Loki

Just to clarify all other courts apart from Chatrier play until light fades. Chatrier with its roof is floodlit.

They play until light fades. They have night sessions now and that session on Chatrier will finish when the match is finished. Nadal Djokovic last year was still going at midnight

If they started this court at 1pm like the other show courts we could have finished that tonight.

Tsitsipas starting to slip from his high play, and Murray doing very well protecting his service games to pinch that set. Even extracted two errors from the forehand in the tie breaker, he’s doing what he used to do so well and systematically break down a player strengths.

4-4 30-15 in the second set and Tsitsipas finally misses a forehand. Tsitsipas is playing very well, serving exceptionally well and getting his forehand into play in the +1 shot as often as he wants.

Make that a triple break and is about to serve for the match.

Broady now a double break up in the 5th set.

Thiem just took the fourth set, to take it to a decider. Tsitsipas looks the better player but Thiem just has a bit more fight and heart. We already have people in the Third Round before all of the First Round matches have concluded.

That is about a nice a draw as you could pick, getting a high seed in the second round, one who isn’t particularly good on grass and has potentially injured himself playing in Mallorca. It’s all up to him. If he really believes he can do something, the time is now. If he can get past Round 2 he has a shot at a deep run. Who knows what seeds will fall before then. Murray will be playing on Tuesday as Djokovic will open Centre Court on the Monday. No middle Sunday rest anymore either.

Roy isn’t going to pass on anytime soon. Van Helsing is long dead.

Aye the fee for Brophy doesn’t look to be a very wise decision. But in the games he did play for us we had a transformation in terms of play. If he remains fit we will be a better side because of it. Well the last game of our season was pretty exciting. So we will just have to disagree on that one.

Your own team won a cup double a couple of years ago, are you just going to give up as you’re never going to do that again? Football is a funny game you just never know what is going to happen.

Aye Ross County are spending out with their means and have been doing it ever since McGregor took over as chairman. Ross County is an extension of McGregor’s ego, it gets him media time and it adds to his fame. He has no intention of letting anyone else play with his toy. When he stood down the last time due to potential administration he came sauntering back willing to spend money again as soon as we made the historic Scottish Cup run. He takes absolute millions in dividends every year from the Global Energy Group, no one could even afford to buy him out if they tried. As long as McGrgeor is alive he will pump money into County. And when he does pass on we will quickly descend. For the person that said it hasn’t been much of a ride and we are cannon fodder. Well I have seen County be the worst team in the Highland League as a wee boy all the way up to winning the League Cup. County were so bad that none of us watched them, we paid the entry money to play football on a massive grass pitch where the away end is now. It’s been a tremendous ride.

He was remarkably flat yesterday, just didn’t get going at all. De Minaur just seems to read Murray very well, even when Murray moves around his backhand to hit the forehand down the line, De Minaur was already there. His best chance will always be taking a high ranked seed in the First Round that isn’t comfortable on grass. There’s plenty of them in the draw. But he has to give himself a chance yesterday he lost belief very quickly and accepted that defeat. De Minaur was very good, but didn’t really have to break a sweat.

Well that was all rather easy for De Minaur. He won’t be seeded for Wimbledon, and the weeks rest will do him good. Will be dependent on the draw a week on Friday. Might play Eastbourne next week, but the points will be too late for Wimbledon seedings.

De Minaur in Round One, Schwarzman or Qualifier in 2, Taylor Fritz in QF. He will do well to get through that to make the semi finals and a seeding.

TLDR version. Course he’s going to do it, he’s Andy fucking Murray.

It will solely dependent on his draw. If he makes a seeding he will likely be paired to face seeds 1-8 in the 3rd Round. If he’s not seeded he could meet anyone in the first round. He has already shown that he can beat these players, his issue is that these tend to be long matches and that wears him down. On grass there aren’t as many brutal rallies, so even a three hour match isn’t as gruelling. But the accumulative affect of these matches means he’s not fresh when he meets a better player. Third Round of Australia is an example of that. The other factor in his favour is the little grass experience the younger guys have. There will be top seeds vulnerable on grass, but Murray’s serve has to find its level. He could easily face a jobber, jobber and then Rune or Ruud. Even Medvedev and Tsitsipas are winnable matches on grass if he’s fresh. His time on court is key, and his serve looks really good, but again it’s difficult to gauge that against low ranked players. It is likely that both Rublev and Medvedev are likely to be top 8 seeds. Marcus Willis beat both of them in qualifying in 2016. That run just gets more legendary as the years pass

We aren't signing Brophy, never mind swap our only forward that plays injured for a player that never plays because of injury.

Yogi Hughes was deemed surplus to requirements when County finished 10th with more points and less money spent than Malky’s side.

I finally found the other person in the @TheScarf's famous quote

For Andy Murray it's all about will he make the seedings at Wimbledon or not. He negated the 150 points dropped from Stuttgart last year by winning Surbiton so only lost 25 points. With a further 125 up in Nottingham this week with a similar strength field, he could be sitting in around 34, 35 before Queens starts. With Nadal going down 122 ranking places from Monday that is one less person that would be in the seedings. If he doesn't win Nottingham he will need a quarter final at least at Queens to make it.

It’s a bit of a quirk, US Open just seems a quicker surface and a rowdier crowd. He’s lost six finals - Roger, Rafa (x2), Murray, Wawrinka and Medvedev. He was injured in 2016 and had the easiest run to the final including two retirements and a walk over. That’s the only Slam you could ever say Murray chucked it away.

The only thing these younger guys lack is the experience of playing against the utter brilliance of Federer, Djokovic and Nadal. Novak has 100 matches against fellow grand masters in which he has seen every point possible, every defensive shot possible, learned when to buckle down mentally, when to let points go, when to rack up the pressure. Alcaraz, Rune and Ruud only learn this in matches against Novak. Alcaraz thought he was going to take his Uber aggressive style and hit through him and Novak had the youngster cramping. He is just phenomenal. Andy Roddick famously said that Novak takes the opponents legs and then takes their soul. No matter what metric you go by he is the GOAT.

The only thing I’d disagree with there is saying clay isn’t his surface. Djokovic is a master of all surfaces and if it wasn’t for Nadal he’d have as many French Opens as he has Australian Opens.