Rain Play Havoc for Tammy

 Tamarine Tanasugarn can do nothing but has to hang around for one more day to complete her ladies' doubles second round match at Wimbledon after persistent rain suspended most of the Saturday's programme.

 Tamarine and Japan's Aiko Nakamura were to finish their fight with 10 th -seeded Elena Likhovtseva of Russia and Tian-tian Sun of China on Saturday but the downpour allowed only three matches to finish.

 On Friday, Tammy and her partner had a match point against the Russian and Chinese duo at 5-4 in the decisive set but could not capitalize their chance. As the two pairs were even at 4-6 6-0 and 7-7 all in the final set, play was halted due to bad light.

 They will resume their rivalry again on Monday as organisers still chose to yield to the traditional break on Sunday although they are already behind schedule.

 But Tamarine will not find herself as the lone Thai at the All England Club on Monday as they are three Thai youngsters who will strut their stuff in the junior events.

 National Davis Cup player Kittipong Wachiramanowong is set to face Australian 12 th -seeded John-Patrick Smith in the boys' singles opening round and Peerakiet Siriluthaiwattana  takes on Radu Albot of the Republic of Moldova.

 In the girls' draw, Thai top girl Noppawan Lertcheewakarn has a major assignment against Russian 10 th-seeded  Ksenia Pervak.

Lerpong Amsa-ngiam

The Nation