I’ve been to the US Open, Wimbledon and the Citi Open in DC, and I have to say, my household and I completely beloved my first day of tennis at Cincinnati.
Though we had an nearly three-hour rain delay, the standard of gamers and play was improbable. The most effective a part of Cincinnati is the very fact it’s a extra intimate venue and also you get to see each the most effective men and women’s gamers in a single location. From a worth perspective, you simply can’t beat it. Its simple to get to, there’s simple parking, you may entry all courts relatively simply. This isn’t one thing you may say in regards to the US Open or Wimbledon. Each these tournaments are absolute complications to navigate.
For these of you which have by no means attended a session on the Cincinnati Masters, right here’s what we had been in a position to do within the eight hours that we spent on the tennis heart.
We arrived at 10am hoping to see tennis on the scheduled 11am time. Sadly, it was raining. We waited and waited, and for some time it appeared as if no tennis can be performed. As we waited, we took benefit of the fan zone, the place my nine-year-old son and I took turns on the serve pace sales space. I clocked in a good 91 MPH whereas he clocked in a good 50 MPH for a 9-year-old. Feeling excellent about ourselves, we determined to seize some cheeseburgers from the concession stands and sat with the remainder of my household (my spouse and my daughter) at one of many many out of doors bars obtainable. This explicit bar was a life saver as a result of it had an umbrella that might defend us from that fixed drizzle.
Happily for us, the skies started to clear and the organizers determined that there can be play beginning at 1:30pm.
We had been excited and determined to obtained to one of many outer courts, Porsche Court docket, to observe Marta Kostyuk in opposition to Jasmine Paolini. Sadly for Marta, Paolini would make fast work of Marta. She would lose 6-2, 6-1. On to the subsequent court docket we might go!
We determined to go to the Grandstand to observe Matteo Berrettini in opposition to Felix Auger Alliasime. Alliassime would prevail in three units. The Grandstand sits subsequent to Centre Court docket and to be trustworthy, it was a bit stuffy, with a number of folks and after seeing Kostyuk within the extra intimate Porsche Court docket, we determined we wished to return there. We briefly stopped by Centre Court docket the place Venus Williams was taking part in. As superior because it was that Venus would win, we didn’t catch her match as a result of we had been too busy attempting to get again to Porsche Court docket.
Again on the Porsche Court docket we might see Anastasia Potapova vs Celine Naef, a Swiss up and comer. Nice seats, nice motion and an awesome match. Potapova would prevail and off we went to Stadium 3 for Wawrinka vs. Nakashima! This was an excellent thrilling match and will likely be accomplished on Tuesday due to a thunderstorm. Wawrinka was main 5-2 within the third.
So, now to my last assessment of the courts. Our two favourite courts to observe matches on the Cincinnati Open should be the Porsche Court docket and Stadium 3. Each these courts are sufficiently big to deal with a couple of hundred excited followers however with out giving up the intimacy of getting a very good view of those superior professionals hitting lights out of the balls.