Beware the Ides of March...especially if you are a seeded tennis player!
We started in Stadium #2 and saw Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, who took out Marin Cilic earlier, take on, and defeat a Brazilian, Thomas Bellucci. Then, we saw an unexpectedly lopsided match between German Tomas Berdych and Fernando Verdasco. Verdasco was expected to win, but was very off and Berdych was on. So, Berdych won 6-0, 6-3.
The next match scheduled was supposed to be Victoria Azarenka, the #3 seed, against #28 Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez. But, that match got moved to Stadium #3 because of the popularity of James Blake and Andy Roddick as a doubles pair. The stadium was filled to capacity and it was noisy and fun. Blake and Roddick took on the #1 seeded pairs team of veterans Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic. Blake and Roddick gave a great fight, but lost in a raucous tie-break. (4-6, 6-3 and tiebreak of 7-10.) Meanwhile, in Stadium #3, Azarenka lost. So, another seed bit the dust.
We then moved over to the main stadium and saw a heartbreaking loss by Kim Clijsters, who is on the comeback trail. She lost the first se (4-6) and won the second set easily (6-1).
Then, she lost the last set in a tiebreak to 20 year old Alisa Kleybanova. It was already past ten, so we decided to call it a day. We did not stay for the set between Sam Querrey and John Isner, who play doubles together. (Isner won and they went on to win their doubles match the next day.) 
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