On Saturday I went quite early to Melbourne Park. I saw An-sophie Mestach playing the junior finals in the Rod Laver arena. She played well! Nice slices and good variations during the rally! She won her game pretty easy! 16 years old... it must be so amazing to stand on the big court and win The Aussie Open
Juniors and Wheelchairs
After the juniors final I went to the oval, the place where all the sponsors have there stand.
Nice painting for Kim
Me :-)
At 7.30pm the women's final Kim Clijsters - Na Li started. Just before the game the cast of Hairspray did a short performance which was nice.
I had a good seat, not too far from the court, second raw of the higher part. Then a Chinese group came that was sitting in front of me. I thought... PERFECT! All small people, so I will have a good view... NOT! THey were so fanatic... They had a big paper with something written in chinese on it. They were leaning forward all the time and holding the paper in the air.... But then some other people next to me made some comments about it and they understood.
Kim won the first 9 points of the game :-) It seemed that it would be an easy match for Kim... But then Na Li won her first point... The people in front of me reacted if she had won the whole match... You would think that the people in the stadium would be all supporting Kim, but there were so many chinese people! And they were all the time shouting... Na Li, Kai o (or something like that) which means Na Li, come on! Na Li started to play better and Kim started to make a lot of unforced errors... She lost the first set... Now me and my Aussie neighbours were getting quiet... In the second set Kim still had trouble but then she came closer and she went over Na Li. Set set. Wohooo! Go with the Belgian Flag! Even my Aussie neighbours were proud to hold my flag with me.
THe third set was a bit easier. Kim won!
I had a great time at the Australian Open! It was amazing! I hope I can go back next year!
On Sunday morning I went to the Fitzroy Gardens but it was soooo warm that I didn't see much there... I went through the shopping streets and bought a little present for philippes birthday! It was 40 degrees on this Sunday, I think the warmest I have ever had so far.
Then I went back to the hostel to get my luggage and to wait for the pick up bus to the airport. When I arrived at the Gold Coast, Charlie picked me up and then we went to the restaurant where philippe is working. We had dinner and a nice dessert to celebrate his birthday. And then I gave my present... A little toy car wrapped in a paper of a Top Gear magazine... Philippe didn't understand it.... Till I gave him a paper with a scan of 2 tickets for the Top Gear live show in Brisbane on the 5th of March!
So back home... back to work....
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