Some good matches tonight in what appears to be the slightly more interesting half of the tournament:

federer vs. santoro

hewitt vs. Istomin

Djoko vs. Bolelli

Nalbandian vs. Luczak

Del potro vs Ferrer

Tipsarevic vs. Verdasco

Blake vs. Russell

and of course

Safin vs. Baghdatis :yahoo:

JCF took the first set 6-4 from Jones

Berdych is destroying hernandez - currently 6-2, 3-0 in that match

Tipsarevic has just broken Verdasco and will be serving for the set :clap:

tipsy's up a break on verdasco!

Tipsy takes the first set 7-5 :yahoo:

set and a break now for tipsy

Nalby somehow managed to lose the first set to Luczak, but won the second. it's on serve in the third

Fed and Djoko won easily, but Hewitt dropped a set on his way to beating Istomin

JCF won in straight sets, and Ferrer won after Del potro retired :(

Tipsy managed to beat Verdasco in 3 tight sets :yahoo:

and Querry put out Tursunov in 4 :shrug:

Lee has just broken Gonzo in the first set

Grosjean beat Haase in 5 (I think that screws up my predictions)

And Gonzo is a set down to Lee :blink:

Nalby has obviously woken up: he's won against Luczak 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-1

not the best start from Blake who is down a break in his match against Russell.......

Safin Baghy should be up soon as Ivanovic got through relatively easily....

Hope this will be a corker!

me too - but obviously with Safin winning B)

bugger - marat gets broken...... :(

Come on Safin - break back right about now please!!! :pray:

crap - baggy wins the first set 6-4! I have a bad feeling it might be all downhill from here :cry:

hmm...my fears may very well be correct - Safin gets broken in the first game of the second set..... :blink:

he either needs to bounce back immediatly or i suspect this is gonna be a fairly easy victory for Baggy :(

long game here - Safin desperately trying to hold serve :unsure: - which he does, finally! now he needs to break Baggy! come on marat!!! :clap:

and he does it!! back on serve!! come on Marat!!! :bow:

both of them manage to hold to love there - it's 4-4 in the 2nd set :peek:

baggy breaks and will serve for the second set :cry:

I find that in moments of :peek: during this match, a quick look at Baggys photo on the live scoreboard dissolves nerves with a good laugh. If his tennis career plummets, he could always go into BeeGee tribute bands...

Safin just broken :(

i have a feeling Marat must just capitulate here..... :unsure:

A real shame - I was hoping to see some classic Safin

well - he had a BP in that game, but Baggy prevailed in the end..... :(

unless there's suddenly some classic Safin produced, I suspect he might go out in 3 :cry:

:yahoo: Safin breaks!!! :yahoo:

5-2 :peek:

Safin breaks again to win the third set 6-2 :bow: :bow: :bow:

SAFIN BREAKS!

*falls off chair in excitement*

:bow:

This is turning into a bit of a superb match..... Safin 4-1 win a break in th e fourth....looks set to go to a fifth set. Safin controlling the rallys well at the moment.

thanks Gav - i'm half tempted to start the live feed for the final set. :devil: i'm really pleased - no matter what happens at least Safin put up a fight :ok:

just watched the end of that game - Baggy looks to be getting a bit desperate, he's just managed to use up 2 of his challenges in that one game :shrug: safin looked vaguely bemused.....

Safin's game is imploding here as he serves for the 4th set.... 0-40....

Safin saves the first break point 15-40....and the second 30-40.....

And an ace makes it deuce....he got out of that one really well!

thankfully he's got it back to deuce..... :phew:

:yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

going in to a 5th set...... :bow: :bow: :bow:

Safin ties it up 6-3...into the fifth we will go with Safin looking like the man on form apart from a near implosion in that last game... :ok:

As an aside....there is a lanky ball boy wearing one of those silly hats behind Marat that looks like a comical version of Andy Murray...... :D

i thought Andy Murray WAS the comical version of Andy Murray???

*goes to put live stream back on to check it out......*

can't wait for the highlights of this game...darn work!

:banghead: Baggy breaks :argh:

Marco breaks to go 2-0 up in the fifth set. One minute Safin looks the man, then Baggy does..... anyone care to toss a coin...

FFS Marat wake up!!!! Play like you did for the last two sets not the first two!!!!! :banghead: