Why does a great player like Federer need to get into a war of words, he's obviously worried.

I don't think arrogance is ever justified. There's a difference between confidence and arrogance. Also, name me 1 footballer who has an egaging personality to listen to when interviewed (besides Jimmy Bullard who is a "character" primarily cos he is a bit thick!)

Er, actually Crofty, there's 3 more chances this year.......

Thanks for coming Andy. Smith was absolutely :livid: with me at church this morning when I was pleased that Fed won. He even said he 'had no time for me'

But he won. I actually think it was a pretty decent victory. Gasquet has been playing well on clay, as opposed to Murray, and was in front of his home crowd. He would have been the player that all the seeds wanted to avoid in the first round.

He had a couple of days rest, what more does he want!

Another fairly tough match for Murray in round 2 (Chela). He is an Argie and therefore will like the clay.

I did say it would be fairly tough. I still expect him to win even though he played 5 sets on Monday.

He's still pretty young Ben. Plenty of time for him, and the French is his worst surface. Fed will have retired well before Murray's career is over, and he's the only person who's stopped him winning two so far.

So Roger is out then. Big shock really, and brings to an end what I think is one of sport's most incredible runs. In the previous 23 grand slams, he has always made the semi-finals. That's almost 6 years of being involved in every semi in every grand slam (since Wimbledon 2004)!!! He hasn't even missed one at some point due to injury. I think even more remarkable is that of those 23 semis, he's only failed to make the final on 3 occasions. It now means that if Nadal wins the French Open, he'll become the new world no.1, just a week before Fed is scheduled to equal Pete Sampras' record of 286 consecutive weeks at number 1!!!

All credit to Istner and Mahut, currently at 56-56 in the final set. It is the longest match in history. Crazier still the final set alone is longer than the previous longest match. I am amazed they can still stand let alone still fire those aces down, almost 200 between them I believe!