Roland Garros

Well I had an awesome day on Tuesday at the French Open. We went on down there at 10am, and it was pretty overcast, and the weather was looking a little threataning. In the French tradition of beauracracy there was a six step process just to get inside. Once we finally did, it was pretty cool. I was with a couple of Frenchmen myself, and there was a young Frenchmen playing on Court 3, so we headed over to see him. Being the French Open and a Frenchman playing, the court was overflowing with supporters but we managed to grab ourselves courtside seats, in the back corner of the court.

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After 5 games it started to piss down with rain, and play was suspended for about 90mins. As you can see below

The rain cleared around 1pm, and we headed back to the court to see the French guy win in straight sets.


After that we went for a wander around, saw a few old players (like Ille Natise among others) and some other players warming up (here is Andy Murray)


This chick was playing doubles (and pretty attractive, no idea who she was)



Then we went down to see young Aussie Bernard Tomic, (who got absolutely smashed) and was having a bit of a running battle with the umpire during the match, over his sore leg. We had great seats right behind the umpire, there were a few aussies in the crowd, but mostly the crowd were cheering on the German.



As you can see on the scoreboard he got pumped



Had a little wander around afterwoods, saw Roger Rasheed, and caught Sammy Stosur, and briefly saw Jelana Dockic (who was listed in the programme as Serbian) all in all a great day, and then a very long night at some of our local drinking establishments here in the Butte Aux Cailles.