TENNIS: all to clay for

[JaneJeffer]

sorry

It’s an early start for Casper and Lorenzo - I’m just score watching for now - looks as if it’s going with serve - hopefully Lorenzo’s body will hold up

The Italian crowd is so respectful, even though an Italian is playing. You can hear a pin drop when Casper is serving.

First break to Casper.

Lore keeps double faulting on important points.

I don't think Lore is 100%, he's taking a MTO for his leg. Which is a worry for him with RG so close.

Well done Casper. Hope Lore is ok.

Well done Casper

Oh that ended quickly - I didn’t get chance to see any of it!

Well done Casper - sounds as if Lorenzo is not fully fit

I have been out all morning so missed the Casper match and NuRafa.
I hope Lore is OK.

Well done to Cirstea- she's just beaten Jelena Ostapenko.

They need to put a lion in with these two

Mn is playing up for me on my laptop and online. Which I hope gets sorted before tonight- it's the first Eurovision semi final!

This afternoon's matches are a bit one sided.

Danderi was making a bit of a fight back in set 2 of his match, but Sascha is serving now for the match.

Ooh- Jannik slipped a bit.

Darderi not out of it yet.

Darderi has levelled the match . Wow. Didn't see that coming really.

Good on Darderi for making a match of it, but that was a terrible tiebreak from Sascha.

Carlos has done an, umm, interesting, photo shoot rolling around in clay.

I saw that Ice

Well done Jannik

Sascha is totally imploding.

surprising result

Well done Luciano. He's so happy.

Blimey. I’m just scorewatching - what on earth happened to Sascha in that third set?

Glad to see Sorana getting through. She’s now back up to her career high ranking in the live rankings.

I missed the end- what happened with Sascha?! Really opens things up in that bit of the draw.

Basically Luciano started playing with huge belief after winning the second set tiebreak, and of course the crowd were fully behind him. And Sascha just sort of crumbled.

So Jack Draper has ditched Jamie Delgado, without him really havin chance to do anything, and got Andy in his team?

Feel a bit sorry for Delgado. I'll miss his bucket hat (used to like seeing him watching Grigor's matches).