Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast coming to at the end of day three of the Australian Open, the final day of round one action which is still ongoing we think the editorially

important matches are done for the day but if maddie english or james duckworth go on to win

either title in a couple of weeks time then rest assured we will issue full-hearted apologies

you find us tonight on court five which is shut up shop for the day

at Sandwich between Court 6, the Bar Court, and the artist formerly known as Court 3, I think now

known as the banking court. So right in the thick of it at Melbourne Park on a really beautiful summer's evening.

It's been a really fun day today, but not much of the fun has come from the runners and riders for the titles.

So it feels like we should start with Yannick Sinha, but actually I want to start with Giovanni and Peshi Perriccar and Sebastian Baez.

Or maybe even with James Duckworth, who I think is currently serving at Matchpoint over on Court 6.

That is where the noise that you're hearing is coming from.

That sounded like the subdued sound of Dino Prismitch saving matchpoint actually,

and now the sound of Croatian fans getting just a little bit of belief, David.

Yes, yeah. It's a wonderful time of day to be at a Grand Slam tournament. I think generally,

we're sitting under floodlights, dark sky up above,

Melbourne's skyline in the distance with the big towers

and illuminating lights coming at us.

And to our left is the Rodolava Arena.

And in the distance distance we have the final

dregs of her of a knock-down drag-out affair between a Croatian player with a huge

backing full of red and white checked shirts and obviously the local sensation who's who's doing

the locals proud well TBC david on that whether he's in

the running for sensation of the day he's he's making a good fist of it yes i'll tell you that much

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