The warp and woof of our lives, sensible, sensitive, a veritable 911, she was called upon whenever something went wrong.

Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.

His father is stoic and dutiful, and there is a haggardness around his eyes that lends him the air of a tortured poet.

Novak Djokovic earlier had negotiated his own tricky passage through the fifth day.