Laura Robson's dramatic comeback from 1-6, 3-5 down against New Zealander Marina Erakovic was as thrilling and tense as any of Tim Henman's nailbiting Centre Court victories of the past decade.

Indeed her fragile nerve makes their matches similar in content although she may have more natural talent than Britain's former No 1 male player.

Erakovic appeared to have the match in the bag as she prepared to serve out one more game. Until that moment her serve had been secure and penetrating. Robson had found its direction hard to read. But nerves, and a 4,000-strong crowd who refused to let Robson lose, combined to unsettle the Kiwi who started producing double faults.

Finally Robson found her belief and her ground strokes to run out the winner of the second set by 7-5. Incredibly she won eight games in a row to place her at 4-0 in the final set before Erakovic was able to put her under pressure again. She broke Robson's serve and then held her own to trail 4-2 before Robson won her next two service games to run out a 6-3 victor in the third and final set.

It wasn't pretty and, watched by her father, brother and sister, Robson was mightily relieved to have got out of the match with a victory that was 150-1 against with the bookies an hour earlier when she stood three points from defeat.

She said; "I thought the crowd were great, especially towards the end of the second set and the whole of the third set. I can definitely play better than today, but it's tough to play your best tennis all; the time."

Today (Monday) she faces Estonia's best player Kaia Kanepi, who is ranked eight places below her at 46 in the world. Kanepi struggled to beat Britain's wild card Tara Moore in the first round by 7-5, 5-7, 7-5 and is definitely beatable. Against that Kanepi beat No 7 seed Angelique Kerber in round three and has a WTA tournament victory to her name this season.

Kanepi said; "I am aware of the hysteria surrounding Laura Robson but it won't affect me. I get more fire and fighting spirit when the crowd are against me." Laura - you have been warned.

Andy Murray, who enjoyed a quiet weekend without having to play, faces Russia's Mikhail Youzhny today. The last time there were two Brits in the last 16 was in 1998 with Henman and Sam Smith, who, coincidentally, was commentating on Robson's match on Saturday.

Youzhny is one of nine over 30s to make the last sixteen equalling the Open era record created in 1975. The other "veteran" players are Tommy Haas, Jurgen Melzer, David Ferrer, Lukasz Kubot, Serena Williams, Li Na, Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci. The oldest in the draw Kamiko Date-Krumm, 42, was defeated 6-2, 6-0 by Williams late on Saturday evening.

Murray, 26, has yet to lose a set as has his principal rival and No 1 seed Novak Djokovic who looked utterly supreme in beating France's Jeremy Chardy on Saturday 6-3, 6-2, 6-2. The 15,000 Centre Court crowd were willing Chardy to victory but Djokovic, also 26 and at the peak of his powers, made only three unforced errors throughout the match, a truly astonishing statistic.

Croatia's Ivan Dodig benefitted from a second retirement when Holland's Igor Sijsling had to forfeit their match. Earlier Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber had retired in the first round at two sets all against Dodig. This means that so far there have been 13 singles retirements, equalling the 2008 record.

Adding spice to the second week of the tournament is the continued good form of last year's doubles champion Jonny Marray who, with new partner Scotland's Colin Fleming, beat Frantisek Cermak and Michal Mertinak 6-3, 6-4, 7-6. Last year Marray partnered Denmark's Freddie Nielson to a remarkable Wimbledon triumph but this year the latter is concentrating on singles.

They face No 6 seeds, the experienced Daniel Nestor and Robert Lindstedt in the third round. Marray is also still in the mixed doubles with Heather Watson, having won their opening round against Robin Haase and Alicja Rosolska 6-3, 7-5.