Gavrilova and Falconi are knocking up.

Anyway, we're done in here, but do join me next door for King-Tsonga.

Two more big forehands into the backhand corner, and Falconi has no response. But 1 and 1 doesn't quite tell the story of this match; Gavriolva took her time getting going, and the games were not straightforwardly won. Still, she sails through and will play Elise Mertens next. That will be much more of a test.

The home favourite dashes off another game and Falconi will now serve to stay in the match.

Falconi is game but just doesn't have the quality to compete over a sustained period. Gavrilova restores her double-break advantage, and is very nearly home.

Gavriolva breaks again, but whaddaya know?! Her run of nine on the spin comes to an end when she tamely slices into the net. The comeback is on!

Falconi plays a good game, getting to deuce, but three successive big forehands into the backhand corner are too much for her, and that's now eight in a row for Gavrilova.

One-way traffic on Laver now; Gavrilova wins her seventh game in a row to break. Falconi can't compete with her consistency.

Unbelievable reactions at the net, stop-volleying a backhand drive when the point looked lost, gives her 30-15, and she quickly brings up two set-points. And she only needs one, a high backhand volley eliciting a tame response, sliced wide. That wasn't really a 6-1 set, except for the fact that it was.

Gavrilova now has a double break, and will shortly serve for the set.

Gavrilova consolidates nicely and now looks comfortably in control of the set.

A wild forehand from Falconi drops wide, and Gavrilova has break point, to the excitement of the home crowd. Falconi saves it though but at the end of a nine-minute game, she is a break down.

Gavrilova is serving well now, and a forehand error from Falconi gives her the game to 30.

Gavrilova is into things now, breaking back immediately.

Gavrilova 0-1 Falconi

Well what about that? Gavrilova goes wide with an inside-out forehand, and the qualifier has a break in the first game!