Friday 1st July 2011
So the British summer junior events start today (if you don’t include Roehampton and Junior Wimbledon!) with Edinburgh kicking off the first in a series of U18 ITF and U14 TE events.
This week I’m meeting up with 5 players who were playing the LTA grade 2 event in Edinburgh and Mia Smith, who travelled up with me, to make it a team of 6 in total. I met Mia at London Bridge train station and we made the journey across London and then up to Stansted to catch our easyJet flight to Edinburgh.
We arrived at the Craiglockhart Tennis Centre at around 1.30pm and met up with the other 5 members of the team; Anouska Newman, Cameron Hawkins, Nicole Daisley, Gaby Paul and Athena Chaysantou. I’ve been here many times before and it’s always a good, well run event (as long as the rain holds off!!). Apart from Athena (who has not been well) we all trained on court from 3.00pm until about 4.30pm when the guys then stretched and signed in for qualies. Once all the formalities were done we jumped in a couple of taxis and made the short journey back to our house that we’ve rented for the week.
We took advantage of having the kitchen tonight and I slaved away for a couple of hours cooking dinner for everyone – unfortunately by the time it came to serving some for myself all the food had gone so it was straight back to the shop to get something else!!
It was nice to be able to eat dinner and relax in front of the TV watching Murray vs Nadal, just a shame Andy couldn’t come through. After dinner the whole team did the washing up and then chilled out for the rest of the evening.
Schedule for tomorrow:
Helen Rabot (GBR) (UNR) vs Nicole Daisley (GBR) (UNR) – 1st round at 9am
Russell Graham (GBR) (UNR) vs Cameron Hawkins (GBR) (UNR) – 3rd round after 9am
Helen Rabot (GBR) (UNR) or Nicole Daisley (GBR) (UNR) vs Savannah Sills (GBR) (UNR) – 5th round after 9am
Anouska Newman (GBR) (UNR) vs Cecily Wuenscher (GBR) (UNR) or Rebecca Finch (GBR) (UNR) – 5th round after 9am
