Monday 21 January, 2008
Tennis
I haven't been to the tennis often before, but yesterday we were lucky enough to get tickets and see a really fabulous Round 4 match between Jarkko Nieminen(below) and Phillip Kohlschrieber, the guy who beat Andy Roddick the other night. Jakko won three sets to one but it was a tighter game than those scores make it sound. Lots of tie-breakers and each game played down to the wire. In fact my only complaint about the day is that I have a bright red face, and a job interview coming up. (Yes, yes, I applied alot of sunscreen. Twice.)
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