Road trip

If you asked anybody about World Team Tennis the 1 st thing they say is that the travelling is a killer. We had a great start with 5 days at home, but that was not going to last. On Tuesday morning at 7 am we where on our way to the airport for a 9 am flight. One thing about flying during WTT is that you never fly direct to a place, it is always via somewhere. I can understand that it cost a lot of money for the owners to host a team, and they want to get the cheapest ticket available. We had to fly through Dallas to Orange County in California. The weather was amazing when we arrived. Driving to the hotel you could see that you are in a place with lots of money. Ferrari's, Poshes, BMW and Mercedes Benz was the only cars we saw on the road.

We stayed at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel & Spa, and we saw the same cars in the parking lot. We had the night off because Newport Beach was playing in Kansas City. These guys was on a road trip of Hell. The last 4 nights they played in these cities:

Sunday- Sacramento-West coast

Monday- Springfield

Tuesday-Kansas City

Wednesday- Newport Beach

Hopefully they have a few days off before the next match.

On Monday night they totally outplayed us before Vania made an unbelievable comeback and won the match for us.

We knew that tonight Vania would not play last, but the men's singles would be the last event. This is their strongest event. The home team decides on the order of events, and you want to put your best event last, because in WTT if the trailing team wins the last event you go into overtime. In overtime the leading team only needs to win 1 game then the match is over, but if the trailing team keeps winning games and tie the match you play a super tiebreaker. I knew that we had to give Raven a good lead tonight going into the men's event. Martin and Chani started of well and won 5-3, Vania won 5-2, the men's doubles was next and the boys lost 5-4 in a tiebreaker. The women's doubles was the next event and our last chance to build a good lead. They did the job and won 5-1. Raven started the match with a 8 game lead. Delgado played well and won the set 5-2. The total score was now 21-16 and we went into overtime. So if Delgado wanted to win he had to win 5 games in a row, tie the score at 21 all and then win the tiebreaker. Well I knew this was not going to happen tonight and I was right, Raven held serve and we won 22-16. We are know 4-0.

Tomorrow morning it is back to Springfield. With the time change it will take us the whole day to get there. We leave Orange County at 9;15 in the morning and arrive in Springfield at 5;45 tomorrow night.

Today we heard that Brandon Klein, The Australian player that called Raven a F***ing K....R

in Eastbourne received another $10 000 dollar fine, this on top of his 10 000 Euro fine and was suspended for 6 months by the ATP. Go ATP. That was the 2 most expensive words that kid will ever say in his life. Hopefully he will learn from his mistakes.