Hi All,

Question: What do you do if you have to kill 20 minutes before a training session?

Now usually the answer is something like get a latte, watch the players hitting or go over the programme for that day….but it doesn’t normally include driving around Florida in a brand new black Ferrari but that’s what happened today. My thanks go out to Sebastian Grosjean for taking me out in his awesome car and for actually laughing when I made the comment that at least we know there’s something out there that changes direction faster than he does!

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Hi all and greetings from Los Angeles where Wes and I are currently training out of UCLA. We have been Stateside for three weeks now and this week is my favourite, three days of only physical conditioning and then tennis on the last two days. So far the trip has gone well, Wes made the singles semifinal of the Newport tour event and then the week after in LA made the semifinal of the doubles.

But this week is all about fitness!!!

I am writing this blog from the new LTA National Tennis Centre (NTC) at Roehampton which is truly an amazing facility. In fact, one particularly savvy media employee described it saying: “If Carlsberg did tennis centres, they would probably be the best in the world.” This is a pretty good assessment of this centre.

Anna and I were invited to stay here for 10 days and use all the facilities for a block of physical training before the grass court matches start in earnest and I have not been in many better places in all my years of training. We were welcomed very warmly and made to feel very at home while we worked and nothing was ever too much and whatever we needed was provided with no delay. This included access to a world class gym, courts, physiotherapy support, very comfortable lodging with wireless and food carefully prepared by a Michelin starred chef. All for the players and staff. No expense has been spared to make this an absolutely state of the art facility.

Hi all,

Well, the American road trip Ana and I have been on has come to an end for now but only after we covered about 3,500 thousand miles in three weeks going between Atlanta, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Dothan, Alabama, Sea Island and back to Atlanta. That’s four states and three tournaments.