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We have an I'm BBC Radio 5 Lives David Law. We are here on day three, three of the Australian Open. I can't remember.

It's very late at night as always. We're actually not outside underneath the tarot actels flying above today.

We are in one of the little interview rooms where the players come into talk to the media.

It has been an eventful few hours. First of all, Catherine, I mean we've just witnessed, to give you a little rundown of the headlines of the day,

they don't really involve Andy Murray for once. Do they? I mean, okay, there's a little bit of concern about his ankle, but Dan Evans from a British perspective has just had the win of his life. Nick Curios has gone down from two sets to love up. What else has happened?

Oh, crikey. What else? I mean, there was barely room to pay attention to anything else apart from that. I mean, even, I mean, Andy Murray was bracing myself for a pretty challenging flash interview with Andy Murray coming up straight off the court.

From that dramatic third set and the twisting his ankle and all the rest of it. And the first thing he dropped his bag. The first thing he said was did Dan win and there was a massive broad smile on his face when I said, yeah, and he said he'd been watching Dan right up until taking to the court and he thought he was going to win, but you know, anything can happen.

Yeah, nice story. Simon Briggs, I seem to remember seeing you about, oh, 10 hours ago and you said, nothing much has happened today. Is it?

Yeah, and well, that's turned around. It was the original day of two halves because when about six o'clock, I was winging, you know, I'm a massive winger, you're a bit of a winger to all my colleagues about how boring it was and what the hell were going to write about.

And then it kicked off and I was actually down in the BBC Five Live commentary box and we had Evans on one screen. We had Curios and the other and then Murray was playing in front of us.

And I was trying to sort of commentate while also sending over a few paragraphs about the Evans win, which had to be one of the most mind scrambling experiences.

I mean, parallel processing isn't my strong point at the best of times, but yeah, multitasking was quite difficult.

And what did you think of certainly, first of all, the performance of Dan Evans out there today? I mean, he started pretty slowly. He was actually saying afterwards that he was struggling with what what chillic was bringing in that first set.

But boy, he turned it around. Well, yeah, I mean, Catherine was actually sitting next to me and Catherine said he's sitting it out the middle of the court.

And actually, I realized he intended to do that. He must have been told to do that either by Leon Smith or by Mark Hilton because he kept on doing it.

And then he got slower and slower in the speed with which he was in the ball. And it was clearly a very smart tactic because chillish, not confident at the moment.

I actually didn't realize until I checked the records he'd lost to the world number 117 in Chennai the week, well, two weeks ago, I suppose now.

He couldn't take the ball on. He couldn't generate any pace. He just began to lose faith in his own ground strokes. And it was a miraculous and unexpected game plan that delivered results. Sure was.

Yeah, I mean, it's all very well saying that now though, but you know, Simon and I sat together in the mid-year seats watching that first set and we left in.

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