Sunday 25th May 2014
It was another good day of preparation today and, after Camille moved into Main Draw after the qualifying sign-in, she’ll have another two days of training before her first match!
I met the girls at breakfast this morning at 8am and then at 9.15am we got a lift with Sasha to the club. As we were there before most of the other players we had a choice of the courts and so we decided to go on the top courts which were newly built for the tournament last year.
After having a long physical warm-up we got on court just before 10am and then had a very good training session for an hour and 45 minutes. We had already decided that the main focus of the morning session would be a lot of consistency and drilling from the back of the court and with that in mind we once again worked 2 on 1. For over an hour both girls put in a really good session and just as I thought a little tiredness was starting to kick in, I changed up the session and we went into some points from the back of the court. We all won our up to 7 point game on our own but the girls weren’t happy that I won mine 7-0 so they challenged me to a re-match before we stopped . . . and they made sure I didn’t win for a second time!!
Once we had cooled down, showered and changed, we went next door to the restaurant for a very nice lunch with a beautiful view of the river (I’ll make sure I get a picture next time).
At 2pm we went back on court for our second session of the day which was totally point based just in case Camille did have to play qualifying tomorrow. We started with some conditioned points for around an hour and then towards the end of the session we went into some open points with serve. It had been a hot day and even though both girls were feeling a little tired they still put in another quality session from start to finish.
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Camille serving against Holly during the points this afternoon
At just after 4pm we cooled down and stretched out to end our first full day of training. Camille then signed in and the referee said that she would easily move up into Main Draw which means both girls will spend the next 2 days training before their first matches on Wednesday.
Dinner tonight was at the hotel restaurant and without any delay the girls were both keen on getting me to do some forfeits! Tonight Holly managed to escape but Camille had to endure crawling from the restaurant back to her room while I had to hop next to her – the stairs were not pleasant for either of us!!
