Our Own Grand Slam! The Australian Open

Billy, Liz and I went to the Australian Open last night. We had tickets that allowed entry into all the courts except the two big stadiums... So we saw parts of about 5 matches. During dinner we watched Venus Williams on the big screen and then we later watched Roger Federer... he was beating his opponent, Diego Hartfield, pretty soundly so we snuck into the stadium during the end of the third set and took some empty seats. Quite fun to see him live! And then he entertained us with humorous commentary after the match.

We have tickets to the quarter-finals on the 22nd, so hopefully we'll get to see a good match!

Here's Federer...And his brave opponent, poor Diego... People were really cheering him on, though! In between points you would hear, "Go Diego!!". I was rooting for him as well, and he did manage to win 3 games! It's a bad draw to have to play Federer in round 1!

Venus with some ridiculous earrings...

Here's Billy and Liz at one of the earlier matches... and then some shots of some of the players we watched.
Peter Luczak....Severine Bremond who lost to Na Li...
Oscar Hernandez...who beat Ivo Minar...
Liz with Jurgen Melzer...

who defeated Jiri Vanek...