Cold...

Not much happening right now. I have got such a unnecessary cold that will destroy most of my practices this week. We played a icehockeygame last weekend and i played first period and 10 minutes into the 2:nd before we made a scheduled goalie-change. Until I was replaced I had recieved 35 shots on 30 minutes and gave up 4 goals. That´s pretty good and i was really warm and sweaty so when i was sitting on the bench i was starting to freeze and ..voila!! A cold arrived on Sunday evening like a letter in the mailbox.

Gotta put in some equipment-talk in this post as well. I re gripped and strung one of my "new" Wilson´s on Sunday. Strung it in 55 lbs with a new sample string from Raj in Germany. Some kind of poly-string with a hexagonel shape. Will try it on Thursday and see how it plays.

Oh! I made a bargain as well on the swedish trade-site "Blocket". A guy was selling 3 Head Prestige Classic 600 in grip 4 1/2 for an amazing price. As a racket-collector/addict it was an easy decision to spend some hard earned dough on those babes. I have never before tried the Prestige Classic frame, only the Prestige Tour 600 and the i.Prestige mid, so it will be fun trying those vintage-frames.

I don´t know yet if i will pimp them with calfskin-grip and new bumpers and put them up on ebay or if they will end up as an actual playing-frame. The Wilson Ksix.One felt really nice and I think the Prestige is a bit to demanding for me, but as I said,, it will be nice to at least try.

* The ATP World Tour is in Costa do Sauipe in Brazil this week. There the weather is like 25-30 degrees Celsius and a nice, warm sun. Here, in south-central Sweden on the outskirts of the south Swedish highlands, we have minus 4, 2 dm´s of snow and a cold northern wind. D A M N , the clay court season seems to be 600 days away right now...