, and served the match out with an ace after 79 minutes. By hanging on to his own serve – and saving two set points when serving at 5-6 – Henman bought himself time to make an assault of his own.Leading 6-3 in the tie-break, Henman seemed on the verge of blowing his chances.

He double-faulted on his first set point, and Federer passed him to save the second. Steadying himself, Henman lured Federer into hitting a forehand over the baseline on the third set point to win the shoot-out, 7-5, after 55 minutes.Federer’s resistance was broken after he lost his serve for 1-3 in the second set, double-faulting twice in that fourth game. He goes into the final guaranteed a ranking in the mid-twenties.As in his third-round match against Grosjean, Henman began slowly last night, and was unable to make an impression on Federer’s serve en route to the first set tie-break. Considering the way Henman has relaxed and built his confidence with wins against Sebastien Grosjean, Gustavo Kuerten and Federer, Roddick knows he will have to serve and return without flaws – as he did when beating Henman in the first round of the US Open.It will be Henman’s seventh appearance in a Masters Series semi-final, and the most improbable given that he was ranked No 31 at the start of the tournament.

No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.” (1978)ON HEROES”A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is “sensitive”; or because he is cruel Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man’s life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture – in literature, art, theatre, or the daily newspapers.” (1978)ON THE MAKING OF WOMEN”Woman is not born: she is made In the making, her humanity is destroyed. But it’s a fact of life for people in the black community.”Still, the very existence of the Decibel awards and the calibre of talent on its shortlist gives a good indication of the publishing industry’s commitment to its Caribbean, African and Asian writers. As Hari Kunzru puts it, “People are very well disposed towards black and Asian writers these days. Zadie Smith and Monica Ali – need I say more? This is not a story about being silenced.”The winning author will be announced at the British Book Awards on 20 April, screened on Channel 4’s The Richard and Judy Show on 22 April. ON WIVES

ON WIVES
“The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.” (1978)ON MONEY”Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.” (1981)ON MURDER”Men especially love murder In art they celebrate it.

In life, they commit it.” (1981)ON INTELLIGENCE”Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. It’s really easy for people to write about certain things in the Asian community – arranged marriages, cultural identity – because white people are quite comfortable with reading those things.”His cousin, Michael Powell, died while in police custody, but Zephaniah doubts a publisher would be interested in a book about that “They’d worry that people wouldn’t want to read it. Zephaniah thinks publishers find some black and Asian writing too much of a challenge. ” I don’t think they’re scared of the subject but I think they’re scared of investing in it. In the early days she resorted to not mentioning the colour of her characters and then adding in those details once a publisher was interested.Publishers repeatedly told Zephaniah that they had no room for a black Rastafarian poet. “Some of them were liberal people, they just couldn’t see how they could market me.”These days the literary field has opened up to a multiplicity of voices.