Friday 9th March 2012
After travelling home last weekend from the Tipton $15k Futures event I spent this week working with Dave Hodgetts at the Sutton British Tour event before our next Futures event which starts tomorrow in Bath, England.
I met Dave at the Bath University Sports Village at 2.30pm this afternoon after he’d driven down from Worcester with fellow Riverside Academy player Tom Allen. Both the guys warmed up in the gym for 20 minutes and then we were out on court for a really good hours practice from 3-4pm. As both players had been competing at the Sutton British Tour event up until yesterday they didn’t need to do too much on court so the session was mainly based around getting used to the surface at Bath as well as certain specifics that Dave and I have been working on during the week.
After the on court session we were back in the gym where Dave went through a thorough Foam Roll session to loosen up his muscles before he stretched for 20 minutes to end his day. Both guys then signed in and we left the tennis centre just before 5pm to head into Bath city centre to find our hotel.
Before leaving the hotel for dinner I looked up some voucher codes to save some money on our meals but instead of using them at Prezzo or Pizza Express Dave and Tom decided they wanted to go to Nando’s!! If you follow my Blogs you’ll know I’m not a huge fan of Nando’s (especially after Cameron made us drive 17 miles to go to Nando’s in Halton last August!) but tonight it wasn’t too bad and the “large” portion of rice actually filled me up a little – Dave did need to have 2 meals though!!
After dinner Tom called the referee’s office and booked practice courts for the morning before we headed back to the hotel to prepare for their first round matches tomorrow.
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Men's Qualifying Draw
Schedule for tomorrow:
Dave Hodgetts (GBR) (UNR) vs Imran Aswat (GBR) (UNR) – 2nd match after 10am
