Critternurse was there!

by critternurse

Okay!!! I am happy we saw as much as we did. We watched Rafa's match with Horna but our seats were pretty high up and not good for pics, then twice practicing and once at the signing station. I had my binos with me and you can be sure I was checking him out from head to toe, the batteries died on me I used them so constantly (they're image stabilizing). I LOVE to watch him practice because he jokes around and football kicks the ball and laughs, very relaxed One thing that irratated me about this tennis center is they block most of your view to the practice courts with landscaping or screened fences, and you're forced to watch from up high in another stadiums' bleachers or fumble around in the bushes like a stalker to see them hitting. One guy actually climbed a tree to watch Sharapova practicing until the staff official forced him to come down.

What we saw too much of unfortunately
I didn't say anything to Rafael but during his 2nd round match I had to stop myself from calling out "Rafa, I LOVE YOU" cause it seemed like very few people were cheering him. I made my boyfriend use his deafening loud whistle to support him a couple times. You know that one guys have where they put their fingers in their mouth and blow, or whatever It was SOOO unbelievably crowded and you had to get in line an hour before he came by to get up front and close. Then when he came off court people were animals pushing, shoving and shouting for him to sign this, sign that, I was just trying to get a picture !!!!!