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The Sunday farmer’s market in the square below the cathedral.
Aaron and I arrived In Zagreb Saturday afternoon local time (total flight time 15 hours–yikes) and immediately went over to the arena and ran into our old friend Jeff Salzenstein who had just won his first match in the qualies.
The 3 of us went out for an incredible fresh fish dinner at a local restaurant–crispy baked white fish with a name I can’t pronounce caught the same day in the Adriatic Sea. Potatoes and local greens on the side. Fantastic.
The meal must have agreed with Jeff as he beat a tough Croatian player 3 and 5 on Sunday. His third match to get into the main draw was a heartbreaker. A 3-set loss with a tiebreaker in the third to a Czech player named Tomas Cakl, who proceeded to win his first round match in the main draw yesterday, and then hang for a set with Mikhail Youzhny before going down today. Yeah I know you never heard of him, but he was serving 135mph on the gun. It’s frightening how good these guys you never heard of actually are.
Jeff and I had a chance…
