Update:

Marray v Fruttero 6-4 4-2

Hutchins v Navarro Pastor 3-6 2-2

Marray wins 64 63

 

Marray serving for the match at 5-3 in the second. Come on Jonny! 0-30 down, stop choking! Back to 30-30. Jonny wins 64 63. That's two Brits in the final quali round, so far.

Hutchins facing a bp at 3-4 down in the second A break here and Navarro Pastor will serve for the match Super, He saves the bp and goes on to hold. 4-4

Hutchins v Navarro Pastor 3-6 4-6

i've just realised max was last years runner up, so maybe a biot thougher than i 1st thought for al.

Yeah, neither first round match is the easiest. Mirnyi is a tall player, known for his doubles mainly (his half of the second best double team in the world Bjorkman/Mirnyi) but he's been doing quite well recently (one of Andy's competitors which is how I know). Tough for Alex but Mirnyi isn't known for having any particular weapon, just a good all round game. I think Alex is capable of beating him, but would have to play his very best. It would be a big upset. Hopefully it happens!

As for Tursunov...! His game is even more erratic than Murray's!! We could see a super match with brillant tennis from both players or a really poor quality match with errors all over the place. Whichever happens I wouldn't like to call the result. Murray CAN beat Tursunov but it depends on where he is in his head I think.

Good luck to both of them! And here's hoping both Baker and Marray join them in the main draw (and if that happens that Bloomers doesn't draw one of them, although that would mean we got a Brit into the second round.)