hello and thanks for joining us, here s your latest sports news. so often the tennis clay court season is associated with rafa nadal dominating the headlines, but the spaniard was a notable absentee on monday as the monte carlo masters got underway. he s been ruled out with a hip injury and he s not the only one missing. world number two carlos alcaraz is also out because of injury, whilst world number 1a cameron norrie may have wished he hadn t bothered after a surprise first round defeat. jim lumsden rounds up the best of the action on day one. an upset a possibility when his surface broken by the number 33 for the first time of this and it looked like when francisco strolled through the first set, number 11 was always up against the momentum stayed against it as the momentum stayed with the argentinian who took the second set to wrap up victory in an hour and 12 minutes. next up is a meeting with belletini who made light work of the american, 22nd of the world, the italian
here s your latest sports news. so often the tennis clay court season is associated with rafa nadal dominating the headlines, but the spaniard was a notable absentee on monday as the monte carlo masters got underway. he s been ruled out with a hip injury and he s not the only one missing. world number two carlos alcaraz is also out because of injury; is also out because of injury, whilst world number 1a cameron norrie may have wished he hadn t bothered after a surprise first round defeat. jim lumsden rounds up the best of the action on day one. an upset impossibility when his surface broken by the number 33 for the first time of this and it looked like when francisco strolled through the first set, number 11 was always up against the momentum stayed with the argentinian who took the second set to wrap up victory in an hour and 12 minutes. next up is a meeting with martello who made light work of the american, 22nd of the world, the italian galloped throughthe first set and th
22nd of the world, the italian galloped throughthe first set and the second swiftly went the way of the first before taking a little under an hour and a half. britain s andy murray said he is playing for fun these days but clay is his least favourite surface. and it 35 year old had a grim time of it, 6 3 versus the australian in the absence of bill murray. miserable murray on tuesday, world number one novak djokovic begins his monte carlo masters campain. the serbian was forced to miss indian wells and the miami masters due to his covid vaccination status, but he s looking forward to starting the clay court season and preparing for the upcoming french open. idid i did more training on clay, which is of course positive if you think about clay season. i haven t had
hello and thanks for joining us, here s your latest sports news. so often the tennis clay court season is associated with rafa nadal dominating the headlines, but the spaniard was a notable absentee on monday as the monte carlo masters got underway. he s been ruled out with a hip injury and he s not the only one missing. world number two carlos alcaraz is also out because of injury, whilst world number 1a cameron norrie may have wished he hadn t bothered after a surprise first round defeat. jim lumsden rounds up the best of the action on day one. an upset a possibility when his surface broken by the number 33 for the first time of this and it looked like when francisco strolled through the first set, number 11 was always up against the momentum stayed against it as the momentum stayed with the argentinian who took the second set to wrap up victory in an hour
and 12 minutes. next up is a meeting with belletini who made light work of the american, 22nd of the world, the italian galloped throughthe first set and the second swiftly went the way of the first before taking a little under an hour and a half. britain s andy murray said he is playing for fun these days but clay is his least favourite surface. and it showed, the 35 year old had a grim time of it, 6 3 versus the australian in the absence of bill murray. miserable murray on tuesday, world number one novak djokovic begins his monte carlo masters campain. the serbian was forced to miss indian wells and the miami masters due to his covid vaccination status, but he s looking forward to starting the clay court season and preparing for the upcoming french open. i did more training on clay, which is of course positive if you think about clay season.