Day 2 at The Open

New York City, NY

We had looked at the day’s schedule of play before going to bed and determined that, even though we had tickets for Ashe, and even though Nadal was playing in there, we would rather watch the matches in the Grandstand. So, after getting our morning bagel-coffee-oj fix, we headed back to the Tennis Center on the 7 train and made a bee-line for the Grandstand to snag good seats for the day. Boy, did we snag good seats! Courtside, front row! The first match on was women’s doubles, which Morgan didn’t really care about watching, so he connected with some tennis buddies from his academy and wandered around the outer courts. A little while after he left, I got a call from the media guy – he wanted to know if Morgan could meet him at the media entrance next to the players’ lounge to interview some of the folks visiting the Open about their experience. I texted Morgan who went to meet the guy and did, indeed, do several on-camera interviews – how exciting . . . well, it would’ve been exciting for me, anyway. Morgan said he didn’t really like doing it – too bad because the guy called me after and told me his producer really liked Morgan’s footage and wanted to use him again! Oh well . . .

Morgan made his way back to the Grandstand to watch the rest of the day’s matches with me, fighting his way down for autographs after each match. We saw Gonzalez beat Berdych, Tsonga beat Benneteau, and Monfils beat Acasuso – what a great day of tennis! Then we connected with the Ayers family to walk the grounds a bit before taking the train back to the City for some sushi at Morgan’s favorite place, Ise. It was delish! After dinner, we hopped in a cab back to the apartment and crashed . . . hard!