[Mr Intensity]

Quick thoughts....

Verdasco seems to be playing really well. He's hitting the ball great and seemed to have an added confidence about him. Could well run Federer pretty close but if he gets ahead would expect a choke.

Djokovic was a little flat yesterday but maybe that was because he was playing Ivo and was just happy to play hard in the big moments. He came through in 2 so can't really complain. Have to feel Montanes has been a bit lucky so far - Fish was woeful again, he got a very good win over Acasuso but I didn't see that so can't comment. Tipsarevic's effort was appaling yesterday, not sure what was up with him. I can see Novak giving out a beating today, could be very one-sided if he starts well.

Nadal v Moya matches are usually interesting and I'm not sure about this one. I thought Nadal was excellent yesterday and a repeat of that performance should see him through easily. I said at the start of the week to watch out for Moya coming back to form and here he is in the quarters. He's had some tough matches and you need to be 100% to just get some games off Nadal on clay and that's a bit of a worry. It all points to an easy Nadal win but when these two meet sometimes strange things can happen.

Kiefer v Seppi is the only one today with close prices. really impressed with Kiefer this week, he's beaten Mathieu, tired Wawrinka and Davydenko without dropping a set. Especially yesterday he was awesome, and at home he's really stepped up. But Seppi too has been playing well, Gasquet was a non-runner but I saw most of his match yesterday and he was just dominating! I'd just like to see Kiefer come through, and with his added heat on serve I think he deserves to be a slight favourite.

In the ladies I think Jankovic looks a decent fav, not really looked into the other matches.