Sights set on a second Wimbledon title Jamie Murray is in no doubt that if he claims it next weekend it will be an improvement on his first.

It is nine years since the best male doubles player in the world claimed the mixed doubles title with Jelena Jankowic, but having just missed out when he reached the final with John Peers he and new partner Bruno Soares are even stronger contenders this time around having already won the Australian Open this year.

“It’s bigger than the mixed doubles for sure,” said the 30-year-old older brother of British number one singles player Andy.

“It’s the tournament I want to win most this year and I’ll be trying my hardest to do it.

“We’re seeded three in the tournament, we won in Australia this year, so of course we’re one of the favourites. I’m not going to sit here and say we’re not, but all the guys who are still in are tough teams and on grass it’s not always easy to break serve and there are a lot of close matches.

“We’re excited to be in the second week and be fighting for the trophy.”

They got there with a clinical 6-3, 6-3 victory over Brazilian Soares’ fellow South Americans Federico Delbonis and Diego Schwartzman, breaking the Argentinians’ serve once in each set of what is expected to be the last of the three set matches that the men’s doubles was reduced to for the first two rounds in order to make up for lost time.

“We needed to play and catch up. They should be pretty much back on track now, especially for singles, but also the doubles,” said Murray.

“It was a good match for us, nice to win in straight sets and we look forward to the next match.

“It wasn’t such a long match today and we’ve only played two matches so I still feel good physically, but now if we want to go further in the tournament we’ve got to play five sets, but it was nice to get through today and save energy for the next match.”

They now meet Mate Pavic of Croatia and New Zealander Michael Venus in the last 16 and while those are unfamiliar names to most Murray is expecting another tough battle.

“They’re a good team who have won three or four tournaments already this year,” he said.

“They’re both big servers, so it’s a difficult match, but it will difficult for them as well.”

The tournament’s first week ended with Murray parading the Davis Cup around the Centre Court on the tournament’s middle Saturday.

“It was cool,” he said.

“It was just a quick lap of the court and that was it. All done and dusted pretty quickly for us, but it was nice to be able to do that.”

That long-awaited victory gave British tennis another huge boost, following up on the Murray brothers’ Grand Slam successes and the older of them has been well placed to assess what has widely been considered to be another uplifting week for the sport.

“Some of the Brits had some good wins,” he said.

“Dan (Evans) getting to the third round was great for him, beating Dolgopolov as well.

“Obviously Marcus Willis coming through and getting to play Federer was an amazing story and Tara Moore won a round then lost a close three set match, so I guess it’s been good, while we’ve got three teams in the last 16 of the men’s doubles.”

The prospect of a much bigger week now looms as both Murray brothers home in on titles, but he was cagey regarding reading too much into brother Andy now being the top seed left in the men’s singles draw following the shock departure of Novak Djokovic.

“It’s boosted the rest of the draw’s chances that the top seed’s out when he’s been so dominant the last two or three years, but that only affects Andy if he gets to the final,” Murray noted.

“He’s still got to get through side of the draw. He’s got a really difficult match against Kyrgios tomorrow so I’m sure he’s just focusing on that.”