Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the telegraph live from day one of the fever tree championships at the Queens club.

And Gigi Samin and myself Catherine Whitaker are sat on the commentators' gantry overlooking the quite glorious center court here at Queens. There is tennis still happening Gigi.

Tennis still happening its doubles, it's Felicia Arno and Mark Lopez, not brothers, up against Oliver Morack and Matte Pavic, also not brothers. So less necessary to point that out.

We have three minutes away from kickoff in England, Vichy, Nizio, I can't see any radios pressed to ears or phones at the crowd that are remaining and I'd say there's good couple of thousand of them. I'm very bad at gauging numbers Gigi.

Let's go with a couple of thousand. They're very engrossed in this tennis. It's good to see. Yeah, I think we've got the hard and tennis fans I think of I think of stayed.

Anyway, this is a bonus match. It wasn't scheduled to be on the center court today, but we and the crowd and the players know that I'm very glad that it is. We have had four singles matches played on the center court today. All of them straight sets matches. Some of them more competitive than others.

Was there one that stood out for you Gigi?

He was keen to see Dennis Chappavallov because he's one of those names that a little bit like Nick Kirios, you're drawn to when you see him and he shed your, because he's so exciting, so fun. His favorite service is the grass. He obviously played here last year going down to Gilmulla.

It's tough to get someone like Munna, but I was quite intrigued to see how Chappavallov did, but felt one of them as you said, just straight sets throughout the day.

Yeah, 7.6, 7.6 did a feat for Chappavallov today. I think it could be, I didn't use a particularly hard to feat for Chappavallov on paper. Anyone can lose to Gilmulla on grass. I mean, Rafael Nadal did it, Wimbledon last year, but I think it could be a bit of a watershed moment for Chappavallov in terms of making the necessary adjustments to his game to take him to the next level because I don't want to get too technical on you here, Gigi, because I don't have the playing background to do that.

I don't want to justify it, but he needs a block to return, doesn't he? He needs to develop a block to return against big servers like Miller and obviously he's particularly exposed in that regard on grass. He's got those big swings. And I think that's where he came up a bit short today.

I think we also have to remember he's 19, and this time last year he was 193 in the world. So the leaps and strides and bounds and everything he's done up those rankings is incredible.

He's now sitting at 23 in the world. He's 19 years of age. So as you touched on there's something he needs to bring into his game, but it's only natural when he's still learning. He's still coming quite fresh to his tournaments.

Yeah, the landscape of expectation has changed so monumentally for Chappavallov. Reminder that last year was a surprise to see him come through qualifying. He needed a wild card to get into qualifying.

He came through that beat club and the whole thing was a massive surprise. And now here we are basically expecting him to win everything and just rise to world number one, you know, and assume that mantle.

It doesn't happen like that. It's because of the game. It's because of how exciting he's to watch without one handed back. And he's a lovely fellow to speak to as well. He took part in the draw for the tournament. And he's just a really nice guy.

And as you say expectations, these are you look at Sasha's very 21 years of age and look at what he's done and all these other young players that maybe we do put a little bit too much pressure on him. But yes, as you say, losing to someone like Mulla on grass, that's nothing to feel too down about.

Yes, not too shabby is it. It's time for Rinka. He's fever two championships underway with 66 three win over Cameron. I was particularly on Smith about this earlier. And he said, look, I don't want to be too down on Cameron.

Norrick, let's be honest, though, it wasn't his best performance. And I think again, maybe we were guilty of expecting just a little bit too much room because he adapted to clay so quickly. I mean, ahead of that Davis Cup tie in in me, Orca, where he beat Roberto Batista, a good surprise to anyone. He'd barely played on clay. How do you he'd learnt to slide in the days before. So I think we all thought,

well, he'll take to grass like a doctor, water as well. And maybe we all just expected too much because again, it just doesn't work like that.

No, it doesn't. And we have to remember that a year ago, this tournament was his first professional tournament. That's when he he said he hasn't quite completed his degree. It's a four year course. He's done three years. He can go back to it.

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