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Andy’s Chinese fans gathered together to give Andy voluminous support in Shanghai. We’ve heard about their time at the tennis, now it’s time to read about them wishing Andy farewell at the airport.

“Andy lost to Ferrer in the semifinal on Saturday. In the press conference afterwards Andy said he wanted to fly home as soon as possible. So we thought Andy might leave on Sunday and we decided that we would go to Pudong Airport to say goodbye to him and also to express our support for US Davis Cup Team.

We went to the airport early in the morning. One of us was leaving on an international flight 2 hours earlier than Andy’s. So when the girl was leaving we kind of rehearsed what we would do when Andy came. Then we walked around to see if we can buy a postcard and write something to Andy. But we came up with a better idea! Andy loves poker so why not a set of poker cards with Shanghai’s sightseeing spots on it? We also wrote a letter to Andy to wish him good luck with the Davis Cup.

A while later we saw Andy, John and Doug coming. One of us went towards him and presented the cards to him and said ” This poker is for you…”. We could see there was a big smile on his face when he saw it and that must be the cutest smile we saw on him during the whole week! And he said something to the girl but she could barely remember it as she was too excited. Then she said “you can play it on the flight!” Andy replied with a “Thank you!” And then we took a picture with Andy and a US flag.

We said goodbye to Doug, John and Andy after they checked in. Andy waved goodbye to us and they all went to the custom. Less than 30 seconds later they returned because they realized they forgot to fill in some custom documents! So Andy waved goodbye to us again after they completed the forms. Another few seconds later they returned again! This time is because they went to the wrong direction to the staff corridor. Andy gave us a “that was so embarrasing”  smile when he saw us once again. We were laughing of joy of seeing Andy again and we all think this is definitely a great material for Fine of the Week in his next blog!

In the end they found the correct direction and our eyes followed them until they turned a corner and disappeared from our sight. But we all know that they sure will return again, next summer to Beijing Olympics and next November to Shanghai TMC!!

So see you next year, Andy!!”