So excited that we were able to get tickets to Roland Garros today!!! The concierge advised us to get there earlier than what they had projected for the game to start. So we arrived around 11:40 and when we came in the woman's match was just finishing up and Djokovic was about ready to head onto the court. He was playing an unranked 19 year old from Australia. Djokovic is number one in the world right now and we knew the game was going to be great, and it was! The rallies were incredibly long and both of them ran for drop shots that seemed impossibly to get. It was exhausting to even watch. I have never seen such amazing tennis and the two had serves over 210 kmph. It was a great match which Djokovic won 6-4. 6-4, 6-4.
The weather went from cool in the shade to hot in the sun. Grateful for sunny clear weather and honestly just perfect. Our seats were about 12 rows up in the corner. Great seats and easy to get in and out from. So glad we got tickets and good ones!!!! We took a break during lunch and found some sandwiches and enjoyed some shade before making our way back onto the court to watch the Frenchman Richard Q play. Wow the match went for nearly 4 hours!! There was a tie breaker and the third match went to 7-5 and then the Frenchy was in the lead and took the match beating the player Anderson who is higher ranked. The crowd was going wild for their countryman and there were chants and waves and calls throughout the game. It was definitely the most crowd participation of the 3 matches we attended or heard. We were loving it.
Sam and Nate decided to take advantage of the last few hours in Paris and rented electric scooters and visited one of Nate's friends Joe and his Katie Platt who were here for the weekend and found out we were in Paris from Facebook too. I had our friends Andrew Hartsfield and his son take Sam's tickets and sit with me and watch the next 2 hours of the French match. They only had single tickets on two different courts so fun for them to sit together and for me to have some friends to enjoy the last couple hours of tennis. We started seriously routing for "Frenchy", we affectionately called him due to none of us knowing how to pronounce his name ;) as a representative of the host country but also because we wanted to see Serena and the sooner he won the more we could see of Serena's game. Game ended well with Frenchy/ Richard Q. taking the win to the crowds excitement and we then were able to see about 40 mins of Serana Williams play against a woman from BLR. She is just fierce. It is amazing to watch her and her brute strength and court finesse.
We decided we had best leave an hour before to catch our event at Sainte Chappell that night but after 25 mins of the Uber car circling to find us he dropped us and then we had to make a run to a corner to catch another Uber. The fellow was awesome with kicking tunes, and was all into what kind of music Drew, Andrew's son liked. Traffic was terrible and we got to Saint Chappell too late :( They had locked and closed the doors and we missed our front row tickets of the concert but thankfully Nate, Sam, Jen and Ethan got to see the concert and they said it was fabulous. Feeling beaten and Drew not having eaten all day we parked ourselves across from the chapel and ate dinner. I had seen the concert with my daughters years before and it was excellent, I felt badly for Andrew and Drew though. I was so glad that Nate and Sam saw it and they said it was excellent, nothing like Vivaldi in one of the most beautiful stained glass churches in the world!
After we walked around a bit and said our goodbyes and hopped on a Cyclo which took us on an evening ride back to our hotel. It had been a great day at the courts and so fun to see the worlds best players and the Frenchman who gathered more crowds than all the number 1s. Beautiful weather and great sports with family and friends- just perfect.
The weather went from cool in the shade to hot in the sun. Grateful for sunny clear weather and honestly just perfect. Our seats were about 12 rows up in the corner. Great seats and easy to get in and out from. So glad we got tickets and good ones!!!! We took a break during lunch and found some sandwiches and enjoyed some shade before making our way back onto the court to watch the Frenchman Richard Q play. Wow the match went for nearly 4 hours!! There was a tie breaker and the third match went to 7-5 and then the Frenchy was in the lead and took the match beating the player Anderson who is higher ranked. The crowd was going wild for their countryman and there were chants and waves and calls throughout the game. It was definitely the most crowd participation of the 3 matches we attended or heard. We were loving it.
Sam and Nate decided to take advantage of the last few hours in Paris and rented electric scooters and visited one of Nate's friends Joe and his Katie Platt who were here for the weekend and found out we were in Paris from Facebook too. I had our friends Andrew Hartsfield and his son take Sam's tickets and sit with me and watch the next 2 hours of the French match. They only had single tickets on two different courts so fun for them to sit together and for me to have some friends to enjoy the last couple hours of tennis. We started seriously routing for "Frenchy", we affectionately called him due to none of us knowing how to pronounce his name ;) as a representative of the host country but also because we wanted to see Serena and the sooner he won the more we could see of Serena's game. Game ended well with Frenchy/ Richard Q. taking the win to the crowds excitement and we then were able to see about 40 mins of Serana Williams play against a woman from BLR. She is just fierce. It is amazing to watch her and her brute strength and court finesse.
We decided we had best leave an hour before to catch our event at Sainte Chappell that night but after 25 mins of the Uber car circling to find us he dropped us and then we had to make a run to a corner to catch another Uber. The fellow was awesome with kicking tunes, and was all into what kind of music Drew, Andrew's son liked. Traffic was terrible and we got to Saint Chappell too late :( They had locked and closed the doors and we missed our front row tickets of the concert but thankfully Nate, Sam, Jen and Ethan got to see the concert and they said it was fabulous. Feeling beaten and Drew not having eaten all day we parked ourselves across from the chapel and ate dinner. I had seen the concert with my daughters years before and it was excellent, I felt badly for Andrew and Drew though. I was so glad that Nate and Sam saw it and they said it was excellent, nothing like Vivaldi in one of the most beautiful stained glass churches in the world!
After we walked around a bit and said our goodbyes and hopped on a Cyclo which took us on an evening ride back to our hotel. It had been a great day at the courts and so fun to see the worlds best players and the Frenchman who gathered more crowds than all the number 1s. Beautiful weather and great sports with family and friends- just perfect.
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