Ok, so...I went to a tennis tournament on Tuesday! Q107.5 was at Tan-N-Go that morning, giving away free tickets to the Regions Morgan Keegan tournament, and I just happened to be in the neighborhood, so I got some! Mike really likes tennis, so I invited him to go with me.
Did you know that it is unacceptable to make any noise while the ball is in play? I didn't, til I got there. They made us wait outside the stadium until a match was finished, and as we were walking under the bleachers to our seat, play resumed...so we had to wait below for about 10 minutes til the game ended and the ushers opened the stairs to the bleachers again. Before a ball was served, you could probably literally hear a pin drop. I kept whispering & Mike had to remind me that we were supposed to be quiet. The only live games I've been to are college football, college basketball, and the River Kings hockey...I mean, seriously! There are some things they just don't tell you on the Wii... ;)
We had passed a room full of caterers from local restaurants selling various hors d'oeuvres our way in, and as we were watching the game, Mike decided the only thing we were missing was strawberries & creme...or maybe a ProntoPup.
I got some sweet video on my phone, but aparently the free version of Quicktime, that came on my computer, doesn't have a rotate function for video, so I'm still working on getting them presentable for online display :)
Apparently "The Q"s audience isn't crawling with tennis lovers...we were the only people in our section of the bleachers! We watched Marcos Baghdatis (ranked 85 in the world) from Cypress and Kei Nishikori (56) from Japan play most of a round, and then Victoria Azarenka (15) and Stephanie Cohen-Aloro (93) played one game before it was time for us to leave.
The guys were serving 115-130 mph balls, and the women's were mostly in the 90's, but I saw one that was 120-something. And Azarenka has a funny little yell that she does every time she hits a ball that sounds like a bird cooing. :)
Unfortunately it was time to get back to class and work after about an hour, so we didn't get to stick around for more than one women's game. It really was a cool experience and I was sorry to have to leave. We took a different door out than we had when entering, and it led to a little courtyard/alley space, and lo and behold, there before our very eyes, tucked away from the view of the elite crowd, was a corndog stand!!
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