When asked about the state of the grass, Martinez said: "The pitch is a concern for both teams.
At dinner, after seven singles players had retired or withdrawn with injuries, the All England Club issued an extraordinary statement defending the state of its grass.
Back to you, Mr Lu... 5.09pm BST Second set: *Murray 6-3, 4-3 Lu (*denotes next server) "Cahill's comments have nothing to do with the state of the (grass) courts, more to do with the state of the players," says Jeremy Boyce.
It is not a good time – early in the week – to be playing the Frenchman: the state of the grass means the ball will be bouncing as low as it'll get.
The appearance of Mars had been delayed because of the sodden state of most grass, including his home gallops, in Ireland, but it was worth the wait and such was the gear that he had engaged once in full stride, it took O'Brien nearly the length of the back straight to wind him down.
Asked about the state of his grass-court game ahead of Wimbledon, Wawrinka said: "I can still improve, for sure.
Half an hour away, at the Center for Turfgrass Science on Rutgers's Cook College campus, there is a smaller research farm dedicated mostly to perfecting the state of golf course grass.
State of the art grass courses are designed to cater for climates varying from monsoonal to desert conditions, meeting local environmental conditions by adjusting the profile (materials between the grass surface layer and the drains below) to dictate infiltration rates.
Before Federer lost, the howling about the dangerous state of the Wimbledon grass was reaching a peak, but, as Simon Briggs writes in The Telegraph, the blame is more aptly placed on the tour, whose season is too long and its grass portion too short.
The park, part of which is officially the state-run Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, offers stretches of grass, a playground with fountain, rocky beach (no swimming) and arresting views of the two bridges and the Manhattan skyline that attracts a phalanx of photographers at sunset.
