Federer summed it up in the end and it certainly was. This was my first major tennis event experience, the US Open. The Open is the last major of the year based out in Flushing Meadows Park, the former dumping ground characterized as “a valley of ashes” in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Unique that a dump is not the site for champagne, khaki pants, polo sweaters tied around the necks of the upper crust, all here to watch two guys control a yellow furry ball on a concrete court.
The scene was fan heavy in Flushing… the Mets had a home game and the Blake-Federer match was the last match in the tourny with the top ranked players in the game. Blake being the top ranked American and Federer the top ranked player in the world. Up to this point, Federer hasn’t lost a set in the Open, so the intensity was there from the American crowd.
Getting seats two days before the match proved to be, as expected, painful. We picked up a couple top shelf seats but really just being there in that stadium, feeling the energy of 10,000+ fans screamin for the amerian or the sweede was amazing. The funniest scene was the starting of the wave from the top deck in the 3rd set that made three rounds before the whistling tennis crowd killed the fun. I guess there was a proper tennis match going on…
Here’s some photos and video of the event. More at the link below.
Third Set – Tie Break Game and with 20% of the crowd already leaving when Federer was up 5-4 – Blake comes back for a huge win and takes the first set from Federer of the Open.
