Austria International

Hi all,

I arrived sound and safely in Vienna yesterday about noon. I'm staying at a nice hotel and the hall we're playing in seems to be good as well. I went there to do some light training with some of the swedish players which was fine. Tonight I will have a session with austrian no. 1 and home-favourite Jürgen Koch. My back hurts me a little, but I don't think it's too bad. I'm sure it won't affect my game here in Austria. I am meant to a qualifier at 10 tomorrow morning, it will probably be Aamir Ghaffar from England or a guy called Endra Kurniawan who's originally from Indonesia, but now represents Germany. No matter who it will be I will just have to focus on my own game. I'll do my very best to try and get back to the game I played before I got injured. A fast and attacking game. This has been really difficult for me during the team matches I have played both for my club in the danish league and for my country in the european championships. I think its mainly down to the fact that my confidence is low at the moment, so I feel a bit insecure every time I hit an attacking shot. So I will have to force myself to keep on attacking and play fast, even though I may not be able to do this with much succes right now. This is the only way for me to get back to the game I want to play (and have to play to suceed at a higher level). So for this tournament the result is not what's important, but I would still love to win :)

I will keep you posted on how I get on, but for the 2nd straight week the connection to the internet at my hotel is not very good...

Thanks,

HK