The Moodie- Norman show continues with another thrilling win at Wimbledon yesterday. One of the exciting things at Wimbledon is that there is now 3rd or 5th set tie-breaker. So with the modern game of Powerful serves and forehands it is no surprise that we have seen a lot of men's doubles matches go the distance. I had to sit through a few this year. Poor Jeff Coetzee lost 9-7 in the 5th in doubles and then 15-13 in mixed doubles. Wesley Moodie lost his mixed doubles 11-9 in the 3rd. On paper Moodie and Norman was the favorites against Pavel and Tecau but the standard of mens tennis is so high that nobody has an easy match these days not even Roger Federer. They showed great character to win 14-12 in the 5th set.
Channel Simmonds our no 1 junior player unfortunately lost 64 in the 3rd set. She was part of the ITF Squad and it really helped her tennis. She got to play 6 weeks in Europe on the clay, get exposure and also compete with the best juniors in the world. It is a great opportunity that the ITF gives these kids and hopefully they will continue doing it. She had some great results on her trip. She made the quarterfinals at the French Open and the semi finals of the Bank of England Championship.
Yesterday was a travel day for me and I am in Springfield at the moment. The World Team Tennis season starts on Thursday night with our opening game against Philadelphia. This will be an exciting 4 weeks. The team I coach is the Springfield Laser. Every team has 4 players, 2 men and 2 women, our team is Martin Damm, Raven Klaasen, Vania King and Chani Scheepers. We will also have Lizl Huber for 7 matches.
I will keep u up to date on the season.
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