US Open 2009 Day 10: Djokovic v Verdasco

By now we were getting close to having to plan to get back for our trains – so it was pretty clear we weren’t going to get to see all of Nole/FerVer 76(2), 16, 75 62
And Oh. Those. Kits.
Just NO!







Nole just didn’t seem to start confidently – body language towards the end of last year was lots of shrugging to his team – seemed to be struggling with his serve and Nando wasn’t rolling over for him.
This first set was pretty amazing – both really going at it – and I think on balance Nole was pretty lucky to get the 1st.







At that point we really had to mosey – so we left as Nole was coallpsing a bit in the 2nd…
And here’s the BEEEG difference between Wimbledon (and RG!) and USO – this whole day and night deal.
As we left people were queuing up for the night session – but of course weren’t going to be able to take their seats until the “day” session had finished.
I would take the day session at events like USO/AO for that reason – although I would LOVE to see a night match at either of those two.

We headed back to the trains – and the loooooong journey back for me to Washington.
Christ alive – if I thought that a full day at Wimbledon was tough – try tagging along a 3 and a half hour journey home!

Final passing thought – I was ONE LUCKY ROZZIE – the next 2 days were completely rained out at USO.

But a fantastic experience... one I was so lucky to have so this section of blog is dedicated to Les and Emi Olsson :-))