TENNIS: all to clay for

[JaneJeffer]

sorry

Go Daniil! I 😘 be these late matches as we can watch them over breakfast in Melbourne.

That was a great match between Daniil and Flavio! Well done Flavio.

I missed the end, but from what I saw if was a good match- I'm pleased for Flavio, and it has been a decent week for Daniil on clay.
Play doesn't get under way until lunch time today, so i might have to actually do something useful
NuRafa is playing Jannik later- the main Sky channel are not going to want to miss showing this one this one, after yesterday

and Happy 19th birthday to Mirra! She's in doubles action today, might get a cake on court.

And Happy Birthday to Holger , too- who won't be there this year , for a cake ceremony.

Oh dear, first set bagel for Salisbury /Cabral.
Hopefully, it's just a blip.

I think if Joe/ Francisco do get through this match, they could meet Neal and Christian next round (if they win their match).

Maybe Joe doesn't want to!

Score watching the end, hard luck Joe and Francisco. Better second set , anyway.

I'm going to miss most of the Jannik/ NuRafa match, unless NuRafa manages to take Jannik to 3 sets, and I'm not sure he will. I think it might be a bit like the first time Carlos played OldRafa in Madrid, on his 18th birthday. He won about 3 games.

He did beat him the next year though

Very noisy there today

And it’s Mo of course I saw a clip where he thought there was a double bounce in the Zverev/Mensik match and stopped play but he was wrong and did Sascha a favour really

I'm not expecting NuRafa to win this match, but I hope he can make it competitive.

Interesting, Rafa has come to play and Jannik looks a bit over it. I still think he's winning though.

I've just got in, in time to see Jannik break. But the stats seemed quite close- and it's taken half an hour. Jannik could have easily won a set in that time against some opponents .

I saw a bit of Joe's match. It wasn't happy viewing but at least the 2nd set was better than the 1st!!

Neal is playing against King, his partner's ex.

Just put on Sinner vs Jodar but not sure how long I'll last. Robbie is doing my head in already!!

Mo's clearly having a few senior moments. Apparently, he called the score in English yesterday and then realised he should have said it in Spanish first. He'll be dropped down to Challengers if he's not careful

Mo came on court to officiate the other day waving to the crowd. He's such a celebrity

Jannik's second service game took about 10 minutes Raahh

The scoreline definitely looks more one-sided than the match has been.

It does look like Jannik has taken a while to work NuRafa out.

But might be getting there now.

Even so, Jodar is keeping his cool.

Unlucky with the netcord, Jodar in that last point.

Bernie Ecclestone!!

Jodar's performance rating for that set was amazing, given the scoreline and the fact he lost it.

I can’t believe it’s nearly 5 years since Manolo died

The commentary is very mumbly but when I turn it up it’s too loud

At this point I'm convinced they are trolling us with those performance ratings.

Some classic Mo

Some of these ball kids don’t look like kids!