Superset tennis on Sunday was mostly good. We did have to queue outside in the rain, and it was really busy with people inside. They also took everyone's bottle caps (except mine because they don't search bags properly) but no-one would tell us why. Which did mean we spent the whole afternoon thinking up reasons. The only one we could come up with was that we'd throw them at the players but we could think of far better things to throw. I found out when I got home, from my landlady's boyfriend, is that they do that at football matches to stop people throwing full bottles. Cos I totally see tennis fans doing that [/sarcasm]

Apart from that, we saw Greg Rusedski with very girly hair and a hairband, who dragged his match with Boris Becker out to a tie-break (at 10-10!) but did make it to the final. I spotted John McEnroe commentating on this match - he disappeared after that.

Next up was Goran Ivanisevic (forever known as Gobby Goran in our house for his nasty habit of spitting on the court). He also had a hairband but his hair was its normal longish length, so looked a bit less girly. He played around, as per usual, but didn't put up much of a fight against Tommy Robredo.

The eventual winner Mario Ancic played Robbie Ginepri and then we saw John McEnroe who easily outplayed Andy Murray - a seventeen year old Brit, who is apparently someone to watch out for. Although we've heard that one before.

Tim Henman had pulled out after the Davis Cup, with injury and had apparently been commentating. Which would have been, um, interesting, to, er, listen to.

It was a weird experience. I was still recovering from the flu, so the flashing lights didn't do me much good. And I don't know whether it was the lights or the colour of the court, but it was really hard to see the ball sometimes. I did like the players appealing to Hawkeye though. It's always interesting to see whether the linesmen have got it right and for it to count.

The thing I can't decide is whether I'd go again if they did another one. Wimbledon, on the other hand, is great for the experience (and a bit of tennis) and Davis Cup is great for the atmosphere (and both are good for getting to see doubles, which is much more interesting).

Edit: those photos looked much better when they were four times the size and about 700k (instead of ~20k)!

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