ponchos: so hot right now

I had an incredibly lazy day yesterday, meaning too lazy to even post about my two fabulous days at Roland Garros. This also means that I was too lazy to upload the photos to my computer, meaning I can't share with you my awesome shots of James Blake serving up a storm on the terre battue under the setting Parisian sun. Hopefully, my wordy description is enough for you to conjure up the image for yourself.

While the doors to the complex open at 11am, I didn't think it would be necessary to arrive early on Monday since a)it's a work day b)it was the second day of the tournament. But I had forgotten that a)French people don't really have issues with skipping work b)tickets for this thing are pretty hard to come by, even for the second day of the tournament. So I ended up waiting in line for about an hour to get inside the gates, and by that time, matches had already started. I was like a giddy little girl running around from court to court, even under the blazing 90 degree sun. The epoustouflant weather on Monday was the complete opposite of what we got on Tuesday: rain and a two hour delay. But by the afternoon, the skies cleared enough to get all the tennis in for the day, in spite of the crazy wind.

Now, this might be a product of my intense homesickness and growing American patriotism, but the US Open is simply a far better tournament than Roland Garros. For one thing, the lines to get a seat on the annex courts were longer than those for center court, which remained practically empty for the whole day -- even with Nadal and Federer playing back to back! Secondly, since when do the number 1 and number 2 ranked players in the world play on the same day so early on in the tournament, let alone back to back! I kept thinking to myself that if I was a center court ticket holder for the day after and didn't get to see either of these two fine players, I would feel pretty shafted.