Current mood:

cheerful

Day 3 (Monday): The good looking team!
In case you're looking for it, I did not see JCF today so there won't be reports / photos about him!

Today I'm volunteering but with no define job. So I ended up in two jobs, an usher at centre court and "door opener" lol. I took the usher job because it was at the door right opposite player services ;) Since the 1st match on centre was WTA I was pretty happy to just stand outside seeing people come and go. (and checking tickets in between!) After the first match it was Jarkko v Marcos. So I went inside and watched the match while working. Jarkko played well. But I am annoyed at all those people who seem to think his win was an "upset", and it was Marcos who lost the match not Jarkko "winning" it. ARGH. People, Jarkko is ranked higher???? Does anyone know this???? Towards the end though, Jarkko had some cheers from the crowd, although the majority was of course for Marcos. It was obvious though, Marcos is not very fit. He took a lot of time between games and made heaps of errors as a result. I remember a game where he double faulted three times. Jarkko had a mini-choke in the last set, but luckily he came good. Maybe it's because he has a coach now? lol.

Anyway, after the match there were heaps of people waiting for Marcos near where I was standing. They all chased after him as he was leaving, it was comical at times. Since the next match I wasn't too interested in (WTA again! HA!) I took a lunch break. It's funny how my co-workers don't "get" my support for the "unknown" Finn. I had to tell them multiple times that I will go to lunch when his match finishes!

Since Christina had been "watching" the Jarkko match we just went to Heineken Hill again. Nothing to do in particular. I decided after yesterday I won't deliberately seek JCF. Although Christina had been there the whole day and hadn't seen him. Weird.

After lunch I got back to my job, but managed to swap with the lady who was the "door opener". It may sound like the stupidest job in the world but it was fun! The job was to be outside the player area and simply... open the door as people go in and out hahahahahahaha. Too bad I didn't see my favourites but Tsonga was inside and there were two ladies who gave him a bunch of Adidas shirts (they were all the same!) and he picked one @@.

I wasn't the "door opener" for too long before it was quiet again so I could go! There was still two hours to kill before Mario's doubles match!

I went back to Heineken Hill and saw Christina there. She was waiting for Aspelin's doubles match and we just sat for a while. After a while we saw this guy with a odd looking purple shirt (well, I thought that purple looked weird!) and it happened to be PHM. As he's playing doubles with Mario so he must be practicising with him! :D Mario was in orange, and he looked good in orange, it's a tough colour to pull off! AND... he shaved! Excellent news :D

On a random note, I have been seeing Ivica A LOT today. As I was ushering he went into centre court to see the matches quite a few times. (I am starting to see the resemblence now, I think the eyes?) Plus I was walking around later on and I always managed to bump into him, weird!!!

Since Christina wanted a photo and autograph with Mario we waited for him to finish. He signed for a couple of ppl first then she asked him whether he could take the photo. I hope my hands wasn't shaking! But since he didn't smile for the photo I didn't ask him. :S He has the ability to make me swallow my words!

As Aspelin was starting we went our separate ways. I got some food and went over to Court 1 to wait for Mario/PHM's match. Safarova was playing against an Australian (Holland?) so there were quite a lot of people. I thought they would stay to watch Tsonga, but a lot of them left. So it wasn't too hard to find a seat to the doubles match. :) While the women were playing Mario was checking on the progress. In the fangirl tradition I had to take photos.... the balcony overlooking the court reminds me of Sydney!



Safarova won that match, as expected. So onto the doubles. This Mario/PHM team seems kinda random and it shows. Both of them probably just wanted match practice BUT such a good looking team! We ended up sitting a few seats away from Ivica but we were there first so no, we're not stalking him! LOL. Disappointed that they lost though, PHM wasn't playing too well. My comments about Mario are the same as yesterday. He was serving well most of the time though, a good sign. But he's playing Delic tomorrow who's a qualifier. And everyone knows qualifiers are dangerous because they already have a couple of wins under their belt. So I'm not very confident about PHM's chances now, he's up against a qualifier too tomorrow and I won't be able to see his match as it's on the same time as Mario. :(





Looking at the OOP for tomorrow it looks like I'll spend more time at court 1! It sucks though there are no seats on one side and the stands aren't shaded (while the court itself is!). I might stay and cheer for Robin loool, depending on how I'm feeling, I've had a few long days now.....