The draw is out and the tennis tournament has a heavyweight first round
Two seeds meet in the opening round of the main draw.
The draw has produced an unusual pairing in the main bracket: two players from the upper reaches of the rankings meet in the first round.
The tournament says the draw was conducted under the standard procedure. It is the narrow ranking gap that makes this bracket possible.
Expectations among supporters have gone up. That is the familiar side effect of a good start.
The top half
January will probably settle it. Until then this is how the table should be read.
What comes out of the club is contradictory, as usual. Two separate sources give two different figures for the same meeting.
The bottom half
The pitch backs up the statistics without quite explaining them. In-game decisions are still the variable that matters most.
The first-round match is on Wednesday. Whoever comes through may face a name returning from a long injury in the following round.
PremiumDeadline-day deal collapses in the final hours and both clubs have gone quiet
The agreement looked done, then the meeting broke up two hours before midnight.
Five games in: the side climbing the table is not the one anybody tipped
Put in the bottom half by the summer predictions, they have taken eleven points from five.
Squad announced: two first call-ups ahead of the qualifiers
The coaching staff have refreshed the group with three names.