Rosmalen Open 2001
by Marjolein
Jun/17/2001
Hi all!
I'm at Heineken Trophy right now, and luckily the sun is shining!
I had a chat with Raemon Sluiter a couple of minutes ago, so that made my day!
I also saw Dokic, Hrbaty, Siemerink and Henin.
I talked to a pr-guy too, who told me Pat is coming in tonight!
I'm already having a blast, can't wait until tomorrow!
I'm of to watch some matches now....
Jun/19/2001
Hi all!!
This morning I was the first person who arrived at the Autotron-complex. After meeting up with the babblers who were there, we went to the practice courts. After a while, Raemon Sluiter arrived. After his practice I had a little chat with him, and Joes took a picture of the two of us.
After watching some practices I went to Centre-court to watch Sluiter vs. Golmard. It was a strange, short match, but luckily Raemon won! After that match I went to the practice courts. We were there for quit a while (in the freeeeeezing cold!!), and we saw everybody (Kim, Federer, Clement, Wessels, Ilie, Dokic, Schnyder, Henin, Van Lottum, Schalken, Siemerink and probably some more) but no sign from Pat or Lleyton. We almost gave up hope, and then..... there he was: Pat!
He practiced for almost thirty minutes. When he finished, I walked out the practice courts, where I waited for him. After a minute or two he came and we had a chat. I walked with him, we were all alone, all the other people stayed at the practice courts. I asked him about his elbow, he told me it was feeling okay, although it was hurting a bit yesterday. I asked him if he remembered me. He said: Yeah, I know your name starts with an M, but I can’t remember the rest of it”. I told him that it was ‘Marilyn’. He said: “Oh, how could I forget that, you have this moviestar name!” Then I said to him: “I don’t mean to offend you, but what’s with the hairband you wore last week?” He looked at me and said: “you didn’t like it?” I said that I thought it was horrible. I asked where he got that thing. He told me it was kind of a bet with Killer. Killer said to Pat that he wouldn’t dare to wear that band during a match. Well, Pat won the bet. I told him I thought he looked like a big easter-egg with that thing. He said: “yeah, I think so too!!” So I said: “Do you have any feeling for fashion at all?” he said: No, I don’t care too much about it, but the fashion thing is usually something my mother takes care about!” I asked to please not to wear that band again, he would think about it. After that walk we arrived at the players-entrance. Nobody was there, so we stood there talking and laughing for a couple more minutes. Then I pulled out my camera and asked him to give a great big smile for all the babblers. So he gave me his well-known and beautiful smile and of he went. When he left he said: “See you tomorrow, Maybe after the match!” Of course I said: “Yes, see you tomorrow”. After that I walked around with a big smile with the beautiful thought: I’ll see him again tomorrow.............
We went to see a few more matches. Killer lost his doubles match. And Sjeng Schalken won his first round match.
Well, this was my report for today, I’ll post again tomorrow with hopefully more Pat stories!
Jun/22/2001
Hi Everybody!
Just a quick post from Rosmalen.
First, I want to say sorry that I haven't posted my stories before but I've been very busy with chasing players :-)
I think you all read about my first encounter with Pat. The second one was last Tuesday after practise, I was walking him back again, and we talked about Peter Wessels, who he thought was a great player. We chatted for about 4 or 5 minutes. Again, he said: 'see you after the match'. Well, as you all know he lost that, so I didn't went to see him. I cried like a baby when he lost, but luckily there was my 'mom' (Diane) to comfort me and make me feel better .:-)
Although Pat was out, we had some wondeful times. We all started going for 'Petit Arnaud' (Arnaud Clement), we had a great time, I actually had my picture taken with him (so did Andrea). He probably thinks we're crazy, stalking him all the time *lol*
Then, ofcourse, we have Raemon Sluiter!! Today I was going to the court to see him play, but when I arrived the match just ended. I saw him driving in this golfcar they use for the players, so I said: 'Did you win?' he said: 'yes, I did!'. I asked him if he would sign my pic (You can see that pic at Joes's album, link is somewhere down). He asked if I could come back tomorrow after practise, because he would have more time then, he wanted to write something personal for me on it!!! I'm looking forward to tomorrow, and we'll gonna cheer like crazy for Raemon at his match against Federer!
I'll write more later!
Love,
Marjolein