On Saturday after the match against Lynn, the whole team was able to relax and have fun at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami. Since the beginning of the semester we were all looking forward to this trip to Miami and having a great day at the tournament site. We were walking around, stopping by the players' lounge and then all of the sudden Martina B.'s eyes caught those of one of her favorite players, Rainer Schüttler. She was shy to make the first move and talk to him but with Alida's and my help, she got up the courage, walked over and had a little chat with him. After the talk, she became an even bigger fan and even went as far as to post him as her profile picture on facebook. haha Good job, Martina!!! At the end of the day in Miami we got to see the number 1-ranked doubles team in the world, the Bryan brothers.  They were playing against Martina's love, Schüttler and Tina's love, Nikolas Kiefer who is also a German native. Even though, we were cheering for the Germans, the Bryan brothers' game impressed us.

The first match after the loss during the South Florida trip was tough, but our comeback was successful. On Tuesday against Hawaii Pacific we were still struggling with our game a little bit, but at the end of the day we were able to record another win for the Lady Pirates.

On Wednesday we hit the road again to Alabama to play in the Blue-Gray Tennis Classic. The first day of the tournament was very "peculiar," as our coach from Britain would say. We travelled back and forth between the tournament site and hotel due to the bad weather. A tornado warning was announced in the morning so we started the match as early as possible.  However weren't able to finish it because the tornado warning went off.

Luckily, we already had five points and therefore we won the match and didn't need to finish it the next day.

On the second day of the tournament, we were prepared to face the University of West Florida, who are ranked top-10 ranked in Division II. We thought this win was a pretty impressive performance..... !!!!!

Both the women's and men's team played the finals against the hosting team AUM. Earlier in the season we played them at Armstrong and beat them easily, but this match at AUM was expected to be tougher since we lost to them the previous year.  Also competing at their home courts meant their supporters would be cheering loud.

After doubles we were up 2-1 and stayed strong through singles to finish the match with a final score of 5-1.  Memories of our championship win at Nationals came flooding back when we turned our attention to our guy's team battle.  The memories from the double victory of the men and women's team were present again when the guy's also clinched the Blue-Grey Classic.  Alida was again the one that set the match point for the tournament win as it happened last year at Nationals. " Ready to win the Nationals, girls?!?!!" J

We finally finished our regular season's matches with two 9-0 wins against Lander and North Georgia.

Now, we are definitely ready to rock the courts at the Peach Belt Conference Tournament next weekend in Atlanta.