Wearing a Robocop support on his right knee, Andy Bray once again showed why he is the Island?s number one, brushing aside Belgian pretender Philip Vandoninck 6-0, 6-0.

Fears the Grand Slam-chasing accountant may have been considering withdrawing from the Argus Open due to a tendon problem behind his right knee were swept aside as the defending champion double-bageled a player about whom many in the tennis fraternity had been whispering ?he?s good as Bray?.

After a rest day on Saturday, Bray returned to duty yesterday with a comfortable victory, although he is still scheduled to visit his physio every day this week.

?I could feel it, but it didn?t cause me any problems,? said Bray, who seemed more concerned last night with why Zinedine Zidane would chestbutt someone than his own right leg pain.

?It doesn?t cause me any problems walking and it was okay in the game, this Robocop thing helped give me some support.

?I?m just going to take it a day at a time and see where I am.?Samitha Ranaweera, who failed to live up to his `dark horse? status a year ago, is quietly re-establishing himself as a power on the local tennis scene when he pulled off the first major upset by defeating third seed David Jenkins 7-6 (5), 6-2 at the WER Joell Stadium over the weekend.

After teaming with Jacob Trott to work his way through early rounds of the doubles competition, Ranaweera appears to be hitting form at the right time, and Jenkins found this out the hard way. The Sir Lankan showed his mettle by coming from behind with Jenkins twice having the chance to end the first set but on each occasion he was broken. Ranaweera stormed to five straight game to take the first set 7-6 in a tie-break.

From then on it was all downhill and it appeared that Jenkins had used most of his energy trying to win the opening set and when that failed he had very little left. In the meantime Renaweera just followed his earlier 6-2, 6-1 victory over James Keyes to ease into the quarter-finals.

The reason for the change ?nothing special,? said the quiet unassuming Sri Lankan, ?I am just getting an opportunity to play more thus becoming more acclimatised to the local conditions, the courts and, more importantly, the players.?

In other action, second seed Jacob Trott, showed, to some extent, that he warranted his second seeding, by defeating the wily Sam Maybury 6-2, 0-6, ret., while Eugene Simmons had a mixed weekend, beating Gary Weller 6-1, 6-2, after Weller had earlier made the victory column with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Jan Jarmula, then teamed with Larry Samuels in a losing cause to Randy Burgess and Vaughn Burrows 6-3, 6-3.

Mike Musson, meanwhile, had a noisy and somewhat petulant exit, being disqualified from the tournament after falling 6-4, 4-1 behind Dennis Harris.

Having hit a few balls in anger off the court ? the last narrowly missing Ranaweera on the next court ? tournament official Alan Simmons went to speak to him at which point Musson began screaming and shouting before storming off the court, throwing his racquet to the ground in disgust on his way out.

He was later seen remonstrating with the official at length outside the stadium, displaying a level of anger completely disproportionate to the early rounds of a domestic tournament.