Andreas Seppi does tennis a favour

The grass isn't a favourite time of the year, but with the game on the surface changing, while not always for the better, though personally for myself it makes grass tennis better to watch.

Federer is looking for his 15th Slam title and hopefully he can it done here, so the whole Sampras record thing is buried and yes I will do a write up on the Basel boy, once he passes the record, then the Roland Garros thing can be mentioned in greater context.

So far at the big W, excellent win for the legend of South Tyrol Andreas Seppi over big James Blake. Seppi played an intelligent and thoughtful match, he was able to absorb the pace of the ballbashing from Blake, got him into backhand to backhand rallies, where he was going to be dominant in those. The key thing was that he served well throughout the match, and wasn't able to be exposed on the second serve, which is a liability. The calm nature helped in the 3rd set tiebreaker where Blake was up 5-0, but Seppi kept fighting, and was aggressive and got rewarded. Has an interesting match against Gicquel, has to take advantage of this draw.

Always a good day when Koubek wins, he won in 5 sets, doing it the hard way can be fun at times, but he needs to take out Robredo in the next round, he is not a grass lover, but Stefan will need to be aggressive and use his forehand angles to get Robredo out of court and then take control from there..

Gordo Calleri retires from tennis, but that will get a separate entry at another time.

King Oscar was in generous mood losing 15 games in a row against Leo "Aligator" Mayer, who isn't bad on grass, has the big serve and forehand, converted 6/6 break points in the first 2 sets hence the 6-0 6-0, but the King decided to play a little bit. though the grass is more useful for other things than playing tennis on.

Lucho's double partner Cuevas won a match at GS level and great comeback in defeating Chris Rochus 11-9 in the 5th set, of course as usual in the early round matches, there are never streams for the matches that are truly interesting. Good for Pablo and Dani Orsanic, who is a good coach and Pablo is good enough to be in the top 100, have to play well outside of Viña del Mar, has a big show against Jesse Levine in the next round.

Daniel Gimeno Traver had Taylor Dent in all sorts of problems, he won the first 2 sets, but was up a break in the 3rd and managed to lose 2 service games in a row to lose the 3rd set and play is suspended. It's a very difficult thing going to sleep, especially when you are in the lead and had chances to finish it in a day, then come back the next day to finish the match. That's part of the mental battle, it's now like another match starting from 0-0, and remembering what he did well in the match so far and implement that.