Fed Cup Tennis

I am finally back on track to keep up the blog.  I have many stories to tell since the last time I wrote.  I have been back at home in the USA for two weeks, then off to China for two weeks, and now I am back in Germany.  Over the next few weeks I will update you with all that has happened there but today’s blog is going to be on what I did this weekend.   I was made aware that the Professional Tennis players were going to be in Germany this week but before that there is a tennis match that is called the Fed Cup tournament.  This consists of teams playing each other by country and by the end of the year there is one country that can be called the winner.  There are a few  matches that go on throughout the year and they consist of winner brackets and other matches where the teams are positioning themselves for the next year to try to be in the main draw to try to become the overall winner.  Ok enough said about that.  This weekend Germany was playing the USA in Fed Cup matches.  This consisted of two singles matches on Saturday and three matches on Sunday, two singles and a double.  I have been to a handful of tennis tournaments but never to a fed cup match.  I decided to go to both Saturday and Sunday’s matches.  This was being held at the Porsche Arena.  It took about 45 minutes to get there by train and a short 5 minute walk once at the train stop to the arena.

The stadium only holds about 5,000 people and at best it was 1/3 full.  I got tickets that were in row 6 and at the base line.  Not bad at all.  The USA was the underdogs and had two very young players.  They tried but ended up loosing both matches on Saturday.  On Sunday they played again and lost.  There were moments that they looked really good and then there was other times when the wheels looked like they were coming off.  The doubles we were favored to win but in the end we lost that too.  So for the five matches we were 0-5.  During the intermission between the matches I was able to go watch some of the qualifying matches for this weeks tournament at the same place.  It was interesting seeing some of the players I have seen play in Miami.  I will have to see how this week goes and maybe see if I can get back there to watch some of the matches for the tournament to.