Good evening and welcome to Eurosport UK's live game-by-game coverage of the Rome Masters third round encounter between Roger Federer and Juan Carlos Ferrero.

Ferrero's obviously most comfortable on clay, whereas it's Federer's weakest surface, yet there's still surely only one winner here, and it ain't the Spaniard. The've met a total of 12 times, the Swiss winning nine of them.

The former French Open champion Ferrero has spent a good few years in the relative wilderness and hasn't met Federer since 2007!