Competitive, but not winning was how our game vs Mexico went today. Mexico are a solid team and while we played reasonably, certainly a step up from our performance in Bahrain, we still weren’t making the great digs, blocks and serves we needed to win.

Despite notching up another first round loss with an unimpressive score (21-15, 21-13) we remain positive and still believe that we can win these games and make the maindraw. There are 3 chances left for us in Croatia, Portugal and Canada. For the rest of the week we plan to play plenty of practice games to keep building our game step by step.

On Sunday Duck and Kate head off to Venice for a honeymoon before we meet up in Croatia for the next event.

As for other Aussies on the world tour, both of the girls teams in the Singapore qualifier were knocked out earlier today and Josh and Schatty are resting at home this week. That leaves Natalie Cook and Tamsin Barnett as the only team left flying the flag for Australia on the world tour this week. Good luck girls!

Brad