Saturday 30th June 2012
After spending the last 2 weeks training with Dave Hodgetts at the Riverside Tennis Academy in Chiswick, London we’ve now got the next 2 weeks on the road in Manchester and Ilkley at men’s $10k Futures events.
I left home this morning at 8.30am to get the train from Bexley to London and then after a brief journey through London on the Underground I boarded the 10.20am train to Manchester. The journey was delayed a little due to the heavy rain but I finally met up with Dave, who had driven from his home in Worcester, at around 1.45pm.
We then headed to The Northern Club where the event is being held this week and managed to get a practice session on the artificial clay for an hour and a half with Jathan Malik. The grass courts at the club look extremely nice but due to the heavy rain (and the heavy rain forecast for this week) we could be on the clay for the whole tournament – everyone was very surprised that a club with grass courts as nice as this one hasn’t invested in some court covers!
