Saturday 25th April 2015
It was a good final day of training today and after a relaxing afternoon we’re now all set for Toby’s first match tomorrow.
We decided to follow the same routine as yesterday so we were up for breakfast at 8am and then got to the club just before 9.30am. There were a lot more players on site this morning and so it was a little more difficult to get a full court to practice on but after going through a thorough warm-up we managed to secure half a court from 10-10.30am and then a full court from 10.30-12pm. We were also able to get some tournament balls to practice with as there haven’t been any available for the last two day and they actually made quite a difference at this altitude.
During the session we worked on a few specific areas of Toby’s game to make sure he was sharp and ready to compete tomorrow and then put everything together with a lot of points at the end. While we were training the Botswana Defence Force were marking 38 years of service with a display at the National Stadium which is situated behind the tennis centre:
.jpg)
The view of the National Stadium from the tennis centre
The display also included a military fly over:
.jpg)
The start of the Military display . . .
.jpg)
Check out the two guys on top of the floodlights – not a bad view from there!
As well as a very fast fly-by from Botswana’s answer to the British Red Arrows (yesterday they scared the life out of us but this time we were ready for them!):
.jpg)
Fast and very loud!
Check out the video on the Facebook page – www.Facebook.com/itctennis1
After training we cooled down, showered and changed and got Benny to drive us to Riverwalk Mall where we had lunch and then went to the cinema to see ‘Run All Night’ with Liam Neeson – good film and definitely worth a watch but very much a typical Liam Neeson film!
We decided to have an early dinner after the film but as Rodizio wasn’t open until 6pm we had to settle for ‘Mug and Bean’ which was definitely not up to the level we were looking for – it was still ok but only once you had got past the layers of cheese on everything!!
It was then back to the guesthouse to relax for the evening and get prepared for Toby’s match tomorrow.
Schedule for tomorrow:
Toby Huffer (GBR) (UNR) vs Da-niel Kotze (RSA) (UNR) – 1st match at 10am
