12: 40 PM
Starting your day with a little eye candy is always a good thing. Rafa and Marcos Daniel of Brazil, hitting grunting, slipping, sliding... very nice. Thirty year old Daniel,
Starting your day with a little eye candy is always a good thing. Rafa and Marcos Daniel of Brazil, hitting grunting, slipping, sliding... very nice. Thirty year old Daniel,
with leading Latin man good looks, currently ranked 97 in the world is Brazil’s highest ranking player. He’s making Rafa play, but the world number one is not going down in the first round without a huge battle, and I don’t think Daniel can prevail.Pretty in Pink
So now that we’ve talked about the tennis... what about Rafa’s outfit? Pink is good, yellow is good, pink and yellow is good, but do not like the slate grey shorts, and am not sure about the grey and pink shoes. It’s like they’ve taken a very boring shirt and shorts and tried to jazz it up with hot colors. The shirt looks like its too small, it’s too short, not flattering, and although I like the pink and yellow combo, I’m not sure about the yellow head and wrist bands. It’s sort of like a woman with too many matching accessories... Rafa doesn’t need to be jazzed up with pink and yellow... Rafa is gorgeous enough …just put him in that sleeveless shirt so we can appreciate those beautiful arms.
And speaking of Rafa... check out his neat habits... 
shirt hung on the back of his chair to dry, towel spread on court so his bag 
won’t get dirty in the clay … wonder what his room looks like.
2:45 PM
As predicted Rafa is winning pretty easily in the third. Daniel gave him game... Rafa won the first two 7-5, 6-4, but Marcos is down 1-4 in the third so it looks like a wrap.
3:00 PM
The battle of the air conditioning is on!! This is a constant argument between the American’s and the Europeans in the press room. They like it steamy and hot, we like it cool. Our cool to them is freezing and their “comfortable” to us is unbearable. Since there are a lot more Euros here they usually win, but I’m a tough opponent, and I’ve learned how to turn it down to a reasonable temp and will keep up the good fight.
3:10 PM
Need food … will report on lunch as soon as I return.
3: 25 PM
I left long enough to grab a salad and bring it back to my desk and someone turned the air conditioning up to TWENTY THREE… TWENTY THREE!! Do you know how hot that is … double twenty three and add 32...EIGHTY EIGHTY degrees Fahrenheit! .. Are they kidding? Where do these people live? In the Sudan?
5:30 PM
I’ve been a very busy person. Shot a few games of Sharapova .. We’ll talk about her dress later .. Next the young Frenchman, Guillaume Rufin, then on to Franko Ferreiro of Brazil, and Feliciano Lopez. Today seems to be my day for Spain and Brazil, and I’m not complaining.
First I’ll take on Sharapova’s dress … awful! What are those designers and Nike thinking? Start with the color .. Not attractive, and what’s up with those tulip shaped sheer panels on the skirt?
Is she going to a cocktail party or is she playing tennis? As for her game, well the screaming and pouting are still paramount, but she did manage to pull out a three set win over injured Anastasiya Yakimova.
Next up I wanted to catch the end of the young French wild card Guillaume Rufin. The French fans were going mad, you could hear them all the way over to court one. Rufin whose current world ranking is 599, defeated 81 ranked Eduardo Schwank of Argentina 6-3, 6-1, 6-1!! Good job Guillaume, and thanks for the great match point photo.
Franko Ferreiro and Feliciano Lopez are still playing. The Brazilian won the first two sets 7-6, 6-4, but dropped the third in a breaker, and Lopez is currently leading 6-5 in the fourth set. This would be a huge upset for Franco who is ranked 185 against, Lopez who is the 28th seed here.
Well, Lopez just won the fourth, I’d love to go catch the end, but don’t know if I can handle making my way through the fans again.
The crowds are massive, and it’s hot and humid here. Think I’ll just take the easy way out and watch it on TV.
6:40 PM
OH MY WORD! Ferreiro and Lopez have been playing for FOUR hours and the score is 4-2 Lopez … Ferreiro was having his legs massaged during the changeover ..No wonder.. 5 sets in this heat is a killer, bet he won’t be doing the Samba tonight.
6:53PM
It’s over .. Lopez took the fifth 6-2.
7:15PM
Signing off for today.
shirt hung on the back of his chair to dry, towel spread on court so his bag 
won’t get dirty in the clay … wonder what his room looks like.2:45 PM
As predicted Rafa is winning pretty easily in the third. Daniel gave him game... Rafa won the first two 7-5, 6-4, but Marcos is down 1-4 in the third so it looks like a wrap.
3:00 PM
The battle of the air conditioning is on!! This is a constant argument between the American’s and the Europeans in the press room. They like it steamy and hot, we like it cool. Our cool to them is freezing and their “comfortable” to us is unbearable. Since there are a lot more Euros here they usually win, but I’m a tough opponent, and I’ve learned how to turn it down to a reasonable temp and will keep up the good fight.
3:10 PM
Need food … will report on lunch as soon as I return.
3: 25 PM
I left long enough to grab a salad and bring it back to my desk and someone turned the air conditioning up to TWENTY THREE… TWENTY THREE!! Do you know how hot that is … double twenty three and add 32...EIGHTY EIGHTY degrees Fahrenheit! .. Are they kidding? Where do these people live? In the Sudan?
5:30 PM
I’ve been a very busy person. Shot a few games of Sharapova .. We’ll talk about her dress later .. Next the young Frenchman, Guillaume Rufin, then on to Franko Ferreiro of Brazil, and Feliciano Lopez. Today seems to be my day for Spain and Brazil, and I’m not complaining.
First I’ll take on Sharapova’s dress … awful! What are those designers and Nike thinking? Start with the color .. Not attractive, and what’s up with those tulip shaped sheer panels on the skirt?
Is she going to a cocktail party or is she playing tennis? As for her game, well the screaming and pouting are still paramount, but she did manage to pull out a three set win over injured Anastasiya Yakimova.Next up I wanted to catch the end of the young French wild card Guillaume Rufin. The French fans were going mad, you could hear them all the way over to court one. Rufin whose current world ranking is 599, defeated 81 ranked Eduardo Schwank of Argentina 6-3, 6-1, 6-1!! Good job Guillaume, and thanks for the great match point photo.
Franko Ferreiro and Feliciano Lopez are still playing. The Brazilian won the first two sets 7-6, 6-4, but dropped the third in a breaker, and Lopez is currently leading 6-5 in the fourth set. This would be a huge upset for Franco who is ranked 185 against, Lopez who is the 28th seed here.
Well, Lopez just won the fourth, I’d love to go catch the end, but don’t know if I can handle making my way through the fans again.
The crowds are massive, and it’s hot and humid here. Think I’ll just take the easy way out and watch it on TV.6:40 PM
OH MY WORD! Ferreiro and Lopez have been playing for FOUR hours and the score is 4-2 Lopez … Ferreiro was having his legs massaged during the changeover ..No wonder.. 5 sets in this heat is a killer, bet he won’t be doing the Samba tonight.
6:53PM
It’s over .. Lopez took the fifth 6-2.
7:15PM
Signing off for today.
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