ALISON van Uytvanck, the charming Belgian girl who has made it to the quarter finals here, struggles to quantify the amount of joy her respective wins have brought.
"When you win the first round you are very happy, but when you reach the quarter finals, it is totally different," she said. "You are glad."
GIVE me some skin. Her fellow shock quarter finalist Timea Bacsinszcy - they meet immediately before Andy Murray and David Ferrer on Suzanne Lenglen - has an unusual plan to capitalise on her big moment. "I'm definitely going to be ready for it and I'm going to sell my skin," she said. "Like with a really, really big price."
RICHARD Gasquet lets slip his plans to watch the Rafa Nadal-Novak Djokovic quarter final. "If I were to eat crisps and beer - I mean, I won't do that, I will try to avoid that - but of course, if I can watch the match, I will watch it."
MISTAKEN identity. The Scotsman's uncanny resemblance to the film actor Andrew Garfield results in his timeline getting clogged up with people saying how good he was in Spiderman. It is a good joke, but rather less so when it occurs every time the webbed one is on Sky Movies. At least it is a cheaper way of finding out the TV schedules than being a copy of Radio Times.
SERENA Williams contextualises her contretemps with Victoria Azarenka over a disputed line call. The microphone caught her saying 'Don't give me the hand' to their opponent. "I was saying you don't win Grand Slams by being unethical. I'm a really ethical player." The diary remembers Tony Blair saying something similar about his foreign policy.
RUMMAGE note with a difference. No security man at the bag search area. You should have seen the look the diarist got when he opened his bag to the girl that scans the passes each day instead.
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