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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Rain forces us to play the waiting game

 

Hello everyone and sorry I didn't post yesterday. We got back to the hotel at 12.30 midnight after being practically all day at the tournament site. I had to eat dinner very fast and went to sleep immediately since I had to get up early today hoping we would play. As you know we didn't so we spent practically all day at the tennis center doing... nothing. Just waiting for the weather to clear and waiting and waiting and waiting to go out and play. 

They tournament organizers and the ATP reps  told us when we got to the stadium that there would be a window at 1 or 2 pm and that we could go out and play to finish our match... That window was never open :-)Someone forgot to do it... So we waited and waited.

These days with rain are tough. You are there doing nothing... Specially at the beginning. Everything was scheduled to practice and go to play but since it kept raining really hard, we simply decided to go upstairs to the players lounge and play some foosball. We had some good time while keeping an eye on the windows, not those ones announced by the weather forecast...

We also went to the IMG suite at the stadium and spent some time there. Just to change airs (is this proper English?-sorry if not, I hope you know what I mean).

So tomorrow we will try to finish the match and one thing is certain... Whoever wins would have to play 3 consecutive matches in 3 consecutive days in the case Fernando or me reaches the final. Not ideal but nothing we can do about it.

Comments

[marie]

oui, une sacrée concurrence!Il a été énorme!J'ai eu peur qu'il craque dans le dernier set!

[guylaine]

Je lui baiserais même les pieds à Juan Martin. Il m'a quand même fait peur quand j'ai vu fed revenir à 40A. Mais je ne peux pas m'empêcher de penser qu'il fera une sacrée concurrence à Rafa. Je lui souhaite de vite guérir tous ses petits bobos et de nous revenir aussi flamboyant qu'en 2008.

[Lil]

le dernier opus du blog est sorti , LydiAAAAAA, viiiiite  sauf que j'aime moyennement cette phrase là: "Now I am flying back home and also would like to get my abdominal muscle checked. It doesn't look too good since I am in pain when serving but hopefully it is nothing serious"   Pas de Bangkok, pas de Bangkok, pas de Bangkok

[luna]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aysY8ODpRmU

[luna]

Espero que no os parezca una cancion demasiado pase! Pero la he elegido por ser un buen duet y interpretar perfectamente el amor en una gran amistad!