Estoril Open 2006

[Happiness]

Hi everyone

Hope you’re all ok

marat said:

I'm looking forward to all your info , pics .......... !

marat said:

Can't wait until monday ........................ !!!

admin said:

Tita hun I am not mixing you up for anyone else ;D ;D ;D ;D Cannot wait for your reports and pics girls ;D ;D ;D ;D

3 days to go

kittycatnat said:

Oooo how exciting i can't wait until it starts and for all the pics and reviews!

Me neither!!! I’m really excited!!! I hope to meet him and be able to let him know how much he is cherished all around the world ;D ;D

tita said:

Hi! I'm from Portugal (no kidding lolol), from Braga. So you see it's a long way until Lisbon. I'm leaving at 6.15 am. Normally I wouldn't get up this soon for anything, but I'll make the sacrifice for Marat eheh ;D

Actually I'm not going by myself, going with a friend, but would be cool if we met! (if you do go on monday)
*sending email* : p

Hope I can take some good ones, and with Marat himself eheh. Believe me, I've been waiting for soooo long, I can't think of anything else right now!! A friend's going with her tennis coach and mates and she was kind enough to invite me (since she knows my love for Marat - the player and the man LOL) eheh Hopefully you'll get a chance to meet him too sometime, sabz... Ya never know

Annie!! Hope you're not taking me for someone else ;D, but yup, it's been a long time indeed. You're the only one I remember from here and another board I used to go to actually. Good to see ya, hope you've been kwl!
and thank you! I have no doubts I'll have fun ;D

ME EITHER!!

Peace & Love & Marat ;D

As soon as I know something about it Tita I’ll send you a mail It’ll be fun!!! ;D ;D

marat said:

Is the draw already known ?

No Marats, the draws will only come out tomorrow … Well I guess we’ll have to wait a little bit longer

Take Care




Happiness

[marats]

Thanks !!!!!!!!

[Giselle]

Happines i hope u win the tix from ms.com...i wish i would have had that chance here but I guess it was meant for me to pay je je je...anyways I think for all the post that I have read and for personal experience u should

1)stick to the crowd, ask EVERYBODY! have no shame, this is the time when u leave being shy and AKS!!! I even made contact with a guy from the miami herald...he was cool.

2) hit the practise courts...the crowded ones are the ones where the good players are...

3) get there early and study security and the surroundings, I knew the amount of guards, the valets, and the end of shifts, learn how does the tourny runs, if they are organized, if the players have security, the exits, the entrance of the vip and the players. If u know the place its gonna make it easier for u to beat the crowd when running behind a player cause u know for sure where they are going next.

4)BE NICE!!!! I met the cooks, the security guards, the people who check the tix, I met them all and joke with them, that how I got to sit first row by paying the chapest tix...I talked to a lot of people with the uniform and they told me very very valuable things...

5)Stalk Peter "the coach" not marat...people are always asking for him and security is not going to tell u anything...if u ask for peter they would ( sometimes) so...when I saw peter I follow him cause eventually it would lead me to marat (its common sense) I even ask him one time..."hey can u take me to the locker room (just trying he migh have said yes who knows) but he said NO. so I figure, u should be his shadow je je je(misterious laugh) I gave the present to him, I don't know if Marat got it (maybe u should ask him 4 me pleeeeaaasee ) I heard his good at giving them to Marat...but if u got the chance to give it to him directly do not miss the chance.

6) HAVE FUN! this is already a given and like u I was soooo excited! even if u don't meet him the atmosphere its soo cool, one day i was walking and I saw dinara, then i saw niemeniem, then in starbucks i saw kutsneskova ( i don;t know how to write it) the hingis and bunch of people that made it all worth it! drink if u like to, eat if u like to, steal that adidas poster that i should have stolen from that tennis store (he looked soo good!)

7) Practise if u have to...i usually talk a lot, I work with customers every single day, about 300 of them, talking about money, investments, I'm a talker ok...when it I was in front of him I forgot everything I wanted to say...seriously I went BLANK. then when he left i was like "ohhh I should have said this damn" the most stupid things came out..always! so if u wanna say something instead of writing I sugest practise...it makes the master.

8) If you know the staff that he travels with...which i don't, only the manager, find out and good luck

9) I never got to follow him (or stalk him should i say) to his house or hoter wherever he was staying, I didn't want to because I thing it was too much but I've heard its a good place to find him, so if u don't have luck in the courts, go to the last resort. and do the same...friends with the valet, the people in the lobby, buy a drink, familiarize with the surroundings.

10) TELL HIM THAT HERE IN TGFR WE LOVE HIM!!!!! YIPPI!!!! seriously we should let him know that we are "still here" in MIAMI, RUSSIA, NEW ZEALAND...THE WORLD.

11) YELL NICELY, for some reason he didn't hear me asking for an autograph...maybe cause hes so so tall and I'm very very short (i guess) so the second time I screamed his name form like a mile away and HE HEARD ME!!!! don;t be like me who forgot to say thank you...and then when he was driving away I yelled Gracias to him...don't think he hear me....

12) Pictures...i don't need to elaborate on that one.

I really hope u get to meet him, have fun! support him, and OPEN YOU EYES who knows whats around you. (I was standing next to Lappenti and I realized when he was leaving, idiot me...) Good luck and may the force be with you (JA JA JA LMAO) All my power its with you.

Giselle. "the miami fan"

[avalon]

Good luck Happiness, I hope you find your man!! Oh, most of all, have fun ;D

Giselle, I love your 'rules' for finding/meeting Marat and other tennis players. You should put together an official 'code' for all of us would be tennis tournament goers ;D

[Giselle]

I think we should put it toguether,not only my esperience but like tips from everybody...I guess it is. I'll do it tomorow but I don't know where to put it.

[avalon]

We could make a thread in personal discussions? We could all add our experiences.

When I was younger and a real tennis groupie [ ] at the AO we used to get there early and hang out near the car park or where the official tournament cars drop off the players. ;D

[marats]

Well done Giselle !

[yse]

The draw is out ;D

Nalbandian vs Mahut
Q vs Wang

Q vs Gil
Q vs Tursunov ;D

Monfils vs Sabau
Marin vs Portas

Dlouhy vs Gimelstob
Sluiter vs Massu

Moya vs Saretta
Simon vs Zib

Garcia-Lopez vs Q
Berlocq vs Robredo ;D

Rochus vs Muller
Lapentti vs Almagro

Safin vs Q ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Spadea vs Davydenko ;D

[kuniochi]

That's great!

Go, Marat, go! ;D ;D ;D

[marats]

Good luck Marat ........go for it !!!!!!!!!
Always support you !

[avalon]

did i read that right?
nalbadian v MARAT? could have hoped for easier first round

[raghda]

Gooooooooood Luck Marat

[Addie]

avalon said:

did i read that right?
nalbadian v MARAT? could have hoped for easier first round

Hehe, no thank God! ;D Nalbandian is playing Mahut and Marat's playing a qualifier.

[marats]

Is the name off the Q already known ?

[kristen]

good luck marat!...you can do it!!!