Naomi is so careless. Several times she's had an easy winner only to hit it straight to Gavrilova who hits a winner past her. Happened twice in the lengthy game in which Naomi was broken.

First serve reasonably good. Volleys decent. Forehand and backhand both poor so far. 2nd serve return horrible in the opening set - 6 unreturned 2nd serves. Naomi has tried some drop shots and come to the net but Daria tends to pass her quite easily. 

Naomi got her break in the opening set through a rare spell of sustained good play (3 points).

Movement absolutely awful. 

Rain stopped play 6-4 2-4* adv Gavrilova

DavidC wrote:

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At the rain break Tara 6-4 4-6 2-1*

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There were injury break in between games.....was it Tara or  Paszek ?

brendan wrote:

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anyone know if/when there's going to be any play today?

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 Not before 2pm is the latest announcement.  Still raining apparently.

Images on Twitter now showing covers are off the courts.  Hooray !!!

PaulM wrote:

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Back on

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 covers or players?

Tara and Paszek keep exchanging breaks, but the Austrian holds when it really matters, and takes a tight 4-6 6-4 6-4 victory. Another impressive performance from Tara though against a very strong grass courter, hard to feel discouraged by it.

She might have missed out on the chance to head back into the top 200 this week, but I don't think she'll need to wait too much longer.

All seems very strange - Brits not coping well with weather interruptions