Wear any colour you want, as long as it’s predominantly white

[Jimski]

Simon promptly wins the next two sets, and it's into a fifth. Allez Gilles!

[San Bernardhinault]

You could have been asking that for 15 years.

[Tony C]

How is Nadal getting away with time violations while serving?

[Jimski]

Just noticed that Sandgren is winning against Simon. A bit of a shock that one. And annoying that the right-wing dick is back doing well again too.

[multipleman78]

Kyrgios tends to polarise opinion but put me down as a fan. He is electrifying to watch, good or bad. There are enough sportsmen who have perfect PR and act appropriately. As long as he isn't hurting anyone then i am all for a bit of antagonism between players. What he said about Vekic was crossing the line but underarm serves, tweeners and silly antics are all fine by me.

[Janik]

Some rather unexpected losses so far today. Federer to Clar.... ha! no (Clarke did push set 2 to a breaker, though0. But Isner to Kukushkin and Cilic to Sousa are definitely out of the blue. Kerber to Davis less so, though still unexpected. De Minaur going down to Johnson and Djere to Millman were more predictable. And Evans toppling Basilashvili very much so.

Oh and Bertens vs Mertens is ON!!! Ach, no, I'm a round early on that...

[Janik]

I'm with McEnroe on that. If a player is standing too deep and can't get to what is effectively a drop shot, why shouldn't someone take advantage of that?

As for Serena, her first set trouble is over. She has lost in 6-2.

[San Bernardhinault]

Kyrgios just won a game with an underarm serve. McEnroe came down in favour of him using it as a legitimate play - presumably to force Nadal closer from the baseline.

Meanwhile, Serena's in a little trouble in her first set.

[Janik]

Day 4 picks

Women’s
#1 Barty vs Van Uytvanck – 1st on #2
Kanepi vs #13 Bencic – 3rd on #18
Davis [LL] vs #5 Kerber – 3rd on #2
Siniakova vs [19] Konta – 2nd on Centre
Mldenovic vs [6] Kvitova – 1st on #1

Ash Barty goes for 15-in-a-row in the opener tomorrow on Court 2 against Alison Van Uytvanck. One would think she is rather likely to get it, both due to her own white hot form (16 sets in a row now) and also that grass is her surface. However, it’s not a bad one for the Belgian, who has compact groundstrokes with a curtailed backswing and a strong serve. She is good enough to challenge Barty for a bit and has good memories of Wimbledon after a run to R4 last year, but she is surely taking on too much here. One other note – at least Channel 7 in Australia are not going to have tricky scheduling decisions for this one (there was controversy when they stuck with Kyrgios-Thompson rather than showing the World No.1 during R1).
I’m rather amazed to discover that Kaia Kanepi and Belinda Bencic have never met competitively before. How have they avoided each other for so long? Must be the injuries... The grass of Wimbledon is good location to have that first test as it suits both players. Kanepi is more of a power player, whose aggressive attacking play from the baseline gets the most out of the surface, whilst Bencic is cuter in her approach with a variety of angles and slices in there as well as the power. It will depend on who imposes their style on the other. I favour the Swiss, but only 55/45.
Lauren Davis vs Angie Kerber is the opposite of Kanepi-Bencic – both players play very similarly, it’s about who can pull it off the best. Kerber has admitted to being rather nervous before her R1 match against Maria, but now that is out of the way hopefully she can grow into her title defence. Serve could be a factor in this match, because only one of them can really fire and that is Kerber. If she manages that, it could keep the rallies short in her service games, which will be a help. Because once serve and return have happened things could easily extend as they are two players who just plain hate to miss. However, Kerber is better at it and so should gut her way through.
Having got through reasonably comfortably against Bogdan, Jo Konta now faces her first major test of the event in the form of Czech Katerina Siniakova. It looks a nasty match up from the Brits perspective as she likes opponents to try and hit through her so she can redirect and use their power against them. That isn’t Siniakova’s way, she is more of a ball manipulator. And in the past that has been the sort of player who has given Jo considerable problems. However she seems to have overcome that recently, and will hopefully re-find the serving punch she showed on clay, because that is one clear area of superiority. They get a Centre Court stage for their show, which might help Konta who must be increasingly used to playing on that patch of lawn.
The grass of Centre is also very familiar to Petra Kvitova, but she will have to win another match or two before getting back there as this one is takes place on the secondary stage. Which is still a good place to be. They get the run out there as Kvitova vs Kiki Mladenovic is match between two ‘names’ that anyone reasonably knowledgeable in the crowd will be familiar with both. Kvitova has had something of a lock on Mladenovic in recent years, winning their last six meetings without conceding a set. However, with her lack of practice and still open questions about injury, this may be a chance for the Frenchwoman to reverse that pattern. Mladenovic has not had as much success as maybe she ought on grass given her doubles pedigree (current World No.1 indeed), which gives her a game that should be adaptable to the singles court. But too often she hangs back when on her lonesome and her serve lacks pop, particularly compared to Petra. If Kvitova is fit, she should win this.


Men’s
Evans vs #18 Basilashvili – 2nd on #2
Kyrgios vs #3 Nadal – 3rd on Centre
#8 Nishikori vs Norrie – 1st on Centre
Johnson vs #25 de Minaur – 1st on #18
#17 Berrettini vs Baghdatis [WC] – 4th on #2

Dan Evans lived up to his genuine billing as one of the most dangerous non-seeds in the Men’s Singles this Wimbledon with a straight sets win over Federico Delbonis, who is a clay court specialist. Having beaten one of these, Evo now takes 18th seed Nikoloz Basilashvili, who has no particular record to speak of on grass. The Georgian is not an out-and-out clay courter, he has had decent results on hard as well, but grass has never been his friend. He lost both his warm-up matches on the surface, and struggled to beat James Ward in R1. Evans is better than Ward, and will be the fresher of the two. The bookies make the Brit the strong favourite, which makes perfect sense to me.
And then the clear centrepiece of the day. A bit of complete melodrama, during which a Tennis match may break out. Nick Kyrgios took aim at several players who he probably considers his peers but who don’t replicate that sentiment. Of them, Djokovic, who is on a continuous campaign to make more friends amongst the fans, tried to shrug it off as he probably thinks bitter words will harm him elsewhere. It was just Nadal, who is very sure both in his own skin and of his fanbase, who was willing to respond somewhat in kind and point to the hulking great elephant in the corner of the room of any argument that Kyrgios makes, i.e. that he is a pathetic man-child who would be better off growing up and dealing with his own manifest issues than talking about perceived flaws in others. I don’t believe those were the exact words to come out of the Rafa camp, but that was the jist. There are two possible ways this will go. Either Kyrgios comes out ready to play and battle, in which case this will be of Final Sunday quality and could go either way, albeit Nadal would still win 2/3. Or Nick’s head space will be wrong, and then we will have headlines about misbehaviour and even potentially a default. Which one depends on so many factors surrounding Kyrgios that are unknowable to anyone, least of all the man himself. The one constant in all of this is Rafa. Rafa will be utterly ready and very, very determined. And that is a bad combination for nearly anybody, even a special talent like the Aussie. Oh, and one final thing. When Kyrgios won in 2014, he was very well prepared having won a bunch of grass court challengers in the preceding weeks. This time his preparation has been shambolic. This is a key difference to the last time they ran into each other here.
Before the circus hits town, Kei Nishikori and British No. 2 Cameron Norrie take to the Centre Court stage. It will be a rather more respectful match. Is it one where a shock could happen. In truth, probably not as Norrie has been in poor form recently, with just 5 wins in his last 15 Tour level singles matches. He also has no particular record on grass with not even a Futures final reached on the surface, though with his upbringing in New Zealand and the US College system is probably not that surprising. He will not have played on the surface much. That makes this match-up a bad one from Norrie’s point of view. He will try and do the same things as Nishikori, but Kei does them better. The Centre Court crowd will have to work overtime if they are to inspire their player to victory.
Steve Johnson, who was an exceptional player in the US College system, made an apparently seamless transition to the pros. He spent around 5 years as a low seed at Slams until the premature death of his father in 2017 really hit him hard, with time off tour needed to get over the mental health issues it induced. He hasn’t ever totally recovered because you don’t, from that. However, he is still a solid player and can cause the young Aussie Alex de Minaur problems. De Minaur is more of a clay courter from his time spent in Spain as a youngster, but he has done well on grass in Challenger level events previously. Both he and Johnson are capable of all-court stuff but prefer to stay back. It should be a tough contest and may well go to five. However, recently, these have been going against Johnson and today will probably be no different.
And finally, we have Matteo Berrettini vs Marcos Baghdatis out on Court 2. Baghdatis proved his wild card entry was not just nostalgia from the AELTC (his Semi appearance was 13 years ago!) by winning comfortably in R1. Having justified his presence, he is now free to take a shot at Berrettini without much to lose. The Cypriot will likely have the crowd on his side as he has always been popular and is now very much a veteran, but it will likely take more than that to shift Berrettini, who has been on exceptional form recently and is rocketing up the rankings. His title win in Stuttgart, beating a string of useful grass court names (Kyrgios, #2 Khachanov, Kudla, Struff, #7 Auger-Aliassime) came without dropping a set or even losing serve. He is obviously a player, as Marcos was also once. Was. Berrettini in four.

[Janik]

3&3. Be afraid Polona Hercog. Be very afraid.

[Janik]

These two are playing so close to the lines and corners so often. And Gauff is so damn quick. Balls that wouldn't come back from pretty well any other player in the WTA (and quite a few on the ATP) are just regularly still on the island, but not just that. Back to depth.

[Janik]

Rybarikova is trying everything she can think of. She started set two by trying to Arthur Ashe Gauff, giving her slow junk. This sort of worked, but not well enough. Now she is chipping and charging. That hasn't really worked either.

[Janik]

Rybarikova goes long with a forehand to concede a set two break, and then shrugs her shoulders in a 'what can I do?' manner. Don't blame her. Gauff is just making no errors, less than 10 unforced in the match to date. Which given how hard she is hitting many of her shots (quickest serve 117mph) is yet another remarkable thing about her.

[Janik]

Gauff is so going to win this. She is on a different level to her opponent here.

[Janik]

Nearly everything about Cory Gauff says it's going to take a very good player in excellent form to beat her. Nearly. The only worry is she does serve a higher proportion of double faults than is comfortable.

[Janik]

A late night treat - Gauff vs Rybarikova begins at 8:05pm under a closed court 1 roof.

[Jimski]

I should have read Janik's preview before starting to watch Alliasime against Moutet. I assumed that Moutet was some veteran who'd cracked the top 100 late in his career. Then they refer to him as a 20 year old (as Janik details above). All I can say is he doesn't look it!

[Janik]

What has gone wrong for Muguruza?

You are not the only one asking that. Though Tennis.com provides no hint of an answer.

My take is that the confidence has gone, which is a vicious circle very similar to the mither than Konta found herself in 12 months ago and that Osaka, Ostapenko and Sabalenka are also experiencing. All of these players games are founded on bashing from the baseline. But if the confidence is fragile all it takes is one shank, overhit of misdirection for the demons to pipe up 'oh no, it's happening again!'.

[Janik]

Nope, 8-6 to Opelka.


We didn't do a full round up of the British results in R1, did we? So let's have the lot, seeing as it's a good collection. First the Men

#30 Kyle Edmund bt Jaume Munar 3-0
Paul Jubb [WC] l to Joao Sousa 1-3
Dan Evans bt Federcio Delbonis 3-0
James Ward [WC] l to #18 Nikoloz Basilashvili 2-3
Cameron Norrie bt Denis Istomin 3-0
Jay Clarke [WC] bt Noah Rubin [Q] 3-1

Edmund is playing Fernando Verdasco currently (he leads by a set to love), Evans faces Basilashvili tomorrow, Norrie takes on #8 Kei Nishikori and Clarke plays... #2 Roger Federer (enjoy Centre, Jay)!

And then the Women

Heather Watson bt Caty McNally 2-0
Harriet Dart [WC] by Christina McHale [LL] 2-1
Katie Swan [WC] l to Laura Siegemund 0-2
Jo Konta [19] bt Ana Bogdan 2-0

Watson played #20 Anett Kontaveit today in R2, and lost in two. Dart faces Beatriz Haddad Maia [Q] and Konta plays Kateryna Siniakova tomorrow.

Sad that Heather has lost, but R1 was excellent. 7 wins from 10, and of the three defeats only one in straight sets.


Whilst on the Brits front, here are the various doubles pairings R1 draws:

Men's
Mahut/Roger-Vasselin Fra [11] vs L.Broady/Clayton Gbr [WC]
Evans/Glasspool GBr [WC] vs Mayer/Sousa Arg/Por
Munar/Norrie Esp/GBr vs [b]Inglot/Krajicek Gbr/USA [15] – currently in progress, Munar/Norrie a break up in the fifth set
J.Murray/N.Skupski GBr [10] vs Dodig/Polasek Cro/Svk
Andujar/Verdasco Esp vs Hoyt/Johnson GBr [WC]
Copil/Humbert Rou/Fra vs Herbert/A.Murray Fra/GBr [PR]
Albot/Jaziri Mol/Tun vs Ram/Salisbury USA/GBr [12] – Ram/Salisbury have won this already (in three)
K.Skupski/Smith GBr/Aus vs Clarke/Ward GRb [WC]
Bambridge/O’Mara GBr vs Klaasen/Venus RSA/NZe [3]
Draper/Jubb GBr [WC] vs Cabal/Farah Col [2]

Murray/Skupski and Murray/Herbert could meet in R3, but that is a long way off as yet.

Women’s
Cirstea/Voskoboeva Rou/Kaz vs Grey/Silva GBr [WC] – played and lost already by the Brits
Hc.Chan/L.Chan Tpe [9] vs [b]Dart/Dunne GBr [WC] – played and lost already by the Brits
Christie/Swan GBr [WC] vs Minnen/Van Uytvanck Bel [Alt] – played and lost already by the Brits
Atawo/L.Kichenok USA/Ukr [16] vs Minella/Watson Lux/GBr
Bains/N.Broady GBr [WC] vs Krejcikova/Siniakove Cze [2] – played and lost already by the Brits

Mixed
S.Williams/A.Murray USA/GBr [PR] vs Guarachi/Mies Chi/Ger
N.Broady/O’Mara GBr [WC] vs Zhang/Middelkoop Chn/Ned
Hc.Chan/N.Skupski Tpe/GBr [9] to play winners of above tie.
Spears/Demoliner USA/Bra vs Watson/Kontinen GBr/Fin
Ostapenko/Lindstedt Lat/Swe vs Gauff/Clarke USA/GBr [WC]
Grey/Clayton GBr vs V.Williams/Tiafoe USA
Siegemund/Sitak vs Jurak/K.Skupski Cro/GBr
Mattek-Sands/J.Murray USA/GBr vs Dunne/Salisbury Gbr [WC]
Riske/Ram USA vs Muhammad/Bambridge USA/GBr
Stosur/Paes Aus/Ind vs Silva/Hoyt GBr [WC]

Lots of British boys have found themselves American girls to play with. In some cases rather notable ones (Serena W, Coco G)…

[Janik]

In rather less forlorn news, Stan Wawrinka and Reilly Opelka are locked at 3-3 in a deciding set. Are we going to get our first 12-all breaker here...?

[Janik]

Elina Svitolina's luck may be changing. But not Margarita Gasparyan's. The later was two points from victory at a set, 5-4 and deuce. However a few points later she was reportedly clutching her leg and wincing in pain. It must be serious as she retired hurt at the next change of ends when still only a handful of points from victory. Gasparyan has had major injury troubles in the recent past, so this is hard to stomach.

[Janik]

Overran the character limit, so split in two.

Women’s

Collins vs #12 Sevastova – 4th on #12
#28 Hsieh vs Flipkens – 1st on #18
Puig vs #3 Ka.Pliskova – 1st on Centre
Gauff [Q] vs Rybarikova – 4th on #2
#27 Kenin vs Yastremska – 3rd on #18

Danielle Collins and Anastasija Sevastova could be a feisty late evening encounter. Collins very in-your-face attitude was well demonstrated in her Aussie Open Semi-Final run earlier this year and if Sevastova is nowhere near as irritating she is no wallflower either. The Latvian will fight her corner passionately. What she lacks is any kind of Wimbledon form, having only won one match in six previous visits. That is all the more remarkable as her varied, all-round game with slice, drops and angles ought to be effective on a surface that is respective and low bouncing to such things. And indeed it has been in Mallorca, where her results run R-Up, Won, R-Up, SF. It just hasn’t translated to SW19. Yet. But this one should help to build that first deep run, as Collins is too hard-court based to really succeed on grass, however determined she may be. Whaling away from the baseline will just allow Sevastova’s other strength, her scrambling, to come into play. And then she will ask tricky questions in return that Collins won’t have the resources to answer.
Hsieh Su-wei against Kirsten Flipkens promises to be a treat for anyone a bit jaded by the power baseline game. Because these two absolutely do not play that way. The match will be like a throwback to the 1980s when many players employed the respective styles, slice and angles from Hsieh and serve-and-volley from Flipkens. The Taiwanese will be looking to match of better her R4 run last year, whilst for Flipkens Wimbledon is always going to hold great memories of her 2013 Semi-Final run. Overall I would have to give the edge to Hsieh based on current form – she is a seed and used to winning games, whereas Flipkens has bounced around from 50-100 for the last few seasons. Also, the last thing a net rusher wants is the ball dropping into tricky positions with tricky spins. And it’s a given that Flipper will have to deal with those today.
Reigning Olympic Champion Monica Puig (good one to win that, the appellation stays true for four years) made R4 at Wimbledon on her debut back in 2013. She hadn’t won a match here since prior to toppling Schmiedlova in R1. And that was only just, 7-5 in the third. In fact, that R4 showing is something Puig hasn’t matched anywhere since, which is underselling her talent. But not as much as Karolina Pliskova having only an 8-7 career record at Wimbledon prior to this year. R2 has been the big Czech’s nemesis, going out at that stage on five successive occasions from 2013-17. If she is tight because of the expectation to win the title that she is under, as looked to be the case in R1 against Zhu, then she is very vulnerable. Because for Puig, this is a shot to nothing really. Pliskova is the obvious favourite, with her serve and her glorious form from Eastbourne. Monica knows how to battle, and if Karolina’s serve isn’t firing then Puig could buck a bad h2h record (0-4) and another major name could well depart the Women’s draw early.
OK, so we now know how good Cori Gauff is – she is really, really good – but now it’s how consistent can she be and how ready to handle an intense spotlight. And also, how adaptable her Tennis is because Magdalena Rybarikova will bring a slicing, net-rushing style that Gauff is highly unlikely to have come up against on the Juniors circuit. She will have to deal with low bouncing balls and being put under pressure to make the passing shots. Based on the Venus match, pressure really does not faze the youngster, though. Venus was up at the net at times, and Gauff’s reaction seemed to be ‘a challenge, cool!’. And let’s not leave the issues Rybarikova has to one side here. And that isn’t just because she is on a hiding to nothing. Gauff showed against Venus that is a superb athlete, and a superb defender as well as having a thundering serve and powerful ground strokes. If Gauff plays like Monday again, she will blow the Slovak away. I don’t see any reason why not.
A clash of the youngsters to end this preview with out on court 18, as 20 year-old Sofia Kenin faces off with Dayana Yastremska, 19. Kenin is a competitive player, a hard worker around the court who asks players to make another ball. And another. And another. She isn’t completely one-dimensional in her play either with drop shots featuring. However her youth on hard courts is very evident in her style. Yastremska is more of the European type of power baseliner. However, she has both form on grass having made the Girls Singles final in 2016 and WTA titles to her name, three of them with two coming this year. Kenin may be the seed, but I think this one depends on how the Ukrainian plays. If she connects hard enough, she can hit through the American to win. I’m tipping a shock.

[Janik]

Late again! Matches already underway. It’s busy this week. Anyway.

Day 3 picks

Men’s

#19 Auger-Aliassime vs Moutet [Q] – 3rd on #3
#30 Edmund vs Verdasco – 2nd on Centre
#22 Wawrinka vs Opelka – 1st on #2
#10 Khachanov vs Lopez [WC] – 2nd on #1
#28 Paire vs Kecmanovic – 1st on #15

The most exciting youngster on the ATP tour at the moment is definitely Felix Auger-Aliassime. However, the Canadian is not the only U21 making waves, far from it. And part of that crowd is Corentin Moutet. The Frenchman only made the step up from the Juniors at the end of 2017, but he is already inside the top 100. He only had to go through Wimbledon qualifying as his R3 run at Roland Garros, which propelled him to that point, is yet to come into effect for entry lists. He has also taken to Slam Tennis like a duck to water with worthy showings in 2018 and then the run this year in Paris, downing a seed (Pella) before losing in five to Londero in R3. He has also past form on grass, with a Boys Singles Semi in 2017 and putting aside a Q1 scare (8-6 in the third) to qualify without dropping another set. And then in R1 of this he beat Grigor Dimitrov from two sets down! Grigor looked forlorn by the end. In general terms, Auger-Aliassime is the more experienced player with his three ATP Tour finals and Miami Open Semi showing. However Moutet has played more slam main draw matches previously, this will be his 9th to Auger-Aliassime’s 3rd (R1 vs Pospisil was his first ever win at this level). As a glimpse of the future it should be valuable. And for today, Auger-Aliassime if it’s a sprint, Moutet if he can turn it into a marathon.
The battle of the forehands! Both Kyle Edmund and Fernando Verdsaco have that as a complete signature shot. They also have big serves. And, if we are truthful, something of a discomfort with a grass court. Edmund played OK against Munar in R1, but there were some wobbles. As John McEnroe said on commentary, the pressure on him to be the next Andy Murray is unrealistic. Edmund is a good player, a very good one, but he is not another Muzza, neither in skill and certainly not in style. Good enough to go a few rounds further in Wimbledon and improve of his previous best of R3 (last year)? Yes, he is that. He might even match Verdasco in making a QF once. Given the similarity in styles, and the previous meetings of the two both being three-setters, it probably comes down to who executes on the day. And that is unpredictable. It is match of the day on the Men’s side of the draw though, and not just because one of the players is a Brit. The Centre Court billing is reasonable.
Stan Wawrinka hasn’t had a good record at Wimbledon over the years. Grass is not his surface for reasons I stated above. He takes such a massive hit at the ball that any fractional deviation from expected position leads to mishits and also the skiddier bounce gives more limited time to set up. All these issue come into play against Reilly Opelka, who absolutely fits the template of a modern American male Tennis player – a huge guy (at 2m11, the tallest in the top 100) with a massive first serve. Opelka is a former Wimbledon Boys Singles champion who has struggled so far to translate that to the Seniors. He does, however, have a top 10 win in a Slam, beating John Isner in R1 in Melbourne earlier this year in four sets. Four tie-break sets, 7-6 7-6 6-7 7-6…
Karen Khachanov has won his only two previous meetings with Feliciano Lopez, but notably none of them was on grass. And Lopez did get a set in Indian Wells earlier this year. But it’s the surface that makes this one catch the eye as a very possible upset. Lopez is a superb grass court player, not only because of the lefty serve and net rushing but also because he understands the value of spin and position in creating angles. Khachanov has a tendency to drop way back to give himself time, but against the Spaniard that won’t work – the ball will only reach the backstop via the sideboards. The big Russian will have to force himself forwards to areas where he is very uncomfortable. That means taking the ball off his ankles, and he struggles to execute his top-spin shots at that height. For Lopez this is a major opportunity. He is in an open looking quarter of the draw. If he can topple Khachanov, then Quarters or even Semis open themselves up as tantalising possibilities. With the effectiveness of both Men’s serves, pure power for Karen, and power and placement combined for Feliciano, do not expect many breaks. But when they coming, I think they go the Spaniard’s way.
Benoit Paire against Miomir Kecmanovic is a generational clash. Paire is 30 and has been playing Slams for a decade. Kecmanovic is 19 and only left the Juniors a couple of years ago (he was the no.1 in 2016). Kecmanovic also comes in off the back of his first ATP Tour level final just a few days ago in Antalya, made the QFS in Indian Wells earlier in the year and won a round at Roland Garros as well as his first-round win here. He is a talent worth watching, but will have his hands full with the Frenchman, who is a talented if mercurial player with a penchant for drop shots, flair and general inconsistency. Possessed of a good serve, much feel and a withering double-handed backhand he probably ought to have done better over the years than his best of R4. Whether he feels up for the challenge may determine the outcome of this match.

[Sporting]

What has gone wrong for Muguruza?

[Janik]

So the Aussie blokes, then. Nick Kyrgios should be at risk of getting fined for 'not giving best efforts at all times' as he zoned out clearly on a number of occasions against Jordan Thompson. The nadir was an underarm serve at 6-5 40-15 up in the third set, i.e. on set point on his own serve! He eventually won that set about 20 minutes later in the tie-break I mention up thread. He can't afford to do that against Nadal. He probably won't if it's close. And almost certainly will if he is being comfortably beaten.

Bernard Tomic, though. If Anna Tatishvili gets fined her entire purse for performing below professional standards, christ knows what Tomic will be levied for getting beaten in a best-of-five match in just 58 minutes. The lowlights make it look genuinely horrendous.

Oh, and in other news, the worst kept secret is confirmed. Andy Murray's Mixed Doubles partner will be Serena Williams. That will be a scary prospect for whoever they draw.