US Tennis Open

For our anniversary I got Mike tickets to the US open. Since we had so much fun at Wimbledon this year I thought we should go to another championship tournament. I got tickets for the Friday night matches at Arthur Ash Stadium. A few years ago we went to this same time slot and we saw Nadal play so I figured we would probably see someone in the top 5 play on this night again. We were both a little disappointed when found out that the match we would see would be Andy Roddick playing. Don't get me wrong, we love him but just saw him play at Wimbledon and we were both really hoping to see Federer, Djokovic or Murry just someone we had seen before.

We drove down to flushing meadows and parked at Citi Field (NY Mets stadium) and walked over to the tennis area. We weren't able to get in our seats for about 45 min from the time we arrived so we grabbed dinner at the concession stands and watch a match on the big screen outside the stadium.

We finally took our seats and watched Andy play a great match. Tennis is such a beautiful sport. The way they move their bodies to hit the ball. They are so graceful and have so much finesse. I love watching tennis. We ended up being glad that we saw him. He announced his retirement from the sport the day before we saw him play. I think knowing it was his last tournament made him play with a little more heart and he just did phenomenal. He won in straight sets against Tomic, the last one winning all the games.

 

An added bonus of being at the match was seeing Keith Urban and wife Nicole Kidman. We may have watched them about as much as we watched the match. 

 

We took an ice cream break then went back in to watch a little bit of the women's match. We don't follow women's tennis as much as men's so we actually weren't familiar with the two playing. However, one of them is ranked number one, and after watching her play a game or two we could see why. She was so incredible we will be keeping and eye on her, we just need to learn how to pronounce her last name.

After the first set we called it a night and went out in search of a souvenir. When we were at Wimbledon Mike got a over sized tennis ball, not the huge ones you see on TV that the players sign, one a about half that size. He keeps it at work and he wanted one from the US Open to add to his collection. We spent 30 minutes walking all around the shops looking for one, but no luck! Even after that slightly disappointing moment we still had a great night of tennis and hope to make it a tradition.