Day 2

Well well welly well well well...

I'm still recovering after the Murray/Gasquet match. It was brilliant. The first two and a bit sets were rather special. Murray was dead in the water until Gasquet ran out of steam. Gasquet surprised me today. Here are the five main things I learnt about him:

1) when he wins a point with a good shot he likes to re-use the ball

2) he takes his sweet time between points and games (this did not amuse Murray at all)

3) he's just 23 years old (who knew??)

4) he's super cute

5) he's really rather good

I know this is going to sound very unpatriotic of me but I really wanted Gasquet to win today. Before the game I was all for Murray, and worried that Gasquet would be a little tricky, but from the moment Murray went 0-30 down in his first service game I thought 'hang on a minute, this guy is good' and it just got better. He was supreme. The crowd were barely on his side at first but even they were swayed by his majestic (yes, I said it) backhands and winners from 10 yards behind the baseline. Tis a shame that the organisers didn't give him that extra day to recover because I'm pretty sure 24 hours more would have seen him through to the second round.

I like Murray, don't get me wrong, he's a grinder and he's tough and he has excellent legs (ok, he could have a bit more joy - would it kill him to smile every once in a while?) but Gasquet deserved that win today.

So the final result: 4-6 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 6-2 6-1

Cracking game.

Fed had his FedHead well and truly screwed on and the FedHand was working like a charm. He crushed his Aussie opponent. He is looking as gorgeous, fluid and bronzed as ever. (Is it just me or does Fed have the nicest skin colour in the world? And he has great legs. Speaks three languages. Always poised and gentlemanly and charming... ok, must stop.) I'm all for him retaining the title this year. Nadal isn't going to make it easy but I really think he can do it. Of course he can, he's Fed. Come on the Fed!!

Other winners today: Djoko (nice to see him back in some kind of form), Wawrinka, Ljubicic, Berdych, Isner, Baghdatis, Gonzalez, Troiki (beat 21st seed Robredo), Reister (beat 27th seed Lopez), Hanescu, Almagra, Monfils (love Monfils!!) and Lacko (an absolute epic by all accounts).

Must go to bed now. (I know I haven't touched on the ladies but I'll do that tomorrow.) Am completely shattered after playing my own tennis. Oh, just a nod to our boys who beat Mexico this evening 3-1. Patchy? Yes. But teams who win when they're playing badly are champions right?

I'll keep you blogged...