April Treat Ahead

Although most people seem focused on the Sochi Olympics right now, I was cheered to read in today's news that Swiss tennis champions Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka are due to play their quarter-final Davis Cup matches against Kazakhstan at Geneva's Palexpo in April!

The Swiss team, led by Stan, a Vaudois "neighbor," who won this year's Australian Open for his first tennis Grand Slam victory, won its matches in Serbia last weekend, thus earning a berth in the quarter-finals, giving them a real chance at ultimately making it to the finals for the first time in many moons.  Of course, the Kazakhs likely have other ideas.  But a Roger-Stan duo is always a potent threat, especially as both seem to be on a roll right now.

Stan is having some well-deserved moments in the limelight.  On his return from Melbourne, he was greeted by lots of well-wishers at Geneva's Cointrin airport, while most, if not all, communes in Vaud hoisted congratulatory flags on their main streets, as shown here in my own little Swiss haven.

Perhaps the opportunity for this stellar two-fer will lure HWMBO over here earlier than this summer ... fingers crossed!