An
aerial view of the tennis complex
A
map of Wimbledon - and it gives the "names and details"A note from Tanya after
her first visit to Wimbledon - Monday 21st June 2004
I saw these guys
play:-
Juan Carlos Ferrero,
Alicia Molik,
Wayne Arthurs,
Jelena Dokic, and
Guillermo Coria.
AND then when I went to CENTRE COURT AT WIMBLEDON
I saw these two play:-
Carlos Moya, and
Anna Myskina.
Man, the chicks go a lot harder than I thought!!
Wouldn't like to be on the receiving end of any of those serves!!
Saturday 26th June
2004
Up at 4.30am.
Got ready for the tennis and caught a taxi with Cassie and Michelle
to meet Karen at Putney Bridge Station.
We were on the only people on the train but when we got in line
at the tennis we were 879th in line!!
Everyone was really excited and there was a pretty good feeling
about it.
We were in line behind a few nice Aussies and chatted to them.
Each day they sell 500 tickets to Centre Court, Court 1 and Court
2.
We wanted Court 2 tickets because that was where "The Poo"
was playing!
The stewards come along the line and give everyone an armband
for the Court they want and then you go through the turnstile
and are guaranteed a seat on that court.
We got the ones we wanted and went in.
It didn't take too long actually.
We got in and went straight to Centre Court for the lighting of
the Olympic Torch.
It was pretty cool.
The person that lit it was Sir Roger Bannister. (who ran the first
sub-four-minute mile)
It was pretty cool and then he took it to Tim Heman and they ran
it around Wimbledon a bit then off into London.
It had started to rain by then and it just didn't stop.
We had coffee and found a dry place to sit.
The rain stopped slightly and we went to the hill.
Watched a bit of last year's Championships on the big screen -
saw "The Poo" in action - it just wasn't live.
We then went and checked out our seats.
They were third row on the sideline.
Totally amazing and it would have been awesome to actually see
some tennis - instead we just sat there and watched them re-inflate
the covers when the rain started again!!
We wandered around a bit a saw quite a few "famous faces":-
Fernando Gonzalez - who "The Poo" was going to play
that day,
John McEnroe,
Lindsay Davenport,
Vincent Spaeda (very very nice looking!!), and
Boris Becker.
The first face of the day we saw was John Newcombe - he walked
past us while we were lining up and gave us a wave when we called
out!
We also saw Martina Navratalova getting out of her cab and going
in to the courts.
Despite the rain it was fun and I guess there isn't much you can
do about the weather.
Yesterday was lovely though as is today so it is just the luck
of the draw.
Karen and I wore my "Bikini Shirts" and watching people
do double takes on us was very very funny!
A few people wanted photos taken with us and we obliged!
It was fun!
The last thing we did before giving up and going home was to get
some strawberries and cream!
It was quite cool - and yes there are photos of me eating strawberries
and cream at Wimbledon!
Monday 28th June
2004
Lleyton Hewitt
and "The Poo" are both playing today so depending on
where they are at with the games I might head down after work.
They are both playing on Centre Court so we can watch the action
on the big screen on the hill
Monday 28th June
2004
I went to Wimbledon
straight from work with Paula and sat on the hill to watch the
Henman/Phillipousis match on Centre Court.
The "Henman Hill" was totally packed.
They had security guards there and wouldn't let anyone else in
but we found a good spot and jammed ourselves in.
We were hoping that "Henman Hill" would have become
"Mount Phillipousis" by the end of the game but it wasn't
to be!
"The Poo" didn't play very well at all and was beaten
quite soundly.
It was pretty funny at the end of the third set which Mark won.
I let out a big cheer and then thought that maybe I got the call
wrong and he hadn't won the set yet because it was so quiet.
I then realised that basically everyone else was English so they
had no reason at all to cheer when Henman lost the set!!
It was quite funny to be in a minority for once - normally us
Aussies can make a pretty big impact wherever we are but we had
no chance last night!
I saw on the big screen a close up of some Aussie fans - it turned
out to be Ledge (my Fanatics tour guide from Turkey) and Adam.
("The Undie Achiever")
I ran into them outside and we had a bit of a chat - we swapped
numbers so hopefully we can catch up soonish - maybe State of
Origin.
Anyway now "Little Lleyton" is our last hope at the
tennis and with him playing defending champion Federer tomorrow
it might be all over!
Will be sure to let you know if I head down again.
PS - I had a fiver on the match with my boss!
Bugger!!"
