Murray leading 6-3 and 3-2 with a break.

Wins the 2nd 6 - 2. Into the 3rd round.

Andy Murray on court today in Monte Carlo, probably late afternoon. Federer and Nadal are on court before him, and he plays Fabio Fognini, who surprisingly beat the much higher ranked Marian Cilic in the last round. Looks like a clay court specialist.

Raining in Monte Carlo, so the order of play has been revised and Murray moved to a different court.

Wawrinka has beaten Federer in 2, and Murray is involved in a marathon tie-breaker, after being 5 - 0 down at one point. Still only the first set. Murray wins it 13 - 11. Could have gone either way.

Rain stops play.

Straight sets win for Murray who will play either Davydenko or Nalbandian in the quarters.

Murray resumes at 9.30 Friday and wins in 2. The likelihood is that he will have to play again today, because of the rain loss yesterday.

He made really hard work of that, and it looks like clay is really not his surface.

Davydenko wins in 3. They are due to play again this afternoon, 3 matches to precede them, including Djokovic/Verdasco and Nadal/Ljubicic.

Djokovic and Wawrinska through to the last 4. Nadal nearly through, Murray next up.

Game on.

Murray is making hard work of it again vs Davydenko. Takes the first set 7 - 6 after 80 minutes.

Murray prevails 6 - 4 in the 2nd after being 4 - 1 down. He has definitely come back well from some pretty bad positions in the last few matches.

Nadal in the semis. Ho hum. I think he's virtually unbeatable on clay.

Nadal beats Murray in 2. Plays Djokovic in the Final.

Is Nadal's massive winning streak on clay still intact or was it broken last season?

he's won 21 consecutive games on clay - federer broke his previous record run of 80 odd games in 2007

Nadal beats Djokovic in 3 to win his fifth successive Monte Carlo title.

Rome - Murray rained off yesterday. Due on court Wed. 12.00 vs Juan Monaco of Argentina. He has a chance of going third in the rankings if results go his way. I'm not holding my breath.

Murray loses.

Rome - Federer loses again, to Djokovic. Plays Nadal in the Final.

Nadal wins again and Murray is now 3rd in the world.

Not officially until 11th May.

Rome - semis nearly sorted. 1 q/f to go.

Jankovic, Ivanovic and Serena have left themselves plenty of time for shopping, as per, having bitten the dust already. Women's tennis is bizarre and utterly unpredictable.

Dinara Safina beats Svetlana Kuznetsova in an all-Russian Italian Final, to consolidate her top ranking.

Up yours, Serena.

Andy Murray defends his Madrid title this week, as the new World number 3.

Murray due on court Tuesday evening, vs Simone Collelli.

Serena has thrown a strop and pulled out of the women's event 'injured'.

Murray makes very hard work of winning in two.