Preamble
Welcome to Court 7, where No16 seed Madison Keys has just made surprisingly brisk work of Belinda Bencic, winning 6-0, 6-3 in less than an hour. It was a matchup of two hugely promising comers who one day should be meeting in the latter rounds of Grand Slams. Perhaps the same could be said about the match to come between Sloane Stephens and Heather Watson, ranked No40 and No45 in the world respectively, who have just taken the court.
Bryan will be here shortly. In the meantime why not look back at Simon Cambers’ account of Watson’s opening-round win:
With just one win in her past four clay-court events, Watson’s confidence was brittle but there’s nothing like a win to boost the spirits and the 23-year-old, whose ranking of 45 is just seven short of her career high, stayed focused against an opponent who one minute was slapping outrageous winners and the next spraying wild errors.