Wimbledon 2012: Petra Kvitova's latest victory may have been efficient, but it was far from exciting to watch "The score looks easy," said the 22 year old Czech afterwards. But some rallies were good. She must have been watching a different match. Lepchenko simply could not live with her; rarely did she get anywhere near producing a return. She had lost the first game within 90 seconds, was a break down within five minutes. She did not win a point until the match was ten minutes old, her success greeted by a warm round of sympathetic applause, about the only time the crowd was moved sufficiently to react. In truth, the erstwhile Uzbeck spent almost as much time on her chair, under an umbrella regrouping between games, as she did out there on court. The oddity is, it was not that Lepchenko was without a shot. Four times in the match she produced decent winners, one, a double-handed backhand that had Kvitova leaden-footed on the baseline, was a thing of beauty. The problem was she had an unfortunate habit of following her every good shot with an unforced error. Unfailingly, she would scoot an easy chance into the net, or balloon a volley off the rim of her racquet. Inconsistency is not a fault that could be levelled at Kvitova. She is almost metronomic in her range-finding; her serve is strong and accurate; her temperament calm and unflustered. With few obstacles in her way, progress to her fourth semi-final in the last five grand slams is almost a given. And progress beyond that more than likely. "Maybe [being champion] has given me a little bit of confidence, but I like to play on grass," she said. It is nice to know that I play very well here, on grass. Not that many on court number one seemed enthused by the prospect that they may well have seen the next champion in action. That is, indeed, if they even recognised they were watching the current one. People don't set off to Wimbledon to catch Petra Kvitova. Efficiency is not something about which the crowd swoons. When this match ended exactly to type - Kvitova served hard and fast, Lepchenko's return plopped helplessly into the net - the only excitement around court was at the prospect of an early lunch. As for Lepchenko, she departs from the tournament £38,875 richer, her reward for third-round failure. To add to Simon's chagrin, that is £13,000 more than he received for a sweat-soaked second round departure. That means that so far this year, without winning a single competition, Lepchenko has accrued nearly £230,000 in prize money. And she has done it, it might be thought, without knowingly delivering anything in the way of entertainment.