This is the final post from my trip to Australia with a review of the fan experience from the Australian Open. I really hope that this post will be informative for anyone that may be planning to go for it in the future. There’s plenty of tips about buying tickets, what to take/not to take,…
This is the fourth report from my week at the Australian Open. For a recap and photos from day 3 where we watched matches including Svitolina-Sinakova, Kumkhum-Bencic, Wozniacki-Fett, Linette-Kasatkina, Nadal-Mayer, Kontaveit-Barthel, Dimitrov-MacDonald and Mertens-Gavrilova, click HERE. For our last day at the Australian Open we had day session tickets for the Rod Laver Arena. Let’s…
This is the third report from my week at the Australian Open. For a recap and photos from day 2 where we watched matches including Safarova-Tomljanovic, Vesnina-Jabeur and Barty-Sabalenka, click HERE. For the Wednesday we had tickets for the day and night session on Rod Laver Arena. Let’s get stuck into day 3… Wednesday is…
This is the second report from my week at the Australian Open. For a recap and photos from day 1 where we watched matches including Stephens-Zhang, Bertens-Bellis, Shapovalov-Tsitsipas and Stosur-Puig, click HERE. For the Tuesday we had a ground pass during the day session and then had tickets for the night session on Rod Laver…
This is the first post detailing my week at the 2018 Australian Open. It was such an amazing experience and I am still buzzing to have achieved my Career Slam. I’ll be recapping each of the four days with plenty of photos and finishing up with a review of the fan experience. For a review…
The second tournament that we visited in Australia was the Sydney International. In the week before the Australian Open, Sydney always attracts a decent line-up from the WTA with six members of the world’s top 15 present in 2018. Note there is also an ATP 250 event although we didn’t watch any ATP matches! We…
I’m back from three fantastic weeks in Australia and am slowly getting back to normality. The non-tennis highlight of the trip was definitely visiting the Whitsunday Islands, seeing the spectacular Whitehaven Beach and swimming around the Great Barrier Reef. We visited three new tennis tournaments and I achieved my Career Slam at the Australian Open! Before getting…
Since I started seriously watching tennis in 2012, I have gone to the US Open every year. I live in New Jersey, so Flushing Meadows is only about two hours away by train. Every year prior to this one, I have gone with friends or family to the US Open, but this year I decided…
As an avid tennis fan and a student at Stanford University, the Bank of the West Classic is a dream come true. A rapid five-minute bike ride is all that separates my dormitory from one of the premier stops on the WTA tour. This year, I decided to compile some of my thoughts about the…
This post continues on from my first live Set Points post from Wednesday, which ended with seeing Naomi Osaka cause an upset by beating Barbora Strycova. After this match we headed straight for cover under Centre Court. At this time, Johanna Konta and Donna Vekic were playing out an epic and we could hear all…
