We headed up to the resale place where the queue was ok – spread out a little and up to the steps of Court 18 …
Clare tootled off to watch the big screen and I got chatting to the person in front (as ya do) and the queue monitor (hee!) reckoned we’d have NOOOOO problems in getting tickets for Jamie’s match against Bob Bryan/Sam Stosur…
We took it all in turns to wander off and see how Shuettler was doing (all the while praying he’d despatch him earlyish) and meanwhile people were trying to persuade the queue to buy tickets for Court 1!!!
Sure enough – within minutes of the match finishing – tickets were in circulation and off we went!
Rousing reception for them and we were sitting JUST along from the player’s box
First set – Liezel and Jamie played AWESOME!!! They ripped through it and I was already planning on getting down to Wimbledon on the Sunday and queuing from the start of the main match just to see him in the final!
2nd set – Sam’s service game holds improved and Bob got into his groove.
Couple of moments of hilarity
After actually getting to a Bryan serve, AND returning it – Liezel raised her hands aloft like a prize fighter and then did one of Lleyton’s trademark downward fistpumps – had the crowd going and Jamie a-giggling…
Then there was the time when Jamie fired a volley straight at Bob, hitting him on the… ummm… top inner thigh and more by virtue of Bob swatting the ball away with one hand, he wasn’t left writhing around in agony… but he did indicate to Jamie that he’d missed the Bryan crown jewels by a matter of centimetres (with Jamie grinning all the while!).
I think Liezel also managed to aim a ball at Bob too and he slipped over, lay there while Sam dashed about and finished the point, and then made her pull him up!
Jamie and Liezel had gotten themselves 1-4 down and brought it back to a TB – but Bob and Sam took that and into a third we went …
This was such a tight match and both sides really upped their game. It really was a joy to watch dubs specialists moving each other about the court.
They’d had SUCH a chance on Sam’s serve to get ahead, and then that fateful DF…
They had chances on Bob’s serve, to be honest but he aced it out and it was all over… HOWL!!!
But standing ovation for them, which was nice…
And so ends Rozzie’s Wimbledon 2008!
6 days of tennis, highlights being…
4 lots of Jamie Dubs
2 lots of Andy including THAT match against Gasquet
JJs first 2 glorious rounds
AND the Womens Semi’s… not bad eh!
Barclaycard has gone into hiding (or melted… or both!)
So until next year….this is your roving (or raving) reporter Rozzie, signing off!
:kiss: :wavey:
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