Tennis Greats at the Aussie Open

The Australian Open was THE ticket in town and I was very impressed with how many people went to check out The Australian Open (about 60,000 each day) yet we never waited in line for long, there was plenty of room at the Jacob's Creek Wine Bar and we got in and out of plenty of the outdoor courts.

The day started out overcast and a bit drizzling rain so of course I had to do a rain dance to bring out the sun. And fortunately, it worked as it ended up being a beautiful day, bright sun but not too humid hot.

Here's a Flip of some of the tennis matches on the outdoor courts.



After a little while, George and I took our seats in Rod Laver Arena where we watched two incredible matches.

The first was between Roger Federer (Swiss) who was the #1 seed and Albert Montanes from Spain who was seeded #31 and won in three straight matches (6-3 6-4 6-4). What was most impressive was that Federer chased down every ball, I mean he really hustled to reach the balls that most thought he had no chance of getting to in time. But multiple times he got to the ball from the other side of the court - the slow motion replays would show us his fast and fancy footwork to show us how he got to the ball so quickly. It was amazing!

We saw Federer in the third-round and ultimately he would go on to win the Australian Open. In the interview after he won this match you'll find that he was very gracious and humble.



The last match we saw was between Venus Williams who was the #6 seed and the crowd favorite Casey Dellacqua from Australia who in her bio in the program was an avid scrapbooker! In women's tennis they only had to win two matches (for men it was 3 matches) and Venus won 6-1 then 7-6(4). I didn't understand the tie breaking rules but it was quite exciting to see the second match go into a tie breaker.



The talk of the ladies match was Venus' tennis outfit. She designed it herself (she has her own design label) and it was bright yellow. At first blush, it looked quite risque because the front had quite a sharp "V-shape" but if you looked closely there was a skin colored tank underneath. Similarly, she wore a skin color bikini bottom under her tennis skirt. But when the wind wiped up her skirt, it looked like she was naked underneath and there was a collective audience gasp (and a few whistles from the men in the audience).





After the last match we headed to Jacob Creek's Wine Bar for a few glasses of the very sweet tasting muscat champagne. While appreciating the view of the river, I noticed that the parallel road was Batman Drive and George was wearing her Batgirl t-shirt. And in a previous Flip Video, her husband Paul had his Batman t-shirt which you can check out here! Holy cow, Robin, we've got a Bat-fan club!