Part of Our Weekend

A bad iPhone shot of my Breitling and Sharapova


A good shot of Robin



We got lucky and ended up in a Sponsor's Suite for about seven hours.

NICE SEATS!!!!

VERY COOL!

What tournament?

BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. Opening weekend. It's the fifth largest tourny after the Slams and Wimbledon.

Sounds like fun. Thanks for the wrist shot.

You're welcome.
Except for a couple of dinners out, (of which I took no pictures of. )it was actually our whole weekend. Got into town about 3pm Friday, and headed home about 10pm Sunday night.

One of my dream vacations is the U.S. Open!

Maybe there will be some good Americans by the time I can go!

Anomaly wrote:

One of my dream vacations is the U.S. Open!

Maybe there will be some good Americans by the time I can go!

Our dream (btw, I no longer own any) would be the French or Wimbledon, but we are trying for a day or two at the US this summer. Plus at least one Yankee game. We haven't been to The City in about a year and a half.

Great pictures Tim ! What a view of the action you guys
had too..WOW ! It's SO much different watching tennis in
person like that ! ..By the way, NICE watch you have
there ! I'm Glad you had such a great weekend !

Thanks, Tom. At a big tournie like this, they have several courts going simultaneously. At "Stadium 2" as they call it, it's almost all General Admission, and we lucked out there as well, being about 20 feet from the court, and about 30 feet away from the players. Getting that close to the pro's, makes their games sooooooooooooo much more impressive, while making your own somewhat lacking. Especially when one of them is Andy Roddick with his 136mph serve... friggin' scary.

Sounds outstanding ! It's amazing how much more you can appreciate
a game like that in person. Seeing the speed as well as power in person
is really something else. I guess it's like that with most sports. However,
tennis REALLY looks alot different in person, than on T.V. imho !

Cool you both are there! I would love to go to Wimbledon

very cool tim, thanks for sharing the pics!

Looks like a nice weekend in the desert. Have'nt been down there since I was a kid when both sets of grandparents wintered in Palm Springs and Indio. Never seen a pro tennis match live it sounds like fun, especially up close to the action.

Anomaly wrote:

Maybe there will be some good Americans by the time I can go!

I forgot to ask, Alan, like Roddick at #8 in the world isn't good?

porschefan wrote:

Anomaly wrote:

Maybe there will be some good Americans by the time I can go!

I forgot to ask, Alan, like Roddick at #8 in the world isn't good?

Yeah but the gap between even him and the top 5 is HUGE...

...but hey, he has made more than I EVER will selling background checks for a living!

Looks like you and the skirt had a GREAT WEEKEND Tim!

bodypeersur1 wrote:

Looks like you and the skirt had a GREAT WEEKEND Tim!

Ha, "the skirt???"... she hasn't worn one of those in years. Ex-corporate type (where she had to wear that), now in TV work, way to casual for that. Even on weekends.

EXCELLENT!! It looks like you all had some fun! Especially when you can do it in a suite! I've been in the suites for the Indy 500 and it's definately the way to go!

I'm a little disappointed. Was hoping these would be pics of the GP in Bahrain or the Indy race in Sau Palo

Oh well, with a view like that you pass muster.


Sounds like a fun time

Man some people got it made. Glad you had such good seats. I would be happy to be able to afford a Bobcats game on a weeknight. Tickets 6 bucks for an NBA game. Oops sorry. Sweet B chrono. Refer to first sentence.

It wasn't our suite, we were just invited in, through a series of circumstances. The tickets we had were pretty good, but not quite this "suite."