my hand cramps up and my mind gets hazy.
~indian wells~ days three and four, compiled in one post because we got out of our session on day three at midnight and like hell was I posting then :|
I missed jankovic's semifinal match due to a higher calling, so by the time we got there, the most exciting thing going on was andy murray practicing shirtless.
it was extremely hot out there, and it didn't help that we were in the direction of the sun and I was wearing black (while putting on sunscreen I may or may not have accidentally undies-flashed the muzz ugh embarrassing). there were a couple of kids and their mom sitting next to us who kept whining and fucking yelling at murray to sign their stupid oversized tennis balls (like, "andy we're dying in the sun hurry up!"). I wanted to lean over and be like, bitch is practicing he owes you twats shit, but instead I just walked away for a while. idk I hate when fans treat people like their property. when I came back, my mom had this:
I'm happy, but at the same time I want to apologize to eeyore on the behalf of america's youth. :|
roddick had a signing that day, but in order to get an autograph you had to have a ~red piece of paper~ that they stopped handing out about ten minutes before the signing started. so I was kind of like uh wtf and wanted to smack the security guard that kicked me out of the line due to my not having this red thing. and the woman in front of me who had one had already gotten roddick's signature THREE TIMES. what a greedy bitch, I just wanted one for my obsessed brother :(
still nothing of interest was going on, so we laid out in the grass. it then came to my attention that court three was empty and had no security.
the view from the chair umpire's seat! I have some pictures of me in that seat/around the court but I'll put them in a locked post.
as you can see, this was a very exciting tennis day. :| we ended up leaving and then coming back shortly before stosur's match ended so that we could ~sneak~ into the night session, which had two vastly more interesting matches than what was going on during the day. I'm not even going to bother posting stosur pics because I don't really care. unfortunately, her match ended early, and they kicked everyone out of the stadium to prepare for the night session, foiling our plans. but we are crafty people.
you see, they had this text-to-win contest to win box seats for the night session. WE didn't win it, but the people who did saw us sitting outside the stadium, eating tacos sadly, and asked if we'd like their tickets. we about fell over ourselves saying thank you, I just wish the ticket had the man's address on it so we could send him something. his tickets were about the same level as the ones we bought, but on a different side.
this meant we got to see.....rafa! blurry action shot is blurry.
slightly better. no flash + no sunlight = not so great quality. but rafa! of course bb is committing fashion crimes but I can forgive him.
berdych.
so, interesting story. after this match was a women's doubles match, and since pretty much EVERYONE left the stadium, it was announced that any person with a ticket could sit in the lower-level seats, as long as they moved if the actual ticketholder reared their head. meaning...we sat courtside. 8D
this was our view, without zoom. BALLIN. ahem. anyway.
cj! I think she must be trained in america or lived there at some point, because her english sounds quite fluent and she kind of carried herself like an american would. she also said sorry if her ball happened to hit the other players :( what a cutie.
I might have to become a zheng jie stan, she is seriously the cutest thing ever. her squeals of displeasure whenever she did something wrong made the whole crowd :3.
their high fives are really cute. they are just cute, overall.
they ended up losing, though :( I ran around the stadium to try and get their autograph, but as you can imagine they were very disappointed and just walked by with their heads down. some people were all "hey you won't even sign?" but I understood :( I'll be rooting for them from now on because they're adorable.
the team that beat them ended up winning the whole tournament :\ great for them, although I don't really care about them. I honestly thing zheng and chan outplayed them, but whatever.
THE NEXT DAY...
one picture of ljubicic because I am still a bitter bitch because he beat nole AND rafa. fuck you ljubicic, and fuck your fans harder. most of his fans were pretty composed, but this guy sitting next to us was (obviously) not croatian, was wearing employee clothes, and acting like an obnoxious asshole and would scream ljubicic's name like EVERY FIVE SECONDS. the spanish ladies behind us actually started imitating it under their breath and I couldn't stop laughing. honestly if I heard his voice rn I would rip his balls off.
also some of his fans called him "lubie". um. like, lube. what. no.
rafa wearing his unfortunate shorts again :( the rafa fans sitting behind us were too cute. but I think everything that has to do with rafa save his fashion statements are cute.
there has got to be a better way of having croatian pride than wearing those unfortunate shirts. bring a flag!
LMAO.
IT'S RANDY BITCH. look, he's even puffing his cheeks! this is actually the first time in a while I've openly rooted for roddick, usually I'm pretty indifferent to his results. but I have an irrational dislike of soderling so I was like WIN RANDY WIN.
oh yeah, and that asshole rooting for ljubicic was rooting for soderling. I looked at my mom and was just like WE NEED TO MOVE.
I've warmed up considerably to randy, and even though he's nowhere near my favorite I have to admit seeing him irl I understand why he has fans. he is really, really exciting to watch because he hits the ball so hard (okay and his mannerisms are hilarious). I don't think it was the atmosphere, because the crowd wasn't that vocal for him until the very end. the number of sod fans actually surprised me, because well...unless you're swedish or hate nadal I don't see the appeal. but I'm biased.
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after andy wrapped up his match we skipped the ladies' doubles final in favor of swimming and came back in time to see rafa. yeah, I know, way to have female pride.
bromanceeeeee :D rafa wears normal shorts when he's playing doubles, but fug shorts for singles. idgi. also during this match they played both gypsy and baby got back. I repeat. they played baby got back during rafa's match. IT FITS SO WELL.
they're not quite as bromantic, but they're also the number one seed.
rafa played much better tonight than he did against verdasco and feli lopez. after they won rafa and marc shared two very, very bromantic hugs, but I couldn't get either of them on camera. for reference, it looked a lot like this.
there weren't nearly as many serbs there as there were in 2008. I wonder if they'll appear for jelena? I hope so.
I kind of like rafa's orange jacket. someone shoot me.
I miss the whale trophies :(
aaaaand this picture was accidentally taken with flash! fail.
this picture exists solely because of the orange jacket that I covet. marc's speech was entirely in spanish, and then rafa spoke in english. I kind of giggled that he was suddenly the trusted english speaker.
that is a motherfucking bull. all countries should take lessons from the spaniards in making badass flags.
:3. after the huge photo op crap, nadal went around signing a shit ton of autographs, way more than anyone would expect him to, the sweetheart. nestor and zimonjic (sp?) didn't really sign and marc looked kind of lost. security is usually really tight on stadium court so generally only the people sitting right above the player entrance can get autographs, but for some reason (probably because it was doubles and no one was there) security kind of gave up after this match ended. so I ran on over to that section and found myself in a huge line of people, but ended up leaning over a few chairs, tapping a girl who was at the wall, and handing her my ticket. GREAT SUCCESS.
I feel accomplished and ridiculously lucky ;______; nadal is seriously so sweet I can't see anyone disliking him. a lot of people are worried that he's overexerting himself by playing singles and doubles, and it's a valid worry and I'm worried too, but idk. he seemed really happy out there. I mean, yeah, because he won, but he looked really great. and lopez hasn't really had a moment in the sun, so I feel like rafa's just doing him an incredibly sweet favor by playing with him and getting him some titles and cash (I think roger used to do the same thing with a friend of his?). :)))))) my love for him has increased.
and that's really all I have to say. it was a ton of fun, this is a really great tournament and if you ever have the chance to go you should totally do it! the earlier days are better for seeing more people, but the atmosphere for semifinals and finals is a lot more electrifying. the food is good, there are autograph sessions, it's well organized, and (for the most part) the staff is really friendly. it is also in a really pretty setting. lots of bonuses, okay. and the williams sisters don't go, although some people might see that as a bad thing
I missed jankovic's semifinal match due to a higher calling, so by the time we got there, the most exciting thing going on was andy murray practicing shirtless.
it was extremely hot out there, and it didn't help that we were in the direction of the sun and I was wearing black (while putting on sunscreen I may or may not have accidentally undies-flashed the muzz ugh embarrassing). there were a couple of kids and their mom sitting next to us who kept whining and fucking yelling at murray to sign their stupid oversized tennis balls (like, "andy we're dying in the sun hurry up!"). I wanted to lean over and be like, bitch is practicing he owes you twats shit, but instead I just walked away for a while. idk I hate when fans treat people like their property. when I came back, my mom had this:
I'm happy, but at the same time I want to apologize to eeyore on the behalf of america's youth. :|
roddick had a signing that day, but in order to get an autograph you had to have a ~red piece of paper~ that they stopped handing out about ten minutes before the signing started. so I was kind of like uh wtf and wanted to smack the security guard that kicked me out of the line due to my not having this red thing. and the woman in front of me who had one had already gotten roddick's signature THREE TIMES. what a greedy bitch, I just wanted one for my obsessed brother :(
still nothing of interest was going on, so we laid out in the grass. it then came to my attention that court three was empty and had no security.
the view from the chair umpire's seat! I have some pictures of me in that seat/around the court but I'll put them in a locked post.
as you can see, this was a very exciting tennis day. :| we ended up leaving and then coming back shortly before stosur's match ended so that we could ~sneak~ into the night session, which had two vastly more interesting matches than what was going on during the day. I'm not even going to bother posting stosur pics because I don't really care. unfortunately, her match ended early, and they kicked everyone out of the stadium to prepare for the night session, foiling our plans. but we are crafty people.
you see, they had this text-to-win contest to win box seats for the night session. WE didn't win it, but the people who did saw us sitting outside the stadium, eating tacos sadly, and asked if we'd like their tickets. we about fell over ourselves saying thank you, I just wish the ticket had the man's address on it so we could send him something. his tickets were about the same level as the ones we bought, but on a different side.
this meant we got to see.....rafa! blurry action shot is blurry.
slightly better. no flash + no sunlight = not so great quality. but rafa! of course bb is committing fashion crimes but I can forgive him.
berdych.
so, interesting story. after this match was a women's doubles match, and since pretty much EVERYONE left the stadium, it was announced that any person with a ticket could sit in the lower-level seats, as long as they moved if the actual ticketholder reared their head. meaning...we sat courtside. 8D
this was our view, without zoom. BALLIN. ahem. anyway.
cj! I think she must be trained in america or lived there at some point, because her english sounds quite fluent and she kind of carried herself like an american would. she also said sorry if her ball happened to hit the other players :( what a cutie.
I might have to become a zheng jie stan, she is seriously the cutest thing ever. her squeals of displeasure whenever she did something wrong made the whole crowd :3.
their high fives are really cute. they are just cute, overall.
they ended up losing, though :( I ran around the stadium to try and get their autograph, but as you can imagine they were very disappointed and just walked by with their heads down. some people were all "hey you won't even sign?" but I understood :( I'll be rooting for them from now on because they're adorable.
the team that beat them ended up winning the whole tournament :\ great for them, although I don't really care about them. I honestly thing zheng and chan outplayed them, but whatever.
THE NEXT DAY...
one picture of ljubicic because I am still a bitter bitch because he beat nole AND rafa. fuck you ljubicic, and fuck your fans harder. most of his fans were pretty composed, but this guy sitting next to us was (obviously) not croatian, was wearing employee clothes, and acting like an obnoxious asshole and would scream ljubicic's name like EVERY FIVE SECONDS. the spanish ladies behind us actually started imitating it under their breath and I couldn't stop laughing. honestly if I heard his voice rn I would rip his balls off.
also some of his fans called him "lubie". um. like, lube. what. no.
rafa wearing his unfortunate shorts again :( the rafa fans sitting behind us were too cute. but I think everything that has to do with rafa save his fashion statements are cute.
there has got to be a better way of having croatian pride than wearing those unfortunate shirts. bring a flag!
LMAO.
IT'S RANDY BITCH. look, he's even puffing his cheeks! this is actually the first time in a while I've openly rooted for roddick, usually I'm pretty indifferent to his results. but I have an irrational dislike of soderling so I was like WIN RANDY WIN.
oh yeah, and that asshole rooting for ljubicic was rooting for soderling. I looked at my mom and was just like WE NEED TO MOVE.
I've warmed up considerably to randy, and even though he's nowhere near my favorite I have to admit seeing him irl I understand why he has fans. he is really, really exciting to watch because he hits the ball so hard (okay and his mannerisms are hilarious). I don't think it was the atmosphere, because the crowd wasn't that vocal for him until the very end. the number of sod fans actually surprised me, because well...unless you're swedish or hate nadal I don't see the appeal. but I'm biased.
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after andy wrapped up his match we skipped the ladies' doubles final in favor of swimming and came back in time to see rafa. yeah, I know, way to have female pride.
bromanceeeeee :D rafa wears normal shorts when he's playing doubles, but fug shorts for singles. idgi. also during this match they played both gypsy and baby got back. I repeat. they played baby got back during rafa's match. IT FITS SO WELL.
they're not quite as bromantic, but they're also the number one seed.
rafa played much better tonight than he did against verdasco and feli lopez. after they won rafa and marc shared two very, very bromantic hugs, but I couldn't get either of them on camera. for reference, it looked a lot like this.
there weren't nearly as many serbs there as there were in 2008. I wonder if they'll appear for jelena? I hope so.
I kind of like rafa's orange jacket. someone shoot me.
I miss the whale trophies :(
aaaaand this picture was accidentally taken with flash! fail.
this picture exists solely because of the orange jacket that I covet. marc's speech was entirely in spanish, and then rafa spoke in english. I kind of giggled that he was suddenly the trusted english speaker.
that is a motherfucking bull. all countries should take lessons from the spaniards in making badass flags.
:3. after the huge photo op crap, nadal went around signing a shit ton of autographs, way more than anyone would expect him to, the sweetheart. nestor and zimonjic (sp?) didn't really sign and marc looked kind of lost. security is usually really tight on stadium court so generally only the people sitting right above the player entrance can get autographs, but for some reason (probably because it was doubles and no one was there) security kind of gave up after this match ended. so I ran on over to that section and found myself in a huge line of people, but ended up leaning over a few chairs, tapping a girl who was at the wall, and handing her my ticket. GREAT SUCCESS.
I feel accomplished and ridiculously lucky ;______; nadal is seriously so sweet I can't see anyone disliking him. a lot of people are worried that he's overexerting himself by playing singles and doubles, and it's a valid worry and I'm worried too, but idk. he seemed really happy out there. I mean, yeah, because he won, but he looked really great. and lopez hasn't really had a moment in the sun, so I feel like rafa's just doing him an incredibly sweet favor by playing with him and getting him some titles and cash (I think roger used to do the same thing with a friend of his?). :)))))) my love for him has increased.
and that's really all I have to say. it was a ton of fun, this is a really great tournament and if you ever have the chance to go you should totally do it! the earlier days are better for seeing more people, but the atmosphere for semifinals and finals is a lot more electrifying. the food is good, there are autograph sessions, it's well organized, and (for the most part) the staff is really friendly. it is also in a really pretty setting. lots of bonuses, okay. and the williams sisters don't go, although some people might see that as a bad thing