Sri Lanka U18 ITF Grade 5 (week 1), Day 2

Monday 5th October 2015

It was another rain interrupted day here in Colombo but despite not getting to play a match Toby still managed to have a good session on the clay with his doubles partner.

Our original plan for today was to go over to the club around 11am, hit from 12-1pm, have lunch and then get ready for Toby’s singles match which was scheduled for ‘not before’ 2.30pm. However, just as we were about to leave the hotel we saw an update to the schedule which said that play would not start until 12pm due to the courts not drying from the rain yesterday.

I decided to still head over to the club while Toby stayed in the apartment and shortly after the referee told me that, apart from the last round qualifying matches, play would not start on the other courts until 2pm and Toby’s match would be rescheduled for tomorrow. I decided to stay onsite until 12pm to check that Toby’s doubles partner, Ondrej Styler from Czech Republic, signed in and then I headed back to the hotel to meet up with Toby.

Toby and I returned to the club at around 1pm to get some lunch and then, as his match was also cancelled, we trained with Ondrej from 3-4pm on the bottom clay courts. Despite the courts still being quite wet the boys had a good session and it gave them a chance to get to know each other before their first round doubles match tomorrow.

After the session Toby and I debriefed to prepare for his match tomorrow and then we headed straight back to the hotel to relax before dinner. While we were getting ready for dinner the doubles draw came out:

Once again we thought that the buffet was open in the hotel restaurant but someone finally explained to us that it’s only open on a Thursday, Friday and Saturday!! With that we headed up to the pool restaurant and had a good meal under cover while the rained poured down again!

Schedule for tomorrow:

(5) Christian Cummings (IND) (1108) vs Toby Huffer (GBR) (2265) – 1st match at 9am

Toby Huffer (GBR) & Ondrej Styler (CZE) vs (WC) Avindra Perera (SRI) & Vibudha Wijebandera (SRI) – 5th match after 9am