he has been on the court shorter then fed and nadal hasnt he

Looked very relaxed and very good.

Unfortunately Nadal looked even better.

Good. Murray has played about 4 hours so far and has already booked his place into week 2. Perfect really. 5-0 H2H versus Verdasco who is up next, fair play to Verdasco only dropped 12 games thus far though and looks now like a potential top 10 player. Murray in four sets for mine. Then a potential quarter final clash against the big hitting Tsonga would be ideal preparation for a clash with Nadal in the semi finals. All going to plan so far.

Federer, Roddick and Djokovic are due on court today (Sunday).

federa nearly lost. 5 set match

Came back from 2 sets down.



In the womens, top seed Jelena Jankovic is pïssed on by Marion Bartoli, Safina scraped through against Cornet, and unseeded Jelena Dokic grinds a win against Kleybanova.

dokic came good

over kani'benduover

Andy Murray is due on court early Monday morning our time.

He is preceded by 3 women's matches, so might be on around 4am or thereabouts.

Muzza due on at 4am according to BBC, 6am according to Eurosport. Think i will take the option of waking up at 5 it will be a good match against an in form Verdasco.

Don't forget Big Serena in an arm wrestle with Victoria Azarenka.

Murray out afer losing in 5 sets 2-6 6-1 1-6 6-3 6-4. I'm not sure how to describe that performance to be honest, I think Jekyll is still looking for Mr Hyde.

thats no good

Disappointng from Murray today, his biggest problem was his serve. Has to be said though that I am not sure Verdasco has ever played better, he went for his shots and he consistently clipped the line, just was not Murray's day.

What an Andy-climax.

Groan.



Come on, Laura Robson.



< Clutches straws >

so murray is scottish again rather than british

I'm beginning to suspect he's French.

I don't want to say I told you so but.....

MEN'S QUARTER-FINALS

Nadal (1) v Simon (6)
Verdasco (14) v Tsonga (5)
Roddick (7) v Djokovic (3)
Del Potro (8 v Federer (2)

WOMEN'S QUARTER-FINALS

Bartoli (16) v Zvonareva (7)
Safina (3) v Dokic
Suarez-Navarro v Dementieva (4)
Kuznetsova (8 v S Williams (2)

so the useless git is the only top 8 player not to reach the quarters

Well, if you put it like that...yes.

Roddick through after Novak retires with heat exhaustion.

Two British girls through in the juniors.

Reigning champion Djokovic jacks it in against Roddick.



Zvonereva thrashes Bartoli. Dokic and Safina have just started. I don't think Dokic has much left in the tank, and conditions are still horribly hot in Melbourne.

Federer and Del Potro still to come.

dokic vs safina 6-4. 4-6 .0-0

She's not Australian really.



My money's still on big Dinara.