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The chief sports writers and tennis correspondents continue to pontificate about the Wimbledon prospects of Tim Henman, knowing it could be their last chance this year.

The British number one was two sets to one down to Sebastien Grosjean when rain called an end to the day's proceedings at SW19 last night.

So has mother nature given our Tim the opportunity to make a glorious comeback or merely granted him a stay of execution?

The Telegraph's Paul Hayward says the match will be decided by temperament rather than talent.

THE HEADLINES Daily Telegraph: Henman has one card left to play: character The Times: Henman's hopes clouded by high pressure The Sun: Goldfigure The Guardian: Heavy weather for Henman The Independent: Henman makes heavy weather of Grosjean The Mirror: Red or dead: Chelsea were a week from going bust Daily Express: Merciful heavens Daily Star: I won't destroy Chelsea Daily Mail: Torrent of abuse

"Today's reprise becomes a test of the internal and indefinable: character, the last card in the pack."

Neil Harman, of The Times, is inclined to agree.

"Henman is down, but Grosjean has not been able to apply the coup de grace," he writes.

"Henman looks unable to win, Grosjean frightened to."

Harman thinks the weight of national expectation is starting to weigh heavily on the shoulders of the British number one.

"In the space of one day. his eyes had grown deeper into his forehead, he looked a man with the cares of the world ravaging his mind."

The red tops also ponder Henman's prospects but, as usual, their main focus is on David Beckham.

Becks was officially unveiled by his new club Real Madrid yesterday.

He will wear the number 23 shirt, as worn by basketball legend Michael Jordan and rising star LeBron James, and The Sun reports that this could help Beckham "break" the US market.

And, stop press, two papers decide to look elsewhere than SW19 and Madrid for their lead back page stories.

Both The Mirror and Daily Star report that Chelsea were a week away from going bust before chairman Ken Bates sold the club to a Russian businessman on Wednesday.