Tennis: Adios Madrid, Ciao Roma

[JaneJeffer]

I feel like I've seen a lot of Arnaldi recently.

Why did the umpire speak to them in English? Purely for tv?

Not sure ,Jane maybe.

Oh dear- just seen that Fritz lost. He's been a bit more comfortable on clay recently, but today was not his day at all.

Hanfmann is on the up.

This umpire is the one Viktor Troicki had a big run in with at Wimbledon in 2016. "He should be also fined, if you ask me," Troicki said. "He should be the one who's fined."

Who'd be a tennis umpire, eh? They just seem to get nothing but abuse!

Our Fabio is watching the match.

It's nice that the Italian players seem to all be supporting each other. They suddenly seem to be everywhere- with very vocal fans

Has Nicola Pietrangeli made an appearance yet? He kept popping up all over Monte Carlo .

No sign of him but there's a man wearing a T-shirt I want with LAZY on it

Well done Lorenzo

Come on Grigor!

Yes! Come on!

Catching a few minutes of Casper/Bublik because I told DS1 he can take the telly soon

I'm presuming that's clay on the arse of Ruud's shorts

Oh I think it's sweaty bum. Bad colour Casper

You know Bublik is in trouble when the underarm serves start

Grr Djok

When I went out, Djok looked liked he was going to walk his match in 2, so glad to see Grigor at least got a set (though the ease of the last set suggests Djok just let it go, like he does).

I've just switched on the ruud match- I agree the pale shorts on Casper are not great. Was it Berrettini who had beige shorts? They always show the sweat too.

Mo is at his booming best ,I see.

I need that.

Ruud suddenly remembered how to play in the tiebreak! The crowd were very much for Bublik - they seemed very friendly at the net which was nice

Bublik’s racquet definitely suffered in that tiebreak - I thought Mo was going to ignore it but he got a warning. Casper seemed very relieved to win that match

Coco Gauff is out - she’s not had a good run recently

I laughed when he destroyed rhe racquet. I think its becoming a thing now- to get the Bublik souvenir smashed racquet.

Coco has been doing better in doubles than singles. It's good experience for her though. She did really well to reach 2 finals at RG last year.

My Instagram feed had these two things next to each other. It's the little things that make me happy

Not an easy match for Sascha today.

I love that picture. Jane.
Springsteen and Struff sound like a duo that could enter Eurovision.

I saw the start of Sascha's match - David has been playing a lot better recently, not getting too many wins, but he's been pushing. But Sascha is moving in the right direction.

I'm looking forward to Sonego/Tsitsipas today. The crowd will probably be very loud- and Apostolos very animated .

Chickenato crowd are getting lively