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By Piers Newbery

2347: "Piers, please help! I don't want to miss the Murray or Monfils matches, but I have an exam at 11am. What do I do?"
From Oli in Portsmouth via text on 81111

- With the thorough and extensive revision you have been doing for many moths now, lack of sleep will not be a problem

2346: "Piers, surely murray won't be on as early as 4? I hope he isn't anyway, some of us have normal day jobs, ahem."
From Cheese Fan, missing 606, via text

2345: "Piers, great advice on the sleep pattern for tonight...if only you'd make all my major decisions, life would be so much easier!"
From anon via text

- I can assure you that would not be a good move

2344: "Evening piers. Nadal to win in 4, with gonzales winning 1 of 3 tie breaks. Been a wonderful first week, hoping for a great second week, with a murray fed 5 setter for the final. And if that happens, i dont care who wins!"
From Steve, enjoying the same west london rain, via text

2343: McHale moves 5-3 clear of Robson after saving a break point in a game of several deuces. Meanwhile, Elena Dementieva is having a quick practice session on a baking hot Rod Laver Arena, smacking groundstrokes like there's no tomorrow.

2338: "Going to be a tough match for laura, mchale is ranked in the 300s in seniors and nearly won a match in the main draw."
From Alex via text on 81111

2336: Now hang on, this McHale chap has broken Robson again and now leads 4-3. This is not part of the plan. Having said that the American is a monstrous 16-and-a-half years old and ranked 374 in the world in seniors, whereas our Laura only turned 15 earlier this month. The whole thing is clearly unfair and should be called off immediately.

Robson's Wimbledon-winning moment

2331: As we don't have any pictures of this match, why not take a trip down memory lane and enjoy the Brit's victory at Wimbledon back in the heady days of summer 2008?

2326: Robson, who is seeded fifth in the girls' singles, moves 3-2 up on serve. Following Laura onto Court 19 will be the only Briton in the boys' singles, James Chaudry, who faces 15th seed Cheng-Peng Hsieh of Chinese Taipei.

2325: "To those moaning the lack of live video at night - we didnt have the live text last year, be grateful for what you've got! Piers, keep up the smashing job."
From Chicara via text on 81111

2325: "While you've been wittering about the weather Laura has gone two up. Concentrate man."
From Steve, London, via text on 81111

- A nice cross-section of opinion there.

2322: Laura Robson breaks immediately against Christina McHale on Court 19 but just as we are popping the champagne corks and preparing to go into hype overdrive, the American breaks back.

2318: And while we wait for Murray we can enjoy three consecutive women's matches on Hisense Arena, with Carla Suarez-Navarro taking on Anabel Medina Garrigues, followed by Dominika Cibulkova against Elena Dementieva, and then Svetlana Kuznetsova against Jie Zheng. And not forgetting Serena Williams taking on Victoria Azarenka in the second match on Rod Laver Arena.

2316: The bad news is that we're over halfway through the tournament, the good news is there are another six days to go. And away from the Murraymania for a moment, I should point out that there are some fantastic matches lined up for day eight as the quarter-final line-ups are completed.

Gael Monfils and fellow Frenchman Gilles Simon will open proceedings on Rod Laver Arena at 0000 GMT with the winner to play Rafal Nadal or Fernando Gonzalez, who are third on that court in a potential blockbuster. They are followed by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga against James Blake in the late match from 0830 GMT, the winner taking on Murray or Verdasco.

2311: And for any of you concerned that Melbourne might have suffered an unseasonal burst of showers, I can tell you that the sun is beating down on Rod Laver Arena as some unidentifiable players have a knock-up. They must get bored with it being that sunny every day, surely.

2306: So here's the plan for Andy Murray v Fernando Verdasco. You go to bed now (if you feel sleep is absolutely necessary) and return for 0400 GMT, at which point we will have TV and radio coverage on BBC Two, Radio 5 Live sports extra and this website... and we'll be wittering away here all night of course. Murray is on after three women's matches, the first of which starts at 0000 GMT, so the exact timing is hard to say but aim for 4am.

2300: It's a bit of an earlier start tonight so we can keep an eye on British hopeful and Wimbledon girls' champion Laura Robson, who begins her Aussie junior campaign against American Christina McHale right about now. And of course later on we have Andy Murray up against Fernando Verdasco - full coverage details in a moment.

2255: Don't worry, the rain graphic is for London. There really is no better time to cross London than on a wet Sunday night - it's like being in 28 Days Later but with just the one zombie. Presumably everyone has rushed home to settle down in front of text-based tennis commentary - so welcome.

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