Nole loses focus and Rafa sees himself to victory ...

What a funny old match that turned out to be ... It started out by being all of its much hoped for billing. Some great tennis, the boys matching each other toe-to-toe. Rafa was the first to break serve and we thought yesssss ... only for him to lose his own straight after. It was seemingly heading for a tie-breaker, when Nole experienced an issue with one of his contact lenses. I'm afraid things like that with eyes make me feel a bit queasy, but he was in some obvious discomfort and had to call a halt to proceedings.

So then the melee started, and there was the doctor on court, then Nole leaving the court, then did the doctor come back on court? The Tour Director came on court ... and amongst it all, Rafa broke and won the first set 7-5.

However, the most ridiculous thing about it was that Nole's problem became elevated to an "equipment malfunction". Now OK, this issue was taking longer to sort than what's allowed in a medical time out and nobody wants something daft like a default because of an usual situation. But Rafa took it all in his stride until he became incensed because the umpire, Steve Ullllllriiiiiiiiich was hastling Rafa to hurry it along when Nole was having over 7 minutes to sort his problem.

Cue a field day from the commentators and seriously, I know Rafa is slow, I know he bends the rules and he should hurry it up ... but what about some common sense from the umpire and why don't the commentators just give it a rest with all of this. Enough already!!

No fault of Nole's, it was just a funny occurrence but it did hamper him and his play, and when Rafa raced to a 3-0 lead in the second set, there was an air of inevitability about it all. Rafa won out, 6-2 in the second. Rafa seemed pleased with his result, however, and its two wins from two for now. Tomas Berdych awaits him next.

I've been bringing you our lovely Rafan's O2 reports, and today she was at the practice courts watching Berdych. At the end of practice he just walked on by and wouldn't give any autographs so she said "Good luck Rafa!!" as he walked off. Hehe ...