Day One of Tennis! Day 26

Today was our first day of tennis. It was a lovely day to spend at the tennis garden as it was only around 70 degrees, so we wore jeans. We saw some first rounds of the women's qualifiers. We know that most people are not interested in tennis the way that we are, so we will keep these blogs fairly short. The qualifying rounds are free and there aren't crowds. It is all quite casual.

We saw: P. Mayr beat V. Tetreault in 3 sets; Karolina Sprem beat A. Yakomova in 2 sets; Tsvetana Pirankova beat K. Kucova in 2 sets, but the second set went to a tie break. And, we saw a fierce match between Michelle de Larcher and Klara Zakupalova which de Larcher won in 3 sets. The set with Pirankova was a bit more intense for us as we sat next to her mother. We noticed that the woman next to us had the same look as Pirankova and then noticed that she had on the same sneakers. So, Mark leaned over and asked her and she nodded that she was, indeed, Pirankova's mother. Her coach/father was also sitting up near us. It would have been very hard to cheer for the other girl. I later read that the mom had been a champion swimmer and the dad had been a champion canoer.