And Bettles and Hoyt finished off their first round doubles match, left over from yesterday, winning 6-2 6-2

Jankovits slogged out a seemingly long and hard match today against Escoffier - with all the tennis last week, too, maybe he might be feeling a tad 'fatigué', 'crevé' 'épuisé', 'mort' or anything other 'kn**ckered' adjective he happens to fancy . ..

An even better win for James & Damon:

R1:  Damon Gooch (RSA) & James Marsalek CR  1775 (633+1142) defeated (2) João Domingues & André Gaspar Murta (POR/POR) CR 1338 (613+725) by 6-3 3-6 [10-7]

Unfortunately, Imran has had to withdraw before R2

Yes, best wishes to Imran. It's just possible that it's a minor niggle and he thought that he really didn't have stand much of a chance in R2, against the second seed, and it' wasn't worth potentially aggravating it. (Although that's not the way most players think, and rightfully so, although it makes a lot of sense to an outsider . . . )


Evan a break up, 3*-2 - crosses fingers . . .. no cash this time, Marcan on a hard court is a tough ask, BUT you never know !

But Marcan gets the second set 6-2

And the boy form Wales has only gone and done it :::)))

(And I wasn't a true enough believer, my tenner stayed in my pocket, lesson learnt . . . )

But I couldn't be happier . . .

Brilliant result.