My day didn't start to well with the transportation showing up late for my pick up. We had a 8 am practice and when the car didn't show up at 7:30 I new something was wrong. The Australian Open has the best transport of any of the Grand Slam. I must say there is lots of things where they are the best. The atmosphere around the courts are electric and fans really get into it. Today they had a record crowd with 66 000 people watching the tennis. The doubles event started today and Wesley and Rik was up. Rik played with Scott Lipsky and they won 7-6 in the 3 rd. Wesley played with Michael Youzhny and it was very tough for him because he only finished 12 pm last night beating Gasquet of France in 5 sets. He was back on the court and played really well. Wesley and Michael unfortunately lost 6-4 in the 3 rd. This after they had 3 match points in the 2 nd set.
Like all Grand Slams there was again a big upset today. Justine Henin who made her comeback this year took out the no 5 seed Dementieva. It will be interesting to see who will win if both Henin and Clijsters who made there comebacks to the womens game meet in the quarterfinals.
The match of the day was between James Blake and Jaun Martin Del Porto. James really has a good game to match Del Porto and he pushed him to the wire. This was a classic battle with both players calling for the trainers towards the end of the 5 th set. Del Porto eventually won 10-8 in the 5 th set.
Jeff is up tomorrow and will be interesting to see how he will play with his old partner Roger Wassen.
Until tomorrow.
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