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Aussie Open

I had bought three days worth of tickets for the Open and some how God allowed us to see all the Americans on the first day! It was quite incredible. As a tennis fan, it was so much fun to sit in Rod Laver Arena and watch three great matches. We had really good seats and I was very impressed with how the seats were arranged. You could pretty much see every part of the court and there wasn’t anyone blocking your view. The first ladies match, we saw a young American almost take down the number 1 player in three sets. (A set consists of the best of 6 games). Jamie Hampton was playing verse Victoria Azarenka (the number 1). Jamie was mentally in it to win it until the 3rd set where she injured her back. She was so close to beating her. Since of course we had to root for the American, we had the people around us convinced that Hampton was going to beat Azarenka too. Unfortunately, she didn’t win but it was a fantastic match! The two others that we watched was Serena Williams and then Andy Murray. Both of these players wiped the floor with who they were playing against.

Jamie Vs. Azarenka

The next couple of days we saw even more tennis. It was a lot of fun to watch Venus & Serena play doubles but we ended up waiting a whole match to get inside of this court. The Margaret Court Arena didn’t have tickets for specific seats. In other words, you have to wait to get a seat in the court. So, waiting almost two hours just to watch them was crazy but well worth it!

Doubs- Venus & Serena

Our last day of tennis was amazing. We got to watch another young American woman- Sloane Stephens play against Bojana Jovanovski. It was a pretty intense match with a lot of grunting/screaming from the other side. **There’s a rule coming out, soon I hope, that will limit the amount of screaming/ grunting and I can’t wait! Sloane won and then went on to beat Serena in the next round.

Overall, it was 3 pretty amazing days of watching some of the best in the world play!