Hello! Welcome to the Chatrier match between Novak Djokovic and the ever-solid Joao Sousa. The pair are just warming after a brief spot of rain, but it’ll all be kicking off soon.

DJOKOVIC 6-1 6-2 6-4 SOUSA. MATCH! Djokovic finally wins, sealing the victory with an ace. Not the most efficient or focused ending from the second seed, but a strong performance to ease his way into a new title run.

DJOKOVIC 6-1 6-2 5-4 SOUSA. Sousa wastes no time in capturing more games, easing through his service game with a few flashy backhands and leaving Djokovic seething as he heads for his chair again.

DJOKOVIC 6-1 6-2 5-3 SOUSA. BREAK! It would be fair to say that Djokovic is playing with his food. An incredibly distracted attempt to serve out the match ends with him slinking back to the court to return for the match once more.

DJOKOVIC 6-1 6-2 5-2 SOUSA. BREAK! Djokovic’s transgressions in the previous game fire him into action as he reels of a series of quick winners to take the set. There was little Sousa could do, yet he slumps in his chair and mouths off to nobody in particular. Not a pleasant day at the office, but one that is over soon.

DJOKOVIC 6-1 6-2 4-2 SOUSA. BREAK! Whoops, Djokovic takes his foot off the gas and wastes double game point by going for Hollywood shots. Soon, Sousa is feeling it and dispatches a few winners to give himself break points. No heroic recovery from Djokovic this time – a double fault flies miles wide to gift Sousa a rare game.

DJOKOVIC 6-1 6-2 4-1 SOUSA. BREAK! As all remaining composure crumbles from the Portuguese’s end, Djokovic storms in to capture a second break, punctuating it with a typical sliding angled passing shot. Not long now…

DJOKOVIC 6-1 6-2 3-1 SOUSA. The expert at consolidating break consolidates once more. A few big serves and a swift love game has him quickly preparing to return once more.

DJOKOVIC 6-1 6-2 2-1 SOUSA. BREAK! Sousa’s head is truly gone, as he bashes it with the strings of his racquet after an error, followed by melodramatic reactions after every point lost. Unsurprisingly, he loses his serve soon after as the inevitable draws ever closer.

DJOKOVIC 6-1 6-2 1-1 SOUSA. It’s all a little too much for Sousa, who yells blue murder as Djokovic grinds him down in a long point, levelling it up at 1-1.

DJOKOVIC 6-1 6-2 0-1 SOUSA. For the second successive set, Sousa takes baby steps by holding first, this time with a slam dunk of a smash.

DJOKOVIC 6-1 6-2 SOUSA. SET! After the rainy interlude, Djokovic wastes no time in capturing the set to slide to a 2-0 sets lead, sealing it with an ace.

DJOKOVIC 6-1 5-2 SOUSA. BREAK! After a few deuces, Djokovic powers to the net once more before dispatching a smash to take the set to a 5-2 lead. But the umbrellas are up again, and the rain is out. As they sit down, out comes the Djoker who invites a ball boy to sit with him as the crowd chuckles along.

DJOKOVIC 6-1 4-2* SOUSA. A typical swift consolidation from the most efficient man in sport. A few effortless forehand winners seal the game and edge Djokovic closer to capturing the set.

DJOKOVIC 6-1 *3-2 SOUSA. BREAK! The bit of confidence that propelled Sousa to successfully serve and volley to 30-0 suddenly disappears as a few errors and exemplary play from Djokovic send the score flying in the other direction. A double fault cruelly seals his fate.

DJOKOVIC 6-1 2-2 SOUSA. With things getting a little hairy at 30-30, Djokovic responds like a champ with an ace followed by two bulldozing forehands down the line. All square again.

DJOKOVIC 6-1 1-2 SOUSA. Intent on turning the screw, Djokovic flies up 0-30 before Sousa impressively digs out his second hold, closing it out with a service winner and staying firmly in touch.

DJOKOVIC 6-1 1-1 SOUSA. Djokovic cruelly responds to Sousa’s first hold of the match with a hold to love, rubbing salt in the wound by confidently closing it out with the shot that usually fails him every single time – the Djokosmash.

DJOKOVIC 6-1 0-1 SOUSA. This time, no messing about from the Portuguese challenger. Sousa quickly captures the first service game of the set and comfortably puts himself on the board.

DJOKOVIC 6-1 SOUSA. SET! A couple of break points come Sousa's way, but Djokovic shrugs them off to surge through the first set. His title campaign begins with a lovely French baguette.

DJOKOVIC *5-1 SOUSA. BREAK! With an almighty shrug at the last lost service game, Djokovic breaks back in the first game back with some effortless returning. The second seed stands a game from the first set.