Straight from the Horses's Mouth

Sorry Fiona didn't mean you - our correspondent in Berlin has put flesh to the bones of the previous report. Scotland is holding its nerve and reaping the rewards.

Today Lorna Bennet was too much for Tessa Oldebourg and won comfortably by 4 and 3,bringing the first point to the table. Both Heather Anderson and Anne Ryan did in fact get the sharp end of the stick by being drawn against Cornelia Schmidt-Stutzle and Sabine Blecker respectively, Heather losing by 2 and 1 and Anne by 4 and 3. Blecker had already received special mention on yesterday's report from Germany, having the lowest qualifying score of 72. Schmidt-Stutzle had simply brought in two scores of 76 and 78 - pretty impressive - pretty steady.

Two games down to one, but Fiona, drawn against Uschi Beer, was looking comfortably ahead being three up after the fourteenth hole. She had certainly not been counting her chickens, which was just as well. They halved the fifteenth with birdies. Three up and three to play. Beer slotted her putt on sixteenth for a birdie and Fiona could only watch her own sneak slowly past the hole. Two up with two to play. Approaching the 17th, which was the third most common hole for bogeys, the second most common for double bogeys and surprise surprise - it is Fiona's own bogey hole! She lost it to a par. One hole up with one to play. But the agony was just about over. The 18th was halved in par, Fiona had won and it was neck and neck - two games each.

Back down to the first fairway to follow Moira and Mary's game which had been all square at the 18th and there was Mary's ball solidly on the green about ten feet from the pin. Gumpert and Lehman putted first - and missed but were given their par. Moira lined up and stroked her putt straight into the can for a birdie, for the game and for the match! Three games to two.

Can you bear to wait for tomorrow?