Gerry Williams says Marat Safin should be a top five player after he beat third seed Novak Djokovic.
Safin still has potential to be a world beater
Don't say you weren't warned, and here as well. As it happened, when that walking Russian roulette Marat Safin got out of bed yesterday, he felt like being serious about tennis again - he's like that.
And when he's in that mood he can just about beat anyone and so it proved yesterday, as he overcame the third seed Novak Djokovic in straight sets.
A lot has been made of Safin's mental frailties when it comes to the game, however he is one of the most gifted players around, if not the most wayward.
He has every shot and immense power and if he had really stuck at it earlier in his career he would have been in the top five in the world today. Where he goes from here remains to be seen.
Luck
Meanwhile it was a stroke of luck which prevented a Serbian double calamity, when the women's number one, Ana Ivanovic, survived the first of two match points against Nathalie Dechy thanks to a dead net cord.
Dechy has fought the good fight at Wimbledon for 13 years and knows her way around a grass court, but as beautiful and articulate as Ana Ivanovich is, she does not. And she may now regret not playing at Eastbourne last week, opting instead to take a week off to rest after her French Open triumph.
A word about the Brits, and Elena Baltacha's Wimbledon dream is over after she lost in two very close sets against Jie Zheng from China. It was a scary rollercoaster type of a match according to Baltacha, but it was won by the girl with a deeper calm and softer hands on the racket.
In the second set Baltacha's heavy hitting led her to lead 3-2 and 40-15, but after a sequence of missed shots she suddenly found herself 3-4 down. What Baltacha needs it seems to me, is to find a middle place between fire and fear, the answer to which is in her own mind.
Banana skin
Today we're back to the Murray-go-round. Andy Murray will immediately follow Britain's number one woman Anne Keothavong on Centre Court - she no doubt having been severely dealt with by the Champion Venus Williams.
If Murray is the real mint, as I sense he just maybe, he will beat Xavier Malisse with little difficulty. But be warned, Malisse has been a Belgian banana skin for many pretenders including Tim Henman.
He was a semi-finalist at the All England Club six years ago, he's twice been to the fourth round of the French Open and three times to the fourth round of the US Open.
Murray was criticised by many for playing too many drop shots during his fabulous match with Fabrice Santoro, but I think what people need to get accustomed to is the fact that he is extraordinarily gifted at shock making.
Tim Henman was a good player, but he didn't have the skills of Murray who can play any shot in the book. The more shots you have is obviously a wonderful thing, but it can make the game more complicated and he is still trying to work out when to play which shots.
We have to remember he is still very young and this will come with time, which is why I still believe it will be two or three years before we see the best of him.
We mustn't also forget a strapping young man from Surrey by the name of Chris Eaton, who is going to be the next big thing in British tennis we are being led to believe.
He will play Dmitry Tursunov, a Russian from California who hits every ball with thunder and used to beat Tim Henman regularly. It will be He-Man stuff and celebrity status awaits the young Englishman if he can win.
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