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G'day everyone!
I have been very lucky this week to receive a free ticket to the Australian Open yey!
Our lovely friend Paul managed to get three free tickets for Tuesday's matches and so I went along with Elise and Simone her best friend from Geelong.
I can honestly say the whole atmosphere was much more chilled out than I expected. It doesn't really matter what time you get there or go into the matches as lots of people choose to go in and out as they please moving around between the 18 courts whenever they like!
We spent the majority of the day at the Hisense arena, where we had brilliant 4th row seats and managed to watch three matches:
Ferdasco Vs Ball, Tsonga Vs Stakhovsky and Venus Williams Vs Safarova.
Apparently the first match was between an Australian guy and a Spanish guy but being three feather brains too busy chatting to pay much attention we got almost completely through the match before we realised we were cheering for the wrong guy......well we found it amusing anyway! Needless to say Sim and Elise felt pretty bad!
The highlight of my day had to be watching Venus Williams in action, she officially has the longest legs I have ever seen. We were sat next to her mum and family which was fun and a little strange!
The rest of the day was spent in the beer garden in our super comfy recliner deck chairs which provided the perfect spot for watching Roger Federer win his match.
A full day of watching tennis is pretty tiring so we caught the tram home and went to bed slightly sun drenched and very happy :)
I can highly recommend making the trip to Australia for the Open its brilliant!
Speak soon folks
netti xxx
- comments
Dave surely not with her mother watching....? http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/24012010/58/australian-open-cheeky-venus-outfit-shocks-crowd.html
netti yep apparently we weren't the only ones who thought she was going commando..! thanks Dave your fountain of knowledge continues! :) x