Andy Murray v Jo-Wilfried Tsonga – live! | Katy Murrells

• Press F5 for the latest, or hit auto update • Email katy.murrells@guardian.co.uk with your thoughts • Click here for the latest tennis news and highlights Tok, tok, tok they’re warming up. Murray has once again opted for his trusted blue and white ensemble, with Tsonga going for white and black with a flash of green. Tsonga will serve first. These two players have met five times before, by the way, with Murray leading their head-to-head 4-1, including in the quarter-finals at Wimbledon last year. And the players are out. This has got a slightly surreal Wimbledon middle Sunday feel about it, with Tsonga coming out to a blast of Iggy Pop’s Lust for Life and Murray arriving to a bit of Cee Lo Green. Can you think of anything more un-Queen’s like? Some hardy people have apparently been queuing since 2am to get in for this, with tickets available for a tenner to gatecrash one of the poshest clubs in town. Cue Paul Foley. “Are there tickets still available?” he asks. “I promise I’ll still read you on my mobile if I get in.” Sorry to be the bearer of bad news Paul, apparently all 7,000 tickets have now sold out. Omen time . This is the third time there’s been a Monday final at Queen’s, after John McEnroe beat Victor Pecci in 1979 and Boris Becker defeated Jimmy Connors in 1987. But neither went on to triumph at Wimbledon. McEnroe was knocked out in the fourth round by Tim Gullikson, while Becker was knocked out in the second round by Peter Doohan. So take from that what you will. Hello. So Andy Murray and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga are back for the final they would have played yesterday had it not decided to chuck it down . Not that I witnessed said chucking down in London because I was battling near-apocalyptic conditions at a wedding on top of a wet and wind-battered hill in Sunderland. I think it’s fair to say I’m not exactly full of the joys of the British summer on this Monday morning. But anyway, I digress. The good news is that the weather is set fairer for today, and if the skies over the Guardian office in King’s Cross are anything like they are a few miles down the road in Barons Court, we should be on course for a 12.30pm BST start. Though if Tsonga’s general outlook is anything to go by, this final could still end up being a bit of a damp squib. “He’s better than me,” conceded the Frenchman after Murray’s semi-final demolition of Andy Roddick. A cunning game of reverse psychology? Let’s find out. Andy Murray Tennis Katy Murrells guardian.co.uk

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