Alex may have played well and Guccione may have been on form but you have to remember that only last week Jamie Baker beat the big Aussie at Nottingham. He actually won the second set 6-1 completely negating Gucciones big serve.

I watched the Nottingham match and the big difference was that Jamie went after the Aussies second serve and was rewarded by getting inside his head to such an extent that his serve broke down. Guccione won 75% points on his second serve today.

I suspect that the reason G isn't ranked higher is that he is not quite as mentally tough as some of the the other players and hence is not quite as consistent.

Alex did OK today but was too passive and did not do enough to sieze but the initiative. After 6 losses in the first round, (obviously all as Wild Cards) I suspect that that this is also becoming a burden and he may well have a good run if (sorry, when) he gets past the first round

I think you're being a bit unfair Robxon: Strikes me that this was Guccione playing at his best: and we all know what happens when a Karlovic (or Ivanisovic or Rusedski) does that: not many can stand in his way.

I was incredibly impressed with the way that Boggo kept pulling Aces, unreturnables, passes, lobs (especially!) and other winners out of his hat: even 2 sets and a break down, he kept at it: that shows loads of mental strength in my book.

The match reminded me of the Henman - Philippousis semi- final from all those years ago: Henman on great form, doing nothing wrong, but Philipoo just "in the zone" and playing a perfect, heavy - serving match.

They surely should have put Boggo v Guccione on a bigger court - there is nothing the hordes of Aussies with ground passes like better than an AUS v GB match and they seemed to be outnumbering the Brits inside.

I tried to get in after the Marray match ended and it was impossible for about a set. In addition, all standing room on the hill above was packed 2 or 3 deep and there were pairs of eyes (mine included for a while) all along the bottom of the fence at the points where you could see the action through the crowd. And this at almost 8 in the evening after quite a lot of people had gone home for the day!

On the face of it, this was a very disappointing result, but Gucci's serve seemed to be virtually unreturnable. Hard to tell whether it really was, or whether Alex made it look that way by not gettign to many of them, if you see what I mean, but I think probably the former. Either way, The Aussie was clearly on top form.

Davydonkey came from 2-0 down to beat Guccione. Difference between a class player and Boggo perhaps...

I didn't want to complain about the Brits lack of luck with the draw this year coz it seems I always do but if Boggo had got Hyung Taik Lee's draw he could genuinely have made R4 this week.

I still think he would get more confidence and match practice as 9th (ish) seed in qualies, winning three matches, therefore scoring some points anyway, and then he's more likely to hit the ground running which against someone like Guccione may have put doubts in the guys head.