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Roland Garros Day 5
We started to work with Taylor Dent yesterday. Because he won his first match we will continue to work with him this week. When we finished with Taylor's warming up it was time for the early morning training session of Caroline Woziacki.
Later that day Caroline advanced to the next round by beating Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) 6 - 0, 6 -3. Looking at the score it seemed to be a very easy win, but that was not the reality. Caroline had to get used to the Centre Court because the court looks very small compared to the total space of the arena (the total centre court is very wide and long). Together with the extra tension of the first match of another Grand Slam, it didn't help her timing.
After the match of Caroline we had to train with Ayumi from 13:00 - 14:00. We had a lot of fans watching, also because it's very hard to get tickets nowadays. You can buy them only through internet. Time for lunch and some rest now.
After my short break I had a meeting at 16:00 with Sorana and two shoe developers. They came to discuss the feedback of Sorana because they are planning to introduce the new shoes next year. We were back at Roland Garros at 17:30 and received the playing schedule for the next day. As soon as we know the program we have to plan our training sessions with all our players. Everybody wants to have the best courts and that means a lot of wheeling and dealing for Mats and I.
Later that day I was able to watch Andy Murray in the Adidas lounge. He defeated Richard Gasquet after being 2 sets down. At the same time Mats was watching Fernando Gonzalez and luckily Fenando also advanced to the next round.
At 19:30 we went back to our hotel and had dinner. I finally jumped into bed at 00:00 and at 7:45 the next morning I was up and running again at Roland Garros together with Gil Reyes.
Ready for another day.
Sven