Oh that is so so sad for Katy D. Really feel for her

Yes, it's a huge mistake but ultimately anyone would have to have a heart of stone not to feel for her with this on top of all her injury issues.

By the way do the umpires normally anounce it as going to be a MTB to 10 points and did the umpire here announce it? Would seem sensible as a reminder to players and spectators.

Awful to see the video of Katy collapsing to the ground in delight at 7-5 in the breaker and the cameraman running onto court. That said, she won the next point and it was still very much on her racket.

It's weird to be satisfied with two wins yesterday, but disappointed with three wins today when it might have been as many as six.

To be honest I expected Hannah, Mimi and Mika to all lose, and I don't know whether it said more about Marcinko than Hannah. But she must have played OK to win 62 62.

With some decent grass court results by Rajecki, Appleton, Kartal, Stoiber and Macdonald going into qualifying, I had high hopes of someone winning 3 matches this week, but Wimbledon qualifying has a different level of stress. Still think Sonay will be favourite to win tomorrow, but let's see.

Just my feelings:

Hannah - I thought she played an excellent match. It's true that Marcinko wasn't stellar on grass, but she wasn't a complete rabbit either and Hannah did really well to come out of the blocks, all guns blazing
I thought she served very well (there were too many DFs but - fortunately - she did them all on games that didnt matter, in clutches). The first serve, though, was strong and did damage.

Most importantly, I loved the way she went after the ball, on the front foot, hitting over it, not backing off and slicing and rinky-dinky-ing the ball

Also, big cheer to her coach. I didn't recognised him - maybe the guy from Reed's? He wasn't there last time I saw her play (and had been moaning about her team)

He really actually 'coached'. Unlike the woman (Jane something?) who was in Katy and Marni's box

It's a bugbear of mine but simply shouting 'come on, that's it, keep going' is not coaching. You can ask a group of mates to do that. (and some players do). You employ a coach to actually coach - and now it's allowed

I wasn't near Hannah's coach but I heard him say two things which were spot on

At the start of the second set, instead of 'well done, great, Hannah, and another one like that' - or equally inane and useless comments - he said 'stay low, keep down'. Because - as with many taller girls, she has a tendency to come up off the ball (which normally means it then flies long)

By giving her something to actually focus on (and something useful) she was on the righ path - she stayed low, kept down, hit some great shots - and was quickly 3-0 up

And then - the key of the match, IMO, was at 3-2 when the Croat had a bit of momentum, had just won two games, had plenty of chances to win the next, Hannah was looking a little tight, and Hannah managed to play really well at key moments and take the game

And, again, the coach wasn't then going 'well done' - rather he told her that now was the key game - not to step back, and think, I held, didn't I do well, it was so close. But to really hammer the nail in, to realise this was the moment to take the match by the scruff of the neck and put out any faint hope her opponent had. And Hannah did exactly that - she attacked the serve extremely well - broke - and that was basically the match, done and dusted.

PS Her sister calls her 'Han'
She was encouraging all the way through.
And her mum was there too - there were BIG hugs all round at the end. (And there was another girl who might have been another sister, not sure - definitely one sister and mum )