... then, we walked just a few metres over to the Rod Laver Arena to catch the Serena Williams vs Greta Arn game. Unfortunately, this was a bit of a walkover, as Williams far out-classed her opponent.
However, because there wasn't a whole lot happening on the court to catch my attention, I was able to turn my focus to all the other things that were going on, like what the ballkids were doing, how the line umpires behaved, how impressively huge the lenses were on the press photographers' cameras and how beautiful the sky looked through the open roof of the arena, as it gradually turned from day to night.
Then after only an hour, the women's game was over and then it was time for our own Lleyton Hewitt against a young Canadian called Milos Roanic. This was a completely different ballgame, to coin a phrase, as these two were extremely well matched! They went point for point and won a set each, then went to a tie-breaker in the third set, which Hewett finally won. The match was to be the best of five sets, and it was already 11pm when they started playing the fourth set so we hoped Hewett would take this one. He did it in the end, but it wasn't easy for him and it was a real "edge of your seat" game. We both had a thoroughly good time, this evening and are very grateful to the accountant's firm for taking us out.
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