Nasty banana-skin for the first match then. Clay is definitely Monaco's best surface.

Third match on Pietrangeli after two other singles - weather permitting. Play due to start at 13.00, local time.

Doesn't look good for much play today and apparently tomorrow isn't going to be too much better, so it looks like Rome is going to be behind on schedule.

Murray will hope to get this match done as soon as he can, but as it's a second round match, it's likely to be pushed back down the schedule as it's more important to get the first round matches done.

Even so, this is going to be a very tough match for Murray as Monaco on his day is a top 10 clay court player and before his injury was on the verge of making the top 15, and even though he hasn't quite recovered from that, he's still a very good player.

Murray's going to need to play pretty well to win this - he dropped a set to Monaco on a hard court earlier this year and Monaco's much better on the clay.

I think he will have enough to come through this match, but I think he may need three sets to do so - it's not the kind of match he'd have wanted to start the week.

They did - but it's raining again

Come to sunny Italy. Yeah, right. I don't know why people complain about Wimbledon weather, it seems to me a lot of tournaments have weather disruption.

Damndamndamndamn! I was free to watch it today, but am out most of tomorrow and will probably miss it!

Edit - Yay, I'm now only out in the morning, so should be able to watch after all (if it doesn't rain all day)

-- Edited by Madeline on Tuesday 28th of April 2009 09:01:24 PM

Live Scoreboard? Is that what italians call something that updates every 5 minutes?