Well today should an exciting day for the tennis as it sees the much anticipated match between Djokovic and Del Potro, it will be on later, so hopefully it will be an absolute belter. Or then again it might be just a straight set blootering from the mighty Serb, we shall see, one thing is for sure, its gettin taped!
In other matches so far today, Federer had another convincing win against another Serb Janko Tipsaveric who he defeated in straight sets 6-1, 6-4, 6-3, making short work of the Serbian in just 1 hour and 30 minutes. And as I type this (well later I will be typing more) Marion Bartoli is making a good headway in the 3rd set against Germany's Julia Goerges, who took the first set in 6-3, but Marion took the secon in 6-2. But Goerges is a fighter so she might yet still come back from the brink. Later on Caroline Wozniacki and Daniella Hantuchova will be playing as well, which should prove to be a testing match. Earlier today Francesca Schiavone went through to the 4th round after Chinese seed Shuai Peng retired due to illness. In fact I just seen the results for the Wozzer and Hantuchova match and in a real upset Caroline Wozniacki has been defeated in straight sets by Hanty in 6-1 6-3. But it just shows time and time again that Caz just isn't a clay court player, it also puts into question her World No.1 ranking and is she really justfying it? I mean all players have defeats but Caroline has had a habit of going out early especially on clay in the 3rd round or the quarter or semi finals. But well done to Daniella so she will go through to the 4th round, as does Marion Bartoli who overcame Julia Goerges in 3 sets in 3-6, 6-2, 6-4.
Right now time for a grumble about the play I'm in just now called Another Road. When I started this play I had three small scenes to do, but as time went on the director decided to give my character McVay and his wife Mrs McVay (funnily enough) a full scene. However as yesterday was the technical and dress rehearsal run, the director decided the play was running far too long, which of course it was, as it was well over 3 hours. So as a result my scene has been removed altogether, which now means my presence in the play has been reduced to two little scenes, which means my presence in the play is now no more than a walk-on part. So suffice to say I am a bit annoyed about this, and its not only my scene that has been cut, others have been cut too, again for timing purposes. I frankly feel very fecked off and disappointed in this decision, but I do appreciate for timing reasons sacrifices have to be made, as the audience would drift off to sleep after 3 hours, but to do it at the last minute is just not on. What should have been done is the play should have been timed much earlier so they could guage what could stay and what could go, but to be honest it has been a real disorganised mess. I do also appreciate due to the scale and size of the play that they have had much difficulty in trying to get the cast altogether at the same time, which has also hampered rehearsals, so getting a full rehearsal done has been next to impossible.
But I'm still pissed off about this whole thing, to make such drastic last minute changes just shows a total lack of organisation, not to mention disrespect to the people who have put in hours of hard work on their scenes which have now had to be scrapped. In the end the play has too many scenes in it, was too long and is too ambitious. Next time they would do better to focus on a smaller play, as ensemble pieces as proved with this one can be a real nightmare.
So on that grumpy note I will leave it there, I hope no one reads this from the cast, but to be honest who cares?? (not much chance of that anyway!) You have to vent your spleen somewhere.
And that's alll fer noooowww!!
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