Pacific Life Open

Yesterday we went to the Pacific Life Open tennis Tournament in Indian Wells.
It was my first time ever to attend one of these kinds of events. I was a bit in awe at the enormity of it all. In addition to the very large arena that you see here, there are eight other smaller courts all in constant use during the competition.

The big deal was seeing Mr. Big Deal, the 24 yr old top seeded superstar Roger Federer. He won his match against 30th seed Olivier Rochus but he needed three sets to do it. Federer lost the first set but managed to regroup and pull out a 3-6,6-2, 7-5 win.

We also saw an exciting upset match between local ( more or less ) and crowd favorite, 2nd seed Lindsey Davenport, and 19th seed Martina Hingis. Hingis, who has actually won this entire event, has been out with injury but had her comeback in full gear and won.

With Lindsey Davenport's loss, the Americans were entirely out of the competition as of yesterday.

By the way, we took these pictures with Tom's little Nikon 8800 point and shoot from our third floor seats.