Day 3 (Fuck!)

What a crappy day. My first thought when I realized she had lost was "she really wants to win the French this year" (in case the bad losses before a slam function again as a propeller). After that I was sad because I won't see her play for a while.

I was so hoping to see her play the singles, but it wasn't meant to be. I miraculously managed to anticipate my late afternoon meeting, but the meeting was longish and when she started playing I was still at work. It was an important meeting, it was part brainstorming and part reporting. This didn't prevent me from going out to check the livescores on my pc every ten minutes. I thought she had a good chance after scraping through the 2nd set like that. When I saw she had an ample lead in the third, I almost relaxed.

When I finished my meeting I was a little surprised to find they had just started the 3rd set tiebreak. I was kind of pissed at Amélie for making me go through the wasted match points ordeal. I was ready to forgive her if she only won. But it didn't happen. When the live scores window reported "winner: Stosur", I was about to cry. I left the office in depression and flew to the Foro.

As I arrived on site, I ran to the press room. Too late: Amé had finished the press conference. It had started at 7:15 pm, and it was over quite soon. Extremely disappointed, I ran back and bumped into Stosur, who sported a proud attitude and was walking to her press conference with a dish of pasta in her hand. I was really sad, but I was trying hard to stay friendly and positive. Luckily I met a few friends for dinner and we started chatting. One of them had seen Amélie's match and he told me how she was outplaying Stosur in the beginning of the third. This sort of calmed me down. I thought "she was still there when it mattered, so she probably didn't want to stay here in Rome. She wants to reach really low unconsciously, in the hope of holding that French cup in 3 weeks".

I'm too tired to write anything else for the moment. I'll upload the photos and videos I took in the next days. Tomorrow I should hang around Sveta before/after her match. I hope I'll have fun for the rest of the tournament, but it's probably not going to be easy.