Stako reports

From Toronto to New Haven

Here we are 3 weeks on road and tomorrow is another great match!!! Life's been crazy recently, a lot of travelling and a lot of hard work was done during this 3 weeks. My first visit to Canada was great, my older brother is living in Toronto now (only for 2 years) so it was great to spend some time with him. I was actually staying in his place and my both coaches where staying at the hotel.

Tennis was also not bad, had a great win over Richard Gasquet but unfortunately could not stick to the good game and bounced in 2 round to T.Berdych. Doubles with M.Youzhny was a lot of fun, he is really a great player and we were one step close to be in the semis, but Bhupati/Mirnyi played really well in the end. Had a chance to play golf on the best Public Golf Corse in Ontario (Eagles Nest) really great corse I enjoyed it so much.

Cincinnati was a different story, not easy draw in the 1 round singles (doubles was not much better) but I was trying to prepare the best way I could. In the end I believe it was a great match with Andy Roddick. Doubles was not that great, we lost 1 round to Llodra/Benneteau.

I stick around for couple more days to practice before New Haven tournament, played golf and visited Kings Island (roller coaster park). So airplane again and here we are just 80 miles away from Flushing Meadows in one of the world famous university YALE (New Haven). I have additional support here (my girlfriend Annette arrived last Saturday prior to the tournament). So basically here I am writing this blog 6 o'clock in the morning before the final. The truth is I have hard times sleeping before the final, I had a great run in this tournament up to now, hard match against Luczak, 2-day battle against Robredo. 2,5-hour marathon against Baghdatis and quite impressive win in semis over De Bakker (I have to tell you I played really well!!) So please keep your fingers crossed for me.

Best wishes.

Sincerely, Stako

Congrats on the win in New Haven. Staying with your brother . . . hmmmm? Thanks a lot! See you back in 2012.

Сергей поздравляю с победой .МЫ ГОРДИМСЯ ТОБОЙ .ЖЕЛАЮ ТАК ДЕРЖАТЬ НА ЮС ОУПЕН НЕСМОТРЯ НА УСТАЛОСТЬ!!!!