Wednesday night we went to 'The Tennis' otherwise known as The Australian Open. (We still haven't figured out why they call it 'the tennis' and not just 'tennis'. They'll say, "We're going to the tennis tonight.") The Australian Open is one of the four grand slam tennis tournaments along with the US Open, Wimbeldon and the French Open. It is a tennis competition with 128 women and 128 men vying for the grand prize of $1.3 million each for the top male and female tennis players.
Melbourne is crazy about sports. Heaps of people go to these games, it's all over TV and advertisements throughout the city and even in store windows. Everyone here seems to support the tennis. So, at the advice of MANY Aussie's, we bought at $20 grounds pass ticket for admission after 530pm on Wednesday; this night, the games went until 10pm (last night, Saturday, the game started at 12am and went 5 sets). It was a great experience and since we were there, we've been following along watching more matches on TV. At Wednesday night's games, there were swarms of people, lots of vendors, excitement, 20 plus courts and lots of switching our heads back and forth to follow the tennis ball going from one side of the court to the other.
We've attached a picture of one of the matches we saw with a view of the city behind.
Hope you're all doing well and next time you're near one of the grand slam events, you should definitely go see 'the tennis.'
Cheers!
1 comment:
So was it the Philly people's fault for Roddick yelling at the crowd to shutup? :p
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