Horna and Chela Lay the Smackdown Tuesday report

This won't be in any particular order of the matches that were seen, but overall it wasn't a bad day.

The first match was Luis Horna and Gael Monfils. I missed the first set of this due to the usual problems with idiots at ticket collection, it's not difficult to spell my name correctly, but these idiots seem to stuff it up regularly.

Got there at the start of the second set and the Lucho was moving well and hitting some very good length on his shots and Monfils was metres behind the baseline and he really seemed a bit sluggish and Lucho is good enough to take advantage of this. It was more Lucho being the aggressor, but he was using his brains and being patient waiting for the opportunity to attack with his forehand and keeping good length with his backhand and he was moving to the net quite a lot as well on some high Monfils shots and while making a few errors he was able to make some good volleys.

After throwing away his service game at 5-4 serving for the set, they held serve and then Lucho broke Monfils to win 7-5 and if he kept his head and played the same game, he was into the next round and was good enough to do this. Monfils was trying, but Lucho was too strong and getting heaps of spin with his forehand and pinned him back and wrongfooted him a few times. Just hope he can actually think somehow and win his next match against Phau.

Juan Monaco against Lisnard, who is as bad as I remember him and he is lucky he has a competent backhand and that kept him in the match. Monaco was nervous at the start and then the wind picked up, but then he was able to show his superior skill and able to remain focused for long enough to beat this dickhead Lisnard and he had some very good support for this match and these are matches he needs to win and now plays Grosjean, he has nothing to lose in this match and just hope the team can keep him in a good frame of mind for this match.

Novak Djokovic v Goldstein: Well here is a lesson children, Christmas comes only once a year in theory and for today as Goldstein is Jewish, this is the equivalent of Hannukah. Djokovic played very poorly and Goldstein is a scrapper and did what he needed to and Nole gave away so many presents it wasn't funny, error after error was coming from his racquet and it was a poor performance in a match that he should have won, everything was on his racquet and the thing was coming from his racquet was errors. If a player wants to hit 70 unforced errors, at least be somewhere near that on the winner tally, which something he didn't do. It was more of those shake your head performance in amazement at not the amount of winners, more the amount of poor play, but Goldstein did what was necessary.

Karlovic v Dayvdenko: I didn't see this match, but from my co-reporter Sammy told me that Ivo played quite well and was able to break serve as there were no breakers in this 5 set match and Ivo's junk, high no pace slice backhand was pissing the PMK off to the extreme and him netting the ball, but Ivo dropped his guard at the start of the 5th and got broken straight away and PMK was strong enough to hold on and should do well in this tournament.

Seppi vs Tipsarevic: At the time I didn't realise this, but during the warm up Seppi had some problems with his back, but he needs to get a lot stronger to take it to the next level. This was a frustrating loss for Seppi, though this one didn't piss me off as much as the Acasuso one for some reason, maybe cause Andy was favoured to win or something.

There was a bit of needle there with Janko defending well and questioning a lot of calls and many of them with good reason and as for Seppi, it was similar to what happened to Nole. Seppi has the better game, but was pulling off the ball and making a lot of errors which is not the Seppi style and if he is doing that, then there is a huge chance he will lose. The Serbian fans were cheering loud for Janko and he fought very hard and deserved his win. I mean it's disappointing as Seppi had more chances of winning against Ferrero, but this is an improvement from 2005.

Great result by Mathieu, taking out that annoying piece of crap Clement and now he mustn't lose to Bogomolov Jr. Sammy is a huge fan of Mathieu and we saw Thierry Tulasne and Sammy told him he has high hopes for Paulo and won't give up on him and he is the man to take him up the rankings. I have to say he seems like a good guy and part of me wants a good result from him here.

Luczak is through and hope he can play out of his tree and beat Oli Rochus, he needs a breakthrough as well. Kiefer was too intelligent for the Srich and won going away. Björkman is getting better and he had a bad stomach bug, hence his shocking performance in the singles. Alberto Mancini is here and Zabaleta was watching the Monaco match.

The Bogomolov Jr/Gonzalez match well this was highly entertaining and humorous as well for a lot of reasons. I didn't get to see all this, but Feña was having some problems with his body and even served underarm at one stage, he was hitting a lot of dropshots and Bogo was fighting very hard and the Chileans made plenty of noise and were giving to Bogo.

Then in the 5th set, Bogo after winning a huge point gave it the big "come on" and Feña gave him a big glare and the crowd loved it for sure and they were getting into it. At the change of ends, Gonzo went over and had words with Bogo and Pacal Maria had to get down and step in.

Gonzo got tight and missed a forehand wide and Bogo won the match and a dejected Feña walked off and at least he waved to his fans and there was a standing ovation. After the match Alex throws his shirt in the crowd and towels. He went to the throw one in the Chilean direction and then he baulked and laughed.