Saturday 30th April 2011
The temperature warmed up today both on the court and inside the clubhouse, but it all ended well (unless you’re a Spurs fan!).
We started the day today with a great breakfast at 7.45am and then we packed our bags again to check out of another hotel! There’s been a problem with our original hotel booking so we’ve had to spend the last two nights at different hotels but now we’re in the player’s hotel for the rest of the week.
Our office for the week!
We arrived at the club at 9am and went through our normal 30 minute warm up. The first round of qualifying had started early today at 8am but we had our practise court booked and had a really good session following on from the good work yesterday. After training Devan went through all of her band work and injury prevention exercises and soon it was 12pm and time for lunch.
It was a quick visit to Whole Foods again for a Turkey Salad wrap and an amazing smoothie before getting back to the club to watch a very stressful match between Chelsea and Tottenham.
- Not too nervous then?!
As Chelsea scored a late winner I got a little pumped up much to the shock of Devan and the other guys in the clubhouse – well worth it though, now come on Arsenal do us a huge favour tomorrow!!
For our second session of the day we were joined by the Mexican team of Carmen Cordoba and her coach Francisco Mugica. Devan and Carmen had a very intense session and Devan put into practise all of the things we’ve been working on for the last two days so I was a very happy coach . Devan’s sessions with me yesterday and today have been very good but it’s always great for the player’s confidence to do it against a fellow player, especially against one of the seeds.
Devan and Carmen in action
After the session we stretched out for 20 minutes and did some work to loosen up Devan’s back before going back to the hotel to change for dinner. I was over the moon when Devan suggested going back to Olive Garden and I had a much nicer (edible!) meal than last night. We went back to the hotel tonight via Dicks Sporting Goods and Sports Authority to get some supplies and now we’re all set for the week.
Last day of preparation tomorrow, so it’ll be a little fine tuning and then we’ll be ready to go.
