I am back from Båstad and, of course, this is the first place I wanted to post in after the holidays
I am not in the best mood right now, cos Tommy just lost to Monfils, but anyway, I want to write a short report about the few days I saw Tommy in Båstad!
After I have read through all the pages earlier today I was very sad I couldn´t read these sweet words from you all in Båstad
Okay, here you go: I arrived in Båstad on friday, but as it was only raining that day, I didn´t go to the venue, but went a bit shopping that day.
When I went to the tennis on saturday I discovered directly Tommy practicing with ToJo. They had really fun and it seemed they are getting along very well
Unfortunately it then started to rain more heavily again and they stopped practicing.
On sunday morning Tommy was practicing with Carlos on Center Court and Carlos was complaining a bit, cos there was the opening ceremony later that day and they were already playing music a little bit louder and he didn´t like that at all. But Tommy seemed to enjoy it, he was even using his racket as a guitar at a few occasions, very sweet :inlove:
Later the day they had a little ceremony on the Center Court and I was not expecting so much, but then suddenly Tommy, Mariano Zabaleta, Robin Söderling and Thomas Johansson entered the court and they were all playing with kids. It was very nice and I think Tommy enjoyed it a lot, but as they were only playing one tie-break, the "matches" were often quite fast
On the monday Tommy practiced with Gilles Simon around lunch time and then there was the match against Horna. I don´t know why, but I really had a very bad feeling before the match and was already so nervous hours before. I must say that Horna really played good tennis and there was not so much Tommy could do! Horna was playing with so much power and very aggressive, that he forced Tommy to make mistakes
After the match Horna said in the interview that this was one of the best matches he has played this year :devil: Ahhh, why do other players always have to play their best matches against Tommy just in my favourite tournaments???
After I had also left the court, I saw Tommy under the Center Court (it is difficult to explain, but there is a little tunnel where the players have to go through to the locker room) and even if he was so disappointed, he signed something for a little girl and made a picture with her. That was really so sweet and so typical Tommy
I did not want to bother him after this defeat cos I never go to players when they have lost and I hoped he would be there the next day anyway.
Unfortunately I did not see him on tuesday and honestly the week was pretty much over for me after Tommys loss
I was so sad and tried to enjoy the other matches of favourites I like, but it was really, really difficult, cos I like Tommy so much!
Anyway, all together it was a great week, but with many wrong results and quite bad weather
At least I was happy about the ending, cos I was so hoping David would win and he did
That was really great and as I also like him, I really enjoyed seeing him win
Of course I have taken "some" pictures, but as usual they need to be developped first, so I hope to have them on wednesday or thursday.