Day 3 saw us trotting around with complementary Ground Passes, so after blagging a free programme from a mate who works in the IT dept of the AELTC, he took us up to the AELTC offices - Mum was all giddy at being allowed "behind the scenes"... I just experienced desk envy as he gets to look out over grounds of SW19... I sit in an open plan, grab-a-desk-if-its-free area in South Bank, watching people's feet walking by on The Embankment... Pffft (but not too loudly... 'cos... y'know... freebie tickets)
Anyway... Fully blagged-programmed-up for the day - we headed for lunch and then meandered...
We were trying to get our bearings and just stopped by Court 10... where Svetlana Kuznetsova was warming up/practicing...
I just stopped dead and had my mum walk straight into the back of me which earned a smile from her (!)
So we parked for a couple of photies...
Today was all about getting our bearings and once we'd sussed out where Court 11 was and where we needed to go queue to sit etc, we did the "supermarket sweep" approach to the outside courts... stumbling across... Vaidi having won the first set, and choked the 2nd, and was 0-3 down (or thereabouts) ... she battled her little visored self and Sam Stosur was wasting opportunities - there was much racquet slappage onto her bag at various changes of ends...
What was really amusing though... was Pam Shriver commentating at the top of C2... and we heard her dulcet tones ringing out over Vaidi's chokathon ... thing is... we were just behind the player's chairs... so... if we heard her, can you imagine what the players were hearing (ok - well of course they're in the zone so they prolly didn't hear nowt!)
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