[Blog]Tommy Robredo - 5/13

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我貼上癮了!!簡報一下：第一段黃色那行字真的就是Tommy的目標，感覺他很誠懇的在回報他的生活XD　用心的孩子！第一天他說去Hamburg的波折，還提到他的訓練，安排球賽夥伴　（雙打那段很逗XD）說了些他喜歡吃什麼（note1:他愛吃甜的）提到和一些球員一起練習的狀況，以及辛苦找到跑步的地方。再聊了第一輪的對手Novak，說他進入Top 10的心情（這週掉出來了ToT）還有上週在羅馬第一輪輸掉的沮喪！！！ Saturday, May 13, 2006 I'm happy to be doing the blog this week. I read Dmitry's and thought it was great. This week hopefully I can give you an idea of what a day in the life of a player is like during Masters Series Hamburg. I've got to say it was a little stressful getting here. On Friday I decided to take a late afternoon flight so I could practice in Barcelona during the day. My flight was scheduled to stopover in Mallorca and then continue to Hamburg. I arrived at the airport at 5pm and the first flight was fine. Then in Mallorca I waited for all the people to board before getting on. But as I walk to the door the girl at the desk tells me that she needs four passengers to get on a different plane. "We are waiting for some passengers from Santiago, so this will make this plane leave late," she says. "There's another plane that will leave sooner and you'll arrive on time in Hamburg." So myself and three other people rush to a different gate but when we get there... no plane! It had already left. So we have to go back to the original gate. On my way to Hamburg I turn to my instrument of work - my phone. I was arranging things for practice. I have my physio, Juan Reque, with me in Hamburg, but I am still without a coach. I sent Juan a text message: Please arrange practice for me in the morning and in the afternoon we can go running. I also was surprised to see a text message from Mahesh Bhupathi, one of the world's best doubles players: Hey Tommy, do you want to play doubles with me in Hamburg? I've lost in the first round of doubles about 10 times in a row so I wasn't sure if he was drunk. Maybe he just wanted the first-round prize money. Anyway, I had already arranged to play with David Ferrer so I had to say no. In the end we arrived 90 minutes late into Hamburg and then I had to wait another 30 minutes for my racquet bag to show up - they made me send it with the checked luggage. Thankfully my courtesy car driver was still waiting for me at the airport. We had to walk a little way to the garage where the car was parked. We took the elevator to the fifth floor before the driver realized the car was on the fourth floor. So we went to the fourth floor and then she said it was actually on the third floor. When we eventually found the car it was on the second floor. I got to the hotel around 12.30 am. I unpacked my bag and went straight to bed. Today I had breakfast in the hotel with Alberto Martin. When we got to the site I left one racquet with the stringer to try out in the afternoon to see if it's the tension I want to play with here this week. I warmed up with Juan at 10.30 and then practiced with Guillermo Coria. It was just a half hour hit and we were sharing a court with two other guys who had a match coming up. Then we played some games. He was leading 5-2 when we stopped. But that's okay... it was my first day getting used to the courts and the balls. I was finished by 12.30 and my next practice wasn't until 3, so that gave me time to have a shower and get something to eat. I had some pasta and then some ice cream - I love the sweet things. Then I played the trivia machine... they ask questions about sports, geography and art. Then I watched the battle for pole position for Sunday's Formula 1 race on TV. I had a practice with Nicolas Kiefer. We just warmed up for five minutes and then played some games. It was 5-4 with no breaks when we had to stop because Safin and Gaudio had the court. Then Juan and I wanted to find a place to go for a run. We found a school with a running track but there was a fence so it didn't look like we could get in. But we found a hole so we snuck in and ran on the clay track for half an hour. Then we came back to the club and stretched. Tonight I will have a massage and on Sunday I will practice with Juan Carlos. I'm told that I play Monday against Jiri Novak so I will take it pretty easy Sunday. I have played Jiri three times and have never beaten him. I told him that before he retires I want to beat him once. He's been injured for six months but he played in Rome last week. So maybe this is the best chance I've had yet to get a win. We'll see. It's an amazing feeling to have made the Top 10. You always set goals during your career. Early on it was to make the Top 100, which I did at 18, then I wanted to win a title, which I did in Sopot in 2001. Then we won the Davis Cup for Spain. Then the Barcelona Open in 2004. But there are always new goals and this year one of those goals was to make the Top 10. But I was very disappointed to lose in the first round in Rome to Rusedski. It would have been like Greg losing to me on grass in the week that he made the Top 10. -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 140.119.128.212