Monday 9th April 2012
It was a very wet day in Nottingham today but we managed to get 2 great sessions on court as well as a gym session for both Mia and I!
I’d driven up to Nottingham last night with Mia Smith for this weeks U14 Tennis Europe Grade 3 event so that we could have a full days training today before main draw starts tomorrow. The plan was to train outdoors but due to a very wet day we ended up doing an early session indoors and then we also trained after the matches had finished at the end of the day.
We warmed up in the gym at 9am and then Mia hit with Sam Taylor from Bromley to warm him up for his last round of qualifying match from 9.30am until 10am. We then headed to the gym via the pro shop so that Mia could buy some tennis shoes as she’d left hers at home!! Mia has a physical programme that is based on how many days she has before her next singles match and as today was “1 day to competition” she had an agility workout to follow as well as her daily core and band work. While she did that I also had my own workout to stick to as I’ve started a 25 week programme to get myself ready for the Great North Run in September. Today I had a 1 hour run to complete and for the first time I did it on a running machine – it could have been the most boring run of my life but at least I got through it!
After lunch at the tennis centre we watched some of the matches before getting back on court at 2pm with Georgia Lawson. It was a really good session and following a very good week at the Tunbridge Wells tournament last week Mia is looking in good form and ready to get stuck in this week. After the session it was straight back into the gym to cool down and stretch out while catching up with the Bath IHPC players.
Before dinner we dropped Sam off at the train station as he’d lost his match but during dinner he then gave me a call to say he’d got in as a Lucky Loser so he was getting off the train at the next stop to come back!! We picked him up just after 8pm and then went back to the hotel to watch Chelsea and wait for the draw to come out.
Girl's U14 Main Draw
Schedule for tomorrow:
Mia Smith (GBR) (275) vs Dayana Yastremska (UKR) (UNR) – 3rd match after 9am (not before 11am)
