Category Archives: Tennis

I’ve finally found a tournament that I might like as much as the US Open. The BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells was amazing. Serena’s return was an absolute tear-jerker and my favorite moment, but watching the game’s best players from the front row of the outer stadiums was a very close runner-up. Don’t know what took me so long to get down to SoCal to check this out.

 

Ana Ivanovic

 

Victoria Azarenka

 

 Stan Wawrinka

 

Sam Stosur

 

Taylor Townsend

 

Heather Watson

 

Ivanovic

 

Sloane Stephens

 

Yulia Putintseva

 

Guillermo Garcia-Lopez

 

Azarenka

 

Thanasi Kokkinakis

 

Azarenka

 

…and, of course, Serena.

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Simona Halep on her way to being upset…

 

Anything you can do…

 

Monfils NEVER disappoints.  Except in the quarterfinals against Federer.

 

 

Cilic on the way to winning the whole thing.

 

Tsonga, one of my favorite players.

 

 

Serena

 

Milos Raonic

 

Venus

 

Azarenka

 

 

 

Victor Estrella Burgos put up an AMAZING fight against Raonic.

 

 

Lisa Leslie

 

 

David Ferrer

 

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This year marks the 15th time I’ve attended the US Open.  It is, by far, my favorite sporting event.  I couldn’t love it more. There were lots of characters, old and new, that made this year’s Labor Day weekend as thrilling as ever. Here are some of the matches I took in and images I managed to bring home.

 

Federer was pushed to Armstrong by the rain…

 

 

…and, before a stunned capacity crowd, he was pushed right out of the tournament in 3 sets by Tommy Robredo.

 

Speaking of Tommy, the ageless Tommy Haas is still going strong.

 

Sabine Lisicki made quick work of her 3rd round opponent.

 

 

 

Serena vs Sloane started off with some fireworks, but didn’t quite live up to the hype.

 

 

The crowd is always a part of the picture at Flushing.

 

Donald Young was run off the court pretty easily this year….

 

…but he DID team up with 17-year-old giantkiller Victoria Duval (who defeated #3 Sam Stosur in the first round of womens’ singles) for mixed doubles.

 

 

Janko Tipsarevic and David Ferrer are always exciting to watch on the Grandstand.  This match took place at the same time as Federer was taking his beating, so I bounced back and forth to get these shots.  I’ll definitely shoot this perspective more often in years to come.  Love it.

 

 

Raquel Kops-Jones was sort of our mascot for this year.  We saw her play doubles and mixed doubles almost every day.  We saw her women’s team lose to the Williams sisters and her mixed team defeat Young and Duval.  Basically, we kinda stalked her when we saw her on the draw sheet.

 

Johnny Mac!!!  Rushing from the Nadal match on Ashe to call the Federer carnage on Armstrong.

 

 

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Andrea Hlavackova, one round before Serena bageled her 6-0, 6-0.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maria Kirilenko

 

Ms. Softee

 

 

 

 

Thinking (hoping?) that this was Blake’s swan song, although I loved seeing him one last time. Despite the throttling by Raonic.

 

 

 

Andy Roddick’s final victory

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