Saturday 23rd March 2013
It was another good training day in the hot and humid conditions here in Trinidad as main draw is fast approaching.
It was an early start today as we met for breakfast at 6.30am but as we’re still adjusting to the time difference some of us were wide awake at 5am!! We met Georgie Axon and her dad Jeremy at breakfast as they’d arrived late last night and then at 7.15am we met up with Katie and got the first shuttle bus of the day to the courts.
The courts were surprisingly busy at 7.30am this morning but after a good 25 minutes of physical warm ups and band work we trained on centre court from 8-9am. Katie stayed on court for around 30 minutes as she just wanted to have a pre-match warm up but Mia, Alex and Georgie stayed on for the hour and went through some specific drills to increase their consistency. Georgie had adapted to the courts and the conditions really well while the training that Mia and Alex had completed in the last couple of days was starting to show.
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Mia, Georgie, Katie and Alex during the morning session
After the session we returned to the hotel so that we could have a break from the heat and relax for a couple of hours. Then at 12pm we went into the gym to complete the player’s scheduled strength and conditioning work before returning to the club at 1.15pm to get some lunch.
During the time that we’d been back at the hotel Katie had won her first match and then at 2pm she went on court for her 2nd round which she again won convincingly. Mia, Alex, Georgie and I warmed up for our 2nd session of the day at 3.40pm and then had a good hour of point play from 4-5pm. The levels of all three players was good throughout the session and they’re are getting very close to their match level which is good to see with 1 more training day to go.
It was then back to the hotel and straight into the gym to cool down and stretch out before meeting everyone for dinner at 6.30pm.
As the restaurant at the hotel is quite expensive we decided to venture out this evening to TGI Fridays, much to the delight of the players. We all had a good meal and even when you take into account the cost of the taxi to and from the restaurant it still worked out a lot cheaper than paying for dinner at the hotel.
We arrived back to the hotel at around 8.45pm and, as it was quite late and we’ve got another early start tomorrow, I decided that we’d do the planned psychology work during the day tomorrow.
