Andy Murray’s (ATP 75) hopes of taking on Novak Djokovic in the next round are hanging by a thread after he endured a torrid Monday afternoon at the hands of Yannick Hanfmann (ATP 85). The Scot was trailing 7-5 4-1 when torrential rain handed him a reprieve until 1pm on Tuesday, though he will have to break back twice to have any chance of taking the match into a deciding set. The chances of Murray doing that look slim, however, given that he won only 12 points on his serve in eight games against the German, an out-and-out clay-court specialist.
Murray’s big brother Jamie and his New Zealand playing partner Michael Venus made a nervy start to their Gonet Geneva Open men’s double title defence, prevailing 6-3 3-6 10-8 against Romain Arneodo and Tristan-Samuel Weissborn.
The tournament lost its first seeded player earlier in the day, when rising Hungarian star Fabian Marozsan went down 4-6 6-7 (4) to Kazakhstan’s Alexander Shevchenko in the opening match on the Court Central.
Finally, wild card recipients Luca Margaroli and Damien Wenger, the last two Swiss players left in the tournament, put up a brave fight in the second set against the experienced Lloyd Glasspool and Jean-Julian Rojer (a winner here in 2017 with his former team-mate Horia Tecau) before losing 1-6 6-7 (6).