Congratulations to Roger Federer who finally did the decent thing and yesterday married his long-time girlfriend, Mirka Vavrinec. Mirka is expecting a child in the summer.

Thanks for the invite Rog.

Andy Murray due on court around 12.30 vs Victor Hanescu of Rumania (no mug, ranked 35). Historically Murray has never performed very well on clay.

Monte Carlo or bust.

Murray leading 6-3 and 3-2 with a break.

Wins the 2nd 6 - 2. Into the 3rd round.

Andy Murray on court today in Monte Carlo, probably late afternoon. Federer and Nadal are on court before him, and he plays Fabio Fognini, who surprisingly beat the much higher ranked Marian Cilic in the last round. Looks like a clay court specialist.

Raining in Monte Carlo, so the order of play has been revised and Murray moved to a different court.

Wawrinka has beaten Federer in 2, and Murray is involved in a marathon tie-breaker, after being 5 - 0 down at one point. Still only the first set. Murray wins it 13 - 11. Could have gone either way.

Rain stops play.

Straight sets win for Murray who will play either Davydenko or Nalbandian in the quarters.

Murray resumes at 9.30 Friday and wins in 2. The likelihood is that he will have to play again today, because of the rain loss yesterday.

He made really hard work of that, and it looks like clay is really not his surface.

Davydenko wins in 3. They are due to play again this afternoon, 3 matches to precede them, including Djokovic/Verdasco and Nadal/Ljubicic.