Strike Factory

I bring you people some wonderful news, I have two interviews and a basic skills assessment at Central Sussex College HQ on Friday for some Office Administration roles! Fingers crossed I can get one of the roles! :) Meanwhile I attended the All England Club at SW19 on Monday to watch some tennis and managed to see a corker of a match between the lovely Maria Kirlenko and Sheui Peng that went to a final set on Court 12! I was hoping to make my debut on the new 'Graveyard Of Champions' Court 2 but the rain scuppered any hopes in the evening of getting a resale ticket there! Only frustrating thing is it rules out getting a ticket to see the mighty Seagulls take on Chelski in pre season friendly, though I am an Albion season ticket holder I did not quite have enough points anyway so will keep an eye out for spares but its only a friendly end of the day and would rather get tickets for big cup match!

Finally I leave you with this wonderful photo from 1996 Wimbledon Championships! Richard Krijceks wonderful smile at the maid thats run onto the court! :) Happy Independance Day to any American fans by the way! :)

Tennis thoughts: Wimbledon women!

Last two weeks been hooked on the tennis and planning to get a subcription to watch tennis online after Wimbledon! :) The girl I tipped last year to look out for at the US Open Angelique Kerber has made her second grand slam semi final at Wimbledon after a classic Quarter Final against fellow German Sabine Lisicki (the crowd darling after recovering from injurys to make Wimbledon semi finals last year non seeded) brought back memories of a few other Wimbledon all German clashes eg Becker-Stich 91 and a first round match between Kiefer and Haas years ago I can vaquely recall lol! One player Strike Towers has been impressed with esp is Tamira Paszek who seems a bit like Pironkova plays well on grass but struggles on other surfaces (possibly needs a stronger serve and to be more confident at the net and would be hard to beat!), she has managed two suscessive Wimbledon Quarter Finals including winning this years Eastbourne unseeded against a Miss A Kerber who had 5 championship points, sadly Paszek is out after losing to the grunter Viktoria Azarenka (who wore quite fetching 90s style cycle leggings) though 2nd set nearly took it to final set via tiebreak! Can she push on after Wimbledon? We will have to wait and see!

Tomorrows semi finals sees the legendary Serena Williams (who put out the reigning champion Petra Kvitova in stright sets!) take on Azarenka whilst the other semi final will produce a virgin grand slam finalist out of World No.3 Agnieszka Radwanska or Kerber!  On paper it looks like the winner out of Serena of Viki will go into the final as the fave but with such an open draw you never know!   Whats your thoughts and suggestions people?

Azarenkas leggings! :)

Hello all yes I am up late in the evening checking this blog and for some reason seems to be attracting more unique visitors than when it was active! lol Incredible! But deciding to briefly take this blog out of semi retirement. I am still based at the lovely Strike Towers, and currently looking at apprenticeship oppertunitys in office admin, after some advice from a lady at the local church (yes it can do good sometimes! :) )!

I managed to attend Eastbourne with Roger Russell and Bruce Wells for the tennis! Quite a highlight seeing Caroline Wozniacki and Rory McIloy wandering around Devonshire Park together even if they are not performing well!  I am planning to invade the grounds of the All England Club next week for some more tennis action! So anyone interested in coming let me know!

Finally look forward to watching England take on Italy, heart says England can do it even if head says maybe Italy will win and remember if we win will be only our 3rd Euro semi final in our history! But Come on England! I think we will beat Italy but maybe will come unstuck against the Gerries in the next round!

Anyway readers have a good weekend and will try out a few more blog entries the next month before deciding if its worth continuing or put the blog into storage and maybe bring it out of retirement for fun some point in the future! See ya!