the second seed overcame new zealand qualifier mark mcgrath 3—0.isa ashton beat sharon prins of the netherlands to reach the second round. the two—time lakeside champion looked comfortable and ended with a double five to seal a 2—0 victory. that's all from sportsday. next on bbc news, it's meet the author. we will leave you with some of the best moments from the third round of the fa cup so far. the american west coast has always seemed, for many people, a shangri—la over the horizon, all sunshine and freedom, the last frontier that's bound to be a happy journey‘s end. the poet adam o'riordan sets his collection of short stories, the burning ground, on that golden coast, where lives collide in los angeles, a city that sometimes seems the most artificial in the world, but always casts its own mysterious spell. welcome. you describe, in these stories, something of the magic of california. what does that mean to you? i think to me it's always been a place that's had that potential, that distance, that sense of it sort of being on the very edge of the