And we're back. Literally not that long after Dan Evans' marvellous four-set victory over Bernard Tomic and not too long before Andy Murray's second-round match against Leonardo Mayer, which should happen around 3pm ET/8pm BST today and which will be covered by Graham Parker, we have a third-round rematch of last year's shock of the third round, in which Laura Robson beat Li Na 6-4, 6-7, 6-2.  I was there for that one and now I'm here for this one, which I'll be covering on a game-by-game basis (unless anything goes to a tiebreak or gets particularly exciting, in which case it's point by point) from around 11am ET, which is 4pm BST. Expect the usual additional musings on the music played at the changeovers, shoehorned references to the non-Bond oeuvre of Sir Roger Moore, grouchy protestations if or when the New York crowd starts that bloody “Let's go [insert name here]” chant, and a puppyish attempt to placate the terrible id of my mate Chris, who sent me a message after the Evans game to say:  We need to work on your tennisisms – I'm not seeing the shots in my mind's eye.  Chris was men's captain at Blackheath, I think, before his hair fell out and his knees fell apart (possibly concurrently), and his sister's an education minister (honest), so let's assume he knows what he's on about – and indeed he's offered “expert opinion” if I need it. So, Christopher, if you're reading this… email or tweet away. All others should feel free to do so too. Contact details at the top of the page.  Moving swiftly on, to today's players…  Laura Robson, for it is she… is the 30th seed here and the world No32. She's the best British woman since… Jo Durie? Virginia Wade? Dare I say it… Sue Barker? (Over to you, Chris)… and her having been born in Melbourne and so on isn't going to change that one iota. Her best grand-slam performances have been appearances in the fourth round at Wimbledon and here, where last year she beat Kim Clijsters and Li before falling to Sam Stosur, then the defending champion. She also has an Olympic silver medal, won with Andy Murray, and at 19 she has a career of glorious possibility ahead of her.  Judgement on who she's the best since – it's Durie, seeing as Robson's appearance in the final at Guangzhou in 2012 was the first such by a British woman on the senior tour since Jo in 1990. After that, Robson was named WTA Newcomer of the Year. She's reached this stage this year by beating Lourdes Domínguez Lino and the very highly thought of (by Murray, interestingly enough) Caroline Garcia.  Here's Guardian tennis correspondent Kevin Mitchell's expert assessment of Robson's career as it stands and as it could and should stand, from the eve of this tournament.  Laura's favourite city, by the way, is New York. Why?  Because there is constant action going on, fab shopping and excellent restaurants everywhere!  Fair, if a bit too peppy, enough. She doesn't mention the smell in the summer, the chiselling landlords, the subway mold which looks like a biomorphic Picasso – only mobile – and many more unavoidable facts of actually living here in what notable tennisophile and New Yorker Martin Amis would probably call the mundane quotidian, or something, but one can't have everything, can one?  And then, there's Li Na. The Chinese world No6 and the fifth seed here, she won the French Open in 2011, her annus mirabilis, by beating Francesca Schiavone in the final. The next year wasn't so good but in 2013 she has a second Australian Open final (lost to Victoria Azarenka in three, as the 2011 final was lost to Clijsters) and a Wimbledon quarter-final to her name. Here this year, she's beaten Olga Govortsova and Sofia Arvidsson, both by the score of 6-2, 6-2. She's also survived a bit of a kerfuffle caused by a misunderstanding in the writing of a New York Times profile. Here's a less problematic piece by Kevin, from May 2012.
Laura Robson was unable to repeat her feat against the world No6, in a rematch of their third-round meeting in 2012. Martin Pengelly was watching