Love is in the air...
...and on the scoreboard as Amy and I left work early and attended Wimbledon!!! We made it inside after waiting in queue for just over 45 minutes.
Since we had general admission Ground Passes, we couldn’t see matches in the main courts, so we decided to go to Court 3 and watch Venus Williams (who is a TALL girl) play her mixed doubles match. However, the match preceding hers was probably the match of the day. We watched Dmitry Tursunov and Jarkko Nieminen fight it out for a five set, four hour long match. Ok... ok... so what if they were only seeded 27 & 22 and we had never heard of them, it’s still world class tennis at the All England Lawn Tennis Club!!
Seems the heat was wearing on the two as Nieminen while swinging his racket in disgust lost it over the barricade and into the crowd behind the court. The Russian had “issues” with the umpire and hit a ball towards his chair, THEN afterwards seemed to try and pull him down while they shook hands.
Afterwards, we watched Venus play a few games of mixed doubles, then walked around the back courts and saw Tracy Austin and Wendy Turnbull playing doubles in the 35+ tournament.
Observation: I think tennis should be more like baseball. If they hit a ball into the stands, we should be able to keep it.
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