Just Got Back from the Citi Open
Jul. 27th, 2019 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missizzyTo go to the Citi Open this year, I decided to put my wallet and other things I might need in a canvas bag, and then forgot to put my phone and keys in it, so I was without the former all day. Which is actually a problem at a modern tennis event, where one relies on it to know what it going on in the other courts; the Citi Open mostly shows ads during changeovers, rather than useful information. Also, when my sister soon found the direct sun of our box seats too much, we were also separated much of the time, and finding each other afterwards proved difficult.
Still, at least it made it easier to concentrate on the tennis. We got there just in time to see local girl Robin Montgomery win her first set over fifth seed Destanee Aiava. Despite the support of the crowd, however, she ultimately went down in three, getting out of trouble plenty of times but then getting into it a time or two too many. After lunch I first went to see Sasha Vickery play Noami Broady, but the latter was playing badly, and after the first bagel I didn't stay for the second. Instead I went to watch some doubles on a court with an awning, then returned to the stadium to see Victor Troicki beat another local kid, Andrew Fenty, though Fenty, with a bigger crowd to cheer him on, didn't make it too easy for him. The crowd had grown, of course, because up right after them was Coco Gauff.
The first match after your breakout tournament isn't easy, of course, although Coco was up against another American girl in the 300s, Meagan Menasse, who she was very much expected to beat. She broke early on, only to be broken back, and the first set plodded on for a while-until, at 5-4, she broke with a pretty great point to claim it. From there she cranked it up and let the ball fly. I think Menasse played better in the second set too, but that only earned her two games. The whole match took only 68 minutes. Though my sister got so concerned for how overheated I looked by then she took me into one of the air conditioned tents where they gave us ice, and we didn't stay for the last match. We went to dinner, and I am now back in time to watch the second semi-final in Atlanta.
Still, at least it made it easier to concentrate on the tennis. We got there just in time to see local girl Robin Montgomery win her first set over fifth seed Destanee Aiava. Despite the support of the crowd, however, she ultimately went down in three, getting out of trouble plenty of times but then getting into it a time or two too many. After lunch I first went to see Sasha Vickery play Noami Broady, but the latter was playing badly, and after the first bagel I didn't stay for the second. Instead I went to watch some doubles on a court with an awning, then returned to the stadium to see Victor Troicki beat another local kid, Andrew Fenty, though Fenty, with a bigger crowd to cheer him on, didn't make it too easy for him. The crowd had grown, of course, because up right after them was Coco Gauff.
The first match after your breakout tournament isn't easy, of course, although Coco was up against another American girl in the 300s, Meagan Menasse, who she was very much expected to beat. She broke early on, only to be broken back, and the first set plodded on for a while-until, at 5-4, she broke with a pretty great point to claim it. From there she cranked it up and let the ball fly. I think Menasse played better in the second set too, but that only earned her two games. The whole match took only 68 minutes. Though my sister got so concerned for how overheated I looked by then she took me into one of the air conditioned tents where they gave us ice, and we didn't stay for the last match. We went to dinner, and I am now back in time to watch the second semi-final in Atlanta.
