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Bjorkman reaches second career Grand Slam semi

By Whit Sheppard
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, July 5, 2006

WIMBLEDON, England -- One match got under way on a packed Centre Court with the usually heavy international media contingent filling out the press box. The other began on Court 1 filled to about 75 percent capacity with 10 members of the Fourth Estate squeezing their way into the 60 or so available press seats. Call it the Federer -- or perhaps the Bjorkman or Stepanek -- effect. Wednesday at the All England Club, all eyes -- or at least the vast majority of them -- were trained on the men's qu ...

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