Day 4

Wow so motivated to post Voegele's pics i did that before writing for the first time ever lol. So this morning I get there just as gates opened and decided that I really couldn't be bothered walking all the way to the practice courts so I just went to the match courts. Decided to pop into show court 2 out of the blue and was very surprised to see 2 of my faves Stefanie and Vika on the same court! They had a match against each other later in the day so it was strange to see them both there. I watched it for a bit, Vika hitting really well. Alot of grunting, trying to intimidate Steffi i think haha. Stefanie hit with another girl, I didn't recognise. She left first, shook hands with the other girl, that girl's coach and then gave a fist pump to her own coach hehe. 

After she left I went around to see who else was around. Saw Lisicki, Coin among others. Then met a friend who just arrived in Melbourne yesterday. We went to Ivanovic/Dulko match. Stayed until 7-6 5 all and then it got tedious plus Petkovic started so we left. I stayed at Petkovic until she was getting badly thrashed 0-4 and thought I don't like her anymore.. So then I see that Davydenko bagels a third set so off to Vika v Stefanie we went. It was a good match for the first set. Took 58 minutes for the first set. The final scoreline was something like 6-4 6-0 doesn't show just how close Stefanie was. She made Vika work for the points. She had more winners but alot more unforced errors, hitting the ball very flat it went into the net so many times. The crowd was definitely behind Stephanie and applauded as she left the court. I think she impressed a lot of people today. 

After this I walked around outside for a bit, not really seeing anything interested. Saw a set of Haas/Tipsarevic, most of Vesnina/Zheng v Cornet/a Canadian girl. Vesnina and Zheng makes such a cute team haha. They had good chemistry. Cornet yelled out shit a couple times, she is so angry like Vika lol. After the match Zheng gets mobbed by so many Chinese fans. She is so polite and signs for everyone and takes pics, even did an interview with some guys with cameras and a mic. Poor Vesnina, no one wanted a piece of her and slowly walks away first. In between this match I went to see a bit of Kuz and Vika team up for doubles. I expected them to be awesome but the other team was pretty good. Then saw Verdasco's entire match. First men's match I watch from start to finish! It didn't last long. His opponent got thrashed but it was nice to see the crowd applauding him as he walked off the court and he acknowledged the support. Fer signed soooooo many autographs. All the way from the shorter rectangle corner side of the court!