It would be a great to have Patrick Rafter and Tim Henman play in the final, which has been moved to Monday.

	Mal's Picks
	Washington Former ATP Tour pro MaliVai Washington is providing ESPN.com with in-depth analysis during Wimbledon. Washington, a tennis analyst for ESPN, reached the 1996 Wimbledon final.

It's enjoyable to see a great serve-and-volleyer play great tennis on grass. It's a beautiful mix, and that's what Rafter has been doing. And he's doing it well enough to be my pick to win the championship.

With rain and darkness postponing Henman and Goran Ivanisevic's semifinal on Friday and then again on Saturday, you have to give an edge to Rafter. You like to have the day off between matches. But because of poor weather and darkness, Ivanisevic and Henman waited around all day Saturday to play less than an hour. Now they must play on Sunday. They have the tension of thinking about the match Friday night and Saturday. Then the winner has all that tension again on Sunday night. It works to the advantage of Rafter.

For Ivanisevic, it's a good thing the match was delayed on Friday. He was able to go talk to his coach and sit back and think about what he wants to do. That fourth set could have gone very quickly if they had finished Friday. His coach needed to pull off some psychological wizardy to convince Ivanisevic he's not out of it.

At some point in a tournament, the eventual winner faces some extreme odds. For Rafter, that came for the first time Friday. When your opponent is serving for the match, and that opponent is Andre Agassi, it doesn't get any more extreme. To survive, you have to think "Oh, I'm down, but I can get back." But Ivanisevic starts thinking the opposite: "Oh-oh, I'm down. I've lost it. I'm out." You can't afford to do that.

Henman knows he's on the verge of getting to his home country's Grand Slam final. If Henman can use the energy of the crowd to spur him on, Ivanisevic might feel that pressure of the crowd.

But whether the semifinal finished Friday or Saturday and now on Sunday, my pick is Henman to win it.

If Henman makes the final, that would be the biggest story of the year in Britain. And if he wins, it'll be the biggest story of the century for Britain.

Henman and Rafter have similar styles -- an attacking game and serve-and-volley. It's reminiscent of matches in the late 1980s and early '90s between Stefan Edberg and Boris Becker -- two guys who were serve-and-volleyers. This final kind of reminds me of that.