Re: Benesova's Monterrey blog - 網球 Tennis

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Saturday, March 5, 2011

I just got back to the hotel... we played our doubles semifinal tonight and
it was a great match. We're so happy we could get to another final here, it's
our third final in a row here! We played really well from beginning to end.
Both of us.

Barbora and I have had a lot of success together - I think it's because we've
played together a long time. We know each other pretty well. She's great at
net and I try to go up there as well, but she always does well there. We're
good friends too and have fun on the court, which is probably the key :)

Other than the tennis I don't have anything interesting to tell you about
today, really! I did fitness and a warm-up, lunch then waited for the
match... after we finished I did some stretching then went to the jacuzzi in
the locker room, which was nice. We ate something small on site... there
wasn't much time to go out and do anything but tomorrow after the finals
we'll go out for a nice dinner...

Hopefully it will be a victory dinner :)

We're playing Anna-Lena and Vania in the final. We played them in last year's
final - it was a close match, I think we won 11-9 in the super tie-break.
We're looking forward to it. We know we'll have to be ready from the
beginning!!

I've really been enjoying this tournament. It's quite relaxed here. We always
have late starts. We can't really go anywhere in the daytime before our
matches because we need to save all of our energy up for those, but I like
it. I hate waking up early, I'm not an early bird at all. Like whenever I
have 10am matches I have to wake up at 6am, and I'm like... Nooooo... I love
sleeping in :)

I'll talk to you guys again tomorrow!

Iveta

How is a normal day when you're not on tour? Sergio, México
If I'm back home, I'll sleep until lunch for sure! Then I'd go out with
friends or family to get something to eat then into the city, maybe go to the
theater or cinema in the evening... something like that. Like I said already
I like sleeping in, which also means I like staying up late. I'm a night owl.
When I'm at tournaments I do go to bed earlier though (or at least I try to!)


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