Saturday was quiet affair and not much to report....we played scrabble in the evening whilst watching the football live. At one stage Newcastle were winning and so was i at scrabble but when the Toons defence started to resemble a cullunder my concentration went at the board game ( a good excuse methinks) and Nik beat me AGAIN to go 2-0 up....i know it is really hard to believe!!
Today was spent on the beach but i was pent up with excitement as i had arranged a tennis match with a Japanese guest who i had never met a 5pm. So as Nik went running at the gym (she has been 4 times i think) i made my way to the Centre Court....as John McEnroe described afterwards it was EPIC........
"As the 2 players met Clark was peterbed to see his opponent Kato was only 25 years old and played weekly tennis and early on this showed...Clarks first service game was a shambles as he served 4 consecutive double faults to lose to love and Kato raced to a 4-1 lead.However there were some good rallies developing, won equally by both players and in the 7th game Clark broke Katos serve and then won his game to love as his wicked spin serves started to go in. At 4-4 the body language of the players changed.(..though Clark was a ball of sweat and panting between points and Kato was inscrutabally cool on the exterior) i could sense that Clark knew he had the measure of his man and he raced through the final 2 games to win 6-4 and leave his apponent a beaten man (mentally if not physically) A great result and a reminder to Andy Murray that the UK does know how to play tennis...and now back to the studio"
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