Saturday 29th October 2011
Due to Mia having a bye she didn’t play today so it gave us another day to get used to the courts and get sharp before her match tomorrow.
As the centre only has 4 courts and the players competing today had priority at 7.30am and 8am we got up nice and early to walk the 20 minute journey to the centre at 6.20am! It was rather cold at that time of the morning and pitch black outside so our topic of conversation on the walk were the millions of stars covering the sky! The 20 minute walk managed to raise the heart rate a little so once we got to the centre Mia completed her dynamic stretches and then hit with an Austrian girl for 30 minutes until 7.30am. We were then able to stay on court until 8.30am as players had not turned up for their courts so after only expecting to train for 30 minutes we actually got in a great hour and a half.
Mia training in Davos – CLICK FOR VIDEO
After getting the bus back to the hotel we then had breakfast and both of us managed to catch up on some missed sleep!
We were back at the centre at 2.30pm for some lunch before heading onto the squash court for some movement and medicine ball work which lead nicely into another good hour on court after the matches had finished. We also managed to watch the end of fellow Brit Omari Owens-Maxwell as he took a 1st round win 6-2, 6-1 over a Swiss wildcard.
Mia training hard on the squash court
By this time it was just before 6pm so we walked back to the hotel, showered and changed and then headed straight out for dinner at the local Casino! The food was really good but we weren’t best pleased with being charged £3.50 for 2 glasses of tap water – no tip there then!!
Tomorrow is another early start so Mia completed her pre-match sheet tonight before getting an early night. Clock’s go back tonight which mean’s we get a much needed extra hour in bed ?
Schedule for tomorrow:
Michelle Leuthi (SUI) (UNR) vs (16) Mia Smith (GBR) (624) – 1st round at 8.30am
