Rafa's daily dose ...

"I thrilled that my friend Carl from Toronto visited me!"

I thrilled that you're thrilled, Rafa. But I'm not so thrilled about that dratted hair gel, but a girl can't have everything, noh? ;)

Carl apparently is the tournament director from Toronto. And Rafa is no doubt in talks with him to convince him either to (a) dig up the court and replace it with clay; or (b) slow the hardcourt down even further so that it effectively IS clay. Then there's (c) rig the draw so he'll face no-one of note on his way to the final (how I miss those "cupcake/cakewalk" draws; and (d) allow him 40 seconds between points without penalty, or have Mo in the chair at all his matches which effectively works out to mean the same thing.

Excuse me for a moment whilst I go searching for my sense of humour ...