British number one Andy Murray should have an easy time of it in his Wimbledon opener, Simon Reed says in his latest All England Club blog.

"As far as Andy Murray is concerned I think this should be a relatively easy match for him against Fabrice Santoro. I see Santoro this year as really a goodbye Tour to the Grand Slams.

He's a wonderful player to watch and I think he's going to delight the crowd, but I don't think he's going to worry Murray too much.

As far as Murray's thumb is concerned, yes he pulled out of Queen's and there were one or two question marks there, but I think it was really precautionary. As far as I know, the thumb has healed.

I was talking today to Tim Henman, who talked to Murray yesterday, and he was pretty optimistic. It's all systems go for him.

In Monday's opening round action Novak Djokovic played pretty well against Michael Berrer, though there was a blip towards the end of the second set.

But Berrer is the type of player who can hit a streak, and he hit a streak there against Djokovic winning five successive games.

And for a while there it looked like it could be a big deal, but I think Djokovic just took a deep breath at the end of the second set, concentrated harder, came out at the start of the third set much more focused.

By the end he was really smoking, won the fourth set 6-0 and there was no problem at all.

In fact, in the end it was a pretty impressive performance for Djokovic and there was a standing ovation on him.

Roger Federer, of course, had no problem at all against Dominik Hrbaty, who he knows really well.

They're good friends, they've been doubles partners in the past and they practise a lot together.

There was one wonderful shot right at the end where at the last changeover, Hrbaty came and sat right next to Federer.

It was good to see, they were both smiling and joking. It was that kind of match really that wasn't in any doubt and Federer, as you'd expect at Wimbledon, looked very comfortable in his 60th successive grass court win.

In the women's draw there was a real rollercoaster ride for British home hopeful Elena Baltacha against Angelique Kerber with the two players just full of emotions. Both players by the end were crying.

Baltacha puts a lot of pressure on herself by the way that she is, but I was really pleased to see her come through in the end.

It's huge for her to do well at Wimbledon and that will be a huge relief for her and a great boost to her ranking.

The women's favourite Ana Ivanovic, meanwhile, was really unmatchable once she found her rhythm against Rossana De Los Rios, who really had no weapons with which to worry the world number one.

There don't seem to be any nerves with Ivanovic, which is a good sign. Sometimes she puts a lot of pressure on herself, we saw it in Berlin earlier this year when she had points to defend and lost to Elena Dementieva in the semi-finals.

Here she went in as the number one seed, the player to beat. I wondered if there would be nerves, there weren't any signs of that, so well done.

As far as two-time former champion Serena Williams' match against Estonia's Kaia Kanepi, I expected that to be difficult.

Serena succumbed rather tamely in Paris and I wasn't sure what was going on there, and when I saw that she had drawn Kanepi first up I thought that could be a tricky one for her, so I wasn't surprised it was difficult and I think she'll be very happy to get off to a winning start."

British Eurosport head commentator Simon Reed will be blogging from the All England Club for eurosport.yahoo.com throughout the Wimbledon fortnight.

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