Had the most fun at the tennis today. Was gladly far away from the Serb vs. Croat brawl, but saw some awesome matches.
Firstly had my share of perv matches watching Tatiana Golovin and Nicole Vaidisova, then saw a ripping match between Mardy Fish and Ivan Ljubicic. I was very tempted to get on Fish, but figured Ljubicic would get over the line in the end. I knew Fish would put up a fight, but what an upset he caused. Looked well and truly gone after the first set with Ljubicic serving so well, but he came back and looked a different player. So did Ljubicic.
Then the highlight of the day. Watching a random match on Court 13 between Lukas Dlouhy and Teimuraz Gabashvili. Started watching the match in the 4th set, and immediately jumped on Gabashvilli since he had come back from 2 sets to 0 down. He saved 4 match points to take the 4th set in a tie-break, and suddenly this huge crowd started to form, with some funny guys backing Gabashvilli as well (we started calling him The Basher). The 5th set was awesome, with him being 4-1 down, but saving around 10 match points hitting the best shots you will ever see. I hope there were cameras there because some of his ripping shots on match point down would top stuff that the big guns on Rod Laver would pull out. He ended up tragically losing the match 6-3, 6-1, 6-7, 6-7, 16-14. It was so fun, and because on Court 13 you're so close to the action it made it that much better. The Basher was cracking jokes with us when he was 12-11 up and all. Easily one of my favourite players now. What a champion. Hearbreaking he lost the match.
Best day of tennis. Left the house at 9:30am only buying a gen-ad afternoon ticket, yet arrived home at 12am thanks to the Court 13 match lasting till almost 11pm. Brilliance, definitely worth every cent and the long wait in the que.
