We sat out on the hill and watched a bit of Serena.
Then it was time to head back for Nole and Benneteau!
This was always going to be an interesting match up - Julien is no pushover, and Nole.. well... it can sometimes be a bit pot luck with the boy really, let's face it!
Anyway - I managed to belt back as they finished the warm up and they were off!
I'd say Nole started pretty solid actually - good off both wings, and Julien was playing well - the rallies were superb - really really top notch... but at times Nole's body language - especially during the TB was a bit negative (to say the least)... there were lots of bits of tantrummy turns to his team and waving his racquet about... and Julien deserved that set to be fair!
I read thru the Cheering Thread this morning... and I have to say - the court was very slippy and slidey - Nole was slipping and tripping and sliding about, and Julien did have a tweak, just prior to really tweaking his knee badly - he was about to return from the back of the court and then suddenly he literally disappeared from view (ummm that's why there's no picture!) - he literally crumpled (by now mum had headed home and my mate had joined me) so we debated a lot as to what the injury was... and we figured that he'd retire at the end of the set... (I think it was the third)... so props to Julien for continuing...
But more drama was to come!
Into a 4th... and THAT injury.... we could see that Julien was struggling, but it was quite a muggy day so the court was still quite slippy, so who would have ever thought there'd be SUCH a dramtic end to that set - You could see he'd over-run himself, and again we saw him try and pull up before he hit the hoarding and then he disappeared... we saw a couple of the linesmen go over at the umpire's bidding, and Cilla was texting me saying there was a sizeable dent in the hoarding where he clobbered it. When Nole himself ordered a ball girl to get two bags of ice, and then actually came over to see what was happening, we realised something was very wrong.
HOW he got up, I don't know.. and how he finished that game... needless to say, even though it was Nole's match (and undoubtedly the BEST one of the day)... Julien got a well deserved standing ovation. We thought he was going to be buggered for the dubs, but he's not even down for that - so hopefully he has some time to recover - cos that was gonna be hurting...!!!
And so, we were done!
Oh ... and on the way home... I sat next to, and was chatted up by... A FIREMAN! Heeeee! Memories of 2008 huh!
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