Long, slow security checks mean early arrival is a must if you want to settle in before the start of play
The Maestro levitating the ball with his mind, as if his shotmaking wasn't intimidating enough
I've seen Fed live three times and this is the first shot that his eyes were not on the ball (because they were closed)
Roger's box featuring Mirka, Severin and of course Anna Wintour
Stop it Henrik, stop making all the rest of us look like hobos, it's just a 2nd round match
Fed blows another inside out forehand past Darcis. I lost count of the different types of winners he hit, but it was probably in the dozens
Steve Darcis, aka The Sacrificial Lamb, aka 39 Year Old Sam Bennett ponders his choices in life during the beatdown
Fed briefly considers hitting a souvenir ball to me before turning around and launching it in a different direction, because he's a jerk like that
Wozniacki/Cetkovska felt hugely anticlimactic as a 2nd match, at least to begin with. but as many of you know, it turned out to be quite the midnight show
Petra used the tactic of blasting away at every ball, which was enough to topple last year's finalist, and of course get no further after that
Woz has a great smile off court, trades that in for this face on every single shot
Seriously, this much strain shouldn't be happening when you're just fluffing the ball back
The victor's celebratory leap, which took over twice as long to earn as the men's match before it
The new roof in progress. Everything they say about it on TV is true, it does reduce wind, improve lighting, add an indoorsy echo and somehow make the normally impersonal Ashe quite a bit more intimate. very interested to see how the players and fans respond next year when it's complete
A final look at the flying tennis saucer on the way out
. Always a sight for sore eyes.
