And we were still in the non-reserved seats that we had identified as the place where we wanted to sit, again at court 2, with 30 minutes to spare before the scheduled start of matches.So far so good, but then it began to rain. We spent most of the next five hours watching this.
It may not look like much but actually we were really, really fortunate to have the spot where we were sitting. We are on court 2, underneath an overhang from court 3. There are four rows of seats there, the length of the tennis court, no more than 200 seats total. They are absolutely the only seats on the entire grounds that are under cover. Not a single overpriced reserved seat in any of the three stadia or any of the seats on any of the other courts had any cover. We were the only dry people on the grounds. Not a single person left. We ALL, every single one of us, sat it out. We all knew we were dry and that no one else was.Finally at long last the rain abated and these guys appeared to a thunderous ovation.
And in the end it was all totally worth it. We had a rest day, no heavy schedule of walking, at the end of which was this. The fifth ranked player in the world from the third row.
That's Elena Dementiava almost close enough to touch. There are lots of things you will never ever learn about women's tennis from watching on television. The one we learned today is what the velocity the top women are putting on the ball looks like in person. Unless you have been there and seen her hit it, you do not have complete information.
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Well told tale -- good job on finding what were literally the best seats in the house. Good that you actually got to see some tennis after all of that resolved waiting. It could not have been easy.
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