There’s an awful lot of pointless overthinking in sport these days. So all hail Anastasia Kukushkina, coach and wife of Mikhail Kukushkin. When asked how her husband might beat the world No3 and 2013 champion Andy Murray in this first round match, she located the chase in double-quick time and started cutting towards it with rapier precision. “Try to do something good.”
But in case this gives the impression that the Kukushkin-Kukushkinas are a pair of chancers, winging it with reckless abandon, let the record be set straight. Kukushkin is the world No59.