Australian Open Adventures pt.2
It was a dreary day, we all had little sleep and by the time we got to the Australian Open, we found out that the court we had bought tickets for was jam-packed with doubles. DOUBLES. Now I’m all for equality but I’m sorry, I’m pretty keen on singles. For starters, I’m a single pringle, I prefer escalators in single file (less confusion that way) and if Beyonce named her song “All the double ladies” I doubt that it would become as successful (would still be a stellar song tho as beyone is bae). But since we’d already bought these seats, we decided to give these doubles people a chance…
Here’s what I learned from double matches - the speed at which that fluro ball is moving is outta this world (twice the amount of people means twice the ball drama), you see more hi-fives and fist-pumps in a double than you would with candid mates and each time a point is won (ie when the audience clap) you’ll see the teams talking to each other about strategy in a ‘nonchalant’ manner…
Since he was one of the few tennis players I know of, photo spam was at its highest.
Boy, it must’ve been awkward as hell for the opposing team….
Even Hewitt himself was in on the nonchalant strategy talk…
We then watched a match between Berdych vs some other man who was not Berdych. By this time, sleep was beckoning us so my family and I were miserable, barely functioning, tryna deny the fact that we were defeated with fatigue. We eventually left before the game was over as 7 hours was much too long at the Aus Open.
Lesson of the day - give doubles a chance. There’s twice the drama and the strategy talk is pretty entertaining to watch.
- Andrea x