As you know, the main reason for going to Melbourne was the tennis and we were really looking forward to our two full days watching the quarter finals (daytime and evening sessions) at the Rod Laver arena.
Our schedule was:
Day One
Agnieszka Radwanska vs Li Na
David Ferrer vs Nicholas Almagro
Maria Sharapova vs Ekaterina Makarova
Novak Djokovic vs Tomas Berdych
Day Two
Victoria Azarenka vs Svetlana Kuznetsova
Sloane Stephens vs Serena Williams
Andy Murray vs Jeremy Chardy
Roger Federer vs Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
As neither of us had been to any live tennis matches before, this was a completely new experience and we both thoroughly enjoyed it. It's fair to say that some of the matches were better than others - and a couple of them were a bit dull (and guess what, one of the those involved Andy Murray!). That said, the dullest was Sharapova vs Makarova, where Lisa became more obsessed with clocking Sharapova's OCDs - there are so many it's ridiculous and it seems to take her forever to serve.
The best match by far was Federer verses Tsonga. Not only because the great man was playing, but it was a real 5 set rollercoaster as the match swung one way, then the other.
The atmosphere in the stadium was also brilliant and it was doubly entertaining as we had a family of Indians sitting behind us giving us their take on almost every point about what was going to happen next! The match went on for quite a while and Rob was so pleased he got to see Roger for such a long time!
All in all we we had a couple of really good days and apart from frying nicely in the sun a bit too much, we'd definitely do it again.
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| Welcome to the Rod Laver Arena |
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| Start of the Williams vs Stephens match |
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| Williams action shot! |
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| Stephens winning the match |
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| The arena at night |
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| Djokovic vs Berdych |
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| Ouch, looks painful - trademark Novak slide... |
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| And Novak wins! |
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| Federer and Tsonga pose for the press |
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| Tsonga talks to the crowd - not sure what about! |
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| The Greatest in action |
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| Federer applauding Rob's support during the match! |
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| Mrs Federer making a sharp exit as she walked towards us |
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| Rob showing his support for Roj |
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| Cooling down after a day in the sunny seats |
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| Melbourne Southbank at twilight |
Ah I have converted you to avid tennis fans
ReplyDeleteYou have captured some fantastic shots, in particularly Mr Djokovic and his slide. How does he do that?
Pleased you enjoy it x