What a night! Because we had night tickets for today, we automatically got into the "Hit for Haiti" event organized by Roger Federer for earthquake relief. What a treat. It started with a doubles "match" featuring Martina Navratilova and Justine Henin versus Steffi Graf and Lindsey Davenport. Martina provided most of the comedy with her comments, grunts and groans. (Unfortunately for Justine, she had been eliminated from the tournament earlier in the day, so it can't have been easy for her to go on court.) But, the match was just so much fun.
Then, it was followed by a highly-entertaining, and sometimes a bit intense, "match" of Andre Agassi and Rafael Nadal versus Pete Sampras and Roger Federer. And, Rod Laver came out for the ball toss. Andre supplied most of the commentary and was hilarious. He interrupted servers and bantered with everyone else on court. For example, to his partner Nadal, "You look a lot faster on t.v." But, they all added commentary and humor, so it was great entertainment all around.
At the end, Tony Bennett came out and sang, "Smile," which was also very moving and cool.
A doubles match took place after the "Hit for Haiti" ended between young Americans, John Isner and Sam Querrey and Ivan Ljubicic and Marin Cilic. We did not stay for the entire match, but know that the Americans won in a close match.
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