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There’s been a sinister twist to events here in Sudan.  It appears that Adam Vejmelka (known as the Professor of tennis) found during his studies into the perfect tennis player, that by combining the effortless skills of Chris Waddle and the tactical awareness of Glenn Hoddle (the Tottenham stars of the 1980s), it was possible to create an invincible tennis player.  It had already been proven that by combining their talents, truly unbelievable output could be produced, as can be heard by their 1987 hit single “Diamond Lights”.  Vejmelka contacted a Dr. Stein, based in Romania, who set about creating the perfect Waddle-Hoddle-tennis-morph-player.  The result being a creation known as Cris Hodel, who will represent Romania, in the first round of Sudan F1 as soon as this damn rain stops.

The world of tennis has been slightly taken a back, and its now having trouble standing back up again.  Personally, I blame the vodka it was knocking back last night.

At last - we have tennis!

Yesterday, with only half the 1st round complete, and with Rwanda F1 due to start today, the organisers had a massive logistics problem.  They could see that there was only one solution - play through the night!  So that's exactly what they did.

The courts eventually dried out by 8pm last night - at which point the floodlights were switched on, to a huge cheer from the patience crowd - and the tennis began...

Prof. Vejmelka's Feaver formula looked to be in trouble from the very beginning, as Ingland's Jamie Feaver took the first set off him 7-5. But then the formula began to kick in, and Vejmelka eventually won 57 63 62.
As is often quoted, V = 2.67T + 2.3*(4/SK - 7j) cubed.

By 10:30pm, Vejmelka's creation, Cris Hodel was on court, and the invincible Waddle-Hoddle combination claimed an awesome victory over the Syrian, Sheet. 62 62. 

Dead on midnight, the reigning champion, big Bogdan "Victor" Leonte entered the arena, and was soon victorious over the Syrian, Nour. 64 62.

At 1:32am, Vejmelka came back on court, and by 1:56am, he was off again, thrashing Gert Briton's Ed Seator 60 60.

At 2:48am, Cris Hodel's arm fell off.  Dr. Stein's needlework skills obviously have a lot to be desired.  The Russian, Andy Karanashev, last year's semi-finalist, won the match in 3 sets against an increasingly limb-deficient, Cris Hodel.

The quarter-finals started at 4:40am, and the results were as follows...

  Adam VEJMELKA (CZE) (1) defeated John MCGAHON (IRL) 75 36 62
  Andrei CIUMAC (MDA) defeated Gilles DE SOUSA (FRA) 76(5) 76(7)
  Andemir KARANASHEV (RUS) defeated Motaz ABOU EL KHAIR (EGY) (4) 36 63 62
  Bogdan-Victor LEONTE (ROM) (2) defeated Alexandru-Daniel CARPEN (ROM) 67(1) 61 64

The players, by now, were visibly flagging.

The semi-finals began at 7:45am, this morning.

An exhausted Bogdan, losing out to Andy K, 64 61.  He shouldn't have spent so much time wrestling antelopes on that steamboat of his.

In the other semi, Vejmelka comfortably defeated Ciumac 61 61.


And just a few minutes ago, Adam Vejmelka's 12 hour/day training regime really paid dividends, as he claimed the illustrious Sudan F1 title with 62 64 win over Andy K.

It was an awesome display by Adam Vejmelka, though pity the poor the bookmakers who are now near-suicidal.  The world of tennis has never witnessed such extra-ordinary events, and its now too excited to go to bed.  It’s my fault, I should never have given it that Mars bar and fizzy pop.

Big Bogdan is currently boarding his steamboat, and is hoping the Nile goes Rwanda-bound.

What an unbelievable night!  What an exhausting night!  Now, I wonder if Bogdan will give me a lift...